All Screen articles in 18 September 2003 – Page 3
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Pathe closes Toronto deals on Void, Girl
Pathe International UK chief Alison Thompson closed a slew ofdeals at the Toronto International Film Festival following the screenings ofPeter Webber's Girl With A Pearl Earring and Kevin Macdonald's Touching The Void. Both films had their world premierescreenings at Telluride in late August before heading to Toronto.Asmik Ace and Pony ...
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Pathe closes deals on Void, Girl
Pathe International UK chief Alison Thompson closed a slew ofdeals at the Toronto International Film Festival following the screenings ofPeter Webber's Girl With A Pearl Earring and Kevin Macdonald's Touching The Void. Both films had their world premierescreenings at Telluride in late August before heading to Toronto.Asmik Ace and Pony ...
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Master And Commander chosen as Royal Command Performance
20th Century Fox's naval epic Master And Commander:The Far Side Of The Worlddirected by Peter Weir has been chosen as this year's Royal Command Performanceand will take place in London on Nov 17.The screening will benefit the Cinema and Television BenevolentFund, which supports behind-the-camera professionals in the UK.Based on Patrick ...
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Zein named as chair of UK producers body Pact.
Tiger Aspect Productions managing director Andrew Zein is to replace Eileen Gallagher as chair of UK producers association, Pact. Margaret Matheson, managing director Bard Entertainment will continue as vice chair of film for a second year.Eileen Gallagher, managing director of Shed Productions and current chair of Pact said: "I've thoroughly ...
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Awards favourites line up for London Film Festival
The Times bfi London Film Festival (Oct 22 - Nov 6) has lined up a string of Oscar buzz films for its main programme up this year.The Festival opens with Jane Campion's psychological thriller In The Cut, starring Meg Ryan, Mark and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The Closing Night film is ...
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Awards campaign trail boosts London Film Festival
The London Film Festival (LFF), held Oct 22 - Nov 6, has lined up a string of Oscar buzz films for its main programme up this year.Opening with Jane Campion's steamy psychological thriller In The Cut, and closing two weeks later with Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, the line-up highlights the ...
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NORTH AMERICA
Focus Features' Lost In Translation enjoyed a strong debut last weekend following rapturous reviews. Sofia Coppola's second film opened 15th on $925,087 for an excellent $40,221 average from just 23 sites. Translation, which left critics infatuated, pairs Bill Murray with the early award season's wunderkind Scarlett Johansson as unlikely partners ...
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Warner hits in Hong Kong with Turn Left, Turn Right
Warner Bros' firstMandarin local-language co-production Turn Left Turn Right enjoyed a strong Hong Kong bow at the weekend, whenit scored the biggest ever opening for a local production distributed by a USmajor.The romantic comedy openednumber one on an estimated $808,398 (HK$6.3m) from 38 prints overthe mid-autumn festival session, drawing 132,073 ...
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Toronto restores faith in festival experience
There are times this year when Toronto must have felt like a city under siege - the combination of SARS, a strong Canadian dollar and a power blackout had a devastating effect on the city's allure. The film festival circuit has been suffering from a similar cocktail of misfortune with ...
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Spanish outfits mastermind de la Iglesia's Crime
Spanish sister companies Sogecine and Sogepaq are set to co-produce and handle worldwide sales respectively on cult director Alex de la Iglesia's next film, Ferpect Crime (Crimen Ferpecto).The Spanish-language black comedy about the far-from-perfect crime perpetrated by a department store sales executive will be a three-country co-production with de la ...
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Halcyon's Deepwater kicks off in Canada
Chris Coen's LA-basedHalcyon Entertainment has commenced production on its first film in Canada. Theproject Deepwater is apsychological thriller about a drifter who happens upon the town of Deepwaterwhere he is seduced into a twisted game of deceit and murder.Lucas Black plays thedrifter with Peter Coyote, Mia Maestro, Lesley Ann Warren, ...
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Calendar Girls' first date with UK is strong, but not spectacular
This weekend saw a new champion at the top of the UK/Ireland chart. Buena Vista International's Calendar Girls dethroned stablemate Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl to take the lead with $2.8m (£1.76m).The result provided a strong $6,124 (£3,815) location average from its 462 sites. However, ...
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Bergman's Saraband to premiere on Swedish TV
Despite being tipped at one time to world premiere at Cannes or Venice, Saraband - the new film from legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman - will make its debut on Swedish broadcaster SVT on Dec 1. The film, which stars Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Borje Ahlstedt and Julia Dufvenius, reunites ...
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Pathe banks on UK production future
Pathe Pictures has secured a $32m (£20m) revolving facility deal with banks SG Corporate and Investment Banking (SG CIB) and Natexis Banques Populaires. The move signals Pathe's ambitions to continue backing big budget productions out of the UK after the expiry of its National Lottery franchise in Spring 2004, which ...
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Barclays to bankroll 'Valleywood'
Barclays Bank has emerged as the lead funder of Dragon International Film Studios, the planned international studio complex in Wales being championed by Lord Attenborough.The deal with Barclays is still subject to due diligence and a formal announcement of the bank's involvement is expected within a fortnight.Dubbed 'Valleywood', the £140m ...
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LXG opens top through Latin America for Fox
A string of number one bowssaw The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG) gross $6.6m from 1,749 screens in 21 markets at the weekend.Fox International'sfantasy-adventure opened top in all its markets (unless otherwise indicated)and produced several strong holdovers to raise the international cumulativetotal to $23.3m.It grossed $1.6m from 489screens in Mexico, ...
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BVI scores a rousing $29.7m from Pirates
Pirates Of The Caribbean grossed $29.7m and elevated its internationalrunning total to $238.1m at the weekend, becoming the second release of 2003after The Matrix Reloaded to stayat the top of the charts for the fifth consecutive weekend.In a series of number onebows it took $3.4m from 245 screens in Australia ...
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Pie 3 could be sixth international $100m hit for Universal
With 38countries still to open American Pie: The Wedding is in the early stages of itsinternational release and is bearing down on a sixth $100m score for Universalthis year after raising its running total to $64.8m.It grossed $5.1m from 2,046 sites in 11 countries at theweekend, the highlights being strong ...
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UK/IRELAND
Optimum Releasing saw a strong debut for its Oscar-winning Japanese animated feature Spirited Away this weekend. Hayao Miyazaki's blockbuster fantasy opened in 13th place in the UK/Ireland top 20 with a good $4,800 (£2,990) average.In Ireland alone, it placed 15th but scored a powerful average of $6,710 (Euros 5,939) after ...
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SWITZERLAND
Buena Vista International scored a hit in the German region of Switzerland this weekend with its release of UK film Calendar Girls. The first territory outside the UK to receive the film (on the same weekend it went wide at home) Switzerland proved a good start for the comedy which ...