All Screen articles in 13 January 2004 – Page 3
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Love Actually passes $200m worldwide
Universal's romantic comedy Love Actually took $4.7m from 1,819 sites in 25 countries at theweekend, raising the cumulative score in the territories where it isdistributed by UIP to $139.2m.Including France ($6m), Russia ($2m) and the US ($58m), ithas grossed $205m worldwide and has eight countries to open including Japan onFeb ...
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ITALY Production Listings - January 12 2004
Italy - January 12 2004PRE-PRODUCTIONADIUS, LA FESTA E' FINITA(Verdecchi Film) Backing: Fondo di Garanzia) Word gets out in high-flying Roman society that a well-known Italian singer-songwriter is to make his comeback - despite the fact that his death was officially announced in 1980. Prod: Alessandro Verdecchi. Dir: Ezio Alovisi. Scr: ...
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Something's Gotta Give opens second in Australia on $1.9m
The romanticcomedy Something's Gotta Give opened in Australia in second place at the weekend on anestimated $1.9m from 235 screens through Warner Bros Pictures International(WBPI).By way ofcomparison, box office tracked 34% ahead of Cold Mountain, 25% ahead of As Good As It Gets, 25% ahead of First Wives Club and ...
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Gothika opens strongly in France
The psychological thriller Gothikabegan its international run in France at the weekend, where it opened on astrong $2.5m and was a close contender for top spot against Return Of The King.Executive at ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) said the film scored roughlythe same as Panic Room and I Know What ...
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Big Fish snatches disputed top spot from Return Of The King
Columbia's Big Fishclaimed top spot on an estimated $14.5m following wide expansion at theweekend, although the amount raised eyebrows among executives at rival studioswho have disputed the gross.Final figures will berevealed on Monday (12) and it remains to be seen whether New Line's ReturnOf The King was indeed shunted into ...
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Finding Nemo closes in on $500m international
Finding Nemo is approaching $500m following a $16m-plus weekendhaul that raised its international running total to $480m, according toestimates from Buena Vista International (BVI).The animated hit is now theninth biggest worldwide grossing film of all time on $820m and may well reachthe number eight spot when figures are confirmed this ...
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Strong Euro launch brings Samurai close to $100m
The Last Samurai is expected to pass $100m at the international boxoffice on Monday (12) after an estimated $30.6m weekend haul raised the AmericaCivil War era drama's running total to $98.6m.In its sixth weekend inJapan the film continued its exceptional run, adding $4.9m (Yen 529.9) for a$73.4m (Yen 8bn) running ...
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Tykwer's True to support Love
Tom Tykwer's 10-minute short True is to be released in Germany by X Verleih as a supporting film for Achim von Borries' Love In Thoughts which has its world premiere at this month's Sundance Film Festival.True was directed by Tykwer in Paris over four days in August 2002 as a ...
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Daybreak leads Sweden's Guldbagge race
Daybreak (Om Jag Vänder Mig Om) by Björn Runge scooped eight Guldbagge nominations, Sweden's equivalent of the Oscars, yesterdayThe drama was nominated for: best film, best director, best actor (Jacob Eklund) and best actress (Ann Petren). Daybreak also got received two supporting actress nominations, as well as for supporting actor ...
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Inheritance leads Danish Oscar nominations
Last year's most popular film with Danish audiences and most critics - Per Fly's drama The Inheritance -has bagged nine nominations for the Danish Film Academy's ROBERT awards, which will be handed out in Copenhagen on Feb 1.They include best film, best director, best script and best actor as well ...
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Last Samurai looks to cut international swathe
Buoyed by a superb $60m-plus ongoing run in Japan, Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) will have high hopes when it unleashes The Last Samurai in a raft of major markets this upcoming weekend.Japan is an idiosyncratic market and a strong performance there does not necessarily guarantee impressive results elsewhere. However ...
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Israeli director wraps up Syrian Bride
Israeli director Eran Riklis has just wrapped The Syrian Bride, the story of a young bride who will never be able to visit her family in the Golan Heights after her marriage to a Syrian man.The story is set during the wedding day when all the family members and other ...
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South Korean blockbuster smashes local records
South Korean blockbuster Silmido has set a new box-office record by passing four million admissions only 15 days after its December 24 release.The speed past that mark beats by a day the performance of The Return Of The King - which itself has passed five million admissions - and significantly ...
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Besson's Paris studio complex gets greenlight
Luc Besson's proposed "cinema city" was given its first public green light today by the deputy mayor of Parisian suburb St Denis.The long-gestating project has been rumoured for some time - although Besson has rarely addressed the subject. However, deputy mayor Patrick Braouezec announced the launch of the project on ...
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Bernstein moves from Promark to Lightning/Mainline
Former Promark vicepresident of international sales Eric M Bernstein has joined Santa Monica-baseddistributor-licensors Mainline Releasing and Lightning Entertainment in thesame capacity.Bernstein will work withMainline's vice president of international sales Tannaz Anisi and Richard SGuardian, the distribution and sales executive who partnered with Mainlineprincipals Rich Goldberg and Marc Greenberg in spring ...
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SPAIN
The only new release this week was Miguel Ángel Lamata's Una De Zombis (A Film About Zombies) which entered the chart at number seven with a screen average of $5,486 - the weekend's best after Return Of The King.The Spanish horror comedy is about two twenty-something losers in need of ...
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HUNGARY
Jackie Chan probably deserved better than the January 1 release date given to his latest film The Medallion. The film didn't stand much chance of competing with some well-known titles that have been around for the entire holiday season.The Medallion produced one of the weakest Jackie Chan openings ever in ...
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Seducing Dr Lewis (La Grande Seduction)
Dir. Jean-Francois Pouliot. Canada. 2003. 108mins.Making its US premiere in Sundance's World Cinema programme, Seducing Dr Lewis (La Grande Seduction), which premiered in Director's Fortnight at Cannes last year, has been described as a Quebecois version of The Full Monty. But it's closer in spirit to films such as Waking ...
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Danielsen named as Leipzig festival chief
Claas Danielsen, head of studies at the Munich-based Discovery Campus training initiative for the international co-production of high quality documentaries, has been named as successor to Fred Gehler as the artistic director of the Leipzig Film Festival for Documentary and Animation.The month-long search for a successor to Gehler, who retired ...