All Screen articles in 19 May 2004 – Page 5
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Miramax makes Grimm German deal
Miramax International has made its first German sale in two years,clinching a deal on Terry Gilliam's TheBrothers Grimm with Concorde Film.The company is selling all territories on the film,budgeted in the $80m region, including those territories in which ittraditionally handles its own pictures such as Germany, UK, France, Spain,Australia and ...
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Life Is A Miracle (Zivot Je Cudo)
Dir:Emir Kusturica. Fr-Serb-Mont. 2004. 154minsExperiencingan Emir Kusturica film is like being stone cold sober in a room of drunken,overwrought revellers. Life Is A Miracle is no exception. A boisterousbear hug of a film, it explores the bitter ironies of the Bosnian-Serbianconflict with an irrepressible appetite for the joys and sorrows ...
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Focus takes int'l on Cronicas
Focus Features has picked upinternational rights to Cronicas, theserial killer drama starring John Leguizamo and Leonor Watling screening in UnCertain Regard tomorrow. John Sloss's Cinetic Media is handling North Americansales.Shot in Ecuador by directorSebastian Cordero, Cronicas was produced by Producciones Anhelo's AlfonsoCuaron and Jorge Vergara. Focus also handled sales on ...
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Telepool snaps up Weeping Camel follow-up
Germany's Telepool has picked up international sales on The Mongolian Dog, the follow up film tobreak-out hit documentary The WeepingCamel. The film shoots from next month, but has already been pre-sold toFrance's ARP Selection and to Ascot Elite for Switzerland.The picture by Mongolian director Byambasuren Davaa, heads aTelepool sales slate ...
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Silfen earns svp business and legal stripes at Miramax Intl
JillSilfen has been promoted to senior vice president of business and legal affairsat Miramax International, where she will continue to negotiate andimplement international theatrical, homevideo and television licence agreementsSilfenhas worked at the company for two years and joined as vice president ofinternational business and legal affairs.Priorto Miramax she practised law ...
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Bruce-Smith re-joins FilmFour
FilmFour hasappointed Sue Bruce-Smith, former head of sales at the operation's previousincarnation under Paul Webster, as head of commercial development.Bruce-Smith stepsdown from her current post, head of production at production company LittleBird, in mid-July, though she continues as a non-executive director and retainsher minority share in the company. At FilmFour, ...
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Troy lays siege to global box office
Troy dominated the box office in its internationalopening weekend, opening top in all its 47 markets according to Warner BrosPictures International on an estimated $54.8m.Highlights were record bowsin Germany and France including the all-time biggest three-day openingexcluding previews in Greece. Combined with the picture's $45.6m number one USbow Troy grossed ...
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Venice to close with bang
New Venice heads Marco Mueller (artistic director) andDavide Croff (Biennale president) said that this year's Venice festival willclose with a bang. The closing ceremony will take place on the main Veniceisland at the newly restored la Fenice opera house. This will have the doubleadvantage of a spectacular close to the ...
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UIP boards Attenborough's Ring
UIP has boardedRichard Attenborough's $20m Anglo-Canadian epic, Closing The Ring, it was confirmedat the launch of the new Northern Ireland Production Fund. The film isto shoot in the early autumn in Northern Ireland and Canada. It is receiving£500,000 from the new fund.The project,originally supported by Grosvernor Park, was one of ...
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Rousselet announces slate
Philippe Rousselet hasannounced a slate of new projects from Paris-based Films de la Suane andUS-based EMC.EMC, a partnership betweenRousselet and Andrew Niccol, is producing LordOf War and preparing Manhattan Bravea $25 million coming of age story for 2005. Heath Ledger is in talks to star.Niccol will direct.Also being developed is ...
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The Consequences Of Love (Las Consecuencias Del Amor)
Dir/scr:Paolo Sorrentino, Italy. 2004. 100minsAn ice-coolexistential drama neatly poised on the borderline of thriller territory, PaoloSorrentino's elegant second feature marks the Neapolitan writer-director assomeone who knows just how to impose an individual stamp on idiosyncraticmaterial. A hyper-stylised, often slyly witty portrait of a loner in crisis,the film possibly gestures in ...
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Troy opens top on lacklustre $45.6m
Troy opened top at the weekend on an estimated $45.6m, aslightly disappointing bow that owed much to the $200m production's lengthyrunning time, R rating and mixed reviews.Warner Bros distribution chiefs are confident the picture'squality will allow it to gather momentum over time but the word of mouth willneed to kick ...
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Troy opens top on lacklustre $45.6m
Troy opened top at the weekend on an estimated $45.6m, aslightly disappointing bow that owed much to the $200m production's lengthyrunning time, R rating and mixed reviews.Warner Bros distribution chiefs are confident the picture'squality will allow it to gather momentum over time but the word of mouth willneed to kick ...
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NEW ZEALAND 17 May
As is happening around the world, Roadshow's Troy had no trouble claiming the crownof top film at the box office on the weekend. It grossed NZ$987,503 from 73screens, pushing UIP's Van Helsingdown to second place with a gross of NZ$358,049 from 66 screens, a fall ofabout 45%. Troy's screen average ...
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ITALY 17 May
Eagle Pictures' South Korean horror flick, Phone, opened at number two in Italy,grossing $662,918 on what proved to be a rather lukewarm weekend at the localbox office.Ahn Byung-ki's Phone,which focuses on a twenty-year-old woman who is terrified by the incessantringing of her cell phone in a deserted metro station, opened ...
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Van Helsing closes in on $100m at international box office
Universal's Van Helsing trailed Troyat the international box office in its second weekend as it added an estimated$24.5m from 5,200 screens in 41 territories to raise its internationalcumulative total to $95m.Excluding $1.5m from 300 screens in Russia, the Philippines and Iceland, thepicture grossed $23m in 38 UIP markets for a ...
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Van Helsing closes in on $100m at international box office
Universal's Van Helsing trailedTroy at the international box office in its second weekend as it addedan estimated $24.5m from 5,200 screens in 41 territories to raise its internationalcumulative total to $95m.Excluding $1.5m from 300screens in Russia, the Philippines and Iceland, the picture grossed $23m in 38UIP markets for a $90m ...
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Sundance to introduce world cinema competition sections
Sundance FilmFestival organisers are raising the profile of international films with theintroduction in 2005 of the World Cinema Competition, which will present twoawards alongside the Independent Feature Film Competition for US independents.Jury prizes willbe awarded to the best of 16 entries in the World Cinema Dramatic Competitionand the best of ...
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Shrek producer turns to Europe to bankroll Vanguard slate
Vanguard Films,the production company headed by Shrek 2 and Shrek producer John Williams and Neil Braun, is exploringEuropean investment sources to bankroll an initial slate of five animationfilms.The long-termfinancing pact is aimed at building on the company's foray into theindependent sector with Valiant, Happily N'Ever After and Space Chimps.Braun told ...