All Screen articles in 20 January 2004 – Page 2
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Finnish Jussi awards favour Upswing
Johanna Vuoksenmaa's popular comedy drama Upswing (Nousukausi) topped the list of nominations for the Finnish film organisation Filmiaura's coveted Jussi awards.Upswing's ten nominations include best film, best director, best actor/actress, script and music. Last year's most popular film at the box-office, Aleksi Makela's Bad Boys - A True Story, (with ...
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Walking On Water to get world premiere at Berlin
Eytan Fox's new Israeli film, Walking On Water, will receive its world premiere at the Berlinale Panorama, the most natural place for it to open, since half of the picture was shot in the German capital last year.A Mossad agent befriends two German siblings, a brother and a sister, in ...
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Russia's Gorky Studios to be privatised
Russia's second largest film production facility, Gorky Studios in central Moscow, has taken the first step on the road to privatisation.The formerly state owned studios have been restructured as a joint-stock company with the state owning a blocking stake, 25% plus one of the shares, while the remaining shares will ...
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Theatre impresario Teddy Solomon named Showester 2004
TG 'Teddy' Solomon, chairman of the board of Gulf States Theatres, will receivethe 2004 ShoWester of the Year Award at the upcoming ShoWest convention, whichruns in Las Vegas from Mar 22-25.Solomonwill receive his award at the opening ceremony on Mar 23. He founded GulfStates Theatres in 1948 and quickly established ...
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Theatre impresario Teddy Solomon named Showester 2004
TG 'Teddy' Solomon, chairman of the board of Gulf States Theatres, will receivethe 2004 ShoWester of the Year Award at the upcoming ShoWest convention, whichruns in Las Vegas from Mar 22-25.Solomonwill receive his award at the opening ceremony on Mar 23. He founded GulfStates Theatres in 1948 and quickly established ...
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Premier PR expands with Flagship acquisition
Premier PR, the London and LA-based entertainment public relations agency, has acquired Flagship Publicity, the UK based celebrity representation and fashion/luxury goods brand PR..Premier also recently brought in Deborah Harpur to run their Events Management department. Harpur was formerly in charge of Lilac Events at Purple PR. PPR already ...
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Screen Actors Guild unveils Awards nominees
Miramax's The Station Agent and Warner Bros' Mystic River have earned three nominations each for the upcoming 10th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards, taking pride of place in a list that is noticeably light on big studio titles.Peter Dinklage is the surprise inclusion in the best actors category for ...
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First Forum films announced by Berlinale
Films by Korea's Kim Jee-woon, Japan's Sabu, Russian directorial duo Boris Khlebnikov and Alexei Popogrebsky, and Hong Kong's Johnnie To are among the first batch of titles confirmed for this year's International Forum of New Cinema at the forthcoming Berlinale.The titles announced so far are:A Bride Of The Seventh Heaven ...
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Berlin reveals 'political' competition selection
More than half of the 18 films confirmed so far for the Berlinale's Competition next month (5-15 February) are world premieres.Moreover, the 2004 edition promises to feature a remarkable number of politically committed films, according to the festival's selectors.Bjorn Runge's Daybreak, Cedric Kahn's Red Lights, Patrice Leconte's Intimate Strangers, Romuald ...
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Berlin names Perspectives German Cinema titles
Rotterdam's Tiger Award competitor En Route (Unterwegs) by Jan Kruger, the Max Ophuels Prize entry Muxmäuschenstill by Marcus Mittermeier and Patrick Tauss's First Steps Award-winner Der Typ are among the twelve films selected by programmer Alfred Holighaus for the Berlinale's Perspectives German Cinema (Perspektive Deutsches Kino) sidebar.The lineup also includes ...
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Showtime, Strand pair up on The Mudge Boy
ShowtimeNetwork and Strand Releasing have signed a deal to jointly handle thetheatrical release of Michael Burke's drama The Mudge Boy, which isscheduled for release in April.Thestory centres on a 14-year-old misfit's struggle to connect with his fatherfollowing the death of his mother. Emile Hirsch, whose credits include TheEmperor's Club and ...
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Showtime, Strand pair up on The Mudge Boy
ShowtimeNetwork and Strand Releasing have signed a deal to jointly handle thetheatrical release of Michael Burke's drama The Mudge Boy, which isscheduled for release in April.Thestory centres on a 14-year-old misfit's struggle to connect with his fatherfollowing the death of his mother. Emile Hirsch, whose credits include TheEmperor's Club and ...
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Piracy concerns resurface as The Last Samurai found online
Thefate of a second Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences member could hangin the balance as investigations continued yesterday into the appearance of anonline pirate copy of The Last Samurai.WarnerBros alerted the Academy on Tuesday (13) and warned of harsh recrimination,however the provenance of the pirate version and the ...
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PGA hooks up with Intel Corp
The Producers Guild ofAmerica (PGA) has formed a relationship with Intel Corporation to bring itsmembers up to speed with the modern age by developing business opportunities,film-making technologies and delivery systems.The partners will create aseries of ongoing programmes and seminars to broaden the skills of its producermembers and marry the requirements ...
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Duda moves up, Keramidas moves on at Showtime
Intwo key changes to Showtime Networks' upper management structure, companyveteran Matthew Duda has been promoted to executive vice president ofacquisitions, planning and distribution while executive vice president ofprogramming Peter Keramidas is leaving after 10 years to pursue otherinterests.Keramidaswas involved in many aspects of daily programming department and assumedgreater responsibility in ...
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Tribeca launches So You Wanna Be in Pictures' expo
TribecaEnterprises, the latest business venture of Tribeca Film Festival co-foundersRobert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, will launch abehind-the-scenes entertainment show at New York's Jacob JavitsCentre at the end ofthe year.DubbedSo You Wanna Be In Pictures', the event will run from Nov 20-22 and offerinteractive exhibits, hardware and software ...
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Gina Kwon wins Mark Silverman Fellowship New Producers grant
GinaKwon will receive the 2004 Mark Silverman Fellowship for New Producers, anaward set up in partnership with the Sundance Institute to help independentproducers finance their projects.Kwonwill receive a $5,000 cash grant to be used in pre-production on Miranda July'sMe And You And Everyone We Know, which is styled as a ...
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HUNGARY
Nothing stood a chance when the third episode of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy invaded Hungarian cinemas last weekend. Following the previews and its opening weekend, The Return Of The King has already passed the two hundred thousand admissions mark and it is likely that records will be broken ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
No big news at the Serbian-Montenegrin market in the second weekend of 2004. Tuck is on top with Return Of The King which sold another 15,328 admissions to total of 138,459 and massive cumulative gross of $533,135 in only three weeks.The same distributor successfully opened with Mona Lisa Smile in ...
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Admissions to French films slip back in 2003
Reflecting the downturn at the French box office in 2003, French films took 60.6m admissions during the year - a 6.2% drop from 2002.However, according to new figures from French film body the CNC, the market share of French films held firm at 34.8% - slightly up on 2002's 34.2%.Nineteen ...