All Screen articles in 16 March 2004 – Page 2
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Latin American countries unite to protect their film industries
On the eve of the signing an ambitious pan-Latin American filmagreement, the head of Argentina's film institute has underlined hisdetermination to face off against the MPAA, protect the local film industry andsupport moves to make film and other "cultural products" an exception in worldtrade agreements.INCAA head Jorge Coscia and representatives ...
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Mona Lisa Smile is top in UK, brings total to $64.7m for CTFDI
Sony/Revolution's drama Mona Lisa Smile opened number one in the UK at the weekend through ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), grossing $2.3m on 414 screens.Overall the picture took $3m toraise its industry-wide running total to $64.7m.In other runningtotals, the horror picture Gothika added $4.9m for $37.5m, drama Big Fish added ...
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BVI's Brother Bear tops $100m, opens second in Japan
Buena Vista International's animated hit Brother Bear passed $100m at the weekend thanks to a$6.2m haul that raised the picture's international running total to $103.3m.Key drivers were Italy, where the picture stayed top for thesecond weekend in a row on $2.2m for $5.4m, and Japan, where it opened secondon $1.9m ...
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Rickman signs for Manchester United Ruined My Life
AlanRickman, Derek Jacobi, Jason Isaacs, Janet McTeer and Henry Goodman are set tostar in Manchester United Ruined My Life, the feature debut of director Mark Brozel.The adaptation of Colin Shindler's best-sellingnovel is a rites of passage story about a Jewish boy in 50s and 60s Manchester,growing up under the shadow ...
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Universal's international marketing structure takes shape
Universal Pictures vice president of international distributionJack Ledwith is taking on the added role of managing director of Los Angelesoperations as the studio restructures its international theatrical marketingand distribution business to coordinate London and Los Angeles operations.Ledwith, who has been with the studio since 1996, will be the mostsenior member ...
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Yuzna embarks on Rottweiler shoot
Director Brian Yuzna has begun shooting on Rottweiler, his latest contribution to Filmax's FantasticFactory genre division.The film will shoot for seven weeks in and around Barcelona.The story follows a young man who,following his escape from an EU prison in Spain for African immigrants, setsout to find his lover. Hot ...
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Dash directs State Property II for Lions Gate
Production has begun in New York on Dash Films/ROC Films' StateProperty II, the sequelto Abdul Malik Abbott's crime drama about an ambitious group of gangsters thatwas released by Lions Gate in 2002.Damon Dash will direct based on a screenplay by Adam Moreno, withwhom he collaborated on last year's hip-hop satire ...
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Jet Set producers ready cult French surf comedy
DirectorJames Huth will begin shooting comedy Brice De Nice in mid-April in Nice and Biarritz.The film is based on a character created by comedian Jean Dujardin who hasbecome something of a cult figure in France in recent years.Brice DeNice is a hapless surfer - he can barely even swim - ...
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Argentinian president to combat Hollywood 'Goliath'
The president ofArgentina, Nestor Kirchner, announced a raft of government measures to supportthe local film industry yesterday at the Mar del Plata International FilmFestival.In an emotivespeech delivered to an emphatically enthusiastic audience, in which heportrayed Argentinian cinema as a David locked in a heroic struggle withHollywood's Goliath, the popular president ...
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Spanish industry joins weekend protests against terrorism
Spain's media sector came to a halt this weekend,responding to last week's terrorist attacks with the same solemnity andshock that has characterised national - and international -response to the tragedy.Celebrities such as Pedro Almodovar and Javier Bardem wereamong the more than two million people who gathered in an anti-terroristdemonstration in ...
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Steen's Aftermath to open Copenhagen's NatFilm
The 15th edition of Copenhagen's NatFilm Festival willkick off with the premiere of acclaimed actress Paprika Steen's featuredirecting debut, Aftermath, on Mar 25.The drama about a couple trying to recover from the death oftheir child has already picked up considerable buzz and expectations are high.Aftermath is writtenby Kim Fupz Aakeson ...
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Italian cinema wins Euros 80m cash injection
The Italian government has approved an emergency decree topour an extra Euros 80m into the local cinema industry, which will be largelydestined for production and will free at least 80 state-funded films fromlimbo.Around 80 films are believed to have been greenlit in 2003for state funding for production, but have still ...
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Polly takes $11m for top international title over weekend
Spurred by top berths in Italy, France and Spain at the weekend,Universal's romantic comedy Along Came Polly added an estimated $11m through UIP fora $39m international running total.Pollyopened top in Italy ahead of five local language releases on $1.6m from 225sites and opened on the same amount in France from ...
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Count To 100 triumphs at BUFF children's fest
In its first festival appearance Linda KrogsoeHolmberg's Danish feature debut Count To 100 this weekend was selected as the bestyouth-children's film at the 21st BUFF, Malmoe's international filmfestival for children and young people.The newcomer took the award in tough Nordic andinternational competition with Petter Naess' Just Bea and Teresa Fabik's ...
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Something's Gotta Give crosses $100m for Warner
The romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give passed $100m at the international boxoffice at the weekend as it raised its total by an estimated $6.6m to $101.6mfor Warner Bros Pictures International.Figures released by thedistributor reveal the picture has taken a total of $72.6m in Europe, $19.4m inthe Asia-Pacific region and $9.6m ...
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Secret Window
Dir: David Koepp. US. 2004.Johnny Depp is beloved among moviegoers for his outrageous screen characters whose exaggerated physical attributes have included wigs, facial tics and garish attire. In the tepid psychodrama Secret Window, based on a novella by Stephen King, Depp dons a frayed bath robe, big spectacles and a ...
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NEW ZEALAND
For the fourth consecutive weekend The Passion Of The Christ has held its position as the most popular film in NZ cinemas. It grossed NZ$192,008 for Hoyts/Icon from 29 screens. UIP's challenger was Paycheck but the NZ$164,695 worth of ticket sales for 38 screens was only enough for it to ...
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Jersey Girl
Dir: Kevin Smith. US. 2004. 103mins.It's theoretically possible, of course, that director Kevin Smith has not used every cliche associated with the domestic genre featuring guilty yuppie parents and guilting kids, but audiences will be hard-pressed to find anything missing in Jersey Girl. As attested to in an egregious 'director's ...
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FINLAND
Little changed at the top of the Finnish chart this week where the new release of Along Came Polly grabbed Something's Gotta Give's third place, leaving Brother Bear as number one, local hit Dog Nail Clipper on second and last week's new local film Beyond The Front Line fourth.For the ...
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DENMARK
With a big 62 print release behind it the release of local veteran Erik Clausen's Villa Paranoia managed to oust Something's Gotta Give from the top spot, as it opened with 24,075 admissions.It is the 10th feature film from the 62 year-old actor, writer and director. The Keaton-Nicholson pairing did, ...