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Australian comedy The Wog Boy has grossed a highly impressive A$1.2m from just three days of preview screenings Feb 18-20 , which would have placed it at number three in the chart had it been included. Previews are traditionally excluded from box office charts. Only two films performed better than this unusual local film: UIP s critically acclaimed The Green Mile pictured and American Beauty, which are in their second and fo
stanley cup urth weeks on release respectively. Playing on 180 screens The Wog Boy earned twice as much box office revenue and recorded double the screen average of REP s Man On The Moon, which end
stanley website ed up in fourth position. Managing director of 20th Century Fox Robert Slaviero says the result is the best for an Australian film on previews in history - obviously this partly reflects how widely the film was screened. He is especially pleased with the result given the bad press in recent months about the performance of domestic films at the box office. Slaviero believes it is achievable that the final gross could be between A$8 and A$10m.The Wog Boy couldn t be more different to the quality Academy Award nominees currently screening in Australia, which makes it a real alternative for cinemagoers. However, one of the biggest factors behind its success is the fan-base already built up for
stanley cup lead actor Nick Giannopoulos. He is very well known for his stage and television performances, which also unashamedly parody his own Greek migrant experience. Giannopoulos is also cre Sptb CJ s Yoon moves over to Kang Je Gyu Films
Projects from Italy, Ireland, Hungary and Poland were the winners at this years edition of the When East Meets West WEMW co-production market.The market featured 22 international projects, comprising 12 fiction feature films and 10 documentaries from 29 countries.Carlo Zorattis La Vita Nuova, a mix between documentary and fiction about a group of people re-enacting their dreams as a form of spiritual healing, received the WEMW Development Award at an awards ceremony in Triestes Palazzo del Governo on Tuesday evening Jan 20 .The 鈧?.4m production by Zorattis own Udine-based production outfit Alpis has Germanys DETAiLFILM onboard as a co-producer again after they worked together on Zorattis previous film, the feature documentary debut The Speci
stanley usa al Need.A documentary was also the winner of the new EGG Digital Cinema Award which was given to Dublin-based Jeremiah Cullinane of Planet Korda Pictures for his production of Lithuanian-born writer director Olga Cernovaites Butterfl
stanley kubek y City.This creative feature documentary will focus on the Lithuanian city of Visaginas which was created out o
stanley us f the forest from nothing in the 1970s to service a Soviet nuclear power station. However, the citys future was put into question when Lithuania joined the EU and decided to close the power plant as the reactors are identical to those in Chernobyl.In addition, this years EAVE producers workshop scholarship went to Hungarian producer Julianna Ugrin of 脡clipse Film for the documentary Afterglow by No茅!ENDVALUE!
