All Screen articles in 18 January 2005 – Page 4
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Russian box office surges over 40% in 2004
The Russian box office grew by 41% to $268m lastyear, while admissions surged to 76.5m according to latest figures.The figures, relating to November 2003-November 2004, were announced by trade magazineKinobusiness. Topping the local box office was Russianproduced sci-fi hit Night Watch which broke all previous Russian boxoffice records with over ...
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AUSTRALIA 17 January
Elektra secured third place for the four-day weekend toJanuary 16 after 20th Century Fox premiered it on 226 screens around thecountry. The A$1,711,680 gross gave it a screen average of A$7,574, second onlyto UIP's Meet The Fockers, which has lead the chart for four consecutiveweekends. Third on the measure ofscreen ...
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NEW ZEALAND 17 January
The two openers in the topfive on the weekend were BVI's Finding Neverland, which grossedNZ$200,127 from 34 screens to grab third place and 20th Century Fox release FlightOf The Phoenix, which was snapping at its heels with NZ$190,986 from 40screens. These two films also secured the biggest screen averages in ...
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JAPAN Production Listings - January 17
JAPAN - January 17 PRE-PRODUCTION TOUCH (Toho)Dist (Jap): Toho. Based on a hit comic book, a feel-good love story of highschool students. Prod: Hideyuki Honma. Dir: Isshin Inudo. Main cast: MasamiNagasawa . Shooting starts in Japan in late March 2005.Contact: Toho, (81) 33213 6821 YAMATO (OTOKOTACHI NO YAMATO)(Toei)Dist (Jap): Toei. ...
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Hulbert quits as president of Disney TV
David Hulbert has quit histwin jobs as head of Walt Disney Television International and Buena VistaInternational Television. The sudden move sparks a substantial reorganisationof the division. Hulbert's role will be splitbetween John Hardie, who is promoted toexecutive vice president/managing director, Branded Television, Europe MiddleEast Africa, and Tom Toumazis, promoted to ...
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Coach Carter too strong for Meet The Fockers
Paramount's true-lifebasketball drama Coach Carter knocked off Meet The Fockers toopen top over the three-day portion of Martin Luther King Day weekend on anestimated $23.6m.While Fockers slippedto second place for the first time in its record-breaking four-week run, WarnerBros' family comedy Racing Stripes opened in third place on $14m, andTwentieth ...
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Coach Carter benches Meet The Fockers in US
Paramount's true-lifebasketball drama Coach Carter knocked off Meet The Fockers toopen top over the three-day portion of Martin Luther King Day weekend on anestimated $23.6m.While Fockers slippedto second place for the first time in its record-breaking four-week run, WarnerBros' family comedy Racing Stripes opened in third place on $14m, andTwentieth ...
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Hustle passes $50m, Closer storms Europe for SPRI
Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational (SPRI) opened Closer at number one in five out of sevenmarkets at the weekend as the picture's allure proved irresistible in Europe.The torrid drama ranked topin the UK on $3.1m on 276 screens, and the four other number one debutsoccurred in Germany on $2.3m on 474, the ...
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Ocean's Twelve passes $150m for Warner Int'l; Alexander opens top in eight
Ocean's Twelve raised its international cumulative total to $152.5mfollowing an estimated $9.6m weekend haul through Warner Bros PicturesInternational on 4,600 prints in 55 countries.The caper sequel isscheduled to open in Japan on Jan 22 and in the UK on Feb 4.Alexander grossed $6.4m from 1,358 prints in 12 territories, powered ...
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Incredibles, National Treasure each add $10m for BVI
The Incredibles and National Treasure each took an estimated$10m for Buena Vista International (BVI) at the weekend, raising theirrespective international running totals to $335.5m and $120m.National Treasure scored a pair of number one debuts in Holland andGreece with respective $1.4m and $655,000 launches.After one month theadventure has amassed $12.6m in ...
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Downfall dominates Bavarian Film Awards
Oliver Hirschbiegel's Hitlerdrama Downfall was the big winner at the weekend's Bavarian Film Awardstaking home prizes in three categories.Constantin Film's BerndEichinger received the Euros 200,000 Producers Award, while Best Actor honourswent to Bruno Ganz for his performance as Adolf Hitler in his last days in thebunker under the centre of ...
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UK's Celador Films commissions stress management comedy
The UK's Celador Films'Christian Colson and Ivana MacKinnon have commissioned first-timewriter-director Ben Gregor's script, Principles Of Calmness. The deal, brokered byGregor's agent Jago Irwin at PFD, sees Gregor currently workshopping the firstdraft of his script before it goes to second draft and then into production.Principles Of Calmness is a comedy ...
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Seven films shortlisted for makeup Oscar
The Aviator,De-Lovely, Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, Hellboy, Lemony Snicket'sA Series of Unfortunate Events, The Passion Of The Christ and The Sea Inside are the seven pictures that will beconsidered by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences for bestachievement in make-up.Ten-minute clips of each contender will ...
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Random Harvest teams with Hammer, Winston on horror deal
In a move underliningthe growing market for quality, low-budget horror, British production andfinancing outfit Random Harvest is starting a new Enterprise InvestmentScheme (EIS) Company, Harvest PicturesIII, with Hammer Films and LA-based Stan Winston Productions.Harvest Pictures IIIwill back new horror films from Hammer, Stan Winston and Four Horsemen Films(Random Harvest's genre ...
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Korea's Kim Ki-duk shoots The Bow
South Korean director KimKi-duk has opened shooting on his 12th feature film, a low-budget production tobe titled The Bow.Following a highlysuccessful 2004 in which he won Best Director awards at Berlin and Venice for SamaritanGirl and 3-Iron respectively, Kim began shooting his latest workwith little fanfare on a remote island ...
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Spanish producers banking on repeat business
Shooting begins next Mondayon The 2 Sides Of The Bed, the sequel to Spain's 2002 box officegargantuan The Other Side Of The Bed.It is just one of severalsequels in the works in Spain, including the third in Santiago Segura's runawayTorrente series and plans for a follow-up to 2004 hit Isi ...
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File-sharing debate needs balance, says OECD
Mathilde Eriksson The promise of file-sharing technology should not be lost inthe raging debate about piracy according to a report from delivered by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation andDevelopment(OECD). Instead governments need to considerlegislation that strikes a balance between the protection of suppliers and theability to exploit the technologies, the ...
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France's Rezo launches long-awaited int'l sales arm
French producer and distributor Rezo Films will bring to fruition a long-gestating plan to expand into international sales at this weekend's Rendez-Vous of French cinema, as well as at next month's Berlin Market.The new Rezo Films International operation will handle eight to ten feature films a year, in an equal ...
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Tsunami effect spreads across international territories
SouthernThailand (where popular tourist destinations Phuket, Kao Lak and Phi Phi Islandare located) was hit hard by the Boxing Day tsunami. Whilethe Thai people are generally in mourning, the cinemas are still doing briskbusiness, as reflected by the strong box office of two local titles. Jaew,a new action comedy produced ...
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Gerardmer names Levinson president of 12th edition
The 12th annual FantasticFilm Festival of Gerardmer has named Barry Levinson as its jury president. Thefestival, which brings together a mix of horror and fantasy films, will runfrom January 26 -30 in the French town of Vosges.Other members of the featureand short films juries include director Laurent Bouhnik, writer Eric ...