All Screen articles in 12 May 2004 – Page 3
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Phil Gersh, agent of the Golden Age, is dead
Phil Gersh, thelegendary Hollywood agent who founded The Phil Gersh Agency, later becoming TheGersh Agency with sons Robert and David, has died aged 92.Gersh representeda broad roster of stars spanning the Golden Age including Humphrey Bogart,Richard Burton, David Niven, Harrison Ford and Robert Wise and worked with suchdirectors as Mark ...
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Trudeau, Altman ready Tanner 88 sequel for Sundance Channel
The Sundance Channel hasteamed up with satirist Garry Trudeau and director Robert Altman on a sequel totheir political mini-series Tanner 88.Production is due to beginnext month on the as yet unnamed three-parter, which stars original castmembers Cynthia Nixon, Michael Murphy, Pamela Reed and Matt Malloy and is scheduledto screen in ...
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Perspectives 2004 kicks off in LA on Jun 4
Given A Chance... ALittle Girl's Journey is expected tobe among the highlights of the upcoming Perspectives2004 international festival and forum, which runs in Los Angeles from Jun 4-6.Kim Marriner's picturechronicles the development of Kassie Marriner, who was born a drug addict and diagnosed with cerebral palsy.Sponsored by the AmericanFilm Institute ...
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NEW ZEALAND 11 May
As expected, Van Helsing had no trouble claiming thecrown as the most popular film at the New Zealand box office on the weekend,grossing NZ$658,698 from 65 screens for UIP.It pushed Kill Bill: Volume 2, which is in its secondweekend, off the top spot. Kill Bill also got a battering from ...
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NORWAY 11 May
StephenSommers' summer blockbuster had no problem scaring up the top of the Norwegianchart with its high 62 prints, but for an opening film its NOK29,929 screenaverage wasn't all that impressive. While the newcomer pushed most other titlesdown one place, Scooby Doo 2 actually moved up to fifth, while lastweek's new ...
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The Haunted Mansion passes $100m for BVI
Buena Vista's family hit TheHaunted Mansion passed $100m at the international box office this weekendthanks to a $2.3m weekend gross through Buena Vista InternationalOnce again the key driverwas Japan, where the picture remained number for its third weekend in a row and raised itscumulative score to $24.5m.Currently on a whisker ...
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Scooby-Doo 2 nears $100m at international box office
Scooby-Doo2 added anestimated $2.8m with 543,000 admissions from 3,411 screens in 52 territories atthe weekend, raising its international running total to $87.3m.Keyhighlights from Warner Bros Pictures International's campaign so far include animpressive $28.5m UK haul and $9.1m in Mexico.Theserial killer thriller Taking Lives grossed $2.4m with 424,000 admissionsfrom 1,534 screens ...
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Metropolitan takes Stratus Hostage
Metropolitan Filmexport has bought French distributionrights to Hostage, the BruceWillis-starring action thriller financed by Stratus Film Company.The film is directed by French national Florent Emilio Siri,who previously directed local-language action title The Nest (Nid De Guepes). Headed by Sami and Victor Hadida, Metropolitan is the largestindependent in France regularly handling ...
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Kinowelt eyes up insolvent Senator
Despite having to answer claims of embezzlement, delayingthe filing of insolvency, and bankruptcy in Munich's District Court sincemid-April, Kinowelt's Michael Koelmel is apparently still in a buying mood.In an interview with the Dresden-based newspaper SaechsischeZeitung, he indicated that the revamped Kinowelt has a "seriousinterest" in a takeover of the insolvent ...
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Worst year ever for European films in EU
2003 was the worst year for the circulation of Europeanfilms within the EU on record, according to new figures from the EuropeanAudiovisual Observatory.Only 6.3% of admissions to European films were earned in EUcountries outside of their home markets - down from 9.9% last year.UK/US co-productions Johnny English and Love Actually ...
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Emmerich goes from global disaster to Shakespeare drama
Roland Emmerich, the Germanfilm-maker behind popcorn blockbusters such as Independence Day, Godzilla and the upcoming The Day After Tomorrow, will take a major change in direction with his nextpicture The Soul Of The Age, anintense 16th century drama about the question of the authorship ofShakespeare.Emmerich is scoutinglocations in the UK ...
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Troy director lays siege to US foreign policy
On the eve of the worldwide release of his $175 millionepic, Troy, German director WolfgangPetersen has waded into the dispute over current US foreign policy in Iraq bydrawing some provocative comparisons between the behaviour of Agamemnon, theGreek tyrant who launched the assault on Troy 3000 years ago, and contemporaryworld leaders."History ...
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Herwitz takes on Un Certain Regard thriller Kontroll, four others
Andrew Herwitz of New York-basedThe Film Sales Company has picked up worldwide rights to five films forrepresentation during Cannes led by Hungarian thriller Kontroll from US-born director Nimrod Antal which has been abig local hit and is screening in Un Certain Regard.Herwitz has also beenhandling three films which premiered at ...
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Son Of The Bride director's latest to premiere at Valladolid
Argentine director Juan Jose Campanella's Luna de Avellaneda (The Moon of Avellaneda) will open the 49th Valladolid International Film Festival on October 22.The move mirrors the career path taken by Campenella's last film, the Oscar-nominated Son of the Bride (El Hijo de La Novia), which won the festival's top prize ...
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Reding backs Europe wide Film Commission network
Spanish-backed moves to set up a European Film CommissionNetwork have gained ground with news that European Commissioner for Culture,Viviane Reding, is backing the initiative.Now supported by Film Commissions from the UK, Ireland,Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, Norway, France, Germany, Hungary, Portugal,Belgium, and Spain, the proposed Network would exchange information, sharetraining opportunities and ...
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Summit steps into The Dark, offers The Alibi
Independent sales, financingand production powerhouse Summit Entertainment has added two new pictures toits Cannes lineup - The Dark, thelatest horror movie to emerge from Paul Anderson and Jeremy Bolt's ImpactPictures via its financing deal with Constantin Film and The Alibi, a contemporary thriller, which Summit isco-financing and co-producing with Jim ...
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French box office storms ahead in first quarter
Admissions for the first four months of the year in Franceovertook those in the same period of 2003 by a thumping 16%.According to new data from the Centre Nationale de laCinematographie (CNC) admissions between January and April totalled 68 million,boosted by a heavyweight April, 43% better than the same month ...
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Warners' Polar Express set for 3D release
Warner Bros says it will release RobertZemeckis' The Polar Express inconventional cinemas and Imax 3D format day-and-date on Nov. 19 in NorthAmerica and in some international territories. It's the first majorHollywood release in the 3D format.Warner Bros would not confirm whichterritories it is considering. The company is the exclusive distributor ...
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Mean Girls
Dir: Mark Waters. US.2004. 97 mins.A cut above the low-cost teenage movies churned out of Hollywood studiosthese days, Mean Girls is a smart comedy with an acerbic edge which hasalready found a wide audience in North America, taking more than $42m after twoweeks on release, and should carve out a ...
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Shoreline snaps up Dunsmore and Now And Forever
Shoreline Entertainment has acquired Peter Spirer's mystery Dunsmoreand Bob Clark's interracial love story Now And Forever and will bringthe titles to Cannes under its expanding Watermark banner.Dunsmore centres on a small Florida town where the residents aretormented by a deeply repellent individual. However an investigation revealswide pools of guilt that ...