All Screen articles in 17 June 2004 – Page 4
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AusFilm names new Los Angeles-based commissioner
Marketeer Tracey Montgomeryhas been named as the new AusFILMcommissioner based in LA - the executive charged with leadingAustralia's efforts to attract international production to its shores.Mongomery, who is currently executive manager of locations andinternational production for the Pacific Film and Television Commission, basedin Queensland, is replacing David Pratt, who finishes ...
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Day After Tomorrow adds $33.7m for Fox International
Fox International's The Day After Tomorrow added $33.7m at he weekend to raise itsinternational running total to $239.2m.The weekend results for the eco-disaster picture were chieflypowered by $5.3m on 607 screens in its second weekend in Japan, where it rankednumber one, dropping 17% for $19.6m.Korea fell 6% in its second ...
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Spain's Telespan 2000 wins bank cash injection
Telespan 2000, leading Spanish producer of box office hits TheOther Side Of The Bed, Torremolinos 73 and FootballDays, has completed a restructuring whichincludes a cash injection from local savings bank Banco Gallego in return for20% of the company. Bed and Football Days director David Serrano also becomes a shareholder. The ...
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Azkaban conjures up $65.5m weekend and crosses $200m
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban dominated the international box officewith a mighty weekend, grossing an estimated $65.5m to raise its running totalthrough Warner Bros Pictures International to $204m.The result combines with the $158.1m domestic total for a $362.2mworldwide score. Azkaban opened in an additional 16 countries and according ...
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Van Helsing passes $140m for Universal/UIP
Universal's Dawn Of The Dead raised its international running total through UIP to $17.2m,rising to $32m through all distributors.The horror remake opened on$600,000 on 147 in Australia and took $52,000 on 41 in New Zealand.Van Helsing added $2m from 1,600 screens in 32 territories for a $141minternational running total, $131.5m ...
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The Terminal
Dir: Steven Spielberg.US. 2004. 128minsWhen Steven Spielberg sets out to make a feelgood heartwarmer, as he openlystates was his intention in The Terminal, cynics better watch out. Thefilm-maker whose command of the craft is so fluent that he can eke tears fromthe hardest of hearts goes all out for sentiment ...
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Leading Thai exhibitors to merge
Thailand's two leading exhibitors - Major Cineplex Group andEGV Entertainment - are merging to create one of the largest cinema circuits inSouth-East Asia.Althoughboth companies are headed by members of the Poolvaraluck family, they've beenbattling for market supremacy for the past decade. According to Major Cineplexpresident, Vicha Poolvaraluck, the merger will ...
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Riddick, Stepford can't touch Harry Potter
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban stayed top of the US charts in its second week at theweekend as it added $35.1m for $158.1m according to studio estimates, beatingoff spirited openings by three new releases.Warner Bros' family adventure finished some way ahead of the restof the pack, which was ...
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Riddick, Stepford can't touch Harry Potter
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban stayed top of the US charts in its second week at theweekend as it added $35.1m for $158.1m according to studio estimates, beatingoff spirited openings by three new releases.Warner BrosC; family adventure finished some way ahead of the restof the pack, which was ...
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Riddick, Stepford can't touch Harry Potter
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban stayed top of the US charts in its second week at theweekend as it added $35.1m for $158.1m according to studio estimates, beatingoff spirited openings by three new releases.Warner Bros' family adventure finished some way ahead of the restof the pack, which was ...
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Iranian Tradition wins top Shanghai prize
The Seventh Shanghai International Film Festival awarded itsBest Film Award to Iranian film Tradition Of Lover Killing at its closing ceremony held on Sunday night.Meryl Streep and Chinese actor Chen Daoming were on hand topresent the award to director Khosro Masum. The film is about an impoverishedIranian family caught up ...
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South Korean film-makers stunned by quota reversal
In a reversal of position that hasstunned the local film industry, South Korea's Ministry of Culture and Tourismhas announced that it will now support the reduction of the nation's embattledScreen Quota System. TheMinistry's acquiescence makes it almost certain that the Screen Quota will beweakened in the near to mid-future.In a ...
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Garfield The Movie
Dir: Peter Hewitt. US 2004.80minsHe is one of the mostrecognisable comic strip characters in the world today - a fat, slovenly,self-satisfied but lovable orange furball named Garfield - and he is the latesttwo-dimensional creature to star in his own live action/computer generatedfilm. But this fat cat won't generate half the ...
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Working Title finds its Darcy
Working Title Films hasfinally found its Darcy. The UK powerhouse has cast rising British actorMatthew Macfadyen as the arrogant but eligible male lead in its upcoming JaneAusten adaptation Pride And Prejudice.Macfadyen will star oppositeKeira Knightley, who plays the central Bennet daughter, Elizabeth. The other Bennet sisters will include TheLibertine and ...
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The Chronicles Of Riddick
Dir:David Twohy. US. 2004. 119mins.It'snot just the budget that is bigger on this sequel to Pitch Black, themodestly scaled sci-fi hit from writer/director David Twohy that four years agoset Vin Diesel on the road to stardom. In the $120m Chronicles Of Riddick,cult favourite Twohy fulfils the requirements of a summer ...
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Kaufman to bring Sunshine to Karlovy Vary
The39th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July2-10) hasattracted a number of celebrity guests to this year's event.Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is expected to present MichelGondry's Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, which screens in theHorizons sidebar, while screen veterans Ben Gazzara and Seymour Cassel willintroduce the films in ...
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Italian producers await frozen state funds
GianniProfita, the head of the Italian government's Film Department, has declaredthat the country's new film law will be implemented 'within weeks',thereby freeing funds for Italian production which has stagnated in recentmonths.Italianproducers have recently complained that the state film commission has not metfor months to greenlight local films for state funding. ...
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Early audience demand for Fahrenheit has echoes of Passion fever
In a move reminiscent of the demand that engulfed Mel Gibson's ThePassion Of The Christearlier this year, the US distributors of Fahrenheit 9/11 have set up a freephone number andwebsite to handle group and advance ticket sales.The toll-free number for the group sales programme began operatingon Jun 7, advising callers ...
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TLA picks up Calson's fist fight drama Shiner for North America
TLA Releasing has picked upChristian Calson's directorial debut thriller Shiner and plans to release it on video in October.The distributor acquiredhome entertainment rights in the US and Canada for the picture, which will makeits world premiere at the upcoming 28th San Francisco International Gay &Lesbian Film Festival.TLA Releasing's director ofacquisitions ...
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Warner International crosses $1bn gross mark in record time
Fuelled by hits like TheLast Samurai, Troy, Something's Gotta Give and the latest Harry Potterinstalment, among others, Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) claims tohave passed $1bn at the box office in record time.The distributor announced internationalbox office receipts of more than $1.2bn on Jun 7, making it the first to ...