All Screen articles in 24 June 2004 – Page 2
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Russian mega-production moves to Rome
Russian producer Sergey Gribkov is close to completing a bigbudget spy-action blockbuster called Countdown,set to be one of the most ambitious films ever made in Russia.Directed by Evgeniy Lavrentiev (Swindle, Dream On), the multi-million dollar picture has beenshooting for 26 weeks in and around Moscow, the Caucasus and Georgia. Theproduction ...
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Virgo's Lie is hot but Egoyan's Love is cooler
Summer is always the busiest season forfilm production. In Canada, where the summer is as short as it is hot, thatmakes it busier than most. In terms of heat, the hottest production by far isClement Virgo's new film, Lie With Me,which started shooting in Toronto on June 16.Virgo co-wrote the ...
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Cinecitta eyes Chinese multiplex deal
Cinecitta Holding, the state-owned parent company of Rome'sfamous studios, is in talks with the Chinese government to manage what would beItaly's first multiplex in Beijing.The multiplex to be located in a shopping mall in the city'shistorical centre, will have 14 screens and is due to open at the end of ...
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Cinema Expo celebrates international market
The value of the international marketplace was hammered homeduring day two of exhibition trade show Cinema Expo in Amsterdam yesterday, asresearch company Nielsen EDI handed out its annual International Gold ReelAwards, for films that grossed over $100m internationally in the 12 monthssince the last edition of Cinema Expo.During a lunch ...
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Studio Hamburg threatens to move to Berlin
In a reaction to the Hamburg Senate's planned cut to itsfilm funding budget, Studio Hamburg - which is currently negotiating a takeoverof the Babelsberg studios - has threatened to move its production apparatus toBerlin.Speaking to of Die Welt, Studio Hamburg chief Martin Willichsaid that "on 23 July our supervisory board ...
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PiFan unveils 8th festival line-up
Stuart Gordon's King Of The Ants and Ahn Byung-ki's Bunshinsaba have been selected tobookend the 8th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan), whichruns from July 15-24 in South Korea.The world premiereof Bunshinsaba marks the third time thata film by Ahn will close the festival, with previous works A Nightmare and ...
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Shrek 2 has powerful B.O.
Shrek 2 canalready proclaim itself the biggest film of the year and biggest animated filmof all time in North America ($379m). However, the original 2001 film performedbetter in North America than internationally, a rarity for animated hits - andsomething which may not be repeated by the sequel.As the sequel starts ...
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MPAA upholds 'R' rating for 9/11
The MPAA upheld its R ratingfor Fahrenheit 9/11 yesterday(22), despite an eleventh hour appeal led by Lions Gate Films president TomOrtenberg.Classification and ratingappeals board members stuck to their guns after watching a screening of MichaelMoore's Palme D'Or winner in Los Angeles and hearing argument from Ortenberg.The reason for the ratingcited ...
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Jail threat key to defeating piracy
The war against piracy hasto be fought on several fronts, and the need to educate consumers that theycould go to jail for downloading or copying films is paramount, delegates atthe annual Cinema Expo conference in Amsterdam heard today (June 23).A wide-ranging seminar heldhere on Wednesday morning highlighted the differences in ...
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Cinema Expo goes medieval over BVI's King Arthur
Buena Vista International's King Arthur was a last-minute addition to thescreening programme at the Cinema Expo exhibition conference in Amsterdam today(Wednesday).The studio only decided to screen the film in Amsterdam on Tuesdaynight, said BVI president Mark Zoradi, and digital files of the film werecarried overnight by hand from Los Angeles. ...
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Edinburgh festival to stage Lindsay Anderson tribute
Actor Malcolm McDowell is tolead a tribute to Scottish director Lindsay Anderson at August's EdinburghInternational Film Festival.McDowell, who made hisscreen debut with Anderson in 1968's If', will present on stage aone-man show of readings from thedirector's diaries, letters and critical writings. Commemorating the tenthanniversary of Anderson's death, the festival will ...
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JAPAN 23 June
Only one film entered the nine-major-cities chart for the week of June12 to 18 -- Eiichiro Hazumi's Sea Monkeys (Umizaru).Produced by Robot, the same company that delivered the two mega-hit BaysideShakedown films, Sea Monkeys depicts the trials and triumphs ofyoung Japan Coast Guardsmen training to be divers -- in other ...
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Potter magic still keeping Shrek 2 at bay
While Shrek 2 hit araft of new territories last weekend, claiming records for best animatedopening ever in most (see ScreenDaily.com, June 23) including Mexico,Brazil, Australia and New Zealand, it is not yet on enough screens or in enoughterritories to topple Harry Potter.The boy wizard's thirdcinematic adventure, The Prisoner Of Azkaban, ...
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Pilowsky, Leventhal team to form Priority Pictures
Marion Pilowsky, former head of international production for Myriad Pictures, and Colin Leventhal, a consultant to tax-based financier Grosvenor Park, have teamed to form UK production company Priority Pictures.The company's first film will be Three Bad Men, based on a script by Peter Straughan and to be directed by Paul ...
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Garden State tops Maui Film Festival honours
The fifth Maui Film Festivalcame to a close at the weekend (20) as Zach Braff's Garden State was awarded the best feature film prize and BobSmeaton's rock'n'roll documentary Festival Express claimed non-narrative honours.The award for best shortfilm went to David Brown's Of Wind And Waves: The Life Of Woody Brown, ...
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UIP steals show at Cinema Expo
Cinema Expo, the annualtrade show and conference for the exhibition industry in Europe, kicked off onMonday (June 21) with a high profile presence from United InternationalPictures (UIP), and some tentative optimism about the rollout of digital cinema.Yesterday was dubbed"UIP day" by Cinema Expo and Jeffrey Katzenberg's attendancecertainly upped the executive ...
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Mattison to star with Maguire, Assante in The Third Wish
Jenna Mattison is to star inand produce the romantic comedy The Third Wish, which is being directed by Shelley Jensen and hasbegun production in Los Angeles and San Francisco.Mattison wrote thescreenplay about a bookstore clerk whose life is transformed when she finds afirst edition copy of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.Sean ...
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MPAA, NATO team up for anti-camcording rewards scheme
The MPAA and US theatreowners group NATO have launched the Anti-Camcording Rewards Programme, a cashincentive scheme designed to thwart illegal recording activity.US theatre staff who catchindividuals recording pictures, notify the police and stop the recording willbe eligible for cash rewards of up to $500.According to the MPAA,pirates typically capture a ...
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9/11 gets support from Cuomo, pledges from MoveOn
MoveOn PAC, the politicalaction arm of online democracy advocates MoveOn.org, is trumpeting an earlysuccess in its campaign to drum up support for Fahrenheit 9/11 ahead of this weekend's opening.The group claims it hassecured more than 107,000 pledges from the public saying they will see MichaelMoore's stirring Palme D'Or winner in ...
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Izo
Dir: Takashi Miike. 2004.Jap. 128mins.The bad boy of Japanesefilm, with a growing international following, Takashi Miike likes violence wellenough, injecting everything from slow torture to mass slaughter into his50-plus films. But until his latest, Izo,he had never done samurai swordfighting. The traditionalist genre, until younger film-makerscame along like Nakano (Samurai ...