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    Myriad to close London sales office

    2004-04-27T04:00:00Z

    Myriad Pictures is closing down sales operations in London following its turbulent production of UK-Canadian title The River King.The US sales company will continue to maintain a UK production presence under Marion Pilowsky, head of international production, but Samantha Horley, senior vice president of international distribution, and sales executive Alice ...

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    Return Of The King crosses $90m in Japan

    2004-04-27T04:00:00Z

    New Line's The Lord OfThe Rings: The Return Of The Kingpassed $90m in Japan at the weekend (24) as it added $602,770 on 330 screensover two days for a superb $90.4m running total in its 11th week.Released through NipponHerald, The Return Of The King performedfar better than trilogy predecessor The ...

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    Passion gets its final Fox opening at second in Thailand

    2004-04-27T04:00:00Z

    The Passion Of The Christ opened in its final Fox International market at theweekend, ranking second in Thailand on $225,000 on 70 screens.Overall the picture added$2.2m overall on 1,318 screens in 14 markets for a $73m international runningtotal in Fox territories.Elsewhere the thriller ManOn Fire began its international runwith a ...

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    Dates rakes in further $7.8m for CTFDI

    2004-04-27T04:00:00Z

    Love was in the air thisweekend as Sony's romantic comedy 50 First Dates enjoyed a string of number one bows through ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), grossing $7.8m on 2,444screens to raise its international running total to $36.3m.The picture was number onein its first four days in Germany but eventually ...

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    Telecinco doubles profits; unveils Internet launch

    2000-03-23T22:53:00Z

    Spanish private broadcaster TeleCinco has reported a 51.9% profit increase for the 1999 financial year to euros110.5m (pts18,388m). Revenue rose 24.3% to euros512.7m (pts85,301m) over the same period.The channel, which described itself as "the most profitable [channel] in Europe", attributed the strong results to increased ad revenue, higher audience shares ...

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    Former J&M executive Roberts joins Dream as senior vp

    2004-04-27T04:00:00Z

    Industry veteran Karen Roberts has joined LosAngeles-based production and international sales company Dream Entertainment assenior vice president of acquisitions and development.Roberts will beresponsible for identifying finished features as well as new projects forDream's development slate. She will report directly to company presidentYitzhak Ginsberg.Roberts mostrecently served as senior vice president of ...

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    Lives adds another $3m for Warner Bros

    2004-04-27T04:00:00Z

    Taking Lives grossed an estimated $3m and 547,000 admissions from1,967 screens in 39 territories through Warner Bros Pictures International atthe weekend, raising its international cumulative total to $18.2m.The thriller opened in theUK on $575,000 on 258 screens, which by comparison was roughly 52% better thanthe opening of High Crimes inlate ...

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    Survivor will shoot despite Polish producer's jail-term

    2004-04-27T04:00:00Z

    The president of AtlanticAlliance Pictures said yesterday (26) that filming on the upcoming Holocaust drama LoveIs A Survivor will go ahead despitethe corruption conviction of co-production and funding partnerHeritage Films' Lew Rywin.Rywin, who served asexecutive producer on The Pianist, co-produceron Schindler's List and producer(Poland unit) on Proof Of Life,was sentenced ...

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    Haunted Mansion takes top spot in Japan with $4.7m for BVI

    2004-04-27T00:00:00Z

    The Haunted Mansion scored an impressive bow in Japan through BuenaVista International (BVI) at the weekend, opening top on $4.7m and breaking astring of records in the process.It was the Walt DisneyCompany's second biggest live action branded bow ever behind Pirates Of TheCaribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl in ...

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    Global, Daybreak Pacific team up for finance and sales venture

    2004-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Peter Elson's foreign salesand distribution outfit Global Cinema Group is teaming up with Dale and GrantBradley's New Zealand-based financing and production house Daybreak Pacific tofinance, produce and distribute features.Global will handle worldwidesales and distribution for Daybreak's slate, while the latter will provideGlobal with a flow of product.Global will bring twoDaybreak ...

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    Moviehouse takes on Nina's Tragedies, Overnight

    2004-04-26T04:00:00Z

    London-basedsales company Moviehouse Entertainment has picked up international rights forSundance title Overnight and Israeli hit Nina's Tragedies. Both titles will receive market premiere screenings at theupcoming Cannes market.Overnightis documentaryfollowing the rags-to-riches-to-rags story of filmmaker Troy Duffy who,approached by Miramax honcho Harvey Weinstein, is offered the once in alifetime opportunity to ...

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    Fremaux defends Ma Mere 'snub'

    2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

    Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremauxformally denied allegations Friday which had been lodged by producer PaoloBranco regarding the absence of his film, Ma Mere, in the officialselection.Branco, who is no stranger to Cannes havingproduced competition films such as Raoul Ruiz's Le Temps Retrouve and CeJour-la and Manoel de Oliveira's Je Rentre ...

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    Critics' Week unveils line-up

    2004-04-22T16:00:00Z

    The organisers of Cannes' Critics' Week announced their line-up on Thursday in Paris for the 57th Cannes Film Festival ( May 12-23).Seven films from five different countries will have a shot at the prize with a predominance of works coming from France (see full list below). Included among the competitors ...

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    Noeltner unveils new sales outfit CMG, first film Hoodwinked

    2004-04-22T00:00:00Z

    Edward Noeltnerhas officially launched his new company Cinema Management Group (CMG), anLos Angeles-based sales outfit which kicks off with one of the firstindependently-financed 3-D animated movies Hoodwinked: The True Story Of RedRiding Hood.Noeltner, whowas most recently senior vice president, international distribution, at MiramaxFilms, has hired Judy Hart Perrault who has ...

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    Kinowelt posts 159% increase in pre-tax profit

    2000-03-24T13:26:00Z

    Kinowelt, the fast expanding distribution and production group, underlined its growing strength by reporting a 159% increase in pre-tax profit, from $9.9m (DM20.1m) in 1998 to $25.6m (DM52m) in 1999.Turnover climbed 76% from $103m (DM210m) to $182m (DM370m) over the same period. Operating margins widened from 10% to 14%. The ...

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    Artistic director explains his selection

    2004-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Interview with Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux - abstracted from today's Cannes festival press statement.In 2004, the Cannes Festival Official Selection is composed of feature films presented in three categories: Competition, Out of Competition, Un Certain Regard. The Official Selection also includes the short film competition and film school competition ...

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    Cannes market predicts record attendance

    2004-04-26T04:00:00Z

    Cannes' Marche du Film has said that it expects arecord number of 8500 participants at this year's event withpre-registration figures already up by ten per cent compared to 2003.The highest increases are from the UK, the US, Asia, Spain,South Africa and Finland.The Marche also reports that the number of buyers ...

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    Pere reveals his inaugural Directors' Fortnight selection

    2004-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Making his debut as artisticdirector of Directors' Fortnight, Olivier Pere unveiled the line-up for thisyear's edition this morning in Paris.Among the twenty titles inthis year's selection are 10 French or French co-produced films, four from theUS, two from Japan and two from Iran. Among the other territories representedare Spain, Italy, ...

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    Arclight, Instinct capitalise on Strange Bedfellows

    2004-04-27T00:00:00Z

    On the eve of the film'sinternational premiere in the Cannes market, Arclight Films has signed on as'subagent' for the Australian comedy Strange Bedfellows, which openedstrongly enough to claim third place in the local weekend box office charts.The film sold A$1,373,957worth of tickets from 194 screens during the five-day long weekend ...

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    AUSTRALIA 27 April

    2004-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Despite a cold receptionfrom the critics, Australian comedy Strange Bedfellows was able to claimthird place in the charts on the five-day holiday weekend due to its verystrong A$1,373,957 gross from 194 screens.Obviously there remains alot of affection for the Becker film's stars, Paul 'Crocodile Dundee'Hogan and Michael Caton from The ...