All Screen articles in 16 March 2004 – Page 3
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Screeners war is over: MPAA will let individual distributors decide
It'sopen season for awards screener tapes in 2004. It emerged late last week thatthe MPAA has decided to leave screener policy up to individual distributorsfrom now on and will not enforce its members to limit mailouts of tapes orDVDs.Thenew policy was made known to Screendaily.com in a letter MPAA president ...
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Liberty Media to create cable giant in France
UnitedGlobalCom, part of John Malone's Liberty Media, has confirmed that it is to buy the 50.1% controlling stake in leading French cable network Noos that is currently owned by the Suez group. The move could be the first step towards a major rationalisation of the still fragmented French cable sector.Separately, ...
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Irish production industry in low budget regime
For full Irish production listings, click HEREAdam And Paul, Man About Dog, Freeze Frame, Timbuktu, The Halo Effect, Cowboys And Angels, Headrush, Dead Meat, Bite, Starfish, Inside I'm Dancing, The Honeymooners, Jonjo Mickybo. It's a long list, a veritable catalogue of recently made Irish films, some of them just completed ...
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Spring bounce for French cinema promotional drive
France's annual Spring promotional drive 'Printemps Au Cinema' got off to a good start yesterday (Sunday 14 March) with 1.2 million tickets sold at the box office. That represents a 15% increase on the same day last year and is the biggest single day total in the five year history ...
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Coens back in Cannes competition with The Ladykillers
Joel & Ethan Coen's latest black comedy The Ladykillers is heading to the Cannes Film Festivalin May, with a May 18 slot reserved for the film in main competition.Although the selection is not absolutely finalised, the Coens andthe film's star Tom Hanks were freely talking about the Cannes trip in ...
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In its third weekend in cinemas The Passion Of The Christ had to suffer being pushed down into second place by another Icon film, The Butterfly Effect, but not much separated them.The Butterfly Effect's first four-day cinema outing took A$1,341,092 from 172 screens while The Passion took A$1,301,464 from 158 ...
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Good Lawyer's Wife wins Deauville Asian film fest
The top prize at the Deauville festival of Asian film, the Lotus d'Or was yesterday (Sun 14 March) awarded to Korean film A Good Lawyer's Wife by director Im Sang-Soo.The festival, now in its the sixth edition, was long on Korean films and martial arts pictures. It included a retrospective ...
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Indian entertainment revenues to hit $9.5bn by 2008
India's entertainment industry will generate $9.5bn in revenues 2008, according to a new study by consultants Ernst & Young.Revenues for the industry - which includes films, radio, television and live events - grew by 15% in 2003 to $4.2bn.Film revenues are currently worth $1bn, according to Ernst & Young, second ...
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Secret Window opens with $19m, but can't touch The Passion juggernaut
The Passion Of The Christ passed the quarter-billion dollar mark at the weekend as itstayed top on an estimated $31.7m for $264m after 19 days.The picture is predicted to fare better than was thought possiblea week ago, with US distributor Newmarket Films' head of distribution RobSchwartz reportedly foreseeing a $350m-$400m ...
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IRELAND Production Listings - March 15 2004
Ireland - March 15Pre-ProductionAURORA ISLAND(Magma Films [Irl] Art Oko Film [Ger]). Co-Prods: Future Film [UK]. Budget: Euros 5m. Backers: Buena Vista [Ger]. Dist: Buena Vista (Germany). Genre: Thriller. Exec. Prods: Ralph Christians, Stephen Margolis, Michele Berk. Prods: Karel Dirka, Clodagh Freeman. Dir: Peter Medak. Scr: Agatha Dominik, Robert Newton. DoP: ...
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Foxtel launches Oz pay per view movie service
Australia's Foxtellaunched its new digital pay TV service on Sunday (March 14), givingsubscribers access to 27 pay-per-view near-video-on-demand channels of moviecontent.Each movie will costconsumers $4.4 (A$5.95), although those households which opt to pay $70(A$94.95) per month for the top pay TV tier, will get two per month included.Foxtel Box Office, ...
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King set to surpass Crocodile Dundee in Oz
The Australian film industry should prepare to go into mourning within the next week when The Return Of The King displaces Crocodile Dundee to become the second biggest box office hit of all time in the territory.Crocodile Dundee was top of the hit list from 1986 to 1998, when it ...
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Perfume, Sky Captain snapped up by RCV
Independent Dutch distributor RCV Entertainment has announced details of a number of high profile acquisitions at last month's American Film Market.The Hilversum based company was one of the first buyers for Tom Tykwer's Pefume adaptation, which was sold by Summit Entertainment.RCV has also high hopes for the science-fiction epic Sky ...
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Korean cinema surges on back of Taegukgi, Silmido
Korean cinema recorded an 82.5% market share in February, setting a new monthly record on the back of a record-breaking performance by Korean War film Taegukgi.According to a report by investment/distribution company IM Pictures, the Kang Je-gyu-directed Taegukgi amassed a 52% share of the market all by itself, while Cinema ...
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Argentinian films dominate Toulouse financing initiative
The fifth annual Films In Progress initiative kicks off March 25-26 at the 16th annual Toulouse Latin American Film Festival (March 19-28).The joint initiative with Spain's San Sebastian International Film Festival aims to attach financiers to Latin American films stuck in post-production. Some 42 films from 11 countries were submitted ...
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Avi Arad to receive Showmanship award at ShoWest
Marvel Studioschief Avi Arad will receive the inaugural Robert W Selig Showmanship Award forAchievement in Film-making at the ShoWest opening day luncheon hosted by LionsGate Films and display technology company Christie in Las Vegas on Mar 23.Lions Gate willscreen its comic book adaptation The Punisher, which Arad produced with Gale ...
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Irish producers body appoints new director
Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) has appointed Malcolm Byrne as its new director.Byrne is a law graduate and previously held the positions of Press and Research Officer at the Chambers of Commerce of Ireland. He has broad experience of working with member and voluntary-based organisations.He is a former vice president of ...
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Polly comes along in France, Spain and Italy
A strongJapanese bow this upcoming weekend should be enough to push Buena VistaInternational's (BVI) animated hit Brother Bear past $100m in international ticketsales.The picture hasamassed $95.8m and executives will be hoping for a strong bow in Japan, whichcan be a highly accommodating animation market as evidence by Finding Nemo's number ...
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Art Port, Peacock acquire rights to Marilyn doc
Maine-basedValhalla Productions has sold theatrical, home video/DVD and television rightsto the documentary Marilyn's Man to Art Port in Japan and television and video/DVD rights toPeacock Films in Australia and New Zealand.Bothacquisitions were made at AFM and facilitated by independent films distributorITN Distribution.Written,directed and produced by Valhalla Productions owner Schani Krug, ...
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Focus celebrates $100m with Lost In Translation
Focus Features' Lostin Translation, which wonwriter-director Sofia Coppola a best original screenplay Oscar, has passed$100m in worldwide ticket sales.The picture hasgrossed $44.2m at the domestic box office from a 26-week run and taken morethan $56m internationally.Theinternational total is certain to increase considerably when Lost InTranslation opens inJapan, where the story ...