All Screen articles in 23 March 2004 – Page 3
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France Telecom and Canal Plus merge cable ops
Canal Plus and FranceTelecom have signed a memorandum of understanding agreeing to combine theirFrench cable networks in a sign of further upheaval in the troubled sector.The groups says that mergingtheir cable operations NC Numericable and France Telecom Cable, respectivelythe country's third and second largest networks, would "create the conditionsfor the ...
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Birmingham IMAX cinema to re-open over Easter
The IMAX cinema in the UK city of Birmingham is to re-open over Easter after closing at the end of 2003 after massive losses.The giant 50x70ft Imax cinema, based at the Millennium Point, was forced out of business at the end of December when Cinegrand Birmingham, the UK company running ...
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Christ beaten by the Undead at the box office
StrikeEntertainment's zombie remake Dawn Of The Dead roared into life at the weekend as itopened number one for Universal Pictures on an estimated $27.3m, knocking ThePassion Of The Christfrom its top berth as that picture closed in on $300m in its fourth week.Elsewhere WarnerBros serial killer thriller Taking Lives opened ...
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AUSTRALIA
Three new films failed to dislodge two Icon films, The Butterfly Effect and The Passion Of The Christ, from the top two spots in the charts and had to settle for third, fourth and fifth in the popularity stakes.The opening trio was UIP's Paycheck, which took A$756,656 from 192 screens, ...
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UK video industry bankrolls anti-piracy outfit
The UK video industry has raised £1.2m to bankroll a new company to help fight piracy.The Industry Trust for IP Awareness Ltd has been registered as a non-profit making company with the objective creating a fighting fund to tackle copyright theft, which it says is costing the film and video ...
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GREECE Production Listings - March 22 2004
GREECE - March 22PRE-PRODUCTIONBLUE DRESS (TO GALAZIO FOREMA)(The Greek Film Centre, NIK-S Movies) Co-prod: Tania Bokomilova Prods (Bulgaria). Budget: Euros 900,000. Backers: Eurimages, ET1 Greek Public TV. Int'l sales: The Greek Film Centre. Social drama. A man who decides to change sex and has to bear with the ensuing dramatic ...
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Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Dir: Raja Gosnell. US. 2003. 93 mins.The sequel to Warner's surprisingly powerful summer 2002 hit Scooby-Doo adds more characters and more effects to the formula first used to turn the long-running Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon into a live action feature - and it also delivers more genuine fun than its painfully ...
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Denmark's Madsen readies Kira's Reason follow-up
Danish writer-director Ole Christian Madsen, who swept the national film awards in 2002 with Dogme film Kira's Reason, starts shooting his third highly anticipated feature Nordkraft on Mar 31.Set in Denmark's biggest Northern city Aalborg, the film is based on Jakob Ejersbo's debut novel from 2002, and follows a group ...
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Mickie, Chesneau join Celluloid Dreams
Charlotte Mickie and Sebastian Chesneau are to bolster the sales team of French film sales powerhouse Celluloid Dreams. Their arrival coincides with the forthcoming departure of long-standing Celluloid sales executive Pierre Menahem.Having handled titles including Bowling For Columbine and Ararat, veteran seller Mickie recently saw her job eliminated by Alliance ...
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Chokher Bali opens second Indian Film Festival in LA
The secondIndian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) kicks off on Apr 14 with the LApremiere of Rituparno Ghosh's period piece Chokher Bali (A Passion Play) and closes on Apr 18 with SudhirMishra's drama Hazaron Khwaishen Aisi (A Thousand Dreams Such As These).All in all thefestival will screen 25 pictures ...
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German police swoop in massive anti-piracy raid
Germany's Federation Against Copyright Theft (GVU) has carried out the world's biggest ever anti-piracy operation.800 apartments, company premises and computer centres were raided in Munich, Frankfurt/Main, Bremen, Cologne and the Ruhr region on March 16 and 18.After two years of investigation, the GVU said it had exposed the activities of ...
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Passion fever hits Latin America through Fox
Cry havoc and let slip ThePassion Of The Christ. Mel Gibson'sBiblical epic and number one US smash hit is gearing up for some divine boxoffice performances this upcoming weekend when Fox International opens thepicture in its first Latin American markets.Passion is going out on1,216 prints in nine mostly Catholic markets, ...
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Film-makers Alliance sets US DVD date for Madison
The Film-makersAlliance has acquired US rights to Erik Moe, Peter Rudy and David Fleer's awardwinning comedy No Sleep 'Til Madison and will release it straight to DVD in April.The picture stars comedian Jim Gaffigan and won theSundance Channel Emerging Film-maker Award at the St Louis International FilmFestival.The storycentres on an ...
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Senator admits it has no remaining share capital
The possibility ofinsolvency is no longer being ruled out at beleaguered Germanproducer-distributor Senator Entertainment after it admitted that its sharecapital has now been completely exhausted in writing off its film assets and investments.German press reports quotedSenator's head of investor relations/corporate communications Karl-W. Homburgas saying a decision on the concern's future ...
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Spearritt moves from S Club 7 to Seed Of Chucky
HannahSpearritt, the British actress formerly with pop group S Club 7, has joined thecast of Focus Features' Seed Of Chucky, which began filming in Romania earlier this week.Spearritt made herHollywood debut in Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London opposite Frankie Muniz for MGM whichopened in the US last weekend.The fifthinstalment ...
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Madstone launches film school editing programme with 50 hours of a real film
New York-basedentertainment company Madstone has launched a film school editing programmethat will allow students to experiment on footage from Aaron Woodley's upcomingcoming-of-age drama Rhinoceros Eyes.The picture,which is the first to emerge from the Madstone Directors Programme and won the2003 Toronto Film Festival Discovery Award, will serve as the basis for ...
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Verve takes UK rights to Winterbottom's Code 46
Fledgling UK distributor Verve Pictures has acquired Michael Winterbottom's Code 46 and is planning a 60 print release for the film in September.Code 46 is the biggest title which Verve has yet handled. The sci-fi drama, starring Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton, received its world premiere at last year's Venice ...
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French production hits record levels in 2003
All lights went green lastyear in the French production sector.Production volume in Francereached an all-time high of 212 features; total production spend on Frenchfeatures or majority French co-productions soared by 34% from Euros861m in 2002to Euros1.15bn; and foreign investment doubled from Euros182m to Euros364m.According to new data fromthe National Cinema ...
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POLAND
Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ racked up a running total box office gross of $3,822,060 in its second week at number at the Polish box office.An earlier announcement that the Pope had seen the film undoubtedly boosted box office in the highly Catholic country.But Polish contemporary romance Nigdy ...
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Taking Lives
Dir: DJ Caruso. US. 2004. 103 mins.Serial killer thrillers don't come slicker than this good-looking Montreal-set production from Mark Canton and Warner Bros. Boasting a stellar cast led by the larger-than-life Angelina Jolie, Taking Lives is an enjoyable studio outing in the vein of Copycat or The Bone Collector but, ...