All Screen articles in 21 October 2003 – Page 4
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
Milos Radovic's Small World (Mali Svet) opened this prolonged weekend with 15,757 admissions, grossing $48,547 from Thursday to Sunday for distributor Delta Video, thanks to a high average admission price. The local road comedy, featuring some of the most popular Serbian actors, and winner of several awards at the Sarajevo ...
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Saucers flies onto Sogepaq's MIFED slate
Spanish sales house Sogepaq has added forthcoming title Flying Saucers (Platillos Volantes) to its Mifed line-up.The film, a tragedy with elements of black humour, is based on the true story of two men in a bleak industrial town in 1972 who commit suicide in the hope of being united with ...
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Copenhagen doc fest unveils first line-up
Copenhagen's first international documentary film festival cph:dox (Nov 7-17), has announced its programme of 83 films including such international hits as Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's American Splendor, Errol Morris' Fog Of War and Werner Herzog's Wheel Of Time.Four new Danish documentaries are also in the line-up: Lars von ...
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Baltic Storm stirs up Swedish press
Reuben Leder's controversial film Baltic Storm had its world premiere in Berlin last week - and, according to Swedish reports, Swedish journalists were banned from the screening. The film - which stars Donald Sutherland, Greta Scacchi and Jurgen Prochnow - tells the story of a young German journalist who discovers ...
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Lions Gate tipped to complete Artisan takeover deal
Lions Gate Entertainment is expected to close a deal to acquire Artisan Entertainment this week, according to Canadian and US press reports.The deal is reported to be worth $165m in cash, with Lions Gate also taking on more than $50m in debt from Artisan.According to the New York Post, The ...
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Reviews
Infernal Affairs II
Dirs: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak. Hong Kong. 2003. 114 mins.With this kind of film, comparisons are inevitable. Infernal Affairs II (IA2) is both a companion piece to surprise hit thriller Infernal Affairs and, in style and substance, close to The Godfather series. Fortunately, it has the right looks and a ...
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Infernal Affairs II review
Dirs: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak. Hong Kong. 2003. 114 mins.With this kind of film, comparisons are inevitable. Infernal Affairs II (IA2) is both a companion piece to surprise hit thriller Infernal Affairs and, in style and substance, close to The Godfather series. Fortunately, it has the right looks and a ...
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Nemo dazzles with $9.6m weekend in UK for BVI
Finding Nemo raised its international running total to $123.7m thanks to a $10.1mweekend haul that was driven by a stunning second weekend in the UK.The animated hit added $9.6mand remained number one in the UK for the second weekend in a row. To dateBuena Vista International's (BVI) family film has ...
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Saucers flies onto Sogepaq's MIFED 2003 slate
Spanish sales house Sogepaq has added forthcoming title Flying Saucers (Platillos Volantes) to its Mifed line-up.The film, a tragedy with elements of black humour, is based on the true story of two men in a bleak industrial town in 1972 who commit suicide in the hope of being united with ...
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France increases film, television funding
Elaborating on culture minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon's presentation of France's 2004 cultural budget in late September, France's National Cinema Center (CNC) has issued its funding details for the coming year.As previously noted on ScreenDaily.com the overall budget for film and television jumps to Euros 504.3m for 2004. That figure represents a ...
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German private TV offers to double film funding
Germany's private broadcasters have offered to more than double their annual voluntary contributions to the German Federal Film Board (FFA) to Euros 12m over the next five years until 2008.Juergen Doetz, president of the commercial television interest group VPRT, indicated during a public hearing on the revised German Film Law ...
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Cucinotta wraps two Italian features
Italian star Maria Grazia Cucinotta, who shot to fame in Il Postino, has just finished shooting two Italian features.The Sicilian actress stars alongside Brooke Shields and Chevy Chase in Mariti In Affitto (Husbands For Rent), a comedy about a man who leaves his his wife and children and home on ...
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Weeping Camel trots into THINKFilm fold
North American independentdistributor THINKFilm has acquired all North American rights to ByambasurenDavaa and Luigi Falorni's The Story Of The Weeping Camel, Mongolia's first official foreign languageAcademy Award entry that was one of the surprise hits of Toronto.THINKFilm plans a spring2004 release for the film, which has just been nominated for ...
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Alan Parker issues statement on European cinema
Next week's promotional launch of his new novel has forced the UK Film Council's chairman Sir Alan Parker to decline the invitation to participate in the European Film Summit at the Munich Media Days on October 22, but he has nevertheless taken the time to issue a personal view on ...
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9-hour Chinese documentary wins Japanese festival
West Of Tracks, (pictured) an acclaimed 9-hour documentary about the decay of an industrial city in Northeast China, emerged a triumphant winner at the 2003 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Japan. Well-received US documentary Stevie by Steve James, director of the Oscar-nominated Hoop Dreams (1994), took home the ...
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New European Market being created for January 2005
As if there weren't already enough international film and television markets, yet another new event has been created to entice programme acquisition executives away from their offices with news of the European Programmes Market (EPM) in France's Deauville from January 28-30, 2005.Although the event will be running simultaneously with the ...
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LA critics cancel annual awards following screener ban
Bringing pressure to bear onthe screener ban issue to boiling point, The Los Angeles Film CriticsAssociation has announced that it will cancel its annual awards this year"unless there is a timely rescinding of the ban on screeners."The group of critics met onSaturday and approved a motion which put forward the ...
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Streep to receive AFI Lifetime Achievement Award
Meryl Streep will receive the American Film Institute's (AFI) 32ndLife Achievement Award at a tribute gala in Hollywood on Jun 10, 2004."Meryl Streep is one of the great artists in the history ofAmerican films," Sir Howard Stringer, chair of the AFI board of trustees, saidin a statement."Her talent, range and ...
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Pie sequel makes it five $100m grossers for Universal International
Universal became the first studio to release five $100m-plusinternational grossing films in a single year as American Pie: The Wedding reached the mark over the weekend.The comedy sequel grossed $6.5m from 1,730 sites in 32 countriesfor an estimated $100m running total.8 Mile, Johnny English, The Hulk and 2 Fast 2 ...
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NEW ZEALAND
Calendar Girls held on to the top spot in its second week with a gross of NZ$274,119 from 38 screens against two challengers that couldn't be more different. But beware of taking the results on face value because it is very messy at the top of the chart this week. ...