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Hulk moves into 12 new territories, takes $11.3m
Universal Pictures' TheHulk grossed $11.3m in 14territories in its second weekend on release from 1,652 sites. With 32territories still to open, that makes its ten-day total an impressive $15.7m.It took $4.6m includingpreviews in Mexico, beating Jurassic Park 3 to become Universal's biggest opening in theterritory and beating openings for The ...
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CTFDI takes most international on Artisan/Marvel's The Punisher
Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International (CTFDI), which will soon see if its investment inacquiring international rights to blockbuster Terminator 3: Rise Of TheMachines paid off, has invested inanother potential hit acquisition, taking rights in most internationalterritories to Artisan Pictures and Marvel Studios' The Punisher.The film, which was sold toCTFDI by Summit ...
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MGM sells 20% stake in channels back to Cablevision
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) isselling its 20% stake in three US cable channels AMC, IFC and WE: Women'sEntertainment back to Cablevision for $500m. Once the deal is done, probably inthe third quarter 2003, the three channels will once again be 100%-owned byCablevision.The deal could haveramifications for both MGM and Cablevision which are ...
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Reloaded flies close to $400m mark for Warner
Warner Bros PicturesInternational continued its spectacular run at the box office over the weekendwith The Matrix Reloaded whichtook another $9.94m from 4,980 screens in 60 countries. Its total internationalgross is poised to cross the $400m mark this week and at Sunday stood at$397.2m.The film dropped just 20.6%in Japan in its ...
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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Dir: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld. US 2003. 94 minutes Legally Blonde proved a surprise hit when it was released during the summer of 2001, grossing over $96m in the US and a solid but not spectacular $45m internationally. While this flag-waving sequel - being released in the US over the July 4 ...
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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Dir: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld. US 2003. 94 minutes Legally Blonde proved a surprise hit when it was released during the summer of 2001, grossing over $96m in the US and a solid but not spectacular $45m internationally. While this flag-waving sequel - being released in the US over the July 4 ...
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Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
Dir: Tim Johnson & Patrick Gilmore. US. 2003. 86 mins. DreamWorks' latest 2-D animated effort is a light-hearted adventure - with no songs - which is a marked improvement on The Road To El Dorado (2000) and the stolid Stallion: Spirit Of The Cimarron last year. But as Disney found ...
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Black hole looms for UK finance
With debate raging over what should replace the UK's influential tax deferrals, only two things are certain. Firstly, many in the industry support preserving a status quo that last year saw investors shelter $2.7bn (£1.6 bn) through sale and leaseback schemes and, to a far smaller extent, riskier production schemes.Secondly, ...
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Japanese partners join forces for movie channel
News Corp, Sony, Fuji TV and Softbank are forming a joint venture company - Nihon Eiga Eisei Hoso (Japanese Movie Satellite Broadcasting) - to create a cable and satellite movie channel specialising in Japanese films. The partners aim to build the country's leading Japanese film channel with the co-operation of ...
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Depuis Qu'Otar Est Parti wins Prix Michel d'Ornano
Cannes Critics' Week winner, Depuis Qu'Otar Est Parti has been announced as the winner of the 13th annual Prix Michel d'Ornano. The film's director and screenwriter Julie Bertuccelli will receive the award at the Deauville Festival of American Film in September.The prize was created as an aid to writers and ...
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Osbourne to star in Malice In Sunderland
Kelly Osbourne, of hit TV series The Osbournes, is to star in Malice In Sunderland, a contemporary reworking of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland.Simon Fellows is to direct the UK-German co-production, with shooting scheduled to shoot later this year. Mark Byrne of the UK's What's The Story is producing, while Christian ...
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Strand takes The Child I Never Was for US release
US indie distributor Strand Releasing has picked up Kai S Pieck's feature debut The Child I Never Was (Ein Leben Lang Kurze Hosen Tragen) (pictured) which is being handled internationally by Bavaria Film International.Premiering last year at the Hof Film Days, the film is based on the life of Germany's ...
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Bavaria Film takes int'l sales on Tuschi's feature debut
Bavaria Film International will handle international sales on Cyril Tuschi's feature debut SommerHundeSoehne which is set to shoot on location in Spain and Morocco this October. The low-budget production between Tuschi's Lala Films! and Nicholas Conradt's Friends Production has received backing from Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg and broadcaster ARTE and has already ...
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Enterprise Australia promotes sustainable film business
A number of Australian government agencies have joined forces and recruited media management consultant Jonathan Olsberg from the UK-based Olsberg SPI to help Australian producers stop living a hand-to-mouth existence between productions and start developing sustainable businesses. Enterprise Australia has been adapted from similar programs held in the UK and ...
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Almighty opening gives Carrey career best UK launch
Buena Vista International (BVI) celebrated its biggest opening of the year so far with a huge launch weekend for Jim Carrey comedy Bruce Almighty. The film claimed the third highest three-day opening of the year so far, behind Warner Bros' The Matrix Reloaded and 20th Century Fox's X2: X-Men United. ...
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Equator posts $2m pre-tax loss for 2002
Equator Group, the UK media concern which earlier this year ended take-over talks with Handmade Films, has posted a pre-tax loss for last year of $2m (£1.2m).The red ink was in contrast to a profit of $789,000 (£475,000) the year before. Equator's sales also dropped steeply, falling to $613,000 (£369,000) ...
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Ten first-time directors to compete at Guadarrama fest
Asif Kapadia's The Warrior and Eduard Cortes' Nobody's Life (La Vida De Nadie) are among the ten films to compete at next week's second annual International Film Festival of Guadarrama in Spain (July 12-23).Only first-time feature directors are eligible to compete at Guadarrama, where jury and public prizes are awarded. ...
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RTL, Planeta reach agreement on Antena 3
Luxembourg-based RTL Group and Spain's Grupo Planeta have reached an agreement which could see both companies increasing their stakes in Spanish free-to-air broadcaster Antena 3.Following the IPO of Antena 3 planned before year-end, RTL Group and Grupo Planeta could up their respective 17.2% and 25.1% shares in the channel, the ...
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Lombardo promoted to president of Cinesite Hollywood
Dan Lombardo has been namedpresident and Jerry Pooler is stepping into a new role of executive director,creative, at Cinesite Hollywood, the LA digital facility which was founded in1992 and opened Cinesite (Europe) in London in 1994.Lombardo, who joinedCinesite two years ago as vice president of production, will also continue inthe ...
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Time Warner grabs key foothold in Spanish pay-TV
Warner Bros. International Television (WBIT) has paid around $32m for a ten per cent stake in Spain's leading pay-TV operator, Canal Satellite Digital (CSD), exercising an option first offered in 1997. Sogecable remains the majority shareholder of CSD with 83% of the digital platform that had more than 800,000 subscribers ...