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Domestic box office slides as summer ends
New Line's Freddy VsJason stayed atop the charts at theweekend as the top four remained intact, as sure a sign as any that the fadingsummer season has little left to offer.The horror film dropped 63%and added an estimated $13.5m for a $61.5m running total in its second week. Itwas the ...
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Whole Nine Yards, Hanging Up tie for top place
It was a healthy Presidents Day weekend at the North American box office with the three-day Friday-to-Sunday figures (final four-day figures will emerge on Tuesday) proclaiming $15m apiece for both SPE's Hanging Up and Warner Bros' The Whole Nine Yards (pictured).Meanwhile Paramount/Nickelodeon Movies' Snow Day showed legs with a second ...
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ITALY Production Listings - August 22 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalItaly - August 22PRE-PRODUCTIONALL'OMBRA DEL PADRE(Tea Nova) Prod/dir: Rean Mazzone. Scr: Denis Jacobs. Main cast: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Volter, Stefania Sandrelli.Contact: Tea Nova, (39) 06 625 9260ANNI RAPACI(Poetiche Cinematografiche) Budget: $3m. Backer: Telepiu. Dist: Sharada (It). Traces 20 years in the life of a major southern Italian organised ...
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ARGENTINA Production Listings - August 1 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalARGENTINA - August 1PRE-PRODUCTIONALTERNATE THERAPIES(Verbum) Budget: $625,000. Backer: Incaa. Drama. A psychiatrist turns his patients' stories into best-selling novels. Exec prods: Eduardo Montes Bradley, Rodolfo Duran. Prod/dir/scr: Duran. Main cast: Daniel Rabinovich, Manuel Callau, Diego Peretti, Claudia Fontan, Noemi Frenkel. Shooting from Feb 15, 2004.Contact: Eduardo Montes Bradley, ...
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NORDIC Production Listings - August 15 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalNORDIC TERRITORIES - August 15DENMARKPRE-PRODUCTIONBIG PLANS(Angel Productions) Budget: dkr13.2m. Backer: Danish Film Institute, TV2/Denmark, TV2/Norway, RUV. Dist: Angel Distribution (Den). Comedy. A paroled crook decides to reform his old gang to prove to his eight-year-old son that he is not a failure. Exec prods: Poul Erik Lindeborg, Mogens ...
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JAPAN Production Listings - July 11 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalJapan - July 11PRE-PRODUCTIONCASSHERN(Casshern Production Committee) Backers: Casshern Production Committee. Int'l sales/dist (Jap): Shochiku. Sci-fi action feature. Based on the hit 1970s animated series, a super-hero robot fights against evil androids. Prods: Hideshi Miyajima, Toshiharu Ozawa, Toshiaki Wakabayashi. Dir/DoP: Kazuaki Kiriya. Scr: Kiriya, Shotaro Suga, Dai Sato. Shooting ...
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GREECE Production Listings - July 18 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalGREECE - July 18PRE-PRODUCTIONDON'T ASK, EVERYTHING IS THERE (min rotas, ola einai ekei)(The Greek Film Centre, P Karamanos Ltd) Budget: e590,000. Int'l sales: The Greek Film Centre. Dist: New Star. Psychological drama. A young woman is unable to form steady relationships as she is still under the spell ...
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GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZ Prod Lists - July 4 2003
AUSTRIA/GERMANY & SWITZERLAND - July 4AUSTRIAPRE-PRODUCTIONIM JAHR DES PFERDES (Wildart Film) Backers: Filmfonds Wien, BKA, Land Upper Austria. Documentary. Story of the Asian community in Vienna and the Khmer in Helsinki and Cambodia. Prod: Vincent Lucassen. Dir/scr: Ebba Sinzinger. DoP: Wolfgang Thaler. Ed: Karina Ressler. Shooting from summer 2003 in ...
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GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZ Prod lists - July 4
Copyright: Screen InternationalAUSTRIA/GERMANY & SWITZERLAND - July 4AUSTRIAPRE-PRODUCTIONIM JAHR DES PFERDES (Wildart Film) Backers: Filmfonds Wien, BKA, Land Upper Austria. Documentary. Story of the Asian community in Vienna and the Khmer in Helsinki and Cambodia. Prod: Vincent Lucassen. Dir/scr: Ebba Sinzinger. DoP: Wolfgang Thaler. Ed: Karina Ressler. Shooting from summer ...
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Global, MOMA team for developing countries film programme
US-based charitablefoundation The Global Film Initiative and New York's Museum of Modern Art(MoMA) have joined forces on an educational programme to showcase cinema fromdeveloping countries.Global Lens: New Cinema FromThe Developing World will run at MoMA Film at The Gramercy Theatre from Nov13-30 before expanding to a series of as yet ...
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Leonard Schrader takes teacher residency at AFI
LeonardSchrader, who wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Kiss Of The SpiderWoman, has been namedhead of the graduate screenwriting programme at the American Film Institute(AFI) Conservatory. In his newposition as senior film-maker-in-residence: screenwriting, Schrader willoversee the AFI Conservatory's screenwriting faculty and tuition of firstand second year fellows. "We are thrilled to ...
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Quebec gears up for co-production conference
Quebec-based international financing and co-production conference CONTACT has selected 20 feature film projects for this year's event (March 3-6).The initiative, organized by the Societe de Development des Enterprises Culturelles du Quebec (SODEC) with the involvement of Brussels-based Linking Market Forces (LMF), is open to French and English-language projects with co-production ...
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David Thomson gets Bessy prize at Montreal
The celebratedBritish film critic and biographer David Thomson will receive the Prix MauriceBessy at the 27th Montreal World Film Festival, which runs from Aug 27-Sept 7.Named after thelate French film writer and former Cannes Film Festival director, the awardcelebrates excellence in film writing and is handed out on an alternatingannual ...
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Pie sequel top in Germany, UK
Universal'sAmerican Pie: The Wedding enjoyed a strong weekend at the box office, grossing $12.3m from1,672 sites in five countries through UIP to raise its international runningtotal to $29.2m.In a mighty number one opening in Germany the gross-outcomedy sequel took $5.2m from 636 for 45% market share.It wasUniversal's ninth biggest ever ...
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T3 adds $10m for CTFDI in 52 markets
With no openingsin major territories at the weekend the sci-fi sequel Terminator 3: Rise OfThe Machines added anestimated $10m from 52 markets to raise its international running total to$236.1m.The film, whichis being handled by Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International in allterritories except Japan and Korea, looks likely to pass $260m ...
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Fox opens Lisbela at number one in Brazil
FoxInternational opened local language romance Lisbela And The Prisoner at number one in Brazil over the weekendon $658,000 from 245 screens.The film, forwhich Fox has Latin American rights, wasthe second biggest Brazilian film opening ever in the territory.Meanwhile Fox'sThe League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG)followed last weekend's impressive Asian bows with ...
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BVI's Pirates sails past $100m
BVI'sPirates Of The Caribbeanenjoyed another dominant weekend in the international marketplace, where amighty Russian opening and strong holdovers accounted for a $20.5m weekendsession that raised the international running total to $106.2m.The adventurefilm scored the third biggest industry opening ever in Russia, where it openednumber one on $3m from 171 screens.In ...
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Eagle scores with New Line pictures in Italy
New Line'sFinal Destination 2remained in pole position in its second weekend in Italy, dropping a mere 16%and adding $453,317 from 278 screens for a $1.9m total after 11 days.Released through Eagle Pictures, the horror sequel will bechasing down its predecessor's finishing total of $3.2m following asix-week run in autumn 2000.Meanwhile ...
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Istituto Luce buys Korea's Good Lawyer's Wife
Istituto Luce has become the latest Italian distributor to grab itself a Venice competition title before the festival has started.The specialist releaser has bought A Good Lawyer's Wife (Baram-Nan Gajok), a sexually-challenging drama from up and coming young Korean director Im Sang-Soo. The title was bought in tandem with Italian ...
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Globe buys Human Voices for Australia, New Zealand
Despite withdrawing from international acquisitions, The Globe Film Co has signed on to handle Australian and New Zealand distribution on Til Human Voices Wake Us, one of two features which have just secured investment from the Australian Film Finance Corporation (FFC). Director-writer Michael Petroni has sold several scripts to Hollywood ...