All Screen articles in 19 November 2004 – Page 4
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DENMARK 16 November
Pixar's incredibly successful The Incredibles easily took over the box-office crown this weekendwith a stellar DKK5m gross from its high 109 prints. Though Hella Joof's gospelcomedy drama Oh Happy Day dropped tosecond after just one week, it only fell back 7%, and thus wasn't hit as hardas other local films, ...
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DENMARK 16 November
Pixar's incredibly successful The Incredibles easily took over the box-office crown this weekendwith a stellar DKK5m gross from its high 109 prints. Though Hella Joof's gospelcomedy drama Oh Happy Day dropped tosecond after just one week, it only fell back 7%, and thus wasn't hit as hardas other local films, ...
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EASTERN EUROPE Prod lists - November 16
EAST EUROPEAN LISTINGS -November 16RUSSIAPRE-PRODUCTIONBLIND-MAN'S-BUFF(ZMURKI)(STV Film Company). Dist: NasheKino. Comedy. Prod: Sergei Selyanov.Dir: Alexei Balabanov. Scr: Stas Mohnachev, Alexei Balabanov. Cost des: TatyanaPatrahaltseva. Main cast: Nikita Mikhalkov, Alexei Panin, Dmitry Duzev, SergeiMakovetskiy, Victor Suhorukov.Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684 5817ESCAPE (POBEG)(Central Partnership) Action.Eugenii is accused of murdering ...
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NEW ZEALAND 16 November
Hero knockedBVI/Miramax stablemate Shall We Dance'off the top of the chart with an opening gross for the four-day weekend ofNZ$203,246 from 23 screens. The result gave the Zhang Yimou action pic a screenaverage more than three times that of any other film in the top 20.Shall We Dance'had been leader ...
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Norwegian Milk wins Kinderfilmfest nod
Torun Lian's Norwegian family film The Colour OfMilk, which was named best Nordicchildren's film at last week's Nordic Film Days Festival in Lubeck,is the first film to be selected for the Berlin Film Festival'sKinderfilmfest in 2005.It is the writer-director's second film and her secondin competition at the festival, following her ...
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ITV links with Video Island for online DVD service
ITV, the UK's largest commercial broadcaster, haslinked up with online DVD rental service Video Island to launch ITV MovieClub.The move sees ITV launch its own online rental service whichwill be powered by Video Island and integrated directly onto www.itv.com.The service will be launched later this year and will offerviewers across ...
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Yates in talks to direct fifth Harry Potter
Harry Potter could be in fora surprise. David Yates, an acclaimed UK TV director but largely unproven infeatures, is in talks to direct the franchise's fifth instalment, HarryPotter And The Order Of The Phoenix.Yates' TV creditsinclude political conspiracy thriller State Of Play, which won a Directors Guild of Great Britain ...
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Johnnie To cranks up Election drama
Hong Kong director Johnnie To has started shooting triaddrama Election - the first project inwhich his production company Milkyway Image has made an investment - andannounced that the $6.4m (HK$50m) production will be made as two films.To expects the contemporary drama, which traces a democraticelection within a triad society, to ...
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Imax strikes deal for new Russian cinema in the city of Perm
Imax Corp. hassigned an agreement to install one of its giant-screen cinemas in the Russiancity of Perm. The cinema will be part of a new multiplex.under construction forlocal exhibitor Panorama Cinemas in the one million-person city located some 1,300kilometres east of Moscow.In a statement,Imax co-chairmen and co-CEOs Richard Gelfond and ...
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Fremaux names new Cannes scout for Germany
Munich-based film journalist and author Thilo Wydra has beenappointed by Cannes' artistic director Thierry Fremaux as successor toChristiane Peitz as the festival's correspondent for Germany.Wydra, who works as a freelance journalist for suchpublications as Film-echo/Filmwoche, Der Tagesspiegel and Hamburger Abendblatt, has also published several books on German andFrench cinema, including ...
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Box office success helps Constantin raises targets
German producer-distributorConstantin Film has raised its sales forecast and EBIT target for a second timethis year after the strong performance of Michael "Bully" Herbig's DreamshipSurprise - Period 1 and OliverHirschbiegel's Downfall in thecinemas in the third quarter of 2004.At the end of June, Constantin had raised its salesforecast for 2004 ...
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Grant boosts Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Festival
The Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival has undergonea raft of changes for its upcoming edition (Nov 25 ˆ Dec 5) including newdirectors, increased sponsorship and an expanded line-up of gay andlesbian-themed films.Launched in 1989, the annual event is the biggest andlongest-running gay and lesbian film festival in Asia ...
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Bridget is big fat hit in first six territories
Universal and Working Title scored their biggest opening weekendof all time in the UK as Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason opened top through UIP on an estimated$19.1m (£10.3m) on 496 screens including previews of $5.9m (£3.3m).The record UK opening applies to US$ and pounds sterling, and beatBridget Jones's Diaryby ...
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Italian prosecutor calls for Berlusconi jail sentence
Drawing an end to a four-year corruption trial, an Italianprosecutor has asked a court to sentence Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi toeight years in jail for bribing judges.Ilda Boccassini said that Berlusconi had made regularpayments to judges in Rome to help his holding company Fininvest in a corporatetakeover battle of the ...
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Cineart takes Belgian rights to Jarmusch project
Belgian distributor Cineart picked up all Benelux rights forthe untitled Jim Jarmusch project that stars Bill Murray, Naomi Watts andSharon Stone.The deal was struck between Cineart's Stephan DePotter and Bac Films International's Silviere Moreau, who was handlinglimited territorial rights. In the rest of the world the film is sold by ...
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Absolute Tangerine to start shooting at end of Nov
Principalphotography is set to begin in New York on Nov 29 on Tomax Aponte's psychologicalthriller Absolute Tangerine.Theproject features a cast of US and Latin America's Telenovela actors and starsPatricia Rae, Craig Wasson, John Heard, Gary Perez, Francisco Gattorno, Sissi,Lou Torres, and newcomer Jeremiah Sayys.Setin present day New York, the story ...
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Berlinale Talent Campus receives 2,500 applications
The third edition of the Berlinale's Talent Campus hasreceived 2,500 applications for the 500 places available at the event (Feb12-17) during next year's film festival.While the number of countries sending entries increased from101 to 104, the total number of entries was more than 25% less than last year's3,500. (The first ...
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The Incredibles maintains super-hero pace
Pixar's The Incredibles, distributed in the US through Buena Vista, beat off thechallenge of Warner Bros' The Polar Express to stay top with an estimated $51msecond weekend haul that raised its running total to $144.1m.Polar Express, a 50/50 co-venture between Warner Bros and Steve Bing'sShangri-La Entertainment that cost $165m to ...
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Sitges unveils festival line-up
Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow, ThePhantom Of The Opera, Christopher Smith's Creep and JohnnieDepp-starrer Finding Neverland will comprise the gala screenings of theupcoming International Film Festival of Catalunya (Dec 2-11), better known asSitges.Located just outside Barcelona, Sitges plans to tie in itsclosing weekend events with the December 11 ...
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Polar Express opening is less than Incredibles
Pixar's The Incredibles, distributed in the US through Buena Vista, beat off thechallenge of Warner Bros' The Polar Express to stay top with an estimated $51msecond weekend haul that raised its running total to $144.1m.Polar Express, a 50/50 co-venture between Warner Bros and Steve Bing'sShangri-La Entertainment that cost $165m to ...