All Screen articles in 18 February 2004 – Page 4
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Sandler's back at number one for Valentine's Day
Columbia's romantic comedy Fifty First Dates was the emphatic box office winner atthe weekend as it opened top on a superb estimated $41m - another smash hitopening for its star Adam Sandler.Estimatesput it at the second biggest February bow ever behind Hannibal in 2001 ($58m) and a pinch above Daredevil, ...
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Ae Fond Kiss
Dir: Ken Loach. UK-It-Ger-Sp. 2004. 103 mins.Ken Loach is famous for shooting in sequence and not revealing key plot details to his actors beforehand, in order to catch the freshness of their shock or anger unfiltered by rehearsal. It's been a while since he's startled his fans in the same ...
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Lost Embrace (El Abrazo Partido)
Dir Daniel Burman Argentina/France/Italy/Spain. 2003. 101 mins.Argentinian director Daniel Burman's fourth feature, which picked up the Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear at this year's Berlinale, is a bittersweet comedy of national, personal and religious identity set in a Jewish inner city suburb of Buenos Aires at the low point of ...
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Mona Lisa Smile adds $3.3m for Columbia TriStar
Mona Lisa Smile grossed an estimated $3.3 from 1,920 screens for Columbia TriStarFilm Distributors International (CTFDI) at the weekend, raising its CTFDI totalto $39.9m and $48.6m industry-wide.The drama fell to second place in Germany, slipping 37% on $1.2mfor a $10.7m total there.The drama Big Fish opened second in New Zealand ...
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Translation takes $1m in Spain, Actually is top in Taiwan for Universal
Universal's Love Actually opened top in Taiwan on a strong $235,000 from 60 prints,which includes $62,000 from previews.The romantic comedy had a strong holdover in its second weekend inJapan, adding $1.6m from 234 sites for $5.7m.Overall the picture has grossed $161m at the international boxoffice.Focus Features' Lost In Translation scored ...
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Something's hot for Warner with $16.1m weekend
The romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give grossed an estimated $16.1m throughWarner Bros Pictures International at the weekend, raising its early cumulativetotal to an impressive $38.6m.It opened top on Germany on$3.7m from 536 screens and top in Spain on $1.8m from 232.The UK dropped 4% on $2.1m for $5.6m in its ...
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Jackson, Weir are Bafta's King and Master
Sunday night's BAFTA Awards threw up almost as many surprises as Saturday's Berlinale Golden Bears.While The Return Of The King was always a hot favourite for best film; that Master And Commander could equal its awards tally was less predictable. And while Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson were tipped for ...
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Berlinale's Bears full of surprises
In a surprise win, Turkish/German director Fatih Akin's Head On received the Golden Bear at Saturday night's Berlinale awards ceremony - the first German film to win in Berlin since 1986.Other surprises included the shared best actress award, which along with favourite Charlize Theron for Monster honoured newcomer Catalina Sandino ...
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Tarantino to preside over Cannes jury 2004...
Quentin Tarantino will preside over the jury at the 57th CannesFilm Festival this May organizers announced Friday. The director follows in thefootsteps of Patrice Chereau, David Lynch, Liv Ullman and Luc Besson who have toppedthe jury respectively back to 2000.Tarantino and Cannes have a long and warm history with thewunderkind's ...
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Intertainment and Kopelson go separate ways
German rights trader Intertainment and US production company Kopelson Entertainment have mutually agreed to terminate their deal to finance a slate of big budget pictures.According to a statement, the step - effective from Feb 11 - was taken "because of Intertainment's cost-cutting requirements interfering with the production requirements of Kopelson ...
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Rings set for final theatrical outing in Japan
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King will notch up another milestone thisupcoming weekend when it passes $600m at the international box office.Spurred on by its final major market opening in Japan on Feb 14 on750 prints and what should be another batch of decent holdovers in ...
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Festival kickstarts Timebandits journey
The Berlinale has served as the ideal showcase for the new German distributor Timebandits films, which has four films showing in the festival's different sections.While Fatih Akin's new feature Head-On (Gegen Die Wand) premiered in the Official Competition section, Andres Veiel's documentary Die Spielwuetigen unspooled in the Panorama, Felix Randau's ...
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F For Film goes South
French sales agent F For Film has picked up international rights to The South (Het Zuiden), the film by Martin Koolhoven that featured in the main programme of the recent Rotterdam festival.The film is an intense character study about the owner of an industrial laundry and has been described as ...
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DVD sell-through market surges in Germany and France
Confirming the inexorable growth in the global DVD market, latest figures from Germany and France show DVD sell-through growth towering over both the rental and video sectors.The German home entertainment industry posted a year-on-year growth of 11% in revenues to Euros 1.555 bn in 2003, according to Bundesverband Audiovisuelle Medien ...
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Delpy lines up dark directorial debuts
In Berlin with competition title Before Sunset, actress Julie Delpy has revealed further details of her two new directorial projects, both of which are slated to feature roles for her Before Sunset co-star, Ethan Hawke.The $4m Tell Me is a modern fairy tale about a woman trapped with a man ...
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Mar del Plata chief embarks on Village shoot
Miguel Pereira, head of Latin America's leading film festival, Mar del Plata, is due to start principal photography on his latest feature film days after the festival closes.He is in Berlin this week helping artistic producer Mauro Andrizzi put the finishing touches to the festival line-up. Twelve films have been ...
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Buyers sing to Choristes tune
A deal for North American rights to French film Les Choristes is imminent.Sales house Pathe International enjoyed high levels of interest in Berlin where the Market title was one of the few to unite buyers.Pathe is believed to have received a firm offer from Miramax. Executives were confident of a ...
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Music rocks Berlin's festival and market
From the famous to the exotic, this year's Berlinale has been flooded with features and documentaries centering on music."I'm never just looking for portraits, but films with an original approach and the music documentaries we're screening this year have those bridging qualities," says Wieland Speck, the director of the Berlinale ...
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Smith rides Intandem with August
Ex-Winchester boss Gary Smith yesterday announced that he was back in the film business with a new sales and production outfit, Intandem Films.The company is handling international rights on Bille August's thriller Return To Sender, the long-gestating project from writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (The World Is Not Enough) ...