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Pie 3 opens top in Italy, New Zealand for Universal
Universal's American Pie: The Wedding opened number one in Italy on anestimated $2m from 337 sites through UIP at the weekend, grossing 40% more thanthe prequel's equivalent bow in 2001.The third instalment in the comedy franchise also opened top inNew Zealand, grossing $332,000 from 47, which was 23% ahead of ...
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UK Production Listings - October 6 2003
UNITED KINGDOM - October 6PRE-PRODUCTIONBRONTE (Random Harvest Pictures) Budget: $12m. Period drama. The moors above Yorkshire are harsh and life is severe for the Bronte family. Follows the lives of the famous writing family. Exec prods: Tim Smith, Melvyn Singer. Prods: Alistair Maclean-Clark, Basil Stephens. Dir: Marleen Gorris. Scr: Angela ...
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Stars express Marrakech support
The Marrakech International Film Festival (Oct 3-8) will likely move to November in 2004 to occupy a less crowded space on the international film calendar, and to avoid a clash with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.The festival, presided over this year by French actress Nathalie Baye, launched its third ...
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School Of Rock
Dir: Richard Linklater. USA 2003. 100 minsOne of the best things about Richard Linklater's superb new comedy, School Of Rock, is that it doesn't take itself too seriously, as director Linklater has on occasion been wont to do. Employing the highest of high concepts - failed rock guitarist impersonates ...
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NEW ZEALAND
Local film The Locals grossed NZ$62,060 from 22 screens, giving it a screen average of NZ$2,821, in its opening four days in its home market of New Zealand. This put the debut feature of short filmmaker and commercials director Greg Page in tenth spot. Distributor Essential came on board early ...
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Twin Sisters takes top prize at Utrecht
The Second World War-drama Twin Sisters - the Netherlands' submission to the Oscars - won the main award, the Golden Calf for Best Film at the 23rd Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht. Most awards however went to opening film, Robert-Jan Westdijk's Phileine Says Sorry, which won best actress (Kim van ...
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ITALY
A highly visible marketing campaign for Italian film My Brother-In-Law (Mio Cognato) is paying off for 01 Distribution, as the picture grossed $241,984 from just 89 screens on its opening weekend, earning a strong $2,719 per screen. Directed by Alessandro Piva, My Brother-In-Law is set in the southern town of ...
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Rhinoceros Eyes
Dir/scr. Aaron Woodley. US. 2003. 92 min.Rich in atmosphere, Rhinoceros Eyes is an impressive directorial debut on many levels. The film, which premiered at Toronto, won the festival's Discovery prize for developing filmmakers as selected by the press corps. But Woodley, who is also debuting as a screenwriter, doesn't have ...
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Rio festival strikes populist note
The Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival has taken on a more populist stance this year, expanding its reach to open air theatres (Lonas Culturales) in the impoverished suburban areas and even in the city's famous hilltop slums, known as favelas.Among the festival highlights was a Mickey Mouse tribute held ...
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Arclight engrossed by Chan's New Police Story
Arclight Films has picked up international sales rights to the new Jackie Chan vehicle which currently goes under the working title of New Police Story.The film is produced by JCE, a new company formed by Jackie Chan and his regular business and investment partners Willie Chan (no relation) and Solon ...
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NETHERLANDS
It was family fare versus slasher horror at The Netherlands box office last weekend as BVI's Freaky Friday squared off against RCV's Freddy Vs Jason.Both big hits in North America each film was able to claim a victory with Friday finishing ahead of Freddy but the horror film performing far ...
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Bollywood megastar arises from bankruptcy
Indian superstar Amitabh Bachchan is to relaunch the operations of his film production company Amitabh Bachchan Corp Ltd. on Oct 11 in Mumbai. The company, which was declared bankrupt in 1999, will now be known as AB Corp and will launch a new Hindi film, directed by Indian filmmaker Raj ...
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Germany sees summer admissions plunge
German cinemas registered 14% fewer admissions and a 15% drop in box-office takings in the third quarter of 2003, compared to the same period 12 months ago, according to figures collated by Nielsen EDI.Cinemas reported Euros 159.8m in revenues and 28.4m tickets sold between June 30 and September 28, with ...
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Russia names Return as Oscar contender
As expected, the Venice Film Festival's recent Golden Lion winner The Return, directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev, has been selected as the Russian entry for the upcoming Oscars. The film, produced by Moscow based Ren Films, won worldwide critical acclaim in Venice and is considered a hot contender for a slot ...
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Scandal erupts at South Korean box office
South Korean feature Untold Scandal has become the first local film ever to draw one million viewers in its opening weekend. Released on October 2, the film has attracted 1.13 million admissions ($6m) nationwide in its first four days. An adaptation of French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses which sets ...
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Pieces Of April stirs Mill Valley emotions
Peter Hedges' emotional on-stage interview after the Oct 4 screening of his dysfunctional family drama Pieces Of April provided one of the early highlights of the 26th Mill Valley Film Festival, which in its first weekend offered a heady mix of passion and personality that confirmed its status as a ...
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Feature producers to benefit from Enterprise Australia
Several feature film producers are among the 16 selected to participate in the inaugural Enterprise Australia, the Australian version of the workshop which UK management consultants Olsberg SPI have already conducted in Europe. It is aimed at equipping Australian producers with the business skills to make their companies globally competitive ...
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Renaissance, Clear Blue Sky strike three-year pact
UK producer Renaissance Films has teamed up with Paul Allen's Clear Blue Sky Productions in a three-year co-financing and co-producing deal.Renaissance will handle international sales on at least five films to be produced under the agreement which will see the partners share investment and profits. The first project under the ...
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MTM, Key Entertainment partner on Riot rights
As part of an ongoing internationalisation of its activities, the Oscar-winning German production outfit MTM Medien & Television München (Nowhere In Africa) has joined forces with the Los Angeles-based Key Entertainment to acquire the film rights to Indian writer Shashi Tharoor 's best-selling novel Riot: A Love Story.The tragic love ...
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Afghanistan becomes Unveiled at Mill Valley
In a stirring plea to the international community at the weekend, one of the women journalists behind the documentary Afghanistan Unveiled used the film's world premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival to urge for more aid work in the war-torn country."The international aid organisations need to extend their coverage ...