All Screen articles in 14 April 2005
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Brehm, Chamberlain, Weingroff get new roles at CBS Paramount Int'l
Jim Brehm and BarryChamberlain have been named executive vice president of pay television andsenior vice president of sales respectively at CBS Paramount InternationalTelevision, while Jennifer Weingroff becomes vice president of communications.Brehm will be in charge ofsales and licensing of all products for pay television including PPV and VOD.He joined the ...
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Ring Two continues to roll in Russia, Italy
Fox International's capersequel Be Cool has a raft ofmajor market releases this weekend, with debuts scheduled for Russia on Apr 7on 85 prints, followed a day later by Spain, Mexico and South Korea on 300, 220and 50 respectively.The picture is in the earlystages of its release and has grossed $13.4m ...
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Phantom scares up $100m international gross
The filmversion of Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running musical hit The Phantom Of TheOpera has passed the $100m mark at the international box office.The success has been led by a triumphant turn in Japanwhere a collosal $36.5m has been taken to date, 35.6% of the internationaltotal and 23.8% of the worldwide ...
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French admissions fall back in first quarter of 2005
France'sNational Cinema Federation (FNCF) has announced a drop in first quarter figuresfor 2005 against last year. In thefirst three months of the year, the box-office racked up 44.6 millionadmissions versus 50.1 million over the same period in 2004.The FNCF put the drop down to a less "rich" selectionof films compared ...
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Nickelodeon launched as 24-hour service in Germany
MTV NetworksEurope (MTVNE) will launch Nickelodeon as a 24-hour children's channel and website in Germany on Sept 12.Viacom chiefsalso announced that they have set up Viacom Brand Solutions, a cross-brandingadvertising sales house to market the portfolio of channels.The locallymanaged and programmed channel and site will feature such properties as TheSpongeBob ...
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Voltage acquires two comedies from Insomnia
Nicolas Chartier and DeanDevlin's fledgling international sales and financing house Voltage Pictures hasacquired two comedies from Insomnia Entertainment, Eric Bernt's Vegas Baby and Matthew Cole Weiss' Standing Still.Voltage will handleinternational rights and show footage to buyers at Cannes on both pictures,which are currently in post production.Vegas Baby centres on five ...
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Imagi recruits Cumming, Astin, Tucci for Cat Tale
Alan Cumming, Sean Astin,Elisha Cuthbert, and Stanley Tucci have joined the voice cast of ImagiServices' upcoming CGI animated feature Cat Tale, which is scheduled for release in 2006.Cat Tale centres on the exploits of Rover, a feline whomistakenly grows up in Dogtown and must rediscover his roots by journeying toCatopolis.Astin ...
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Loach plants Barley in Ireland
Director Ken Loach is to start shooting his next film, thetentatively titled The Wind That Shakes The Barley, in Cork, Ireland,next month.The Irish Civil War drama is written by Loach's regularcollaborator, Paul Laverty. Named after a 19th century politicalsong, the film revolves around a family and one of the so-called ...
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Hot newcomers, veterans share Filmstiftung NRW cash
Award winning Britishshort film director Steve Hudson has received Euros 850,000 in funding for hisdebut feature Dragnet from Dusseldorf-based subsidy body FilmstiftungNRW.Hudson won the Prix UIP in Venice last year forhis short Goodbye. Dragnet is about a group of Scottish fishermen whoget involved in the human trafficking of Chinese refugees ...
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Dan Murrell to run LaserPacific in LA
Dan Murrell has joineddigital LA post-production facility LaserPacific as chairman and chiefexecutive officer, effective immediately.Murrell served as chiefexecutive officer of Home Box Office Asia, a joint venture of Warner Bros,Sony, Universal, Paramount and HBO, since 1997, and will focus on long-termgrowth, strategic planning and business opportunities.Reporting to general managerof Kodak ...
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Indian International awards set locale for 2006 event in Amsterdam
The sixth InternationalIndian Film Academy (IIFA) awards weekend will take place in Amsterdam,Holland, from Jun 9-11.Since the annual ceremonylaunched five years ago at the Millennium Dome in London, a number ofinternational locations including London, Malaysia and Singapore have hostedthe event.The IIFA will feature a newglobal business forum at Expo XXI, ...
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Sony-led acquisition of MGM closed on Friday
On the day MGM's acquisitionby the Sony and Comcast-led consortium officially closed and most of theexisting MGM staff prepared to be let go, the company announced severaloperating practices and a slew of new appointments.The company will releaseonly one more film - The Amityville Horror on Apr 15. Its remaining titles ...
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Paramount tops box office with action adventure Sahara
Paramount'saction-adventure Saharaopened top of the North American charts at the weekend, drawing mixed reviewsbut an estimated $18.5m in ticket sales.The picture,which stars Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz as environmental adventurers,averaged $5,865 on 3,154 screens. It was directed by Breck Eisner, the son ofdeparting Disney chief Michael Eisner, and financed by ...
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Arts Alliance names Kiedaisch as chief financial officer
Arts Alliance Media, which was recently appointed to runthe UK Film Council's digital cinema network, has appointed Howard Kiedaisch aschief financial officer. Kiedaisch joins Arts Alliance Media from UniversalPictures International (UPI) where he was senior vice president of businessoperations and chief financial officer.In addition to his six years at UPI, ...
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Sahara tops US box office for Anschutz, Paramount
Paramount'saction-adventure Saharaopened top of the North American charts at the weekend, drawing mixed reviewsbut an estimated $18.5m in ticket sales.The picture,which stars Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz as environmental adventurers,averaged $5,865 on 3,154 screens. It was directed by Breck Eisner, the son ofdeparting Disney chief Michael Eisner, and financed by ...
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Cognac toasts Iglesia's El Crimen Ferpecto
Alex de la Iglesia's blackcomedy El Crimen Ferpecto was the big winner at the 23rdannual Cognac Thriller Festival which wrapped on Sunday night. The film was a crowd favoritetaking the Premiere magazine audience award as well as the Grand Prize from thejury headed up by American director Joel Schumacher.The Jury ...
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Ghobadi's Turtles flies off with NatFilm prize
Bahman Ghobadi's Turtles Can Fly won theaudience prize at the 16th NATfilm festival in Denmark.The film, which is set in an Iraqi refugee camp priorto the US led invasion, is a follow up to Ghobadi's arthouse hit A Time ForDrunken Horses.The Critics Award went to the only documentary runningin competition, ...
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ReviewsSahara
Dir: Breck Eisner. US. 2005. 124 mins.Sahara is a brave attempt by an independent company - Phillip Anschutz’s Anschutz Film Group - to launch a new action hero franchise, this one modeled on Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt character. The film is a lavishly mounted, old-fashioned adventure picture which pitches Pitt ...
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Ring 2 leads international pack with $14.8m weekend
DreamWorks International'shorror sequel The Ring 2 added anestimated $14.8m through UIP in 4,245 sites in 46 territories at the weekend,raising the international running total to $55m.The picture opened top inItaly on $1.9m and approximately 30% market share, a remarkable result giventhat theatres were closed on Friday for the Pope's funeral. ...
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European box office on the slide in 2005
The UKmarket appears to be the only major European territory showing box office oradmissions growth this year, according to the latest first quarter figures.Frenchadmissions figures are down nearly 13%, German figures have slipped 11% whilethe Spanish box office has leveled off compared to the first three months of2004. Figures for ...