All Screen articles in 1 October 2004 – Page 4
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Village Roadshow admits to Catwoman loss
The lacklustre performance of Catwoman at the worldwide box office has hit its co-producerVillage Roadshow (VRL) hard.In an extraordinary statement released on Friday, theAustralian company said that the release of films in the next 12 months inwhich it is a production partner will be insufficient to cover the lossesincurred by ...
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The Village has $13.7m weekend for BVI
The Village reached $100.5m at the weekend followinga $13.7m haul from 3,870 international screens for Buena Vista International(BVI) at the weekend.A superior debutin Spain was the key driver as the mystery opened top on $5.2m on 405 screens,scoring M Night Shyamalan's biggest ever opening in the territory.The Village was the ...
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Garfield tiptoes to $100m for Fox
FoxInternational's comedy Garfield is on the cusp of $100m after a $5.5m weekend haul on 2,803international screens raised the cumulative total to $99.8m.Highlights werea third place $1.1m debut in Italy on 239 and $432,000 on 71 in South Africa.The picture heldwell in second place in its second weekend in Australia, ...
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Pollack's Heaven named as Swedish Oscar contender
Swedishwriter-director Kay Pollak's Saa Som I Himmelen (literally: As InHeaven), has been selected as Sweden's official candidate for the 2004 bestforeign language Oscar.The filmis riding high in the local box-office chart at the moment having attractedsome 350,000 admissions and has grossed $3.3m after four weeks.DistributorSonet Film has upped its number ...
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Dendy's Sarfaty new head of indie cinema group
The organisation that helped make Australia's majordistributors more accountable for how they deal with small exhibitors has a newpresident and a new name.Mark Sarfaty, head of the arthouse chain Dendy Cinemas, sayshe wants to use his new role as president to further strengthen the voluntarycode of conduct so that it ...
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Dendy's Sarfaty new head of indie cinema group
The organisation that helped make Australia's majordistributors more accountable for how they deal with small exhibitors has a newpresident and a new name.Mark Sarfaty, head of the arthouse chain Dendy Cinemas, sayshe wants to use his new role as president to further strengthen the voluntarycode of conduct so that it ...
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ICA Projects picks up UK rights to Turtles, Cafe Lumiere
ICA Projects, the distributionarm of the UK's Institute Of Contemporary Art, has moved quickly to pick up twoof the hottest films of the moment.Turtles Can Fly, the Iraqi-Kurdistani drama by Bahman Ghobadi, whichwon the top prize Golden Shell at San Sebastian, was acquired from Frenchseller Bac Films at Toronto where ...
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Warner Bros strikes ITV licensing deal
UK broadcaster ITV hassigned an exclusive licensing agreement with Warner Bros. InternationalTelevision Distribution (WBITD) for free television rights to new and libraryfeature films.Under the terms of the deal,ITV will have access to feature films from Warner Bros' 2003, 2004 and 2005theatrical slates including titles such as Harry Potter and the ...
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NY tax credit lures Producers to Brooklyn mega-studio
Mel Brooks' $45-$50m musicalrevival of his 1968 classic The Producers will become the first major film production to shoot at New York'sgigantic new Steiner Studios, the purpose-built studio backlot about to openacross 15 acres of former shipbuilding yards on the Brooklyn waterfront.Steiner owes its success inenticing the movie version of ...
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Bombon El Perro
Dir. CarlosSorin. Arg-Sp. 2004. 96mins.As spare,intimate and intentionally unglamorous as Carlos Sorin's previous film MinimalStories, Bombon, El Perro is likely to follow a similar fate: rakingin a bagful of festival awards, collecting plenty of favourable reviews andgenerating better than average business on the arthouse circuit.The film won theFIPRESCI award at ...
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Trust adds to Brothers sales success
Denmark'sTrust Film Sales notched up a raft of sales on San Sebastian doubleprize-winner Brothers (Brodere) by director Susanne Bier.Thefilm was licensed to Solo Film for Germany, Swift Productions for France,Seville Pictures for Canada, Rosebud Entertaintments for Greece, CaliforniaFilms for Brazil, AG Market for the former Yugoslavia, New World Films forSpain, ...
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ACE to debate building production businesses in UK
"Why is the UK such a difficult place to builda production business'" is the question at the heart of a one day seminar "ShowBusiness or No Business'" being organised by the Ateliers du Cinema Europeen(ACE) next month (Oct 15) in London.ACE argues that UK producers find it uniquelydifficult to retain ...
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GERMANY 28 September
Oliver Hirschbiegel's TheDownfall easily defended the top spot from new releases in its second week,increasing its box-office takings by 18% and admissions by 20% with a screenaverage of $ 10,582 from 483 prints. After ten days in the cinemas, the WorldWar II drama has been seen by more than 1.36m ...
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SWEDEN 28 September
Kay Pollak's romantic drama Saa Som I Himmelen stayed on the top of the Swedish chart, despiteseveral new releases including the highly anticipated adaptation of the localbestseller Popular Music (PopularmusikFran Vittula), which disappointed opening fifth taking just $3,607 screenaverage form its 48 prints. However, it fared batter than this week's ...
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FRANCE 28 September
StevenSpielberg's The Terminal opened infirst place this week with nearly 500,000 admissions and just ahead of The Bourne Supremacy which held on tothe number two spot in its second week for a total take to date of $5,091,174.Frenchcomedy Mensonges Et Trahisons droppedoff by 24% in its second week but stayed ...
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AUSTRALIA 28 September
A Shark Tale wasthe most popular film at the box office on the weekend taking A$2,541,304 forUIP from a substantial 310 screens. Audiences in Australia -- and New Zealand-are the first to see the animated DreamWorks title and it was helped along byschool holidays starting the day after its Thursday ...
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DENMARK 28 September
The new release of TheVillage did manage to scare up this week's best screen average ofDKK40,307, but was unable to topple Shrek2 from the top spot, which it has held for four weeks. Susanne Bier's Brothers, which took home both the bestactor and actress award from San Sebastian this weekend, ...
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NEW ZEALAND 28 September
There were two opening films in the top three on theweekend. A Shark Tale took NZ$587,383from 52 screens to claim the top spot on behalf of UIP and A Cinderella Story grossed NZ$184,805 from 35 screens for Roadshowto grab third place honours.The third film that opened over the weekend and ...
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PS and Machinist to open Woodstock FIlm Festival
Dylan Kidd's PS and Brad Anderson's The Machinist are the two opening films at theupcoming fifth annual Woodstock Film Festival, which runs from Oct 13-17 andcloses with Nicole Kassell's The Woodsman.A total of 120 films willscreen at the five-day event, which is dedicated to the memory of composerElmer Bernstein, who ...