All Screen articles in 11 February 2006
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Stranger top at North American box office
Screen Gems' horror-thriller When a StrangerCalls was the box office champion in North America over the traditionallyslow Super Bowl weekend, opening with an estimated gross of $22m.Fox's Big Momma's House 2, last week'sleader, dropped to second, with an estimated $13.4m, and Universal's NannyMcPhee came in third with an estimated $9.9m. ...
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Stranger top at North American box office
Screen Gems' horror-thriller When a StrangerCalls was the box office champion in North America over the traditionallyslow Super Bowl weekend, opening with an estimated gross of $22m.Fox's Big Momma's House 2, last week'sleader, dropped to second, with an estimated $13.4m, and Universal's NannyMcPhee came in third with an estimated $9.9m. ...
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Stranger tops US box office
Screen Gems' horror-thriller When a StrangerCalls was the box office champion in North America over the traditionallyslow Super Bowl weekend, opening with an estimated gross of $22m.Fox's Big Momma's House 2, last week'sleader, dropped to second, with an estimated $13.4m, and Universal's NannyMcPhee came in third with an estimated $9.9m. ...
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Awards Countdown
The Awards Countdown features below offer a form guide to the major honours. We also look at who has won what at other major awards.
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Munich leads international box office field
Major Oscar nominees dominated the international box officethis weekend, with Munich holding on at the head of the pack, Memoirsof a Geisha expanding well and Walk the Line making a good start.Over the second weekend of its international rollout,Universal's Munich - which got five Academy Award nominations last week,including a ...
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Nielsen NRG and Arts Alliance form research alliance
NielsenNRG and Arts Alliance Media have formed a strategic alliance to offer newresearch services to film distributors.Theresearch will use databases from Arts Alliance's consumer online DVD rentalservice LoveFilm and its cinema management service Newman.Forexample, film distributors will be able to see consumer behaviour andpreferences from the 400,000-plus UK households that ...
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Shooting yet to start on Luhrmann's Australian epic
Actor Russell Crowe is talking about it on red carpets, manyare hoping that principal photography will start in July or August, but thereis still no green light from 20th Century Fox for a fourth feature by Baz Luhrmann.Crowe and Nicole Kidman are billed as the leads and insiderssay that Catherine ...
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Italian film body Filmitalia loses chief executive
AdrianaChiesa has stepped down from her position as CEO of Italian promotional body,Aip-Filmitalia.Chiesa'sresignation comes just ahead of the Academy Awards next month, which seesItaly's candidate Don't Tell shortlisted in the best foreign film category. Itis the first time an Italian film has made it to the last five since Life ...
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AV Pictures to handle sales for thriller Played
AV Pictures has taken on sales for featurefilm Played and will be showing apromo reel of the project at Berlin's European Film Market. Sean Stanekdirects and co-wrote with Mick Rossi. Producers are Stanek,Rossi, John Daly, Nick Simunek, and Casper von Winterfeldt. The crime thriller stars Val Kilmer, GabrielByrne, Anthony LaPaglia, ...
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Minghella, Craig to judge UK's youth shorts
The UK Film Council has recruited some high profile judges for its FirstLight Film Awards: actors Daniel Craig, Martin Freeman and Martin Clunes,director Anthony Minghella, TV presenter David Attenborough, comedienne Jenny Eclair.The awards ceremony willbe held on February 28 at London's Odeon West End. Prizes will be given in10 categories. ...
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Hungary's Mafilm Studios seeking private investors
The MotionPicture Public Foundation of Hungary (MMK) is preparing to invite investors toenter into a partnership to renovate and develop the MafilmStudios in Budapest, MMK general secretary Erzsebet Toth told ScreenDaily.com."Overthe past few years, every studio has come to Budapest looking for stages. They've lovedthe crews and the city," Toth ...
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Dagur Kári wins the Nordic Prize at Gothenburg Film Festival
Icelandic director Dagur Kári (Noi the Albino) won the Nordic Prize atthe Gothenburg Film Festival for his new film Dark Horse, a black and white slacker comedy shot in Denmark whichKári describes as a 1960s pastiche. The cast features a number of new Danishfaces such as Jakob Cedergren and Tilly ...
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Anders Thomas Jensen wins Robert award for Best Film
The Danish Film Academy handed out its annualRobert awards in Copenhagen last night. Anders Thomas Jensen's Adam's Apples scored four awards withPer Fly's Manslaughter taking homethree. The winning films were also two of the big commercial successes at theDanish box office in 2005 with 355.689 and 393.239 tickets sold.Although Anders ...
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Media 8's Lovewrecked swims into Weinstein Co fold
The Weinstein Company hasacquired North American rights to Media 8's romantic comedy Lovewrecked starring Amanda Bynes and Chris Carmack.Randal Kleiser directed thestory of a teenager who finds herself stranded on a desert island with a rockstar and in order to win his heart neglects to tell him that she works ...
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NZ distributor Arkles steps up Australian presence
NewZealand distributor Arkles Entertainment is increasing its activity in theAustralian market where it is planning sizeable releases for both Junebug and Danish film Brothers in the next few months.TheAuckland-based company acquired theatrical rights for Junebugjust days before Amy Adams got her best supportingactress Oscar nomination. Both this film and Brotherscame ...
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THINKFilm steps in for worldwide rights to Candy
THINKFilm has moved in forall worldwide rights to Paul Dinello's Strangers With Candy and plans a limited summer release for the filmwhich is based on a cult TV series from US cable channel Comedy Central.Warner Independent Pictureshad originally acquired domestic rights to the film at Sundance 2005, butreturned it to ...
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Crime Novel (Romanzo Criminale)
Dir: Michele Placido.It-UK-Fr. 2005. 146mins.The middle floor betweenItaly's auteur attic and its commercial bargain basement is curiously empty.Screenwriting duo Stefano Rulli and Sandro Petraglia are among the few to havemade their home here, scripting films like The Best Of Youth, which for all its symphonic, multi-linearstructure and often prickly political ...
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Miramax, ESPN team for domestic rights to Lifetime
Miramax Films and ESPN havejointly acquired North American rights to GreeneStreet Films, Passion Picturesand Cactus Three's football documentary Once In A Lifetime, which will receive its world premiere in theBerlinale Special programme.Paul Crowder and JohnDower's film chronicles the heady rise and fall of the New York Cosmos, ascratch team that ...
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Paul Smith gets top international theatrical job at Sony Pictures
Paul Smith has been namedpresident of worldwide theatrical operations for the Columbia Tristar MotionPicture Group.Effective immediately,Smith (pictured) will oversee Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) andwill continue overseeing worldwide administrative operations for the studio'smarketing and distribution divisions. "Paul has been mychief lieutenant in managing the day-to-day administration of the internationaldivision for ...
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Glastonbury
Dir. Julien Temple. UK. 2005. 135 min.A tribute to the legendary UK pop musicfestival, Glastonbury achieves a state ofgrace rare in performance documentaries; you begin to feel you're in attendanceat this three-day marathon of music, mood-altering substances and mayhem. At135 minutes, it's a concert film that will test the endurance ...