Success of Consequences… for Artificial Eye
by Annika Pham
The UK arthouse distribution company Artificial Eye is enjoying the success of Italian award-winning film The Consequences of Love which scored over £150,000 (€223,000) in two weeks from 10 screens with the second best screen average of the weekend of June 03 to June 05 after US blockbuster Sin City.
"We are very, very happy with these results," said Robert Beeson, director of Artificial Eye. "We were lucky to open on May 25th because it was quite an empty week in terms of release so we got a lot of coverage and excellent reviews in the press."
"The figures keep going up with the positive word of mouth so we are going to add four extra prints inside of London and we’ll go wider across the country after that."
The second feature film by Paolo Sorrentino won five key Davide di Donatello awards (Italian Oscars) early May and was in competition in Cannes 2004.
Another foreign-language title opening today could offer some screen competition to Sorrentino’s film: Arnaud Desplechin’s Kings And Queen …also released by Artificial Eye. The distribution company has orchestrated a mid-size release for the winner of the Prix Louis Delluc, with five screens in London and three outside of the UK capital. A poster campaign in London tube started early June, and an advertising campaign with colour ads was booked in key magazines such as Time Out. The weekly magazine chose Kings and Queen as ‘The film of the week’, describing it as "majestic movie-making."
Next European titles on Artificial Eye’s line-up include Alexander Sokurov’s The Sun and Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Innocence to be released next September, and Jacques Audiard’s The Beat My Heart Skipped [+see also:
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