All Screen articles in 10 September 2004 – Page 3
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Turkey, UAE 'fastest growing' Middle East markets
Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are the fastest growingcinema markets in the Middle East region, according to a new report by DodonaResearch.Expansion in screen numbers in Turkey (by 179% to 945) andthe UAE (almost fourfold to 142) over the 1995 to 2003 period was the catalystfor rapid growth in ...
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Wild Bunch acquires distributor Pan Europeene
French sales company Wild Bunch and French distributorPan-Europeenne Films are joining forces to create a new theatrical distributionoutfit to be known as Pan-Europeenne Edition.The new company, will be majority owned by Wild Bunch and run byPan-Europeenne chief Philippe Godeau along with former StudioCanal executiveJean-Philippe Tirel, who recently joined Wild Bunch. ...
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Wild Bunch takes stake in French distributor Pan Europeene
French sales company Wild Bunch and French groupPan-Europeenne Films are joining forces through theatrical distributionoutfit Pan-Europeenne Edition.Pan-Europeenne Edition will be majority owned by Wild Bunch and run byPan-Europeenne chief Philippe Godeau along with former StudioCanal executiveJean-Philippe Tirel, who recently joined Wild Bunch. Tirel's title will bedeputy managing director. The rest ...
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HUNGARY 8 September
King Arthur openedstrongly at the Hungarian box office but meant no real competition for Garfield which managed nearly 40,000admissions in the second week of its release and is fast approaching the200,000 admissions mark.While Budapest Film's Szezon(Season) opened strongly on eleven prints, French production Fureur flopped painfully for distributorBest Hollywood and ...
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SERBIA/MONTENEGRO 8 September
Openingthis weekend with only 1,400 admissions and total gross of $6,307, Hellboy managed to enter in third placeat the Serbian-Montenegrin chart for Tuck, leaving last weekend's favourites I, Robot and Jersey Girl at the top. Tuck's Will Smith vehicle declined 41%compared to the previous weekend, but still held pole position ...
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POLAND 8 September
Pedro Almodovar took on Hollywood blockbusters and triumphedthis weekend in Poland.The Spanish director's latest film, Bad Education (La Mala Educacion), released through Gutek Film inthe territory against UIP's The BourneSupremacy and Warner Bros' Catwoman.Bad Education finished in top position with over 37,000 admissions and a$3,900 screen average taken from its ...
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Spain laps up Amenabar's Sea
Alejandro Amenabar'sacclaimed The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro) got off to a superb internationalstart in the director's home-territory, Spain, at the weekend.The drama, which played incompetition at the Venice Film Festival last week, sold nearly 450,000 ticketsin Spain at the weekend for a $2.8m (Euro 2.3m) gross that saw it claim ...
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Big Bear Lake to open with Finding Home
The Big Bear Lake InternationalFilm Festival will open on Sept 17 with Lawrence David Foldes'Maine-set redemption drama Finding Home,which won a trio of awards including best director at the Monaco InternationalFilm Festival.Festival organiserswill also present Laszlo Kovacs with the Lifetime Achievement Award inCinematography award at the festival gala on the ...
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Pechels de Saint Sardos joins Classic Media
Industry veteranSandrine Pechels de Saint Sardos has joined New York-based production anddistribution outfit Classic Media as sales executive.Pechels de Saint Sardos will report to Classic Media's head ofworldwide distribution Doug Schwalbe and will handle international sales,distribution and marketing of productions including the upcoming family title PeterCottontail: The Movie.Pechels de Saint ...
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First Look takes near worldwide rights to Freeze Frame
Los Angeles-based distributionand sales house First Look Media has picked up worldwide rights excluding the UK and Irelandto John Simpson's futuristic thriller Freeze-Frameand will begin sales in Torontothrough First Look International.Freeze-Frame premiered atthe Tribeca Film festival earlier this year and starsBritish comic Lee Evans as a man who is acquitted ...
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First Look takes sales rights to Freeze Frame
Los Angeles-based distributionand sales house, First Look Media has picked up worldwide rights excluding the UK and Irelandto John Simpson's futuristic thriller Freeze-Frame.It will begin sales in Torontothrough First Look International.Freeze-Frame premiered atthe Tribeca Film festival earlier this year and starsBritish comic Lee Evans as a man who is acquitted ...
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Mysterious Skin
Dir:Gregg Araki USA. 2004. 99mins.GreggAraki is a film buff's director, one of those independent US mavericks, likeHarmony Korine, whose regular feature outings are staples of the internationalfestival circuit (it plays Toronto after its Orizzonti premiere at Venice) andultra-arthouse theatres, but register only the faintest bleeps on the radar ofthe cinemagoing ...
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Strings
Dir:Anders Ronnow Klarlund. Den-Swe-UK-Nor. 2004. 92mins.Say "puppet movie" and most people think of the Muppetsor, at a push, Pinocchio - who has most famously come to life on screen in cartoon and live action form.Traditional marionettes have always messed with the suspension of disbeliefthat appears to be necessary in the ...
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French cinema admissions leap 22% during 2004
France's film council (CNC) has revealed very healthybox-office figures for the first eight months of the year. In total, 133.57 millioncinema tickets have been sold since the beginning of the year.This represents a 22% increase over the same period in 2003.Overall, the projection is for a 15% increase over last ...
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Stone's Alexander to open Stockholm
OliverStone will be this year's guest of honour at the Stockholm International FilmFestival (Nov 18-28). He will visit Stockholm to accept the Stockholm LifetimeAchievement Award in a prize ceremony on Nov 18, while his latest film, Alexander,will open the festival.The Stockholm festival said: "With a fearless explorationof individual lives affected ...
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Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum to be revived
The organisers ofthe Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) have called for submissions fornext year's edition which marks the long-awaited return of the Hong Kong-basedprojects market following a four-year hiatus.Around 20 projectswill be presented to potential investors, distributors and sales agents duringthe three-day event (March 22-24, 2005). Projects of ...
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MIFED's loss could become Venice's gain
While the Venice Film Festival has always been known for itsrelaxed atmosphere and casual meetings, the absence of many American andEnglish companies from next month's MIFED has inadvertently lead to increasedbusiness activity on the Lido, some industry figures say.On Tuesday, MIFED issued a statement revealing that at least25 American and ...
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MIFED's loss could become others' gain
While the Venice Film Festival has always been known for itsrelaxed atmosphere and casual meetings, the absence of many American andEnglish companies from next month's MIFED has inadvertently lead to increasedbusiness activity on the Lido, some industry figures say.On Tuesday, MIFED issued a statement revealing that at least25 American and ...
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Colonna named as new CNC chief
Catherine Colonna will be confirmed as the new director ofthe French film council (CNC) on Wednesday according to sources close to thesituation. Colonna will take up her functions as of the 22nd of September whencurrent chief David Kessler will step down.As previously reported by Screendaily.com, Kessler will headto France Televisions ...
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Two new Greek films get US distribution
Two Greek films have found distribution in the US, in whatthe state-backed Greek Film Centre describes as a promising sign for a newgeneration of Greek filmmakers.Picture This has acquired US distribution rights to Oxygen, a drama written and directed by ThanassisPapathanasiou and Mihalis Reppas.Produced by Elena Hadzialexandrou, and sold by ...