All Screen articles in 20 January 2004 – Page 6
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NORWAY
Though The Return Of The King dropped 36% it stayed untouchable at the top of the Norwegian chart for another week, as this weekend's only new release, Seabiscuit, didn't manage to attract too much attention and opened tenth.Though little changed, Freaky Friday this weekend grossed more than the animated Captain ...
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JAPAN
After five weeks on release, The Last Samurai still sits firmly atop the Japanese box office, with a screen average, $106,865, higher than that of every film on the nine-major-cities chart, including second-place Finding Nemo ($64,475) and the indie sensation Josee, The Tiger And The Fish ($84,770).Week-on, the film's take ...
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FINLAND
Very little changed at the Finnish box-office this weekend, as the new releases Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Down With Love failed to impress and opened fifth and eighth respectively.Land Of Love managed to hang on to its second spot, dropping just 14% and keeping a reasonable admissions screen average of ...
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Indian film-makers eye Pakistani market
As India and Pakistan Governments make progress on peace talks, Indian filmmakers are showing renewed interest in the Pakistani film market.An Indian distributor told ScreenDaily.com 'Once the Pakistani theatrical circuit opens for Hindi cinema the market across the border will be as big as the Delhi and Mumbai territories'.Last week ...
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Mundorff joins Landmark Theatres as vp and head film buyer
Ted Mundorff hasbeen named vice president and head film buyer at Landmark Theatres, where hewill be responsible for all booking and buying in the chain's circuit.Mundorff waspreviously at Pacific Theatres for 26 years and served most recently as vice presidentof film.He is credited with developing and implementing thehighly successful Grove ...
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Three Steps Dancing (Ballo A Tre Passi)
Dir: Salvatore Mereu. Italy. 2003. 106 mins.Islands are becoming a real force in Italian cinema. Not just films set on islands, like Respiro or L'Isola, but films made by islanders. Aside from the offerings of temple elders Bertolucci and Bellocchio, the two most invigoratingly different Italian films to appear at ...
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Scotland's New Found scheme to back two more features
The New Found Films scheme has announced that it will finance two further low-budget Scottish digital features.The scheme, run by Scottish Screen, Scottish Television and Grampian Television, offers production companies a budget of £300,000 to make a feature that has relevance to Scotland and is capable of international release.The first ...
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Verhoeven wins top Dutch film award
Director Paul Verhoeven is to receive the Holland's most prestigious national film award, the Bert Haanstra Oeuvre-prize.The award, to be given for the fourth time, comes with a 45,000 Euros purse.The award jury, presided over by former minister Hans van Mierlo, said that Verhoeven is a director who is able ...
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Studio epics dominate ASC nominations
The AmericanSociety of Cinematographers (ASC) has thrown its weight behind theseason's epic studio releases with the announcement of nominees for the18th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in Los Angeles on Feb8.The fivenominees are Russell Boyd for Master And Commander: The Far Side Of TheWorld, Andrew Lesnie forThe Lord Of The ...
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Art directors to honour animation guru Lasseter
Oscar-winning animation wunderkindJohn Lasseter, whose directing credits include Toy Story, A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2, will receive the Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award at the 8thAnnual Art Directors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Feb 14.The honour is occasionallygranted to an individual 'whose body of work has richly ...
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Pathe to produce The Little Prince animation
Pathe Pictures has teamed up with French publishers, Gallimard, and the Saint-Exupery Estate to develop and produce an animated feature film based on Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince.Written and illustrated by Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince has been printed in more than 150 different languages and has sold more than ...
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Seabiscuit declared biggest selling drama DVD of all time
Seabiscuit has become the biggest selling drama DVD of all timeaccording to Universal Studios Home Video (USHV), recording combined sales ofmore than 6.5million DVD and VHS units totaling more than $135m in four weeks.The title got off to a greatstart when it went on release on Dec 16 last year, ...
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Seabiscuit declared biggest selling drama DVD of all time
Seabiscuit has become the biggest selling drama DVD of all timeaccording to Universal Studios Home Video (USHV), recording combined sales ofmore than 6.5million DVD and VHS units totaling more than $135m in four weeks.The title got off to a greatstart when it went on release on Dec 16 last year, ...
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Japan's Asmik Ace teams up for new video label
Leading Japanese independent film distributor Asmik Ace Entertainment, publisher Kadokawa Shoten Publishing and Kadokawa Holdings and have jointly launched a video & DVD distribution unit.With capital of $83,000 (Yen 10m) funded entirely by Kadokawa Holdings, Kadokawa Entertainment will distribute video and DVDs of all the films and TV programmes produced ...
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Italian video market posts strong gains in 2003
Italy's home entertainment market had a booming year in 2003 thanks partly to a successful battle against piracy and to the strength of DVDs, national home video organisation Univideo said on Wednesday.According to Univideo's latest figures, the Italian home entertainment sector registered a turnover of Euros 697m in 2003, as ...