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Austin opens in France, Germany, Austria
New Line International's AustinPowers In Goldmember opened insecond place in Germany over the weekend with $1.6m from 695 screens for a$2,297 per-screen average. The third instalment of the Austin Powers franchise rolled out in Austria on Thursday with$298,392 from 74 screens and a per-screen average of $4,031. In France aWednesday ...
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Ice Age inches closer to $200m after Baltic openings
Ice Age inched closer to $200m in international ticket salesover the weekend as it expanded into the Baltic States, where Fox registeredits best ever bow in Estonia, opening number one on $45,836 from four screens.This was also the industry's second highest opening of all time in Estonia. Theanimated feature also ...
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XXX opens at number one in Japan
Columbia/Revolution's actionthriller XXX opened top of thecharts in Japan over the weekend, grossing $2.45m from 407 screens for aper-theatre average of $6,007. Studio executives expect the picture to play foreight weeks and will be aiming for a final cumulative score above $17m. Thepicture also opened at number one in Sweden ...
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New Line signs Metropolitan to its first output deal
New Line International (NLI) has completed extensions to 2005 on two major output deals - with Village Roadshow in Australia and Svensk Filmindustri in Scandinavia - and closed a third, also to 2005, with Metropolitan Filmexport in France. It is the first time NLI has struck an output deal with ...
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Cuts at Signpost point to Till joining UIP
Signpost Films is to make further staff cuts this week, while its founder Stewart Till has held talks to take over from Paul Oneile as head of United International Pictures (UIP).Coming hard on the heels of slashing its UK-based sales operation, the latest round of cuts appear to signal the ...
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German police arrest Kinowelt's Michael Koelmel
Kinowelt co-founder Michael Koelmel has been arrested by Munich police, just three days before his Euros 32m acquisition of the insolvent Kinowelt Medien Group is due to go through.According to a report in the German daily tabloid newspaper Bild Zeitung, Koelmel has been taken into custody because of an "insolvency ...
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Danes choose Dogme hit Open Hearts for Oscar race
As expected, Susanne Bier's acclaimed Dogme hit Open Hearts (Elsker Dig For Evigt) has been chosen as the Danish candidate for the Academy Awards' best foreign language film Oscar. The film received rave reviews on its domestic release and has scooped an impressive 450.000 admissions in eight weeks, never leaving ...
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Cecchi Gori is placed under house arrest in Italy.
Fallen media baron Vittorio Cecchi Gori has been placed under house arrest for alleged wrongdoings linked to the bankruptcy of his former Serie A football club, Fiorentina.Firemen entered Cecchi Gori's house early on Tuesday morning with a ladder after police failed to obtain a response from the entrepreneur who was ...
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UK BOX OFFICE
Despite six out of seven new releases entering the top 15, the top four titles in the UK chart saw no change from the previous week.The table was led by Columbia TriStar's XXX for the second consecutive week, earning $3.2m (£2m), a 34% drop from its opening weekend, from 435 ...
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South Korea's MP Entertainment launches ambitious film production fund
South Korean production/talent management company MP Entertainment has announced the formation of an ambitious $41.7m (WON 50bn) film production fund, which is expected to greatly boost its profile in the rapidly-evolving Korean industry. With capital to be provided by parent company J&C Holdings, MP Entertainment intends to devote $16.7m to ...
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Kamchatka selected as Argentina's Oscar contender
Argentina has submitted Marcelo Pineyro's Kamchatka to compete for a best foreign film Oscar. Kamchatka beat strong contenders led by Carlos Sorin's Historias Minimas, Adolfo Aristarain's Lugares Comunes and Pablo Trapero's El Bonaerense. Trapero's gritty police drama played successfully in Cannes' Un Certain Regard while Lugares Comunes and Historias Minimas ...
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Box office bells ring for Greek Wedding in Australia
Australia has become the latest territory to be conquered by indie-sensation My Big Fat Greek Wedding, according to co-producer Gold Circle Films.The romantic comedy, directed by Joel Zwick and distributed in Australia by Roadshow, launched straight into number one at the Australian box office over the weekend, grossing $1.9m (A$3.4m) ...
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Mendel's sixth sense makes him partner Noonan
Barry Mendel, one of the producers on The Sixth Sense, is working with writer/director Chris Noonan on an adaptation of the novel Rule Of The Bone by Russell Banks, who also wrote the book on which The Sweet Hereafter was based. Sydney-based Noonan's most recent credit as a director was ...
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Green, Knibbs join board of UK's Film Council
Nigel Green, joint managing director of Entertainment Film Distributors, and Stephen Knibbs, senior vice president of UCI Cinemas, have joined the board of UK support body the Film Council.The council, which administers around£50 million a year in public money, was criticised for not having a distributor or an exhibitor on ...
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Jackass star Knoxville boards Grand Theft Parsons
Fresh off his number one box office hit, Jackass - The Movie, Johnny Knoxville has signed to the comedy, Grand Theft Parsons. Inspired by a true story, the MTV comedy daredevil will play road manager Phil Kaufman, who steals the body of Gram Parsons and races down to the Joshua ...
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Solid Air starts shooting in Glasgow
Shooting started in Glasgow today (Oct 30) on Solid Air, director May Miles Thomas' follow up to the Bafta-winning DV feature One Life Stand.A complex drama set in the twin worlds of litigation and high-stakes gambling, Solid Air tells the story of a compulsive gambler who comes home to his ...
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Michael Haneke wins Vienna city award
Austria's filmmaker Michael Haneke (The Piano Player, Funny Games) was awarded the 'Golden Decoration" for services to the city of Vienna at a ceremony in the Austrian capital's City Hall on October 28 (Monday).'It is thanks to Michael Haneke that Austria today enjoys the reputation of being an exciting film ...
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Sony to increase investment in China
Sony is to invest over $100m in production of Chinese movies, according to group chief executive Idei Noboyuki.Idei announced the proposals, according to Reuters, during a visit to Beijing on Monday. "In the next three years, Sony will invest about $100m in the Chinese movie industry," he said. It will ...
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Emperor's Wife prepares to shoot
Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Max Beesley head the cast of The Emperor's Wife, an adult fairy tale directed by Julien Vrebos, which goes into production on Friday Nov 1. The cast also includes Spanish actresses Rosana Pastor, recently seen in Land And Freedom, and Leticia Dolera of The Other ...
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FilmFour's Motorcycle Diaries shoots across Latin America
Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries has started shooting in Argentina. The film stars Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amores Perros) as the young Che, rising young Argentinean actor Rodrigo de la Serna (Same Love, Same Rain) as Alberto and Mia Maestro (Frida, Hotel, Timecode) as Chichina Ferreyra. Shooting ...