All Screen articles in 25 February 2004 – Page 2
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AFM: Moviehouse strikes trio of US sales
UK sales outfit Moviehouse Entertainment has secured US sales for three of its crossover art-house titles The Rage In Placid Lake, Live Forever and Dead Dog Blues.Larry Meistrich's Film Movement, a first-run DVD subscription service set up last year, bought rights to The Rage In Placid Lake, a dark comedy ...
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AFM: deals in brief
*Myriad Pictures has closed a seven figure-deal with Rai Cinema in Italy for its psychological thriller Trauma starring Colin Firth. The deal was negotiated by Myriad's senior vice president, international distribution, Samantha Horley with Rai's head of film rights Paola Malanga. The film, which was produced by the UK's Little ...
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Code 46 set for UK premiere at Birmingham fest
Michael Winterbottom's Code 46 will receive its UK premiere as the closing night film of this year's Birmingham Screen Festival.The event opens on March 4 with the UK Premiere screening of Woody Allen's Anything Else.The festival's line-up includes films from directors such as Julio Medem (Basque Ball); Martin Scorsese (The ...
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CZECH REPUBLIC Production Lists - Febuary 25 2004
IN PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE BEST FILMS OF OUR LIVES (NEJLEPSI FILMY NASEHO ZIVOTA)(Negativ) Black comedy. A Tajik emigre comes to the US to show a stolen film at a film festival, an American crook is disowned by his daughter for acting in a porn movie when he was young, and two Japanese ...
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Gosling named male star of tomorrow at ShoWest
Ryan Gosling has been namedShoWest 2004 male star of tomorrow and will collect his award once the industryconvention kicks off in Las Vegas on Mar 22."In his short career to date,Ryan Gosling has delivered one tremendous performance after another and is wellon the way to establishing himself as an acting ...
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...as Isle Of Man Film steps in to rescue The Libertine
The Libertine, one of the high-profile productions caught up in the UK's tax financing crisis, has secured replacement funding through a deal with Isle of Man Film.The Isle of Man typically provides around 25% of the budget as a direct equity investment, which would plug most of the 35% gap ...
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New fantasy trilogy emerges from four-company indie partnership
Franchise Pictures is partnering with Story Island Entertainment,Origin Entertainment (which will operate under the new banner of CanyonlightEntertainment), and Entertainment Business Group (EBG) on production of the$80m fantasy franchise The Runelords.Based on David Farland's bestselling novels The Runelords,Brotherhood Of The Wolfand Wizardborn, thestory is set in a magical world where ...
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Richard Propper elected new president of IDA
Richard Propper, the founder and chief of documentary licensingfirm Solid Entertainment, has been elected president of the InternationalDocumentary Association (IDA).Propper will be formally introduced as the IDA's president at the22nd annual celebration of Academy Award documentary nominees in Los Angeles onWednesday."The IDA was visualised as a place where non-fiction film-makerscould ...
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Potato Men digs its way out of critical mauling
Despite some of the most negative reviews ever experienced by a film in the UK, Entertainment Film Distributor's comedy Sex Lives Of The Potato Men escaped a complete mauling at the box office over the weekend.The 18-certificate comedy managed an okay $663,785 (£355,125) from its 233 locations - placing it ...
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EasyCinema drafts in veteran exhibitor as CEO
Exhibition veteran Charles Wesoky has been appointed chief executive of no-frills UK exhibitor EasyCinema.Wesoky's appointment is part of a move by EasyCinema to win over film distributors, many of which have cold-shouldered the exhibitor by refusing to supply it with first run films.Wesoky was chairman and CEO of London-based EuroPlex ...
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Tartan Films gets UK rights to My Architect from Film Sales Co
Tartan Films has picked up all rights in the UK and Ireland toNathaniel Kahn's Oscar-nominated documentary My Architect from The Film Sales Company.Andrew Herwitz negotiated on behalf of Kahn and producer SusanRose Behr with Jane Giles, head of acquisitions, on behalf of Tartan, andwith Keith Calvert on behalf of the ...
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John Malcolm enlisted to head MPAA's worldwide anti-piracy ops
John G Malcolm, a former Department of Justice deputy assistantAttorney-General, has been named senior vice president and director ofworldwide anti-piracy operations at the Motion Picture Association of America(MPAA).Malcom's tenure begins on Apr 5 and he succeeds Ken Jacobsen, whowill retire at the end of the month.Malcolm oversaw the Dept of ...
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Showcase adds Dorm Daze, Italian Husband to AFM slate
Showcase Entertainment has secured international distributionrights to the comedies National Lampoon's Dorm Daze and Our Italian Husband in addition to worldwide rights to thrillerPuerto Vallarta Squeeze,as previously announced.Directed and produced by David and Scott Hillenbrand based on ascreenplay by Patrick Casey and Worm Miller, National Lampoon's Doom Daze centres on ...
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UK government lambasts 'abusive' film financing schemes
Facing a PR backlash over its changes to tax rules this month, the UK government has sought to justify the move by saying that financiers were drawing up "abusive" schemes "at the expense of honest taxpayers."Although the threatened collapse of major productions such as The Libertine, Man To Man and ...
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Cheaper By The Dozen adds $4.3m from 11 markets for Fox
Fired by a second place $1.5m opening on 250 screens in Spain CheaperBy The Dozen added $4.3mfrom 994 screens in 11 markets at the weekend to raise its internationalrunning total to $27.1m.In its second week in the UK the comedy climbed 23% and grossed$2.4m on 369 screens for $8.9m.Stuck On ...
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AFM claims 11% rise in buyers
AFMA's three top executives sounded a confident noteyesterday ahead of the American Film Market's opening day of trading in Santa Monica,highlighting the trade body's 40% non-American contingent and high projectedattendance as key drivers in what they expect to be a vibrant AFM this week.Speaking at a press conference to launch ...
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The Return Of The King passes $1bn at the box office
Finally, after weeks of anticipation, The Lord Of The Rings:The Return Of The Kingofficially passed $1bn in worldwide ticket sales at the weekend.New Line International'spicture grossed $13.9m from 3,655 screens in 60 markets to raise its internationalrunning total to $644.3m. Added to the weekend's $2.8m US gross for a $361.1mdomestic ...
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UK/IRELAND
The second (and final) weekend of the February school half-term holiday inevitably proved a boost for children's and family fare. The Haunted Mansion slipped just 7% from its opening weekend, while excluding previews. Cheaper By The Dozen (23%), Looney Tunes: Back In Action (57%) and Tooth (81%) all saw rises ...
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Silmido
Dir: Kang Woo-suk. South Korea. 2003. 133 minsIf Quentin Tarantino ever gets around to his men on a mission flick, he could do worse than cast an eye over Silmido. Kang woo-suk's muscular tale of Death Row desperados combines brawn and brain to compelling effect. The political complexities of a ...