All Screen articles in 2 March 2005 – Page 2
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Perfume, Klimt awarded German funds
New features by Tom Tykwer, Raoul Ruiz and Tomy Wigand areamong five projects awarded over Euros 4.6m by Bavaria's Film & TelevisionFund FFF Bayern in its latest round of funding.Tykwer's adaptation of Patrick Sueskind's bestselling novel Perfumefor Constantin Film Produktion received the largest amount - Euros 1.6m - withan additional ...
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Gaumont profits jump three-fold
Aftera few lackluster years, fortunes at French major Gaumont are on the rise.Announcing2004 figures on Monday, the company reported revenues of Euros 88.6m ($115m), a26% increase over 2003, and profits of Euros 9.7m up from Euros 2.8m theprevious year.Ina press release, the world's oldest film studio noted that the jump ...
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DTS opens new subsidiary offices in Paris, Rome
Digital technology company DTS (Digital Theater Systems) hasopened subsidiary offices in Paris and Rome following its recent expansion intoHong Kong and Canada.Both new offices will offer exclusive transfer facilities and theusual DTS range of audio delivery and image restoration services."The opening of subsidiaries in Paris and Rome furtherreinforces DTS' commitment ...
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Atlantic Streamline sets start date for horror movie Butterfly
The psychological horror story Butterfly, A Grimm Love Story starring Keri Russell and ThomasKretschmann is set to begin filming in Germany in March.Marco Weber's Atlantic Streamline is financing and producing theproject, about a research student who descends into depravity in order tounderstand the mind of a cannibal killer.TS Faull wrote ...
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Atlantic Alliance forced to put Holocaust drama on hold after Rywin imprisonment
Production on Atlantic Alliance Pictures' Holocaust drama LoveIs A Survivor was put onhold yesterday (28) after producers said there were insufficient funds tocomplete the project.Atlantic Alliance president Harris Salomon said he and Britishassociates had secured 75% of the Euros 7m budget, but added that the balanceremained "elusive".Salomon said the New ...
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SPAIN Production Listings - March 2
PRE PRODUCTION ALATRISTE(Estudios Picasso, Origen PC, Universal Studios) Budget: Euros 20m. Intl sales:TF1 International. The tales of a 17th century adventurer and his sidekick.Dir/scr: Agustin Diaz Yanes, based on the novel by Arturo Perez Reverte. Maincast: Viggo Mortensen, Eduardo Noriega, Javier Camara, Elena Anaya and AriadnaGil Shooting from March 7 ...
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AUSTRALIA 1 March
Constantine was the most popular film at the boxoffice for the four-day weekend to Sunday February 27, taking A$2,986,988 from289 screens. This was nearly three times more than the result for TheAviator, which was in second position after leading the chart for the twoprevious weekends. Constantine had easily the biggest ...
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Avex buys Japan on Screaming Masterpiece from Katapult
LA-basedKatapult Film Sales closed a major Japanese deal at Berlin recently for itsmusic documentary Screaming Masterpiece with Avex in Japan.Open Sesame helped to brokerthe deal which saw Avex take Ari Alexander Ergis' film about the contemporaryIcelandic music scene. The film, which was completed in Jan, and screened inBerlin, features such ...
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Fockers extends reign and nears $200m
DreamWorks International's MeetThe Fockers continued to dominate the international box office over theweekend, adding an estimated $20.8m on 4,185 screens in 48 territories throughUIP for a $184.7m international running total.Strong holdovers saw the picturestay top in Germany, France and Austria as it grossed $5m on 629 for $12.2m,$2.8m on 591 ...
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Cursed
Dir: Wes Craven. US.2005. 95minsThe release date of 2005tells one side - perhaps the official one - to Cursed, the new werewolfpicture from Dimension, the in-house genre arm of Miramax that revitalised themodern horror landscape with the self-aware yet scary Scream picturesfrom what now seems like eons ago. Almost every ...
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New Latina film-maker grant created by Women In Film in LA with GM
TheLos Angeles branch of Women In Film has teamed up with General MotorsCorporation to launch the Women In Film/General Motors Latina New Filmmakergrant, designed to support upcoming Latina filmmakers by providing them withaccess to key industry personnel and female mentors. Thegrant will be awarded to five women selected from an ...
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Be Cool
Dir: F Gary Gray. US.2005. 115 mins.Imperturbablemobster-turned-movie-producer Chili Palmer tries his hand at the music biz in BeCool, the long-awaited sequel to Barry Sonnefeld's deftly funny 1995 ElmoreLeonard adaptation Get Shorty. In musical terms, the sequel doesn'tswing like the original did and neither does it ever quite find a more ...
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New cast join Stranger Than Fiction
TomHulce, Linda Hunt and Tony Hale have joined the cast of Marc Forster's StrangerThan Fiction, which is set to begin filming in April.Aspreviously announced, Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman and EmmaThompson and Queen Latifah already star in the story of an IRS auditor namedHarold Crick who inexplicably finds himself ...
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Diary Of A Mad Black Woman opens top in US
Lions Gate Film's comedy-dramaDiary Of A Mad Black Woman ruled the roost at the weekend, opening topon an estimated $22.7m.The picture stars Kimberly Elise as a woman who learns on the eve of her 20thwedding anniversary that her husband wants to marry her best friend. DarrenGrant's picture opened to dire ...
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Diary Of A Mad Black Woman opens top in US
Lions Gate Film's comedy-dramaDiary Of A Mad Black Woman ruled the roost at the weekend, opening topon an estimated $22.7m.The picture stars Kimberly Elise as a woman who learns on the eve of her 20thwedding anniversary that her husband wants to marry her best friend. DarrenGrant's picture opened to dire ...
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Million Dollar night at the Oscars for Eastwood's Baby
Million Dollar Baby delivered a knockout blow to its chiefcompetitor The Aviator attonight's 77th Annual Academy Award ceremony, winning four Oscarsfor best picture, best director (Clint Eastwood), best actress (Hilary Swank)and best supporting actor (Morgan Freeman).MartinScorsese once again came away empty-handed in the best director category for TheAviator, although the ...
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It's Sideways all the way at the Independent Spirits
Sideways stamped its inimitable mark on the 20th IFPIndependent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica on Saturday (26), winning five awardsincluding best feature, best director for Alexander Payne and best male leadfor Paul Giamatti. The$16m Fox Searchlight hit, whose inclusion in the budget-contingent Spirits wasa surprise to many, also took best ...
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FULL LIST OF ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS 2004
Best Picture MillionDollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, AlbertS Ruddy & Tom Rosenberg, producers)BestDirector Clint Eastwood Million Dollar BabyBest Actor Jamie Foxx RayBest Actress Hilary Swank MillionDollar BabyBest Supporting Actor MorganFreeman Million Dollar BabyBest Supporting Actress CateBlanchett The AviatorBest Original ScreenplayCharlie Kaufman (screenplay), Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry & PierreBismuth (story) Eternal Sunshine ...
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France's 30th Cesar awards provide an evening of surprises
The 30th anniversary of France's Cesar awards proved to be an evening full of surprises with Abdellatif Kechiche's L'Esquive taking four prizes, including best picture and best director. The awards were an upset for favoured films: The Chorus and A Very Long Engagement which were both up for two Oscars ...
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Arts Alliance to manage UK digital screen network
Taking a huge step in creating the western world's biggestdigital cinema network, Government-backed support body UK Film Council has selected an offshoot ofventure capitalist Arts Alliance to install a nationwide digital circuit of 250screens.Under the £11.5m contract, Arts Alliance is to spearhead theinstallation, training, servicing and upgrades over an 18-month ...
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