All Screen articles in 12 May 2003 – Page 5

  • News

    Albert Lee named CEO of Emperor Multimedia Group

    2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Albert Lee has been appointed chief executive of Hong Kong's Emperor Multimedia Group (EMG), replacing Carl Chang who is leaving the company to set up his own production outfit.Chang is expected to work alongside Lee at EMG until delivery of $6m action adventure The Twins Effect which is currently in ...

  • Reviews

    Torremolinos 73

    2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Pablo Berger. Spain-Denmark. 2003. 90mins.A simpatico local comedy, Torremolinos 73 swept last week's Spanish Film Festival of Malaga, winning best film, director, actor and actress awards. Like last year's top Malaga winner and Spanish box office hit The Other Side Of The Bed (El Otro Lado De La Cama), ...

  • News

    Johnny English holds up strongly against X2

    2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Universal's smash spy spoof Johnny English has hoisted its international runningtotal to $90.5m after 25 days on release, adding $8.2m from 3,000 theatres in37 countries over the weekend, according to estimates.The comedy placed second in the international market behind Fox's X2:X-Men United and managedseveral decent holds despite the global mutant ...

  • News

    X2 global rampage keeps pirates at bay

    2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

    20th Century Fox's X2: X-Men United grossed an emphatic $69,270,300 outside North America this past weekend in what was the most ambitious - and most lucrative - day-and-date global release ever staged by a studio.Adding in the simultaneous $85,558,731 taken in domestically, the global total of $154,829,031 for X2 represents ...

  • News

    UK gives X2 its biggest international opening

    2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

    As X-Men fever swept the globe over the weekend, the UK was no exception to 20th Century Fox's mammoth success. Indeed X2: X-Men United's $11.3m (£7m) four-day opening from 449 UK sites gave the distributor its highest international opening for the film.The comic-book adventure easily took the top spot over ...

  • News

    Talk To Her crosses C$1m milestone in French Canada

    2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Pedro Almodovar's Talk To Her has surpassed C$1m ($708,000) in its 19th weekat the Quebec box office, making it one of the top grossing foreign languagefilms of all time in Canada's predominantly French-language province.The highest grossing film in alanguage other than English or French, Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful(La Vie ...