All Screen articles in 26 December 2006
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Leading Finnish and Baltics exhibitor enters digital age
Finland's and the Baltics' leading exhibitor Finnkino has entered the digital era with Finnish director Raimo O Niemi's family feature Mystery Of The Wolf.The film was shown on a Barco 2K projector at Helsinki's Tennispalatsi, the company's 14-screener in the capital centre. The theatre's second-largest auditorium, with 360 seats, has ...
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Argentinian admissions fall but ticket price rises boost box office
Cinema attendance figures in Argentina dropped by an estimated 1.6% in 2006. The period saw 35.4 million admissions as opposed to 36 million in 2005. However, total box office gross was 20% up from last year because of continued rise in the average ticket price from $ 2.3 to 3.1. ...
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Night At The Museum dominates holiday box office
Fox'sfamily film Night At The Museum stamped its mark on the box office in the penultimate releaseslot of the year with an estimated $43m four-day holiday season haul including $2.3m from 72 IMAX theatres thatproved far too strong for the competition.The weekend didn't only belong to Ben Stiller and his ...
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Casino Royale crowned biggest Bond ever
Eragon and Casino Royale enjoyed the lion's share of international businessover the holiday weekend as Fox International's fantasy adventure dominated themarket and Sony's 007 saga became the biggest in the franchise.Eragon added an estimated $21.9mfrom 7,300 screens over three days for a $63.9m running total. The film openedtop in Paris ...
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Latin American box office shows strong recovery
The Latin American box office enjoyed a 2006 bounceback after the previous year's downturn, according to Dodona Research.Brazil, Peru and Colombia are forecast to be the fastest-growing markets. The analyst says the recovery could prove paticularly significant as the region hopes to enter a period of sustained growth.Brazil, for ...
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Bangkok International Film Festival postponed until July
The 2007 BangkokInternational Film Festival (BKKIFF), scheduled to start on January 26, hasbeen postponed until July, according to Chattan Kunjara Na Ayudhya, co-festivaldirector and Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT)'s international publicrelations director.The decision to delay theevent came after 'a potential cinema venue [decided] not to proceed withfurther discussions with TAT ...
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Gabriel Byrne chairs New York Irish Cultural Centre
Irish actor Gabriel Byrne has accepted the Irish Arts Minister's invitation to chair a working group to establish a permanent Irish Cultural Centre in New York. The working group will be made up of representatives of the Irish/Irish-American business community who will also advise the Irish Government on the enhancement ...
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Berlinale Panorama slot for Banderas
Antonio Banderas' second film as a director, the Spanish-language Summer Rain, will receive a 'Panorama Special' screening in the Berlinale.Co-producer and sales company Sogecine-Sogepaq confirmed the invitation, which will follow on Rain's screening in the Premieres section of Sundance.Rain (El Camino De Los Ingleses) stars a cast of up-and-coming young ...
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Czechs approve new money for filmmakers
Czech President Vaclav Klaus has signed into law a 2007 budget amendment which adds $4.8m (CZK 100m) to state aid for Czech filmmakers, raising the total value of the State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography to $7.6m for next year.The state fund provides money for the ...
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Kaminski's Christmas tale Hania to wrap in January
Two-time Oscar winner Janusz Kaminski hopes to wrap production on Polish-language Christmas drama Hania in January, for a planned release next year.The director, best known for his work on Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, is in the midst of a 30-day shoot on locations in and around ...
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Mortimer replaces Morton on cast of Transsiberian
Emily Mortimer has signed on to take the place of an injured Samantha Morton in the cast of Brad Anderson's Transsiberian, now shooting for Spain's Filmax Entertainment.According to a statement released by Filmax, Morton was injured in an accident in her London home and will resume her production schedule in ...
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Rise in Competition entries gives Berlinale welcome problem
The Berlinale's selectors are spoilt for choice for the line-up of the 2007 Competition thanks to the festival's increasing popularity with film-makers from around the globe.Speaking to ScreenDaily, festival director Dieter Kosslick said: 'There are many more films which are wanting to come to Berlin this year. There is a ...
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Rotterdam adds five to Tiger Awards Competition
The Rotterdam International Film Festival has added five new titles to its Tiger Awards Competition and announced that Abderrahmane Sissako and Johnnie To will be the 36th festival's film-makers in focus.La Marea, by Belguim's Diego Martinez Vignatti; Fourteen, by Hirosue Hiromasa; Die Unerzogenen, by Pia Marais; Does It Hurt' The ...
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Cannes Residence selects participants for 14th edition
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the names of the latest group of participants for the 14th session of the Cannes Residence.Director Laurent Cantet presided over a jury which chose six directors from 140 submissions. The next session will run from March 1 to July 15, 2007 and will see ...
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International rollouts slow for Xmas weekend
With much of the world busy preparing for Christmasfestivities there are only scattered international openings for US studio filmsthis weekend. South Korea, Italy and Germany get most of the action. Fox International's Night At The Museum is the solestudio film getting its first major-territory launch. A day before its releasein ...
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Chairman of EMI joins Vue
EMI chairman Eric Nicoli has been appointed as non-executive chairman of Vue Entertainment with immediate effect.Nicoli will work closely with Vue CEO Tim Richards to facilitate the company's continued growth in the UK and Ireland, including the opening of an additional 10 new state-of-the-art multiplexes over the next two to ...
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Maltes plans movie for comic book hero Captain Thunder
Young Spanish production house Maltes Producciones has taken a three-year option on rights to popular local comic book series Captain Thunder and is developing a $30-40m (Euros 25-30m) English-language feature.Under the working title The Adventures Of Captain Thunder, Maltes founder Pau Vergara says he aims to follow the production model ...
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Miss Potter
Dir: Chris Noonan. UK-US. 2006. 93mins.A period feature about a popular children's writer enduring a traumatic life, Chris Noonan's Miss Potter may follow in the footsteps of Shadowlands (about CS Lewis) and Marc Forster's Finding Neverland (about JM Barrie), but it lacks the emotional depth of either. Very handsomely crafted, ...
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Toronto critics bow to The Queen
Toronto's filmcritics showed their former colonial colours this year by heaping awards on TheQueen. The Englishfavourite won Best Picture, Peter Morgan won for Best Screenplay, Helen Mirrenfor Best Female Performance and Michael Sheen for Best Supporting MalePerformance (as British prime minister Tony Blair) while Stephen Frears tiedfor Best Director alongside ...