All Screen articles in 19 May 2004
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JAPAN 13 May
Only one percent of all Japanese may be Christians, but MelGibson's The Passion Of The Christ has made many converts, if the film'sfirst week box office total is any indication. Opening on fivenine-major-cities screens, the film earned $457,987 for a screen average of$91,579 -- topping the number one The Haunted ...
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HUNGARY 13 May
Hugh Jackman's Monster flickwas unrivalled last weekend at the Hungarian box office after being released ona strong thirty-three prints by distributor UIP-Duna Film although not quitematching the results of the director's previous works, The Mummy and TheMummy Returns. The film managed over 45,000 admissions which,along with thepre-screening results means the ...
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D.E.B.S., The Notebook bookend 6th CineVegas Film Festival
ScreenGems' comedy D.E.B.S. about an all-girl crime-fighting unit willopen the 6th annual CineVegas Film Festival, which runs in Las Vegasfrom Jun 11-19 and closes with New Line's epic romance The Notebook.JackpotPremieres for titles without a US distributor include world premieres of ChrisFisher's Hollywood Hills thriller Hillside Strangler, MitchellAltieri's dark coming-of-age ...
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Media 8 bankrolls Binder's Town
Media 8 Entertainment is to fully finance Man AboutTown, the next picture from its Upside Of Anger director MikeBinder, which will star Ben Affleck as a Hollywood talent agent,Binder is the actor and director behind TV series Mind Of TheMarried Man, cult film Sex Monster and Anger which stars JoanAllen ...
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Media 8 bankrolls Binder's Town
Media 8 Entertainment is to fully finance Man AboutTown, the next picture from its Upside Of Anger director MikeBinder, which will star Ben Affleck as a Hollywood talent agent,Binder is the actor and director behind TV series Mind Of TheMarried Man, cult film Sex Monster and Anger which stars JoanAllen ...
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Weinsteins in talks with Disney to buy Fahrenheit 911
In a dramaticand not entirely unforeseen twist to the Fahrenheit 911 debacle, Miramax Films' Bob and HarveyWeinstein were last night holding talks with the Walt Disney Company topersonally buy Michael Moore's terrorism documentary.Spokespeople forboth Disney and its subsidiary Miramax confirmed the parties were innegotiations but stressed the deal was incomplete.Controversyerupted ...
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Weinsteins in talks with Disney to buy Fahrenheit 911
In a dramaticand not entirely unforeseen twist to the Fahrenheit 911 debacle, Miramax Films' Bob and HarveyWeinstein were last night holding talks with the Walt Disney Company topersonally buy Michael Moore's terrorism documentary.Spokespeople forboth Disney and its subsidiary Miramax confirmed the parties were innegotiations but stressed the deal was incomplete.Controversyerupted ...
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Troy prepares to lay siege to global box office
Troy is the odds-on favourite to lay siege tothe global box office this weekend as the Warner Bros epic opens in 47countries on an undisclosed number of screens.Wolfgang Petersen's picture is the second near day-and-daterelease of the international summer season following the impressive $50m-plusbow ofUniversal's Van Helsing through UIP last ...
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NBC Universal merger is complete
NBC completed its acquisition of Vivendi Universal's entertainment assets earlier today (12) in NewYork as the companies merged to create NBC Universal, the latest mediaconglomerate with expected 2005 revenues of $15bn.The new companyhas a mind-boggling range of cross-promotional opportunities with assetsincluding Universal Pictures, NBC Network, seven cable channels including USAand ...
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Thunderbirds
Dir. Jonathan Frakes. US. 2004. 90 min.Thunderbirds, the 1960s UK television series starring action-hero marionettes and model rockets, has been given the big-screen, live-action tween treatment, and the result is a bouncing colourful kid-friendly romp. That it is entirely unrecognisable from the series is beside the point. It's a triumph ...
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Foley has Pacino for 88 Minutes
Avi Lerner's Millenium Filmsand Randall Emmett and George Furla's Emmett/Furla Films have unveiled theirlatest picture 88 Minutes, a contemporary thriller to be directed byJames Foley with his Glengarry Glen Ross star Al Pacino attached tostar.Scripted by Gary ScottThompson (The Fast And The Furious), the film is budgeted at under $30mand ...
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Last minute addition to Cannes competition
An eleventh-hour addition tothe Cannes competition line-up was announced Wednesday, just hours before thecurtain was set to go up on the opening ceremony.Jonathan Nossiter's Mondovinowill be screened in competition on Friday May 14, festival artistic directorThierry Fremaux announced Wednesday morning. The film is an investigativedocumentary about winemaking that spans three ...
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Last minute addition to Cannes competition
An eleventh-hour addition tothe Cannes competition line-up was announced Wednesday, just hours before thecurtain was set to go up on the opening ceremony.Jonathan Nossiter's Mondovinowill be screened in competition on Friday May 14, festival artistic directorThierry Fremaux announced Wednesday morning. The film is an investigativedocumentary about winemaking that spans three ...
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German cinema admissions plunge
2.4m fewer tickets were soldat German cinemas in the first three months of 2004 compared to the previousyear, according to statistics collated by the German Federal Film Board (FFA).The Berlin-based institutionreported that box-office takings fell year-on-year by 9% to Euros 213.1m andadmissions by 6.2% to 37m, the lowest tally since ...
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Carlyle, Anderson come of age with The Mighty Celt
Robert Carlyle and GillianAnderson are being lined up to star in The Mighty Celt, a coming of age talebased at Robert Walpole and Paddy Breathnach's Irish company TreasureEntertainment.BBC Films, The Irish Film Board and the NorthernIreland Film & Television Commission are to bankroll the production, whichis set to shoot in ...
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Carlyle, Anderson come of age with The Mighty Celt
Robert Carlyle and GillianAnderson are being lined up to star in The Mighty Celt, a coming of age talebased at Robert Walpole and Paddy Breathnach's Irish company TreasureEntertainment.BBC Films and the NorthernIreland Film & Television Commission are to bankroll the production, whichis set to shoot in Northern Ireland this month. ...
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Entertainment falls for Alibi as UK buyers pounce
EntertainmentFilm Distributors has boarded Summit Entertainment's The Alibi as the UKshows strong signs of buying across all budget ranges.Entertainment hastaken the UK on the contemporary thriller, which stars Steve Coogan and RebeccaRomijn-Stamos. Having previously bought Summit's Around The World In EightyDays, also starring Coogan, the Greens' powerhouse will be now ...
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Aligator measures up with Salazar's Centimetres
New Spanish productioncompany Aligator is prepping its first feature film: Ramon Salazar's follow-upto 2001 Berlin screener Stones, the provocatively titled 20Centimetres.Former Alquimia Cinema headof international relations Iker Monfort launched Aligator earlier this yearwith the goal of making and co-producing two to three films per year.Salazar's 20 Centimetres(20 Centimetros) is a ...
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Aligator measures up with Salazar's Centimetres
New Spanish productioncompany Aligator is prepping its first feature film: Ramon Salazar's follow-upto 2001 Berlin screener Stones, the provocatively titled 20Centimetres.Former Alquimia Cinema headof international relations Iker Monfort launched Aligator earlier this yearwith the goal of making and co-producing two to three films per year.Salazar's 20 Centimetres(20 Centimetros) is a ...
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Movision, Invicta team for all-star Pushers
Joan Allen, Claire Danes,Kathy Bates, Brenda Blethyn and Maggie Smith will head the cast of JimmySmallhorne's second feature film Pushers Needed which is being financedby Movision, Invicta and The Irish Film Board. Arclight Films is handling saleshere.The film, which is describedin the vein of The Full Monty and Calendar Girls, ...