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Int'l Box Office: Fahrenheit 9/11 passes $100m
Albeit off thechart, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11became the first documentary to achieve $100m from international markets duringlast week. The film added $392,745 over the weekend with Japan and recentlaunch territory Hong Kong currently providing the highest numbers. The filmhas taken $100.8m and may get some boost still from next week's ...
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Dutch video rental sector in decline
Film piracy is becoming an increasingly serious threat tothe Dutch video rental industry. According to the latest data, 80% of videooutlets are suffering declining business, with drops of as high as 15 %compared to 2003.Industry body, the NVDOdescribes the situation as 'disastrous', with the main reason for thedecline being the ...
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Perabo clicks with Parker debut
US actress Piper Perabo (pictured) has joined the cast of Click, a romantic comedy that has just started shooting in London.The directorial debut of screenwriter Ol Parker, the film tells the story of a woman who faces doubts as she's about to marry her long-term boyfriend.Click is produced by Cougar ...
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Talent from Maria, Woodsman among Gotham Breakthrough nominees
Mos Def andCatalina Sandino Moreno are among Breakthrough Actor Award nominees and RodneyEvans and Nicole Kassell are in the running for Breathrough Director Awardhonours in IFP/New York's upcoming 14th Annual IFP Gotham Awards on Dec 1.Formerly knownas the Open Palm Award for Outstanding Directorial Debut, the BreakthroughActor Award features five ...
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Eddie Michaels relaunches LA PR firm as Insignia
LosAngeles-based publicity firm Eddie Michaels & Associates relaunches asInsignia Public Relations and Media Strategies today (28) with company founderEddie Michaels announcing three key promotions.Zachary Rosenfieldhas been named a principal of the firm and will continue to work closely withMichaels in managing strategic media campaigns for the firm's productioncompany, producer, and ...
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MGM Channel launches in Taiwan, will launch in Malaysia
Marking theone-year anniversary of the launch of MGM Channel for the Greater China andSoutheast Asia market, MGM announced yesterday (27) it has launched in Taiwanwith Malaysia to follow in "coming months".The announcementmeans MGM Channel now operates in seven countries in the region, including HongKong, Singapore, Indonesia, Macau and Thailand.The MGM ...
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Lightning takes international rights on Mexican
LosAngeles-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has pickedup international rights outside the US and Mexico from Televisa Cine to the hitMexican satire A Day Without A Mexican.Sergio Arau's picture will make its market debut at theAFM in Santa Monica next week. It arrives on the back of a successful ...
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Hyde Park signs output deals in five territories
Ashok Amritraj and David Hoberman's Hyde Park Entertainment has concluded a slew of output deals in smaller territories, sealing the patchwork of worldwide deals on its upcoming slate.Warner Nu Metro has signed a two-year, ten-picture deal with the company in South Africa; three-year deals have been closed in Israel with ...
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Teen horror novel Scared Stiff comes to the screen
LosAngeles-based production house Puzzle Box Productions is teaming up withauthors Jahnna Beecham and Malcolm Hillgartner to adapt their Scholastic Booksteen horror bestseller Scared Stiff for the big screen.The story involves a brotherand sister who live above their parent's mortuary business and work together tostop the corpse of a vengeful mass ...
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Menemsha picks up US rights to Machuca
Neil Friedman's MenemshaFilms has picked up US distribution rights to Chile's Oscar entry Machuca which played in Directors Fortnight at Cannes thisyear as well as at Edinburgh, Pusan, Vancouver and Montreal.Directed by Andres Wood,Machuca is set in Santiago, Chile, in 1973 and tells the story of thefriendship between two eleven ...
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Kimmel signs sales partnership with Capitol
Sidney Kimmel's Los Angelesand New York-based production company Sidney Kimmel Entertainment has signed anon-exclusive foreign sales partnership with Capitol Films in time for AFM.Capitol will represent NickCassavetes' drama Alpha Dog,starring Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Bruce Willis and Sharon Stone, aswell as the Julianne Moore/ Billy Crudup romantic comedy Trust The ...
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DreamWorks Animation raises $812m in IPO
In the first initial publicoffering by a major studio in seven years, DreamWorks Animation raised $812myesterday (26), far higher than analysts expected.While the projected range of shares was $23 to $25 per share, theIPO priced shares at $28 per share, according to reports.Riding high on the recent success of Shrek ...
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NORWAY 28 October
The pairing of Cruise and Foxx made Collateral the big winner at the Norwegian box-office this weekend,where it took an impressive NOK44,012 screen average from its 35 prints.The second highest average belonged to Before Sunset (NOK38,088), which, however, only managed to get into 15th spot with itsjust five prints.While most ...
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French engage with Amelie follow-up
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's highlyanticipated Euros 45m A Very Long Engagement scored the fifth bestopening day of the year when it was released in France on Wednesday (Oct 27).With 220,821 tickets soldthroughout the country on 707 screens, the wartime epic had the best opening of2004 for a French film.Compared with other filmslaunched ...
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Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason
Dir: Beeban KidronUK-US-Fr 2004 107minsBridget Jones is back, as fretful and neurotic as ever,in an expertly crafted (if rather soulless) sequel which is likely to hit allthe right buttons for Working Title. Renee Zelwegger again excels as the podgy,thirtysomething London singleton with the ineffably messy love life. She is fedplenty ...
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HUNGARY 28 October
Despite five new films hitting the screens in Hungary lastThursday, not one of them could capture the admissions' top spot, a positionsecured by the Bruce Willis comedy TheWhole Ten Yards in its second week of release.Collateral faredbest of the newcomers coming in second place but with less than 19,000admissions on ...
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INTERNATIONAL 28 October
Albeit off thechart, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11became the first documentary to achieve $100m from international markets duringlast week. The film added $392,745 over the weekend with Japan and recentlaunch territory Hong Kong currently providing the highest numbers. The filmhas taken $100.8m and may get some boost still from next week's ...
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Kidman in talks with Aardman for Flushed Away
Nicole Kidman is in talks tostar in Flushed Away, the next title to roll out of the multi-pictureanimation deal between the UK's Aardman Animations and DreamWorks SKG.Kidman is likely to play astreet-smart sewer rat named Rita, with Hugh Jackman voicing Roddy, a posh ratwho is swept out of his penthouse ...
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Spanish film stays alive with Art Of Dying
Domestic productions continue to hold their own at the Spanish box office. Last week, two Spanish films opened in the top ten, one of which - Aurum Producciones' teen horror flic The Art Of Dying (El Arte De Morir) - nabbed the number two spot, beaten only by awards-laden American ...
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Amazonas festival to open with ecological drama
TheAmazonas Film Festival (Nov 26 - Dec 1) will open with ecological adventuretale Taina 2 - A New Amazon Adventure by Mauro Lima in Manaus, Brazil.The filmis the story of a young Indian girl facing up to a dangerous gang who smuggle rare specimens of Amazon fauna.Thefestival was created by ...