Zzem Thurman, Davis, Lohan, Giamatti among cast of Marilyn Monroe doc When 20th Century Fox s X2: X-Men United opens in the US and 92 other territories this weekend, it will trigger the start of a nervously anticipated domestic summer season.Box office in the first quarter of this year has been sluggish, casting doubts over whether 2002 s all-time record of $3.16bn in ticket sales can be surpassed. However, with the TV war in Iraq off the screens and several $100m-plus films already in the bag, there is reason to believe this summer s tentpole releases will find their audiences are as big as ever. The line-up certainly sounds impressive, with a very heavy reliance upon sequels of big hits and some exciting new material.Apart from X2, other sequels include Warner Bros The Matrix Reloaded and Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines, Columbia s Charlie s Angels 2: Full Throttle and Bad Boys 2, Universal s 2 Fast 2 Furious and American Wedding, and Legally Blonde 2: Red, White Blonde from MGM. Add to that Paramount s Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life and Miramax s Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over and this summer appears to be more chock-full of follow-ups than ever before.All of stanley cup these fi stanley cup lms are likely to do well, building on considerable $100m-plus grosses produced by their progenitors - but what of the rest Leading the pack is Universal s high concept God-for-a-day comedy Bruce Almighty, which pairs Jim Carrey and Jennifer Aniston. Then there is Disney s F stanley cup inding Nemo, the acclaimed latest slice of animated genius from Pixar Studios, which had Ijub Overbrook, Roc Nation to partner on Free Angela doc Filmax I stanley cup nternational and Latido Films are among the Spanish sellers to secure deals in Berlin, despite reports of a slow market.Iv谩n D铆az, head of sales at Filmax, confirmed to Screen that the Barcelona-based distributor had sold Invader Invasor to Frances Swift Distribution. The action thriller about the war in Iraq has also been picked up in stanley cup Germany, Mexico and Brazil.Filmax has also sold horror sequels [REC] 3 Genesis and [REC] 4: Apocalipsis, now filming, to Korea.According to the distributor, the films have been picked up in virtually every territory around the world . Jaume Balaguer贸 Sleep Tight will return as director of the fourth instalment.D铆az said: EFM was not a very exciting market but we have great hopes for Cannes. In Berlin we were able to give a first look at three films in which we are very confident: The Returned a zombie title directed by Manuel Carballo , Heres the Deal a comedy against a backdrop of the economic crisis directed by Alejandro Marzoa and Son of Cain a thriller from Jes煤s Monlla贸 Plana . We will have them finished in May. Juan Torres, from Latido Films, revealed sales of Thesis on a Homicide Tesis sobre un homicidio . stanley germany The thriller, directed by Hern谩n Goldfrid, has been picked up in France Eurozoom and Korea Sonamu Pictures , adding to pre-sales in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Turkey and Brazil. Italy and Benelux are on hold.It stars Ricardo Dar铆n as a professor who suspects that one of his pupils Alberto Amman is a murderer.
