All Screen articles in 23 March 2004 – Page 5
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Sufrin promoted at MGM's home entertainment group
Ron Sufrin hasbeen promoted to executive vice president of business and legal affairs at MGMHome Entertainment Group, where he will oversee business and legal affairs forthe company's home entertainment, video-on-demand, pay-per-view and consumerproducts operations.Sufrin reportsto group president and chief operating officer David Bishop and Jay Rakow, MGMStudios' senior executive vice ...
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Mumbai cinemas threaten permanent closure
Over 900 cinemas in Mumbai and the surrounding Indian state of Maharashtra have threatened to close indefinitely on March 19 in protest against the government's entertainment tax policy.The call for action was sounded by the Cinematograph Exibitors' Association of India (CEAI) president Nester D'Souza and Theatre Owners' Association (TOA) president ...
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UA takes up Turturro's Romance And Cigarettes
United Artistshas picked up rights in North America, Australia/New Zealand and South Africato Romance And Cigarettes which is scheduled to start shooting in New York this month.The movie iswritten and directed by actor John Turturro and features an ensemble castincluding Kate Winslet, Susan Sarandon, Christopher Walken, Mandy Moore,Mary-Louise Parker and ...
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Elwes, Heard join cast of Millenium's thriller Edison
Cary Elwes andJohn Heard have joined the cast of Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla Films'journalism thriller Edison, which stars Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, LL Cool J and JustinTimberlake and began production on Saturday in Vancouver.The storyfollows a young journalist (Timberlake) who teams up with a reporter (Freeman)and the district attorney's ace ...
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New UK distributor builds release slate
Enjoy Cinema Ltd., the new UK theatrical distribution outfit set up earlier this year by Simon Gosling (ex-HanWay), has announced details of its first acquisitions.To mark the 10th anniversary of the end of apartheid, Enjoy is to release Jason Xenopoulos' Promised Land in the early summer. Based on the novel ...
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Arclight takes on two pictures from Cecchi Gori
Arclight Films has acquiredinternational rights to two titles from Gianni Nunnari's Los Angeles-based Cecchi GoriPictures - family movie My Weststarring Harvey Keitel and David Bowie and the period drama Canone Inverso, which stars Hans Matheson and Gabriel Byrne.Arclight willtake both titles to MIP-TV in Cannes, which the company is attending ...
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King continues to return, rising 11% in 12th weekend
New Line International's TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is on the cusp of $700m at the international box office as thepicture's recent Academy Awards triumph powered another strong weekend.The picture grossed $10.7mfrom 3,151 screens in 61 markets - an impressive 11% rise in its 12th weekend ...
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UK/IRELAND
While the UK chart saw a new leader in Columbia TriStar's Mona Lisa Smile this week and surprisingly strong support from second-placed UIP romantic drama Honey, it was limited releases that held most sway.BVI launched '70s TV spin-off Starsky & Hutch in London's Odeon Leicester Square and in sites across ...
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ROMANIA
Cold Mountain kept its leading position at the Romanian box office for the second week running despite a hefty 44% fall-off compared to its opening weeks' performance.Same can't be said about The Last Samurai which is still making a strong 5,000 each weekend despite running for six weeks already.Of last ...
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UK film sector welcomes new funding rules
UK qualifying films will be able to access 20% of their budget in tax-related support under dramatic new rules unveiled by UK Chancellor Gordon Brown in today's (March 17) budget.Replacing tax-based support under Section 48, the new system will offer filmmakers a credit or rebate worth 20% of budgets that ...
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Seducing Dr Lewis leads Canada's Genie nods
Jean-Francois Pouliot's Seducing Dr. Lewis grabbed 11 nominations while Denys Arcand's Academy Award winner The Barbarian Invasions earned nine nominations and Robert Lepage's The Far Side Of The Moon earned four nominations for the 2004 Genie Awards.All three Quebec titles were nominated in the Best Motion Picture category, as were ...
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Oz's Rialto aquires arthouse trio
Rialto Entertainment has picked up three arthouse titles for distribution in Australia and New Zealand as a result of negotiations at the AFM.The three titles are: Joshua Marston's Maria Full Of Grace from HBO Films London, Ken Loach's Ae Fond Kiss from The Works and Ondrej Trojan's Zelary from Menemsha ...
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What Will Become Of Us earns 12 Italian Oscar nods
In a surprise turn of events, Giovanni Veronesi's coming-of-age tale Che Ne Sara' Di Noi (literally, What Will Become Of Us) scored a massive 12 nominations for the David di Donatellos awards, Italy's most prestigious accolade - beating films from long-established directors such as Marco Bellocchio, Marco Tullio Giordana and ...
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Vivendi reduces its losses to Euros 1.1bn
Vivendi Universal recorded a net loss of Euros1.14bn for 2003, down from the record breaking loss by a French company of Euros 23.3bn that it registered in 2002.The group said that the results reflected tighter management of costs and the disposal of several assets, although the sale of the US ...
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