All Screen articles in 21 April 2004 – Page 4
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Head-On favourite for German Film Awards
Fatih Akin's Golden Bear-winner Head-On is the favourite for this year's German Film Awards after it received four nominations in the categories for best film, direction, actor and leading actress.Three nominations each also went to Sönke Wortmann's The Miracle Of Bern, Leander Haussmann's Berlin Blues and Christian Petzold's Wolfsburg.The fact ...
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Digital cinema poised for screen boost
The digital cinema market could be worth more than $100 million a year to projector manufacturers by 2005 according to a new report, Digital Cinema Factbook from industry analysts Dodona Research.By 2008, the number of digital cinema screens is forecast to rise to more than 5,000 worldwide in response to ...
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New Line takes Vera Drake off the table
New Line Cinema has acquired North American rights to MikeLeigh's latest film Vera Drake for apurported price tag of well over $2m. The deal was personally initiated by NewLine co-chairman and co-CEO Michael Lynne himself with the Leigh camp.It is not yet clear whether the film will be released byNew ...
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Rotterdam, IDFA expansion plans quashed by Dutch review
There were mixed fortunes for the Dutch film industry yesterday as the Government's advisory council, the "Raad voor Cultur", announced its spending recommendations for 2005 to 2008.Events such as The Rotterdam Film Festival, the Dutch Film Festival and IDFA received a qualified thumbs up, but while their funding will remain ...
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13 Going On 30
Dir: Gary Winick. US 2004. 97minsA female take on the 1988 hit Big, 13 Going On 30 concerns an insecure 13-year old girl who longs to be a grown up, convinced that adulthood confers automatic popularity, success and happiness. With the help of a little magic dust, she gets her ...
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BELGIUM 21 April
Warner Bros' Taking Lives swiped the lead spot from The Passion Of The Christ just one week after Mel Gibson's international hit launched. The psychological thriller, which sees Angelina Jolie as an FBI agent called in to aid Montreal police track down a serial killer, claimed pole position opening on ...
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UK/IRELAND 21 April
New releases had little impact on the UK/Ireland chart this week as the top three remained unchanged from last week.Scooby-Doo 2 held up well as school holidays came to a close slipping just 13% week-on-week.Columbia's 50 First Dates also held up seeing a small 14% against its opening weekend (excluding ...
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Anschutz reorganises film companies under Weil, Granat
Philip Anschutz hasreorganised his film interests with the creation of Anschutz Film Group (AFG),a Los Angeles-based holding company that will serve as parent to subsidiariesWalden Media and Bristol Bay Productions, formerly known as CrusaderEntertainment.Attorney David Weil, who forthe past year has served as Anschutz's chief advisor on film investments, joinsfrom ...
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Cannes artistic director explains his selection
Interview with Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux - abstracted from today's Cannes festival press statement.In 2004, the Cannes Festival Official Selection is composed of feature films presented in three categories: Competition, Out of Competition, Un Certain Regard. The Official Selection also includes the short film competition and film school competition ...
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Artistic director explains his selection
Interview with Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux - abstracted from today's Cannes festival press statement.In 2004, the Cannes Festival Official Selection is composed of feature films presented in three categories: Competition, Out of Competition, Un Certain Regard. The Official Selection also includes the short film competition and film school competition ...
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Cannes unveils competition line-up
Below is a list of 18 films selected for competition for the 57th Cannes Film Festival.More details to follow shortly.Shrek 2 - Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon (USA)The Ladykillers - Joel et Ethan Coen (USA)Woman Is The Future Of Man (Yoja-nun Namja-ui Miraeda) - Hong Sang-soo (South Korea)The Life ...
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Cannes Competition and Un Certain Regard line-up
MAIN COMPETITIONOpening film (Out Of Competition): Bad Education Pedro Almodovar (Spain)Closing film (Out of Competition): De-Lovely Irwin Winkler (USA)In CompetitionShrek 2 - Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon (USA)The Ladykillers - Joel and Ethan Coen (USA)Woman Is The Future Of Man - Hong Sang-soo (South Korea)The Life and Death ...
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NEW Slimline Cannes hides its surprises in the detail
Cannes' competition holds few surprises in that the line-up has been widely predicted. But it contains a number of innovations and presents a genuinely diverse panoply of film-making around the world.In the spirit of small is beautiful, the number of films in main competition has been cut from 23 last ...
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Slimline Cannes hides its surprises in the detail
Cannes' competition holds few surprises in that the line-up has been widely predicted. But it contains a number of innovations and presents a genuinely diverse panoply of film-making around the world.In the spirit of small is beautiful, the number of films in main competition has been cut from 23 last ...
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Donnie Darko gets director's cut world premiere at Seattle fest
Newmarket Films willpremiere the director's cut of Richard Kelly's surreal love story and cult hit DonnieDarko at the upcoming Seattle FilmFestival on May 29.The acclaimed picture starsJake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone and Drew Barrymore and was originally released in2001, gaining popularity through video and cable platforms and eventuallybecoming a midnight special ...
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Turn Left, Turn Right (Xiang Zuo Zou, Ziang You Zou)
Dirs. Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai. Hong Kong, 2003. 102mins.Softer compared to some of Johnnie To's recent fare like PTU, the latest offering by the prolific Hong Kong director is firmly planted with one foot in the West and the other in the East. Warner Bros Pictures first Chinese-language film Turn ...
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500,000 admissions for Italian film without a distributor
An Italian film without theatrical distribution entitled Il Natale Rubato (The Stolen Christmas) has become a sensation, after it emerged that the self-financed picture has already racked up a massive 500,000 admissions in Italy on an "underground" exhibition circuit.While a recent report revealed that 30 Italian films are currently in ...
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Yet another film distributor launches in the Netherlands
"Born out of necessity" is how producer Els Vandevorst describes the expansion of her production company Isabella Films into theatrical distribution.Dutch feature Het Zuiden (South) is the second film Isabella has released theatrically this year following Thomas Vinterberg's It's All About Love. Vandevorst served as one of the producers on ...
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Asian jewels to shine at Udine
Udine's festival of Far Eastern Film (23-30 April) looks set to present many of the most commercially successful films of the year from Asia.Bookended by Feng Xiao Gang's Cell Phone and Kang Je Gytu's Tae Guk Gi the main programme is a line-up of 41 films from China, Hong Kong, ...
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Sunshine gets first foreign bows in Australia, Taiwan
Focus Features' EternalSunshine Of The Spotless Mind kickedoff its international run in Australia at the weekend with a record bow for aCharlie Kaufman picture that produced $416,000 from 60 screens and eighthplace.The romance claimed thebiggest per-screen average of the top 10 on $6,937. Released through VillageRoadshow, it grossed $518,600 overall ...