All Screen articles in 12 November 2004 – Page 4
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Surviving Christmas
Dir: Mike Mitchell. US2004. 92minsAnybody hoping that thecomedy Surviving Christmas might resuscitate Ben Affleck's falteringcareer will be sorely disappointed. The very fact that DreamWorks did notrelease Mike Mitchell's feature in the heart of the season suggests they werehoping for some early holiday good cheer from audiences to buoy its chances.Sadly ...
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Salvatores begins shoot on psychological film noir
Oscar winnerGabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo)has started shooting his latest film, a psychological film noir entitled Quo Vadis, Baby'Produced byMaurizio Totti's Colorado Film, the Euros 3m picture is adapted from theeponymous novel by Grazia Verasani. Its title is inspired by Marlon Brando'sfamous line in Last Tango In Paris.Quo Vadis, which Salvatores is ...
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After The Sunset
Dir: Brett Ratner. 2004.US. 93mins.Brett Ratner's capercomedy After The Sunset is a plodding, lifeless affair set on a Bahamasresort island that aspires to the level of To Catch A Thief but barelymusters the cultivated glitz of star Pierce Brosnan's Thomas Crown Affairremake.Instead it serves up anexotic Caribbean locale and two ...
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AUSTRALIA 9 November
Australia's tastefor Asian action films has matured to such a point that Zhang Yimou's Hero had no trouble at all topping thebox office chart on its opening weekend. It grossed A$2,258,748 from 165screens for BVI, giving it a screen average of A$13,689, which was far ahead ofanything else in the ...
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NEW ZEALAND 9 November
Taxi tried veryhard to accelerate past last weekend's box office topper Shall We Dance' but just missed out.Shall We Dance'took NZ$158,393 from 58 screens for BVI in its second weekend on releasecompared to Taxi's NZ$157,427 on 23less screens for 20th Century Fox. Taxi's screen average was the highest in the ...
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SWEDEN 9 November
Though AVPcouldn't shake As In Heaven from thetop of the Swedish chart, it did get a better screen average ($5,160) from its65 prints and grossed a solid $372,436.Collateralcontinued to do well on third, while PopularMusic dropped to sixth having grossed $2.4m and last week's new localrelease Fourteen Sucks (Fjorton Suger)to ...
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GERMANY 9 November
UIP's release of 7 Dwarves attracted another 1.2m cinemagoers in its second weekendto bring the admissions tally up to 3.5m so far and a box office gross of$26m-plus.The comedy, which is already now moresuccessful than Otto's previous film outings - Otto - Der Katastrofenfilm and Otto- Der Liebesfilm -, again ...
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UK/IRELAND 9 November
Few other distributors stood a chance as UIP laid siege tothe UK box office last weekend. The chart shows that the distributor shot newtitle The Grudge into the top spot,dethroning stablemate Shark Taleafter three weeks. However, the UK is the only territory where UIP holdstheatrical rights.The Grudge claimed$4.2m (£2.3m) off ...
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Magnolia takes US rights to Somersault
Magnolia Pictures has secured North American rights towriter/director Cate Shortland's Somersault, which late last week broke all records with its clean sweep of theAFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards in Melbourne.Sydney-based producer Anthony Anderson, principal of RedCarpet Productions, said he was very pleased it has gone to the New York-baseddistributor, which ...
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River Queen's DoP takes over directing duties
River Queen directorof photography Alun Bollinger has stepped up to replace director Vincent Wardon the UK/New Zealand co-production, which is on track to complete principalphotography in late November.Bollinger has had a chequered history with River Queen himself, relinquishing his role to John Cavillbecause of a back injury before Samantha Morton's ...
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Engagement continues to engage in France in second weekend
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's wartime romance A Very Long Engagement continued a strong run in France throughWarner Bros, registering 730,000 admissions nationwide from 707 prints.The distributor said the picture added approximately $5.8m for an$18.7m running total after dropping roughly 40%.Second weekendadmissions surpassed Les Choristes by 18%, Terminator 3 by 21%, X-Men 2 ...
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Clark gets promoted to senior vp in Universal production dept
Universal Pictures has promoted Dylan Clark to senior vicepresident of production and development at Universal Pictures.Clark will increase the number of projects under his purview andwill continue to report to vice chairmen of worldwide production Scott Stuberand Mary Parent"Dylan's taste in material and his ability to understand andproductively work within ...
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Powerhouse weekend for UIP at UK, Germany box office
US horror hit The Grudge opened top in the UK on $4.1m (£2.2m) including previews of$736,000 (£396,000) at the weekend, according to estimates released bydistributor UIP.By way of comparison the Dawn Of The Dead remake opened in March on $3m ($1.6m) at339 sites, and The Ringopened in 2003 on $3m ...
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A Way Of Life
Dir: AmmaAsante. UK. 2004. 91mins.A bruisingdrama in social realist mode, writer-director Amma Asante's A Way Of Lifetackles racism and anti-Muslim prejudice in a deprived town in South Wales.Asante's protagonists are disaffected teenagers, badly educated, strugglingwith poverty and unemployment, who blame a Turkish neighbour for theirpredicament.The film beginsin brutal fashion, with ...
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An Italian Romance (L'Amore Ritrovato)
Dir. Carlo Mazzacurati.It-Fr. 2004. 108mins.Two of Italy's hottestyoung stars combine with one of the country's most talented directors for AnItalian Romance (L'Amore Ritrovato), a disappointing melodrama whosefuture depends exclusively on their names; without them, it could not hope foranything better than a straight-to video release.As it is, the glamour ofStefano ...
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IDA to honour Obomsawin
Alanis Obomsawin willreceive the International Documentary Association (IDA) Pioneer Award in honourof her "unique and important contributions to advancing the art of non-fictionfilmmaking".Obomsawin has written,produced, directed and composed music for more than 20 documentarieschronicling the native people of Canada including Incident At Restigouche,about a raid by the Quebec police on ...
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Pixar hit factory delivers biggest opening ever in The Incredibles
The Pixar hit factory maintained its solid gold reputation at theweekend as The Incredibles opened top on an estimated $70.7m through Buena Vista.And in a result that will only confound the woes of Disney asPixar looks for a new partner after their contract expires next year, TheIncredibles registeredthe biggest ever ...
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HONG KONG 8 November
Two local productions - Wilson Yip's kung-fu romance The White Dragon and Yonfan's eroticdrama Colour Blossoms - topped theHong Kong box office in a relatively quiet week.The White Dragon,produced by China Star and Joe Ma's Singing Horse Productions, came in firstwith US$494,598 from 35 screens. Cecilia Cheung stars as a ...
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Incredible opening of $70.7m for Disney and Pixar
The Pixar hit factory maintained its solid gold reputation at theweekend as The Incredibles opened top on an estimated $70.7m through Buena Vista.And in a result that will only confound the woes of Disney asPixar looks for a new partner after their contract expires next year, TheIncredibles registeredthe biggest ever ...
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