All Screen articles in 4 February 2004
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Russia's exhibition sector set for rapid growth
The exhibition sector in Russia is set to grow once again this year driven by a box office that has been increasing by 80% a year over the past two or three years according to figures released by the Russian Ministry of Culture.While most of the action has been in ...
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New German media fund backs its first feature
US director Aaron Allred's thriller/love story Not A Lovestory is the first feature film project to be backed by the Babelsberg-based MPF Beteiligungs GmbH & Co Zweite KG (MPF) media fund.The production by Wanowski Brothers Filmproduktion and Doris Kirch's Blue Angel Entertainment Film Productions in co-production with EuroArts Medien and ...
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Film law, new studio to feed Hungary's international ambitions
Following the boost given to the local industry with a new film law passed in December, this September will see the opening of Hungary's most advanced film studio - which will boast Central Europe's largest sound stage.As founder and managing director Robert Szabados told Screen International the Stern Film Studio ...
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Spain's Star Line unveils 2004 slate
Spanish producer Star Line, producer of Berlin Panorama entry Bear Cub (Cachorro), is looking to repeat its two-fold production success of 2003 with its new slate for 2004.Following on the coattails of Bear Cub and the company's big-budgeted international production Carmen, Spain's third top-grossing local film last year, Star Line ...
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JAPAN
Despite opening on more screens and trailing more Academy Award nominations, Seabiscuit failed to dislodge The Last Samurai from its number one slot on the Japanese nine-major-cities chart, which it has occupied for eight straight weeks.Its $43,122 screen average was not only about half that of the Tom Cruise starrer, ...
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HUNGARY
Nimrod Antal's Control and Tamas Sas' Dad Goes Nuts (Apam Beajulna) got another push at the Hungarian box office with the extra attention both received at the annual Hungarian Film Week running between January 27 and February 3.The only new release making the top ten list was The Rock and ...
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Sarasota jury launches emerging Florida film-makers' fund
In an unusual move the juryat this year's sixth Annual Sarasota Film Festival elected not to handout prizes for best narrative and documentary and instead ploughed the moneyback into the creation of an emerging Florida film-makers' fund.'After much discussion,we felt that the best contribution we could make was not to ...
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BVI readies independent French distribution venture
Less than a week after it emerged that Buena VistaInternational's joint distribution venture with French studio Gaumont wasending, the distributor announced it will open an independent office in Francethis summer to handle all Walt Disney Studios films in the territory.Buena Vista International (France) will be headed up inParis by Jean-Francois ...
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BELGIUM
Algerian-born French director Alain Chabat scored another hit in Belgium last weekend with French comedy RRRrrrr!!!Released by Cineart in Belgium the film was unable to dethrone Warner Bros' Last Samurai, landing second place in the chart with $347,133 over the five-day weekend. However, RRRrrrr!!!'s take came from just 23 screens ...
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Awards and festival invitations galore for Attila Janisch film
The new feature by Attila Janisch was the big winner at last night's awards' ceremony that closed the 35th edition of the Hungarian Film Week.His film, After The Day Before received the jury's main prize as well as awards for best cinematography going to Gabor Medvigy, best actor for Tibor ...
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NORTH AMERICA
Opening on $3.3m in unlucky 13th place was Warner Bros' crime caper The Big Bounce. It was a deeply disappointing bow for George Armitage's Elmore Leonard adaptation, which stars Owen Wilson and Morgan Freeman, and this was matched by a slew of poor write-ups.It averaged $1,448 from 2,304 and the ...
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USA Video Interactive Corp named official AFM digital watermarking company
Connecticut-based internet systems specialist USA VideoInteractive Corp (USVO) has been named the official digital watermarkingcompany of the 2004 AFM, which runs in Santa Monica from Feb 25-Mar 3.The company will unveil its digital watermarking technologyMediaSentinel at a press conference on Feb 27. The software package is based onUSVO's proprietary content ...
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Akame 48 Waterfalls (Akame Shijyuyataki Shinjyumisui)
Dir: Genjiro Arato. Japan. 2003. 159minsA veteran producer of Seijun Suzuki (Zigeunerweisen, Kageroza, Yumeji) and the director of the 1995 The Girl Of The Silence, Genjiro Arato has returned to screen after an absence of eight years with Akame 48 Waterfalls, a film with Suzuki's characteristic mix of traditional Japanese ...
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Greidinger named ShoWest 2004 International Exhibitor of the Year
Moshe (Mooky) Greidinger,the chief executive officer of I T International Theatres, has been namedShoWest 2004 International Exhibitor of the Year.'Mooky Greidinger hastaken his prowess for building and operating state-of-the art theatre complexesin Israel and expanded to central Europe with great success,' ShoWest2004 co-managing director Mitch Neuhauser said in a statement.'Moviegoersin ...
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AFM 2004 gears up with 246 market premieres
The24th Annual American Film Market (AFM) will feature 246 marketpremieres and 379 films in 28 languages from 291 film and television companieswhen it takes place in Santa Monica from Feb 25-Mar 3.Announcingthe line-up at a press conference yesterday, AFMA president and chief executiveofficer Jean Prewitt and executive vice president and ...
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Northern Ireland Film Production Fund launched
The Northern Ireland Film & Television Commission (NIFTC) is inviting applications to its new Northern Ireland Film Production Fund.The NIFTC will invest between £150,000 and £600,000 up to a ceiling of 25% of the overall project costs in a live action or animated feature film or a live action or ...
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Quinta takes control of French SFX house
Majority control of Parisian special effects house Duran Duboi has officially shifted to Tarak Ben Ammar's Quinta Communication.As previously reported (ScreenDaily.com September 19, 2003), Ben Ammar stepped in to rescue Duran which had been on the brink of bankruptcy due to a downturn in the market.Good news came last week ...
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Fly creates buzz at Danish Oscars - again
Per Fly's critics and audience darling The Inheritance swept the Danish Film Academy's Robert ceremony on Sunday night taking six awards including best film, best director and best actor for Ulrich Thomsen. It also won best supporting actress and actor for veterans Ghita Noerby and Peter Steen, best music for ...
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German media funds raise Euros 1.7bn
German media funds raised Euros 1.76 bn equity from private individuals in 2003, according to a survey of 40 initiators by fund specialist Stefan Loipfinger.Michael Oehme, board member of the media funds' interest group Verband Deutscher Medienfonds (VDM), told ScreenDaily.com that these figures showed that the media funds had stabilised ...
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NEW ZEALAND
The Return Of The King continues to reign supreme at the New Zealand box office. In its seventh weekend it took NZ$384,449 from 86 screens, which was just 6% down on the previous week. As was the case last week, The Last Samurai is in second position with NZ$301,379 from ...