All Screen articles in 18 January 2005 – Page 3
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HUNGARY 18 January
Despite five new and verydifferent films on offer last weekend for Hungarian cinema-goers, NationalTreasure was able to top the admissions chart for the second week and willeasily reach 100,000 admissions.Jude Law-starrer Alfiefailed to impress local audiences registering a mere 10,000 admissions with ascreen average of less than 1,000 admissions. Both ...
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UK/IRELAND 18 January
It proved a close runchallenge at the top of the UK chart this week as two openers fought for thelead. Sony Pictures Releasing International's Closer just pipped UIP's TeamAmerica: World Police thanks to its Thursday previews.With previews of $239,961 (£128,432)from 242 sites factored in Closer's weekend finished on $2.9m (£1.57m)ahead ...
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Vasquez, Tellis join IS in key marketing, distribution posts
Trish Vasquez (pictured) and DeborahTellis have joined IS Film Distribution as vice president of marketing andpublicity and director of distribution respectively.Based in Santa Monica,Vasquez will assume leadership of the marketing department, managing creative, promotionaland publicity campaigns for all theatrical releases. She will report to IS FilmDistribution president Kaye Cooper-Mead.Tellis will ...
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Recycle marks new direction for Universe, Matching
The Pang brothers latesthorror film Recycle, now shooting in Thailand, marks the beginning of along-term co-operation between Hong Hong's Universe International Holdings andThailand's Matching Motion Pictures.The $5m picture reunitesDanny and Oxide Pang with Lee Sin-je, star of their international breakout hit TheEye. Lee plays a writer who discovers that events ...
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France faces film release bottleneck
Between Jan 19 and Feb 2, noless than 48 films will be released in France. Among them: Closer, TheAviator, Vanessa Paradis-vehicle Mon Ange, Buena Vista France's LaMarche De L'Empereur and EuropaCorp.'s Danny The Dog. This glut of films hasrekindled the long-debated issue of how to give films a chance to ...
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Hayat, Innocent Voices to launch Berlinale youth sidebars.
The Iranian film Hayatby Gholamreza Ramezani will open this year's Berlinale Kinderfilmfest onFebruary 11, with the 14plus youth film competition launched a day later by InnocentVoices (Voces Inocentes) by Mexico's Luis Mandoki.Speaking to ScreenDaily.comabout this year's line-ups, section head Thomas Hailer said that during theselection process for this year's 14plus ...
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German film critics applaud Edukators
Hans Weingartner's Cannes2003 competition entry The Edukators (Die Fetten Jahre Sind Vorbei) isthe big winner at this year's German Film Critics Awards, winning in thecategories of Best Feature Film and Best Actress.The complete line-up ofawards:Best Feature Film - TheEdukators by Hans Weingartner Best Feature Film Debut - Schultze Gets The ...
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Fellowes to adapt best-selling novel Snobs
Oscar-winning British writerJulian Fellowes (Gosford Park) is to adapt his best-selling novel Snobsfor UK television - having been commissioned by the BBC's Gareth Neame.The novel, published lastyear, is a comedy about a middle-class woman on the make, trying to gatecrashinto high society circles. It is likely to be made into ...
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PGA names eligible producers according to new rules
The ProducersGuild of America (PGA) Awards organisers have named the producers eligible ineach previously announced category of its 2005 PGA Awards.In the Darryl F Zanuck Producer of the Year Award fortheatrical motion picture, Michael Mann is named for The Aviator, Richard N Gladstein and Nellie Bellflower for FindingNeverland, John Walker ...
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Africa, sexuality to be dominant themes during Berlinale 2005.
Bill Condon's Kinsey was selected as the closing film for the 55th Berlinale - to screen on Saturday February 19 after the awards ceremony . The biopic of the sexologist Alfred Kinsey, starring Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and Peter Sarsgaard, will be released by 20th Century Fox in Germany on ...
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Stillking awarded Euros 100,000 development grant
Prague based productionservice company Stillking Films has received a Euros 100,000 Media Plus grant,which it will use to develop five projects over the next three years.The first of these is titledRevolutions Per Minute. Set in the Czech Republic, the film tells thestory of a manufacturer of vinyl LPs, whose business ...
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Snowland world premiere opens Max Ophuels festival
Hans W. Geissendoerfer's Snowland(Schneeland) receives its world premiere today as the opening film of thisyear's Max Ophuels Prize Film festival in Saarbruecken (January 17-23) ahead ofthe drama's German theatrical release by Kinowelt on January 20 and theinternational premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.The dramatic love story,which stars Maria Schrader (Rosenstrasse), ...
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Hungarian film week to open with Dallas Pashamente
The 36th edition of theHungarian Film Week will kick off on February 2 with the screening of directorRobert Pejo's Berlinale Forum contender Dallas Pashamente. The Film Week's competitionprogram will feature twenty-one Hungarian productions, ten of which havealready been released theatrically in the country. The remaining eleven will bepremieres. The program ...
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UK's b.TWEEN festival unveils cross-platform development lab
b.TWEEN the internationalFestival of Future Entertainment 2005, which celebrates interactive creativeprojects on TV, mobile, the web, DVD and video games, has announced this year'sconfirmed speakers and festival events.The festival, which runs14-18 February at Doncaster college in the UK, comprises a three-daycross-platform development lab and a two-day conference. The development lab ...
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False start for otherwise promising Bangkok film market
The second edition of theBangkok Film Market (BFM) gets underway tomorrow (Tuesday 18) after a falsestart today.Organisers of the olderBangkok International Film Festival had previously advertised the market asrunning from 17-21 Jan, but with only days of advanced notice, pushed back theofficial start of the event by a day. This ...
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The Aviator, Sideways win top film Globes
The Aviator and Sideways took three and two film awards apiece at tonight's (16) 62nd Golden Globes, earning respective honours for best drama and best musical or comedy.Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx cemented their status as Academy Award frontrunners with acting wins for The Aviator in the drama category and ...
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The Aviator takes off in BAFTA nominations
The Aviator has emerged as the front-runnerin the nominations for the forthcoming Orange British Academy Film Awards.The Martin Scorsese directed film, which won the best dramaprize at last night's Golden Globes, received 14 BAFTA nominations, ahead of FindingNeverland and Vera Drake which both received 11 nominations each.Foreign language films also ...
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Aviator takes off in BAFTA nominations
The Aviator has emerged as the front-runnerin the nominations for the forthcoming Orange British Academy Film Awards.The Martin Scorsese directed film, which won the best dramaprize at last night's Golden Globes, received 14 BAFTA nominations, ahead of FindingNeverland and Vera Drake which both received 11 nominations each.Foreign language films also ...
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Abbey Road film festival set for March
Abbey Road Studios, theLondon recording studios immortalised by The Beatles' Abbey Road album,has launched the Abbey Road Film Festival.The event will run from Mar19 to Apr 3 at the studio, showcasing films scored at Abbey Road such as RaidersOf The Lost Ark, The Last Emperor and Gangs Of New York. ...
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Berlinale Co-Production Market shortlists 30 projects
New feature films by David Mackenzie and SergeiBodrov are among 30 projects chosen from 230 entries to be presented at theBerlinale's second Co-Production Market over two days from February 13-14.The line-up of 30 official projects includesthree from this year's edition of Rotterdam's CineMart under the banner of the'Rotterdam-Berlinale Express' initiative ...