All Screen articles in 22 July 2004
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Spider-Man 2 goes all-out in western Europe...
Riding high on $126m ininternational ticket sales, Spider-Man 2 is expected to continue its storming early run with huge bows in threemajor European markets this weekend.The comic book sequel openedthrough Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) in France on915 screens on Jul 14 and goes out in Spain the same ...
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Ferretti hired to revamp Venice's Palazzo del Cinema
The Venice Biennale is revamping the front of its historicPalazzo del Cinema to give it a glitzy new look for the upcoming 61st VeniceFilm Festival (Sept 1-11, 2004).Biennale president Davide Croff has hired world-renown setdesigner Dante Ferretti (Gangs of New York, Cold Mountain, The Aviator) to work on the Palazzo's ...
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ContentFilm takes UK rights to Pawlikowski's Love
ContentFilm has acquired UK rights to My Summer Of Love, the second film from award-winning director PawelPawlikowski (The Last Resort).The acquisition is the first to be made by ContentFilm plcsince their recent takeover of Winchester Entertainment.Produced by Tanya Seghatchian (Harry Potter) and Chris Collins (Tomorrow La Scala,Last Resort), My Summer ...
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Montreal gives a new look to film market
The MontrealInternational Film Market is putting a new spin on trade shows.The nine-daymarket, which coincides with the Montreal World Film Festival, is abandoningthe trade-booth format of traditional markets to focus on an increased numberof meet-and-greet cocktails and enhanced meeting areas.In a statement,market director Gilles Beriault said the changes would give ...
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I, Robot
Dir: Alex Proyas.2004. USA.Will Smithreturns to what he does best - kicking ass in summer popcorn movies- in the high-tech thriller I, Robot, a workmanlike sci-fi/action hybrid from dystopiandarling Alex Proyas that fuses the burgeoning artificial intelligence industrywith homeland security concerns, proposing a nightmarish scenario ofenlightened robots running amok through ...
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Strong showing for UK box office in first half of 2004
The first six months of theatricalbusiness in the UK saw a 5% rise year-on-year thanks largely to a stellarperformance in June. Box office revenues compiled by Nielsen EDI showUK/Ireland figures stood at $728.5m (£393.02m) as of July 1, up from $691.8m (£373.2m)for the same period last year.The launch of Harry ...
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Babelsberg workforce protest at takeover
Studio Babelsberg's workforce has appealed toFederal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to intervene following this week'sdecision by Vivendi Universal to sell the production centre to a German groupof investors.In an Open Letter delivered to Schroeder on Thursdayafternoon, works committee chairman Jans-Peter Schmarje described the choice ofthe group led by Carl Woebcken and ...
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...and has a blockbusting first day on release in France
Spider-Man 2 attracted 112,902 visitors on its firstday (Wed, July 14) of projection in Paris and its suburbs, according to itsdistributor, Columbia.The film beat thehalf-million mark in France with 502,494 tickets sold, without sneak previews.880 copies of the Sam Raimi film were distributed, 52 of them in Paris. Reviewshave been ...
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Bodrov readies Genghis Kahn epic
Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov is set to begin shooting hisnew film Mongol (The Early Years of Genghis Khan) this autumn. Thedirector of the Oscar nominated Prisoner Of The Caucuses is also actingas co-producer alongside Sergei Selyanov, head of the St Petersburg based STVFilm.Bodrov has teamed up again with scriptwriter Arif ...
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Dungeons & Dragons II rolls into Lithuania
Principal photography on thethird production from the Studio Hamburg WorldWide Pictures (WWP) fund, Dungeons& Dragons II: The Elemental Might, is scheduled to begin in Vilnius,Lithuania, on July 26.Zink Entertainment, adivision of Joel Silver's Silver Pictures, which produced the first film basedon the internationally popular role-playing game, is acting as the ...
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Giffoni unveils youthful line-up
David Carradine, Ben Kingsley, Ken Loach and actress MariaGrazia Cucinotta are among the guests who will attend the 34th edition of theGiffoni Film Festival (July 17-24), one of the leading festivals in the worlddedicated to youth-themed films.The festival's competition line-up includes Maria Full ofGrace, Les Choristes, The Wooden Camera, Chilean ...
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Thirst, Or share top Jerusalem prize
Cannes Critics' Week winners Thirst (Atash) by Tawfik Abou Wael and Keren Yedaya's Or both shared the top prize for bestIsraeli film at the 21st Jerusalem Film Festival.The awards for best actor and actress went to twowell-established veterans, each of them starring in two films screening atJerusalem. Ronit Alkabetz played ...
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HONG KONG 19 July
Johnnie To action drama ThrowDown opened in third position with a respectable US$628,172 from 33screens, but was no match for Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkabanwhich grossed more than US$2m in its opening week.Produced by To's MilkywayImage for China Star Entertainment, Throw Down tells the story of aretired judo ...
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The Bourne Supremacy
Dir: Paul Greengrass. US. 2004. 109 mins.Two years ago, it was indie director Doug Liman who turned Robert Ludlumadaptation The Bourne Identity into a surprise summer hit forUniversal. Now British director Paul Greengrass, who previously made festivalprize-winning docudrama Bloody Sunday, gets his chance for a mainstreamUS breakthrough with sequel The ...
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EMI buys into Hong Kong's Golden Harvest
EMI Group, the world'sthird-largest music company, plans to buy a stake in Hong Kong film maker anddistributor Golden Harvest Entertainment.Golden Harvest said in astatement on Monday it wants to raise US$4.9m (HK$38m) via the issue of 155million new shares to Typhoon Music (PRC) Ltd. which is jointly owned by EMIGroup ...
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Smith delivers the goods for Fox with I, Robot
It takes an army of robots and a mega-star to beat Spider-Manthese days, and 20th Century Fox's I, Robot did just that at the weekend, consigningthe arachnid to second place as it opened top on a mighty estimated $52.3m.Meanwhile Spidey passed $300m on the 19th day of release - the ...
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Will Smith works wonders for Fox with I,Robot
It takes an army of robots and a mega-star to beat Spider-Manthese days, and 20th Century Fox's I, Robot did just that at the weekend, consigningthe arachnid to second place as it opened top on a mighty estimated $52.3m.Meanwhile Spidey passed $300m on the 19th day of release the 2002 ...
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EC proposes Euros 1bn for MEDIA budget
The European Commission (EC) has adopted the plan for a newMEDIA Programme - entitled MEDIA 2007 - to run from January 1 2007 to 31December 2013 with a proposed budget of Euros 1.055bn, up from the currentProgramme's Euro 493m.In the seven-year budget breakdown, Euros 318m would beallocated for the improvement ...
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Spider-Man 2 spins worldwide web of $500m
Spider-Man 2 passed $200m on its 19th day as it added $62.3m on 9,400 printsin 61 countries for an estimated $200.1m - the biggest weekend of all time for Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI).Despite a very warm weekend across most parts of northern Europe,there were 10 number one bows led ...
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Oz funding body gets proactive about scripts
In a challenge to Australia's filmmaker-is-kingculture, state agency the Pacific Film and Television Commission (PFTC) istesting a couple of US people for the job of in-house development executive.PFTC head of production Henry Tefay is looking for someonewho understands cinematic storytelling and reaching audiences, could well takeexecutive producer credits on projects ...