All Screen articles in 19 December 2004 – Page 4
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ROK Player launches to bring film to mobile phones
A new system that allowsmobile phone users to watch films on their phone, even without networkcoverage, launches this week.ROK Player, which launchedin the UK on Monday, is predicting a mobile content platform market worth £100min three years for film distributors, TV companies and record labels.ROK Player is a specialdigital video ...
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Head-On star boards Holocaust Train drama
Head-On star Sibel Kekilli is to play the female lead of ayoung Jewish woman in veteran producer Artur "Atze" Brauner'sHolocaust drama The Last Train (Der Letzte Zug) about Jews being sent tothe concentration camp in Auschwitz in early 1943.The film will be directed by actor Armin Mueller-Stahl. Speakingto ScreenDaily.com, 86-year-old ...
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Australia's FFC bankrolls Elephant, Power
Elephant Tales, a French/Australian co-productionwritten and directed by Mario Andreacchio, and the psychological thriller PowerSurge, the first feature from high-profile commercials director DavidDenneen, will go into production after receiving backing from Australia's Film Finance Corporation (FFC).The FFC has also announced it is willing to invest in fourother features providing certain ...
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Spanglish
Dir/scr: James L Brooks.US. 2004. 131mins.Seven years after hislast movie As Good As It Gets, James L Brooks returns with asophisticated adult comedy which also looks at a bunch of misfits - only thistime they are the members of an ostensibly successful Beverly Hills family.Their world is thrown intodisarray at ...
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New York critics honour Sideways
Sideways won four awards and was named best picture of 2004 bythe New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) today (13), with best director goingto Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby, best actor going to Paul Giamatti for Sideways and best actress going to Imelda Staunton for VeraDrake.The 33-strong NYFCC selectedMichael ...
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Slamdance will open and close with documentaries in Jan
Documentaries booked the upcoming Slamdance Film Festival, whichruns from Jan 21-28 in Park City. Opening night film is Marilyn Agrelo's childballroom dancing saga Mad Hot Ballroom and closing night film is Michael Franti's war documentary I KnowI Am Not Alone.All in all the festival will screen a record 23 world ...
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Six film-makers selected for Cannes 'Residence'
The Cannes festival hasselected six young film-makers to join the next round of its "Residence"intensive training course.The interns, who will spendfour months from the end of February to July developing their next features,include Hernan Belon of Argentina, Noam Kaplan of Israel, Jeffrey St Julesfrom Canada and Jukka-Pekka Valkeapaa from Finland. ...
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Films from Iran, France take top prizes at first Bahamas film festival
Mania Akbari's 20 Fingers (20 Angosht) from Iran was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for the Spirit ofFreedom International Film Competition at the close of the inaugural BahamasInternational Film Festival (BIFF).The Modern Maverick Award went to France's Yann Samuell for LoveMe If You Dare andindustry veteran Roger Corman was presented ...
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DiCaprio, Winslet, Bacon to receive honours at Santa Barbara
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kevin Bacon and Kate Winslet will be honouredfor their artistic achievements at the 20th Annual Santa Barbara InternationalFilm Festival (SBIFF), which runs from Jan 28-Feb 6.DiCaprio received a Golden Globe nomination yesterday (13) for hisrole as Howard Hughes in The Aviator and receives the Platinum Award, which was ...
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Another $4.7m gross for Alexander from 21 smaller territories
Intermedia/Warner Bros' Alexander grossed an estimated $4.7m from 21territories at the weekend to raise its international running total to $24.7m.The picture opened top in Hungary on $261,957 from 29 screens overfour days, grossing more than double the opening weekends of Master AndCommander and KingArthur.Alexanderweathered government change in Greece to stay ...
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Incredibles crosses $150m at international box office
Buena Vista International's (BVI) The Incredibles was the number one international picturefor the third weekend in a row as it added a mighty $32.1m to raise its runningtotal to $152.1m.The picture opened top inGermany on $5.8m and top in Brazil on an excellent $1.7m on 352 screens thatwas the biggest ...
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GERMANY 14 December
Bridget Jones only lasted one week at the top before Disney's TheIncredibles stormed the German box office with over $5.7m from 1,003prints. The film's opening performance of 750,000-plus admissions made it thefourth most successful for a CGI animation film after Finding Nemo (2m),Ice Age (1.5m) and Shrek 2 (1.3m).The only ...
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UK/IRELAND 14 December
It proved a great weekendfor Entertainment at the UK box office this weekend. Entertainment FilmDistributors released both Blade: Trinity and The Phantom Of TheOpera across the country.The third instalment in the Bladefranchise landed second place over the three-day weekend with $3.6m (£1.9m) at329 sites, a stunning $10,810 location average. The ...
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12 projects selected for Sundance Screenwriters Lab in Jan
Projects from the UK, South Africa and Brazil are among 12represented in the Sundance Institute's annual January screenwriters labs,which run from Jan 14-19 2005.The labs offer emerging writers a chance to develop new work underthe guidance of experienced screenwriters including Allison Anders, GuillermoAriaga, David Benioff, Walter Mosley, Frank Pierson, Tom ...
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Fragil deal for new Spanish distributor
On Pictures, the new distributor-producer launched bySpanish media conglom the Zeta Group, has picked up distribution rights inSpain to director Juanma Bajo Ulloa's Fragil.The film marks the return of Bajo Ulloa, whose award-winningdebuts Butterfly Wings and TheDead Mother were followed by commercial boxoffice hit Airbag (1997).Screening this week in both ...
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French parliament improves film tax credit scheme
The French parliament has amended the country's taxcredit scheme for cinema, boosting the maximum credit available to Euros 1m perfilm.The tax credit system was put into place in January thisyear and allows productions and co-productions, which qualify as French underFrench film board (CNC) guidelines, to write off between 10% and ...
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Major budget hike for Irish Film Board
Arts, Sport and Tourism Minister John O'Donoghue hasannounced an 18% increase to Euros 14m in the Irish Film Board's budget for2005.The move, funded out of a budget reallocation withinminister's departments, means that the Board's resources for production,development, and training will rise from Euros 10m to Euros 12m.O'Donoghue said, "The very ...
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UK indie exhibitor wins first Europa Cinemas award
UK independent exhibitioncompany City Screen and its directors Tony Jones and Lyn Goleby have beenhonoured with the first ever 'Entrepreneur of the Year' award by EuropaCinemas.The award celebrates theirachievements in developing a platform for European film in the UK and waspresented to Jones at a ceremony in Paris by Claude ...
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UIP promotes Spielberg's War around the world
Few films come with as big names or expectations as nextsummer's The War Of The Worlds.Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise and based on H.G. Wellsscience fiction classic, which already spawned a popular cult film version in1953, getting early teaser images and trailers right for the 2005 version wasvital.American ...
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UIP promotes Spielberg's War around the world
Few films come with as big names or expectations as nextsummer's The War Of The Worlds.Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise and basedon H.G. Wells' science fiction classic, getting early teaser images and trailersright was vital.American audiences had a chance to judge the result intheatres on Friday (Dec 10), ...