All Screen articles in 2 March 2005

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  • News

    Shochiku named ShoWest Exhibitor of the Year

    2005-03-02T04:00:00Z

    Shochiku has been named International Exhibitor of the Yearby ShoWest, the first Japanese distributor and exhibitor to win the award sincethe event launched in 1996. Shochiku president Junichi "Jay" Sakomoto willreceive the award at the ShoWest convention in Las Vegas on March 14. A leading exhibitor in Japan, Shochiku operates ...

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    Spanish producers spread their film budget bets

    2005-03-02T04:00:00Z

    A contradictory trend is at work in Spain: the country ismaking increasingly more low-budget films, yet production cranks up this monthon two of its costliest features ever, Viggo Mortensen-starrer Alatristeand Vicente Aranda's The White Knight.Average feature film budgets decreased in Spain last yearand almost two-thirds of films were budgeted at ...

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    German public funds back Cinelink co-production market

    2005-03-02T04:00:00Z

    German public regional funds Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung(MDM) and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg are to serve as partners at thisyear's CineLink co-production market during the Sarajevo Film Festival (August19-27)."Last year, we had a similar agreement with the Vienna FilmFund and Austrian Film Institute who brought over a dozen producers to meetwith their opposite numbers ...

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    Australian newcomer buys Shortbus, Dumplings

    2005-03-02T04:00:00Z

    Australiantheatrical newcomer Accent Film Entertainment has acquired both Shortbus,which is still in pre-production, and Dumplings, from Fortissimo FilmSales. "Hedwig And TheAngry Inch was such a wonderful film that we were very keen to jump onboard director John Cameron Mitchell's new film Shortbus aboutrelationships in New York post-9/11," said general manager ...

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    South Australia offers production incentive

    2005-03-02T04:00:00Z

    South Australia is soon to offer producers a new incentiveto shoot in the state - a 10% rebate on the cost of local cast and crew,including post-production personnel.South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) chief executiveHelen Leake told Screendaily.com that the initiative is being introducedon a trial basis and is capped at ...

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    IMAX gets Batman Begins at the same time as 35mm

    2005-03-02T04:00:00Z

    IMAX Corporation and WarnerBros have announced that Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins will be simultaneously released to IMAX andconventional 35mm cinemas on June 17, 2005. It will be the eighth Warnerfilm to undergo IMAX's DMR digitalremastering process. Warner will be the exclusive distributor of the film toIMAX cinemas worldwide."Moviegoers love ...

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    Ledoyen, Livingston head up cast of Holly shooting in Cambodia

    2005-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Guy Moshe's adventure drama Holly has begun production in Cambodia,starring Virginie Ledoyen, Udo Kier, Ron Livingston, Chris Penn, Thai starKovitt Wattanakul and Vietnamese newcomer Thuy Nguyen.The story centres on a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl's desperatesearch for her family and the 35-year-old American man who helps her in herquest.Moshe co-wrote thescreenplay with ...

  • Reviews

    Look Both Ways

    2005-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Dir/scr: Sarah Watt.Aust. 2004. 100minsShrewdly commissioned bythe Adelaide Film Festival's own Investment Fund, writer-director Sarah Watt'sthoughtful and sobering debut made a big impression at the 2005 festival'sopening night, as might be expected.But this strong hometownreception should not detract from Look Both Ways many qualities. Whilearthouse prospects at home are excellent ...

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    Howl set to pass Spirited Away at int'l box office

    2005-03-02T00:00:00Z

    With a paltry 12% loss week-on-week Japanese animated smash Howl'sMoving Castle passed the $200m mark at the international box office overthe weekend. Over $170m of this has come from Japan with strong support fromSouth Korea and France.After seven weeks in France 1.2 million people have seen thefilm providing an $9m ...

  • Reviews

    Game 6

    2005-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Dir. Michael Hoffman. US.2005. 87mins.Despite an engagingperformance by Michael Keaton, this dramatic comedy lacks an emotional heft tomatch its sophisticated premise and milieu. Exploring the existential crisis ofa Broadway playwright and baseball fanatic, Game 6 goes to interestingplaces but never gels as a whole. Screening at Sundance in the Premieressection ...

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    ITALY 2 March

    2005-03-02T00:00:00Z

    UIP's Shark Tale ripped into the box office at numberone in Italy, in one of its last international releases.The animation feature, whose Italian release comes fivemonths after its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, grossed $3,945,692from 401 screens for an excellent screen average of $9,840.Warner Bros's Constantine also performed ...

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    GERMANY 2 March

    2005-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Meet TheFockers onlyfaltered slightly on its second weekend, but was still far ahead of the fieldwith a gross that was more than the next two releases combined - Constantineand The Wild Soccer Bunch 2 . The Ben Stiller-Robert de Niro comedy'stotal gross of $ 12.4m makes the UIP release the ...

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    UK/IRELAND 2 March

    2005-03-02T00:00:00Z

    There was no hiding from Robert De Niro at the UK box officethis week as 20th Century Fox's horror title Hide And Seek ended MeetThe Fockers' four week reign atop the chart.Hide And Seek saw a strong debut taking $3.1m (£1.6m)from 345 sites for a $8,852 location average. These figures ...

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    DVRs were the hottest consumer electronics product in US in 04, says report

    2005-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Digital video recorders experienced more national growth than anyother consumer electronics product in the US in 2004, according to new researchby home entertainment and technology tracker Centris.DVRs gained 119% in household penetration to 6.5million US households,compared to an 83% growth in the number of portable DVD players to 20.5millionhouseholds, 44% ...

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    Veer Zara, Hum Tum top India's Oscars

    2005-03-01T04:00:00Z

    Shahrukh Khan and Rani Mukherjee bagged the best actor andbest actress award for their role in Swades and Hum Tumrespectively at the 50th Filmfare awards (Indian Oscars) in Mumbai on Saturday.Rani also bagged the best actress in a supporting role for the film VeerZara. Yashraj Film's Veer Zara, was awarded ...

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    German media funds still tilt heavily to Hollywood

    2005-03-01T04:00:00Z

    German media funds raised Euros 1.5bn from private investorslast year, 15% less than 2003's total of Euros 1.76bn, according to a marketanalysis by fund specialist Stefan Loipfinger's Fondstelegramm.For the first time this year, the analysis showed where theGerman private equity was being invested and fuelled the criticism that themedia funds ...

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    UK plans multiple co-production treaties

    2005-03-01T04:00:00Z

    The UK is to strike co-production treaties with SouthAfrica, China, India, Jamaica and Morocco, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowellannounced on Monday.The treaties will be developed with each country overthe next 18 months. Jowell recently signed a statement of intent with the SouthAfrican Minister for Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan."More than 27 ...

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    Copenhagen kids festival gets new director

    2005-03-01T04:00:00Z

    Dionysos ReitsKerasiotis is to take over as director of the Copenhagen InternationalChildrens Film Festival, 'Buster', from the sixth edition in September.Kerasiotis will replace outgoing director Ane Skak. After five years,the festival is showing impressive attendance figures. In 2004, 18.000 admissions were sold for a total of139 screenings over just a ...

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    International network of casting directors launched

    2005-03-01T04:00:00Z

    Fifteen feature film casting directors from seven countrieshave founded the International Network of Casting Directors (INCD).The idea for an informal international network was floatedduring a meeting of casting directors during European Film Promotion's ShootingStars event at the Berlinale. Until now, casting directors have only been organised innational associations, but INCD ...

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    Italy's Buskin opens co-production outfit in China

    2005-03-01T04:00:00Z

    BuskinFilm, the Rome-based sales outfit, has opened an office in Beijing with the aimof co-producing projects and getting involved in product placement andservicing for international productions shooting in China. Buskinis already co-producing a project for China's CCTV with Beijing Xin Ying ShiCulture. The 20-part drama is the third instalment of ...