All Screen articles in 9 June 2001
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Shrek gives Pearl Harbor a run for its money in US
Buena Vista's Pearl Harbor clung on to the top spot at the North American box office in its second weekend with a three-day take of $30m, but was closely followed by the dazzlingly successful Shrek from DreamWorks, which in its third weekend, took $28.4m. The Michael Bay-directed blockbuster fell over ...
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Double Oscar winnner Anthony Quinn dies at 86
Two-time Academy Award winning actor Anthony Quinn died on Sunday in a Boston hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said. He was 86.Quinn, a spiky character actor who appeared in more than 100 movies, was perhaps best known for his title role in 1964's Zorba The Greek, a performance he claimed was ...
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Kimatrai to take over Fox office in Australia
Korean cinemas were besieged by a raft of new releases, but it was not the predicted winner that took the spot. Beating Blade II, was CJ Entertainment's unlikely blockbuster The Way Home. It also had a mighty impressive two-day screen average of $13,700.It is the story of a seven-year old ...
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AtomShockwave shuts up London shop
On-line film distributor AtomShockwave has confirmed that it is closing its London office as part of widespread cuts across the company only months after the on-line giant was created from the merger of AtomFilms and Shockwave.The San Francisco-based company, formed in December from the union of the two internet sites, ...
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Pearl Harbor hit at UK box office
It may have seen off the opposition comfortably, but it was not all plain sailing for Buena Vista International's (BVI) Pearl Harbor on its opening weekend in the UK, its first major international outing since its US debut a couple of weeks ago. The film, which proved critic-proof on its ...
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10 year forecast: int'l box office keeps growing
The latest ten-year outlook for the worldwide theatrical exhibition sector looks stagnant, but increasingly focused on international and developing markets. According to the 4th edition of Informa Group's survey Global Film: Exhibition & Distribution, box office revenues are set to rise by $6bn or some 36% to $24bn between 2001 ...
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Vivendi not ready to sell BSkyB stake
French media group Vivendi Universal has denied that there is any foundation to reports in the UK press that claim that the company is exploring the possibility of selling its 23% in BSkyB to institutional investors.Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier pledged late last year to dispose of the stake within two ...
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De Luca named production chief at DreamWorks
Michael De Luca has been confirmed as the new head of production at DreamWorks Pictures, ending weeks of speculation as to whether the former New Line production chief would join the DreamWorks fold. De Luca reports directly to DreamWorks Pictures co-head Walter Parkes and studio principal Jeffrey Katzenberg.De Luca takes ...
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Taurus
Dir: Alexander Sokurov. Russia. 2001.90 mins. Alexander Sokurov's examination of fallible tyranny continues. After Moloch, in which Hitler and Eva Braun conducted what was often a non-relationship at Berchtesgarden, comes Taurus, in which Lenin, crippled by a stroke, negotiates a living death in a requisitioned mansion surrounded by strangers no ...
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UK writer slams agency signing-on fees
UK novelist James Follett has launched an on-line attack on Avalon Films, accusing the British production company of using his name as "window dressing" to encourage would-be screenwriters to pay registration fees.Follett put up a warning on his own website after Avalon - which is not related to the UK ...
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JSA hits top spot in Japan
Joint Security Area (JSA), the highest grossing Korean film of 2000, debuted at number one on the Japanese box office chart following its release on May 26. Distributed jointly by Cine Quanon and Amuse Pictures, which also handled the 1999 Korean megahit Shiri, JSA enjoyed the widest release of any ...
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UIP to go solo in Poland
Casting a vote of confidence in the local market, international distribution giant United International Pictures is to go it alone in Poland. It will release films through a newly-created local arm. Among the first UIP titles to go through the wholly-owned Polish subsidiary are The Mummy Returns, Shrek, Tomb Raider ...
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Ster-Kinekor slashes SA screens by 20%
Leading South African distributor and exhibitor Ster-Kinekor is to close five multiplexes and put another four up for sale. This amounts to 20% of its cinema screens in the country. In addition, there have been job losses at head office and regional offices in order to cut costs. Cinemas in ...
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Toho moves into DVD rental
Leading Japanese distributor and exhibitor Toho is to enter the DVD rental market with the release of Ridley Scott's Hannibal on November 9. The company will join rivals Toei and Shochiku, which are already competing in the rental DVD business.The Hannibal double set will contain both the 131-minute theatrical version ...
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Optimum takes Eloge De L'Amour for UK
Independent UK distributor Optimum Releasing has picked up all UK rights on Jean Luc-Godard's Cannes competition entry Eloge De L'Amour (In Praise Of Love).Described as a meditation on the themes of memory and history, the film was sold on the Croisette this year by Wild Bunch, and was hailed as ...
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Canal Plus Group hires Parize, Jezequel
Vivendi Universal subsidiary, Canal Plus Group has appointed Isabelle Parize as chief operating officer of Canal Plus Distribution and Jean-Francois Jezequel as senior vice president, technology.Parize, who has held a variety of marketing positions within Procter & Gamble and Schwarzkopf Henkel, will be responsible for Canal Plus' distribution businesses in ...
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Steve Mertz promoted to senior vp at Warner Europe
Steve Mertz has been promoted to senior vice president, legal and business affairs, and general counsel - Europe for Warner Bros, from his previous position as vice president and general counsel - Europe.In his new post, Mertz will head Warner's European legal and business affairs department, managing the team of ...
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Chuck Speed leaves Regent, sets up consultancy
Chuck Speed, senior vice president of business affairs and finance at Regent Entertainment, is leaving the company to form his own consulting practice in entertainment finance and related matters. Stephen P Jarchow, Regent's chairman and CEO, has entered into a consulting and first look agreement with Speed, who will number ...
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George Lucas to get 11th BAFTA/LA Britannia Award
The British Academy Of Film And Television Arts Los Angeles (BAFTA/LA) will give its annual Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence In Film to George Lucas. The award will be presented during a gala event in LA on Nov 10.Since the mid-1970s, Lucas has directed and/or produced nine films on ...
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Closet, booming exhibition lift Gaumont Q1 figures
Beleaguered French major Gaumont has seen its sales jump 44% for the first quarter of 2001. This comes as a welcome reprieve for the company, which saw revenues drop 50% in the last quarter of 2000 and 15% for the full year, mostly due to the dismal box office performance ...