All Screen articles in 10 June 2004 – Page 2
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Media Asia goes for Singapore listing
Through a listing inSingapore, Hong Kong film outfit Media Asia is going for an initial publicoffering in July in a bid to raise $11.7m (S$20m).'The fund raised through theIPO will be used to increase our film output as well as to make movies withhefty budgets,' said executive director and production ...
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New lobby group attacks UK film archive plans
A withering attack has been launched on UK Government-backedplans to restructure the National Film and Television Archive (NFTVA). In astrongly worded document entitled "An Impending National Catastrophe: TheFate Of Britain's Film Heritage," a new lobbying organisation, theCuratori Lucis Group, has accused the UK Film Council and the British FilmInstitute (the ...
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Global anti-piracy trailer debuts in Australia
An anti-piracy trailer that likens illegally downloadingmovies from the Internet with othercrimes such as stealing cars and television sets and snatching handbags, waslaunched today in Australia by Attorney-General Philip Ruddock.The content and style seemed to meet the approval ofdelegates at the 8th annual conference of the Cinema Owners Association ofAustralia ...
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Allen trades Manhattan for London
Woody Allen is travelling to London to direct his next, asyet untitled, feature film.Based out of Ealing Studios, Allen will reportedly startshooting on July 12 for seven weeks in London.Allen rarely shoots his films outside the US, and it isthought to be the first time that he has come to ...
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Berney to give keynote address at AFMA production conference
Newmarket Filmspresident Bob Berney will give the opening keynote address at AFMA's upcomingsixth annual production conference in Los Angeles on Jun 17.The industryevent will feature two panels entitled Getting It Done: Producing Against AllOdds and What Will It Take to Bring Production Back to the US'Panellists include Lions Gate Entertainment ...
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Korean melodrama puts wind up Potter
A South Koreanmelodrama is giving Harry Potter a run for its money. For while The Prisoner Of Azkaban was theundisputed champion at the international box office over the weekend, taking$87m-plus, new release Windstruck achieved a better screen average of$11,190 against Potter's $11,060.Directedby Kwak Jae-yong and starring Jun Ji-hyun and Jang ...
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Hong Kong's Filmart goes multimedia
Multimedia convergence will be the major theme at thisyear's Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (Filmart), which takesplace June 23-25.Theeight-year-old market, organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council(TDC), aims to expand its exhibitor base with new media companies and provide aplatform for cross media collaboration.Three conferences will be ...
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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
Dir:Xan Cassavetes. US. 2004. 120minsXanCassavetes' slightly uneven labour of love, Z Channel: A MagnificentObsession, is, at two hours, much too long for its own good but isnevertheless compulsively watchable, especially for people who love the movies.As such, while its commercial prospects may be slim, it should be of primeinterest to ...
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The Ordeal (Calvaire)
Dir: Fabrice du Welz. Fr-Bel-Lux. 2004. 90mins.Callinga film The Ordeal is surely asking for trouble, and this unforgivingexercise in Belgian Gothic is undeniably a rough ride for the faint of heart.However, anyone receptive to macabre psycho-horror with a distinct streak ofblack humour will find much to relish.Pitchedbetween Euro art-thriller and ...
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Baeres wouldn't put a production auditor on Franchise movies, says Williamson
While charging his employees for office coffee, IntertainmentLicensing CEO Rudiger "Barry" Baeres spurned repeated requests to put aproduction auditor on film sets where the budgets were being fraudulentlypumped for tens of millions of dollars, said his former co-managing director ina federal courtroom Tuesday in Santa Ana, California.On the day both ...
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Ambitious New York digital outfit Madstone shuts down
New York-basedentertainment company Madstone has shut down operations, according to reports.A statementissued by Madstone earlier this week said: 'The company was not able toachieve its business goals.'Goldman Sachspartner Chip Seelig and distribution veteran Tom Gruenberg founded the group in1999.Exhibition armMadstone Theaters has closed down its leased arthouse theatres in Albuquerque,Cary, ...
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GERMANY 9 June
Unsurprisingly, the third instalment of the Harry Potterfranchise had the best opening weekend of the year so far. Launched with 1,204prints, the film posted the sixth best-ever opening weekend and the best everopening outside of the months of November and December.Askaban's 2m-plusadmissions (including Wednesday evening screenings) were, however, some way ...
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ROMANIA 9 June
WhileTroy and The Day After Tomorrow are still top of the Romanian box officechart, new release 50 First Datesmade a strong entry and joined the leading pack after managing a healthy 6,500admissions on five prints.TheSandler-Barrymore comedy was the only new release to make an impact. The rest,including Sylvia and the ...
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Shochiku names Sakomoto as new president
Junichi Sakomoto has been appointed president of Shochiku,one of Japan's Big Three film companies, with interests in production,distribution and exhibition.Formerly vice president, Sakomoto replaces Nobuyoshi Otani,who served as president since emerging victorious in a boardroom coup in 1998.The grandson of Shochiku mega-producer Shiro Kido, who ranthe studio during its postwar ...
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Market for on-demand film surges worldwide
Morethan 100 million homes worldwide now buy on-demand films, according to a newreport.InformaMedia Group's On-Demand TV - ThirdEdition forecasts that this number will triple to 327 million homes by2010, or about a third of the world's total TV households.Thesehomes will generate revenues of $12bn. This compares with 91 million homes ...
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Berlinale calls on film-makers to shoot football films
The Berlinale Talent Campus has launched a shortfilm competition - Shoot Goals! Shoot Movies! - for film-makers toillustrate their passion for the game of football as well as the fans and theculture it generates in their respective countries.According to the guidelines of the competition,submissions in either dramatic, documentary or animated ...
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Sony unveils 4k digital cinema projection system
Sony Electronics last week unveiled a new digital cinemaprojection system - offering four times the resolution of the current projectordeveloped by market leader Texas Instruments.The move by Sony comes at a time when the industry isincreasingly embracing the need for new technology, both in a bid to counterrampant piracy and ...
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Punisher takes $1.9m from openings in eight territories for CTFDI
The Punisher, the latest in a growing line of Marvel Comicsadaptations, grossed $1.9m on 600 screens in eight territories in its firstinternational outings at the weekend.Released through ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), the vigilante saga took$913,000 on 350 in Spain and $601,000 on 145 in Australia.Latest cumulative totalsreleased by CTFDI ...
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Five
Dir:Abbas Kiarostami. Fr-Iran, 2003. 74minsHavingtaken his own cinema lessons to heart (see Screen International's reviewof 10 On Ten), Abbas Kiarostamihere reaches the logical conclusion, going for the most esoteric, minimalistcinema imaginable, consisting of just five long static shots taken with adigital camera, no actors, no script, no story and no ...
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THINKFilm buys wine documentary Mondovino
THINKFilm has acquired NorthAmerican rights to Jonathan Nossiter's Cannes competition entry Mondovino, a documentary about the conflict between artisansand commerce in the contemporary wine-making world.The company said it isreadying a re-edited version for presentation during the autumn festival seasonand theatrical release. The deal also includes DVD rights to the film ...