All Screen articles in 25 September 2003 – Page 2
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Underworld a triumph for Screen Gems, despite critics
North American audiencescontinued to gobble up the horror genre as Screen Gems' Underworld opened top at the weekend on an estimated $22m.Four of the top five werenew entries, while Woody Allen's Anything Else disappointed outside the top 10. The top 12 filmsgrossed $94m, up 37% against the same period last ...
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DENMARK
The weekend saw little change at the top of the Danish box-office as Pirates Of The Caribbean stayed in front of the local crime-comedy Stealing Rembrandt, though both films dropped 24.2% and 13.4% respectively compared to last week. While the two animated films Piglet's Big Movie and Sinbad swapped places ...
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The Galindez File (El Misterio Galindez)
Dir. Gerardo Herrero. Spain/UK/Cuba/Portugal/Italy/France. 2003. 128 min.A political thriller based on a true story that delivers its answers before it asks the questions must be some kind of novelty. Not to mention that after establishing all the facts and pinpointing all the heroes and the villains of the story without ...
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Spanish film industry in flux
Key changes to the Spanishfilm industry were announced this weekend at the Donostia-San SebastianInternational Film Festival (Sept 18-28).Production, facilities andrights management giant MediaPro unveiled its acquisition of post-productioncompany Molinare and a majority stake in another, Mozart. The new acquisitions givethe company a strong new foothold in the film, TV and ...
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Spanish film industry in flux
Key changes to the Spanishfilm industry were announced this weekend at the Donostia-San SebastianInternational Film Festival (Sept 18-28).Production, facilities andrights management giant MediaPro unveiled its acquisition of post-productioncompany Molinare and a majority stake in another, Mozart. The new acquisitions givethe company a strong new foothold in the film, TV and ...
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Suite Habana
Dir. Fernando Perez. Cuba/Spain, 2003. 80 min.This well-intentioned, mostly melancholy but positive hymn of love to Havana, in the form of a pseudo-documentary, bears all the earmarks of an officially approved production that projects a more than affectionate portrait the city, notwithstanding all its shortcomings. But it is still a ...
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HONG KONG
Warner Bros' first foray into Chinese-language film production, Johnnie To's Turn Left, Turn Right, had a strong opening in Hong Kong, grossing US$988,574 and a screen average of US$26,718 in its first week. The results are particularly impressive for a romantic drama - amongst local productions, comedies usually dominate the ...
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ITALY
Terminator 3 opened at number one in Italy, its last international opening - and yet another first place on release - earning a powerful $2,392,393 from 511 screens for a screen average of $4,682. But the biggest surprise of the weekend was L'Apetta Giulia E La Signora Vita, Italy's first ...
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JAPAN
Franco Zeffirelli's Callas Forever may well play in Japan forever, if the film's mostly-female fans have their way. In its 9th week on release, the bio-drama starring Fanny Ardent and Jeremy Irons is still packing them in, with a $49,533 screen average from three urban theatres. Distributor Gaga has released ...
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Ondricek to receive ASC International Achievement award in 2004
Miroslav Ondricek, theacclaimed director of photography whose credits include Ragtime, Amadeus and Silkwood, will receive the 2004 American Society of Cinematographers (ASC)International Achievement Award in Los Angeles on Feb 8 2004.The award is presented atthe annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards to an individual who, in thewords of the ASC, has ...
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Chicago unveils 94-film lineup, Downey, Hopkins to attend
Robert Benton's The HumanStain and Billy Ray's timely biopicof a plagiarising reporter in Shattered Glass bookend the 39th Chicago International FilmFestival, which runs from Oct 2-16 and features tributes to Benton, RobertDowney Jr and Taye Diggs.Among the roster of 94 filmsfrom 40 countries are Gold Hugo international competition entries Noi ...
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English-speaking directors' bodies club together in new alliance
English-speaking directors'bodies from seven countries including the UK, US and Australia have signed acode of practice asserting the creative and economic rights of film and televisiondirectors.The organisations, whichfeature two UK representatives as well as figureheads from Canada, Ireland andNew Zealand, also agreed to establish an affiliation known as the InternationalAssociation ...
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New distributors emerge out of Argentinian crisis
Two new arthouse distributors have surfaced in Argentina to bring edgier and more ambitious fare to a recovering marketplace. Luis Perez Endara, who has acquired the rights to United Artists catalogue from MGM leads Compania General de la Imagen (CGI). Perez Endara went into theatrical distribution in 2000 with Darren ...
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Bavaria takes on sales for Tradewind pair
Cologne-based production house Tradewind Pictures has entered into a "first look" style agreement with world sales agent Bavaria Film International (BFI).Bavaria has picked up two of Tradewind's current international co-productions - Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's Niceland and Peter Timm's Mein Bruder Ist Ein Hund - for international sales.The Euros 2.5m Niceland, ...
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Danish Fakir conjures up impressive cast
Danish director Peter Flinth's family adventure The Fakir has attracted an impressive cast including Germany's Moritz Bleibtreu (Taking Sides), Denmark's Sidse Babett Knudsen (Old New Borrowed And Blue) and Sweden's Fares Fares (Jalla! Jalla!). They join the two young leads Julie Zangenberg (Catch That Girl) and Aksel Leth (Olsen Gang ...
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Veteran Polish director named jury head of Dehli festival
Polish film-maker Krzystof Zanussi is to head up the five strong jury of the 34th International Film Festival of India in New Delhi (Oct 9-19). The Jury will award Golden Peacock prize of US $10,000 for the best Film by an Asian Director, and a Silver Peacock prize of US$ ...
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IFP Market outlines panels, lineup for this week's event
The 25th annual IFP Marketwill run in Manhattan from Sept 21-26, featuring more than 200 screenings inthe Emerging Narrative and Spotlight on Documentaries sections and the NoBorders International Co-Production Market.The event opens with apresentation of Wonderland, JamesCox's account of the fall of porn star John Holmes starring Val Kilmer, andcloses ...
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Prime time TV outing for Exorcist scares up Italians
A new storm of controversy has been raised in Italy over the country's virtually non-existent film classification system, after The Exorcist was broadcast in the Catholic country last week on prime time TV.""It is a slap in the face for our children," said Italy's parents association, Moige. "The story and ...
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Hit Serbian producer readies Zamfir's Zona follow up
Serbian outfit Dream Company, which produced local hit Zamfir's Zona, is producing a new film, a World War II comedy The Robbery Of The Third Reich.Zamfir's Zona has grossed a total of $2m to date. Producer Miroslav Mitic is reuniting with Zona's writer/director Zdravko Sotra, and most of the Zona's ...
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Regulators probe Intertainment insider trading allegations
The beleaguered German license trader/producer Intertainment has come under suspicion of insider trading, according to German business newspaper Handelsblatt.The newspaper quoted a spokeswoman of the stock exchange watchdog BAFin as saying that it would "look at the case as a matter of routine." The allegations stem from a delay by ...