All Screen articles in 24 June 2003 – Page 2
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Reloaded swipes another $14.7m for Warner
The MatrixReloaded kept up itsfine international form over the weekend as it grossed an estimated $14.7m from6,700 international screens and drew 2.5m admissions.The sci-fisequel's international running total is now $377m.The film held onto its number one position for the third consecutive week in Japan, adding$6.4m (Yen 763m) from 630 ...
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Four bidders make formal offers for Vivendi Universal Entertainment
Four bidders met the June 23 deadline for proposals to buy all or part of Vivendi Universal's entertainment assets.Given that Vivendi Universal issued prospectuses of financial information for Vivendi Universal Entertainment (VUE) to six would-be acquisitors, the shortlist holds no major surprises.Oil billionaire Marvin Davis, who previously offered $15bn, has ...
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Barbarian Invasions to open Toronto
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival has announced some of its major titles at this year's eventwhich runs Sept 4-14. Denys Arcand's Les Invasions Barbares (The Barbarian Invasions) which was in competition at Cannes will open thefestival, continuing the tradition of a Canadian film being the opening nightgala presentation.Three gala presentationswere also ...
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2 Fast, two French ride into UK cinemas
Following four weeks under the reign of The Matrix Reloaded UK audiences finally elected a new box office champion this week with 2 Fast 2 Furious taking pole position. The fast-paced UIP action vehicle helped rev up the total box office for the UK/Ireland top 15 by 12% on the ...
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Sweden's Elina wins in Spain, by Jove
Swedish film Elina, As If I Didn't Exist picked up the top Golden Moon of Valencia prize in the feature film competition of Spain's Cinema Jove International Film Festival (June 14-21), which also hosted tributes to Thomas Vinterberg, Richard Lester and Piotr Dumala. Director Klaus Haro (pictured) took home the ...
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Release of Otomo's Steamboy delayed
The makers of Steamboy, the $20m animated feature by Katsuhiro Otomo, have delayed the film's release date from October to sometime in 2004. Announced at a press conference on June 19, this decision leaves a huge hole in distributor Toho's autumn schedule. The film, Otomo's first full-length theatrical feature in ...
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Hong Kong banks on post-SARS box office recovery
Now that the SARS outbreak appears to be under control, Hong Kong exhibitors are hoping that a strong summer line-up of foreign and local releases will restore the box office to pre-SARS levels.Hong Kong box office receipts plummeted by around 47% during the peak of the crisis in March but ...
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80 Days provides boost to regional German economy
Frank Coraci's Around The World In 80 Days is expected to generate an economic 'effect' of 4,000% on the Euros 500,000 production funding granted by the regional Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg, with turnover of Euros 20m in the region.The $110m-plus Walden Media production spent eight weeks shooting at the Babelsberg Studios and ...
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Mosaic to produce six urban movies for HBO Films
LA entertainment groupMosaic Media Group has pre-sold a series of six urban films to HBO that will bewritten and directed by new film-makers.One of the first ideas underdiscussion is an untitled surreal love triangle and musical inspired by hip-hopduo Outkast's upcoming album SpeakerBox/The Love Below.The project will mark thefeature directorial ...
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Crude, Magdalene Sisters win honours in LA
Paxton Winters' sardonic road movie Crude won the Target Filmmaker Award for BestNarrative Feature at the ninth IFP Los Angeles Film Festival, which ran fromJun 11-21.The festival jury gave the Target Documentary Award for BestDocumentary Feature to Tracy Droz Tragos' Be Good, Smile Pretty, a personal tribute to the film-maker'sfather ...
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Scott Caan's Dallas 362 wins top prize at CineVegas
Scott Caan's Dallas 362 took the Critics Award and Juliette Marquis, the star of ThisGirl's Life won aspecial Newcomer Actor Award at the fifth annual CineVegas International FilmFestival, which closed on Saturday (Jun 21).Dallas 362is a semi-autobiographical account exploring the dynamics of the modernAmerican family and the search for belonging. ...
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The Stroll
Dir. Alexei Uchitel. Russia, 2003. 90 min.Alexei Uchitel's first film since he represented Russia in the Oscars in 2000 with His Wife's Diary is an easygoing romp which turns out to be a challenge in more ways than one. The opening attraction at this year's Moscow Festival, it is light, ...
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The Spanish Apartment is the toast of Sydney
The French/Spanish film The Spanish Apartment, (aka L'auberge Espagnole/ Europudding) directed by Cedric Klapisch and produced by Bruno Levy for Ce Qui Me Meut, won both the PRIX UIP award for Best European Film and the audience award for best feature at the 50th Sydney Film Festival, which closed ...
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The Hulk rampages to $62.6m for Universal
Universal's The Hulk turned its studio rivals green with envy over the weekend as thenumber one comic book adaptation clobbered the June opening record with anestimated $62.6m.Ang Lee's film sees Eric Bana as the troubled research scientistprone to unseemly temper tantrums. Jennifer Connelly and Nick Nolte co-star,while the Hulk himself ...
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Dallas 362
Dir: Scott Caan. US. 2003. 90 mins. Having made a name for himself playing henchmen or simpletons in films like Gone In 60 Seconds, Ready To Rumble and Oceans Eleven, actor Scott Caan - the son of James Caan - shows he is anything but simple with his directorial debut ...
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Japanese government to ease film production fund regulations
Japan's Trade Ministry is set to relax the restrictions governing film production funds. Under the current law, only four such funds have been set up since 1992.Local industry analysts have been warning that unless Japan creates a system that makes it easier, and more attractive, to invest in feature film ...
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Karlovy Vary unveils cosmopolitan competition line-up
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has unveiled this year's line-up, with films in competition including Korean Kim Ki-duk's Coast Guard and Facing Windows from Italy's Ferzan Ozpetek. The festival, which takes place in the Czech west Bohemian spa town July 4-12, will feature 16 films in the main competition for ...
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Lost Swedish classic is found and restored
The Avenger (Hamnaren 1916), a long-believed lost silent classic from the Swedish director Mauritz Stiller has been rediscovered and restored by the Swedish Film Institute and will screen as part of this summer's Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna. The film was recently rediscovered in Germany in an edited German version, ...
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Australian film-makers fight for 'culture'
High-profile filmmaking couple Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward, and Australian Film Commission (AFC) chief executive Kim Dalton, met with 45 government backbenchers to argue that 'culture' should be excluded from a free trade agreement with the US. It was yet another attempt to prevent constraints being applied to Australian film ...
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Theo Angelopoulos to lead first Copenhagen film fest
Theo Angelopoulos is to preside over the first Copenhagen International Film Festival's five-strong jury, which so far also includes Sweden's Jan Troell and Denmark's Bille August.The festival's awards, The Golden Swans, will be given to the best film, director, actress, actor, script and cinematography. In addition to the jury prizes, ...