All Screen articles in 24 June 2004 – Page 3
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Dealer
Dir/scr.Benedek Flieghauf. Hungary. 2004. 160mins.Dark, brooding and slow, Benedek Flieghauf's second film,recently awarded the Best Director prize in Mar del Plata, is God's gift tofestivals, a feast for film buffs and art houses and a test of endurance formisguided audiences seeking pure entertainment. Thoseaccustomed to Hollywood and others' over-stylised view ...
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CANADA Production Listings - June 22 2004
CANADA PRODUCTION LISTINGS - June 22PRE-PRODUCTIONEVE& THE FIREHORSE(Golden Horse Productions) Budget: C$1.5m. Backers:Telefilm Canada, B.C. Film, Harold Greenberg Fund, CanWest Fund. Dist: MongrelMedia (Can). Family Drama. A young Chinese-Canadian girl struggles tounderstand the death of her grandmother and her older sister's conversion toChristianity. Exec prod: Erik Paulsson Prod: Paulsson, Shan ...
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Moland's Teacher set for November start
Acclaimed Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland'sadaptation of Teacher Pedersen (Gymnaslaerer Pedersen) has set a Nov1 start date, following a substantial$1.5m (NOK10,1m) award from the Norwegian Film Fund.Moland is one of Norway's most acclaimed filmmakers,and his most recent feature The Beautiful Country screened in competition at Berlin this year.Produced by Orjan ...
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Riddick has so-so openings in Singapore, Malaysia for UIP
In its first international bows through UIP, Universal's TheChronicles Of Riddickopened fourth in Singapore on $210,000 from 26 screens and second in Malaysiaon $160,000 from 36 screens.Results for the Philippines, where Pioneer is the distributor, willbe reported on Monday (21).The Universal/UIP cumulative total to date is $370,000; Riddick is set ...
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Leigh named as Sarajevo jury president
UK director Mike Leigh is to serve as the president of theInternational Jury at this year's Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) (August 20-28).He will be joined in judging up to 10 films from eightcountries - ex-Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania and Bulgaria - in the RegionalProgramme by the Tribeca Film Festival's Peter Scarlet, ...
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Harry has third magical international weekend for Warner
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban continued as top of the internationalclass at the weekend as Warner Bros' family hit added an estimated $39m from 48territories to raise its total to $263.6m.It opened well on top in Spain despite a crucial Euro 2004football game on Sunday with arch-rivals Portugal, ...
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The Talent Given Us wins top jury prize at CineVegas
Andrew Wagner's The Talent Given Us won the jury award at the CineVegas FilmFestival 2004 at the weekend, while Larry Golin's Cross Bronx took the audience award and JohnHarkrider's Mitchellville received an honourable mention from the jury.The jury award is presentedannually to a feature length narrative feature without US distribution ...
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Dodgeball wins the box office match with The Terminal
Audiencespreferred the crazy antics of Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn to the subtlerhumour of Tom Hanks at the weekend as Fox's comedy Dodgeball: A TrueUnderdog Story opened top on an estimated $30m.Hanks anddirector Steven Spielberg had to settle for second place for The Terminal as it bowed on $18.7m, while ...
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Danish film-makers win multi-million backing
The Danish Film Institute has confirmed backing for sevennew Danish features, several of which are already in post-production.Among the films previously announced are Henrik Ruben Genzand Fine & Mellow's Chinaman, DagurKari and Nimbus Film's Grown Up People (Voksne Mennesker) and veteran Henning Carlsen's Fly BirdieFly (Springet), a co-production between Dagmar ...
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Millimages boss named as head of Bac Majestic
Roch Lerner, CEO of animation studio Millimages, has beennamed chairman and managing director of French distributor Bac Majestic. Millimagesrecently took a majority stake in the embattled distributor founded by JeanLabadie.Millimages now owns a 51% stake in the company while Labadiehas decreased his interests to 25%. Labadie in turn now takes ...
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Roman Gutek awarded French cultural honour
Veteran Polish distributor Roman Gutek, creator and owner ofPolish arthouse distribution outfit Gutek Film, is to be awarded with France'sChevalier des Arts et Lettres, one of the country's highest cultural honoursfor promoting French culture in Poland.Gutek establishedthe Warsaw Film Festival in 1985 and directed it until 1992. He was alsoone ...
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Greenwald's Uncovered acquired by Sundance Channel in US
Robert Greenwald'sdocumentary, Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War has been acquired for US TV broadcast on TheSundance Channel on Sept 6.The picture examines theBush Administration's conduct in convincing the American public that SaddamHussein posed a threat to national security and is supported by the liberalgroups Centre for American ...
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Samaha, Franchise stung with $29m punitive damages in Intertainment case
Make no mistake:Last week's jury verdict victoryfor Intertainment Licensing CEO Rudiger"Barry" Baeres over Franchise Pictures CEO Elie Samaha in their epic budgetpumping fraud lawsuit was a total annihilation of Franchise, and could suck upwhat's left of Samaha's personal war chest.On Wednesday ina Santa Ana, California federal courtroom, Intertainment was awarded ...
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Day After Tomorrow grosses swell after $19.7m weekend
FoxInternationalC;s The Day After Tomorrow elevated its international running total to an estimated$274.7m weekend, after adding $19.7m from 7,731 screens.Third weekendhighlights were $3.7m from 590 in Japan, where the picture stayed top in itsthird consecutive week and fell 28% for a $27.3m running total. In Korea itadded $1.4m from 245 ...
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RTL's Zeiler named as MIPCOM personality of the year
RTL Group's Chief Executive Officer, Gerhard Zeiler, hasbeen named as the MIPCOM Personality of the Year.GerhardZeiler will receive the award during a gala dinner for industry VIP executivesat MIPCOM.MIPCOM takes place in Cannes from October 4-8.
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Ma Mere
Dir: Christophe Honore.France. 2004. 109 mins.It's not difficult to seewhy second-time director Christophe Honore was surprised when Ma Mere,his incest-laced study of sexual obsession was turned down by the Cannesselection committee: it is, after all, much more of a festival film than acommercial prospect. Striking in its stark cinematic language, ...
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Los Muertos
Dir/prod/scr/ed:Lisandro Alonso. Argentina. 2004. 78minsBewareof promising beginnings bearing false hopes. That would seem to be the lessonto be drawn from Los Muertos, the second feature from Argentiniandirector Lisandro Alonso. Alonso's debut feature was the memorably stultifying LaLibertad (2001), which lovingly covered the working life of a ruralwoodcutter. Los Muertos signals ...
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Irish thriller Freeze Frame wins Taormina
Irish thriller FreezeFrame has scooped the top prize at the 50th edition of the Taormina FilmFestival (June 13-20), which is headed by former Venice artistic directorFelice Laudadio.Written and directed by JohnSimpson, Freeze Frame stars Lee Evans as a paranoid murder suspect whofilms himself around the clock to provide an alibi ...
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New funding scheme for Welsh film-makers
Welsh media agency,Sgrîn Cymru Wales, has launched a new funding scheme for Welsh filmmakers.The Welsh MicrosScheme - to be financed by The Arts Council of Wales, Film Four and S4C, inpartnership with Sgrîn - is designed to enable the production of two featurefilms with budgets of up to £400,000 each ...
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Former Vivendi chief Messier taken into custody
Former Vivendi Universalchief Jean-Marie Messier has been taken into custody by French police today(June 21) as part of a probe into stock manipulation.French magistrates are investigatinga massive share buyback in which Vivendi allegedly spent over Euros 1bn to propup its own share price in the weeks following the attacks of ...