* DICEMBRE 2004 *
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dicembre: News!
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ARGENTINA
BOX OFFICE
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1-Bailamos?...50.000 people. |
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2-Celular ....40.000 people in 31
screens. |
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3-Espanta Tiburones..20.000 in 75
screens. |
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4-Obsecion ...16.000 people in 72
screens. |
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BRASIL
BOX OFFICE
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Esquecidos, Os 1º 155.436 619.920 |
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As Branquelas 2º 119.475 182.961 |
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Celular 3º 113.103 175.572 |
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Exorcista, O 4º 81.191 789.642 |
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Má Educação 5º 71.127 104.167 |
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Sob o Domínio do Mal 6º 63.192 92.295 |
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Táxi 7º 53.848 234.564 |
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Espanta Tubarões, O 8º 48.966 1.893.220 |
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Rei Arthur 9º 19.803 1.303.229 |
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Resident Evil 2 10º 19.756 1.077.950 |
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FRANCE
BOX OFFICE
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1. Un long dimanche de fiançailles 4 435 378 3 736 509 711 71 255 675 685 53 Warner Bros. France |
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2. Banlieue 13 2 230 064 701 093 430 45 938 167 347 31 EuropaCorp Distribution |
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3. Le Secret des poignards volants 1 219 629 219 629 259 89 084 90 345 41 United International Pictures (UIP) |
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4. La Demoiselle d'honneur 1 206 729 206 729 322 67 424 67 675 40 Bac Films |
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5. Cellular 1 182 469 182 469 222 62 477 63 708 27 Metropolitan FilmExport |
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6. L' Exorciste : au commencement 1 168 761 168 761 163 53 845 53 845 23 Warner Bros. France |
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7. La Confiance règne 2 125 652 428 977 576 34 431 117 607 46 UFD |
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8. L' Equipier 3 120 149 533 110 300 25 108 132 002 25 Mars Distribution |
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9. Gang de requins 6 98 157 2 845 465 532 15 277 525 624 29 United International Pictures (U.I.P.) |
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10. L' Enquête corse 7 98 041 2 442 528 354 10 885 340 791 13 Gaumont Columbia Tristar Films |
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SPAIN
BOX OFFICE (Fin de semana del 12 al 14 de noviembre de 2004)
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1 Di que sí
Columbia TriStar (España) 1.161,45 300 - - 1.161,45 1 |
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El Lobo Filmax (España) 1.140,15 199 886,90 +28,6 2.471,75 2 |
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3 Shall We Dance? (¿Bailamos?)
Buena Vista (USA) 1.054,58 301 1.364,53 -22,7 2.910,99 2 |
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4 Resident Evil 2
Columbia TriStar (Canadá-Reino Unido) 833,21 340 1.966,88 -57,6 3.213,43 2 |
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5 El mensajero
del miedo UIP (USA) 788,33 168 - - 788,33 1 |
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6 Cellular
TriPictures (USA) 589,16 245 - - 589,16 1 |
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7 Melinda y Melinda
Hispano Foxfilm (USA) 406,82 157 596,37 -31,8 2.449,34 3 |
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8 El exorcista:
el comienzo WSF/Warner Bros (USA) 359,05 291 763,29 -53,0 3.890,22 3 |
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9 Crimen ferpecto
WSF/Sogepaq (España) 338,21 248 578,87 -41,6 3.819,52 4 |
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10 El espantatiburones
UIP (USA) 285,30 301 402,70 -29,2 8.088,80 6 |
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SPAIN
BOX OFFICE (Del 19 al 21 de Noviembre de 2004)
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10- Melinda y Melinda 4 250.110 La doble historia de Melinda le ha salido rentable a Woody Allen, pero ya es hora de pensar en la siguiente. |
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9- Resident evil 2 3 275.317 La caza del zombie no es negocio. Su piel ya no se vende tan cara como antes. |
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8- Cellular 2 294.633 O no tiene cobertura, o no tiene batería, o no tiene interés. |
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7- El mensajero del miedo 2 393.707 En el teatro griego siempre se mata al mensajero y en el cine americano también. |
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6+ Dos colgaos muy fumaos 1 484.762 Bienaventurados los colgados porque tendrán dinero para tabaco. |
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5- Dí que sí 2 610.876 Hay síes que matan, y el público acaba poniendo los puntos en su sitio: sobre las íes. |
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4– Shall we dance? 3 662.388 Richard Gere tiene un juego de pies increíble. Tanto que se ha hecho un esguince. |
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3- El Lobo 3 801.004 Fue una especie en peligro de extinción, pero el lobo ibérico, como el hombre, ha vuelto. |
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2+ Alien vs. Predator 1 1,9 Millones Aunque hay otras especies mucho más peligrosas y bastante más rentables. |
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1+ Bridget Jones: sobreviviré 1 2 Millones Triunfa la antidiva: pasada de rosca y pasada de kilos. De momento Bridget tiene un par, pero ¿hasta dónde llegará? |
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SPAIN
BOX OFFICE (OCTOBER
22-28)
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12 - The Door in the Floor Deaplaneta $254,372 - 97 $2,622 $254,372 1. |
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SPAIN
BOX OFFICE (OCTOBER
29 - NOVEMBER 4)
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17 12 The Door in the Floor Deaplaneta $177,064 -31% 93 $1,904 $431,436 2. |
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CELLULAR
- Domestic: $31,835,524 78.6% + Overseas: $8,647,156 21.4%
= Worldwide: $40,482,680. |
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THEATER COUNTS > 2004 > Week #48
November 24: 26 28 Cellular New Line 108 -59 12. |
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THEATER COUNTS > 2004 > Week #47
November 19 26 24 Cellular New Line 167 -4 11. |
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Trapped in her own nightmare
KIM Basinger’s career has been interesting and eventful, if not always fruitful. From her seminal role in 1986’s 91/2 Weeks through to her Oscar-winning turn in LA Confidential, the 50-year-old actress has proved herself more than capable of surprising her audiences and peers over and over again.
In her current release, Cellular, Basinger plays a high-school science teacher and mother whose peaceful suburban life is turned upside down when she is kidnapped from her home and thrown into a dark attic devoid of any comfort except a broken phone.
Using her ever-so-handy science skills, she patches together the phone lines and secretly places a call to an unknown number in an attempt to save her life.
A hapless, carefree surfer dude (American actor Chris Evans) answers the panicked call and has to step up to the mark. Ryan goes from surfing slacker to hero within a day when he is forced to locate and save a stranger’s life.
Basinger’s ability to play the red-eyed, frantic damsel comes in handy for the part, but she talks earnestly about how hard she worked on getting things right for the part.
"The story is anyone’s nightmare - being threatened and kidnapped, all the while not knowing why," she says. "The human question becomes, ‘How do I override this fear in order to think clearly enough to help myself?’"
The veteran actress and mother proved to be up to the physical and emotional tasks, in what has been a busy year for her.
"Three opportunities popped up at once. Door In The Floor [an adaptation of John Irving’s novel A Widow for One Year] came up and then a film in Albuquerque called Elvis Has Left The Building, and then Cellular. I was just pleased with being attracted to three things in a row," she says. "That doesn’t happen to me often."
Of the three releases, the first one British audiences will see is Cellular, and it was in this thriller that Basinger relished the chance to invest some method into her role. "I really loved the opportunity I got because it was more like a play to me," she says.
"I said to David [director David R Ellis], ‘I don’t want the crew around me’. I wanted as few people there to make it as real as I could.
"It was an opportunity to sit where the audience sits; I wanted the audience up there with me. I don’t know what is going to happen to me and I don’t know why I was thrown in there. It was quite a roller-coaster ride emotionally every day.
"I think my crew suffered more than I did, though. They would watch me and say, ‘Oh My God, she has to go back in the attic again’. It was almost a solid month in that attic.
"You come to a place in your life, though, where you really learn what makes you tick as an actress. It takes a long time to learn - it really does. And then you find these buttons that become so accessible to you, so you just push."
IN THE PAST Basinger has not perhaps had the best reputation for her behaviour while on set, with co-stars and production staff often politely referring to her as ‘difficult’.
Her relationship with her actor husband, Alec Baldwin, was notoriously rocky, resulting in the divorced couple now legally only allowed to communicate via fax or e-mail.
Basinger is defensive of her reputation, and is convinced that had it not been for such a temperament she might never have made it to where she is today in her career.
"You know what, everybody has this idea of somebody who is somewhat independent and outspoken in what she believes in, especially in this town, I’ve come to learn that very quickly. And I think unfortunately there are a lot of women out there, like men, who want to control, control, control. When they see that they cannot control their partner, then it turns into something nasty and ugly.
"I think if someone could just let the other one be what they are without trying to change them, that’s when I think a real partnership can happen."
The couple have an eight-year-old daughter, Ireland, over whom they share visiting rights.
Basinger is forthcoming and rational, not only about what has happened in her private life, but also about how it has been portrayed in the media.
"You know, we live in the public. It comes with the territory. I always say, ‘God and a sense of humour have gotten us through this whole thing’. And it is all I can do - just grow up and make the best decisions I know how. And both Ireland and I have come through pretty well."
At 50, Basinger has had to face up to the idea and practicalities of being an older mother. "You think about your own longevity the older you get because you have this child that depends on you. And I think when you have a child later in life like I did, you find they come to you in the most innocent way.
"I know my daughter was mad at me for having her as late as I did in my life because she has said things like, ‘What will happen to me?’ She has those issues. And we have had to go through those issues. It has been a delicate subject.
"But at the same time I have great beliefs in what I believe in. And she has a great foundation in her faith as well."
Born in Athens, Georgia, Basinger, a former model, has maintained a steadily strong profile over her 34-year career.
From early parts in mainstream hits such as My Stepmother is an Alien, Blind Date with Bruce Willis and as Vicki Vale in Tim Burton’s Batman, she has moved to more credible, post-Oscar parts such as her applauded turn as Eminem’s mother in 8 Mile and the forthcoming role in Door In The Floor. In it Basinger stars alongside Jeff Bridges as a couple who are struggling to overcome a past tragedy. Set in the upmarket Hamptons area of New York, it chronicles one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children’s book author Ted Cole (Bridges) as it becomes clear his infidelities have prevented the couple from confronting a much-needed change in their relationship.
A young man Ted hires to work as his summer assistant is the couple’s unwitting yet willing pawn - and, ultimately, the catalyst in the transformation of their lives.
In stark contrast to the maturity of that role, in Elvis Has Left The Building, Basinger plays Mary Kay of Mary Kay Cosmetics, in a comedy from director Joel Zwick of My Big Fat Greek Wedding fame.
"It’s about Elvis impersonators and they’re all on their way to Vegas for this big convention and everywhere I go there’s another dead one, so I begin to think I’m killing these people, so I go on the run from the cops. So it’s kind of a little romp through the desert."
During the publicity for Cellular, however, Basinger is comfortably in reflective mode, happy to philosophise and look back over her catalogue of work and her personal life.
"I’ve learned that if you really shut up, you really hear more. You really hear what’s going on in a scene. I do that in my life too, I say, ‘Just shut up!’
"You can be all over the place, or you can just calm down. And one of the greatest gifts you can accomplish in your life, as a person, as a human being, is to learn how to talk less and to listen more. And I think the more I’ve done that, I’ve really come into who it is I am as a person. I can use that in the creative aspects of my life.
"I know I sometimes credit other actors, like Jack Lemmon, he was one of my favourite people to watch because I think he was one of the most brilliant, but he was the greatest listener I ever watched on screen. It’s helped me tremendously as an actress just to be quiet." |
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There is talk that the movie "Elvis Has Left The Building", starring Kim Basinger, Sean Astin, Billy Ray Cyrus and Tom Hanks, will be released on DVD in the US around what would have been Elvis' 70th birthday. |
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GERMANY
BOX OFFICE
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October 22-28
15 - The Door in the Floor Tobis $190,888 - 38 - $5,023 - $190,888
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October 29-November 4
15 15 The Door in the Floor Tobis $176,028 -9% 38 0 $4,632 -9% $366,916
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November 5-11
- 17 15 The Door in the Floor Tobis $109,770 -38% 35 -3 $3,136 -32% $476,686 3. |
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
November 12-14, 2004 33 31 Cellular NL $86,742 -12.6% 167 -4 $519 $31,815,659 $25 / $20 11. |
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THE NETHERLANDS
BOX OFFICE (November 11-17)
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1 - Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason UIP $1,488,243 - 109 - $13,654 $1,488,243 1 |
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2 2 Der Untergang AFD $389,601 35% 35 14 $11,131 $689,798 2 |
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3 1 Shark Tale UIP $245,855 -34% 185 -4 $1,329 $4,361,981 6 |
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4 - Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid CT $175,740 - 49 - $3,587 $217,746 1 |
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5 4 Collateral UIP $141,231 -36% 86 -1 $1,642 $2,532,403 7 |
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6 3 The Manchurian Candidate UIP $135,425 -42% 50 0 $2,708 $432,893 2 |
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7 5 Alien vs. Predator Fox $108,107 -49% 63 0 $1,716 $718,314 3 |
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8 - Cellular RCV $78,253 - 27 - $2,898 $109,282 1 |
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9 8 Simon AFD $66,512 -27% 20 0 $3,326 $797,106 7 |
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10 6 Ellis in Glamourland IF $53,103 -60% 66 -26 $805 $1,544,053 7
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dicembre: News!
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MEXICO
BOX OFFICE (November 19 - 25): 3 - Cellular Gussi $696,894 200 $3,484 $696,894 1. |
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MEXICO
BOX OFFICE (November 26 - December 2): 2 3 Cellular Gussi $535,176 198 $2,703 $1,232,070 2. |
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WEEK
END BOX OFFICE (November 26 - 28): - 35 Cellular NL $68,000 -21.6% 108 -59 $629 $31,926,000 $25 / $20 12. |
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WEEK
END BOX OFFICE (December 3 - 5): 47 41 Cellular NL $31,175 -42.5% 67 -41 $465 $31,962,797 $25 / $20 13. |
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THEATER
COUNT (December 8 - 10): 27 36 Cellular New Line 87 +20 14. |
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WEEK
END BOX OFFICE (December 10 - 12): - 47 Cellular NL $30,939 -0.8% 87 +20 $355 $32,003,620 $25 / $20 14. |
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TAIWAN
(November 20 - 21): 3 Cellular $107,142 17 $6,302 $133,814 1. |
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TAIWAN
(November 27 - 28): 4 Cellular $45,269 17 $2,663 $248,195 2. |
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TAIWAN
(December 4 - 5): 6 Cellular $19,313 9 $2,146 $302,862 3. |
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TAIWAN
(December 11 - 12): 13 Cellular $4,089 4 $1,022 $317,798 4. |
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NORWAY
BOX OFFICE (December 3 - 5): 16 9 Cellular Svensk $10,775 10 $1,078 $95,416 3. |
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BULGARIA
BOX OFFICE (November 26 - 28): 1 - Cellular Alexandra $40,378 8 $5,047 $40,378 1. |
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THE
NETHERLANDS BOX OFFICE (November 25 - December 1): 17 11 Cellular RCV $24,019 -57% 21 -5 $1,144 $188,205 3. |
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THE
NETHERLAND BOX OFFICE (December 2 - 8): 19 17 Cellular RCV $11,446 -53% 16 -5 $715 $199,651 4. |
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FINLAND
BOX OFFICE (December 3 - 9): 7 - Cellular FS Film $36,309 9 $4,034 $36,797 1. |
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FRANCE
BOX OFFICE (November 17 - 23): 5 - Cellular Metopolitan $1,327,160 - 222 - $5,978 - $1,327,160 1. |
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FRANCE
BOX OFFICE (November 24 - 30): 7 5 Cellular Metopolitan $776,587 -42% 221 -1 $3,514 -42% $2,103,747 2. |
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FRANCE
BOX OFFICE (December 1 - 7): 12 7 Cellular Metropolitan $358,461 -54% 159 -62 $2,254 -36% $2,462,208 3. |
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GREECE
BOX OFFICE (December 3 - 5): 9 - The Door in the Floor $40,950 $40,950
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SPAIN
BOX OFFICE (November 19 - 21): 8 6 Cellular Tri $384,734 -50% 243 $1,583 $1,365,233 2. |
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SPAIN
BOX OFFICE (November 26 - 28): 12 8 Cellular Tr $207,244 -47% 144 $1,439 $1,674,276 3. |
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HUNGARY
BOX OFFICE (November 12 - 14): 6 - Cellular InterCom $36,212 18 $2,012 $40,767 1. |
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HUNGARY
BOX OFFICE (November 19 - 21): 9 6 Cellular InterCom $18,623 18 $1,035 $73,383 2. |
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NORWAY
BOX OFFICE (November 12 - 14): 13 - The Door in the Floor Columbia $25,004 8 $3,126 $29,186 1. |
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NORWAY
BOX OFFICE (November 19 - 21): 6 - Cellular Svensk $34,751 15 $2,317 $39,391 1
- 16 13 The Door in the Floor Columbia $15,883 8 $1,985 $62,627 2. |
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NORWAY
BOX OFFICE (November 26 - 28): 9 6 Cellular Sandrew $20,136 15 $1,342 $74,426 2. |
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BRASIL
BOX OFFICE (November 30): 3 - 1 "Cellular" $0.5M $0.5M. |
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BRASIL
BOX OFFICE (WEEK #4): 9. Celular - Um Grito de Socorro 146 30.962 4
03.82% 492.795. |
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