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stanley cup d hit, Spirited Away, received a strong reception in South Korea and its capital city of Seoul at the weekend which could see it becoming one of the biggest Japanese successes
stanley uk ever in the country.The film had to settle for second place in the Seoul chart behind fellow opener, local title Champion - which showed greater strength in South Korea as a whole $4.2m than in the capital. However Spirited Away, distributed by BVI, sold 75% of its available seats in Seoul grossing $752,000 from 35 screens and a mighty screen average of $20,500. This compares to Champion s 54% of seats sold at 60 screens in the capital where it grossed $1.3m for an average of $15,720.This performance puts Spirited Away in with a decent chance of breaking the record set by Love Letter in 1999, which remains the most successful Japanese release in Seoul to date see chart below . The opening weekend admissions 134,849 alone for Spirited Away out-performed the total admissions of 2001 s best-selling Japanese film in Seoul - My Neighbour Totoro 123,100 admissions .In South Korea Spirited Away grossed $1.5m in four days from 270,196 admissions. This puts it well ahead of Disney s Monsters, Inc. which opened in December 2001 to
stanley website the tune of $707,000 135,982 admissions . In comparison to Miyazaki s film Monsters, Inc. sold 62% of its available seats in Seoul on opening weekend and claimed $403,000 from 77,532 admissions at 33 screens - an average of $9,700. Btep European digital distribution network Ichnos launches with Venice titles
Ukrainian film-maker cruelly beaten , threatened with rape and isolated from lawyers.Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsovs lawyer Dmitriy Dynze has given details of how the treatment being meted out to the ethnic Russian by the FSB security service at the Lefortovo prison near Moscow.In a Skype video lasting over eight minutes shown at Wednesdays press conference for the Odessa International Film Festival in Kiev, Russia-based Dynze spoke about the harsh regime of Sentsovs incarceration in isolation at the Lefortovo prison, the possible development of the situation, the information war being waged by the FSBs press department an
stanley cup d the physical and psychological pressure on Sentsov. Oleg cant use his cell phone or do any calls, there is no possibility for him to send any messages even to his lawyers, Dynze said. All written messages have to go through the special department and to be checked. I cant predict any results, this is not how I work, but I want
stanley usa to make the best I can to release Oleg but, taking in consideration the attempts of FSB to politicise the case and to promote it, I would want to at least soften the charges, he continued. Were trying to do the best we can to bring the attention of everybody - mass media, political leaders, cultural leaders etc. I think that e
stanley us verything, absolutely everything will help Oleg, but, so far, I can see that FSB is pushing their idea of terroristic activity of the Right Sector. The information war is going on. Once we do some
