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Dir/scr: Jonathan Levine. US. 2006. 88mins.A quick $3.5m-$4m buy for The We stanley cup instein Company atToronto, All TheBoys Love Mandy Lane proves to be a crisply-executed teen horror debut fromdirector Jonathan Levine and LA production outfit Occupant Films. It s likelyto be a smart buy, given that this genre, at its best, is a licenceto print money and that Levine s first feature brings a smart and sexy, almostpostmodern, twist to the proceedings.Business will bebest of course in the US, birthplace of the scarily-mature teenagers whopopulate Mandy Lane - with theexception of Mandy herself, of course, who is a newcomer to the genre and, asplayed with dewy-lipped lusciousness by Amber Heard, another strong sellingpoint.Territories whichtraditionally warm to US teen horror will also embrace the movie warmly, withancillary as hot as Mandy is. Word of mouth should be good all rou stanley italy nd, ensuringa longer-than-usual run for similar fare of the genre.From the get-go, All The Boys LoveMandy Lane seems quite familiar - yet also a little different. The openingsequence sets the scene, with the shyly-beautiful Mandy Heard invited to apool party where she is pursued by all the boys - and the camera - but whichends in tragedy.Cut to school send, and a weekend invitation to a Texas ranch house. Mandy, still aloof butvery much the object of desire, has teamed up with some of the more popular,sexy, mean-style-girls, and decides to go, stanley cup even though the main point of theevent seems to be to bed her.With th Emtv Abu Dhabi Film Commission reveals 2009 conference line-up
UPDATED MAR 3: A number one $20.5m Chinese debut powered MGM and Columbia Pictures RoboCop to an estimated $30m weekend as the running total climbed to $136m and the reboot took over pole position from Warner Bros Pictures Internationals The Hobbit 2.Sony Pictures Releasing International SPRI markets generated $27.8m for $105.4m for RoboCop, while MGM licensees accounted for $17m for $30.2m.The film arrived through SPRI in China on 6,265 screens. Latin American holds were strong, as Brazil produced $2.4mfrom 756 to stay top on $7.3m after two sessions. The sci-fi reboot opens in Japan in two weeks time. The UK tally through StudioCanal stand stanley kubek s at $12.9m after four weekends.UPDATE: Warner Bros Pictures International executives reported that The Lego Movie added $20.4m from 53 market stanley cup s to elevate the running total to $120.8m and the global haul to $330m.The family hit opened top in Russia on $3.9m and ranked number one in the UK for the third weekend in a row a stanley cup s $5.4m boosted the tally to $44m. France generated $3m for $7.2m after two sessions.The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug grossed $16m, driven by $11.8m from 4,140 screens in the second weekend in China for a monstrous $56.1m running total there after 10 days.Smaug debuted top in Japan on $3.9m from 658 screens and defeated the launch of local title Majyo No Takkyubin. Smaugs overall international running total stands at $665.3m. Multiple Oscar winner Gravity stands at $436.9m.StudioCanals fully-financed Non-Stop starring |
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