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RELEASES UK

Wide opening for Pride And Prejudice

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Released today by UIP with 405 prints across the UK and Ireland, Working Title’s new version of Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride & Prejudice by Joe Wright is the film event of the week, and in spite of a strong financial US backing from Universal and the support of French Studio Canal+, the film is undeniably British in its cast and crew and superb 100% UK locations.
Carried by star actress Keira Knightley, the relative newcomer on the big screen Matthew Macfadyen who plays her love interest Mr Darcy as well as Judi Dench, Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland, this sumptuous new film adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic premiered successfully in Toronto and should become another box office phenomenon for Working Title whose biggest hits in the UK so far are Bridget Jones’s Diary (£42m (€62m) gross) and Love Actually (£36,8m - €54.3m).

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Next to Pride & Prejudice’s wide release for mainstream audiences, two Scandinavian titles open today in the UK, but with only two prints each.
Vertigo Films is releasing the Danish thriller Pusher 2- With Blood On My Hands [+see also:
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by Nicolas Winding Refn, a film executive produced by one of Vertigo’s managing directors Rupert Preston who previously co-produced Winding Refn’s Fear X.
Vertigo’s production arm is currently enjoying the box office success of gangster film The Business directed by writer/director Nick Love, another co-founders of the company. The film released through Pathéin the UK has grossed over £1.3m (€1.9m) in less than three weeks and is the only UK and European title at the UK’s top 15.

The second Scandinavian title released today by Metrodome Distribution is the Swedish local hit Daybreak by Björn Runge. The portrayal of contemporary family life in Sweden which won the 2004 Silver Bear in Berlin for the Outstanding artistic contribution from its actors, is released with only one print in London and one in Scotland, but should benefit from positive reviews in the UK press, including a four stars review in ‘The Times’ newspaper.

Other European titles on UK screens today include the restored print of 1967 Irish documentary The Rocky Road To Dublin released by Soda Pictures and presented tonight at the ICA in London by its director Peter Lennon and Paul Duane who made a ‘Making of’ of the film; as well as the one-print release by Winstone Distribution of UK film Room 36 by writer/director Jim Groom.

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