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Lombardo says ciao to Miramax Italia
Miramax'stop executive in Italy, Fabrizio Lombardo, will now switch to a "bigger-picturerole" for the company, serving as a personal European investment advisor toco-chairmen Bob and Harvey Weinstein. Lombardo'snew role means that London-based senior vice president of production GinaGardini will now become Miramax's primary executive liaising with the Italianfilm and television ...
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Stone, Farrell push on in fierce Morocco desert
Oliver Stone and Colin Farrell made an appearance at the MarrakechInternational Film Festival today (Oct 6) to talk up Stone's Fidel Castrodocumentary Comandanteand his $150m historical epic Alexander, which has now entered the third week of production at asite 35km south of Marrakech.The pair were on ebullient form at a ...
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Lieberfarb makes noise on DTS board
In his first appointment since exiting Warner Home Videoin December 2002 DVD evangelist Warren Lieberfarb has joined the board ofdigital audio technology specialists Digital Theater Systems (DTS).Lieberfarb is one of three new arrivals alongside fellow industryveterans Joerg Agin and Joseph Fischer.Agin, who has held top executive roles at Eastman Kodak ...
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DreamWorks puts Oscar faith in extra House screenings
The trickle-down effect of the MPAA's ban on screener tapescontinued this week as DreamWorks SKG announced it has booked one month ofprivate screenings in Los Angeles for its awards contender House Of Sand AndFog.Vadim Perelman's drama, which is being handled forinternational sales by Winchester's Cobalt Pictures, will play twice a ...
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AFM: Kinowelt snaps up Lolafilms trio
German mini-conglomerate Kinowelt International has bought all German-speaking rights to three films from Spain's Lolafilms - That Girl From Rio, The Dancer Upstairs and Gaudi Afternoon.All three films are being produced by Lolafilms' UK-based production outfit. Comedy Gaudi Afternoon, which stars Juliette Lewis and Judy Davis, is currently shooting in ...
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LXG tops weekly international box office
Fox International's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG) was the number one internationalperformer of the weekend after grossing $14.6m from 3,327 screens in all itsterritories.In its first wave of major European openings, LXG scored a sensational $5.1m from 706screens in Germany for star Sean Connery's biggest ever bow in a ...
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Cinema Park secures $20m for Russian multiplex chain
Cinema Park, the verticallyintegrated Russian production, distribution and exhibition outfit, has secureda $20m loan from World Bank Group member The International Finance Corporation forits ongoing theatre-building project.At a time ofmassive growth in the country's exhibition sector, Cinema Park plans to build achain of 20 multi-screen cinemas at a cost of ...
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Bad Boys 2 tops Spanish, UK charts
Bad Boys 2 grossed$9.8m at the weekend for Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International(CTFDI), raising its international running total to $43.4m.The action sequel opened film number one in the UK on $4.5m from619 venues ($5.2m including previews), while Spain produced an estimated $3.1mnumber one bow in Spain from 403.Bad Boys 2is ...
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BVI hits milestones with Pirates, Bruce Almighty
In a milestone weekend for Buena Vista International (BVI), PiratesOf The Caribbean passed$300m and Bruce Almighty crossed $200m at the international box office.Piratesadded $11.1m from all territories and raised its cumulative score to $310.1m,becoming the distributor's third title to reach that threshold after TheLion King and Armageddon and its second ...
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BVI hits milestones with Pirates, Bruce Almighty
In a milestone weekend for Buena Vista International (BVI), PiratesOf The Caribbean passed$300m and Bruce Almighty crossed $200m at the international box office.Piratesadded $11.1m from all territories and raised its cumulative score to $310.1m,becoming the distributor's third title to reach that threshold after TheLion King and Armageddon and its second ...
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JAPAN
S.W.AT. opened at the top of the Japanese nine-major-cities box office with a strong $60,011 screen average on 22 screens - despite a free ticket giveaway. To attract the target young male demographic, distributor Sony launched a nationwide campaign offering free admission to anyone in the first year of junior ...
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AUSTRALIA
Australia's weekend chart was based on five days instead of the usual four because half of the country was treated to a holiday Monday. Cinema attendance was also high because of welcome wet weather and continuing school holidays.The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen did quite extraordinary business for 20th Century Fox ...
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UK/IRELAND
Stephen Fry's directorial debut Bright Young Things met with a mixed reception from critics in the UK - but its box office launch reflected the faith distributor Icon Film Distribution put in the film.The comedy-drama, based on the novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, took eighth place with a $545,488 ...
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SWEDEN
The new release of Ulf Malmros' black comedy Slim Sussie was able to put a dent in the successful run of Mikael Haafstroem's Evil, which stayed at number one with more than double the screen average of the newcomer at second. Pirates Of The Caribbean continued its strong performance in ...
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AFM: Alliance Atlantis has head in Clouds
Alliance Atlantis Communications (AAC) is to finance White Clouds, the Italian-set kidnapping drama that was the last completed feature film screenplay from the late British dramatist Dennis Potter.Adapted from on the novel Cara Massimina, by Italy-based British expat author Tim Parks, the story involves the abduction of a girl by ...
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Vietnamese Buffalo rolls with Euro financing
Filming on Buffalo Boy, a Vietnamese coming of age drama gets underway next week after having secured a raft of European financing.The film is the ultimate product of the growing system of project and co-production markets. Buffalo Boy was presented at Korea's PPP and New York's Independent Feature Project last ...
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Garai boards O'Donnell's Inside I'm Dancing
Hot young UK actress Romola Garai has joined the cast of Damien O'Donnell's Inside I'm Dancing which will film in Ireland for eight weeks from October 20. Garai (I Capture the Castle) has just finished shooting Vanity Fair with Mira Nair and will be seen early next year in the ...
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Piracy dominates debates at Marrakech
Although the company is set to complete its deal to sell its US entertainment assets to NBC in the next few days, some things are still business as usual at Vivendi Universal. The company sponsored a special round table at the Marrakech Film Festival on Monday October 6 to ...
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Gaumont pins hopes on future film output
French major Gaumont is pinning its hopes on a string of forthcoming films to improve its bottom line - after revealing that it had lost millions of Euros on its latest film at the French box office.On Monday, the company unveiled a net loss of Euros 2.6m in the first ...