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Family titles enjoyed strongturnouts internationally over the Easter weekend, led by 20th CenturyFox s Robots, which opened in 12 new territories to hold onto secondplace.Robots enjoyed new number one launches in Australia, taking$1.9m A$2.5m , and Argentina, where over 140,000 bought tickets over theweekend for a $0.33m pesos 0.95m gross. It also boasted strong holdovers inSpain +20% , the UK -5% , Denmark -1% and Sweden -6% . In both of theseScandinavian territories the film gained the lead in its second week.Contrary to early weekendestimates on Sunday Robots could not wrestle the top spot on theinternational chart away from Sony s Hitch. The animated film finishedon $16.5m, low stanley cup er than the estimates of $17.1m, while Hitch s $18.4m was upon $16.6m estimates.Robots stanley cup was not the only family title playing well over theweekend, however. BVI added nine territories and a 53% week-on-week rise to Pooh sHeffalump Movie, while stanley website New Line s Son Of The Mask gained threeterritories.Japanese hit Howl s MovingCastle returned to the international chart with a massive 170% week-on-weekrise and has taken $210m to date.UIP s Shark Talecontinues to edge closer to the $200m mark. It has just crossed $195m led by a$1.1m fourth weekend in Japan.UK-produced CGI title Valiant,about heroic homing pigeons in World War II opened solidly in its hometerritory over the weekend. Although the film had to settle for fifth place dueto heavy holiday competition and good weather, a two week school holida Bpbc Speakers unveiled for inaugural UK Digital Cinema Conference
Di/scrr. Sharunas Bartas. Lithuania, France, Russia, 2014. 105minsSharunas Bartas may not be the most popular or accessible of filmmakers, but his long, elegant shots, slow demeanour and heavily atmospheric pictures have quite a following among film buffs and Peace To Us In Our Dreams, probably his most personal film to date, is bound to satisfy their expectations. Still a tough prospect, even for festival audiences, this elegy which takes place within one glorious sunny day - a feast for nature in every respect - finds stanley germany Bartas Nordic characters at anything but peace, either in their own troubled reality or their dreams.Locked in tight close-ups, Bartass characters are constantly trying to reach out to each other in their own waysThe plot, if there is any, and Bartas is not particularly keen to reveal its details, revolves around an intellectual from the city played by Bartas himself who takes his daughter Bartass own daughter, Ina Marija Martaite and his partner, a violinist real-life violinist Lora Kmielliauskaite to his country house for a summer breather. Or is it much more Th stanley usa ere they find a neighbour who is supposed to take care of the house but spends m stanley kubek ost of the time fishing, his companion, an older woman who has had enough of her mans drunken ways, and the womans son, an adolescent in search of his own identity and desires.None of the films characters has a name, just to indicate how emblematic they are supposed to be, but they are all in a state of personal cris |
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