All Screen articles in 30 March 2004
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Nina's Tragedies to open US Israel Film Festival
Savi Gabizon's Nina'sTragedies will open the 20th annualIsrael Film Festival, the largest showcase of Israeli films in the US that runsin Los Angeles from Apr 29-May 13 and this year focuses on coming-of-agestories and the decay of the kibbutz system.All in all 37 Israelinarrative features, documentaries and shorts will screen ...
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Germany's X-Filme scores double top
Berlin production powerhouse X-Filme creative pool and its distribution arm X Verleih have been named Germany's most successful production company and distributor of 2003 when the German Federal Film Board (FFA) handed out Euros 15.9m retroactive "reference" funding.The box-office success last year of Good Bye, Lenin!, Liegen Lernen and the ...
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Gaiss promoted to director of publicity at Fox International
Martin Gaiss has beenpromoted to director of publicity at Fox International, where he will continueto devise and implement strategy and events and develop his responsibilities innew media and creative online publicity.Gaiss, whose campaigncredits include Titanic, The Full Monty, the X-Men franchise andthe upcoming The Day After Tomorrow,is based in Los ...
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Sofia Meetings develop second film projects
One of the highlights of the recent Sofia International Film Festival was a session of second films pitching as part of the Sofia Meetings.Twelve projects were invited to the event, which was attended by such decision-makers as Renate Roginas from Eurimages, The Coproduction Office's Philippe Bober, Pandora Film's Karl Baumgartner, ...
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Venice date shift expected
The Biennale is expected to hold the next edition of the Venice Film Festival from Sept 1 to 11, 2004, moving its dates back a few days from its usual slot in order to provide a more lucrative platform for Italian independent distributors to release their autumn titles. Its 2004 ...
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Santiago cleans up at Fribourg
Peruvian director Josue Mendez was the big winner at this year's Fribourg International Film Festival, picking up four awards including the International Jury's Regard D'Or for his Dias De Santiago.The Jury, under Argentine filmmaker Eliseo Subiela, unanimously recognised "the cinematographic quality of this first work as well as the actor's ...
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BVI's Bear hugs on to top spot in Spain, Germany
Buena Vista International's(BVI) Brother Bear added $10.2mat the weekend to raise its international running total to $129.8m.Key drivers in the picture'sbountiful haul were a number one $2.6m bow in Spain on 401 screens for theindustry's biggest ever spring release and the third biggest animated bow everbehind Finding Nemo and Tarzan.It ...
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Astro poised to enter China Pay-TV market
Through Celestial Pictures, its 100% owned subsidiary in Hong Kong, Malaysia's pay-TV operator Astro All Asia Networks is poised to replicate its popular Celestial Movies channel in China.According to William Pfeiffer, CEO of Celestial Pictures, the company is waiting for a decision on landing rights in China. If approved, Celestial ...
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Nowhere In Africa producer goes it alone
Peter Herrmann, producer of Caroline Link's Oscar-winning Nowhere In Africa has left MTM Medien & Television Muenchen to set up his own production outfit.The new company Peter Herrmann Filmproduktion (PHF), which plans to focus on producing German films with international financing, already has two projects in development.Herrmann acquired the ...
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50 First Dates scores big in Australian debut for CTFDI
A$2.2m number one Australian opening for Fifty First Dates was the highlight of Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International's (CTFDI) weekend.Theromantic comedy recorded the biggest ever opening in the market for AdamSandler and overall grossed $2.6m in its markets, raising its early internationalrunning total to $4.7m.PeterPan grossed $2.2m for a $50.3mindustry-wide cumulative ...
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King continues to rule, takes $5m over weekend
New Line International's TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King added $5m from 2,225 screens in 57 markets at the weekend to raise itsinternational running total to $717.9m.Combined with its $374.6mdomestic gross, The Return Of The King has racked up $1.1bn in worldwide ticketsales.The picture added $1m in ...
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Scooby Doo 2 races out of the gate with $4.1m
The family sequel Scooby-Doo2 grossed an estimated $4.1m in ninemarkets through Warner Bros Pictures International at the weekend.Highlights of the limitedday-and-date release with the US, where the picture opened top on an estimated$30.7m, included a superb $369,016 from 35 screens in Singapore (includingpreviews) and $267,285 from 105 in Sweden. Both ...
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UK/IRELAND
It was a complicated picture this weekend for the UK and Ireland chart as three films vied for the lead while BVI saw vastly different receptions for two new releases.Entertainment's Dawn Of The Dead figures included previews figures of $544,425 (£299,434) without which it would rank third over the three-day ...
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Podium
Dir: Yann Moix. 2004. France-Belgium 2004. 95 mins.A mild satire on the morbid contemporary phenomenon of pop celebrity cloning, Podium owes what energy it has to its Belgian star, Benoit Poelvoorde. Directed by Yann Moix, a former journalist who published the story as a best-selling novel in 2002, the film ...
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ITALY
Filmauro's Crimson Rivers 2: The Angels Of The Apocalypse opened at number one at the Italian box office, grossing $1,795,12, making it the second film to be released by Aurelio De Laurentiis's company in a month to reach the top four.Filmauro, which co-produced Crimson Rivers 2 (together with Studio Legende, ...
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Independent producers and MPAA settle over screeners
The Coalition of IndependentFilmmakers, IFP/Los Angeles and IFP/New York have dropped their antitrustlawsuit against the MPAA following the Hollywood lobby group's de factorevocation of the screener ban.All parties have agreed todismiss the pending Antidote Int'l Films Inc et al v MPAA litigation in aconfidential settlement.The case was originallyfiled last November ...
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Passion tops UK, thanks to extra previews
Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ launched in the UK this weekend to see churches block-booking screenings and offering tickets to interested parties for free in some areas of the country.Despite this enthusiasm the film was unable to top the UK/Ireland chart over the three-day weekend landing in second ...
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Oh Schuks, The Passion create S.A. BO bonanza
South African cinemagoers were out in force this past weekend to check out two major icons - and the result was a combined box-office bonanza.Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ had an opening weekend of $600,000 (R3,758,025) (including premieres), on 35 prints representing a print average of $16,000 (R102,229), ...
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Beta Film library sold to EOS Distribution
The insolvency administrator of KirchMedia, Michael Jaffe, has sold subsidiary Beta Film with its 15,000 hours of international film and television programmes to former Kirch Group manager Jan Mojto's rights trading operation EOS Distribution.According to Jaffe, it was "particularly pleasing that, apart from the assets, the whole company with all ...
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Beloved, Oscar-winning Ustinov dies in Switzerland aged 82
Sir Peter Ustinov, the double Oscar-winning British actor, writer,raconteur and humanitarian, has died aged 82.According to reports, Ustinov passed away on Sunday aftersuffering a heart attack at his Swiss home.Over the course of an acting career spanning seven decades heimbued a variety of roles with his trademark wit and irascible ...