All Screen articles in 20 January 2004 – Page 3
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Return Of The King named PGA champ for 2004
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The Kingproducers Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Barrie M Osborne won the Darryl FZanuck Producer of the Year Award at the 15th Annual PGA Awards inLos Angeles on Saturday (17).The New Line fantasy beat strong competition from Miramax's ColdMountain, Warner Bros' Mystic ...
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NORDIC Production Listings - January 19 2004
DENMARK - January 19IN PRE-PRODUCTIONEUROTRASH(Wise Guy Productions) Co-prod: Zentropa Productions. Budget: Euros 1.1m. Dist: Sandrew Metronome (Den). Youth drama about two friends' attempt to get out of their miserable life in the concrete ghetto by robbing the local superDenmarket. Exec prod: Peter Aalbaek Jensen. Prod: Thomas Stegler. Dir/scr: Stefano Gonzalez. ...
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The Last Samurai passes $150m at international box office
The Last Samurairaised its international running total to an estimated $156.1m at the weekendfollowing a superb $38.7m haul from 31 territories.The Warner BrosPictures International drama opened number one in all five of its new Europeanmarkets and scored several strong results in Latin America and Asia.In a mightysequence of table-topping bows, ...
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The Last Samurai passes $150m at international box office
The Last Samurai raised its international running total to anestimated $156.1m at the weekend following a superb $38.7m haul from 31territories.The Warner Bros PicturesInternational drama opened number one in all five of its new European marketsand scored several strong results in Latin America and Asia.In a mighty sequence oftable-topping bows, ...
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Love Actually nears $150m for UIP
Universal's romantic comedy Love Actually grossed an estimated $3.2m from 19UIP territories to raise its cumulative UIP score to $145m. Including $6.2m fromFrance and $2m from Russia - both non-UIP territories - the film has amassed$153.2m so far.It added $1.1m in the UK for $58.6m in its sixth week and ...
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Warner expands China cinema reach
Warner Bros InternationalTheatres (WBIT) is expanding its reach into China's nascent cinema marketstill further via a deal to manage a chain of around 30 multiplexes which arebeing built by Chinese property developer, Dalian Wanda Group.The deal, which was signed byWBIT president Millard Ochs and Dalian Wanda chairman Wang Jianlin in ...
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Distant Lights takes top Bavarian film honour
The producers of last year's Berlinale competition film Distant Lights by Hans-Christian Schmid took home the top honour at this year's Bavarian Film AwardsThe jury presented the Euros 200,000 Producers Award to Jakob Claussen, Thomas Woebke and Uli Putz of Claussen + Woebke Filmproduktion, acknowledging "the independent stand of the ...
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Cannes Market launches Producers Network
The Cannes Market islaunching a new initiative intended to make its activities relevant toproducers, as well as the usual ranks of sales agents and distributors.It is launching ProducersNetwork, Le Reseau Des Producteurs, which will act as both an informationsource and a highly-structured meeting place for producers.It says that the movereflects ...
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Cinema Service splits from Plenus parent
Cinema Service, one of the two major distributors that dominate the South Korean film market, has announced plans to separate from its parent company Plenus Entertainment.In a public announcement to the Korean KOSDAQ stock exchange, Plenus Entertainment announced, "A formal separation with Cinema Service [...] is currently underway, and the ...
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Lakeshore dives into Romania with Cave
Lakeshore Entertainment and Screen Gems have settled on Romania as the location for the shoot of their action-thriller Prime Evil aka Cave.The picture, which is scheduled to shoot from March, had long been pencilled in to use East European locations. Lakeshore recently settled on Romania and has begun constructing sets ...
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Croff confirmed as Biennale boss
As expected, Italian culture minister Giuliano Urbani confirmed on Thursday the appointment of Davide Croff as the new president of the Biennale, the organization that runs the Venice Film Festival. (See ScreenDaily.com, Jan 15)Croff's appointment will now have to be ratified by the both the parliament and the senate's cultural ...
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Danish Bodil Award nominations reveal some surprises
This year's Danish film critics' nominations for the Bodil awards reveal some unusual differences from those selected by the Danish Film Academy for The ROBERTS.Common to both, Per Fly's The Inheritance led the field with Lars von Trier's Dogville. Both films were nominated as best film, best actor (Ulrich Thomsen ...
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Carandiru to open Argentina's Mar Del Plata
Carandiru, Brazil's official entry to the Oscars, will open Argentina's Mar del Plata International Film Festival, slated to run from March 11th to 20th.Pupi Avati's Heart Is Elsewhere (Il Cuore Altrove) will close the Latin American A-listed festival.Carandiru director Hector Babenco is Argentine-born and is best known for directing Oscar-nominated ...
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Spanish cinema stuck in 'vicious circle' says Academy
Spanish cinema is stuck in a "vicious circle" of debility and dependence, the Spanish Cinema Academy suggested in its annual report on the local film sector, presented on Thursday in Madrid.The so-called "Crisis" of Spanish film production - the title of last year's report - is far from resolved, ...
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Rings, Nemo close in on $500m international haul
This upcoming weekend offers the mouth-watering prospect of two possible $500m international results as Finding Nemo and The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King each close in on the half-billion mark.While there is no doubt both titles will do it, Buena Vista International's (BVI) animated hit seems ...
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Italian industry worried as admissions slip in 2003
Admissions in Italy slipped by just 1.92% in 2003, but the drop has worried industry observers as it comes in spite of the fact that 182 new screens were built in the country last year.According to data released by Cinetel, which monitors around 75% of cinemas nationwide, Italian cinemas recorded ...
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Spain's Plural embarks on US Justice shoot
Spain's Plural Entertainment has begun shooting in Miami on Justice For All (Justicia Para Todos), the first Spain-produced fiction series wholly designed for, shot and broadcast in the US.The one-hour dramatic series will be broadcast during prime-time on Univision, giving it a potential audience of 40 million.The series is set ...
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Whitaker, Balaban board freedom project for Sundance Channel and Court TV
ForestWhitaker and Bob Balaban are the first two film-makers to join The FirstAmendment Project, a four-part series of half-hour films by the SundanceChannel and Court TV.Setto air in August 2004, the series invites film-makers to reflect on the notionof freedom in daily life and the challenges of protecting the values ...