All Screen articles in 22 October 2004
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Team America disappoints for Paramount while Shark Tale floats at the top
DreamWorks' Shark Tale remained the one to beat as it extended its rule to a thirdconsecutive weekend and passed $100m with ease, drowning the aspirations ofParamount's marionette satire Team America and Miramax's romantic comedy remake Shall We Dance'Shark Taleadded an estimated $22.1m for a $118.8m running total, whileUniversal/Imagine's Friday Night ...
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R-rated Team America fails to sink family favourite Shark Tale
DreamWorks' Shark Tale remained the one to beat as it extended its rule to a thirdconsecutive weekend and passed $100m with ease, drowning the aspirations ofParamount's marionette satire Team America and Miramax's romantic comedy remake Shall We Dance'Shark Taleadded an estimated $22.1m for a $118.8m running total, whileUniversal/Imagine's Friday Night ...
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Charming Girl wins top Pusan prize
Korean feature This Charming Girl took home the top prize in the PusanInternational Film Festival's New Currents section for first and second-timeAsian directors.The film by LeeYun-ki is a restrained portrait of a socially isolated woman who works in asmall post office. Probably the most well-received among a small handful ofKorean ...
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FRANCE 18 October
Seven newfilms broke into the top twenty this week led by Gaumont's L'Enquete Corse, starring Gerard Depardieu and Christian Claver.The film took 679,754 admissions for an average of $9,477 per screen.Resident Evil: Apocalypse landed in the number 2 spot with atake of just over $3m. Michael Mann's Collateralfought off other ...
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AUSTRALIA 18 October
It is highly unusual to see the first three spots in the top20 chart occupied by openers but that is exactly what happened on the four-dayweekend to October 17. And there were no other new faces in the chart.Leading the charge was the Collateral, starring Australia's one-time adopted son Tom ...
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NEW ZEALAND 18 October
Homegrown film In MyFather's Den sold less tickets than the previous weekend but still managedto jump up from third to second spot in the chart. It took NZ$152,273 from 22screens, or 17.6% less than the previous NZ$184,793, but this was the lowestdrop shown by any film in the chart.At the ...
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SWEDEN 18 October
Though catering to younger audiences and offering completelydifferent thrills, the new release of teenage horror flic Drowning Ghost from hitmaker Mikael Haafstroem (Evil) failed to usurp As In Heaven from the top of the Swedishchart.Instead it was last week's other local release, family film Max & Josef - Double Trouble, ...
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9 Songs clears UK and Irish censors uncut
UK censorthe BBFC has passed Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs uncut and has awardedit an '18' certificate for cinema release.Meanwhile, sources in the Irish distribution trade havetold ScreenDaily.com that the Irish Film Censor, John Kelleher, has alsopassed 9 Songs uncut and given it an '18' certificate.The film,which includes images of explicit, ...
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Shochiku launches animation division
Shochiku, a major Japanesefilm company with interests in production, distribution and exhibition, hasannounced the launch of a new division to produce animated features and TVshows.Headed by General Manager ofFilmed Entertainment Ichiro Seki, the division plans to release its firstfeature in 2005. Director, budget and story have yet to be announced. ...
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Archbishop wins Eurimages funding
Zoltan Kamondi's TheArchbishop's Visit has received Euros 430,000 in funding from support bodyEurimages.The film is a Hungarian, Italian andRomanian co-production between Honeymood Films/Focus Film, Gam Film and MediaPro Pictures. Its full budget runs to $4.4m.Set construction is already underway inRomania with principal photography scheduled to start in November and tocontinue ...
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Cafe Lumiere (Kohi Jikou)
Dir:Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Japan. 2004. 92mins.One of the most consistently interesting of Far Easternarthouse directors, Hou Hsiao-Hsien has a dedicated following on the festivalcircuit and a tiny film-buff fanbase in the real world. It's telling that not asingle Region 2 DVD of any of the Taiwanese director's films is currentlyavailable on ...
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Curtis, Morgernstern set for Holocaust tale
Hollywood legendTony Curtis and Maia Morgenstern are to star in Atlantic Alliance Pictures andHeritage Pictures' Holocaust story Love Is A Survivor.Directed by byPhilip Saville, production is set to begin February 15, 2005 in Budapest,Hungary.Love Is ASurvivor is billed as amajor holocaust film with a love story as its central theme. ...
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Sheffield Documentary fest to open with Tiger King
TheSheffield International Documentary Festival (Nov 8 -14) is to open with DavidFlamholc's House Of The Tiger King.Thedocumentary follows explorer Tahir Shah and a group of mismatched companions asthey search for Paititi, the Inca's lost city of gold.Otherfilms in the festivals 75 strong line-up include Darwin's Nightmare,which investigates the link between ...
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Netflix postpones foreign expansion plans
Online DVD rental pioneerNetflix has postponed plans to launch in the UK and Canada to concentrateinstead on its US business.The move comes as Netflixfaces increasing competition on its home turf from Blockbuster's new onlinerental service and from the expected entry of Amazon.com into renting DVDs bymail.It is understood thatNetflix had ...
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Gong Li stars with Kidman in Wong Kar-wai's next film
NicoleKidman confirmed this weekend that she is teaming with Hong Kong auteurdirector Wong Kar-wai on his next project The Lady From Shanghai and that she will be joined in the film by Chinesestar Gong Li.Indeed,said Kidman, Gong has already shot her part in the film, and Wong took justfive weeks ...
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Nobody wins Grand Prize at Ghent
During the 31st edition of the Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent, the film Nobody Knows (Daremo Shiranai) by Japanese filmmaker Kore-EdaHirozaku, who has already achieved international recognition with After Life, was awarded the Grand Prizefor Best Film, which carries an award of Euros 25,000 towards distribution.The international jury announced ...
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Infection/Premonition (Kansen/Yogen)
Infection Dir: MasayukiOchiai. Jap. 2004. 98mins.PremonitionDir: Norio Tsuruta. Jap. 2004. 95 mins.In January 1998 twohorror films, both based on novels by Koji Suzuki, were released as a doublebill in Japan. The Ring (in Japanese: Ringu) and The Spiral (Rasen)became hits: the former especially launched the worldwide "J Horror" boom and ...
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Bourne adds another $2.3m to cross $80m for Universal/UIP
Universal's spy sequel The Bourne Supremacy added an estimated $2.3m on 1,200screens in 31 territories through UIP at the weekend to raise its internationalrunning total to $80.4m.The picture opened in five territories including South Africa andthere are 10 to go including Germany next weekend.There were no debuts for Universal/Working Title's ...
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Lucas to receive 33rd AFI Life Achievement Award
George Lucas will receivethe 33rd AFI Life Achievement Award at a ceremony in Los Angeles in June 2005,one month after the global release of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge OfThe Sith."George Lucas is a masterstoryteller, but he is first and foremost a moving image pioneer," AFI board oftrustees chair ...
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White Chicks adds $4.5m for CTFDI, second in UK, fifth in Spain
Revolution Studios' comedy White Chicks added an estimated $4.5m throughColumbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) at the weekend on1,685 screens in 21 markets for a $16.3m running total through all distributorsand $15.9m through CTFDI.The highlights were a second place debut in the UK behind SharkTale on $1.6m on 340screens, and ...