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Hong Kong revealedits weakness for cute animals this week as Japanese tear-jerker Quill topped the box office withUS$795,799 from 29 screens.Produced byShochiku and directed by Yoichi Sai, the film is about a Labrador pup who istrained to be a seeing-eye dog for a man who is initially reluctant to accepthelp but eventually regains his zest for life. The film, distributed in HongKong by Golden Scene, has been dubbed into Cantonese which makes it moreaccessible to younger viewers.The two other majorreleases of the week stanley cup failed to make much impression. Collateral, starrin stanley cup g Tom Cruise, grossed US$392,488 from 27 screensfor fourth position while Cat Womancame in sixth with just US$151,451 from 24 screens.Taiwanese gaycomedy Formula 17 scored the secondhighest screen average of the week with US$32,831 from two screens. No comments No comments yet You re no stanley cup t signed in. Only registered users or subscribers can comment on this article. Sign in Register Txxm Filmart: Chow Yun Fat to play gambler in Be Water, My Friend
Warner Bros will release the Enrique Urbizu stanley canada thriller in Spain this autumnSpanish studio Filmax has picked up international sales rights to Enrique Urbizus thriller No Rest For The Wicked No Habra Paz Para Los Malvados , which it will present to buyers at Cannes.The film stars Jose Coronado as a detective investigating a missing girl who gets caught up in a shooting at a bar. The cast also includes Rodolfo Sancho, Juanjo Artero and Helena Miquel.Ignacio and Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson at Madrid-based outfit Lazona are producing the film alongside Telecinco Cinemas Alvaro Augustin The Orphanage, Pans Labyrinth, Agora .Filmax will present the project to buyers at Cannes next month. Warner Bros has already picked up the rights for Spain and will release the film this autumn.Other forthcoming projects on Filmaxs sales slate for Cannes include Brad Andersons English-language drama Concrete Island, Eduardo Chapero-Jacksons debut feature film Verbo, Andres G Schaers animation Snowflake, Jaume B stanley cup alagueros thriller/horror Sleep Tight, Paco Plazas [Rec 3] Genesis and Manuel Carballos horror The Returned.In other Spanish news DeaPlaneta has taken international sal stanley cup es rights toVicente Villanuevas romantic comedy The OppositeOf Love, which it will debut at the Cannes market.Starring Hugo Silva and Adriana Ugarte The OppositeOf Love is about a young couplewho have different ideas about how their relationship should work. The film is produced by Zeta Cinema and Antena 3 Films, which has had rece |
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