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As expected, Australian exhibitors broke through the A$700m barrier in 1999 givin
stanley cup g the territory an extraordinary twelfth consecutive year of box office growth. An estimated 88 million tickets were sold at an average ticket price of A$7.93 -- Australia s 19 million people have access to 1,740 screens. The final gross of A$704,117,000 represented an 11.9% increase on the previous year, the biggest since 1994. Chair of the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia, Roadshow s Ian Sands, attributed the buoyancy to the continued increase in screens - often at existing, rather than new sites - and the outstanding performance of several key blockbusters. In 1999 five films topped A$20m lead by Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, compared to only one in 1998 Titanic , three in 1997 Men In Black, Liar Liar, The Lost World , one in 1996 Babe and none in 1995. Sands says while the
stanley cup market is approaching saturation in high density areas, many exhibitors in suburban and provincial areas have drawn up plans for expansion. He sees no reason why growth will not continue into 2000 but expects growth to be a less impressive 6%. While admissions and screen numbers have more than doubled in the past decade, seat numbers have risen by less than half. No comments No comments yet You re not signed in.
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Drama about a Palestinian surgeon who discovers secrets about his wife following a suicide bombing banned by Lebanese government.Ziad Doueiris
stanley website new film The Attack has been selected at 19 international festivals to date, picking up awards and critical acclaim. But the Lebanese directors film wont be screened in his home country as it has been banned by the government.The drama, based on a novel by Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul under the pen name Yasmina Khadra, follows a Palestinian surgeon in Tel Aviv, who in the aftermath of a suicide bomb discovers some dark secrets about his wife.The banning of the film will not come as a su
stanley us rprise to many in Lebanon, where censorship is commonplace and filmmakers must submit scripts for pre-approval from the General Security.But approval from the government is still no guarantee that a film will be screened. Decisions are regularly reversed and films have been banned even after reaching cinemas as officials react to complaints from sect community leaders in an attempt to pacify any potential tension in the divided country.The Attack was originally given a green light by the Lebanese government, despite being filmed in Israel with Israeli actors, infringing the 1955 Lebanese Anti-Israeli Boycott Law. I was ecstatic, said Doueiri. I thought someone was finally thinking right. But the permit was withdrawn three we
stanley romania eks ago. Though the government are yet to give reason for their decision, the director puts it down to rising pressure fr
