All Screen articles in 18 January 2005 – Page 2
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Bailey named international programmer at TIFF
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival (TIFF) has appointed Cameron Bailey as one of its internationalprogrammers. He returns to the festival after an absence of eight years.A programmer, film criticand screenwriter, Bailey will focus on films from Africa and South Asia andfilmmakers from the US and Europe. Bailey has a had a ...
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Sea Inside wins audience award at Palm Springs
AlejandroAmenabar's true life drama The Sea Inside won the audience award for best narrative feature at the16th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, while Yaron Zilberman'schronicle of the Jewish Sports Club in Watermarks took corresponding documentary honours.Danielle Arbid'scoming-of-age story In the Battlefields won the New Voices/New Visions Award and first-timedirector ...
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Irish Film Board appoints new members
Ireland's Minister for Arts,Sport and Tourism, John O'Donoghue has announced the appointment of the newmembers of the Irish Film Board, effective January 17, for a four-year term. Joining existing out-goingmembers, director Alan Gilsenan and academic Margaret McCarthy MacIntyre, areJames Morris (Chair), Lesley McKimm, Kevin Moriarty, Tristan Orpen Lynch, andKirsten Sheridan.Morris ...
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Danish Film Academy fetes King's Game
The following honours were presented at the Danish Film Academy awards ceremony on Sunday 16 January 2005:Best Danish Feature Film King's Game, producer Meta Louise Foldager for Nimbus Film. Directed by Nicolai Arcel.Best Children and Family Film Terkel In Trouble, produced by Thomas Heinesen and Trine Heidegaard for Nordisk Film. ...
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UK film starts fall 40% in 2004
James Bond, Jude Law perioddrama Tulip Fever, and a big-screen adaptation of BridesheadRevisited all failed to get off the ground last year as UK productionlevels crashed.As the industry was hit bytougher tax laws and a scaling back at traditional sources of funding such asFilmFour, the number of indigenous UK films ...
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Cecchi Gori wins Euros 160m lawsuit against Merrill Lynch
One-time Italian movie mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori has won a legal battle against Merrill Lynch, which now must return Euros 160m it had seized from the producer's coffers to cover alleged debts.Merrill Lynch had seized the money from Cecchi Gori's holding company, Fin.Ma.Vi, to pay back creditors, in a case ...
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Hostage
Dir/scr. ConstantineGiannaris. Gre-Tur. 2004. 102minsThe two Albanians whorecently hijacked a bus in Athens probably did not know that they werere-enacting the screenplay of Constantine Giannaris' Hostage, itselfbased on a similar real-life incident that took place in 1999.As told through the eyes ofan disoriented and angry young Albanian immigrant, this is ...
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Thai action flick scores trio of sales at Bangkok market
Thailand's biggest film of the year, Tom Yum Goong,has struck a trio of deals at the Bangkok Film Market (BFM), part of theBangkok International Film Festival (13-23 Jan).The$8m action flick was pre-sold to Korean major Showbox, Hong Kong's Edko and India'sIndo by Hong Kong-based sales agent Golden Network. Thecompany has ...
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Lewis named production president at Searchlight
In the latest senior appointment at Fox Searchlight as the studioprepares for its biggest ever year, company veteran Claudia Lewis has beenappointed president of production.Lewis (pictured) will oversee the slate including development,packaging, budgeting, casting and production. All production executives willreport to her.Fox Searchlight president Peter Rice called Lewis "hands-down thebest ...
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Crying all the way to the bank
The Japanese appetite forweepies - originating in the early days of Kabuki theatre - remainsundiminished, and local producers are counting on this cinematic staple to paydividends in 2005.What producers have beendiscovering, with the runaway success last year of Isao Yukisaka's romanticdrama Crying Out Love In The Centre Of The World ...
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French production levels dip in 2004
French filmproduction levels dropped slightly in 2004 according to new figures from localindustry body the CNC.Last year, 203films were produced or co-produced of which 167 were co-productions of Frenchinitiative.This represents a4% drop from 2003 when 212 films were produced or co-produced with 183co-productions instigated by the French.However, 2004 was still ...
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Ladies In Lavender go Stateside via Roadside
Roadside Attractions has picked up US rights to Charles Dance'sdirectorial debut Ladies In Lavender, with Sundance Channel Home Entertainment simultaneously acquiringhome video rights.Written by Dance from a short story by William Locke, the picturereceived its premiere at Toronto last autumn and stars Judi Dench and Maggie Smithas elderly sisters who ...
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Laemmle and Zeller team up for new 'virtual' US distribution operation
California arthouse theatrecircuit Laemmle Theatres and marketing expert Steven Zeller of GS EntertainmentMarketing Group have joined forces on Laemmle/Zeller Films, a full-service"virtual" theatrical distributor based in Los Angeles.Without corporate offices,Laemmle/Zeller Films principals Greg Laemmle, who is president of LaemmleTheatres, and Zeller will work out of their respective headquarters, withLaemmle staff ...
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French journalists crown Rois Et Reine
France's Etoiles De LaPresse were handed out Monday evening in Paris with Arnaud Desplechin's RoisEt Reine taking prizes in four categories: best film, best director, andthe top acting awards for Emmanuelle Devos and Matheiu Amalric. The film wasalso recently given the Prix Louis Delluc.The Etoiles are voted on byscores of ...
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Changing Times (Les Temps Qui Changent)
Dir: Andre Techine. Fr.2004. 98mins.The title of Andre Techine's new film has an ironicmeaning its makers certainly never intended: times indeed have changed when theFrench star system, as epitomised by the screen reunion of two of France'sbiggest motion picture icons - Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu - havelittle impact on ...
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Lila Says (Lila Dit Ca)
Dir: Ziad Doueiri. Fr.2004. 89mins.Watching Lila Saysis like putting a watercolour painting instead of a photograph on the frontpage of a newspaper. Just conceivably, there are circumstances where, indefiance of expectations, the broad brush-strokes could work instead of thecrisp snapshot. And, directed by a French Muslim Ziad Doueiri as an ...
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International box office drives Alexander
Alexander grossed an estimated $14.5m from approximately 3,600screens in 51 territories through IS Film Distribution and Warner Bros PicturesInternational at the weekend, driving its international cumulative total to$88m.The picture scored a pair ofstrong debuts through Warner International in Italy and Brazil (see separatereport), and opened top in Romania on $74,995 ...
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ITALY 18 January
Warner Bros's Alexanderstormed into to the Italian box office at number one, taking $3,708,917. TheColin Farrell vehicle was released on 446screens and took a strongaverage of $8,316 per screen. Bridget Jones: The EdgeOf Reason continued its strong run,earning a further $4,851,395 on its second weekend, which brings the romanticcomedy's running ...
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GERMANY 18 January
Sony Pictures Releasingstarted the year well with Closer knocking Ocean's Twelve off thetop spot after four weeks with a screen average of $ 4,787 from 469 screens togross over $ 2.2m. But the weekend's highestscreen average was scored by the German arm of Turkish distributor MaxximumFilms with its latest release ...