09/12/2013 - Strangely ignored at the European Films Awards, the winner of Cannes' Palme d'Or begins to reap a sheaf of awards across the Atlantic

After winning the prize for the best foreign film awarded last week by the New York Film Critics Circle, Blue is the Warmest Colour [+see also:
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Distributed by IFC in American theatres, Blue is the Warmest Colour has chalked up 1.79 M$ in receipts. Launched seven weeks ago in four theatres, the film was shown on as many as 142 screens in its 5th week, and is still running in 75 theatres.

In France, the film totalled 965,000 admissions in eight weeks (Wild Bunch Distribution). In Europe, it came out last Thursday in Denmark and will arrive next Friday in Finnish theatres and on December 19 in Germany. In October-November, the feature film was distributed in the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Greece, Roumania, Norway, Sweden, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom.

It's also worth noting that, in the animation category, the Los Angeles critics also crowned the France-Belgium-Luxembourg co-production Ernest & Célestine [+see also:
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(Translated from French)