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Lido laggards plunge Venice into chaos
There could hardly be a more telling sign of the glamour overload on the Lido this year than watching Johnny Depp work the crowds in front of the red carpet at the bleary eyed time of 2.15 am just before the screening of Miramax's Finding Neverland, which started around two ...
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Riddick raises int'l total to $44m
The Chronicles Of Riddick added $6m through all distributors at the weekend on2,100 screens in 22 territories for a $44m international cumulative total. TheUIP-only total comes to $30.5m and there are six territories still to open.The chief highlight was a$2.4m first place launch in Germany on 396 screens. In a ...
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Garfield is top cat in Spain with $4m launch
Fox International's Garfieldenjoyed a superb $4m number one launch including previews on 349 screens inSpain at the weekend, the highlight of an $8.4m weekend haul from 3,406 screensin 41 markets that raised the comedy's international running total to $77.7m.Dodgeball grossed $2.6m on 564 screens for $10.6m. It added$2.1m on 314 ...
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Hero stays top over feeble Labor Day Weekend
Miramax's epic Heroremained the number one picture over Labor Day Weekend, beating off thenon-existent challenge of a quartet of wide releases in one of the most anaemicend-of-summer holiday weekends in recent history.Hero added an estimated $11.5m in its second weekend toraise its running total to $35.2m, while Paramount's comedy Without ...
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Hero remains top over dismal holiday weekend
Miramax's epic Heroremained the number one picture over Labor Day Weekend, beating off thenon-existent challenge of a quartet of wide releases in one of the most anaemicend-of-summer holiday weekends in recent history.Hero added an estimated $11.5m in its second weekend toraise its running total to $35.2m, while Paramount's comedy Without ...
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Hero remains top over dismal holiday weekend
Miramax's epic Heroremained the number one picture over Labor Day Weekend, beating off thenon-existent challenge of a quartet of wide releases in one of the most anaemicend-of-summer holiday weekends in recent history.Hero added an estimated $11.5m in its second weekend toraise its running total to $35.2m, while Paramount's comedy Without ...
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Hero stays top over feeble Labor Day Weekend
Miramax's epic Heroremained the number one picture over Labor Day Weekend, beating off thenon-existent challenge of a quartet of wide releases in one of the most anaemicend-of-summer holiday weekends in recent history.Hero added an estimated $11.5m in its second weekend toraise its running total to $35.2m, while Paramount's comedy Without ...
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Wild Bunch takes stake in French distributor Pan Europeene
French sales company Wild Bunch and French groupPan-Europeenne Films are joining forces through theatrical distributionoutfit Pan-Europeenne Edition.Pan-Europeenne Edition will be majority owned by Wild Bunch and run byPan-Europeenne chief Philippe Godeau along with former StudioCanal executiveJean-Philippe Tirel, who recently joined Wild Bunch. Tirel's title will bedeputy managing director. The rest ...
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Wild Bunch acquires distributor Pan Europeene
French sales company Wild Bunch and French distributorPan-Europeenne Films are joining forces to create a new theatrical distributionoutfit to be known as Pan-Europeenne Edition.The new company, will be majority owned by Wild Bunch and run byPan-Europeenne chief Philippe Godeau along with former StudioCanal executiveJean-Philippe Tirel, who recently joined Wild Bunch. ...
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Lido laggards plunge Venice into further chaos
There could hardly be a more telling sign of the glamour overload on the Lido this year than watching Johnny Depp work the crowds in front of the red carpet at the bleary eyed time of 2.15 am just before the screening of Miramax's Finding Neverland, which started around two ...
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THINKFilm acquires acclaimed Brothels doc
Adding to its list of recentpick-ups, Toronto-based THINKFilm has acquired all North American rights to BornInto Brothels directed by RossKauffman and Zana Briski.The film, which premiered atSundance 2004 and won the documentary audience award, documents the lives ofchildren born into the squalor of Calcutta's red-light district. Briski, aphotographer, gave each ...
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Syrian Bride wins top honours at Montreal Film Festival
Eran Riklis' The SyrianBride (Hacala Hasurit) took top honours as the 28th MontrealWorld Film Festival wrapped up on September 6. As well as the Grand Prix of theAmericas, the Israel-France-Germany coproduction won the Audience Award, theFIPRESCI prize and the Ecumenical Prize.The film tells the story ofa young Druze woman whose ...
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IFTA takes space at Le Merigot for first Nov AFM
The American Film Market(AFM) has expanded its exhibitor space to include offices in the Le MerigotHotel adjacent to the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel for its first Nov eventwhich runs Nov 3 to 10.The move, say marketorganizers the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA), is inresponse to demand by potential ...
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Fortissimo closes Mysterious, Love sales
FortissimoFilm Sales has closed a raft of sales on its Venice and Toronto titles, MysteriousSkin and P.S. ILove You.Gaga has taken Japanese rights to Dylan Kidd's P.S.I Love You, whichopened Critics Week.Fortissimo has also sold the romantic comedy, which starsGabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, and Marcia Gay Harden, to Benelux (A ...
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Kim Ki-duk's 3 Iron added to main Venice competition
Onlyhours before its official screening on Monday evening, Venice artistic directorMarco Mueller unveiled Kim Ki-duk's 3 Iron (Binjip) as thefestival's "surprise" 22nd competition entry.Thefilm, which tells the story of a homeless man who rescues a wealthy woman whois beaten by her husband, has only just been completed and will have ...
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Vera Drake
Dir/scr: Mike Leigh.2004. UK/France. 125mins.Mike Leigh's latest tourde force takes the subject of illegal abortion in 1950 London and uses it toair issues of moral integrity, goodness and justice never more relevant than intoday's self-serving social and political climate.In Vera Drake, Leighachieves a level of engagement and intensity of which ...
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SWEDEN 7 September
The Village's timeat the top of the Swedish chart was brief as two new releases pushed it down tothird in its second week. Local writer-director Kay Pollak's return tofilmmaking after 18 years, Saa Som IHimmelen, (As In Heaven) impressively managed to go head to head with Shrek 2 with almost ...
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Zentropa, Cylo team for paranormal strand
Zentropa Internationale, the recently-launched international arm of Dogme co-creators Zentropa, has partnered with start-up UK production house Cylo Film to form a new strand of innovative films where Dogme meets The X-Files.Although not being made as Dogme films, the English-language paranormal thrillers are to combine a quasi-documentary style with paranormal ...
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Palm Springs ShortFest announces winners
The 2004 PalmSprings International Festival of Short Films & Short Film Market, thelargest short film festival and market in North America, ended on Monday,September 6, 2004. More than 2,600 industry representatives, filmmakers andmedia from around the world participated in this year's Festival, including arecord-setting 2,000 film submissions and attendance by ...
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Fortissimo closes Mysterious Skin, PS sales
FortissimoFilm Sales has closed a raft of sales on its Venice and Toronto titles, MysteriousSkin and P.S. ILove You.Gaga has taken Japanese rights to Dylan Kidd's P.S.I Love You, whichopened Critics Week.Fortissimo has also sold the romantic comedy, which starsGabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, and Marcia Gay Harden, to Benelux (A ...