All Screen articles in 19 May 2004 – Page 10
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Reviews
Thunderbirds
Dir. Jonathan Frakes. US. 2004. 90 min.Thunderbirds, the 1960s UK television series starring action-hero marionettes and model rockets, has been given the big-screen, live-action tween treatment, and the result is a bouncing colourful kid-friendly romp. That it is entirely unrecognisable from the series is beside the point. It's a triumph ...
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NBC Universal merger is complete
NBC completed its acquisition of Vivendi Universal's entertainment assets earlier today (12) in NewYork as the companies merged to create NBC Universal, the latest mediaconglomerate with expected 2005 revenues of $15bn.The new companyhas a mind-boggling range of cross-promotional opportunities with assetsincluding Universal Pictures, NBC Network, seven cable channels including USAand ...
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Troy prepares to lay siege to global box office
Troy is the odds-on favourite to lay siege tothe global box office this weekend as the Warner Bros epic opens in 47countries on an undisclosed number of screens.Wolfgang Petersen's picture is the second near day-and-daterelease of the international summer season following the impressive $50m-plusbow ofUniversal's Van Helsing through UIP last ...
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Weinsteins in talks with Disney to buy Fahrenheit 911
In a dramaticand not entirely unforeseen twist to the Fahrenheit 911 debacle, Miramax Films' Bob and HarveyWeinstein were last night holding talks with the Walt Disney Company topersonally buy Michael Moore's terrorism documentary.Spokespeople forboth Disney and its subsidiary Miramax confirmed the parties were innegotiations but stressed the deal was incomplete.Controversyerupted ...
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Weinsteins in talks with Disney to buy Fahrenheit 911
In a dramaticand not entirely unforeseen twist to the Fahrenheit 911 debacle, Miramax Films' Bob and HarveyWeinstein were last night holding talks with the Walt Disney Company topersonally buy Michael Moore's terrorism documentary.Spokespeople forboth Disney and its subsidiary Miramax confirmed the parties were innegotiations but stressed the deal was incomplete.Controversyerupted ...
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Media 8 bankrolls Binder's Town
Media 8 Entertainment is to fully finance Man AboutTown, the next picture from its Upside Of Anger director MikeBinder, which will star Ben Affleck as a Hollywood talent agent,Binder is the actor and director behind TV series Mind Of TheMarried Man, cult film Sex Monster and Anger which stars JoanAllen ...
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Media 8 bankrolls Binder's Town
Media 8 Entertainment is to fully finance Man AboutTown, the next picture from its Upside Of Anger director MikeBinder, which will star Ben Affleck as a Hollywood talent agent,Binder is the actor and director behind TV series Mind Of TheMarried Man, cult film Sex Monster and Anger which stars JoanAllen ...
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D.E.B.S., The Notebook bookend 6th CineVegas Film Festival
ScreenGems' comedy D.E.B.S. about an all-girl crime-fighting unit willopen the 6th annual CineVegas Film Festival, which runs in Las Vegasfrom Jun 11-19 and closes with New Line's epic romance The Notebook.JackpotPremieres for titles without a US distributor include world premieres of ChrisFisher's Hollywood Hills thriller Hillside Strangler, MitchellAltieri's dark coming-of-age ...
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JAPAN 13 May
Only one percent of all Japanese may be Christians, but MelGibson's The Passion Of The Christ has made many converts, if the film'sfirst week box office total is any indication. Opening on fivenine-major-cities screens, the film earned $457,987 for a screen average of$91,579 -- topping the number one The Haunted ...
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HUNGARY 13 May
Hugh Jackman's Monster flickwas unrivalled last weekend at the Hungarian box office after being released ona strong thirty-three prints by distributor UIP-Duna Film although not quitematching the results of the director's previous works, The Mummy and TheMummy Returns. The film managed over 45,000 admissions which,along with thepre-screening results means the ...