All Screen articles in 25 February 2004 – Page 4
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Depp is surprise SAG winner for Pirates
In a surprise turn attonight's Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, Johnny Depp won the prizefor best film actor for his comic performance in Pirates Of The Caribbean:The Curse Of The Black Pearl,defeating frontrunners Bill Murray and Sean Penn.The upset adds an element ofintrigue to next Sunday's Academy Awards ...
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Kal Ho Na Ho dances off with eight Indian Oscars
Nikhil Advani's debut film Kal Ho Na Ho has emerged as the main winner at India's Oscar equivalent, the 49th Filmfare awards.The film, which was screened in the International Forum of New Cinema section at this month's Berlin Film Festival, won eight awards including best actress for Preity Zinta, best ...
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Cannes firms up closing weekend changes
The Cannes Film Festival has announced its schedule for the closing weekend of May 22 and 23.As previously reported, the awards ceremony will be moved from its traditional slot on Sunday to Saturday evening.Following the prizes, a premiere screening will be held although it is not yet known what the ...
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Bollywood specialist Eros joins UK distributor body
Eros Group, which specialises in distributing Bollywood films in the UK, is to become a member of UK trade body the Film Distributors' Association on March 1It will be the first Bollywood distributor ever to join the FDA.Established in the 1970s, Eros has library of approximately 1,500 titles, and ...
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Diagonale festival unveils Austrian premeries
Pjer Zalica's Silver Leopard-winner Fuse (Gori Vatra), the documentaries Virtual Borders by Manu Luksch, Accordion Tribe by Stefan Schwietert, Fucking Freedom by Chris Krikellis and the avantgarde film WAR by Thomas Steiner are among 66 Austrian premieres at this year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema in Graz which will ...
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MPAA hails court order blocking DVD copying software from 321
Motion Picture Associationof America (MPAA) chief Jack Valenti has hailed a court order blocking UScompany 321 Studios from making, distributing or selling its DVD-copyingsoftware.The Burbank-based MPAA, aninfluential congressional lobbyist that represents the global interests of theUS majors and other affiliates, sought legal action in keeping with itspro-copyright philosophy.Judge Susan Illston ...
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Dates staves off four wide new openers
Despite four new entries in the top 10 none was strong enough tochallenge Columbia's 50 First Dates, which held on to number one in its second week on $21m for a$72.3m running total.Buena Vista's Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen opened a distant second but performedroughly as executives predicted on ...
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Barbarian plunders top Cesar prizes
Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions (LesInvasions Barbares) scooped three key Cesarawards on Saturday night in Paris winning in the best picture, best directorand best screenplay categories.The film, which won acting and writing awards at Cannes last year, is alsonominated for two Oscars next Sunday in the best foreign film and ...
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Cannes to open with Almodovar's Bad Education
Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education (La Mala Educacion) will open the 57th Cannes Film Festival on May 12,the event's organisers announced on Friday.At an impromptu press conference called at the Madrid officeof El Deseo on the same day, Almodovar confirmed that he did not plan tocompete with Bad Education at Cannes."In ...
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Renaissance takes the world on Cattaneo's third film
London-based financing andsales outfit Renaissance Films has acquired worldwide sales rights from theUK's Academy Features to Poppy And Dingan, the third film by British director Peter Cattaneo after The FullMonty and Lucky Break.Renaissance will bepre-selling the film at next week's AFM. Casting is now underway, withprincipal photography set to start ...
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Void sets British box office record as biggest ever doc
Kevin Macdonald's Touching The Void has overtaken Bowling For Columbine as the highest grossing documentary in UK box office history.Released by Pathe Distribution on December 12, and now in its eleventh week in cinemas, the Bafta winning film has so far taken $3.17m (£1.68m). By comparison, Bowling For Columbine took ...
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UK's Entertainment sees profits leap on back of Rings
The UK's Entertainment Film Distributors has seen its post tax profits leap almost threefold to $61.5m (£32.6m) in the year to March 31, 2003, according to recent documents filed at official UK business registry, Companies House.The $61.5m figure compares to a post-tax profit of $24.5 for the year to March ...
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Frustration mounts as producers await tax decision
Producerswere forced to wait another day yesterday to hear if any transition arrangementswere to be made for films hit by last week's UK tax clamp down.Despitemany industry insiders being hopeful of news as early as Wednesday, sourcesclose to talks with the government said on Thursday that it was still"too close ...
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Asian film commissions join forces to attract shoots
A group of leading film commissions from Asia have agreed to join together in a regional network to be called the Asian Film Commissions Network (AFCNet).The network intends to make it easier for local and international productions to shoot throughout the region by promoting co-operation among member film commissions, encouraging ...
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Stanton to get ShoWest award for animation director
Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton has been named ShoWest 2004Animation Director of the Year and will collect his honour during the event,which runs in Las Vegas from Mar 22-25."To think that Nemo, Marlinand Dory were first introduced to the industry at ShoWest 2003 when Disney andPixar screened Finding Nemo isvery ...
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Lightning acquires teen horror Dead Scared
LosAngeles-based sales and distribution outfit Lightning Entertainment hasacquired international rights to Honey Creek Pictures' first feature production,the teen horror picture Dead Scared.Dead Scared will get a world premiere screening atthe AFM and centres on five college children trapped in a haunted mansion whoeach become possessed by a demonic spirit.It stars ...
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Oz's Accent takes My Flesh from Films Transit
Fledgling Australian distributor Accent Film Entertainment has struck a deal with Films Transit International for Australian rights to Jonathan Karsh's My Flesh And Blood.The film about a woman and her 11 adopted children, all of whom have various disabilities and special needs, won an audience award last year at Sundance ...
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Gibson's Passion earns 18 certificate from UK censor
Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ has received an 18 certificate from UK censor, the British Board Of Film Classification.The censor ruled that the film, which is expected to open through Icon Film Distribution on March 26, "contains extended scenes of strong violence."A spokeswoman for the BBFC cited an ...
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Almodovar's Educacion to open Cannes
Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education (La Mala Educacion) will open the 57th Cannes Film Festival on May 12 organisers announced on Friday.Festival organisers told ScreenDaily.com that they are as yet unsure if the film will be screened in competition.In a statement, Almodovar said, "The joy that has overcome me at the ...
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Infernal Affairs star backs gangster thriller
Andy Lau's Focus Films is co-financing a $5m (HK$40m) gangster thriller, Jiang Hu, which combines a stellar cast with one of Hong Kong's most promising new directors.The film, which started shooting earlier this month, reunites many stars from recent Hong Kong blockbuster Infernal Affairs including Lau himself, Eric Tsang, Edison ...