‘Morbius’, ‘The Bad Guys’ also make wide debuts.
Twelve films make their debut in UK-Ireland cinemas this weekend, with sequel Sonic The Hedgehog 2 one of three wide releases looking to revive a flagging box office.
Paramount is opening Sonic 2 in 651 locations – a five percent increase on the 620 locations of 2020’s Sonic The Hedgehog.
That film opened to a substantial £4.7m in February 2020, topping the charts for two weeks. It played in cinemas for five weekends, reaching £19.3m; before its run was cut short by the closure of all UK-Ireland cinemas due to the pandemic.
The Sonic franchise is...
Twelve films make their debut in UK-Ireland cinemas this weekend, with sequel Sonic The Hedgehog 2 one of three wide releases looking to revive a flagging box office.
Paramount is opening Sonic 2 in 651 locations – a five percent increase on the 620 locations of 2020’s Sonic The Hedgehog.
That film opened to a substantial £4.7m in February 2020, topping the charts for two weeks. It played in cinemas for five weekends, reaching £19.3m; before its run was cut short by the closure of all UK-Ireland cinemas due to the pandemic.
The Sonic franchise is...
- 4/1/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Warner Bros.’ “The Batman” dominated the U.K. and Ireland box office for the fourth weekend in a row with £1.66 million ($2.1 million), according to numbers released by Comscore. The film now has a total of £35.6 million.
Dreamz Entertainment release “Rrr,” directed by S.S. Rajamouli and starring Ntr Jr, Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn and Alia Bhatt, released wide in the Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi languages, and debuted in second position with £650,204.
Universal release, Michael Bay’s “Ambulance,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Eiza González, debuted in third place with £521,049.
In fourth position, Sony’s “Uncharted” collected £349,457 and now has a total of £23.2 million after seven weekends.
Rounding off the top five was Warner Bros.’ “The Nan Movie” with £289,731 and now has £1.1 million after two weekends.
EOne’s “The Phantom of the Open” took £218,626 in sixth place in its second weekend and has a total of £1.06 million.
Mubi release,...
Dreamz Entertainment release “Rrr,” directed by S.S. Rajamouli and starring Ntr Jr, Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn and Alia Bhatt, released wide in the Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi languages, and debuted in second position with £650,204.
Universal release, Michael Bay’s “Ambulance,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Eiza González, debuted in third place with £521,049.
In fourth position, Sony’s “Uncharted” collected £349,457 and now has a total of £23.2 million after seven weekends.
Rounding off the top five was Warner Bros.’ “The Nan Movie” with £289,731 and now has £1.1 million after two weekends.
EOne’s “The Phantom of the Open” took £218,626 in sixth place in its second weekend and has a total of £1.06 million.
Mubi release,...
- 3/29/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Event will screen 88 French-language films, including 55 market premieres, in cinemas off the Champ-Élysées.
French cinema and TV promotional body Unifrance has confirmed that its annual Rendez-Vous in Paris will go ahead as a physical event from January 11 to 17 as previously announced.
The event is traditionally a key date for French film sales companies, which use the meeting to unveil the bulk of their local-language titles for the rest of the year
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, some 400 international buyers and another 100 journalists would head to the French capital in January for the event, spanning screenings, a market and press junkets for...
French cinema and TV promotional body Unifrance has confirmed that its annual Rendez-Vous in Paris will go ahead as a physical event from January 11 to 17 as previously announced.
The event is traditionally a key date for French film sales companies, which use the meeting to unveil the bulk of their local-language titles for the rest of the year
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, some 400 international buyers and another 100 journalists would head to the French capital in January for the event, spanning screenings, a market and press junkets for...
- 1/4/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Vanessa Redgrave and Michael G Wilson have also been honoured.
Hope And Glory director John Boorman, Pressure filmmaker Horace Ové and No Time To Die producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson are among those recognised in the 2022 New Year’s Honours List.
UK director Boorman was awarded a knighthood for his services to film. His credits include Point Blank, The Emerald Forest, The General and Queen And Country. He also received a Bafta Fellowship in 2004.
Pioneer of Black British filmmaking Ové, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, has also received a knighthood, for his services to media. The...
Hope And Glory director John Boorman, Pressure filmmaker Horace Ové and No Time To Die producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson are among those recognised in the 2022 New Year’s Honours List.
UK director Boorman was awarded a knighthood for his services to film. His credits include Point Blank, The Emerald Forest, The General and Queen And Country. He also received a Bafta Fellowship in 2004.
Pioneer of Black British filmmaking Ové, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, has also received a knighthood, for his services to media. The...
- 1/4/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
A theatrical release is planned for early 2022.
UK distributor Modern Films has picked up UK and Ireland rights to animation Coppelia from France-based Urban Distribution International. A theatrical release is planned for early this year.
Coppelia is directed by Jeff Tudor, Steven De Beul and Ben Tesseur, and premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 2021. It combines 2D and 3D animation with live-action dance to retell the 1870 comic ballet, about a doctor who is infatuated with a life-size dancing doll. It stars dancers Michaela DePrince, Daniel Camargo, Vito Mazzeo and Darcey Bussell.
Coppelia is a co-production between the Netherlands,...
UK distributor Modern Films has picked up UK and Ireland rights to animation Coppelia from France-based Urban Distribution International. A theatrical release is planned for early this year.
Coppelia is directed by Jeff Tudor, Steven De Beul and Ben Tesseur, and premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 2021. It combines 2D and 3D animation with live-action dance to retell the 1870 comic ballet, about a doctor who is infatuated with a life-size dancing doll. It stars dancers Michaela DePrince, Daniel Camargo, Vito Mazzeo and Darcey Bussell.
Coppelia is a co-production between the Netherlands,...
- 1/4/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
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