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All articles by Robert Mitchell – Page 18
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The Ring remake lords it over the UK box office
The UK/Ireland box office chart saw a new champion over the weekend as UIP's The Ring made a strong debut with $3.5m (£2.2m) from 396 sites - including previews of $478,046 (£300,213) from 311 locations.The horror title, the only new entry to make the top 15 this weekend, showed by ...
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The Ring packs them in across Europe
Horror remake The Ring enjoyed a host of powerful openings across Europe last weekend grossing over $14m from the 21 international territories currently playing it.Launching in seven new territories The Ring took top chart positions in the UK, Iceland and the Netherlands. It also scored the highest screen averages of ...
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Pearl & Dean launch charity initiative for 50th anniversary
UK cinema advertising company Pearl & Dean, has announced a new charity initiative to celebrate its 50th Anniversary.In association with Warner Village and UGC Cinemas, actor Ewan McGregor and singer Sharleen Spiteri, the company will be spearheading campaigns for both the Children's Hospice Association Of Scotland (CHAS) and Medicinema.The campaign ...
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Rom-com holds off Daredevil in the UK
Romantic comedy Two Weeks Notice proved the big winner in the UK over Valentine's Day weekend despite the launch of 20th Century Fox's potential blockbuster, Daredevil.The top placed Warner Bros comedy showed an impressive second week performance, dropping off just 11% from its opening weekend to take a weekend score ...
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Red Dragon passes $100m international gross
The third instalment in the Anthony Hopkins/Hannibal Lecter franchise, Red Dragon, has passed the $100m international box office mark after a strong debut last weekend in Japan.The film, which is a prequel to the 1991 Best Picture Oscar winner The Silence Of The Lambs, grossed $3.6m (Y435.7m) in two days ...
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Two Weeks Notice charms UK audiences
Three major new openers stormed the UK box office this week, led by Warner Bros' romantic comedy Two Weeks Notice. The strong combination of the three debutantes, a host of other new titles and continued strength of holdovers, such as Catch Me If You Can, led the box office for ...
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Catch Me If You Can runs up European revenues
Catch Me If You Can swept through a host of new territories over the weekend notching up more than $15.5m from the nine territories that received it. These openings included UIP's launches in three major European territories: Germany, Italy and the UK.The unquestionable box office draw of megastar triumvirate Leonardo ...
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Taxi 3 gets off to flying start
The third instalment in French action-comedy franchise Taxi got off to a racing start in three European territories this weekend. Taxi 3 sped into top positions in France and Belgium and saw an impressive launch in French-speaking Switzerland to take a total weekend haul of $11.6m.Launching in France last Wednesday ...
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Catch Me flies into the UK
UK audiences flocked to safe reliability and flirted with controversy amongst this week's openers as Catch Me If You Can landed the top spot and Irreversible played a solid limited launch.Steven Spielberg's latest, which received positive reviews in the territory and stars box office favourites Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, ...
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Catch Me starts running in Europe
Steven Spielberg's latest film Catch Me If You Can received a strong positive reception in Spain this week, where it started its European roll out ahead of a mass launch next weekend.The UIP release claimed $2.2m (Euros 2m) from 286 screens in the territory to take the top spot away ...
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Schmidt points to flying start for Entertainment
Having narrowly missed out on being the top performing UK distributor of 2002 to 20th Century Fox, Entertainment Film Distributors is off to a flying start in 2003.The company still holds two top five positions with The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers - placed third this week with ...
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8 Mile dethrones The Lord Of The Rings
The UK box office chart saw a new champion this weekend as UIP's 8 Mile knocked The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers from its four-week reign. Launching with a superb $7.2m (£4.4m) from 423 sites the Curtis Hanson film, which marks the feature debut of US rap star ...
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UK leads host of strong openings for 8 Mile
A stunning $7.2m launch for 8 Mile in the UK and Ireland is the latest box office triumph for US rapper Eminem's acting debut.The UIP-released film, which is directed by Curtis Hanson, claimed a powerful $7.2m (£4.4m) over the weekend in the UK - including $771,995 (£477,093) of previews. The ...
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Gangs Of New York storms the UK
Entertainment Film Distributors enjoyed a mighty double-headed victory at the UK box office this week with The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers and new release Gangs Of New York in the top two positions.Martin Scorsese's long awaited and much anticipated period epic Gangs Of New York, launched on ...
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Coming soon in 2003: a sense of deja vu
Anyone who thinks that a sequel heavy 2002 will pave the way for a year full of original film-making in 2003 is very much mistaken. The likelihood is that 2003 will see more of the same - plus a deluge of comic-book adaptations.Buoyed by the stellar performance of Spider-Man and ...
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Star Trek's 10th outing opens well but is no Nemesis for Rings
The latest title in the Star Trek film franchise opened well in the UK over the first weekend of the new year, taking second place with $3.1m (£1.96m) - including $536,135 or previews.Despite recording a good site average of $7,365 from its 426 locations the sci-fi adventure, the tenth in ...
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Warner scores its biggest ever international year with $1.6bn in 2002...
Harry Potter became 2002's highest grossing film internationally in what was the final triumph in a record year for Warner Bros Pictures.The company saw its best year of all-time at the international box office in 2002, pulling in $1.6bn and beating its previous record of $1.34bn, set in 2001, by ...
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The Two Towers continues record-breaking int'l run
The records continued to fall to The Lord Of The Rings as the second week of The Two Towers theatrical run came to a close.The fantasy sequel has already passed the $200m box office mark both from international territories and separately in North American. With $414m recorded by year's end, ...
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Chicago explodes on a single print
Although The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers maintained incredible strength in its second week and many other films saw percentage rises from last week, the UK weekend truly belonged to Buena Vista International's Chicago.The single print release - it is currently screening at the Warner West End before ...
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Spielberg can't catch Rings
The heady box officecombination of director Steven Spielberg and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and TomHanks was not enough to topple The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towersfrom the top spot this weekend (Dec 27-29). In its second week in thelead Peter Jackson's epic fantasy sequel claimed an estimated $48.9m from ...