All Screen articles in 19 December 2003 – Page 4
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SWEDEN
Nothing changed at the Swedish box-office over this weekend, where Love Actually and Kill Bill maintained the best screen averages in the top ten. Good Bye, Lenin! moved up one place to 11th past another Triangelfilm release, Daybreak (Om Jeg Vander Mig Om). The new release of Ridley Scott's Matchstick ...
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Stuck on You
Dirs: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly. US. 2003. 118 mins. Are the Farrelly brothers, the original kings of gross-out comedy, going soft' It often seems that way in this potentially outrageous comedy that in fact shows off the brothers' sweet side to some effect but delivers little of the bracingly over-the-top ...
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NORWAY
The top of the Norwegian chart remained unchanged for another weekend, and only saw Once Upon A Time In Mexico and Underworld swap places at fifth and sixth positions. While Matrix Revolutions continues to gross enough for eighth position on the box-office chart due to its 25 prints, the film ...
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NETHERLANDS
After a strong first three quarters of the year for local films (when Dutch films boasted a 13% market share on the way to a projected 14.5%), recent months have seen a series lacklustre performances from local titles such as Grimm and Kees De Jongen.Last weekend did not buck this ...
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Hiding And Seeking gets world premiere at NY Jewish Film Festival
Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky'sdocumentary Hiding and Seeking: Faith And Tolerance After The Holocaust and a restored print of Sidney M Goldin's shortYiddish spoof Cantor On Trialboth receive world premieres at the 13th annual New York Jewish Film Festival,which runs from Jan 14-29. The event includes eight USand 13 New ...
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New Linz Film Festival to focus on Euro film
Former Diagonale co-director Christine Dollhofer has been recruited as the director of a new festival entitled "Crossing Europe - Linz Film Festival" which will be held in the Austrian city of Linz from 4-9 May 2004 and dedicated to contemporary, innovative European cinema.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com, Dollhofer explained that the event ...
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Higuchi to direct WWII Japanese submarine drama
Shinji Higuchi, a leading SFX director whose work includes the Gamera series, will helm Lorelei, a $11.2m (Y1.2 bn) production set in a Japanese submarine in the closing days of World War II. Veteran Koji Yakusho (Shall We Dance', Doppelganger) will co-star with TV drama sensation Satoshi Tsumaoki. Fuji TV ...
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Details (Detaljer)
Dir: Kristian Petri. Sweden. 2003. 112mins.Although this theatrical adaptation is very much a minority sport, it did not quite deserve to drop out of sight at the Swedish box office in the two weeks after its October 10 release. Its potential has been confirmed at MIFED, where the film attracted ...
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Malaga to host European Film Commission summit
Malaga, Spain will play host this week to the first-ever European Encounter on Film Commissions (Dec 18).The day-long meeting, organised by the Spain Film Commission, invites representatives of film commissions from around Europe to debate The European Film Commission Experience and Film Commissions: Instruments of Support for the Audiovisual ...
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Brennan joins Oz Film Commission as project manager
Veteran producer Richard Brennan, whose extensive credits across several decades include Cosi, Spotswood, Blood Oath, Grievous Bodily Harm, Starstruck, Stir and Newsfront, has joined the Australian Film Commission (AFC) as a project manager.The AFC is the Australian Government's key development agency for the film industry and Brennan will be working ...
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Broken Wings set for breakthrough German release
Nir Bergman's Broken Wings is to receive a 24 print release across Germany, the widest ever release in the country for an Israeli film.The wide release, through distributor Alamode Films, is largely thanks to a deal between Israeli Film Fund and the NRW Fund in Germany, which sees each side ...
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...while Mystic River gets the nod from Boston critics.
Mystic River, Lost In Translation and the documentary Capturing TheFriedmans dominate thisyear's Boston Society of Film Critics awards.Clint Eastwood's murder drama was named best picture and alsowon the group's inaugural ensemble cast award ahead of A Mighty Wind.Meanwhile the dreamy Tokyo-set Lost In Translation earned Sophia Coppola the best directoraward ...
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San Francisco critics name Lost In Translation year's best film...
Sofia Coppola's Lost InTranslation was named best pictureof 2003 by The San Francisco Film Critics Circle today (Dec 15). Best director honours wentto Peter Jackson for his trilogy finale The Return Of The King, while the 20-person group voted Bill Murray bestactor for his role as a disillusioned semi-retired actor ...
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Blow for Berlusconi as Italian president rejects media law
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been dealt a serious blow after Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi unexpectedly refused to sign his government's controversial new media law. The Gasparri law had already been approved this month by both the Italian Parliament and the Italian Senate, where Berlusconi's centre-right coalition has ...
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Aurelio De Laurentiis re-elected president of Italian producers
Filmauro head Aurelio De Laurentiis has been re-elected president of Italy's union of film producers for a second two-year term.Seven vice-presidents were also elected: these are Filiberto Bandini, Giovanni Bertolucci, (Facing Windows) Tilde Corsi, Filmexport's Roberto Di Girolamo, Rai Cinema's Giancarlo Leone, Medusa's Giampaolo Letta and Cattleya's Riccardo Tozzi."Over the ...
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Malin leaves Lions Gate as merger with Artisan complete
Lions Gate Entertainment completed its merger with ArtisanEntertainment at 1pm today (Dec 15), finalising the creation of the independentgiant that was first made public in October (Screendaily Oct 28).Former Artisan chief executive officer Amir Malin is leaving topursue other avenues, bringing to an end his six-year association with thecompany."This transaction ...
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NORTH AMERICA
On limited release Sony opened Tim Burton's Big Fish in six sites for a $207,377 weekend and a grand $34,563 per-theatre average. The father-son relationship drama stars Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney and Jessica Lange and will add a few sites until it goes wide on Jan 9 2004. It has ...
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BVITV strikes deal with Finland's Channel 4
Finnish broadcaster Channel 4 (Nelonen) has agreed to buy a range of feature films and series from Buena Vista International Television (BVITV), the international TV licensing arm of Walt Disney.The deal gives Nelonen first-run and library titles including The Rock, Pearl Harbor, Enemy Of The State and The Princess Diaries. ...
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Warner winding down on international Revolutions with $3.5m weekend take
The Matrix Revolutions raised its international cumulative total to $271.7mover the weekend as the sci-fi trilogy finale grossed an estimated $3.5m and566,305 admissions from 3,047 screens in 57 territories. Several other Warner BrosInternational Pictures titles were in action, including Looney Tunes: BackIn Action, which added $4.7m and980,427 admissions from 3,062 ...