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All articles by Robert Mitchell – Page 24
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Oscar winners celebrate a beautiful box-office
The first weekend since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences handed out this year's statuettes, it was best picture winner A Beautiful Mind that reaped most benefits internationally.The Ron Howard film recorded a whopping 91% increase in admissions in France in the week ending April 2, re-entering the ...
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Entertainment's Blade II cuts through UK crowd
UK distributor Entertainment saw yet another success this week with Wesley Snipes action sequel Blade II taking over the top spot in its opening weekend. The film grossed an impressive $3.7m (£2.5m) from 345 sites for a mighty average of $10,595. Blade II follows a host of recent successes for ...
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E.T. phones in just $6.6m from 26 markets
At a time when Hollywood is supposedly embracing re-releases, UIP's 20th anniversary edition of Steven Spielberg's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial took just $6.6 million from 26 international territories over the Easter weekend.The 1982 hit played to most success in Mexico, where it claimed $1.4 million in four days, and the UK, ...
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Talk To Her leads European resistance
Although the European box office has seen a host of high profile US product take top spots in several territories at the weekend, including the European launch of DreamWorks SKG's The Time Machine in The Netherlands, a raft of local productions, led by Spain's Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella) ...
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Swiss film scores at local box office
Swiss comedy Ernstfall In Havanna claimed the top spot in its home country with a strong four-day opening (March 14-17) of $292,603 (SFr 484,551). Playing on 31 screens in Switzerland's German-speaking region the film beat several high profile Hollywood titles including A Beautiful Mind at number two in its third ...
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Tenenbaums receive royal reception in UK
Director Wes Anderson's latest comedy The Royal Tenenbaums has recorded impressive figures on its opening weekend in the UK. Grossing $997,187 (£700,025) over its first three days, the film took fourth place in the chart. However playing at 159 sites, the least of any film in this week's top 10, ...
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Promising international debut for Monster's Ball
Monster's Ball received its international debut last weekend, opening in Switzerland to a strong reception from a limited release.Opening on 12 screens in the German-speaking region of the country the drama recorded a four-day total of $73,075 to land seventh position in the chart. With a powerful screen average of ...
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Gibson's soldiers go fourth in the UK
Mel Gibson's Vietnam War film, We Were Soldiers, opened in the UK this week but met with a surprisingly average result. Playing at 384 sites the fourth-placed title grossed $1.077m (£757,760) for an okay screen average of $2,807 - the lowest average amongst the top five.The result will be disappointing ...
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Ali takes on international contenders
Michael Mann's Muhammad Ali biopic, simply titled Ali, took on a host of major international territories this week with inconsistent results.The film, for which stars Will Smith and Jon Voight are nominated for acting awards at this month's Academy Awards, came out fighting in France where it took second place ...
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Mothman leads openers, Ocean's goes top
The UK box office chart saw a battle of holdovers this week as only one new film, Helkon SK's The Mothman Prophecies, received a wide opening. Mothman, a thriller purportedly based on true events, opened in fifth place with a gross of $1.1m (£762,516) from 286 sites - including $53,692 ...
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Howard's Mind gets beautiful reception
After taking home two BAFTA awards last weekend and boasting eight Academy Award nominations, not to mention the amount of press Russell Crowe alone seems to generate, it is no surprise that A Beautiful Mind has enjoyed a host of strong international releases this week. However, the Ron Howard film, ...
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Charlotte Gray struggles to find box office gold
Charlotte Gray's status as FilmFour's biggest production to date failed to translate into UK box-office gold this weekend. But FilmFour calculates that the WW2 drama, based on the novel by Sebastian Faulks, will still have a profitable UK release across all windows after taking $644,104 (£450,229) from 217 sites.Along with ...
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Rings sets new Polish box office record
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (international box office total $434m to date) achieved a record-breaking opening in Poland over the weekend. With a three day gross of $1.9m (zlo 8.1m) the film was well ahead of the country's previous highest openings, including local hits Pan ...
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Monsters, Inc. fights off Ali and Ocean's 11
The UK chart saw two strong openings over the weekend but neither could challenge computer-animated holdover Monsters, Inc. for the top spot.Michael Mann's Ali, distributed by Entertainment, launched on a limited release of 17 sites to land twelfth position with $179,904 (£125,573). No doubt boosted by its two acting Academy ...
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UK cinema admissions continue to rise
Having recorded the highest admissions last year (156 million) since 1972, the upward trend in UK cinema attendance and box office takings looks set to continue in 2002.Figures for January 2002 show that the month's box office figure of£59.6m is a year-on-year rise of 25% over the same period in ...
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Monsters, Inc. scares up UK box office record
Nothing could stand up to the might of Buena Vista International's Monsters, Inc. at the UK box office over the weekend with the animated hit claiming first place with a massive $13.0m (£9.2m), including previews of $3.8m (£2.7m). BVI's biggest opening to date, Monsters, Inc. played at 503 sites including ...
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Buena Vista UK records biggest-ever opening
Buena Vista International recorded their biggest opening weekend of all time in the UK with the release of Monsters, Inc. The latest production from Pixar Animation Studios opened on Friday (Feb 8) to record a three-day gross of $13.1m (£9.2m) - including $3.8m (£2.7m) of previews.The animated film is the ...
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Gosford Park charms the box office
UK audiences turned out in force at the weekend to greet the latest local production, Gosford Park. The film, which won director Robert Altman the best director Golden Globe last month, opened at just 156 venues to record an impressive $1.2m (£837,589) taking fourth place in the national chart. This ...
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The Son's Room has slender US opening
Despite winning last year's Cannes Palme d'or and being the Italian submission for this year's best foreign language Oscar, Nanni Moretti's acclaimed family drama The Son's Room had a disappointing opening for Miramax Films in North America last weekend, taking $4,887 from one New York screen.In those international ...
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Vanilla Sky dethrones The Lord Of The Rings
Vanilla Sky, the first re-teaming of director Cameron Crowe and actor Tom Cruise since Jerry Maguire - which grossed $13.3m (£9.4m) at the UK box office in 1997, has stormed into the top chart position in the UK displacing The Lord Of The Rings in the process.The UIP-distributed thriller grossed ...