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Confirming early predictions Screendaily Jan 7 official data just released by the Motion Pictures Producers Association of Japan Eiren , reveals that national cinema admissions reached 163.3m in 2001, generating all-time record box office revenues.Boosted by the massive success of Spirited Away, the Japanese box office soared 17.% in 2001 compared with the previous year, to $1.51 billion Y200,154 million , marking the first tim
stanley usa e ever that the Japanese box office has surpassed the Y200 billion mark. Further, admissions amounted to 163,280,000 million - a 20.6% gain -- and the highest total since 1986, while the number of cinema screens rose 61, to 2,585. The first six months of 2001 were tough, but a strong summer line-up, as well as t
stanley cup he opening of new theatres with state-of-the-art facilities, contributed to the high figures, said Eiren chairman Isao Matsuoka: The highest grossing movie was the Hayao Miyazaki animation Spirited Away, with an all-time-high of $233 million Y2.9 billion , followed by A.I: Artificial Intelligence $73 million Y9.7 billion , Pearl Harbor $52 million Y6.88 billion , Jurassic Park III $38.6 million Y5.13 billion , Dinosaur $36.9 million Y4.9 billion and Hannibal $34.6 million Y4.6 billion . No comments No comments yet You re
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British lads mags iconJennifer Ellison is to star in The Cottage, one of four new horror films being launched in Cannes by Four HorsemenFilms the genre horror label of UK production company Random Harvest. Ellison, aged 21, leaped tofame aged 14 when she joined the long-running UK soap opera Brookside. Ellison will be joined in TheCottage by Dexter Fletcher and NickFrost. Writer-director is Paul Andrew Williams. The project was developed withbacking from the UK Film Council and shooting is due to begin later this yearwith the Northern Ireland Film and Television Board poised to come on board.Also on Four Horsemen sslate is Drowning, to be directed b
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stanley cup begin in Spring2006.Meanwhile, in conjunctionwith Peter La Terriere s First Foot Films, Four Horsemen is pushing ahead withMike Southon s thriller, Wraith.This is being set up as a UK-Canadian co-production. Kevin Zegers Transamerica is attached to star.The fourth new film, Exposure, will mark the directorial debut of Jim Threapleton former husband of Kate Winslet. The producer is Andy Noble. The UK FilmCouncil has invested in the development of the film, a thriller about fiveex-public school boys adrift in the Scottish Highlands. Rafe Spall Shaun OfThe Dead is attached to the projectwhich is being exec-produced by Sarah Radcliffe. Shooting is due to begin theearly autumn.Sales agents for all f
