All Screen articles in 19 November 2004
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Italy's Sky Cine Classics acquires Granada package
Granada International hassold a package of classic movies to newly launched Italian channel Sky CineClassics.Thirty films from GranadaInternational's British movie portfolio will be airing shortly on the newchannel, which is part of the Sky Italia platform. Classic movies, from the Korda, Rank and ITC film collections arepart of the deal ...
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Young Adam dominates Scottish BAFTAs
Young Adam dominatedthe Scottish BAFTA Awards held on Sunday, winning a clean sweep of the majorprizes.DavidMackenzie's adaptation of the Alexander Trocchi novel set in 1950s Scotland wasawarded Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress for Tilda Swinton and Best Actorfor Ewan McGregor.SergioCasci won the Screenplay award for the comedy American Cousins ...
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Hotel Rwanda books second major audience prize at AFI FEST
Having already scored the prestigious audience award at theToronto International Film Festival this year, Terry George's Hotel Rwanda won the same prize at AFI FEST, the LosAngeles International Film Festival, which wrapped up this weekend.It beat out such crowd-pleasers as A Very Long Engagement,House Of Flying Daggers, Bad Education and ...
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Seed Of Chucky
Dir:Don Mancini. US. 2004. 87mins.Poor old Jennifer Tilly. She was turned into a doll in Bride Of Chucky,the 1998 revival of the Child's Play horror franchise, and now shesuffers even worse indignities in the follow-up. It wouldn't be so bad - forTilly or the audience - if Seed of Chucky, ...
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Darwin's Nightmare, Melancholia win at CPH:DOX
The second edition of Copenhagen's international documentaryfilm festival CPH:DOX wrapped on Saturday night when it split its Euro 5,000main prize between Hubert Sauper's Austrian Darwin's Nightmare and PirjoHonkasalo's Finnish Three Rooms of Melancholia.Darwin's Nightmare show how Russian pilots fly armsto Africa and return to Europe with expensive fish, which could ...
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Polar Express opening is less than Incredibles
Pixar's The Incredibles, distributed in the US through Buena Vista, beat off thechallenge of Warner Bros' The Polar Express to stay top with an estimated $51msecond weekend haul that raised its running total to $144.1m.Polar Express, a 50/50 co-venture between Warner Bros and Steve Bing'sShangri-La Entertainment that cost $165m to ...
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Sitges unveils festival line-up
Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow, ThePhantom Of The Opera, Christopher Smith's Creep and JohnnieDepp-starrer Finding Neverland will comprise the gala screenings of theupcoming International Film Festival of Catalunya (Dec 2-11), better known asSitges.Located just outside Barcelona, Sitges plans to tie in itsclosing weekend events with the December 11 ...
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The Incredibles maintains super-hero pace
Pixar's The Incredibles, distributed in the US through Buena Vista, beat off thechallenge of Warner Bros' The Polar Express to stay top with an estimated $51msecond weekend haul that raised its running total to $144.1m.Polar Express, a 50/50 co-venture between Warner Bros and Steve Bing'sShangri-La Entertainment that cost $165m to ...
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Berlinale Talent Campus receives 2,500 applications
The third edition of the Berlinale's Talent Campus hasreceived 2,500 applications for the 500 places available at the event (Feb12-17) during next year's film festival.While the number of countries sending entries increased from101 to 104, the total number of entries was more than 25% less than last year's3,500. (The first ...
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Absolute Tangerine to start shooting at end of Nov
Principalphotography is set to begin in New York on Nov 29 on Tomax Aponte's psychologicalthriller Absolute Tangerine.Theproject features a cast of US and Latin America's Telenovela actors and starsPatricia Rae, Craig Wasson, John Heard, Gary Perez, Francisco Gattorno, Sissi,Lou Torres, and newcomer Jeremiah Sayys.Setin present day New York, the story ...
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Cineart takes Belgian rights to Jarmusch project
Belgian distributor Cineart picked up all Benelux rights forthe untitled Jim Jarmusch project that stars Bill Murray, Naomi Watts andSharon Stone.The deal was struck between Cineart's Stephan DePotter and Bac Films International's Silviere Moreau, who was handlinglimited territorial rights. In the rest of the world the film is sold by ...
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Italian prosecutor calls for Berlusconi jail sentence
Drawing an end to a four-year corruption trial, an Italianprosecutor has asked a court to sentence Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi toeight years in jail for bribing judges.Ilda Boccassini said that Berlusconi had made regularpayments to judges in Rome to help his holding company Fininvest in a corporatetakeover battle of the ...
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Bridget is big fat hit in first six territories
Universal and Working Title scored their biggest opening weekendof all time in the UK as Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason opened top through UIP on an estimated$19.1m (£10.3m) on 496 screens including previews of $5.9m (£3.3m).The record UK opening applies to US$ and pounds sterling, and beatBridget Jones's Diaryby ...
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Grant boosts Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Festival
The Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival has undergonea raft of changes for its upcoming edition (Nov 25 ˆ Dec 5) including newdirectors, increased sponsorship and an expanded line-up of gay andlesbian-themed films.Launched in 1989, the annual event is the biggest andlongest-running gay and lesbian film festival in Asia ...
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Box office success helps Constantin raises targets
German producer-distributorConstantin Film has raised its sales forecast and EBIT target for a second timethis year after the strong performance of Michael "Bully" Herbig's DreamshipSurprise - Period 1 and OliverHirschbiegel's Downfall in thecinemas in the third quarter of 2004.At the end of June, Constantin had raised its salesforecast for 2004 ...
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Fremaux names new Cannes scout for Germany
Munich-based film journalist and author Thilo Wydra has beenappointed by Cannes' artistic director Thierry Fremaux as successor toChristiane Peitz as the festival's correspondent for Germany.Wydra, who works as a freelance journalist for suchpublications as Film-echo/Filmwoche, Der Tagesspiegel and Hamburger Abendblatt, has also published several books on German andFrench cinema, including ...
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Imax strikes deal for new Russian cinema in the city of Perm
Imax Corp. hassigned an agreement to install one of its giant-screen cinemas in the Russiancity of Perm. The cinema will be part of a new multiplex.under construction forlocal exhibitor Panorama Cinemas in the one million-person city located some 1,300kilometres east of Moscow.In a statement,Imax co-chairmen and co-CEOs Richard Gelfond and ...
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Johnnie To cranks up Election drama
Hong Kong director Johnnie To has started shooting triaddrama Election - the first project inwhich his production company Milkyway Image has made an investment - andannounced that the $6.4m (HK$50m) production will be made as two films.To expects the contemporary drama, which traces a democraticelection within a triad society, to ...
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Yates in talks to direct fifth Harry Potter
Harry Potter could be in fora surprise. David Yates, an acclaimed UK TV director but largely unproven infeatures, is in talks to direct the franchise's fifth instalment, HarryPotter And The Order Of The Phoenix.Yates' TV creditsinclude political conspiracy thriller State Of Play, which won a Directors Guild of Great Britain ...
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ITV links with Video Island for online DVD service
ITV, the UK's largest commercial broadcaster, haslinked up with online DVD rental service Video Island to launch ITV MovieClub.The move sees ITV launch its own online rental service whichwill be powered by Video Island and integrated directly onto www.itv.com.The service will be launched later this year and will offerviewers across ...