All Screen articles in 25 April 2004 – Page 4
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Pere reveals his inaugural Directors' Fortnight selection
Making his debut as artisticdirector of Directors' Fortnight, Olivier Pere unveiled the line-up for thisyear's edition this morning in Paris.Among the twenty titles inthis year's selection are 10 French or French co-produced films, four from theUS, two from Japan and two from Iran. Among the other territories representedare Spain, Italy, ...
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Pere reveals his inaugural Quinzaine selection
Making his debut as artisticdirector of Directors' Fortnight, Olivier Pere unveiled the line-up for thisyear's edition this morning in Paris.Among the twenty titles inthis year's selection are 10 French or French co-produced films, four from theUS, two from Japan and two from Iran. Among the other territories representedare Spain, Italy, ...
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Internationalmedia negotiates $18m credit line
Internationalmediahas negotiated a credit line of up to $18m over a 12 month period with aprivate US investor group to reduce its bank liabilities and finance pre-production for upcoming film projects,among other things.This latest move was revealed on the publication ofInternationalmedia's 2003 figures which saw its performance affected"disproportionately" by the ...
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Lives adds another $3m for Warner Bros
Taking Lives grossed an estimated $3m and 547,000 admissions from1,967 screens in 39 territories through Warner Bros Pictures International atthe weekend, raising its international cumulative total to $18.2m.The thriller opened in theUK on $575,000 on 258 screens, which by comparison was roughly 52% better thanthe opening of High Crimes inlate ...
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Dates rakes in further $7.8m for CTFDI
Love was in the air thisweekend as Sony's romantic comedy 50 First Dates enjoyed a string of number one bows through ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), grossing $7.8m on 2,444screens to raise its international running total to $36.3m.The picture was number onein its first four days in Germany but eventually ...
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Return Of The King crosses $90m in Japan
New Line's The Lord OfThe Rings: The Return Of The Kingpassed $90m in Japan at the weekend (24) as it added $602,770 on 330 screensover two days for a superb $90.4m running total in its 11th week.Released through NipponHerald, The Return Of The King performedfar better than trilogy predecessor The ...
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UK government moves to close down co-production abuse
In a crackdown on co-production abuse that is expected to hit films across Europe, the UK is to announce today that it is raising minimum spend to 40% for co-productions with France, Italy, Denmark and Iceland.The hike, predicted last week in Screen International, means co-productions with the four European countries ...
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Distance takes top Silver Screen award in Singapore
Turkish director Nuri BilgeCeylan's Uzak (Distance) emerged as the main winner at the Silver ScreenAwards of the 17th Singapore International Film Festival, bagging three majorprizes in the Asian feature film category.Beating 12 other contenders,Uzak was named the Best Film, with Ceylan winning Best Director andMehmet Emin Toprak earning Best Actor. ...
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Low budget comedy is the toast of Istanbul
A tiny coming-of-age comedy,bearing the unlikely title of Boats Out Of Watermelon Rinds, shot on ashoestring budget with a cast of unknowns in a remote corner of Anatolia,turned out to be the real discovery of this year's Istanbul Film Festival.Ahmet Ulucay'sautobiographical first film, shot on digital video, surprisingly stole theshow ...
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Polanski unveils Oliver Twist cast
Roman Polanski introducedthe press to the lead actor for his upcoming adaptation of Charles Dickens' OliverTwist in Paris yesterday. After a search that included drama schoolsthroughout England, ten year-old Barney Clark will play Twist alongside Ben Kingsleyas Fagin.The virtually unknown youngman's previous experience includes two television roles in the UK. ...
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Myriad to close London sales office
Myriad Pictures is closing down sales operations in London following its turbulent production of UK-Canadian title The River King.The US sales company will continue to maintain a UK production presence under Marion Pilowsky, head of international production, but Samantha Horley, senior vice president of international distribution, and sales executive Alice ...
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Survivor will shoot despite Polish producer's jail-term
The president of AtlanticAlliance Pictures said yesterday (26) that filming on the upcoming Holocaust drama LoveIs A Survivor will go ahead despitethe corruption conviction of co-production and funding partnerHeritage Films' Lew Rywin.Rywin, who served asexecutive producer on The Pianist, co-produceron Schindler's List and producer(Poland unit) on Proof Of Life,was sentenced ...
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Former J&M executive Roberts joins Dream as senior vp
Industry veteran Karen Roberts has joined LosAngeles-based production and international sales company Dream Entertainment assenior vice president of acquisitions and development.Roberts will beresponsible for identifying finished features as well as new projects forDream's development slate. She will report directly to company presidentYitzhak Ginsberg.Roberts mostrecently served as senior vice president of ...
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Passion gets its final Fox opening at second in Thailand
The Passion Of The Christ opened in its final Fox International market at theweekend, ranking second in Thailand on $225,000 on 70 screens.Overall the picture added$2.2m overall on 1,318 screens in 14 markets for a $73m international runningtotal in Fox territories.Elsewhere the thriller ManOn Fire began its international runwith a ...
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Knightley to star in Working Title's Pride And Prejudice
Keira Knightley is in advanced negotiations to star in Working Title Films' Jane Austen adaptation Pride And Prejudice.The UK star is to start shooting mid-August, according to UK press reports, although Working Title is still to cast the role of Darcy.The production means Knightley will be moving from a book ...
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ITALY 28 April
BVI's KillBill Vol. 2 knocked The Passion Of The Christ off the top spot atthe Italian box office last weekend. The Quentin Tarantino picture opened on331 screens, earning $1,811,276 for a solid if unspectacular average of $5,472per screen.Eagle Pictures'Passion registered a further $1,346,435 from 485 screens on its thirdweekend - ...
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SWEDEN 28 April
Tarantino's KillBill Vol.2 effortlessly cut into the top of the Swedish box-office pushinglast week's strong opener Starsky & Hutch to second with double thescreen average, $7.456 on its less 39 prints.However, Scanbox'srelease of the Oscar-winning drama, Monster, actually managed a slightlybetter screen average ($7.650) on its just 10 prints, which ...
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Prescience Film Finance appoints head of business affairs
Start-up tax financingscheme Prescience Film Finance has poached Sharon Menzies as head of businessaffairs from rival financier Baker Street Media.Menzies, who takes up thepost next month, was head of business affairs at Baker Street, one of the mostestablished medium-sized players in UK tax financing circles. Before BakerStreet, she worked at ...
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Swipe Films takes Int'l sales on Sundance award winner
London-based Swipe Films has picked up international salesrights to Debra Granik's Sundance award-winner Down To The Bone.The digitally-shot film, which tells the story of a workingclass mother hiding a cocaine addiction from her family, won the DirectingAward and a special jury prize for lead actress Vera Farmiga at the festival ...
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Mikhalkov to head Cannes short film competition jury.
Russiandirector Nikita Mikhalkov is to head the jury that will judge the short filmcompetition at Cannes.Also on thejury are actress-director Nicole Garcia, actress Marisa Parades and directorsNuri Bilge Ceylan and Pablo Trapero.They willpreside over the short and medium films from film schools presented in theCinefondation section.Prizes forthe Cinefondation will be ...