All Screen articles in 1 July 2004 – Page 4
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PGA Awards to take place on Jan 22, 2005
Next year's Producers Guildof America (PGA) awards will take place in Los Angeles on Jan 22, 2005.Nominations will beannounced on Jan 5 and both the nominations and awards ceremonies will takeplace at the Century plaza Hotel.For the first time next year'sevent will include the Producer of the Year in Variety ...
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Schizo (Shiza)
Dir: Guka OmarovaRuss-Kazahkstan-Fr-Ger. 2004. 90mins.Don't be fooled by themisleading English title, already used by at least two slasher pics. Kazhakfeature Schizo is a terse but gripping, elegantly crafted slice ofrealist drama, with an edge of low-life thriller. Evoking the desperate mood ofsubsistence-level life in the newly-independent Kazhakstan of the early ...
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Unknown Soldier, Tarnation win top prizes at LAFF
Ferenc Toth's Unknown Soldier won the Target Filmmaker Award for bestnarrative feature and Jonathan Caouette's Cannes hit Tarnation won the Target Documentary Award at theweekend as the tenth Los Angeles Film Festival came to a close.JoshuaMarston's Maria Full Of Grace wonthe audience award for narrative feature and Mike Wranovic's Up ...
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Hotel
Dir/scr: Jessica Hausner.Austria. 2004. 82minsHotel is the kind of shaggy dog story that might have madean effective short but feels too insubstantial and enigmatic to measure up as afull-length film. The second feature from LovelyRita writer-director Jessica Hausner is only a partially successful attemptto inject some fresh ideas into the ...
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Wax fire destroys Oz soundstage
A so-called controlled fire sequence on the set of HouseOf Wax went badly wrong on Saturday evening (June 27), sparking a blazethat destroyed one of the eight soundstages at Queensland's Warner RoadshowStudios.Aspokesperson for the film's publicist, Denis Davidson Associates, said thatthree sets and all the camera and sound equipment were ...
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Moscow awards Us raft of prizes
If any more proofwas needed of the healthy state of Russian film, last night's awards ceremonyat the 26th Moscow International Film Festival should convince anysceptics.Dmitry Meskhiyevswept the festival's top prizes winning the Golden St George for best film aswell as best director for his WWII war drama Us (Svoi) which ...
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Amenabar's Sea tipped for Venice slot
Out to Sea (Mar Adentro), Alejandro Amenabar's eagerly-anticipated follow-up to TheOthers looks set for a Venice festival slot with the news that it will openin Spain on September 3.Producer Sogecine has confirmedthat it will go to an un-named "early fall festival". The Venice InternationalFilm Festival runs from September 1-11.Out to ...
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FRANCE 28 June
The boywizard continues his reign at the top of the French box office taking nearly anadditional 1 million admissions in its third week.WarnerBros. French comedy Double Zero tookin a healthy 657,945 in its first outing. The 007 spoof had a strong per screenaverage at $7,465 per screen. Karin Viard and ...
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HONG KONG 28 June
Warner Bros' sword-and-sandals epic Troy beat local comedy SuperModel to the top of the Hong Kong box office chart grossing US$1.15m from45 screens.Super Model,directed by Vincent Kok, took second place with a respectable US$858,586 from42 screens. Produced by Abba Movies and Gold Label Entertainment, the film isthe first to star ...
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NEW ZEALAND 28 June
UIP's Mean Girlsclaimed third place in the chart this week with a gross of NZ$207,859 from 44screens for its opening weekend. But neither it nor second placed Harry Potter, came close to the mostpopular film of the four days, UIP's Shrek2, which was also a very long way ahead in ...
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Mighty weekend for Shrek 2
Shrek 2 saw anothermighty weekend for UIP as it rolled out in five new territories claiming numberone positions and records as it went.The animated sequel added $31.5m this weekend from holdoversand the new territories: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Indonesia and the UnitedArab Emirates, and has already earned $68m for UIP - ...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 makes box office history
Fahrenheit 9/11 opened top on $21.8m at the weekend according to studioestimates, a stupendous result for the Palme d'Or winner as it became the firstdocumentary ever to debut at number one.The result already appears to have passed the total theatricalgross of Michael Moore's previous work, the Oscar winning Bowling ForColumbine, ...
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9/11 beats White Chicks to the top of US box office
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 followed up its Palme d'Or triumph andcritical adulation with a stunning US box office victory at the weekend as itopened top on an estimated $21.8m.No documentary has ever opened number one here until now, and thepicture's opening salvo may already have passed the $21.6m final gross ...
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Asian CGI producer unveils US production deals
GDC Entertainment, the content development arm of Hong Kongand Singapore-based GDC Holdings, announced three collaborative ventures atFilMart on Friday.The company, which produces CGI content at its studio inShenzhen, China, has signed an agreement with LA-based producer, EnteraktionStudios, to co-produce three original CGI features with a combined budget ofUS$60m.The three features ...
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Criminal
Dir: Gregory Jacobs. US.2004. 87mins.Steven Soderbergh'slong-time first assistant director Gregory Jacobs gets a shot at being the topdog courtesy of Soderbergh's financing clout at Warner Bros with Criminal,a remake of 2000 Argentinian hit Nine Queens (Nuevas Reinas).Unfortunately, somewhere in the transfer of the sting caper from Buenos Airesto Los Angeles, ...
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Cinema Expo underlines importance of European market
Cinema Expo ended on a high note last night (June 24)with a gala dinner hosted by Walden Media, and organisers claiming successdespite a slight drop in numbers.The annualexhibition conference in Amsterdam saw 1,011 registrations, down about 80 fromlast year. Booths on the trade show floor were down about four or ...
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Critics' Week names new artistic director
The Critics' Week sidebar has announced the appointment of a new artistic director.Jean-Christophe Berion will replace outgoing chief Claire Clouzot following his election by the French Cinema Critics' Union this week.Clouzot, a film director with two credits under her belt, held the post of artistic director for the past three ...
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Allied Irish Banks hires Duffield in film finance move
Allied Irish Banks (AIB), the Republic of Ireland's largest bank, is entering film finance under former Dexia-BIL media head Gillian Duffield.Duffield is taking up thepost as head of media finance, based in London. She will focus on developing a new film financingdivision for the bank.Her appointment comes asrival Bank of ...
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The Notebook
Dir: Nick Cassavetes. US.2004. 124mins.The positioning ofwomen's tearjerker The Notebook by New Line Cinema in the heart of summer blockbuster season may be oneof the more inspired distribution decisions this year. As gentle, lush andsappy as a thousand TV movies but distinguished by sumptuous production valuesand a great cast, The ...
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Databases merge: Hollywood Media Corp buys Studio Systems
Entertainment news outlet Hollywood Media Corp has agreed to buyLos Angeles-based database and information services Studio Systems.The new company will be called Baseline StudioSystems, integratingHollywood Media Corp's Baseline/Filmtracker subsidiary with the new acquisitionto create a database of worldwide film and televisiondata.Subject to regulatory approval, the acquisition includes HollywoodMedia Corp's aggregate ...