All Screen articles in 26 May 2004 – Page 2
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INTERNATIONAL 26 May
Despite a slew of new entries no impact was made against theone-two international punch of Troyand Van Helsing this week.For the second week running the pair accounted for twothirds (67%) of the international market. Troyadded a further 11 territories to its count, including Japan, South Korea andItaly as well as ...
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Palm takes US and UK rights to Nomi Song
Palm Pictures has picked up US and UK rights to AndrewHorn's music documentary The Nomi Song at the end of what sales agentMedia Luna Entertainment described as "a very busy Cannes market."MLE managing director Ida Martins told ScreenDaily.com thatsales were also concluded for the Russian film You I Love with ...
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NonStop Entertainment stocks up at Cannes
Nordicdistributor NonStop Entertainment finished Cannes with a bagful of acquisitionsheaded by Agnes Jaoui's Comme Une Image, which scooped the Palme forbest script.NonStop will release the Paris-set drama, acquired from StudioCanal, inOctober this year.FromMedia Asia, it bought Breaking News, the Johnnie To action drama thatwas a late addition to official selection. ...
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Pang brothers' Re-cycle notches Cannes pre-sales
Hong Kongproduction and distribution outfit Universe Entertainment clinched a string ofpre-sales at Cannes on its Pang brothers' horror movie, Re-cycle.The $5m film has been sold to Pathe Distribution forFrance, Tartan Films for the UK, Audio One for Malaysia and TT Warner Picturesfor Indonesia. The Malaysian deal was secured even before ...
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Berlin's European Film Market switches to new venue
It's official: Berlin's European Film Market (EFM) will have a newvenue for 2006 at the Renaissance-style Martin Gropius Building, just fiveminutes from Potsdamer Platz. The market will be held inside the cramped Debis building forthe last time in 2005.The Martin Gropius Building has hosted several internationalexhibitions in the past - ...
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Bavaria ships Whisky at Cannes
Bavaria FilmInternational (BFI) has concluded a raft of deals at the market in Cannes on Uruguayancomedy Whisky and Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's latest feature Niceland.Directorial duoPablo Stoll and Juan Pablo Rebella's film, which screened in the Un CertainRegard and was awarded the FIPRESCI Award and Prix Originale Regard, was soldto Japan ...
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Lions Gate International strikes J-Horror sales
Lions Gate Films International launched its J-HorrorJapanese horror franchise in Cannes with key territory sales on the nascentseries of pictures put together by the prolific producer Take Ichise.The company negotiated worldwide distribution rights to thefranchise, excluding Japan, from Ichise's development and financing companyEntertainment Farm. Ichise's credits include the Japanese and ...
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The Ladykillers launches with strong bows in Spain, Japan
Touchstone's The Ladykillers enjoyed two strong openings in its debut markets ofSpain and Japan through Buena Vista International (BVI) at the weekend.The remake opened third in Spain and grossed $1m on 208screens, while Japan produced $700,000 from 140. The picture's earlyinternational running total therefore stands at $1.7m.BVI executives confirmed that ...
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Aftermath (Lad De Sma Born)
Dir: Paprika Steen.Denmark. 2004. 100 minsAn award-winning presence in a string of Dogme films (Festen, Mifune,Open Hearts etc), actress Paprika Steen takes a very different stylisticapproach in her assured directorial debut. Aftermath is a polished, mournfulexamination of grief distinguished by its careful compositions, deeply feltperformances and rigid avoidance of sentimentality.Its ...
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Koch Lorber acquires Lipstick & Dynamite
Koch Lorber Films has picked up all US and Canadian rightsexcluding pay television to Ruth Leitman's acclaimed documentary Lipstick& Dynamite, Piss And Vinegar: The First Ladies Of Wrestling.The company plans an autumn 2004 or early 2005 release for thepicture, which premiered at Toronto's Hot Docs Festival and played at Tribecaearlier ...
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TLA Releasing acquires A Loving Father, Moon Child
TLA Releasing's International Film Festival label has added JacobBerger's emotional drama A Loving Father and Takahisa Zeze'scrime-horror hybrid Moon Child.Real-life father-and-son pairing Gerard and Guillaume Depardieu teamup on screen for the first time in A Loving Father, in which the formerplays a Nobel prize recipient who encounters his estranged son ...
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Kal Ho Naa Ho dominates Indian Academy Awards
NikhilAdvani's Kal Ho Naa Ho walked away with eight top honours at thisyear's International Indian Film Academy awards (IIFA) -Bollywood's equivalent to the Oscar's - bagging best film, bestactress (Preity Zinta), best supporting actor (Saif Ali Khan) and actress (JayaBachchan) as well as four out of the five awards in ...
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Troy plunders $70m international weekend haul
Warner Bros enjoyed its third biggest international weekend of alltime as Troy added an estimated $71m from 10,272 screens in 58 marketsfor a $146.9m running total.Driven by mighty bows in the UK, Japan, Italy, Korea and Russiaand solid domestic business the action epic has now amassed $233.2mworldwide.Second week holdovers were ...
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FRANCE 25 May
Hot off itspremiere bash in Cannes, Brad Pitt epic Troy scored nearly 1 millionadmissions its first week out in order to grab the top spot away from Van Helsing which boosted its secondweek takings to $7.2m.Also newthis week, Cannes opener Bad Educationfrom Pedro Almodovar which boasted a healthy $7,000 per ...
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DENMARK 25 May
Troy opened a weeklater in Denmark than the rest of the region, cleverly not trying to competewith the royal wedding for the media's attention, and despite it's coolcritical reception it had no problem conquering the top of the chart with itshigh 72 prints.Neither of this weekend's other two releases - ...
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GERMANY 25 May
While Wolfgang Petersen's Troy held on to the top spot with only a 9% drop in takings overthe previous weekend to gross over $19.9m, the local German film industry wasgiven a welcome boost by the strong opening of Tobi Baumann's Der Wixxer, a send-up of the 1960s EdgarWallace crime mystery ...
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SWEDEN 25 May
With Wolfgang Petersen's Troyeasily dethroned Van Helsing lastweek, nothing much changed this weekend on the Swedish chart. Troy even retained a solid screenaverage of $6,393 on its massive 111 prints.The only new release, ThePrince & Me, posed no threat to any of the top 10 films and opened12th, while last ...
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NORDIC Production Listings - May 25 2004
NORDIC LISTINGS - MAY 25DENMARKIN PRE-PRODUCTIONAMAZON JACK 3(JUNGLEDYRET HUGO - FRAEK SOM ALTID)(PH3) Backer: Danish Film Institute. the third instalment in the popularanimated feature series about Amazon Jack. Prod: Per Holst. Dirs: AndersSoerensen, Joergen Lerdam. Scr: Flemming Quist Moeller.Contact: Per Holst, PH3, (45) 35 55 93 66THE AMBULANCE(AMBULANCEN)(Nordisk Film Production) ...
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Malaysian Princess eyes international market
Through an exclusivemarketing deal with Rossellini and Associates, epic drama Puteri GunungLedang (The Princess Of Mount Ledang) is set to be the first Malaysian filmthat will break into the international market.Malaysia's new productioncompany Enfiniti is financing the Malay-language film, which is made at abudget of $4m (RM15m), the most expensive ...
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Three Thai film companies join forces to create production powerhouse
Three Thai filmcompanies - GMM Pictures, Tai Entertainment and Hub Ho Hin - are joining forcesto create a production powerhouse in response to increasing competition in thefast-growing Thai market.The new company -GMM Tai Hub (GTH) - was unveiled in Bangkok on Friday along with its initialslate of 10 projects. GMM ...