All Screen articles in 11 September 2005
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01 Distribution acquires Fine Art Of Love
01 Distribution has acquired Italian distribution rights toJohn Irvin's Venice out-of-competition title The Fine Art of Love.Sold by Rome's AdrianaChiesa Enterprises (ACE), Irvin's period drama revolves around six girls agedsixteen who have been living in a luxurious orphanage-cum-finishing school froma very young age.The film, which stars Jacqueline Bisset, is anItalian-Czech-UK ...
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Madagascar retakes international lead with $12.5m weekend
A sensational launch in Italypowered DreamWorks International's Madagascar towards $300m over the weekend as the picture added an estimated$12.5m from 47 territories through UIP for $291.5m.The animated hit opened top in Italy on $7.1m including $1.4m frompreviews for 64% market share. This is the biggest CGI animated opening ever inItaly, ...
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Fox, Europa Corp drive US box office with Transporter 2
The action sequel The Transporter 2 roared to the top of the charts overthe Labor Day holiday weekend on an estimated $20.3m over four days.Opening in third place on $10.8m was Focus Features' acclaimedJohn LeCarre adaptation The Constant Gardener, while two movies from the shelf - Underclassmanfrom Miramax and ASound ...
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Gone With The Wind named as top grossing film of all time
Gone With The Wind is the top grossing film of all time based oninflation-adjusted figures, according to new research by Screen Digest and datafrom Box Office Ginca. The 1939 Civil War dramaracks up an adjusted U.S. gross of $1.26bn, beating out Star Wars at$1.11bn. The figures were based on original ...
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CMG seals deals for Reeker with Bac, Pathe
Los Angeles-based sales company Cinema Management Group (CMG) hassecured a trio of major deals on Dave Payne's horror picture Reeker.Reeker,which receives its international market premiere on Sept 10 when it screens atToronto outside the festival, has sold to Bac Films in France, PatheDistribution in the UK, and Blanco & Travieso ...
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Brokeback Mountain
Dir:Ang Lee. US. 2005. 133mins.Nonewly-arrived Martian would ever guess that the same person had directed Sense& Sensibility, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Hulk.The most impressive thing about Ang Lee's creative take on the multiplepersonality syndrome is the way that each successive experiment feels like thework of a pro that ...
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Oscar nominated director cranks up Eagle vs Shark
Eaglevs Sharkfrom Academy Award nominated writer/director Taika Waititi is to be the firstfeature for Whenua Films, set up in 2004 by producer Ainsley Gardiner and CliffCurtis, one of New Zealand's best-known actors.Thefilm has been fully financed by the New Zealand Film Commission. The fundingoutfit's sales division is handling international sales. ...
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The Exorcism Of Emily Rose
Dir: Scott Derrickson.US. 2005. 118minsAn interesting but unresolved hybrid of metaphysical horror film andcourtroom drama, The Exorcism Of Emily Rose takes the true story of agirl who died in Germany following an apparent case of demonic possession, andtransplants it to small-town America.Billed as the firstauthentic film treatment of demonic possession, ...
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Wallace And Gromit enjoy upbeat Oz world premiere
Aardman/DreamWorks animation WallaceAnd Gromit: TheCurse Of The Were-Rabbit world premiered in Sydney on Sunday (Sep 4) - three weeks before the US and four weeks ahead of theUK. The film goes wide in Australia on Sep 15.The positive reaction of the severalhundred strong audience - the majority of them young ...
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Everything Is Illuminated
Dir: Liev Schreiber. US.2005. 102mins.The fine US actor LievSchreiber makes his directorial debut on his own ambitious adaptation of whatis perhaps an unfilmable book - Jonathan Safran Foer's brilliant first novel EverythingIs Illuminated. It's a brave attempt, but only partially successful, andcritics will compare it unfavourably with the very recent ...
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Gabrielle
Dir: PatriceChereau. Fr-It. 2005.90mins.An analytical butstrangely alienated portrait of a 10 year-old marriage gone sour, PatriceChereau's latest feature is impressive on many counts but falls short ofdelivering the emotional wallop it seems to hanker for.Expanding on JosephConrad's novella The Return to show both viewpoints in a marital crisis,Chereau delivers an ...
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Dir/scr: Takeshi Kitano.Jap. 2005. 108mins.By the morning of thepress screening, pretty much everyone on the Lido knew that the “surprise” filmon the Venice competition roster was the new project by Japanese auteur and TVcelebrity Takeshi Kitano. The real surprise, however, came at the end: thebriefest ripple ...
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Venice films make waves over busy festival weekend
Four days in and bothbuyers and critics appear satisfied with the quality of films on offer acrossthe Venice Film Festival's different sections. But while industry memberscontinue to enjoy the festival's traditionally relaxed atmosphere, some arefinding the lack of a market and expensive prices an increasing hindrance.After the mixed reception for ...
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Gabrielle
Dir: PatriceChereau. Fr-It. 2005.90mins.An analytical butstrangely alienated portrait of a 10 year-old marriage gone sour, PatriceChereau's latest feature is impressive on many counts but falls short ofdelivering the emotional wallop it seems to hanker for.Expanding on JosephConrad's novella The Return to show both viewpoints in a marital crisis,Chereau delivers an ...
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Pusan unveils tenth anniversary festival line-up
The Pusan International Film Festivalwill present a record 307 films to celebrate its tenth edition, which runs fromOctober 6-14 in South Korea.Notable world premieres include Loft byJapanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Love Talk by Korea's Lee Yoon-ki (whowon PIFF's top award last year with This Charming Girl), Iraniandirector Abolfazl Jalili's Full ...
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BAFTA to host debate on portrayal of older women on screen
Women in Film and Television (WFTV), Equity and the BritishAcademy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) are holding a joint event, entitledMirror Mirror - From Snow White to Wicked Queen, to discuss theportrayal of older women on screen.The event kicks off with the UK's first public screening ofRosanna Arquette's feature ...
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Booking surge for Berlinale's European Film Market
Berlin's European Film Market (EFM) is boasting a 30%year-on-year increase in bookings for 2006 with nearly 200 companies signed up forthe upgraded Martin-Gropius-Bau facilities.They will have a choice of more than 600 screening slots innew or improved facilities. The surge in bookings follows AFM's move toNovember, leaving the February market ...
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Saudi officials break up huge piracy operation
Saudi Arabianofficials have seized over 2.2m pirate DVDs, VCDs, DVD-Rs and VHS cassettes ina raid on a major pirate distribution centre in Dammam, in the Eastern Provinceof Saudi Arabia.It isone of the biggest ever seizures of pirate product in the entire EMEA (Europe,the Middle East and Africa) region.Three Indian nationals ...
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Casanova
Dir: Lasse Hallstrom. US.2005. 112mins.There's somethingold-fashioned about Lasse Hallstrom's take on the 18-century Venetian rake andwomaniser Giacomo Casanova; but also something disarmingly likeable.It's as if the spirit of Richard Lester, circa The Three Musketeers, had takenpossession of the Swedish director.Hallstrom is helped by ascript fizzing with brio and by the ...
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Raindance to open with Devil documentary
Jeff Feuerzeig's documentaryThe Devil and Daniel Johnston, about the cult musician and songwriter,will kick off the 13th Raindance Film Festival in London on September 28. Thefilm previously won the best director prize at Sundance. Raindance will close onOctober 9 with the European premiere of Jonathan Jakubowicz's SecuestroExpress, a Caracas, Venezuela-set ...