All Screen articles in 20 August 2004 – Page 3
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Sogepaq adds Roma to autumn slate
Spain's Sogepaq has picked up international rights to SanSebastian competition title Roma fromveteran Argentine director Adolfo Aristarain.The film joins Sogepaq's fall slate, headlined by AlejandroAmenabar's much-anticipated drama Out ToSea (Mar Adentro) starring Javier Bardem, and Alex de la Iglesia's newblack comedy Ferpect Crime (CrimenFerpecto).A tale spanning 50 years, Roma follows ...
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Koenekamp to receive ASC lifetime achievement award
Fred Koenekampwill receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) LifetimeAchievement Award at the annual Outstanding Achievement Awards on Feb 20 2005 in LosAngeles.Koenekamp began his career in 1964 with television's The Man FromU.N.C.L.E., and seven years later earned his first of three Academy Awardnominations for Patton.He shared the Oscar with ...
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FRANCE 18 August
King Arthur handily dethroned Will Smith vehicle I,Robot grabbing the top spot withnearly 635,000 admissions in its first week out. Spider Man 2 held steady in the number two slot to bring itscumulative take to $28,979,702 after 4 weeks on release. Jennifer Garnerstarrer 13 Going On 30 landed atnumber 6 ...
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GERMANY 18 August
Michael 'Bully' Herbig allowed Alex Proyas' I, Robot only one week at pole positionbefore returning to the top spot with his sci-fi spoof (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 registering another $5.1m grossfrom 980 screens for a total gross of over $50m. With a total of over 7.2madmissions, (T)Raumschiff is now ...
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Court orders Samaha, Franchise to pay $121.5m
A federal judge in Santa Ana, California, entered judgmentyesterday (17 Aug) against Elie Samaha, Franchise Pictures, and 18 Franchiseone-off production companies for $121.5m.Thejudgment, pending post-trial motions and appeals, marks the conclusion of the four-yearlegal battle between Franchise and its former co-production partner,Intertainment Licensing GmbH.Judge Alicemarie Stotler ruled that Franchise, Samaha, ...
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Locarno wrestles with growing pains
The pains ofgrowing up were in abundant evidence this year in Locarno. And if this was notan intentional theme, it reflects the type of film the festival made itsselection from, according to at least two members of the selection committee.A boy is abandonedby his father in Catarina Ruivo's Portuguese Andre ...
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Reding re-selected for EU media job
Viviane Reding is to keep the audiovisual policyand MEDIA Programme portfolio in the new team of commissioners unveiled by JoseManuel Barroso, President-designate of the European Commission.Reding has been commissioner for Education,Culture, Youth, Media & Sport since 1999 and will now serve as theCommissioner for Information Society and Media. She will ...
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New chief for French Film Commission
France's National FilmCommission (CNF), which promotes location filming in the country, will have anew president in mid-September.Unifrance's deputy generalmanager Patrick Lamassoure will take over from current CNF president BenoitCaron, according to Caron. Lamassoure could not be reached for comment.For his part, Caron, who hasheaded up the CNF since the late ...
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Upbeat Constantin raises targets for 2004
German producer-distributor Constantin Film hasraised its sales forecast for 2004 to at least Euros 200m.The move came after Constantin posted a 175%year-on-year increase in sales for the first six months of this year. In the period up toJune 30, the Constantin Group achieved sales of Euros 99m, compared to Euros36m ...
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Civilian Content secures $13m in tax funding
In a welcome boost after itsNew Zealand period piece River Queen stalled mid-shoot, UK media concernCivilian Content aims to double its production levels this year after securinga $12.9m (£7m) tranche of funding.The publicly-listed companyhas accessed the production funding through its partnership with financierSureFire, which has raised the money through UK ...
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Forgiveness
Dir. Ian Gabriel. SouthAfrica, 2004. 112mins.There are two thingsgoing for Ian Gabriel's feature film debut Forgiveness. The first isthat it comes from South Africa, which promises to be the film festival flavourof the year (after a competition premiere at Locarno it plays in Toronto's South Africa: Ten YearsLater sidebar next ...
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McKellen joins Magic Roundabout cast
Ian McKellen has joinedKylie Minogue and Robbie Williams in voicing Pathe's $20m CGI animated feature The Magic Roundabout.Having played the wizardGandalf in The Lord Of The Rings, theOscar-nominated actor will be playing a less stereotypical wizard in thefeature version of the kids' TV show.His character is Zebedee, a moustachioed jack-in-a-box ...
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Vampire hunter trio joins BloodRayne
Michelle Rodriguez, Matt Davis and Michael Madsen have joined thecast of BloodRayne, Uwe Boll's video game adaptation set to begin principalphotography in Romania later this month.All three willplay vampire hunters alongside T3 star Kristanna Loken, who plays the titlerole of a half-human, half-vampire who roams the world eliminating evilsupernatural forces.Ben ...
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Five filmmakers to benefit from IFP/New York doc grant
IFP/New York isto allocate seed funding worth a total of $50,000 to five documentary projectsthrough the relaunched Anthony Radziwill Documentary Fund.Oriana Zill & Marco Williams' Banished: How Whites DroveBlacks Out of Town in America, Marlo Poras' Gambian Marriage, Judith Helfand'sHeat Wave: An Unnatural Disaster, Diane Bernard's The Lord Of Light, ...
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Gayner comes aboard Arenas as svp marketing
LeAnne Gayner has joined the diversified Latino entertainment andmarketing outfit Arenas Entertainment as senior vice president of marketing.Gayner previously served at Artisan Entertainment and will setabout working on the company's slate of upcoming releases, which includesNicotina starring Diego Luna that is set to open in the US on Aug 20, ...
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King Arthur raises international cume to $71m for BVI
King Arthur wasspoiling for a fight at the weekend, grossing an estimated $12.2m through BuenaVista International (BVI) to raise its international running total to $70.8m.A couple of strong number one European debuts drove weekendbusiness as the epic took $2.6m on 403 screens in Spain and $1.8m on 210 inRussia.Elsewhere BVI's ...
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Azkaban conjures up $500m at international box office
Harry Potter AndThe Prisoner Of Azkaban crossed $500m at the international box office at theweekend, becoming the 10th picture to reach the milestone and Warner Bros'third biggest picture of all time behind the two previous Potter instalments.Azkaban grossedan estimated $5.6m with 602,000 admissions on more than 2,000 screens in 47territories ...
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DENMARK 17 August
Though admissions again were up (45,8%) from last year, itstill wasn't evident on the chart as no films did better than fair. The Chronicles Of Riddick only made itinto third with its 30 prints. Adding one more print, Fahrenheit 9/11 easily took the highest screen average again withDKK42,071. However, Nordisk ...
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SWEDEN 17 August
Nothing changed at the top of the Swedish chart, where I, Robot and King Arthur's high number of prints kept them in front of DaneSimon Staho's Swedish-language drama DayAnd Night, but the latter increased its screen average to $3,991 - the bestthis weekend. Best newcomer was teenage comedy Mean Girls ...
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Columbia TriStar sets Oct 5 for Fahrenheit 9/11 DVD release
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment will release Fahrenheit 9/11on DVD and video in the US on Oct 5.The home entertainment release looks likely to keep the bandwagonrolling following a spectacular US theatrical run through Lion's Gate Films,IFC Films and The Fellowship Adventure Group.Michael Moore's picture opened on Jun 23 and went ...