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Spielberg can't catch $200m 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 3,622sites ...
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Christmas crackers: DiCaprio can't catch Rings
Christmas Day in North America saw a mighty battle shaping up for the weekendwith the launch of Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can trying itsluck against New Line's The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers.Catch Me If You Can opened on Wednesday (Dec 25) foran impressive first-day take ...
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Butch Cassidy director George Roy Hill dies at 81
Oscar-winningdirector George Roy Hill has died at the age of 81.Theformer Marine pilot best known for 1973 best picture winner The Sting,starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Robert Shaw, as well as earlierNewman-Redford hit Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, died on FridayDec 27.TheStinggained Hill a best director Academy Award, ...
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Towering success: Lord Of The Rings sequel goes international
The Lord Of The Rings sequel, The Two Towers, flattened competition across the globe in its opening weekend in 25 international territories. Claiming a tremendous $87.9m in its first five days on release (Dec 18-22), the film finished its international launch 38% higher than its predecessor, The Fellowship Of The ...
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Rings rules but Kaante and Alabama show there's room for alternatives
The UK was no exception to The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers box office take over this weekend, with the sequel taking $13.7m (£8.6m) over the three-day weekend and $20.9m (£13.1m) from its five-day launch.Playing at 501 sites the film, which is distributed in the UK by Entertainment ...
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Two Towers runs Rings around competition
Thesecond instalment of New Line's The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, TheTwo Towers, stormed to the top of the North American box office over thethree-day weekend (Dec 20-22) with an estimated $61.5m. Theepic fantasy sequel opened on Wednesday (Dec 18) with $26m and has claimed apowerful estimated $101.5m in its ...
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Dirty Pretty Things continues strong run of product for Buena Vista
Buena Vista International scored with another strong limited release performer this week as Dirty Pretty Things grossed an impressive $225,541 (£141,865) from just 50 sites. The drama, from British director Stephen Frears, showed a strong per site average of $4,511, laying claim to seventh position in the chart.Dirty Pretty Things ...
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The Santa Clause 2 spreads its reach
The top three chart positions remained unchanged this week in the UK as The Santa Clause 2 took advantage of Harry Potter's 42% drop off, Pathe launched Brit-horror Deathwatch into fourth and Bond was neither shaken nor stirred from its hold on pole position.Die Another Day, distributed by 20th Century ...
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James Bond: International hit man
International distributor 20th Century Fox enjoyed another massive weekend for Die Another Day in its second week, taking an estimated $29m. The film's international cumulative score now stands at over $63m.The James Bond title opened in multiple territories over the weekend, once again scoring the biggest opening for the franchise ...
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James Bond: international hit man
Fox International's Die Another Day continued its record-breaking worldwide march over the weekend with a phenomenal $31.6m haul from 19 markets. After 13 days on release the twentieth James Bond instalment has grossed a powerful $65.4m internationally and $100.6m in the US for a $165.9m worldwide tally. In Germany it ...
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UK set for close-run race for 2002 distributor crown
The UK box office looks set for a thrilling end-of-year race to establish the biggest-grossing distributor of 2002.And while it is still too early to predict with any certainty, there is a real possibility that Entertainment Film Distributors could become the first independent distributor ever to finish on top of ...
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Bond regains control of the UK box office
Die Another Day, 20th Century Fox's James Bond film, triumphed at the UK box office this weekend dropping off just 22% from its launch weekend and stealing the top spot from Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets. The Bond title claimed $8.3m (£5.4m) from 431 sites over ...
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Columbine bowls over international audiences
The past two weeks have seen two box office behemoths unleashed into the international market. Two consecutive weekends of nearly $60m in international grosses have marked a huge start for Harry Potter sequel The Chamber Of Secrets and a $25m-plus debut last weekend marked a triumphant return for James Bond ...
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Bond and Potter generate $22.5m weekend between them from 66% of the nation's screens
The entry of James Bond title Die Another Day and the continued might of Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets at the UK box office this weekend caused a massive downturn in the fortunes of most other current releases.Die Another Day, the first Bond handled by 20th Century Fox ...
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Bond opens to record figures internationally
Die Another Day stormed the international charts over the weekend, grossing $25m from five territories for 20th Century Fox.Not only did the film claim the top spot in each market where it opened, it also claimed the biggest Bond opening in every territory in the process.The first Bond film handled ...
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Bond stirs up box office on UK release
The latest James Bond film Die Another Day has grossed a mighty $1.9m (£1.23m) on its first day of release in the UK.Opening on Wednesday Nov 20, the twentieth film of the franchise scored a strong $4,502 per site (430 sites). This is particularly impressive given that the opening day ...
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Netherlands leads latest revival of local film industries
For the first time in Dutch film history five local productions took up top 20 positions in the Netherlands box office chart at the weekend (Nov 14-17).The local success follows on from the rise in fortunes of local films in general in 2001. While the Netherlands saw a rise in ...
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Potter's record opening has little impact on UK holdovers
Despite the record-breaking openings recorded by both Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets and Momentum Pictures' Bowling For Columbine (see separate Screendaily stories) the rest of the UK chart saw relatively small percentage drops from the previous week.As already reported on this site, the second film in ...
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Bowling For Columbine strikes note in UK as BO record falls
The second Harry Potter film was not the only new release breaking records in the UK over the weekend. Proving that there is a strong market for alternatives to studio blockbusters, Momentum Pictures' Bowling For Columbine launched on just 28 screens for a stellar $249,444 (£157,898).The opening gave Michael Moore's ...
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Brit horror enjoys impressive international debut
British horror title Deathwatch received a stunning international box office debut last weekend in Hong Kong. Launching on just 19 screens on Nov 7 the film grossed a massive $192,564 (HK$1.5m) to take the top spot from Warner Bros' Ghost Ship.Starring Jamie Bell, in his first role since his BAFTA-winning ...