All Screen articles in 22 July 2004 – Page 3
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Anders unveils lineup for second rock & roll film festival in LA
The secondannual Don't Knock The Rock Film And Music Festival will kick off in Hollywoodon Aug 12 with Gandulf Hennig's Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel and closes on Aug 15 with VickiTischler-Blue's Edgeplay - A Film About The Runaways.The annualthree-day film and music extravaganza launched last year by director AllisonAnders includes ...
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Amorette Jones heads up marketing at Arenas
Amorette Joneshas joined Latino entertainment and marketing outfit Arenas Entertainment asmarketing chief and will oversee all theatrical campaigns as well as advisingon the company's talent management concerns."Jones' trackrecord and sensibility proves that she can take a film project and deploy aneffective campaign across multiple platforms reaching a broad-based audience,"Arenas chief ...
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Menke, Dykstra, Wolsky among honorees at Hollywood Film Awards
Quentin Tarantino's longtimecollaborator Sally Menke will receive the Hollywood Editor of the Year Awardand Oscar winning visual effects artist John Dykstra will receive the HollywoodVisual Effects of the Year Award at the upcoming Hollywood Film Awards on Oct 18.In other special awards tobe handed out at the Beverly Hilton ...
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AFM ties up with Loews Hotel Santa Monica till 2008
The American Film Market(AFM) has signed a multi-year deal with the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel tocontinue holding the annual eight-day trade event through 2008.The Loews first hosted theevent, now in its 25th anniversary year, in 1991. The next market is scheduledto take place in its new November slot from ...
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King Arthur reigns in Australia with $2.4m gross
Buena Vista's KingArthur opened in itsfirst international markets through BVI at the weekend including Australia,where it opened top on $2.4m from 245 screens.The self-styled realistic account of the mystical Britishlegend opened top in Singapore on a strong $397,000 on 33 and 35% market share,top in Malaysia on $324,000 from 41, ...
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French admissions cross 100m in first six months
More than 100million filmgoers went to French cinemas in the first half of 2004, an increaseof 19% over the first six months of last year, and 8% over the stronger firsthalf of 2002, according to the National Federation of French Cinemas (FNCF).102,540,000tickets were sold in the first six months of ...
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The Manchurian Candidate
Dir:Jonathan Demme. US. 2004. 130 mins.While not all of the choices made in it are successful, Jonathan Demme'scontemporary revamp of John Frankenheimer's marvelous The ManchurianCandidate is unquestionably one of the smarter, more persuasive films toemerge out of a Hollywood studio this year. Loaded with the intensity you'dexpect a cast led ...
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Veteran producers to pitch at SPAAMart
The 14 Australian and six New Zealand projects in thepre-financing market SPAAMart in Queensland next month include second featuresfrom the directors Ana Kokkinos (Head On),Ivan Sen (Beneath Clouds), andChristina Andreef (Soft Fruit).Producers coming with projects include Jan Chapman (ThePiano, Lantana), Trevor Haysom (InMy Father's Den), Daniel Scharf (RomperStomper), Martin Fabinyi ...
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Palm picks up domestic, UK rights to rap doc Freestyle
PalmPictures has acquired North American, UK and Caribbean rights to KevinFitzgerald's documentary Freestyle: The Art Of Rhyme.Palm'shead of acquisitions and production David Koh negotiated the deal withFitzgerald (aka DJ Organic) and producer Henry Alex Rubin, who were representedby attorney Joseph Tedeschi.Thedistributor plans a theatrical release in New York this weekend ...
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Harry Potter can't stop grossing for Warner Bros
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban grossed an estimated $20.4m fromapproximately 6,300 screens at the weekend to raise its internationalcumulative score to $435.2m.Key drivers were South Korea, where the family picture opened on apowerful $5.5m on 302 screens including previews, and took $2m in Seoul alone.Azkabanremained top in its ...
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Singer hired to direct new Superman for Warner Bros.
Warner Bros' on-again, off-again Superman project appears to be back on track asthe studio announced yesterday (18) that it had signed a deal with Bryan Singerto direct."We have always been committed to bringing Superman back to thescreen, and we're very happy to have Bryan on board this project," Warner Brosproduction ...
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Riddick opens for Universal in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia
Universal's The Chronicles Of Riddick expanded into Latin America through UIPat the weekend with openings in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.The picture opened sixthin Brazil on an estimated $200,000 on 112 screens, while it opened fifth inMexico on $525,000 on 313. Colombia results will be announced this week; thepicture's early international ...
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Telefilm Canada to back ten low budget projects
TelefilmCanada has announced it will back ten projects, six in English and four inFrench, as part of its $1.3m (C$1.7m) Low Budget Independent Feature FilmAssistance Program (LIFAP). All the films are budgeted under $570,000(C$750,000).Theprogramme, introduced in 2000, was given a boost last year when one of itsrecipient projects, Jacob Tierney's ...
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French Top Gun takes off above Paris
Billing itself asa "Top Gunà la Française," the movie Chevaliers du Ciel (Knightsof the Sky), beganfilming in Paris at the beginning of July, and shot its climax scene over theheads of thousands on Wednesday.Loosely based onthe French aviation comic book Tanguy & Laverdure, which was created 40 years ago, themovie ...
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Oz funding body gets proactive about scripts
In a challenge to Australia's filmmaker-is-kingculture, state agency the Pacific Film and Television Commission (PFTC) istesting a couple of US people for the job of in-house development executive.PFTC head of production Henry Tefay is looking for someonewho understands cinematic storytelling and reaching audiences, could well takeexecutive producer credits on projects ...
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Spider-Man 2 spins worldwide web of $500m
Spider-Man 2 passed $200m on its 19th day as it added $62.3m on 9,400 printsin 61 countries for an estimated $200.1m - the biggest weekend of all time for Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI).Despite a very warm weekend across most parts of northern Europe,there were 10 number one bows led ...
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EC proposes Euros 1bn for MEDIA budget
The European Commission (EC) has adopted the plan for a newMEDIA Programme - entitled MEDIA 2007 - to run from January 1 2007 to 31December 2013 with a proposed budget of Euros 1.055bn, up from the currentProgramme's Euro 493m.In the seven-year budget breakdown, Euros 318m would beallocated for the improvement ...
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Will Smith works wonders for Fox with I,Robot
It takes an army of robots and a mega-star to beat Spider-Manthese days, and 20th Century Fox's I, Robot did just that at the weekend, consigningthe arachnid to second place as it opened top on a mighty estimated $52.3m.Meanwhile Spidey passed $300m on the 19th day of release the 2002 ...
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Smith delivers the goods for Fox with I, Robot
It takes an army of robots and a mega-star to beat Spider-Manthese days, and 20th Century Fox's I, Robot did just that at the weekend, consigningthe arachnid to second place as it opened top on a mighty estimated $52.3m.Meanwhile Spidey passed $300m on the 19th day of release - the ...
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EMI buys into Hong Kong's Golden Harvest
EMI Group, the world'sthird-largest music company, plans to buy a stake in Hong Kong film maker anddistributor Golden Harvest Entertainment.Golden Harvest said in astatement on Monday it wants to raise US$4.9m (HK$38m) via the issue of 155million new shares to Typhoon Music (PRC) Ltd. which is jointly owned by EMIGroup ...
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