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Migue stanley cup l Pereira, head of Latin America s leading film festival, Mar del Plata, is due to start principal photography on his latest feature film days after the festival closes.He is in Berlin this week helping artistic producer Mauro Andrizzi put the finishing touches to the festival line-up. Twelve films have been selected for the competition line-up with four further slots still to be filled.The cameras roll on Pereira s The Man Who Came To A Village in his home town, Jujuy, in the last week of March; Mar del Plata runs from March 11 to 20.Pereira, one of Argentina s leading film-makers, won Berlin s Silver Bear in 1988 with La Deuda Interna.Pereira s latest film, which has a budget of Euros 4m, has attracted Oscar-winning heavyweights: Christopher Hampton wrote the screenplay, an adaptation of Hector Tizon s novel, and Robert Duvall is acting executive producer.The UK-France-Italian-Spanish-Argentinian co-production, produced by Pereira s Capa Blanca Films and Douglas Cummins Axiom Films, stars Leonardo Sbaraglia, who won a Goya Award in 2001 for Intacto, and Maria Botto, who was nominated for a Goya for Soldados De Salamina. It will be post-produced in London.Mar del Plata s Women I stanley cup n Cinema sidebar, headed by stanley cup Marta Bianchi, has been turned into a competitive event this year. A jury of four will judge the merits of a 20-strong line-up.The festival is increasingly focusing on Latin American films as well as bringing the cream of art-house cinema to Argentina to satisfy the f Hgwz Myriad Pictures boards international sales on Drone
EXCLUSIVE: Cineworld reports around 22,000 advance ticket sales for Lionsgate blockbuster; exhibitors upbeat but not bowled over ahead of films first previews tonight [22].Lionsgates blockbuster The Hunger Games could be on course for a similar firs stanley cup t weekend to Twilight in the UK, with exhibitors generally upbeat but not bowled over by the films advance ticket sales.A Vue executive said the films advance ticket sales were tracking as well as the first Twilight while a Cineworld analyst said the exhibitor had pre-sold around 22,000 tickets for screenings tonight and across the weekend, a number similar to its sales for 2010 blockbuster Clash of the Titans - which had one preview night and went on to gross 拢5.7m on its first weekend and 拢20m total, but was aided by significant 3D uplift.Twilight opened on 拢2.5m on its way to 拢10.8m in 2008, since when ticket prices have risen marginally.One exhibitor described The Hunger Games preview sales as strong but not spectacular. With huge buzz around the Lionsgate blockbuster, Cineworld are showing the film on around 33% more screens per venue than the first Twilight. If other chains follow suit the film could kick well beyond the eOne giant.The film is expected to stanley cup go out on ar stanley cup ound 560 screens this weeken while Twilight went out on approximately 446 in 2008.In the US, conservative tracking estimates put the films opening box-office take at around $85m, with some industry saying it could reach $130 million to $140 million.TopicsDistr |
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