All Screen articles in 10 June 2003 – Page 4
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Admissions flatten in Canada at start of new millennium
After a growthspurt in the late 1990s, film attendance in Canada has flattened in 2000-2001,according to a survey from Statistics Canada. The nation'scinemas, including drive-ins, saw 119.6 million admissions, a 41-year-high butan increase of only 3% from the previous year. In 1998, attendance soared by14%, part of a nine-year trend ...
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Beckham scores with $60m worldwide gross
British hit BendIt Like Beckham has surpassed$60m in worldwide revenues with plenty more theatre time before the finalwhistle. Last weekend its North American gross surpassed its UK gross after 12weeks on release and it is still playing in the top ten.Gurinder Chadha'ssoccer comedy, which is distributed in the US by ...
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Dir: Peter Greenaway. UK-Neth-Sp-Lux-Hung-It-Ger-Russ. 2003. 126mins.Peter Greenaway's new trilogy The Tulse Luper Suitcases is merely the central element in a sprawling archipelago of a multi-media body of work. The project will take in film, TV, books, the internet and no less than 92 DVDs, each devoted to one of the ...
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Munich unveils new regional focus strand
New films from Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia will be shown in a new regional focus at this year's Munich Film Festival (June 28-July 5) alongside the event's traditional platforms for French cinema - Nouveau Cinema Francais - and Latin American cinematography - Visiones Latinamericanas. In addition, three Tributes will ...
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Film students dupe Czech public for documentary
A group of students at Prague's FAMU film academy have pulled off one of the most audacious stunts in the country's short history. The hundreds of people who made the journey to the Prague suburb of Letnany for the grand opening of giant new superstore were outraged when they discovered ...
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Edinburgh film festival to hold Clouzot retrospective
French master of suspense Henri-Georges Clouzot is the subject of a comprehensive retrospective at the 57th Edinburgh International Film Festival (August 13-24). Running in conjunction with the National Film Theatre in London, the retrospective salutes a director whose body of work is among the most influential in European cinema. Dogged ...
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Cabbages & Queens set to roll in London
Recently-launched tax financier UKFS and sales agent AV Pictures have boarded Cabbages & Queens, a comedy drama set in the London theatre world starring Keri Russell (pictured), Nathan Lane, Darren Boyd, Emilia Fox, Greg Wise, Simon Callow, Joss Ackland and Brian Blessed.Principal photography is scheduled to start June 30th in ...
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Polish film-maker wins PLANET award
Poland's Bartek Konopka has been selected from among 100 young filmmakers from all over the world as this year's winner of the treatment contest for the PLANET Documentary Film Prize 2004.In Konopka's project Goat Walker, the audience learns from the perspective of female goat about a recent measure to combat ...
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Gabriele Roethemeyer named artistic director at Stuttgart
Gabriele Roethemeyer, chief executive of Baden-Wuerttemberg's regional fund Medien- und Filmgesellschaft (MFG ), has been appointed artistic director for the Film- und Medienfestival GmbH (FMF) which organises the Stuttgart Ludwigsburg European Filmfest (July 10-15), European Short Film (September 10-15), the Stuttgart Internatonal Festival of Animated Film, and the fmx conference ...
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Nowhere In Africa gets somewhere in America
German Oscar winner Nowhere In Africa (Nirgendwo In Afrika) has become the highest grossing subtitled film in North America this year, overtaking City Of God (Cidade De Deus).Caroline Link's drama, which won the best foreign language picture award at this year's Oscars in March, took $219,608 last weekend from 75 ...
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Digital advertising far outstrips digital screenings
According to a new report from Screen Digest the use of digital technology for pre-film advertising far outstrips full-on electronic cinema.Eight different exhibition chains, operating in five continents have digitised more than 2,750 cinema screens with low-cost networked projector solutions. This number is set to double by year-end 2003, says ...
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Documentary film-maker gets Norway's Aamot award
Norway's coveted Aamot Award, given by local film distribution professionals and cinema managers, has been bestowed on Margreth Olin, one of the country's most respected documentary filmmakers. The prize was handed out by jury president Linn Ullmann at the annual FILM&KINO meeting in capital Oslo. 'Margreth Olin has had an ...
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Spain's Dygra starts work on major 3D animated feature
Spanish animation studio Dygra Films is preparing an ambitious 3D digital animated feature, A Midsummer Night's Dream (El Sueno De Una Noche De San Juan).The project marks the company's follow-up to hit The Living Forest (El Bosque Animado), Spain's tenth top-grossing local film in 2001 and second highest-selling video of ...
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Cinecitta lines up workshops for US film students
The Cinecitta Studios inRome will host three film-making workshops this summer in association with LosAngeles' USC school of Cinema-Television, to run from Jul 7-Aug 15.The credited courses willcover aspects of production, the links between Italian and American cinema andscreenwriting. This is the second consecutive year that Cinecitta is stagingthe course.Students ...
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Blanchett, Beckinsale ready to board The Aviator
Cate Blanchett is innegotiations to play Katharine Hepburn and Kate Beckinsale is in talks to playAva Gardner in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator which is set to start shooting next month. Theywould join Leonardo DiCaprio who will play Howard Hughes in the film which is budgeted at a reported$100m.Other actors who ...
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Wrong Turn
Dir: Rob Schmidt. US-Ger. 2003. 83 mins.Even in the hands of a studio distributor, retro horror flick Wrong Turn, produced by creature effects maestro Stan Winston, had a lukewarm reception at the US box office, taking $5m from 1,615 sites for an average of $3,102. Now co-producers Summit Entertainment and ...
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The Italian Job
Dir: F Gary Gray. US. 2003. 111 mins.A stylish, well-paced caper film always find a home, and The Italian Job fits the billing. Certainly in the US it has proved itself at the box office, opening to a strong $19.3m from 2,633 sites for a robust average of $7,330. Given ...
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Zarpas joins Evolution Management to build production slate
Former Scott Free co-president Chris Zarpas was today (Jun 4)named manager of management and independent production company EvolutionManagement.Zarpas will focus on Evolution's writer and director client baseand help develop the company's production slate.He most recently had an overall producing deal with televisionstudio New Dominion Pictures and prior to that was ...
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Where Is Madame Catherine' (Les Mains Buides)
Dir: Marc Recha. Spain-France. 2003. 126mins.Les Mains Buides (literally "empty hands" in Catalan but evocatively translated as Where Is Madame Catherine') does not represent a major departure from Marc Recha's previous effort, the mixed-reviewed 2001 Cannes competition contender Pau And His Brother. However, this Un Certain Regard entry should appease ...
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Banks move in on Kirch after Saban bid collapses
US investor Haim Saban's planned Euros 2bn takeover of bankrupt KirchMedia is off.In a joint declaration, KirchMedia's insolvency administrator and the Saban Capital Group "agreed to amicably annul the concluded contracts on the sale of the majority of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG and the sale of the film rights trade."At the ...
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