All Screen articles in 27 January 2004 – Page 5
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Chomet, Resnais share Golden Star
The French awards season got underway on Monday with the Etoiles d'Or conferred by local film journalists. In a tie, best picture went to Sylvain Chomet's Les Triplettes De Belleville and Alain Resnais' Pas Sur La Bouche.Chomet's film, which has picked up critics' awards in the States from such diverse ...
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Spirit of Bruce Lee conquers Korean box office
A 1970s-set film about high school violence has taken hold of the South Korean box-office, drawing 800,000 admissions ($4.5m) on 270 screens in its first three days.Spirits Of Jeet Kune Do: Once Upon A Time In High School, the film by poet-director Yu Ha (Marriage Is A Crazy Thing) portrays ...
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Berlinale unveils Forum of New Cinema
More than half of the programme of this year's International Forum of New Cinema are world premieres, and particular attention is being paid to little-known filmmaking countries like South Africa and Thailand.As the Berlinale is casting a spotlight on South Africa this year, the Forum will be featuring a series ...
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32 projects head for Berlinale co-production market
New projects by Daniel Burman (Raquel Liberman), Alexander Sokurov (The Sun), Robert Glinski (Unkenrufe), Goran Paskaljevic (Lost In The Stars), Susanne Bier (Simon) and Pang Ho Cheung (Waiting For Nike) are among 32 projects chosen from 230 entries to be presented in the Berlinale's first Co-Production Market.The first edition Market ...
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Skyy Vodka names finalists in contest to shoot short in 72 hours
Ian Harrington, Chris Lopataand Abdallah Omeish have been named as finalists in the inaugural Skyy Short FilmProject: One Script, Three Different Film-makers, Three Very Different Films toshoot in New York City this spring.The trio beat off pitchesfrom hundreds of aspiring film-makers following the event's launch at Sundancelast year and must ...
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Nemo takes another $7.3m for BVI, poised to cross $500m
Finding Nemo is closing in on $500m at the international boxoffice following a $7.3m weekend haul in all its territories that raised thefilm's running total to $496.4m.Executives at Buena VistaInternational expect the smash hit to pass the half-billion mark by Saturday(24).Elsewhere for BVI, BrotherBear continued its impressive runwith a record-breaking ...
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UK/IRELAND
The UK truly came down with Scarlett fever this week. Not only did Monday morning BAFTA nomination announcements reveal that actress Scarlett Johansson had secured two of the five nominations in the best actress category but the two films she was nominated for were doing stellar UK business over the ...
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Kosslick mixes it up with wide ranging selection
The 26 films in Berlinale chief Dieter Kosslick's Competition line-up are, he acknowledges, "quite a different mix".But, he says, political issues run like a central theme through many of the Competition line-up films - but love, relationships, passion and unrequited love are also topics.Kosslick also argues that the Competition "has ...
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JAPAN
The Last Samurai and Finding Nemo continue to dominate the Japanese box office in their sixth week on release. Warner Japan, which was originally expecting the Tom Cruise samurai drama to finish with Y10 billion ($93m), has now upped its projection to Y13 billion ($121m). Meanwhile, Buena Vista is now ...
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The Return wins FIPRESCI honours at Palm Springs
AndreiZvyagintsev's drama The Return was named best foreign language film by the FIPRESCI panelof international critics at the closing ceremony of the record-breaking 15th Palm Springs InternationalFilm Festival on Sunday(19).In other awards,the John Schlesinger Award for Outstanding First Feature or Documentary went to Yann Samuell'sFrench Film Gala love story, Love ...
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The Return wins FIPRESCI honours at Palm Springs
AndreiZvyagintsev's drama The Return was named best foreign language film by the FIPRESCI panelof international critics at the closing night ceremony of a record-breaking15th Palm Springs International Film Festival on Sunday (19).The JohnSchlesinger Award for Outstanding First Feature or Documentary went to YannSamuell's French Film Gala love story, Love Me ...
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New Films Int'l trades for Merchant Of Venice
New Films International (NFI)has acquired Michael RadfordC;s The Merchant Of Venice for distribution across Latin America, EasternEurope, Turkey and the Baltic States, in a deal struck with Arclight FilmsThe $30m Shakespeareadaptation, which stars Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Lynn Collins, is currentlyin production in Luxembourg and scheduled for release in ...
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New Films Int'l trades for Merchant Of Venice
New Films International (NFI)has acquired Michael Radford's The Merchant Of Venice for distribution across Latin America, EasternEurope, Turkey and the Baltic States, in a deal struck with Arclight FilmsThe $30m Shakespeareadaptation, which stars Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Lynn Collins, is currentlyin production in Luxembourg and scheduled for release in ...
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York Entertainment picks up Lexie, Evicted
Los Angeles-based production and distribution outfit York Entertainment has picked up two titles for home video distribution in the second quarter.Lexie is scheduled for release on Apr 20 and centres on the intrigue that surrounds a music producer's efforts to get back in the game. It stars Cindy Herron Braggs, ...
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Easy
Dir. Jane Weinstock. US. 2003. 95mins.Despite a premiere at Toronto last autumn, followed by a competition slot at Sundance this month, Easy would do best to stay aware from the glare of film festivals. Given the right treatment, this romantic romp might land some deals, especially in secondary markets. But ...
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IFM picks up Deadly Deceit
AntonyGinnane and Ann Lyons' US-Australian international film and television salescompany IFM World Releasing has picked up world distribution rights to ChrisPhilpott's thriller Deadly Deceit,which will premiere at the American Film Market next month in Santa Monica.Billed as an updatedmorality tale, Deadly Deceitcentres on a bet by a handsome stranger that ...
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Latter Days sparks TLA, Madstone war of words
A war of words has erupted between TLA Releasing and Madstone Theatres after the exhibitor cancelled the upcoming Salt Lake City run of C Jay Cox's directorial debut Latter Days, which deals in part with the life of a gay Mormon missionary.TLA Releasing lambasted the move at a Sundance press ...
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Stork Day (E Gia Ieri)
Dir: Giulio Manfredonia. Italy/Spain/UK. 2004. 94 mins.Why would anyone want to remake a film as unique as Groundhog Day' The only original thing about this bland, inoffensive attempt to do just that is the fact that it is a European remake of an American film. Producer Riccardo Tozzi's claim that ...
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The Butterfly Effect
Dir: Eric Bress & J Mackye Gruber. US. 2004. 113mins.This efficient if wildly elaborate supernatural thriller, which world premiered at Sundance this week and opens through New Line on Jan 23, should be a moderate-to-strong moneyspinner for the studio which has become the home for smart, low-budget youth-oriented horror like ...