All Screen articles in 21 April 2005 – Page 3
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London set for epic Star Wars marketing push
In a world first, the UCIEmpire cinema in London's Leicester Square is set to screen all six of the StarWars films back to back on May 16 - three days before the global release ofStar Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith.Distributor 20thCentury Fox is organising the event as ...
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Bond Watch Brosnan out of the running
The new James Bond film, CasinoRoyale, is scheduled to shoot at the end of 2005 - although it is stilluncertain who will play 007 in the film.With ongoing rumourscirculating throughout the media world, it can be difficult to keep tabs on thelatest information. Here, ScreenDaily.com alleviates some of theconfusion by ...
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Interpreter translates into international hit with $9.3m weekend
Universal's thriller The Interpreter got off to a strong start through UIP atthe weekend, grossing an estimated $9.3m from 15 launches for a $10minternational running total including Greece, which opened last weekend.Buoyed by a hectic publicity tour that took star Nicole Kidman toAustralia, UK and Germany, and director Sydney Pollack ...
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Final MGM release Amityville has strong $23.3m opening
MGM's swansong release The Amityville Horror opened top of the North American chartsat the weekend, dominating a lackluster weekend as it grossed an estimated$23.3m.The $19m MGM/Dimension Films picture stars Ryan Reynolds andMelissa George as an ill-fated couple who move into a haunted house. AndrewDouglas directed the remake of the 1979 ...
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Horror strikes at the US box office with $23.3m opening
MGM's swansong release The Amityville Horror opened top of the North American chartsat the weekend, dominating a lackluster weekend as it grossed an estimated$23.3m.The $19m MGM/Dimension Films picture stars Ryan Reynolds andMelissa George as an ill-fated couple who move into a haunted house. AndrewDouglas directed the remake of the 1979 ...
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Men And Women
Dir: Claude Lelouch.France. 2005. 135 mins. Men And Women is an amalgamation of the first two parts inClaude Lelouch's E30 million trilogy Le Genre Humain designed for the export market and worldpremiered last week in Los Angeles at the City Of Lights, City Of Angels filmfestival. Of those two parts, ...
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Intandem mulls distribution move with Woolley's Stoned
A new entrant looks set to join UK's already crowdeddistribution sector. Gary Smith's Intandem Films is strongly considering handlingthe British release of Stephen Woolley's directorial debut, Stoned,about the life and death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones. Intandemfinanced and is selling the film, formerly known as The Wild And WyckedWorld ...
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Cinelink unveils Balkan project shortlist
CineLink,Sarajevo Film Festival's annual script development program and co-productionmarket for feature-length fiction films, has announced this year's selection.CineLink's remitis to foster films from the Balkan region with the potential for theatricaldistributionThe jurycomprised Ludmila Cvikova, programmer of the Rotterdam International FilmFestival; Christina Kallas, the artistic director of screenplay developmentfunding programme Balkan ...
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Chow, cast members, to attend Sony/MTV Hustle party at Cannes
Sony PicturesReleasing International and MTV Networks Europe are teaming up at Cannes tohost a party in honour of the martial arts romp Kung Fu Hustle.Writer/director Stephen Chow will attend the event on May14 at Le Palais Oriental, along with cast members Tin Kai Man, Chan Kwok Kwan, Lam Tze Chung, ...
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Metrodome makes most of Assassination
TheUK launch last weekend for Niels Mueller's The Assassination of Richard Nixon gave the film its strongest opening in any territory so far.The film, which stars SeanPenn, took $295,761 through 66 cinemas - a far higher total than it achieved onits US launch on December 29 last year. In the ...
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German funder doles out Euros 4.5m to int'l projects
New feature films by Lone Scherfig, Hans Weingartner andOskar Roehler are among 21 projects backed by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburgwith over Euros 4.5m in its latest funding session.Euros 400,000 was awarded to Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfigfor her World War II drama Good, based on C.P. Taylor's play, which willbe produced at Berlin ...
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Paramount shakeup: Shearmur is new production head
Brad Grey's Paramountrevolution continues apace with news that Alli Shearmur has been promoted toco-president of production at the studio.Shearmur, formerly executivevice president of production, will oversee day-to-day development andproduction of the slate as well as literary acquisitions, and will report toincoming Paramount president Gail Berman, who officially starts in May.As ...
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First Look, DEJ swoop on Craven's The Breed
Los Angles-baseddistribution partners FirstLook Media and DEJ Productions have picked up worldwide rights to Wes Cravenproject The Breed, which stars Michelle Rodriguez and will be directedby Craven's longtime collaborator Nick Mastandrea.First Look Media's sales arm First Look International will begin licensingterritories at Cannes next month. Principal photography is scheduled to ...
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Interpreter and Amityville battle it out in UK, Australia
One week afterUIP opened Paramount's Clive Cussler romp Sahara at number one in the UK and Australia,the distributor is attempting to usurp its champion with wide releases in bothmarkets for The Interpreter.Universal'sUN-set thriller opens on 200 prints in Australia on Apr 14 and goes out on 350in the UK, and ...
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Interpreter and Amityville battle it out in UK, Australia
One week afterUIP opened Paramount's Clive Cussler romp Sahara at number one in the UK and Australia,the distributor is attempting to usurp its champion with wide releases in bothmarkets for The Interpreter.Universal'sUN-set thriller opens on 200 prints in Australia on Apr 14 and goes out on 350in the UK, and ...
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Samaha files for new trial against Baeres, Intertainment
Elie Samaha, the filmproducer who lost a $106m jury verdict last June in Los Angeles federal courtin a fraud and breach-of-contract suit filed by Germany's IntertainmentLicensing, has filed for a rematch.On Monday this week,attorneys for Samaha filed a motion for a new trial, claiming thatIntertainment's former chairman Rudiger "Barry" Baeres ...
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