All Screen articles in 10 June 2003 – Page 2
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Hopscotch jumps on Fahrenheit 911
Hopscotch has acquired all Australian and New Zealand rights for Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911, making it one of the first English language distributors to officially board the new documentary. Moore has already begun to examine the history of anti-American terrorism, trace the business dealings between the Bush and bin Laden ...
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Taiwan welcomes Phone Booth for Fox, X2 hits Egypt
Fox International's thriller Phone Booth opened in Taiwan over the weekend on$241,000 from 70 screens.The film ranked second in themarket and contributed to the film's $1m international haul from 407 screens.It now has a $14.5m cumulative score.Elsewhere for Fox, 28 Days Later opened number two in Germany andAustria, grossing $1.1m ...
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Gutch to launch UK Blast! film division
Former head of the Film Four Lab Robin Gutch has joined UK TV production company Blast! Films to launch a film arm.Gutch, who will sit on the company's board, will develop features and drama projects for the company. Blast! Is known for edgy documentary and docudrama fare such as Penny ...
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Game, set and match to Becker at German Lolas
Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! swept the board at the German Film Awards by picking up a record nine Lolas - seven Golden Lolas with prize-money totalling Euros 560,000 and the two Audience Awards - to add to the Lola that Becker and co-author Bernd Lichtenberg won for Best Filmed ...
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McDull excites Annecy animation festival
France's Annecy animation festival wrapped on Saturday night with highest honours going to Tony Yeun's Chinese/Hong Kong co-production My Life As McDull.The film, which will be released theatrically in France on July 2, tells the story of a pig, McDull, who lives with his mother in Hong Kong but dreams ...
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Hello America for Good Bye, Lenin!
Bavaria Film International closed a US deal with Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) for Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! ahead of its winning nine Lolas at this year's German Film Awards on Friday evening in Berlin.Commenting on the deal with SPC, which also took US distribution for Tom Tykwer's Run Lola ...
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Advertisers exploit Czech box-office bonanza
Czech hit Pupendo, combined with the local success of The Matrix Reloaded, have given a welcome boost to the Czech box office, with advertisers investing in local campaigns and sponsorship to an unprecedented degree, according to the Prague Business Journal. "Blockbusters and especially Czech movies have been motivating advertisers ...
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Italy's Pesaro festival unveils line-up for 39th edition
Italy's Pesaro Film Festival, dedicated to international independent filmmaking, has unveiled the line-up for its upcoming 39th edition, which includes such titles as Kamchatka, the critically acclaimed Argentinian film directed by Marcelo Pineyro. Starring Cecilia Roth and Ricardo Darin, Kamchatka is about a couple who are hiding out from the ...
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Revolution, Sony set Hellboy for prime summer 2004 slot
Revolution Studios announced today (Jun 6) that its comic bookadaptation Hellboywill be released through Columbia Pictures on Memorial Day 2004, a prime summer release slot in late May which has seen launchdates in the past for blockbusters from ET to the new Star Wars trilogy.Based on the Dark Horse comic ...
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Geoff Stier joins Valhalla as head of production
Veteran producerGeoff Stier has joined Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures asproducer and the company's head of production.Stier willoversee development and production of a slate of film and television projectsincluding comic book adaptation The Punisher for Artisan and super heroine project Flux for Paramount.He will reportdirectly to Valhalla chairman Hurd.'Geoff ...
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Echelon ties up with Newmark for domestic theatrical push
LA-based EchelonEntertainment has formed a domestic theatrical alliance with NewmarkEntertainment to support independent films with aggressive print andadvertising packages.The partners will start withthe offbeat comedy Nobody Knows Anything, which stars an ensemble castincluding Mike Myers, Janeane Garafalo and Virginia Madsen.Newmark/Echelon willguarantee producers full theatrical distribution along with cash for prints ...
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Reloaded breaks all-time Japanese opening record
The Matrix Reloaded scored an industry record opening of $18.5m in Japanover the weekend, including previews, as the Warner Bros sci-fi sequel raisedits international total to an estimated $300m.The remarkable Japanese bow(Yen 2.2bn) from 632 screens included the territory's biggest ever previewgross of $7.5m (Yen 892m) from advanced screenings on ...
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Anger burns up the box office with $8.4m for CTFDI
Anger Management scored a couple of record openings for stars AdamSandler and Jack Nicholson as the comedy grossed $8.4m on 3,000 internationalscreens over the weekend, raising its total to $29.1m.Opening in 18 territoriesthe highlights included a number two bow in the UK behind The MatrixReloaded, where Anger Management took $2.8m ...
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Hurricanes (Entre Ciclones)
Dir. Enrique Colina. Cuba-Sp-Fre. 2003. 122minsA strangely populist choice for the normally rarefied atmosphere of Cannes' Critics' Week, Colina's debut, a comic take on life in contemporary Cuba, has already notched up over half a million admissions in its first five weeks of release at home, according to its director, ...
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2 Fast 2 Furious smashes in at number one
Universal Pictures scoredits second number one bow in three weeks as 2 Fast 2 Furious roared to the top of the table on an estimated$52.1m.The street racing sequel wasthe only new entry to break into a top 10 that contains four $100m-plus films,two of which have grossed more than $200m.Overall ...
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France's Euripide rescued by Vision
Ailing French production house Euripide has been given a new lease on life as part of Vision Group's expansion plans. The company, which had been on the brink of bankruptcy, has been taken over by the Vision group run by Dominique Macline of Mediavision and director Stephane Loison, according to ...
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Jan van Dommelen named new president of UNIC
The Union International des Cinemas (UNIC) has announced the election of a new president made official at an annual meeting held during the Cannes Film Festival. Jan van Dommelen of the Dutch Federation will step in to replace the Belgian Federation's Guy Morlion who becomes senior vice president.UNIC is the ...
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Dutch director prepares 'Royal Scandal' project
Dutch director Frans Weisz (Charlotte, Polonaise) is planning a feature about one of the most controversial episodes in the history of the Royal Dutch family: the Greet Hofmans-incident. Greet Hofmans, a faith-healer (1894-1968) had a profound influence on Queen Juliana during the fifties . The relationship was condemned by the ...
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Japan's King Records signs deal for Shaw titles
Hong Kong's Celestial Pictures has signed a licensing agreement with Japan's King Records for distribution of more than 20 titles from its world-famous Shaw Brothers library. Among the titles included in the deal are Hong Kong Nocturne, from Japanese director Inoeu Umetsugu who joined the Shaw Brothers studios in 1967; ...
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