All Screen articles in 11 July 2003
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Six-hour epic emerges as surprise Italian hit
A six-hour long epic about the lives of two brothers between 1966 and 2002 has become a surprise sleeper hit in Italy.Marco Tullio Giordano's La Meglio Gioventu - which won the Altadis award in this year's Un Certain Regard section at Cannes - has posted good results at Italy's slow ...
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Debut Irish features impress at Galway
The fifteenth Galway Film Fleadh (July 8-13) closed on a high over the weekend, with the universally shared view that it had been one of the best years for new Irish cinema at the event. Significantly, most of the new Irish feature films were made by debuting directors each of ...
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Terminator 3 takes Japanese box office by storm for Toho-Towa...
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines grossed $12.5m (Y1.458bn) and recorded 1,015,589 admissions on 550 screens on its opening weekend in Japan - the sixth largest such release ever in the country.Excluding preview screenings, its total of $9.5m for the weekend of July 12 and 13 broke the all-time record ...
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Tiresia
Dir: Bertrand Bonello. France-Canada. 2003. 118minsAfter his initial outing in Critics' Week, where he was much applauded two years ago for his debut, Le Pornographe, Bertrand Bonello might have done better with his second picture had it not been kicked upstairs from its original Un Certain Regard position to a ...
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Sony launches local production initiative in Mexico
Spurred by theglobal success of Oscar nominated El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)has launched a production office in Mexico City and has appointed GabrielRipstein, formerly of Mexican production company Altavista Films and itsdistribution company NuVision, as director of creative affairs. Dubbed ColumbiaPictures Producciones Mexico, the new local ...
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Veronica Guerin
Dir: Joel Schumacher. US. 2003. 98 minsSeemingly content to seesaw between vapid commercial fare and grittier personal projects, director Joel Schumacher follows the spy game misfire Bad Company with a heartfelt salute to a true-life heroine. The story of a fearless Irish journalist's crusade against the evils of ...
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Schumacher's Veronica Guerin takes pole position
Joel Schumacher's Veronica Guerin began its worldwide roll out in Ireland over the weekend - and opened to exceptionally strong business.After a world premiere in Dublin on Tuesday night and a special preview screening at the Galway Film Fleadh, the story of the Irish investigative journalist took the number one ...
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Limited releases keep their cool as temperature soars
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Bruce Almighty may have held fast in the top two UK/Ireland chart positions but as temperatures soared across the country so did two limited releases.Launched in the Republic of Ireland Buena Vista International's (BVI) Veronica Guerin triumphed with a $443,713 (£271,996) weekend - including $57,532 ...
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Playing 'In The Company Of Men' (En Jouant 'Dans La Compagnie Des Hommes')
Dir: Arnaud Desplechin. France. 2003. 118minsOne of France's more cerebral directors, Arnaud Desplechin has a reputation for risk-taking, as shown by his period drama Esther Kahn, which faced a prickly critical reception at Cannes in 2000. With his latest film, which played in Un Certain Regard, he has hardly gone ...
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Cohen, Hernandez promoted in delivery dept at IS
Danielle Cohen has beenpromoted to senior vice president of delivery and George Hernandez to directorof delivery at IS Film Distribution, the sales and distribution joint venturebetween Summit Entertainment and Intermedia Films.Cohen has worked with Summitsince 1988 and is now heading up the delivery department; she was previously atLIVE Entertainment as ...
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Cottbus focuses on new Russian cinema
New Russian cinema will be in the spotlight at this year's Filmfest Cottbus (November 4-8) and the Connecting Cottbus market forum (November 4-5).The festival focus will feature programmes of contemporary young Russian cinema and leading productions of the past decade. There will also be showcases of video art and co-productions ...
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New Zealand hosts Boogeyman shoot for Raimi, Tapert
Boogeyman, thefirst picture to be backed by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and SenatorInternational's genre label Ghost House Pictures, has begun filming inAuckland, New Zealand.Barry Watson (SororityBoys, 7th Heaven) has been cast in the lead role of a manwho returns to his childhood home to confront a terrifying power.Marcy Morris and ...
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Diller, Redstone weigh up joint bid for Vivendi
Barry Diller has been talking to Viacom chief Sumner Redstone about a possible joint bid for Vivendi Universal's U.S. show business empire, Reuters reported on Tuesday quoting 'sources close to the auction.'Diller, a former Vivendi executive who owns a stake in company's entertainment assets, is eyeing the multi-billion-dollar auction of ...
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Obituary: Alexander Walker
Alexander Walker, one of the UK's best-known, longest-lasting and most highly-paid and influential film critics, died suddenly yesterday at the London Clinic. He was 73 and had been undergoing tests for cancer.Walker, born in Portadown, Northern Ireland and educated at Queens University, Belfast, was critic of the London Evening Standard ...
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Chilean hotshot aims for international exposure
Chile's hottest film-maker, Jorge Olguin, has signed with Los Angeles-based D-No Entertainment and Genesis Literary Agency for worldwide management and representation respectively.The move comes after Ogluin's second feature, horror film Sangre Eterna, opened in Chile to critical acclaim last October and went on to become the become the biggest box ...
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...while CTFDI takes $8m in other territories, $21.2m with Angels
Charlie'sAngels: Full Throttleand T3: Rise Of The Machines gave Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI)much to cheer about this weekend, blazing a mighty trail across a number ofterritories.Charlie'sAngels: Full Throttle wasthe number one international film, grossing $21.2m from a massive 6,068 screensto raise its cumulative total to $79.8m.It opened numberone ...
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The Hulk crosses $50m for Universal, 16 markets still to open
Universal's TheHulk added $7.5m from2,958 sites in 26 territories over the weekend to raise its internationalrunning total to $53.1m.Number oneopening highlights include $296,000 from 69 theatres in Denmark for Universal's12th biggest opening of all time there, and a strong $292,000 from 50 inIndonesia.Portugal grossed$314,000 from 67 for the distributor's sixth ...
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Germany benefits as kids stay in the picture
Although the German box office is significantly down for the first six months of this year, there is one bright spot: German market share has climbed up to 14.3% from an overall 11.9% for 2002 (Screen Daily, July 11).Part of this upswing is being driven by an unlikely source: German ...
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Specialist distributor launches in Ireland
Tribal Films, a new US-Irish specialist distributor of art house and indie titles was launched by former Shooting Gallery exec Will Silke at the Galway Film Fleadh last week. Its first acquisition for the territory, the dialogue free Hungarian film Hukkle, was shown at the festival on Thursday. Hukkle is ...
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Czech distribs pounce on Karlovy Vary titles
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival came to a close over the weekend with several deals in place or close to completion for Czech distribution of foreign titles. Czech art house ArtCam is in negotiations for local distribution of three films, according to ArtCam's Eliska Fuchsova. The films are Buddy, ...