All Screen articles in 17 June 2004 – Page 3
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Facing Windows, Born Into Brothels are Seattle favourites
The 30th Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)closed on Sunday with its annual Golden Space Needle Awards for audiencefavourites at the event.Ferzan Ozpetek's Facing Windows was named best film by audiences whileZana Briski and Ross Kauffman's Born Into Brothels was named best documentary.Meanwhile in the juried awards, Zak Penn's Incident At ...
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Israel's Bonjour wins at Portugal's Festroia
Bonjour M. Shlomi, an Israeli film written anddirected by Shemi Zarkhin, has won the two top prizes - best picture and bestscript - at the International Festroia film festival which wrapped on June 13,at Setubal, Portugal.The coming-of-age story of an adolescent with an uncannygift for cooking who turns out to ...
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Screen launches new world prizes with Hollywood Film Awards
ScreenInternational has teamed up with the Hollywood Film Festival and its HollywoodAwards as well as filmfestivals.com to launch the festival's World and Europeancinema awards.A blue ribbonselection committee comprising 20 international judges will select 10 picturesfrom a list of 40 as nominees for the Hollywood World Awards and will nominatea further ...
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Warner confirms Harry as fourth biggest opening in Australia
Warner Bros confirmed that HarryPotter And The Prisoner of Azkabanrecorded the fourth biggest opening of all time in Australia at the weekend asthe family picture raised its overall international total by an estimated$66.4m from more than 9,900 screens in 40 countries to $204.8m.The third Harry Potter instalment took $8.6m on ...
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Day After Tomorrow adds $33.4m for Fox International
The Day AfterTomorrow grossed $33.4mat the weekend to raise its international running total to $238.9m, accordingto updated figures released by Fox International.The picture remained number one in its second weekend inJapan, where it fell 20% and added $5m on 607 screens for $19.4m.It added $2.3mon 319 in its second weekend ...
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UK's Magic Light strikes Isle of Man deal
Martin Pope and MichaelRose's UK production company Magic Light Pictures has struck a developmentpartnership with the Isle of Man.The three-year deal providesMagic Light with overhead and an annual development fund for projects whichwill be co-financed by the Isle of Man.Magic Light was formed lastyear by producers with a focus on ...
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Spain's Lauren files for credit protection
Beleaguered Spanish distributor-exhibitor Lauren AudiovisualHoldings, parent company of Lauren Films and Lauren Distribution, is operatingas normal, despite filing for credit protection late last week.According to sources, the company is now operating strictlyon a cashflow basis as a Barcelona judge attempts to reconcile its debt.But its cinemas remained open at the ...
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Kudos teams with Webster for film company
Paul Webster, formerly headof FilmFour, has formed Kudos Film as a joint venture with leading TV dramaproducers Stephen Garrett and Jane Featherstone, joint managing directors ofKudos Film and Television.The new stand-alone companyaims to exploit synergies between TV and film in terms of talent on both sidesof the camera."There is a ...
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Bitter Dream (Khab E Talkh)
Dir/scr/ed:Mohsen Amiryoussefi. Iran. 2004. 87minsThelow-budget Iranian film Bitter Dream is a study of the meaning of lifeand death that is infinitely more far-reaching than it initially appears.Writtenand directed by first-time film-maker Mohsen Amiryoussefi, a self-confessedBrechtian, the film unfolds as a series of loosely connected, intenselyself-reflective vignettes, which centre on Abbas ...
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EASTERN EUROPE Production Listings - June 16 2004
EASTEUROPEAN PRODUCTION LISTINGS - 16 June 2004RUSSIAPRE-PRODUCTIONBUMER-2 (BIMMER-2)(STV Film Company, Pygmalion Production) Action movie. ProdS: Sergei Selyanov, Sergei Chlyants. Dir: Pyotr Buslov. Scr:Denis Rodimin, Pyotr Buslov.Contact: MikhailMaltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684-5817MONGOL (GENGHIS KHAN)(STV Film Company). Epic saga about the unknown period of life of Genghis Khanand his love ...
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HONG KONG 15 June
Fox's disaster juggernaut, The Day After Tomorrow, continued its assault at the top of theHong Kong box office, taking US$1.3m from 59 screens in its second week for acumulative gross of more than US$4m.But Korean melodrama Windstruckstill managed to open strongly grossing US$618,131 from 33 screens in its firstseven days. ...
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FINLAND 15 June
As Finland wasn'ttreated to the magic of Harry Potter this weekend, The Day After Tomorrow had no problem staying on top of the chartin front of Troy and the new releaseof Guiliermo De Toro's Hellboy.With just 10 printsthe comic book adaptation performed well if unimpressively with this week'ssecond best screen ...
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NEW ZEALAND 15 June
Harry Potter And ThePrison Of Azkaban's NZ$1.79m gross for its opening weekend is nearly doublethe combined result of the rest of the films in the top 20 chart, and about 75%up on the result for The Day AfterTomorrow two weeks earlier. Roadshow released Harry Potter on a whopping (for New ...
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IFC, FilmFour team for July's Me And You
IFC Productions will finance and serve as executive producer on MeAnd You And Everyone We Know with Film Four, based on a screenplay by artist and film-makerMiranda July who will also direct.The project focuses on a lonelyshoe salesman who commits a desperate act to reconnect with his family. Julywill star ...
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UK Film Focus unveils inaugural programme
180 international buyers from 30 countries are expected inLondon at the end of the month for the inaugural UK Film Focus.24 films will be screening at the event, held atLondon's National Film Theatre, it was confirmed late last week.There are eight world premieres, among them ShaneMeadows' Dead Man's Shoes(controversially overlooked ...
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Filmax consolidates market position as revenues rise
After a capital expansion of Euros 50m in September 2003from public sector sources, Filmax Entertainment consolidated its position inthe market last year according to its annual results, announcing revenues ofEuros 91.8m, a 11.4 percent hike from 2002 revenues.A mini-studio involved in production, exhibition anddistribution, Filmax's pre-tax profits for 2003 stood ...
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Warner Bros swoops on RRRrrrr!!! remake rights
Asterix And Obelix: Mission Cleopatra director Alain Chabat has sold remake rights to hislatest film RRRrrrr!!! to WarnerBros. in the US. The film, released in January 2004, wracked up 1.7 million inadmissions.Although the film was co-produced and sold internationallyby StudioCanal, Chabat's production company Chez Wam handled the saledirectly according to ...
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Spanish film-makers look to boost ties with Germany
Spanish producers have met with their German counterparts aspart of the Madrid's fourth German Film Festival to propose changes to aco-production deal signed in 2002.Measures agreed include lowering the minimum co-productionparticipation to 10 percent of the budget; loosening up the rules governingco-productions; setting up a fund for bi-lateral co-productions comparable ...
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UK post-production trade body names first chief
Gaynor Davenport has been appointed the first ever chiefexecutive officer (CEO) of UK Post - the new association representing the filmand broadcast post production and effects industry.Gaynor was formerly chief operating officer of The ListeningCompany (TLC). TLC is a contact centre with a division specialising in media.Her clients included Sky, ...
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Singapore Bet pays off with record haul
Singapore's satiricalcomedy The Best Bet scored$66,000 (S$113,530) on 38 prints on its June 9 opening, making it the biggestever opening day gross for a local film. It also raked in $99,000 from itssneak preview over the weekend.The $584,000 The Best Bet, made by homegrown TV comedian-turned-director JackNeo and starring a ...