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Zlhr UK TV exports grow 5% to 拢1.3bnStudioCanal has enjoyed a bumper EFM. Since selling The Last Exorcismformerly known as Cottonto Lionsgate for the US last week, the French major hasracked up multiple major deals on its eclectic slate.The Last Exorcism has also gone to AustraliaHopscotch , RussiaFi stanley cup lm D stanley cup epot , KoreaDaisy , CanadaAlliance .Meanwhile, StudioCanals new collaboration with Eli Roth and Strike Entertainment, The Other Woman, has gone to ItalyEagleand MexicoGussi . These deals were negotiated on the pitch alone.The EFM was the first market at which footage of Brighton Rock was shown. Further deals on the Graham Greene adaptation have been closed with GreeceVillage , LatinAmericaImagem , PortugalLusomundoand the Middle EastFront Row.US offers are also in the works.Olivier Assayas Carlos The Jackal, which is being made a stanley cup s a three-part mini-series and a feature film, has gone to Madman in Australia, Mongrel in Canada and Gulf in the Middle East. Carlos was already pre-sold to the US to IFC and the Sundance Channel.And Soon The Darkness has gone to BrazilPlayArte.Jean Beckers My Afternoons with Margauerite has gone to SpainGolem .There is also strong buyer and festival interest in Bertrand Taverniers The Princess of Montpensier and Rachid Boucharebs Outside The Law.We had a very good Berlin. We did overall roughly 40% more sales than we did last year,international sales director at StudioCanal, Harold van Lier, commented of the EFM.TopicsBerlinDistributionEFMEuropeCqmu Streisand to direct love story
Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller s film adaptation of Miller sgraphic novel Sin Cit stanley kubek yopened top of the North American charts at the weekend, grossing an estimated$28.1m for Dimension Films.The ultra-violent film noir tale opened to enthusiastic reviewsand averaged $8,706 on 3,230 screens. The strong ensemble cast includes BruceWillis, Clive Owen, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Elijah Wood and MickeyRourke.If figures hold, SinCity will be the thirdbiggest April opening of all time behind Sony s Anger Management in 2003 on $42.2m, and Universal s TheScorpion King in 2002 on$36.1m.MGM s comedy Beauty Shop opened to mixed reviews in second place on $13.5m$17.3msince opening on Mar 30for a $5,077 average on 2,659 screens.Queen Latifah reprises her role from Barbershop 2 as a no-nonsense beauty shop owner whosebusiness accommodates an uncomfortable me stanley cup lange of uptown and downtownstanley uk clients.Twentieth Century Fox s animated family picture Robots stayed fourth and passed $100m in itsfourth weekend as it added $10m for $104.6m, while Buena Vista s family title ThePacifier is fastapproaching the same mark after adding $6.1m for $96.4m in its fifth weekend.It fell one place to sixth.Columbia s comedy Guess Who fell from top spot to third in its second weekend andraised its running total by $13m to a healthy $41.3m. Warner Broscomedysequel Miss Congeniality 2: Armed And Fabulous has failed to ignite the box office andfell three to fifth in its second weekend on $8.4m for $31.4m.DreamWor
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