All Screen articles in 25 April 2004 – Page 3
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Another $6.1m for Scooby as Warner sequel tops $75m
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed grossed an estimated $6.1m at theweekend, raising its international running total to $76.7m for Warner Bros.In its fourth week in the UK the picture added $1m from 471screens for a $25.8m running total there. France added $1.2m from 576 in itsthird week for $7.5m and Italy ...
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UIP has $3.2m weekend with Strike's Dawn Of The Dead
Strike Entertainment's horror remake Dawn Of The Dead grossed an estimated $3.2m through Universal/UIPfrom 1,200 screens in 14 countries at the weekend, raising its internationalrunning total to $7.6m, excluding $10.1m in the UK where it was releasedindependently through Entertainment.The picture opened on $700,000 from 164 screens in Spain, tyingfor third ...
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Constantin financial chief to leave after five years
Constantin Film's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Dr DanielWiest is to leave the German producer-distributor at the end of next monthafter five years with the company.Constantin's Chairman of theSupervisory Board Bernd Eichinger noted that Wiest had 'played a prominentrole in helping to make Constantin Film one of the most successful German ...
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Alliance Atlantis restructures operations
There's about tobe a lot of new business cards printed at Alliance Atlantis. Two years afterintroducing its operating groups of Broadcast, Motion Picture Distribution andEntertainment, the company is re-integrating those groups into a single corporatestructure - all save Motion Picture Distribution, which became a distinctcorporate entity in the autumn ...
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Cannes market set for record attendance figures
Cannes' Marche du Film has said that it expects arecord number of 8500 participants at this year's event withpre-registration figures already up by ten per cent compared to 2003.The highest increases are from the UK, the US, Asia, Spain,South Africa and Finland.The Marche also reports that the number of buyers ...
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Cannes market predicts record attendance
Cannes' Marche du Film has said that it expects arecord number of 8500 participants at this year's event withpre-registration figures already up by ten per cent compared to 2003.The highest increases are from the UK, the US, Asia, Spain,South Africa and Finland.The Marche also reports that the number of buyers ...
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Nine Queens director readies Aura thriller
Fabian Bielinsky, director of international hit NineQueens, is putting the finishing touches onthe script for his follow-up film, a psychological thriller provisionallytitled The Aura (El Aura) and setto star Ricardo Darin.Darin (Nine Queens, Son Of The Bride) will play a taxidermist whose fantasies aboutsetting up the perfect crime come unexpectedly ...
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Wild Bunch Man plugs financing hole
Man ToMan, WildBunch's period piece starring Joseph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas,has patched together its financing after tax fund First Choice fell thoughfollowing the government's Feb 10 clamp down.The UK-Frenchco-production is plugging the hole left in the budget - about a third ofits total - with a standard sale and ...
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Costa-Gavras, Haneke features win Eurimages funding
New feature film projects by Michael Haneke, ConstantinCosta-Gavras, Robert Glinski and Pal Sletaune are among nine Europeanco-productions which were awarded Euro 3.3m by the pan-European co-productionfund Eurimages in its latest round of funding.The largest amounts - Euro 600,000 each - went to Haneke's Cache and Pasquale Scimeca's Italian-Spanishco-productionPassione Di Giosue ...
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Moviehouse takes on Nina's Tragedies, Overnight sales
London-basedsales company Moviehouse Entertainment has picked up international rights forSundance title Overnight and Israeli hit Nina's Tragedies. Both titles will receive market premiere screenings at theupcoming Cannes market.Overnightis documentaryfollowing the rags-to-riches-to-rags story of filmmaker Troy Duffy who,approached by Miramax honcho Harvey Weinstein, is offered the once in alifetime opportunity to ...
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Moviehouse takes on Nina's Tragedies, Overnight
London-basedsales company Moviehouse Entertainment has picked up international rights forSundance title Overnight and Israeli hit Nina's Tragedies. Both titles will receive market premiere screenings at theupcoming Cannes market.Overnightis documentaryfollowing the rags-to-riches-to-rags story of filmmaker Troy Duffy who,approached by Miramax honcho Harvey Weinstein, is offered the once in alifetime opportunity to ...
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ITALY Production Listings - April 28 2004
ITALYPRE-PRODUCTIONADIUS,LA FESTA E' FINITA(Verdecchi Film) Backing: Fondo di Garanzia. Word gets out in high-flying Romansociety that a well-known Italian singer-songwriter is to make his comeback -despite the fact that his death was officially announced in 1980. Prod:Alessandro Verdecchi. Dir: Ezio Alovisi. Scr: Ezio Alovisi.Contact: Verdecchi Film, (39) 06 39 388 ...
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ITALY Production Listings - April 28 2004
ITALYPRE-PRODUCTIONADIUS,LA FESTA E' FINITA(Verdecchi Film) Backing: Fondo di Garanzia. Word gets out in high-flying Romansociety that a well-known Italian singer-songwriter is to make his comeback -despite the fact that his death was officially announced in 1980. Prod:Alessandro Verdecchi. Dir: Ezio Alovisi. Scr: Ezio Alovisi.Contact: Verdecchi Film, (39) 06 39 388 ...
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AUSTRALIA 27 April
Despite a cold receptionfrom the critics, Australian comedy Strange Bedfellows was able to claimthird place in the charts on the five-day holiday weekend due to its verystrong A$1,373,957 gross from 194 screens.Obviously there remains alot of affection for the Becker film's stars, Paul 'Crocodile Dundee'Hogan and Michael Caton from The ...
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GERMANY 27 April
Kill Bill Vol. 2 shot into the German box-office charts in poleposition with a screen average of $5,582 from each of its 515 screens to grossover $2.8m in its first weekend. It was one of four BVI releases in the top 6,including Vol. 1 of Kill Bill - now in ...
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Haunted Mansion takes top spot in Japan with $4.7m for BVI
The Haunted Mansion scored an impressive bow in Japan through BuenaVista International (BVI) at the weekend, opening top on $4.7m and breaking astring of records in the process.It was the Walt DisneyCompany's second biggest live action branded bow ever behind Pirates Of TheCaribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl in ...
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Arclight, Instinct capitalise on Strange Bedfellows
On the eve of the film'sinternational premiere in the Cannes market, Arclight Films has signed on as'subagent' for the Australian comedy Strange Bedfellows, which openedstrongly enough to claim third place in the local weekend box office charts.The film sold A$1,373,957worth of tickets from 194 screens during the five-day long weekend ...
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The Calcium Kid
Dir:Alex De Rakoff. UK-US-Fr. 2004. 89mins.Orlando Bloom's post-Lord Of The Rings appeal will be sorely testedby The Calcium Kid, a title fight mockumentary that packs a puny punch.A world removed from the genre-defining classics of Christopher Guest and histroupe, this uninspired effort has more in common with parochial British farelike ...
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Global, Daybreak Pacific team up for finance and sales venture
Peter Elson's foreign salesand distribution outfit Global Cinema Group is teaming up with Dale and GrantBradley's New Zealand-based financing and production house Daybreak Pacific tofinance, produce and distribute features.Global will handle worldwidesales and distribution for Daybreak's slate, while the latter will provideGlobal with a flow of product.Global will bring twoDaybreak ...