All Screen articles in 27 August 2003 – Page 2
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Chokher Bali: A Passion Play
Dir. Rituparno Ghosh. India. 2003. 167mins.This adaptation of the novel written by India's Nobel prize winner Rabindranath Tagore in 1902 tries to expand the story of "four young people trapped in a tangle of sensuality" (in Tagore's words) into a larger parable on the state of women in general and ...
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Mumbai film production continues after bomb attacks
This week's terrorist attack in Mumbai, the film capital of India, has so far had little direct impact on the Indian film industry.Two car bombs exploded in the heart of the city on Monday Aug 25, killing at least 50 people.Filmmakers said business was continuing as usual and actors have ...
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SOUTH KOREA Production Listings - August 28 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalSOUTH KOREA - August 28PRE-PRODUCTIONBARAM-UI JEONSEOL(Film Mania) Budget: $2.3. Backer/int'l sales/dist: Cinema Service. Black comedy about a man who takes up ballroom dancing and falls in love. Scr/dir: Park Jeong-woo. Main cast: Lee Sung-jae, Park Seol-mi. Shooting from late September. Contact: Cinema Service, (82) 2192 8733CHEONG-YEON(Cineline II) Drama ...
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Pie sequel top in Germany, UK
Universal'sAmerican Pie: The Wedding enjoyed a strong weekend at the box office, grossing $12.3m from1,672 sites in five countries through UIP to raise its international runningtotal to $29.2m.In a mighty number one opening in Germany the gross-outcomedy sequel took $5.2m from 636 for 45% market share.It wasUniversal's ninth biggest ever ...
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Eagle scores with New Line pictures in Italy
New Line'sFinal Destination 2remained in pole position in its second weekend in Italy, dropping a mere 16%and adding $453,317 from 278 screens for a $1.9m total after 11 days.Released through Eagle Pictures, the horror sequel will bechasing down its predecessor's finishing total of $3.2m following asix-week run in autumn 2000.Meanwhile ...
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Global, MOMA team for developing countries film programme
US-based charitablefoundation The Global Film Initiative and New York's Museum of Modern Art(MoMA) have joined forces on an educational programme to showcase cinema fromdeveloping countries.Global Lens: New Cinema FromThe Developing World will run at MoMA Film at The Gramercy Theatre from Nov13-30 before expanding to a series of as yet ...
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Fox opens Lisbela at number one in Brazil
FoxInternational opened local language romance Lisbela And The Prisoner at number one in Brazil over the weekendon $658,000 from 245 screens.The film, forwhich Fox has Latin American rights, wasthe second biggest Brazilian film opening ever in the territory.Meanwhile Fox'sThe League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG)followed last weekend's impressive Asian bows with ...
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David Thomson gets Bessy prize at Montreal
The celebratedBritish film critic and biographer David Thomson will receive the Prix MauriceBessy at the 27th Montreal World Film Festival, which runs from Aug 27-Sept 7.Named after thelate French film writer and former Cannes Film Festival director, the awardcelebrates excellence in film writing and is handed out on an alternatingannual ...
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Leonard Schrader takes teacher residency at AFI
LeonardSchrader, who wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Kiss Of The SpiderWoman, has been namedhead of the graduate screenwriting programme at the American Film Institute(AFI) Conservatory. In his newposition as senior film-maker-in-residence: screenwriting, Schrader willoversee the AFI Conservatory's screenwriting faculty and tuition of firstand second year fellows. "We are thrilled to ...
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BVI's Pirates sails past $100m
BVI'sPirates Of The Caribbeanenjoyed another dominant weekend in the international marketplace, where amighty Russian opening and strong holdovers accounted for a $20.5m weekendsession that raised the international running total to $106.2m.The adventurefilm scored the third biggest industry opening ever in Russia, where it openednumber one on $3m from 171 screens.In ...
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T3 adds $10m for CTFDI in 52 markets
With no openingsin major territories at the weekend the sci-fi sequel Terminator 3: Rise OfThe Machines added anestimated $10m from 52 markets to raise its international running total to$236.1m.The film, whichis being handled by Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International in allterritories except Japan and Korea, looks likely to pass $260m ...
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Bruce Almighty has scored the third largest opening ever in Argentina, after The Matrix Reloaded and Spider-Man. The comedy opened on Aug 14 for the long five-day weekend where Monday was a holiday to mark the day of Saint Martin, Argentina's liberator. The comedy broke BVI's own record set by ...
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Venice opens with tasty spread
At a time when the usefulness of film festivals is becoming a topic of hot debate, Venice has a chance to blow everyone's socks off. The 60th running of the festival gets underway today with a screening of Woody Allen's Anything Else and continues with a line-up that is both ...
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The Medallion
Dir: Gordon Chan. US/HK. 2003. 90mins.The Medallion is for die-hard Jackie Chan fans only. Thankfully, for Columbia TriStar, they number in the millions so this scatter-brained action comedy, known as The Highbinders in earlier incarnations, should do respectable international trade. But prospects are bleak for even a modest North American ...
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Vivendi sale marathon moves into final lap
Vivendi Universal's board meets this afternoon in Paris to review the final bids for the company's US entertainment assets.However, insiders at Vivendi are cautious when it comes to confirming a formal decision today. "The board will either say they want to go into deeper talks with all of the remaining ...
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Sky Italia pledges to invest in Italian film
In a move that will boost the confidence of the Italian film industry, Sky Italia CEO Tom Mockridge has announced that Rupert Murdoch's new Italian pay-tv platform will invest Euros 50m each year into the Italian film industry. "Sky believes that Italian cinema is a key element of its programming ...
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Germany's Splendid posts improved figures
German licence trader Splendid Medien has posted sales revenues of Euros 20.5m for the first half of 2003, slightly up on 2002's Euros 19.8m.The provosional consolidated earnings for the first six months amounted to Euros -1.7m, an improvement on last year's result of Euros -9.6m.According to provisional figures, the most ...
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Venice festival opens with tasty spread
At a time when the usefulness of film festivals is becoming a topic of hot debate, Venice has a chance to blow everyone's socks off. The 60th running of the festival gets underway today with a screening of Woody Allen's Anything Else and continues with a line-up that is both ...
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Venice festival opens with tasty spread
At a time when the usefulness of film festivals is becoming a topic of hot debate, Venice has a chance to blow everyone's socks off. The 60th running of the festival gets underway today with a screening of Woody Allen's Anything Else and continues with a line-up that is both ...
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Distant, Reconstruction win top Fipresci prizes
Cannes prize-winners Distant (Uzak) and Reconstruction will take home the top FIPRESCI prizes from next month's Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27).Cannes grand jury and best actor prize-winner Distant, from Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan, was selected best film, while Denmark's Christoffer Boe was chosen for the best director ...