All Screen articles in 27 January 2004 – Page 3
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The Butterfly Effect opens top for New Line on $17.1m
New Line's thriller TheButterfly Effect opened top at the weekend on an estimated $17.1m, provingstar Ashton Kutcher has the chops for more serious acting away from the comedyroles and his former incarnation as a professional prankster.Kutcher plays a man with theability to travel through time who uses his power to ...
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Swiss tune in to Jagged Harmonies
Dominique de Rivaz's Jagged Harmonies - Bach vs Frederick II (Mein Name Ist Bach) has won the top award at the Swiss Film Prize 2004.Sold internationally by Bavaria Film International, de Rivaz's feature debut won in the best film category. It had its world premiere at last August's Locarno International ...
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Mexican stand-off as Guadalajara faces up to rival festival
Mexico is poised to have two major film festivals slated just a month apart.The 19-year old Guadalajara Mexican and Iberoamerican Film Showcase (March 19 to 25) could get upstaged by a new film event in Mexico City to run from February 19 to 29.Dubbed the Mexico City International Contemporary Film ...
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Gothenburg emerges into Cold Light with record sales
When Sweden's leading film event, the Gothenburg Film Festival, opened its box office earlier this month, business was brisk. It sold a record 30,000 tickets on its first day - including all the tickets to opening film Cold Light by Hilmar Oddsson as well as several other screenings.Not a bad ...
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France Television slashes film sales arm
France Television Distribution Cinema, the film sales and acquisitions arm of public broadcaster France Television, is to cease its international sales activities in the coming weeks according to sources close to the situation.France Television Distribution currently has two sales teams, one for TV and one for film. The film team ...
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Nemo to swim past $500m barrier
Buena Vista International (BVI) executives are saying Finding Nemo should pass $500m at the international box office by Friday (Jan 23) after last weekend's $7.3m haul raised its total to $496.9m.The animated hit had a chance of reaching the half-billion milestone last weekend but ultimately it was New Line International's ...
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The Woodsman
Dir: Nicole Kassel. US. 2004. 85mins.As Capturing The Friedmans made abundantly clear, there is no crime more heinous in the public imagination than paedophilia. So a dramatic feature that has a paedophile as its protagonist would seem to be engaging in taboo for taboo's sake. Which is why The Woodsman, ...
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Super Size Me!
Dir: Morgan Spurlock. US. 2003. 98 minsSundance buyers were drawn to this highly entertaining documentary like kids to candy and Big Macs for good reason: director Morgan Spurlock does to McDonalds fast food what Michael Moore did to both General Motors and the National Rifle Association in his canonical documentary ...
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Woodsman, September Tapes score Sundance sales
One of the Sundance FilmFestival's most acclaimed competition entries this year - Nicole Kassell's TheWoodsman - was sold yesterday toNewmarket Films for North America for a figure in the $1.2m range.The deal, closed yesterdayafternoon, was the end of a bidding war between six buyers for thecontroversial title which tells the ...
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Napoleon Dynamite
Dir: Jared Hess. US. 2004. 86mins.Napoleon Dynamite, which was met in Park City by raucous cheers and bursts of unsuppressed chuckling, is exactly the kind of off-beat comedy that delights otherwise earnest festivals such as Sundance. Within hours of its first screening, word on this occasionally-inspired portrait of Loserville, Idaho, ...
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LA manager D'Andrea joins Edmonds Entertainment
LA-based manager/producerAlex D'Andrea has joined Edmonds Management, bringing with him a client rosterthat includes Stephen Baldwin, Jacob Young (who appears in the upcoming featureThe Girl Next Door) and director Gillies Mackinnon (Hideous Kinky).D'Andrea most recentlyserved with ADA Entertainment and prior to that was a manager at Seven SummitsPictures and Management, ...
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Russia's Cinema Park opens its first multiplex in Moscow
Cinema Park, the verticallyintegrated Russian production, distribution and exhibition outfit, got its ambitious two-year theatreexpansion underway yesterday (22) with the opening of a nine-screen Moscowmultiplex.More than 600 peopleattended the opening of Cinema Park at Kaluzhskaya, which coincided with therelease of The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King.The ...
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Godard loses copyright case in Paris court
Paris' high court has ruled against filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard for copyright infringement in his 1987 film King Lear.According to Agence France Presse, author Viviane Forrester brought the suit claiming Godard had used a text from her book La Violence Du Calme that was recited in the film without her authorisation.Godard ...
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Cabin Fever's Roth steps into The Box for Camelot
Following the acquisition of its Sundance hit Garden State, Camelot Pictures is to finance and produce The Box, a psychological thriller written by Richard Kelly (Donny Darko) and Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) that Roth is set to direct.Kelly and Sean McKittrick's fledgling Darko Entertainment will produce with Camelot founders Gary ...
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High Point takes over Irish Dead Bodies sales
World sales outfit High Point Films, has taken on international sales on Irish thriller Dead Bodies.Produced by Dublin based Distinguished Features, headed by David McLoughlin and Clare Scully, Dead Bodies is directed by Robert Quinn and stars Andrew Scott as a young slacker whose world is turned suddenly upside down ...
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Hungarian critics name Pleasant Days as best film
The Hungarian Film Critics association has named director Kornel Mundruczo's festival favorite Pleasant Days as the best Hungarian production of 2003.Producer Viktoria Petranyi accepted the B. Nagy Laszlo prize for Mundruczo who is currently abroad developing his next feature, Delta.Benedek Fliegauf's Oscar submitted Forest received the best first film award.The ...
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Berlin's Panorama unveils complete line-up
Berlin's Panorama section has unveiled its full line-up across its main programme and the Special, Dokumente and Short Films strands.The line-up comprises 34 features, 16 documentaries and 26 short films. The films are from 32 countries and include twelve directing debuts and 14 films which are to be digitally projected, ...
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Thirty projects set for debut Talent Project Market at Berlin
Feature films from 23 countries as far flung as the Philippines, Zimbabwe, Bolivia, Iceland, Ukraine and Hong Kong are among the 30 projects selected for the first Talent Project Market at next month's Berlinale Talent Campus.The Talent Projects were picked from 256 entries by an international jury comprising the Berlinale ...
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Doolan joins Irish Arts Council as film specialist
The Irish Arts Council has appointed Jane Doolan to the new part time consulting role of Film Specialist. She will be responsible for developmental work and for providing policy advice to the Arts Council on film.The Arts Council is a major source of funding in Ireland for cultural organisations such ...