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Imax puts 3-D movie to DVD for the first time through Warner
Warner Home Video willrelease the Imax 3D film Space Station on DVD, the first-everImax 3D title to be released in the video domain. The DVD, which will bedistributed in both 2D and 3D capabilities, will go into the domestic market inthe fourth quarter of 2004.However, consumers hoping tosee the 3D ...
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HUNGARY
Hungary's new distributor, Intersonic which debuted with the release of Snowboarder and with the help of well established Mokep, failed to pick the right film to make an impact on the audiences, Snowboarder didn't even attract one thousand admissions.Meanwhile SPI's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre achieved a decent opening for a ...
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ITALY
Three Italian films were released last weekend - although none of them performed outstandingly well.Ciro Ippolito's Italian title Vaniglia E Cioccolato, which stars Il Postino actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta as a wife who leaves her unfaithful husband in a desperate bid to save their marriage, opened at number 8 at ...
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UK/IRELAND
The February half-term school holiday is a key date in the UK calendar and last weekend saw four children's titles launch in time for the lucrative session.Four of the past six years have seen February admissions exceed any other month in the year, including the last leap year, 2000, thanks ...
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SWEDEN
While Brother Bear sat solidly on the top of the Swedish chart, Scary Movie 3 maneuvered into second in front of Kjell Sundvall's action outing The Threat with a strong $5,514 screen average on its 60 prints.Meanwhile the veteran romance between Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton in Something's Gotta Give ...
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Blueberry
Dir: Jan Kounen. Fr-UK-Mex. 2004. 122 mins.Blueberry is not so much a Gallic makeover of the spaghetti western ' shot in Mexico ' as a feature-length commercial for Indian shamanism, a sort of special effects-driven Dances With Spirits, in which the audience is asked not so much to thrill to ...
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20:30:40
Dir: Silvia Chang. Taiwan-Hong Kong. 2004. 109mins.A cinematic weave of contemporary Asian women's stories, 20:30:40 is also a star vehicle for its three female protagonists. Sylvia Chang (who also directed and co-wrote), Rene Liu and Lee Sinje, each half a generation apart, have a cross-border appeal that stretches from Taiwan ...
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POLAND
Following last week's new entry Symmetry, which brought Polish films back into the box office chart after a two month hiatus, last weekend saw another local feature top the chart.Co-distributed by ITI Cinema and Interfilm, Ryszard Zatorski's feature film debut Nigdy W Zyciu! achieved over 230,000 admissions over the weekend ...
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Turkish films go Dutch
Following a growing trend for Turkish successes in Germany, in the Netherlands Pathé has started programming a slate of Turkish comedies in two of its major cinemas: Amsterdam Arena and Rotterdam De Kuip.Head of programming Danielle Koot already calls the experiment 'a huge success' with 8,500 tickets sold over the ...
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Vicuna returns to feature production
Veteran Spanish film executive Jose Vicuna has returned to feature film production after an almost ten-year hiatus, during which time he became president of rights and acquisitions house Sogepaq, a position he still holds. Through his independent Madrid-based production house Impala, Vicuna now has more than a dozen feature films, ...
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NORTH AMERICA
In the limited release arena Fox Searchlight's NC-17 drama The Dreamers grossed $511,207 for a $714,458 total in its second week. It climbed nine places to 27th and expanded by 61 sites into 66.Sony Pictures Classics opened Francois Dupeyron's acclaimed drama Monsieur Ibrahim in 52nd place on $65,696, which translated ...
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Italians return laden from Berlin
In a swathe of deals closed by Italian distributors in Berlin, Rome's Istituto Luce has snapped up all Italian distribution rights to two of the festival's hottest titles, including Argentine director Daniel Burman's Lost Embrace - which won the Jury Grand Prix and the Best Actor Silver Bear at last ...
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We Don't Live Here Anymore
Dir: John Curran. US. 2004. 104 mins.A superlative drama about adultery boasting four courageous lead performances, We Don't Live Here Anymore may not be the ideal date movie but it will still be an attractive draw for smart adult audiences around the world.Adapted from two short stories by Andre Dubus, ...
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Sweden's NonStop takes five Berlin titles
Stockholm-based distributor NonStop Entertainment acquired five new titles at last week's Berlin Film Festival. The films include animated hits, a Sundance surfing doc and a spin-off to the Oscar-nominated City Of God.Stacy Peralta's Riding Giants, from Studio Canal, is an documentary about American surfing. It will be distributed in Sweden, ...
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Rings prove precious to Svensk Filmindustri
Strong earnings from its film division helped Swedish media major Bonnier AB - owner of Scandinavia's largest film company Svensk Filmindustri (SF) - post a net profit of $140m (SEK 1,011m) in 2003.SF distributes The Lord Of The Rings films, which helped its parent company's entertainment division achieve record profits. ...
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Berlusconi benefits as Italy passes controversial media law
The Italian Parliament has finally passed the government's controversial Gasparri media law, which critics say will pump an extra Euros 163m into Silvio Berlusconi's companies.The law, which paves the way for digital TV transmission, will save Berlusconi's Rete 4 from shifting to satellite Tv, and will allow state channel ...
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Kinowelt revives broadcasting ambitions
Germany's Kinowelt has revived its ambitions to become a player in the German broadcasting arena with plans for a free-TV niche film channel for nationwide distribution.Kinowelt Television has been granted a broadcasting licence by the Kassel-based media watchdog LPR Hessen subject to a final green light from the assembly of ...
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Belleville wins best film prize at France's Lumieres.
Belleville Rendez-Vous (Les Triplettes De Belleville) received the Lumiere Award for best film of 2003 on Tuesday night in Paris.The film is nominated for three Cesars later this month as well as two Oscars in the best animated film and best original song categories.The Lumieres are France's equivalent to the ...
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NonStop Entertainment acquires Berlin five
Stockholm-based distributor NonStop Entertainment acquired five new titles at this month's Berlin Film Festival.It bought Stacy Peralta's surfing doc Riding Giants from StudioCanal, and will distribute the film in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.City Of Men, from Buena Onda Films, is a spin-off TV series of Fernando Mereilles' City ...
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Mercier re-appointed as Directors' Fortnight scout
Chris Mercier has been appointed as the scout for English-language territories for Cannes' Directors' Fortnight sidebar (Quinzaine Des Realisateurs) for the second year.The announcement was made by Olivier Pere, the Fortnight's new artistic director, who said: "we are dedicated to discovering new talents and to supporting an eclectic range of ...