All Screen articles in 1 September 2004 – Page 2
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Swiss films target international audiences
At the beginning of thisyear, Andrea Willson, the head of former Deutsche Columbia PicturesFilmproduktion, was recruited by the Swiss rights trader/distributor FalcomMedia Group to manage the company's expansion into German language production.The plan was for Willson toconcentrate on the development and production of feature films for the Germanspeaking area and ...
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Tartan adds five films to release slate
Prolific UK distributorTartan Films has picked up a string of films in advance of the early autumnfestival season.Titles Claire Denis's newfilm The Intruder (due to screen in Venice); Three...Extremes,the portmanteau horror picture featuring segments by Miike Takashi, Fruit Chanand Park Chan-Wook; horror pictureThe Eye 2 - the sequel/prequel to thePang ...
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Venice kicks off with star-studded opening night
The 61st Venice Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday night with ablack tie opening ceremony attended by a host of stars, followed by theout-of-competition screening of Steven Spielberg's The Terminal.Stars who walked up the red carpet included Spike Lee andScarlett Johansson, who are bothserving on the competition jury, as well ...
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Toronto programmer gets death threat for Casuistry doc
A programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival was therecipient of a death threat on Tuesday. The anonymous caller was protesting thefestival's inclusion of a feature documentary, Casuistry:The Art Of KillingA Cat, a film aboutthree Toronto visual art students who in 2001 killed a cat as part of ananti-meat art ...
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Festival programmer gets death threat for Casuistry doc
A programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival was therecipient of a death threat on Tuesday. The anonymous caller was protesting thefestival's inclusion of a feature documentary, Casuistry:The Art Of KillingA Cat, a film aboutthree Toronto visual art students who in 2001 killed a cat as part of ananti-meat art ...
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Gilliam completes key Tideland casting
Terry Gilliam has cast nineyear-old Jodelle Ferland as the star in his upcoming Tideland, alongside a cast that includes US actress JenniferTilly and Janet McTeer and Brendan Fletcher.Ferland is already somethingof veteran, having racked up a string of TV credits including KingdomHospital, Carrie and Wolf Lake since she started acting ...
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Spain, Morocco strike film accord
The governments of Spain and Morocco have signed a culturalcollaboration agreement covering sectors of the arts including cinema.The accord spans 2005-2006. Specifically for the cinemasector, the accord talks of furthering the diffusion of films from each countryand promoting professional meetings to discuss potential co-productionmechanisms.The agreement was signed in Rabat on ...
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NORWAY 2 September
Therelease of three big American films was more than the Norwegian musical This Is The Song You Need (Alt For Egil)could withstand, dropping 44% to fourth behind The Village, Garfield and Fahrenheit9/11.The newlocal release of Torun Lian's The Color OfMilk, based on her own book about a 12 year-old girl ...
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SERBIA/MONTENEGRO 2 September
Two newcomersentered the Serbian-Montenegrin market this weekend, pushing down Garfield and Shrek 2. I, Robot openedwith 4,135 tickets and $20,118, including previews for Tuck, while Pro Vision'sJersey Girl took second place with2,046 admissions and total gross of $6,830.Tuck's Garfield did sell more tickets (2,098)than Girl, but due to a significantlylower ...
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INTERNATIONAL 2 September
Over a weekend when only one film, The Village, could manage to gross over $10m at the internationalbox office, it was still a landmark period for Buena Vista International.In the week when itwas announced that BVI had achieved $1bn in international ticket sales for the10th year in a row, it ...
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Dir. Francois Ozon.France 2004. 90mins.A kind of Scenes FromA Marriage told in reverse, Francois Ozon's latest feature is a pleasant,watchable but rather unexceptional melodrama that catches wedlock gone stale atfive emblematic moments, starting with the divorce and ending with the firstencounter.Given Ozon's smoothprofessional touch and a presentable performance from lead ...
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FRANCE 2 September
The Village heldits ground to remain in first place this week and added an additional 592,805admissions. Yvan Attal's Ils Se Marierent Et Eurent Beaucoup d'Enfants openedin second place with 415,961 admissions. The film, which stars Attal and hiswife Charlotte Gainsbourg, had the strongest per screen average of the weekwith $7,517 ...
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Dir. Francois Ozon.France 2004. 90mins.A kind of Scenes FromA Marriage told in reverse, Francois Ozon's latest feature is a pleasant,watchable but rather unexceptional melodrama that catches wedlock gone stale atfive emblematic moments, starting with the divorce and ending with the firstencounter.Given Ozon's smoothprofessional touch and a presentable performance from lead ...
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Heavenly results from Passion US DVD release
The US DVD/VHSrelease of The Passion Of The Christ on Aug 31 already appears to be mirroring the picture'sremarkable theatrical release earlier this year, selling more than 2.4m unitsby lunchtime.According todistributor Fox Home Entertainment the release has bucked the trend oftraditional retail patterns, with most consumers buying an average of ...
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Newmarket takes domestic rights to three from Trust
Newmarket Filmshas acquired North American rights to a trio of Scandinavian pictures fromTrust Film Sales - Old, New, Borrowed And Blue, In Your Hands, and Daybreak.Natasha Arthy'sDanish bittersweet romantic comedy Old, New, Borrowed And Blue won the 2003 Grand Jury Award in the AFIFEST's International Feature Competition; it stars Sidse ...
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Mila From Mars delights Sarajevo
Bulgarian first-time filmmaker Sophia Zornitsa's Mila From Mars (Mila Ot Mars) was thesurprise winner of the Euros 25,000 Best Film Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival's Regional Competition, beating offopposition from the festival audience favourites of Albanian Gjergi Xhuvani's Dear Enemy (I Dashur Armik) and CroatianArsen Anton Ostojic's A Wonderful ...
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Cannes premiere Cronicas seals US deal with Palm
Palm Pictureshas picked up North American and Caribbean rights to Sebastian Cordero's Spanish-languagecrime thriller Cronicas,which is set to receive its North American premiere at Toronto after a worldpremiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.Palm plans a second quarter 2005 release followed by DVDroll-out later in the year.Cronicas centres on a ...
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Hong Kong-Chinese JV to build post-production facility
Hong Kong'sMandarin Entertainment is setting up a joint venture with China's HengdianGroup to build a film processing and post-production facility at Hengdian FilmCity in Zhejiang province near Shanghai.The US$14.5m(RMB120m) facility will provide a full range of post-production servicesincluding film processing and duplication, editing, sound mixing, subtitlingand special effects. Spread over ...
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Creep, Dead Birds lead Toronto Midnight lineup
The worldpremiere of Christopher Smith's UK-German subway thriller Creep is one of the highlights of 10 titlesset to screen in the 17th Midnight Madness programme at the TorontoInternational Film Festival.Franka Potentestars as a drowsy commuter who takes the last train of the night into aterrifying maze of catacombs where she ...
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Creep, Dead Birds lead Midnight line-up
The worldpremiere of Christopher Smith's UK-German subway thriller Creep is one of the highlights of 10 titlesset to screen in the 17th Midnight Madness programme at the TorontoInternational Film Festival.Franka Potentestars as a drowsy commuter who takes the last train of the night into aterrifying maze of catacombs where she ...
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