All Screen articles in 22 October 2004 – Page 3
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Cork celebrates sell-out festival
Launched with a packed house for the Irish premiere ofDamien O'Donnell's Inside I'm Dancing,the 49th Cork Film Festival closed its doors after a week marked by manysimilarly packed houses, with audiences frequently surpassing the organisers'expectations.No one would have forecast, for instance, that StacyPeralta's surfing documentary RidingGiants would have filled the ...
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Benelux exhibitors set standard for industry growth
Led by the Netherlands, one of the few European cinemamarkets to show growth in 2003, leading exhibitors in the Benelux regionreported improved financial results in the most recent period according to anew report from industry analysts, Dodona Research.Pan-Europeanexhibitor, Kinepolis Group, with 124 screens in Belgium, recorded a profit forthe first ...
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Echo Bridge buys worldwide rights to Zachary Beaver
LosAngeles-based independent Echo Bridge has acquired worldwide rights in allmedia from Revere Pictures to the family picture When Zachary Beaver Came ToTown.Adapted from Kimberly Willis Holt's National BookAward-winning young adult novel by John Schultz, who also directed, the picturecentres on the fateful arrival of a sideshow attraction in a sleepy ...
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BBC considers increasing film production investment
BBC director general MarkThompson has said the broadcaster needs to look at raising its investment inthe UK film industry.Thompson told an all-partyselect committee on Tuesday that the BBC would be willing to screen more UKfilms and less US fare. He added that the broadcaster should also look atboosting the $18m ...
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Von Trier turns to Antichrist
Danish maverick Lars von Trier might be in the middle of editing his Dogville follow-up, Manderlay, but he has promised producer and Zentropa co-founder Peter Aalbaek Jensen that he will make a more commercial film before turning to the final instalment in the USA trilogy, Wasington.While a finished script has ...
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Africa added to German coproduction market
Feature film projects from South Africa looking forfinancing will be presented for the first time at this year's MannheimCoproduction Meetings during the Mannheim-Heidelberg International FilmFestival (November 18-27).Among the African projects selected for pitching topotential co-producers are Robyn Aronstam's TheJoyous, which will be executive produced by John Boorman; Akin Omotoso's The ...
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10-strong delegation from Europe to attend AFI FEST under EFP auspices
Hungarian director NimrodAntal, Germany's Mennan Yappo and Denmark's Paprika Steen and are among adelegation of emerging European talent whose work will be showcased at theupcoming AFI FEST 2004 presented by Audi.Organised under the auspices of European Film Promotion, 10film-makers and actors will attend festival screenings of their pictures andQ&A session ...
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Shark Tale maintains international lead
Thetop two international titles eased passed $50m this weekend as Shark Taleheld the lead and Collateral climbed back to fourth following a host ofnumber one launches for both films.DreamWorks Animation's latest hit opened in multipleEuropean territories spearheaded by number one positions in the UK ($13.6mincluding previews, $9.1m without), France ($4.2m) ...
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Leigh launches London Film Festival with Vera Drake
TheTimes BFI London Film Festival kickedoff on Wednesday night (Oct 20) with the UK premiere of Mike Leigh'saward winning Vera Drake at agala screening at the Odeon Leicester Square.Leightook to the stage before the film along with producer Simon Channing-Williamsand 30 of its cast and crew - including lead actress ...
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Bugs! wins Large Format prize at Wildscreen
UKIMAX picture Bugs! has won the Panda Award for Best Large Format Film at theUK's Wildscreen Festival, the Oscars of the wildlife film world.Theaward comes as Bugs! heads towards the $20m worldwide box office grossmark, having completed its run in only 34 of the 104 IMAX theatres that have sofar ...
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AV Pictures takes on The Other Half sales
Angad Paul and Vic Bateman'sAV Pictures has picked up international sales rights on British romantic comedyThe Other Half.The film is centred aroundthe Euro 2004 football tournament and the attempts of a newly-married man tospend his honeymoon watching the matches without his wife finding out. DannyDyer, Gillian Kearney and Vinnie Jones ...
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Around The Bend
Dir/scr: Jordan Roberts.US. 2004. 85mins.For his directorialdebut, screenwriter Jordan Roberts (who was uncredited for his work on RoadTo Perdition) delivers a small, heartfelt family drama in which four malegenerations make a reluctant road trip through America's Southwest and scalethe rocky emotional terrain of their shared past.Around The Bend may fail ...
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Alfie
Dir: Charles Shyer. US.2004. 103mins.Charles Shyer, whosecredits include the bland remake of Father Of The Bride and the periodmisfire The Affair Of The Necklace, takes another bath with his insipidremake of 1966 classic Alfie. Systematically eliminating any of thecruelty which made Alfie such an iconic figure of his day, he ...
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AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND - Prod Lists Oct 21
AUSTRALIA - October 20PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE BOOK OF REVELATION(Wildheart Zizani)Budget: n/a. Backers: Film Finance Corporation Australia, New South Wales Filmand Television Office, Film Victoria, ContentFilm. Int'l sales: ContentInternational. Distrib: Palace Films (Aust/NZ). Drama. A dancer disappearswithout a trace for 12 days, then returns just as mysteriously. Prod: Al Clark.Dir: Ana Kokkinos. Scr: ...
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Germany mulls sale and leaseback scheme
Germany's State Minister for Culture and MediaChristina Weiss has called for the introduction of a tax incentive system onthe lines of the British sale and leaseback model.Speaking to the German weekly magazine DerSpiegel, Weiss criticised the current situation where the US film industryhad been the prime beneficiary of the country's ...
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Fox's I, Robot top in Japan for fifth weekend
Fox International's sci-fi thriller I, Robot continued its mighty rampage through Japan at theweekend, remaining number one for the fifth weekend in a row and adding anestimated $1.3m on 359 screens for a $29m running total.Overall thepicture added $1.6m on 616 international screens to raise the internationalcumulative score to $187.3m.2046, ...
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Fahrenheit to hit TV screens in Germany, Spain
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit9/11 is to play on television in Germany and Spain in the next ten days,just before the US presidential elections.The move comes asMoore struggles to find a US broadcaster to play his film ahead of theelection.Cable broadcaster In Demand had planned to carry TheMichael Moore Pre-Election Special on ...
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Tanovic embarks on shoot of Hell
Oscarwinner Danis Tanovic will start shooting next week his latest film, Hell,which was written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz for the late Krzysztof Kieslowski aspart of his Heaven-Hell-Purgatory trilogy.The No Man's Land director begins the film'seight-week shoot in Paris on October 25. Hell focuses on three sisters whosechildhoods were marked by a ...
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Kirk Douglas to receive lifetime honour at Palm Springs
Kirk Douglaswill receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 16th Annual Palm SpringsInternational Film Festival on Jan 8 2005."Mr Douglas'unparalleled body of work has entertained audiences throughout the ages, andthat will continue to stand the test of time on every level," festival chairmanEarl Greenburg said over the weekend at a ...
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O'Donnell readies Noir as Dancing follow-up
Damien O'Donnell is readyingthe tentatively-titled Noir as his next project after Working TitleFilms' Inside I'm Dancing, which opened this week through MomentumPictures.O'Donnell is to startshooting next year on the quirky, dark romantic comedy for producer DavidParfitt, whose credits include Shakespeare In Love, and his TrademarkFilms.Inside I'm Dancing opened with a ...