All Screen articles in 24 June 2004 – Page 5

  • News

    Fahrenheit gets NYC opening early on June 23

    2004-06-18T04:00:00Z

    Fahrenheit9/11 will open in twoNew York City theatres on Jun 23, two days before Michael Moore's eagerlyanticipated Palme D'Or winner opens nationwide.Lincoln PlazaCinemas in the Upper West Side and Loews Cineplex Village in the East Villagewill screen the picture, which is being released in the US by Lions Gate, IFCFilms ...

  • Reviews

    Steamboy

    2004-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Dir/scr: Katsuhiro Otomo.Jap. 2004. 126mins.In 1988, with his debut feature Akira,Katsuhiro Otomo introduced the world to the post-apocalyptic future,Japanese-style - and spurred a global boom for Japanese animation that has yetto subside. Sixteen years later, he is back with Steamboy, an animatedepic set in the London of 1866, when the ...

  • Reviews

    Los Muertos

    2004-06-18T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Reviews

    Ladies In Lavender

    2004-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Dir/scr: Charles Dance.UK. 2004. 108minsCharles Dance's directorial debut is a stilted andold-fashioned romantic drama which would be heavy as suet were it not for thedeft and lively performances of its two Dames, Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Inrecreating 1930s Cornwall, Dance throws in all the elements associated withBritish heritage cinema ...

  • News

    Toronto Film Studios wins giant new Toronto studio bid

    2004-06-18T00:00:00Z

    After years of fits andstarts, Toronto is finally going to get the giant production facility itsindustry has been calling for. The Toronto Economic Development Corporation hassaid the Toronto Film Studios (TFS) is the winning applicant to develop andbuild the facility.The $118m (C$150m) projectcalls for a complex of up to 385,000 ...

  • News

    More bad news for Samaha in Intertainment case

    2004-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Today in the Santa Ana,Calfornia courtroom where Elie Samaha and his Franchise Pictures lost itsbattle with Intertainment AG earlier this week, the jury came back with thepunitive damages verdict, and it's more bad news for Samaha.The Jury awarded BarrieBaeres and Intertainment $29m in punitive damages in addition to the $77.1m ...

  • News

    Sorkin to script real life Afghan tale for Playtone, Universal

    2004-06-18T00:00:00Z

    The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin is to adapt George Crile's real-lifeMujahideen tale Charlie Wilson's War for Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone and UniversalPictures.Charlie Wilson's War recounts the eponymous Texas Congressman's covert mission tofunnel arms to the Afghan rebels and help them fight the Soviet army in the1980s, a ...

  • Reviews

    Around The World In 80 Days

    2004-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Frank Coraci. US.2004. 119mins.Walden Media's costly self-financed family adventurefinally hits the screens with the Walt Disney Pictures stamp on it and provesworthy of the honour. Jules Verne purists and lovers of the three-hour 1956classic will do best to stay away, but family audiences will be guaranteed agood-natured summer entertainment ...