All Screen articles in 10 June 2004 – Page 3
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Harry confirmed as third biggest international opener ever
Official figures released byWarner Bros put the international opening of Harry Potter And The PrisonerOf Azkaban at $113.5m from 7,885screens in 24 countries, which combines with the $93.7m domestic haul for a$207.2m worldwide opening.The international bow wasthe third biggest of all time behind The Lord Of The Rings: The Return ...
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The Hook (Je Suis Un Assassin)
Dir: ThomasVincent. France. 2004. 110minsThe moralconsequences of murder provide the basis for a solid psychological thriller in TheHook. Director-writer Thomas Vincent created a few waves with his grittycharacter piece Karnaval (1999) and this follow-up marks a move towardsmore mainstream fare.Adapted from aDonald Westlake novel, it is intriguingly set up and ...
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SWEDEN 8 June
After RolandEmmerich blew all competition down the chart last weekend, hardly anythingchanged in the top 10 this week. Though all the films placed one to six on thechart dropped some 50%, they kept their places with The Day After Tomorrow achieving the best screen average of $5,126on its high 96 ...
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FINLAND 8 June
Despite his hometerritory advantage, local boy Renny Harlin's latest US action flick Mindhunters was no match for thedominance of The Day After Tomorrowand Troy, though they dropped 45% and38%.However, RolandEmmerich's ecological disaster extravaganza retained the chart's strongestscreen average with Euros 3,412 on its 52 prints compared to Harlin's Euros1,201 on ...
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DENMARK 8 June
Despite ravereviews Jim Carrey-starrer EternalSunshine Of The Spotless Mind's 10 prints couldn't overthrow the dominanceof The Day After Tomorrow and Troy, though both films had a lowerscreen average and fell back 43% and 35% respectively.Overall it was allbut impossible to spot why this weekend's gross was up some 58% from ...
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JAPAN 8 June
The strongest opener for the week of May 29 to June 4 wasNigel Cole's Calendar Girls, whichrecorded a $36,964 average on two major cities screens.Meanwhile, the Luc Besson-produced Crimson Rivers 2 opened at number four on the nine-major-citieschart, with a $26,340 average on 16 screens.Despite a massive publicity build-up by ...
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Helen raises $1m in first international opening in Australia
The comedy Raising Helen enjoyed a decent first international foray at theweekend as it opened through Buena Vista International (BVI) in third place inAustralia on a very strong $1m on 205 screens.The distributor also opened HomeOn The Range in Colombia last week,where it scored the biggest ever bow for a ...
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Von Trier pulls out of Wagner opera project
Despite already spending more than two years onpreparations, Danish director Lars von Trier has decided to pull out of theopera production of Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Opera Festival inSouthern Germany.Von Trier's adaptation of Richard Wagner's mammoth 15hour opera cycle was meant to premiere in 2006 and would ...
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Jailbait wins top feature prize at Lake Placid Film Festival
Brett C Leonard's prison two-hander Jailbait won the best feature prize at the 2004Lake Placid Film Festival, while Gretchen Berland and Mike Majoros' Rolling won the best documentary award for itsexploration of wheelchair-bound people's fight for dignity.A special jury prize went to Brant Sersen's paintball mockumentaryBlackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story.Novelist ...
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Top Cannes titles find Hungarian home
Hungary'spremiere art house distributor Budapest Film has acquired local rights forseveral high profile Cannes titles, including Pedro Almodovar's BadEducation, EmirKusturica's Life Is A Miracle, Wong Kar Wai's 2046 and Agnes Jaoui's Look At Me.Budapest Film alsopicked up Hungarian rights to three other competition titles: Korean directorPark Chan-Wook's Old Boy, Hirokazu ...
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Dutch broadcasters pledge to boost film spend
Dutch public broadcasters have pledged to invest Euros 9m ayear on Dutch films from 2005.The money will be spent on 18 to 19 feature lengththeatrical films and six telefilms: films produced for television but with achance of a theatrical release as well.Another Euros 2.5m will remain available for so-calledtelescoop-films: 2 ...
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Chabrol's Flower to blossom with UK's CineFile
Edinburgh-based CineFile has picked up the UK rights to TheFlower Of Evil, venerable French auteurClaude Chabrol's 50th feature, and will be releasing the film next monththrough its subsidiary, CineFrance. This is the second Chabrol picture thecompany has acquired. (It also released The Colour Of Lies.)CineFileis one of an increasing number ...
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UIP box office on Van Helsing reaches $140m
Universal's Van Helsing raised its international running total by $4m through 2,600screens in 37 UIP markets to $130m, with the total from all distributors risingto $139m.The picture added $670,000 from303 in the UK after a 56% drop to rank fourth on $26.2m, and overtook the finalgrosses of Jurassic Park and ...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 to open Paris Cinema festival
The organisers of Paris Cinema unveiled plans Friday for thefestival's second run from June 30 to July 13 in the capital. Thefestival is supported by the city of Paris and organized by formerDirectors' Fortnight artistic director Marie-Pierre Macia and filmmakerCosta-Gavras.At a press conference at City Hall Friday afternoon,filmmaker Oliver Stone, ...
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Munich fest to open with Pearl Earring
Peter Webber's Oscar-nominated Girl With A Pearl Earringwill be the opening film at this year's Munich Film Festival which begins onJune 26.The eight-day festival, which is the first under the management ofAndreas Stroehl, will also include screenings in of such films as WalterSalles' The Motorcycle Diaries, Ivan Fila's King Of ...
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Woman Is The Future Of Man (La Femme Est L'avenir De L'homme)
Dir:Hong Sang-soo. S Korea/France. 2004. 88mins.Unfortunately,the best thing about Korean director Hong Sang-soo's Cannes competition film WomanIs The Future Of Man is its title, taken from the poet Aragon. The film ishandsomely mounted, and the glittery shine and tawdry dirt of contemporaryurban South Korea is always fascinating to behold, but ...
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Eisner 'willing to consider' Miramax sale
Walt Disney chief executiveMichael Eisner is willing to consider selling its Miramax division back tofounders and co-chairmen, Harvey and Bob Weinstein, according to a report yesterday in The New York Times.Quoting "close associates"and "friends and executives who have discussed the issue" with Eisner, thepaper says that the Disney chief is ...
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Canal Plus sells off Studio Expand companies
CanalPlus has sold off five companies that previously made up the lightentertainment division of its Studio Expand, TV production group.ProductionsDMD, KM and CALT are being sold back to their founders; Adventure LineProductions is being taken over by JAP, a company representing Teleimages and agroup of private investors. The fifth company ...
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Raggy Boy wins top Emden festival prize
Aisling Walsh's Song For A Raggy Boy was presented with theEuros 10,000 Bernhard Wicki Prize at this year's Emden-Aurich-Norderney FilmFestival in the north-western corner of Germany.Second and third prizes in this competition for feature films fromthe German-speaking countries and North-Western Europe went to Ben Sombogaart'sTwin Sisters and Paul Morrison's Wondrous ...
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Welcome To Switzerland (Bienvenue En Suisse)
Dir/scr:Lea Fazer. Fr-Switz. 2004. 107mins.Awould-be crowd-pleasing comedy, Lea Fazer's one-joke comedy of culturalmisunderstandings squanders a talented cast and quickly wears out its welcome.Ahighly inappropriate selection to open the Un Certain Regard section at Cannesthis year, the film is too broad to appeal on the festival circuit, and is tooculturally specific ...