All Screen articles in 13 August 2004 – Page 4
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UK sports docs get US distribution through Hart Sharp
Domestic DVD distributorHart Sharp Video has partnered with Bombo Sports & Entertainment todistribute a new line of specialised sports documentaries.Upcoming releases willinclude Liverpool FC - No Heart As Big, Manchester United: Beyond The Promised Land, Roy Keane, As I See It, and the rugby picture Sweet Chariot. Each of these ...
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First Locarno deals concluded
After only two days, Locarno had already seen its firstdeals concluded by Friday (August 6) before the festival's first weekend.Celluloid Dreams picked up international distribution rightsfor German director-cinematographer Thomas Riedelsheimer's (Rivers And Tides) new documentary Touch The Sound which had its worldpremiere in Locarno's Critics' Week on Sunday evening (Aug ...
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Universal & Toshiba claim number one slot in Japan with Riddick
Universal executives claimedtheir action sequel The Chronicles Of Riddick opened top in Japan through Toshiba at the weekendon an estimated $1.9m on an unconfirmed number of screens.Overall the picture grossed$2.8m on 835 screens in 18 territories and raised its international runningtotal to $10m from all distributors, $7.3m of which comes ...
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Serbia and Montenegro faces film piracy challenge
The weekends ofAug 16-18 and 23-25 were the worst in terms of admissions and revenues inSerbia and Montenegro since 1997. The first saw ticket sales of 11,872($31,249) for the whole territory, while the latter had even less: only 11,120spectators who spent $29,145. Spider-Man2 sold only 4,744 tickets in its second ...
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Logan, Newman, Rosen named in Hollywood Film Awards honour list
Composer Thomas Newman andscreenwriter John Logan will both be honoured at the upcoming Hollywood FilmAwards ceremony on Oct 18 at the Beverly Hilton.Hollywood Composer of theYear Award recipient Newman has earned six Oscar nominations in his career todate for the recent phenomenon Finding Nemo, American Beauty and Road To Perdition, ...
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Yet another political doc gets US theatrical exposure
THINKFilm hasacquired US domestic rights to George Butler and White Mountain's Toronto worldpremiere documentary Going Upriver: The Long War Of John Kerry and plans to open it on limited releasebefore the Presidential Election on Oct 1.The latest addition to the left-leaning politicaldocumentary canon focuses on key influences in Kerry's life, ...
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IMAX ties up six-screen deal with National Amusements
IMAX Corporation has signeda deal to install six IMAX theatre systems in US sites owned by internationalexhibitor National Amusements Inc, with the possibility of a further 12 systemsover the next several years, predominantly in the UK.Four theatre systems arescheduled to be installed by the end of the year in National ...
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Talent Campus heads to Far East, Latin America
Following the successful staging of Talent Campuses in Kievand New Dehli, the Berlinale Talent Campus plans to further export its conceptto the film festivals in Pusan and Buenos Aires in 2005.This announcement comes after the first Talent Campus India washeld during last month's Osian's Cinefan Film Festival - from July ...
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Revolver aims at international market
Revolver, the two-year-old Italian arthouse production anddistribution outfit, is ramping up its international activities. The companyhas boarded Chilean director Raoul Ruiz's upcoming film, Le Livre A Rendre as a co-producer and has also acquired Italianrights to Shinya Tsukamoto's Venice title, Vital.Le Livre A Rendreis a Euros 3m picture which focuses ...
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I, Robot seizes the world with $30.9m weekend
Fox International's sci-fithriller I, Robot extended itsbox office dominance at the weekend with an estimated $30.9m haul from 6,034screens in 29 territories for a $70.8m international running total.The picture scored a stringof number one openings, led by $8.4m on 710 screens in the UK and $5.1m on 910in Germany.Other key ...
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Yasmin
Dir: Kenny Glenaan. UK-Ger.2004. 87minsThree years ago, GasAttack won the Michael Powell Award at Edinburgh and marked out KennyGlennan as a promising new directorial talent. Yasmin confirms hisstatus as a social realist with an ability to focus on the human element in anyheadline-grabbing dramatic situation.Sensitively observed andeconomically staged, Yasmin tells ...
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Lindon takes on The Moustache
French actorVincent Lindon (Chaos, My Little Business)will begin shooting in Paris on August 23 for The Moustache, the first feature-length fiction film by the authorEmmanuel Carrere.Lindon will staralongside Emmanuelle Devos (Read My Lips,Petites Coupures), who will play his wife. The actress worked previouslywith Carrère during the shooting of the film ...
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Six linked Swedish films to shoot simultaneously
Six new Swedish features based on author Hakan Nesser'sbest-selling detective stories will all begin shooting on the same day - August14Two of the films will be made for theatrical distribution in2005, while all of the films in theseries will be broadcast on television all over the Nordic region in 2006 ...
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Hong Kong, Chinese Locarno titles picked up
Hong Kong's Golden Network has picked up world sales rightsfor Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's second feature Black Friday which screens in Locarno's International Competitionsection this year.Based on a book of the same name by S. Hussain Zaidi, the filmcentres on the terror blasts of 1993 inMumbai, the business capital of ...
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Nelly (A Ce Soir)
Dir: Laure Duthilleul.Fr. 2004. 94mins.The complaint isfrequently made that the French production system too often allows film-makersto please themselves rather than justify their intentions to an audience. Thisis a charge unfortunately born out by Nelly, a small, eccentric dramathat was clearly a labour of love for director Laure Duthilleul, but ...
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Dembo begins shoot on Maison De Nina
Richard Dembo,director of L'Instinct De l'Ange and La Carpe Dans La Baignoire among others,has begun shooting his next feature film, LaMaison De Nina.The story takesplace just after the liberation of France at the end of World War II, a time atwhich children were placed in homes whose goal was to ...
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First Independent Pictures acquires Mail Order Wife
Gary Rubin's fledgling distribution outfit First IndependentPictures has picked up domestic rights to Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland'scomedy Mail Order Wife (formerly Mail Order Bride) and plansto release it in theatres on Feb 11 2005.The picture stars Eugenia Yuan, Adrian Martinez, and Gurland, whoco-wrote with Botko, and follows the misadventures ...
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FRANCE 9 August
As in theprevious week, four newcomers broke into the top 20 this time around. I, Robot came in at number one thisweek, bringing in nearly $5.3m during its first six days, more than one and ahalf million dollars less than Spider-Man2 earned the week before in that movie's second week.The ...
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SWEDEN 9 August
The past had to bow to the future at the Swedishbox-office this weekend as the new release of Will Smith's science-fictionouting I, Robot's 82 prints downed King Arthur's 95 prints by61%. While Smith secured a strong $3,943 screen average, the presence of mostof the top local acting talent in Dane ...
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Spider-Man 2 swings past $325m for CTFDI
Sony's Spider-Man 2 grossed an estimated $12.1m on6,430 screens in 55 territories through Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI) at the weekend, raising the international cumulativetotal to $328.2m.The chief highlight was the $2.6m debut on 300 screens inChina, which included previews and set a new record for an MPAA release in ...