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Gold Circle UK plans unveiled
Gold Circle Films, the Los Angeles-based company which scored with My Big Fat Greek Wedding, has become the latest US company to set up shop in the UK.The operation last week unveiled its partnership with ICE Productions, the production company recently launched under Erica Motley, former head of film at ...
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Rai, Europa sign two-way pact
Luc Besson's French powerhouse EuropaCorp has sealed a major reciprocal co-production and distribution deal with Italy's Rai Cinema.The deal, valued at around Euros 7m-10m, involves six Europa pictures produced between 2003 and 2005: These are Cannes opener Fanfan La Tulipe, Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Bon Voyage, comic book adaptation Michel Vaillant, Bernie ...
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Fortissimo strikes financing deal with Bank of Scotland
Fortissimo Film Sales has struck a new relationship with the film finance arm of Royal Bank Of Scotland (RBOS), allowing it to expand at a time when the sales market is getting tighter.The new facility is described as a "multi-faceted financial structure," which could evolve into a fully-fledged revolving credit ...
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Matrix Reloaded unleashes $93.3m three-day opening weekend
The Matrix Reloaded scored the biggest domestic opening ever for anR-rated film and the second biggest domestic bow of all time at the weekend,delivering a mighty $93.3m according to Warner Bros estimates.Factoring in Thursday's$42.5m opening day and $5m from Wednesday previews, The Matrix Reloadedgrossed $135.8m over four days. The sci-fi ...
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Matrix Reloaded unleashes $93.3m three-day opening weekend
Opening in 13 territoriesover the weekend The Matrix Reloaded dominated the charts with animpressive $31.9m international bow. In a string of number oneopenings, the sci-fi sequel took $12m in France (Euros 10.3m) from 894 screensin what was the sixth biggest US opening weekend ever.Figures represent three-daygrosses and not the usual ...
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The Broken Hearts Club
Dir: Greg Berlanti. US. 2000. 91 mins.Prod co: Meanwhile Films. US dist: Screen Gems. Int'l dist: Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International. Prods: Mickey Liddell, Joseph Middleton. Co-prods: Julie Plec, Sam Irvin. Scr: Berlanti. DoP: Paul Elliott. Prod des: Charlie Daboub. Ed: Todd Busch. Mus: Julianne Kelley, Joe Guthrie. Main cast: ...
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Matrix Reloaded unleashes second biggest opening ever
Opening in 13 territoriesover the weekend The Matrix Reloaded dominated the charts with animpressive $31.9m international bow. In a string of number oneopenings, the sci-fi sequel took $12m in France (Euros 10.3m) from 894 screensin what was the sixth biggest US opening weekend ever.Figures represent three-daygrosses and not the usual ...
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Matrix Reloaded unleashes second biggest opening weekend ever
The Matrix Reloaded scored the biggest domestic opening ever for anR-rated film and the second biggest domestic bow of all time at the weekend,delivering a mighty $93.3m according to Warner Bros estimates.Factoring in Thursday's$42.5m opening day and $5m from Wednesday previews, The Matrix Reloadedgrossed $135.8m over four days. The sci-fi ...
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Matrix Reloaded takes $31.9m in first international releases
Opening in 13 territories over the weekend The MatrixReloaded dominated the charts with an impressive $31.9m internationalbow.on 2,629 screens In a string of number one openings, the sci-fi sequel took$12m in France (Euros 10.3m) from 894 screens in what was the sixth biggest USopening weekend ever.Figures represent three-day grosses and ...
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Matrix Reloaded scores in strong international bow
Opening in 13 territoriesover the weekend The Matrix Reloaded dominated the charts with animpressive $31.9m international bow on 2,629 screens In a string of number oneopenings, the sci-fi sequel took $12m in France (Euros 10.3m) from 894 screensin what was the sixth biggest US opening weekend ever.Figures represent three-daygrosses and ...
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CTFDI's Anger Management raises international total to $14.8m
Anger Management grossed $2.8m-$2.9m over the weekend as a series ofexcellent second week holds raised the comedy's international running total to$14.8m.In its second week inGermany the film, which is being released by Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI), remained number one and dropped a mere 8% on $2m for a$4.9m cumulative ...
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Artist House launches new fund
Artist House, the US-Japanese group behind the adaptation of The Tesseract is to launch a new film fund in conjunction with Peter Anshin's Asia Entertainment Finance Associates (AEFA).Tokyo-based Anshin, who also represents Comerica, said: "Artist House group will manage the fund, which will be used to support the group's rights ...
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Spain's Alquimia boards Euro pair
Spain's Alquimia Cinema has boarded two European projects as minority co-producer: French sequel Jet Set 2 from Mandarin Films and Italian thriller Eyes Of Crystal from Cattleya Films.The Euros4.5m comedy Jet Set 2 will shoot in Ibiza in September with the prequel's director, Fabien Onteniente, and some of the same ...
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Bedi returns to Sandokan cult
Destiny Pictures' Aditya Basu Bhattacharya is lining up a $4m Indian-Italian drama titled Sandokan In Sicily, which will feature Indian star Kabir Bedi.Bedi was the 6ft5' star of the 1976 Sandokan TV series, about a heroic anti-colonialist figure based in Malaysia. The series, which also spawned a feature film in ...
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Taiwan overhauls film funding policy
Taiwan's Government Information Office (GIO) has overhauled its film funding policy in an attempt to reinvigorate local production and encourage co-productions with international partners. The Taiwanese film industry is renowned for its arthouse films - from auteurs such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming-Liang - that win awards at festivals ...
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Bright Angel buys Asian pair
Bright Angel, the new Dutch distributor formed only at the beginning of the month, has picked up a further two films. From Cineclick Asia it bought Lee Chang-dong's drama Oasis and from Toei it grabbed Battle Royale II. Distribution head Patrizia Raeli describe the purchases as "old friends". In her ...
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MTM to shoot biopic of student leader Dutschke
Munich-based production outfit MTM cineteve has successfully bid for the film rights to the biography of legendary student movement leader Rudi Dutschke.The biography - entitled Dutschke: We Had A Barbarically Lovely Life - was published by his widow Gretchen Dutschke in 1996. Urs Egger, whose credits include Opera Ball, will ...
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Buskin sets up Euro fund
Italy's Buskin Film has set up a private fund to finance, co-produce and distribute at least four European projects each year.Named European Community Gap Financing, the fund is financed by a group of private investors. They will guarantee a minimum of Euros 4m each year to finance and co-produce up ...
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Cowan's grant scheme names recipients
US charitable foundation The Global Film Initiative has named the line-up of award recipients for its inaugural granting programme. Six grant recipients were selected from 37 submissions representing 12 countries and will receive completion funds of between $20,000 and $40,000 for their features from the Initiative. The Initiative, founded by ...
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Summit/Regency trio big in Japan
Summit Entertainment has concluded the biggest deal of Cannes so far, selling Japanese distribution rights to Toho Towa to three high-profile films - Mr And Mrs Smith with Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman, The Runaway Jury with John Cusack and Gene Hackman and horror movie Wrong Turn. All three films ...