All Screen articles in 21 April 2003
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Johnny English laughs its way to $20m opening weekend
A wideday-and-date international launch for UIP/Working Title's JohnnyEnglish has paid off with a massive $19.98m recorded over the weekend (April 11-13)from the 22 territories that received the spy spoof. Deliberately placed a week prior toEaster, the Peter Howitt-directed film firmly addressedfamily audiences and took the number one spot in ...
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It's Raining Cows (Piovono Mucche)
Dir: Luca Vendruscolo. Italy. 2003. 95 mins.Films about the disabled tend to fall into two camps: either they are 'you can do it!' Hollywood schmaltz-fests; or so rigidly worthy and politically correct that they end up boring the audience. This little Italian gem, however, which mixes able-bodied and handicapped actors, ...
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Ghosts has strong domestic opening on 97 screens
WaldenMedia's IMAX 3-D Titanic documentary Ghosts Of The Abyss grossed more than $1.4m over the weekendthrough domestic distributor Buena Vista, a terrific result for the largescreen format that averaged $14,520 on 97 screens.Devised and shotby James Cameron, who directed the all-time highest grossing film Titanic, Ghosts Of The Abyss follows ...
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Melvin, Devils win prizes at Avignon/New York Fest
Bob Odenkirk's MelvinGoes to Dinner was named BestAmerican Feature and Christophe Ruggia's Les Diables (The Devils) Best French Feature at the 9th Avignon/New York Film Festival, whichended yesterday with an awards gala at (Apr 13) at New York University's Cantor Film Centre.The week-long festivalfeatured eight American and nine French features ...
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Simoes tops Columbia TriStar Italy
Paulo Simoes hasbeen promoted to general manager of Columbia TriStar Films (CTF), Italy, basedin Rome, senior executive vice president of Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI) Mark Zucker announced today (Apr 15).For the past twoyears, Simoes served as theatrical manager for CTF Italy, where he was involvedin the record-breaking opening of ...
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TLA creates new US home for foreign-language pictures
SergioBianchi's sardonic political comedy Chronically Unfeasible, Shion Sono's Japanesemystery-comedy Suicide Club and Manuel Gomez Pereira's steamy Spanish thriller BetweenYour Legs are among themajor festival films that will feature in a new video series launched today byTLA Releasing in the domestic market.The year-round programme will see a new title released onDVD ...
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Scott wins plot of land at Taos Film Festival
Campbell Scottcollected perhaps the most eccentric prize on the film festival circuit overthe weekend when his second solo feature Off The Map won five acres of New Mexico land at theninth Taos Talking Picture Film Festival's award gala.Chosen by thejury for its 'inventiveness and passion', the drama focuses on theeffect ...
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La Caja 507 wins Cognac festival main prize
The 21st edition of the Cognac Festival of Film Policier closed Sunday night with Enrique Urbizu's La Caja 507 taking the grand prize. The Spanish film, which was nominated for two Goyas in 2002, also scored wins with the International Critics' Prize, the Special Police Prize - an award voted ...
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More sex please, we're British
There is a distinctly saucy atmosphere in the country which spawned the Carry On films and The Full Monty, with two cheeky British comedies starting shooting and a third tipped to become a hit when it opens later this year.UK distributor Helkon SK and Angad Paul, one of the financiers ...
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Proposed new German film law comes under increasing fire
The draft German Film Law has drawn further criticism from four film industry trade associations and a group of independent producers. The home entertainment trade body, the exhibitors association, the multiplexes' association and the arthouse cinemas' guild described the bill as "inconsistent, half-baked and not acting in solidarity".And while they ...
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Danish director scores production hat trick
The Danish Film Institute has put writer-director Jesper W. Nielsen (pictured) in a highly unusual situation for a Danish filmmaker. With its $792,700 (DKR 5.5m) backing for his new comedy Don't You Know John Lennon (working title), Nielsen will have had a new film released three years in a row. ...
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Mulher Policia wins top European Film Festival prize
The 4th European Film Festival in Lecce, Southern Italy, awarded its top Ulivo d'Oro competition prize to Portuguese director Joaquim Sapinho's Mulher Policia. The Portuguese-Spanish-French production, which won Euros 5,000, tells the story of a young widow who helps her troubled teenage son run away from the police.The Reunion, a ...
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Cannes main jury line-up announced
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the make-up of the main jury for this year's edition. As reported by Screendaily last week, Indian actress Aishwarya Rai has been confirmed along with American actress Meg Ryan, French actress Karin Viard and French actor and elder-statesman Jean Rochefort. Also on the panel ...
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Rod Stoneman to step down as CEO of the Irish Film Board
Rod Stoneman, CEO of the Irish Film Board, is stepping down to take up the position of director at the newly-established Huston School of Film and Digital Media at the National University of Ireland Galway.The Huston School has been established by NUIG in tribute to John Huston and with the ...
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Bulletproof Monk
Dir: Paul Hunter. US. 2003. 104mins. Hollywood's latest attempt to infuse a familiar genre with added youth appeal casts Hong Kong legend Chow Yun-Fat in a slight but pleasantly breezy East-meets-West martial arts adventure leavened with odd couple comedy. To hardcore Chow fans - who have been waiting more than ...
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Fear And Trembling (Stupeur Et Tremblements)
Dir: Alain Corneau. France. 2003. 107mins.An unusual French take on life in the Japanese workplace, Stupeur Et Tremblements (literally Fear And Trembling) is a tightly-executed social drama with a vein of absurdist humour discretely buried beneath the surface. The film, which by some accounts only just missed out on a ...
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What A Girl Wants
Dir: Dennie Gordon. US. 2003. 95mins. Although the trailers made it look like another trashy teen flick, What A Girl Wants surprisingly possesses a degree of class. The fairy-tale story of a Brooklyn teenager who runs away to England to discover her aristocratic dad recalls Disney smash The Princess Diaries ...
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Manhattan takes North America to Off The Map
ManhattanPictures International has acquired all North American rights to CampbellScott's drama Off The Map, which received its world premiere at Sundance and only days agowon the top prize at Taos Talking Picture Film Festival. A theatrical releaseis planned later this year.Negotiations between Manhattan's Paul Cohen and George VanBuskirk, president of ...
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Chartier quits Vortex to head up Arclight US office
Nicolas Chartier- the co-founder of Vortex Pictures and former sales and acquisitionsexecutive at Myriad Pictures - has left Vortex to head up the US officefor Arclight Films.Chartier, whoseappointment became effective yesterday (Apr 15), will oversee all sales andacquisitions activities and will serve as the point person between Arclight,partner Spice Factory ...
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Miramax celebrates its biggest hit ever
Chicago, the winner of six Academy Awardsincluding one for best picture, became the highest grossing film in MiramaxFilms' 24-year history last night (Apr 14) after it passed $157.1m at thedomestic box office.Themusical's record running total overtook Miramax's previous best of$157m set in 2000 by Scary Movie, which came out under ...