All Screen articles in 1 July 2004 – Page 2
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Restored classic, period piece are toast of Sydney
The 85-year-old Australian silent film The SentimentalBloke, directed by prolific pioneer filmmaker Raymond Longford, anddirector Ondrej Trojan's Czech Republic/Austria/Slovakia period film Zelarywere the audience favourites at the Sydney Film Festival's two key venues.The festival wrapped on Saturday June 26 and organisers saythat the 132,500 admissions represented a 9% increase on ...
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Germany sees box office revival
Germany's box office has made a welcome recovery since Mayafter a year-on-year decline in admissions and revenues for the first quarterof 2004, according to EDI Nielsen.In April, EDI reported that admissions were down 6.4% fromlast year's 37.58m to 35.18m in the first three months, while revenues slipped8.6% from Euros 225.68m ...
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Niehuus named executive director at German funding body
Berlin-Brandenburg production community has welcomed thenaming of Kirsten Niehuus as the executive director with responsibility forfilm funding at Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (the public fund which supportedKevin Spacey's Beyond The Sea andHans Weingartner's The Edukators.last year) from November 1, 2004.A qualified lawyer, Niehuus previously served as legalcounsel at Senator Film and the ...
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LA-based Blacklight Films launches stock footage library
Industry veteran LouisSchwartzberg, whose directorial debut America's Heart And Soul is due to go on limited release through Buena Vistaon Jul 2, has launched a stock footage library within his production companyBlackLight Films.The new resource includesmore than 4,500 scenes of natural beauty and indigenous peoples from around theworld, including 350 ...
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IFP/New York moves Gotham Awards to Dec
IFP/New York has moved tobolster the awards season credibility of its annual Gotham Awards by switchingthe gala date from September to December and introducing two new awards.The 14th Annual GothamAwards will take place on Dec 1, when for the first time awards will bepresented for best feature and best documentary.In ...
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Tokyo film fest announces major new prize
Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, director general of the TokyoInternational Film Festival, has announced the launch of the Akira KurosawaPrize, to be awarded for the first time at this year's 17th TIFF (October 23 -31).The prize, worth US $100,000, will be given to anoutstanding director or producer, Japanese or foreign. An internationalcommittee of ...
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Buena Vista embarks on Japanese animation
Fuji TV has announced the production of a major animatedfeature based on Brave Story, afantasy novel by Miyuki Miyabe that has sold 420,000 copies since publicationin March of 2003.The production company will be Gonzo Digimation, ananimation house responsible for several hit TV series, including Hellsing and Gantz, as well as ...
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Castle Hill takes Kiss to North America from The Works
UK-based sales agency The Works has sold all North American rights to Ken Loach's Ae Fond Kiss to US indie Castle Hill Productions.Castle Hill, which most recently handled What Alice Found, Pipe Dream and The Next Big Thing, plans a November release in two or three cinemas in New York, ...
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Allen cast grows as UK production activity swells
Brian Cox, Matthew Goode and James Nesbitt have joined the cast of Woody Allen's upcoming UK film.The trio will appear alongside Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers when principal photography starts July 12th on location in and around London.Financial partners in the film include BBC Films, Magic Hour Media, ...
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Sword In The Moon
Dir. Kim Eui-Suk. Korea.2003. 100mins.Dark, bloody and brutal, Kim Eui-Suk's martial artsextravaganza, released in Korea last July to lukewarm response, played in UnCertain Regard at Cannes in the hope of catching second wind with a differenttype of audience. But its grim, humourless disposition is unlikely to gain itmany new friends.The ...
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The Door In The Floor
Dir: Tod Williams. US.2004. 111mins.In his first film sincehis promising 1998 debut The Adventures Of Sebastian Cole, Tod Williamsdelivers a solid and compelling adaptation of the first third of John Irving'snovel A Widow For One Year. Blending Irving's tendency to absurdism witha painful evocation of suppressed grief, The Door In ...
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Film director Lee replaced as Korean culture minister
Film director Lee Chang-dong (Oasis), who has served as South Korea's Minister ofCulture and Tourism since February 2003, was replaced on Wednesday in a cabinetreshuffle.The move, which was widely expected, sees Chung Dong-chaetake over leadership of the Ministry.The 50-year old Chung worked as a journalist for many years beforeserving as ...
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UK censor appoints successor to Duval
UK censor the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)has named David Cooke as its new director.He will take up the post in September when the currentdirector, Robin Duval, retires.Cooke is currently Associate Political Director at theNorthern Ireland Office and has a wide experience of regulatory policy andpractice in broadcasting, drugs, ...
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Day After Tomorrow flies past $300m for Fox
The Day After Tomorrow has reached $302.7m at the international box officeafter adding $13.7m from 6,447 screens in 56 territories through FoxInternational at the weekend.Roland Emmerich'seco-disaster picture added $2.7m in its fourth weekend in Japan for a $34.6mcumulative score and second place behind the record opening of Harry PotterAnd The ...
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UK/IRELAND 30 June
Although six new titles made the UK top 20 this weekend thereal star was Shrek 2 despite being aweek from launch. The animated sequel raked in $10m (£5.5m) of previews overSaturday and Sunday which will be included in next week's opening weekendgross.The presence of Shrek2 had a devastating effect on ...
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NORTH AMERICA 30 June
There must have been much pulling of hair and gnashing ofteeth at the neophyte right-wing outfit Move America Forward this weekfollowing the stunning number one opening of Fahrenheit 9/11. The conservative activists' were left with egg ontheir faces after a spectacularly ill-judged strategy unwittingly helpedMichael Moore and the "coalition of ...
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Sony, IMAX to remaster Spider-Man 2 for large screen format
IMAX Corp and Sony are in talks to digitally remaster and convert Spider-Man2 for the big screenformat, with a release scheduled for mid-July.If the deal is truck, this would be the first time the studio haspartnered with IMAX Corp, which teamed up with Warner Bros on the last two Matrix ...
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Lions Gate reports $94.2m loss
Lions Gate Entertainment recorded a $94.2m net loss for the fiscalyear ended March 31 2004 compared to $1.1m net income a year before, due inlarge part to the costly acquisition of Artisan and marketing expenses on aslew of fourth quarter releases.Revenue for the year amounted to $384.9m compared to $293.1m ...
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Roaring start for France's Fete du Cinema
France's 20thannual Fete du Cinema promotion got off to a roaring start on Sunday with arecord score of 1.5 million admissions - up 60% over last year's first daytake.In Paris, 315,000 tickets were soldrepresenting the best opening day in the past decade. Despite beautiful weatheracross the entire country, moviegoers came ...
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Ansorge joins Anglo-Indian outfit Inspired Movies
Peter Ansorge, former head of dramaat UK broadcaster Channel Four, has joined Inspired Movies as commissioning editor/executiveproducer in charge of new film projects.Inspired Movies, an Anglo-Indian companybased in the U.K., is currently in production with Take 3 Girls, itsfirst English language film, starring Charlie Brooks (in her first role sinceleaving ...