All Screen articles in 15 July 2004 – Page 2
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Dench, Sutherland round out Pride cast
Judi Dench, DonaldSutherland, Brenda Blethyn, Tom Hollander and Penelope Wilton have joined thecast of Working Title Films' Pride And PrejudicePrincipal photography startson July 19 on the adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. The film, which starsKeira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Rosamund Pike and Jena Malone, will shootentirely on location around England until ...
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Vivendi Universal sells Babelberg studios
VivendiUniversal (VU) has sold the historic Babelsberg Studios to a group of Germaninvestors led by Carl Woebcken, managing director of Berlin Animation Film, andChristoph Fisser, managing director of the Munich studio facility StudioAtelierbetriebe Schwabing (SAS).VU sold the studios for the symbolic price of Euros 1. TheWoebcken-Fisser group will assume Euros ...
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Edinburgh announces festival programme
Boasting six world premieres and 40 UK premieres, theEdinburgh International Film Festival has launched a 2004 programme aiming todefend its position as the premiere UK Festival for British cinema.Facingcompetition from a revitalised London Film Festival and the recent Londonscreenings, Edinburgh will host premieres of Shane Meadows gritty ganglandthriller Dead Man's ...
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UK/IRELAND 14 July
With the major studioskeeping their big releases away from Shrek 2 in the UK this week it wasleft to the independents to make the headlines in the chart.Headlines were certainly madeby Optimum Releasing. The distributor released Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit9/11 on 132 screens setting records for best documentary opening ever ...
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NORTH AMERICA 14 July
Canada'sembrace of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 offers more ammunition to USRepublicans who fear that their northern neighbour may one day join the US.Thefilm has earned $8.6m (C$11.5m) in 17 days at the Canadian box office, a sumequivalent to 14% of the North American gross in that period according to JimSherry, ...
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HUNGARY 14 July
Shrek 2 led the box office at Hungarian cinemas over the weekend.Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights came closest to challenging ogre-mania, but fell wayshort with just over 10,000 admissions on 15 prints to Shrek's 85,000.Hidalgo was clearly the disappointment of the week with a mere 8,500 admissions ontwenty prints while ...
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SWEDEN 14 July
Columbia TriStar's successful July 7 release of Spider-Man 2finally toppled Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban from the topspot of the Swedish chart.The second film in the Spiderman series improved the first films' fiveday results with 6%, and had a massive $9,618 screen average on its high 118prints.The Day ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO 14 July
As Spider-Man 2 opened with $23,268 for theweekend to add to a total of $60,062 from 16,254 admissions including previews,distributor Tuck is now behind the top four films in the Serbian-Montenegrinchart.Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban follows with 3,296 tickets in its thirdweekend and total of $140,456; while the ...
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Toronto unveils first festival titles
New films from Taylor Hackford, JohnSayles, Dylan Kidd will make their world premieres at the Toronto InternationalFilm Festival (Sept 9-18). The festival unveiled a number of titles across thespectrum of its selection, including two world premieres from South Africa, thefocus of this year's national spotlight programmeHackford's Ray, a biopic of ...
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Unifrance re-elects Menegoz as president
MargaretMenegoz has been re-elected president of Unifrance Film International, theFrench film export support body.Menegoz was appointed acting president in Februarylast year following the sudden death of Daniel Toscan Du Plantier. Unanimouslyelected, Menegoz now has a two year mandate.Theorganisation has three vice-presidents: head of the feature film producerscommittee Philippe Carcassonne of ...
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Walden ties up five family pictures with Fox
Twentieth Century Fox andWalden Media have signed a five-picture production and distribution deal inwhich Fox will handle worldwide releasing on all titles.The slate includes threepreviously announced adaptations of acclaimed children's novels - Wendy Orr's Nim'sIsland, Katherine Paterson's BridgeTo Terebithia and Lois Lowry's TheGiver - and Kate DiCamillo's BecauseOf Winn-Dixie and ...
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Years takes up European marketing job at WBITD
Chandra Yearshas been promoted to vice president of European marketing at Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD).The Burbank-based Years will relocate to London to overseeWBITD's marketing, publicity and servicing executives and staff throughoutEurope, and support WBITD's European sales executives on marketing campaigns.She willcontinue to report to Lisa Gregorian, senior vice president ...
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Mythos Studios starts production on Poetry Slam doc
Mythos Studios, the filmmaking arm of Austin, Texas-based advertising agency GSD&M, has begunproduction on the poetry slam documentary Slam Channel.Executive producer TimMcClure is collaborating with producer and co-directors Mike Henry and KyleFuller of Confessions Multimedia and producer Chris Ohlson of 824 Pictures.Scheduled to open nextspring, the picture follows a team ...
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Radclyffe options best-selling Edge Chronicles
UK producer Sarah Radclyffehas optioned 10-book children's fantasy series The Edge Chronicles.Jigsaw Films, the productionlabel for family films that Radclyffe runs with Courtney Pledger and BillGodfrey, aims to turn the series into a studio-level family action-adventurefranchise.The story of a younglibrarian knight, which Jigsaw optioned with support body the UK Film ...
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Azkaban, Troy now in Warner's top five international hitlist
Warner Bros confirmedyesterday (12) that Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban and Troywere the studio's fourth and fifth biggest international releases of all timerespectively.Azkaban reached $405.3m at the international box officefollowing a $21.7m weekend haul and lies behind the first two Harry Potterinstalments and The Matrix Reloadedin Warner Bros' ...
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Mirren to be honoured with Britannia Award by BAFTA/LA
Helen Mirren will receiveBAFTA LA's Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in InternationalEntertainment at the 2004 Britannia Awards in Los Angeles on Nov 4.Mirren can currently be seenopposite Robert Redford in Fox Searchlight's kidnap drama The Clearing, and is filming the contract killer thriller Shadowboxer opposite Cuba Gooding Jr.A veteran of ...
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Adam & Paul takes top Galway honours
Adam & Paul, the new debut feature film fromIrish commercials director Lenny Abrahamson, ran away with the Best FirstFeature Award at Sunday's closing event for the Galway Film Fleadh.The Porridge Pictures film, which was produced by JonnySpeers and written by lead actor Mark O'Halloran, had its world premiere inGalway on ...
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DGA sets annual awards for Jan 29, 2005
The 57th AnnualDGA Awards dinner has been scheduled for Jan 29 2005 at the Century plaza Hotelin Los Angeles.The deadline forreturning all film nomination ballots is Jan 5 and the five film nominees will beannounced the following day.The deadline for returning final film ballots is Jan 28,DGA president Michael Apted ...
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Leon And Olvido
Dir. Xavier Bermudez.Spain. 2004. 112mins.A coming-of-age picture with a difference, Leon And Olvido, XavierBermudez's tale of an adolescent afflicted with Down's syndrome and hisinfatuation with his older sister walks a narrow path between bad taste andhigh melodrama. Thankfully it manages, almost until the end, to avoid slippinginto shoddy predictability and ...
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Oh Happy Day to open Hamburg Festival
Hella Joof's Danish gospel comedy Oh Happy Day willbe the opening film of this year's Filmfest Hamburg (Sept 23-30).Oh Happy Day is beinghandled internationally by Nordisk Film International and will be released inGermany on December 30 by MFA.
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