![Benjamin Kramer Headshot Photo Credit_CAA[40][40]](https://d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net/Pictures/274x183/6/6/4/1455664_benjaminkramerheadshotphotocredit_caa4040_107707.jpeg)
Small MPU – Page 4211
-
News
Multiplex building continues apace across Europe
More than 1,000 multiplex screens a year are still being added to the European total, according to a report by industry analysts Screen Digest.25,306 multiplex screens were in operation across the EU in 2002 - up 4.6% year on year.The report predicts that within two to three years half of ...
-
News
Loews, Israeli Theatres expand into Poland
Poland has become the latest hot spot for multiplex development with two international cinema chains - the US' Loews Cineplex International and Israel's IT International Theatres - unveiling plans to expand into the territory.IT, known in its home territory as Israeli Theatres, is using the proceeds from its recent IPO ...
-
News
Investors sue Village Roadshow for Matrix profits
A group of unhappy Australian investors are suing Village Roadshow Limited over their US$17.9m (A$23m) worth of tax leveraged investments in the first of the high-earning Matrix trilogy.The group, hardly beginners, are current and former partners of KPMG in Australia, the leading business and taxation advisory firm. They including the ...
-
News
Tykwer sniffs out Perfume possibilities
Tom Tykwer (Heaven, Run Lola Run) may direct the long-anticipated screen adaptation of Patrick Sueskind's internationally bestselling novel Perfume (Das Parfuem) for Germany's Constantin Film.Constantin's board member Thomas Peter Friedl confirmed to ScreenDaily.com that the director has been working with screenwriter Andrew Birkin (The Concrete Garden) and producer Bernd Eichinger ...
-
News
Hotel Rwanda checks in for South African shoot
United Artists' thriller Hotel Rwanda, directed by Terry George, began shooting in Johannesburg on Monday (Jan 12).Based on true events, the film is set in Kigali during Rwanda's genocidal civil war and tells the story of hotelier Paul Rusesabagina who saved the lives of thousands of helpless Rwandans.Don Cheadle plays ...
-
News
Sweden's Daybreak set for Berlin competition
Writer-producer-director Eleanor Bergstein, sound designer/film editor Walter Murch and director-producer-screenwriter Anthony Minghella, whose latest film Cold Mountain will open this year's Berlinale, have been announced as the celebrity hosts for the second edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus (7-12 February).Bergstein was responsible for the production and screenplay of the box ...
-
News
Kirishima 1945 wins prestigious Japanese prize
Kazuo Kuroki's Kirishima 1945 has been named the best Japanese film of 2003 by the Kinema Jumpo magazine's critics poll.The film, an autobiographical drama set in rural Japan in the closing days of World War II, is currently on domestic release.Compiled annually by leading critics and scholars, the Kinema Jumpo ...
-
News
Minghella, Murch named as Berlinale Talent Campus guests
Writer-producer-director Eleanor Bergstein, sound designer/film editor Walter Murch and director-producer-screenwriter Anthony Minghella, whose latest film Cold Mountain will open this year's Berlinale, have been announced as the celebrity hosts for the second edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus (7-12 February).Bergstein was responsible for the production and screenplay of the box ...
-
News
Lost In Translation riding high in Europe after trio of spectacular bows
FocusFeatures' Lost In Translation scored a trio of sensational European openings at theweekend that far exceeded expectations and sets it up for large expansions thisupcoming weekend.Sofia Coppola'sacclaimed account of a brief-ish encounter in Tokyo opened through MomentumPictures in the UK and Ireland on 96 prints and grossed $1.47m, reportedly thebiggest ...
-
News
Lost In Translation scores trio of spectacular Euro bows
Focus Features' Lost In Translation scored a trio of sensational European openings atthe weekend that far exceeded expectations and sets it up for large expansionsthis upcoming weekend.Sofia Coppola's acclaimed account of a brief-ishencounter in Tokyo opened through Momentum Pictures in the UK and Ireland on 96prints and grossed $1.47m, reportedly ...
-
News
Love Actually passes $200m at global box office
Universal'sromantic comedy Love Actually took $4.7m from 1,819 sites in 25 countries at the weekend,raising the cumulative score in the territories where it is distributed by UIPto $139.2m.Including France ($6m), Russia ($2m) and the US ($58m), it hasgrossed $205m worldwide and has eight countries to open including Japan on Feb7.Weekend ...
-
News
Love Actually passes $200m worldwide
Universal's romantic comedy Love Actually took $4.7m from 1,819 sites in 25 countries at theweekend, raising the cumulative score in the territories where it isdistributed by UIP to $139.2m.Including France ($6m), Russia ($2m) and the US ($58m), ithas grossed $205m worldwide and has eight countries to open including Japan onFeb ...
-
News
Something's Gotta Give opens second in Australia on $1.9m
The romanticcomedy Something's Gotta Give opened in Australia in second place at the weekend on anestimated $1.9m from 235 screens through Warner Bros Pictures International(WBPI).By way ofcomparison, box office tracked 34% ahead of Cold Mountain, 25% ahead of As Good As It Gets, 25% ahead of First Wives Club and ...
-
News
Cheaper By The Dozen scores solid Australian bow
Driven by a $1.2m bow on 177screens in Australia, family comedy Cheaper By The Dozen grossed $2.2m from 607 in five territories at theweekend to raise its international running total to $5.1m.Elsewhere, Fox Internationalreported a fourth consecutive number one weekend for The Lord Of The Rings:The Return Of The King ...
-
News
Seven battle for Oscar make-up nod
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has namedseven films for consideration in the best make-up category at the upcoming 76thAcademy Awards.The films are Cold Mountain, The Last Samurai, The Lord OfThe Rings: The Return Of The King, Master And Commander: The Far Side Of TheWorld, Monster, Peter Pan ...
-
News
Wolfe snaps up Goldfish Memory
Leading US gayand lesbian film and video distributor Wolfe Video has acquired all NorthAmerican rights to Liz Gill's Irish romantic comedy Goldfish Memory.The film will beWolfe Video's second theatrical release of the year after MarcoFiliberti's Italian drama Adored: Diary Of A Male Porn Star (formerly A Little More Than A ...
-
News
THINKFilm climbs aboard Festival Express
THINKFilm has acquired NorthAmerican rights to Bob Smeaton's rock 'n' roll documentary Festival Express,with plans for a 2004 release.Set in 1970, the filmcomprises rare and unseen footage from the eponymous Canadian concert andself-styled answer to Woodstock that featured such luminaries as Janis Joplin,The Band and The Grateful Dead.Smeaton's camera follows ...
-
News
Lions Gate takes on horror title Saw
Lions Gate Filmshas acquired worldwide rights to James Wan's horror thriller Saw fromEvolution Management and will premiere the film in the Midnight Lineup sectionat Sundance.Release is planned sometime this year and the film centreson a serial killer's cat-and-mouse game with two captives. It stars Cary Elwes,Danny Glover, Monica Potter and ...
-
News
Eisenberg returns to WHV as vp of worldwide acquisitions
Former WarnerHome Video (WHV) vice president of worldwide video acquisitions Elyse Eisenberghas returned to the company as vice president of worldwide acquisitions,effective immediately.Eisenberg will be responsible for the division's worldwideacquisitions programme, which includes theatrical features, video and otheraudio-visual product."Sourcing new product and acquiring additional quality libraryproduct is key to our ...
-
News
Return Of The King raises int'l box office to $454.9m
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King added $35.2mfrom 8,813 screens in 51 territories at the weekend to raise its internationalrunning total to $454.9m.It remained top in its fourth weekend in the UK and added $6.7m from1,299 screens for a staggering $83.4m running total.It also stayed top ...