All Screen articles in 13 August 2004 – Page 3
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Montreal unveils competition line-up
The Montreal WorldFilm Festival has unveiled its 2004 competition line-up, including the worldpremieres of Paul McGuigan's MGM/Lakeshore Entertainment-backed Wicker Park and new films from Chile'sRaoul Ruiz, Greece's Nikos Panayotopoulos and Australia's Craig Monahan.The 28thMWFF, which runs August 26 to September 6, also features several worldpremieres out of competition such as ...
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Republicans urged to see gay marriage doc by distributor
US distributorRoadside Attractions is urging delegates at the upcoming Republican NationalConvention in New York to attend a screening of Jim de Seve's gay marriagedocumentary Tying The Knot.The timely release - gay marriage is a major campaignissue in the Presidential Election and has sparked a flurry of legislation atfederal and state ...
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Denmark's Fly prepares for Manslaughter
Danish filmmaker Per Fly, who swept the national filmawards with his first two films The Benchand The Inheritance, is getting readyto shoot Manslaughter, the thirdinstallment in his trilogy about the social classes in Denmark.The DKK19.3m drama will star Danish veteran JesperChristensen (The Interpreter)opposite Swede Pernilla August (TheConstant Gardener) and newcomer ...
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Vitagraph takes on US distribution of Content's Rick
US micro-distributorVitagraph Films will release veteran editor Curtiss Clayton's directorial debutRick, starring Bill Pullman andAgnes Bruckner, in New York on Oct 1 and Los Angeles on Oct 8.Based on the operaRigoletto, the satirical story centres on a middle-aged corporate careerist wholoses sight of his humanity.Aaron Stanford, Sandra Oh,Dylan Baker, Paz ...
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Swiss locations receive promotion boost
Switzerland's profile as alocation for international film productions is set to receive a major boostafter the decision by Film Location Switzerland (FLS) to become a member of thepromotion agency Swiss Films.Commenting on the move, SwissFilms' managing director Micha Schiwow explained in Locarno at the weekend thatthis would "complement the activity ...
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A new Blair Witch': Open Water hits Europe this week
Is Open Water another Blair Witch Project'After an impressive openingweekend gross of $1m on just 47 domestic screens this weekend, Lions Gate Filmsis banking on word-of-mouth for the micro-budgeted sea-bound chiller to capture the nation'simagination and bring in some big grosses.And Lions Gate FilmsInternational isn't far behind, hoping to capitalize ...
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Biondo joins Infinity from First Look Media
John Biondo has joined LosAngeles-based production and financing company Infinity Media as vice presidentof business and legal affairs.Biondo will beresponsible for structuring and negotiating production and distribution dealswith domestic and international parties for all company productions and willservice all productions by German production fund Cinerenta, to which Infinityis allied.His other ...
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Soccer trilogy bends it like Beckham
Echoing the off-pitch sagaof real-life England captain David Beckham, the second instalment of footballtrilogy Goal! will tell the story ofa star player's fall from grace against the backdrop of Spain's Real Madridclub.While the first film willdetail the footballer's rags-to-riches rise at English club Newcastle United,producer and co-writer Mike Jefferies said ...
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McDull embarks on martial arts extravaganza
McDull,the clumsy but lovable piglet first seen in hit Hong Kong animated feature, My Life As McDull, is to take up kungfu.Pre-productionhas already begun on martial arts extravaganza, McDull - Wudang, the third animated feature showcasing the pink-snoutedhero.Thenew project sees McDull travelling to China with his mother, Mrs McBing, awould-be ...
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Catwoman takes $2.3m over weekend in nine territories
Catwoman grossed an estimated $2.3m on 728 screens in nineterritories at the weekend, driven by a $1.3m debut in its first majorinternational market of Spain.The action picture, which isreleased through Warner Bros Pictures International, ranked second in Spainbehind Fox International's sci-fi thriller I, Robot.Harry Potter The AndPrisoner Of Azkaban is ...
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Ireland gets free test-screening programme
The Irish Film Board (IFB) has launched a freetest-screening programme in Ireland for the feature films it has co-financed.Normally testing is organised by individual producers ordistributors on an ad hoc basis. The films being tested will be shown duringthe latest possible phase of post-production, currently at 100-seater screensat the UGC ...
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Schwarzenegger doc selling well at Locarno
Sales company MGI International has concluded a raft ofdeals on Alex Cooke's documentary HowArnold Won The West which was screened in Locarno's Filmmakers of thePresent Video sidebar.MGI's Claude Nouchi reported that the film about ArnoldSchwarzenegger's election campaign to become Governor of California had been'very well received by the public and ...
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UK supermarket giant re-negotiates entertainment supply deal
Woolworths yesterday signeda new three-year contract to supply UK supermarket giant Tesco with CDs, DVDsand computer games in a deal that could be worth up to £40m in gross profitover the period to Woolworths.Previous concerns thatTesco, whose former deal with Woolworths' wholesale subsidiary Entertainment UKexpired in February, was seeking a ...
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Brown, Lake named producers of the year
Chris Brown was named independent producer of the year,while Trish Lake was named feature film producer of the year at the annualconference of the Screen Producers Association of Australia.Lake was producer on Gettin'Square alongside Martin Fabinyi and Tim White, and only moved recently intofilm from book publishing, although her early ...
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UK government reveals anti-piracy strategy
The rising trade in pirateDVDs and other fake goods is to be tackled by an initiative launched by the UKgovernment today which brings together brand owners, the police, TradingStandards and customs in a new unified approach.Industry Minister Jacqui Smithunveiled the "intellectual property crime strategy" - developed by the PatentOffice - ...
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Toronto announces more high wattage world premieres
Jiminy Glick In Lalawood, Vadim Jean's big screen treatment of Martin Short'soutrageous alter ego talk show host, will close the 29th Toronto InternationalFilm Festival (TIFF) on Sept 18.The world premiere, some ofwhich was shot at TIFF two years ago, is one of several announced by festivalorganisers today (August 10) in ...
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HUNGARY 10 August
Even though Shrek 2. is still the top of the listfor the sixth week running, SPI's Twistedhas proved a real favorite with Hungarian audiences opening in second placewith over 10,000 admissions on 15 prints.The Prince And Me was a disappointment after failing to reach 6,000admissions on sixteen prints and is ...
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GERMANY 10 August
Constantin Film's release of the camp sci-fi spoof (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 waspushed off the top spot by the Will Smith futuristic thriller I, Robot with just 4,000 more ticketsbeing sold (698,696 compared to 694,567): the Fox release grossed $ 5.2m on itsopening weekend compared to (T)Raumschiff's$5m which was ...
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UK/IRELAND 10 August
A well placed pieceof counter-programming proved effective for Columbia TriStar in the UK thisweek as the company launched 13 Going On30 against Fox's I, Robot.While it wasinevitable that the Will Smith sci-fi vehicle would triumph, the Jennifer Garnercomedy held its own to take second place. Aimed largely at the female ...
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Echelon takes US rights to dog mayor doc
Echelon Entertainment hasacquired US domestic rights to arguably the most bizarre of the current crop ofpolitical documentaries, Jude Gerard Prest's Rabbit Hash: The Centre Of TheUniverse.The picture focuses on anelectoral race in the Kentucky town of Rabbit Hash that returned an actual dog named Goofy as townmayor.The filmmakers profile thetown's ...