All Screen articles in 22 October 2004 – Page 5
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Netflix postpones foreign expansion plans
Online DVD rental pioneerNetflix has postponed plans to launch in the UK and Canada to concentrateinstead on its US business.The move comes as Netflixfaces increasing competition on its home turf from Blockbuster's new onlinerental service and from the expected entry of Amazon.com into renting DVDs bymail.It is understood thatNetflix had ...
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Sheffield Documentary fest to open with Tiger King
TheSheffield International Documentary Festival (Nov 8 -14) is to open with DavidFlamholc's House Of The Tiger King.Thedocumentary follows explorer Tahir Shah and a group of mismatched companions asthey search for Paititi, the Inca's lost city of gold.Otherfilms in the festivals 75 strong line-up include Darwin's Nightmare,which investigates the link between ...
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Curtis, Morgernstern set for Holocaust tale
Hollywood legendTony Curtis and Maia Morgenstern are to star in Atlantic Alliance Pictures andHeritage Pictures' Holocaust story Love Is A Survivor.Directed by byPhilip Saville, production is set to begin February 15, 2005 in Budapest,Hungary.Love Is ASurvivor is billed as amajor holocaust film with a love story as its central theme. ...
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Cafe Lumiere (Kohi Jikou)
Dir:Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Japan. 2004. 92mins.One of the most consistently interesting of Far Easternarthouse directors, Hou Hsiao-Hsien has a dedicated following on the festivalcircuit and a tiny film-buff fanbase in the real world. It's telling that not asingle Region 2 DVD of any of the Taiwanese director's films is currentlyavailable on ...
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Archbishop wins Eurimages funding
Zoltan Kamondi's TheArchbishop's Visit has received Euros 430,000 in funding from support bodyEurimages.The film is a Hungarian, Italian andRomanian co-production between Honeymood Films/Focus Film, Gam Film and MediaPro Pictures. Its full budget runs to $4.4m.Set construction is already underway inRomania with principal photography scheduled to start in November and tocontinue ...
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Shochiku launches animation division
Shochiku, a major Japanesefilm company with interests in production, distribution and exhibition, hasannounced the launch of a new division to produce animated features and TVshows.Headed by General Manager ofFilmed Entertainment Ichiro Seki, the division plans to release its firstfeature in 2005. Director, budget and story have yet to be announced. ...
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9 Songs clears UK and Irish censors uncut
UK censorthe BBFC has passed Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs uncut and has awardedit an '18' certificate for cinema release.Meanwhile, sources in the Irish distribution trade havetold ScreenDaily.com that the Irish Film Censor, John Kelleher, has alsopassed 9 Songs uncut and given it an '18' certificate.The film,which includes images of explicit, ...
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FRANCE 18 October
Seven newfilms broke into the top twenty this week led by Gaumont's L'Enquete Corse, starring Gerard Depardieu and Christian Claver.The film took 679,754 admissions for an average of $9,477 per screen.Resident Evil: Apocalypse landed in the number 2 spot with atake of just over $3m. Michael Mann's Collateralfought off other ...
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AUSTRALIA 18 October
It is highly unusual to see the first three spots in the top20 chart occupied by openers but that is exactly what happened on the four-dayweekend to October 17. And there were no other new faces in the chart.Leading the charge was the Collateral, starring Australia's one-time adopted son Tom ...
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NEW ZEALAND 18 October
Homegrown film In MyFather's Den sold less tickets than the previous weekend but still managedto jump up from third to second spot in the chart. It took NZ$152,273 from 22screens, or 17.6% less than the previous NZ$184,793, but this was the lowestdrop shown by any film in the chart.At the ...
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SWEDEN 18 October
Though catering to younger audiences and offering completelydifferent thrills, the new release of teenage horror flic Drowning Ghost from hitmaker Mikael Haafstroem (Evil) failed to usurp As In Heaven from the top of the Swedishchart.Instead it was last week's other local release, family film Max & Josef - Double Trouble, ...
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Charming Girl wins top Pusan prize
Korean feature This Charming Girl took home the top prize in the PusanInternational Film Festival's New Currents section for first and second-timeAsian directors.The film by LeeYun-ki is a restrained portrait of a socially isolated woman who works in asmall post office. Probably the most well-received among a small handful ofKorean ...
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Team America disappoints for Paramount while Shark Tale floats at the top
DreamWorks' Shark Tale remained the one to beat as it extended its rule to a thirdconsecutive weekend and passed $100m with ease, drowning the aspirations ofParamount's marionette satire Team America and Miramax's romantic comedy remake Shall We Dance'Shark Taleadded an estimated $22.1m for a $118.8m running total, whileUniversal/Imagine's Friday Night ...
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R-rated Team America fails to sink family favourite Shark Tale
DreamWorks' Shark Tale remained the one to beat as it extended its rule to a thirdconsecutive weekend and passed $100m with ease, drowning the aspirations ofParamount's marionette satire Team America and Miramax's romantic comedy remake Shall We Dance'Shark Taleadded an estimated $22.1m for a $118.8m running total, whileUniversal/Imagine's Friday Night ...
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