All Screen articles in 15 October 2004 – Page 3
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Warner strikes new deal for seven-screen Beijing multiplex
Warner Bros International Cinemas (WBIC) continued to increase itsstake in the Chinese exhibition sector with the announcement yesterday (Oct 12)that it and Guangzhou Jin Yi Film and Television Investment Co have agreed toform a joint venture company to build a multiplex theatre in Beijing with WBICserving as the majority partner.New ...
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NORWAY 13 October
Still on top after four weeks not least because of itsmassive 105 prints, Shrek 2 kept infront of The Bourne Supremacy onsecond while the two local releases, UNOand Hawaii, Oslo changed places, whenthe latter served up this week's best screen average (NOK31,841) and fell just13% compared to UNO's 30%.However, that ...
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SERBIA/MONTENEGRO 13 October
After giving a141% boost to the overall market last weekend,Life Is A Miracle sold another24,876 admissions this weekend and will pass the Serbian-Montenegrinblockbuster benchmark of 100,000 spectators by the end of the week.Kusturica'slatest offering now stands at total gross of $257,223.The only openerof the weekend, Tuck's Dodgeballlanded in third position, ...
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SWEDEN 13 October
While As In Heavenremained untouchable at the top of the Swedish chart, the new release of localfamily film Max & Josef - DoubleTrouble (Hakan Brakan & Josef) moved into the second place.However, it was primarily due to its high 105 prints, as its$2,648 screen average was disappointing.As In Heaven againheld ...
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Raintree rolls with Maid horror
Singapore's MediaCorpRaintree Pictures has started the camera rolling for The Maid, a horror flick co-produced by Hong Kong's Dream MovieEntertainment and MovPix International of the Philippines.The $830,000 (S$1.4m) filmis horror story viewed through the eyes of a Filipino domestic maid employed bya family in Singapore. Up-and-coming Filipino actress Alessandra de ...
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Verhoeven, Tanovic win Eurimages funding
New feature projects by Danis Tanovic, Paul Verhoeven andPierre Paul Renders are among 13 European co-productions backed with over Euros4.4m by the Strasbourg-based co-production fund Eurimages in its latest roundof funding.The largest amounts went to Tanovic's Hell (Euros 600,000),which was written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz for the late Krzysztof Kieslowski aspart ...
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Aranda gathers high profile cast for White Knight
Spanish director Vicente Aranda has united a high-profilecast for his new Euros 13.6m English-language medieval romantic adventure TheWhite Knight, headlining veteran Victoria Abril with rising stars Paz Vegaand Pilar Lopez de Ayala.Argentina's Leonardo Sbaraglia and Briton Caspar Zafer roundout the cast, expected to be finalized with a couple of high-profile ...
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Oscar winning short film director to shoot Ambulance
Oscarwinning short film director Laurits Munch-Petersen is ready to shoot hisfeature debut, Ambulance, after winning $900,000 (DKK5.5m)backing from the Danish Film Institute.Thethriller shoots from late October based on a script by the Danish writer-directorand Lars Andreas Petersen. It stars Thomas Bo Larsen (Festen), PawHenriksen (Brothers) and Helle Fagralid (Kings' Game).Itsees ...
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Butterfly (Hu Die)
Dir: Yan Yan Mak, HongKong. 2004. 124minsA well-crafted butpainfully earnest lesbian coming-of-age drama, Hu Die attempts inunconvincing fashion to combine the personal and the political. Using flashbackand newsreel footage, it makes constant reference to the protests leading up tothe massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989, when students stood up against ...
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Brides (Nyfes)
Dir:Pantelis Voulgaris. Gr. 2004. 128minsGreekveteran Pantelis Voulgaris takes audiences on a long, slow voyage in Brideswhich, while mostly shot in English, is unlikely to travel far from its homeport for overseas markets.WithBarbara De Fina and Martin Scorsese as producer and executive producerrespectively, the film might attract international attention, but distributorswill ...
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Arsene Lupin
Dir. Jean-PaulSalome. Fr-UK-Spain-It. 2004. 132mins.At Euros 23m, ArseneLupin is one of the most expensive French films of the year, with sumptuoussets, lavish costumes, picturesque locations and spectacular camerapyrotechnics. But there is little else to recommend it: certainly not thescreenplay, which never quiet makes up its mind what it wants to ...
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Bac launches foreign sales arm
Frenchdistributor Bac Films has officially launched a new sales outfit to be calledBac Films International, the company announced Monday.Thedepartment will be run by Silvere Moreau, who will work to sell theatrical, TVand video rights to foreign distributors. Bac said the objective would be tohandle international sales on six films per ...
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AFM reports record numbers of films, exhibitors
A record 435films including a record 278 market premieres are confirmed for the 25th AFMwhich takes place Nov 3 to 10 in Santa Monica, said organizing body IndependentFilm & Television Alliance (IFTA) yesterday.The line-upincludes 38 titles in official selection at the AFI FEST, the annual event withwhich AFM teams up ...
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AUSTRALIA 12 October
In its third weekend on release Shark Tale was top ofthe pops at the box office with a gross of A$1,707,044 from 289 screens forUIP. Despite having spent only 18 days in cinemas, its total gross of nearlyA$12m is second only to that of TheBourne Supremacy's A$15m, which has taken ...
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NEW ZEALAND 12 October
The homegrown In MyFather's Den can hold its head high as a result of its first weekend incinemas, which comes after considerable festival exposure this year bothlocally and abroad. It grossed NZ$184,793 from 20 screens for Hoyts to claimthird place.It was one of two openers in the top three but ...
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DENMARK 12 October
Although last week's local chart topper Kings' Game retaineda better box-office screen average (DK34,005), My Sister's Kids In Egypt took the lead with its massive 90 printrelease - and a DKK31,566 average. The family-children's film, which was pannedby the critics, is the third in the successful series, and like the ...
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GERMANY 12 October
Takings may have slipped week-on-week by 20%, but OliverHirschbiegel's The Downfall stillreigns supreme at the German box office for the fourth week in a row - just.The World War II drama received serious competition from Steven Spielberg's The Terminal which grossed $3.3m from502 screens and had the weekend's best screen ...
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UK/IRELAND 12 October
British director Gurinder Chadha scored another hit at theUK box office this week as her take on Jane Austen, Bride And Prejudice, opened top of the chart.The romantic comedy's excellent $3m (£1.7m) launch may notquite have matched the debut of Bend It LikeBeckham, the director's 2002 smash which launched the ...
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BVI takes another $4.5m from The Village including $1m in Greece
Buena Vista International's mystery The Village raised its international running totalby an estimated $4.5m to $121.5m at the weekend, powered by a record debut fordirector M Night Shyamalan in Greece.The picture opened top in the Mediterranean territory on $1m, morethan twice as big as the director's previous biggest launch for ...
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I, Robot still top in Japan as Fox International passes $1bn
Fox International executivessaid yesterday (11) the distributor passed $1bn in ticket sales this year,adding that further details would be released later this week.Sci-fi thriller I, Robot, one of Fox International's key drivers in 2004, added anestimated $2.8m on 761 screens at the weekend for a $182.6m cumulative total.The picture stayed ...