All Screen articles in 27 January 2005 – Page 4
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Sea Inside takes top Bangkok festival honours
AlejandroAmenabar's The Sea Inside won theGolden Kinnaree for best picture as well as best actor for Javier Bardem's roleas a quadriplegic at the third Bangkok International Film Festival. TheGolden Kinnaree for best director was shared by Park Chan Wook for Old Boy and Christophe Barratier for Les Choristes while Annette ...
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PGA goes for Aviator as the year's best film
Michael Mann and Graham King won the DarrylF Zanuck Producer of the Year award for The Aviator at the 16th Annual PGA Awards hosted by Intel in LosAngeles on Jan 22.Innon-theatrical honours: Mike Nichols, Cary Brokaw, Celia Costas and Mike Haleywon the David L Wolper long-form television award for Angels ...
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Italy's Nastri d'Argento nominations announced
Gianni Amelio's The HouseKeys and Paolo Sorrentino's The Consequences Of Love have receivedthe lion's share of nominations for Italy's Nastri d'Argento, the country'ssecond biggest awards.Amelio's film, which isItaly's foreign Oscar candidate, and Sorrentino's film, which premiered inCannes last year, each earned eight nominations - including for best director,best producer and ...
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The Incredibles passes $600m at global box office
Buena Vista International's(BVI) The Incredibles became onlythe 25th picture to pass $600m in global ticket sales at the weekendfollowing a $5.2m international weekend gross that raised its internationalrunning total to $343m.National Treasure added $6.1m for $128.5m, fired up by number onedebuts in Malaysia and Argentina that yielded $289,000 and $239,000respectively.BVI ...
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40th Solothurn film festival kicks off
The 40th editionof Switzerland's Solothurn film festival kicks off today with a screening ofClemens Klopfenstein's The Bird's Sermon Or The Screaming Of Monks (DieVogelpredigt Oder Das Schreien Der Moenche), featuring former Bond-girl UrsulaAndress in a supporting role.A total 180 new Swissproductions will be shown in the course of the event.In ...
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Elektra takes $4.5m for Fox International
Fox International's Elektra grossed an estimated $4.5m on 1,207 screens in six territories at theweekend, raising its international running total to $6.8m.The comic book adaptation opened in fifth place in the UKon $1.5m on 330, second in Mexico on $893,000 on 350, fourth in South Korea on$715,000 on 81, first ...
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AUSTRALIA 24 January
Roadshow sent Alexanderin to battle for the hearts and minds of Australians but UIP's Meet TheFockers remained the most popular film at the box office for the fifthconsecutive weekend. It grossed A$1,762,667 from 290 screens compared to theA$1,667,851 clocked up by Alexander, which had the disadvantage of beingon about 100 ...
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NEW ZEALAND 24 January
Alexander lead the box office on the weekend taking NZ$279,198from 46 screens in its opening weekend. Only Finding Neverland, whichtook NZ$187,540 from 34 screens in its second weekend for BVI, had a screenaverage that was anything like as high as Alexander's NZ$6,070. FindingNeverland, which is in fourth position, had a ...
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V good Bridget passes $200m at international box office
Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason passed $200m in international ticket sales throughall distributors at the weekend.The romantic comedy sequel added an estimated $2.5m on 1,070 screens in 21markets through UIP for a $184.5m UIP running total. The figure rises to $210mincluding a $15.5m cumulative total in France through Mars.Bridget ...
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Are We There Yet' defies bad weather to open top on $18.5m
Columbia/Revolution'sAre We There Yet'opened top on an estimated $18.5m at the weekend, dominating a three-day periodthat was blighted by massive blizzards across northeastern America.BrianLevant's poorly reviewed romantic comedy starring Ice Cube And Nia Longaveraged $6,829 on 2,709 screens and knocked Paramount's drama Coach Carter into second place on$11m for $43.2m ...
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Are We There Yet' defies bad weather to open top on $18.5m
Columbia/Revolution'sAre We There Yet'opened top on an estimated $18.5m at the weekend, dominating a three-day periodthat was blighted by massive blizzards across northeastern America. BrianLevant's poorly reviewed romantic comedy starring Ice Cube And Nia Longaveraged $6,829 on 2,709 screens and knocked Paramount's drama Coach Carter into second place on$11m for ...
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Are We There Yet' defies blizzards to open top on $18.5m
Columbia/Revolution'sAre We There Yet'opened top on an estimated $18.5m at the weekend, dominating a three-day periodthat was blighted by massive blizzards across northeastern America.BrianLevant's poorly reviewed romantic comedy starring Ice Cube And Nia Longaveraged $6,829 on 2,709 screens and knocked Paramount's drama Coach Carter into second place on$11m for $43.2m ...
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Inside Deep Throat
Dirs/scrs: Fenton Bailey,Randy Barbato. US. 2004. 90mins It has been thirty-threeyears since Deep Throat first went down on one of Time Square's triple-Xfleapits in Manhattan and came up a pop-cultural landmark that reverberates tothis day. The lasting impact, both personal and societal, of this seminal pornflick is now chronicled in ...
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Happy Endings
Dir/scr. Don Roos. US. 2004. 128mins A full seven years since making a splash at Sundance as a filmmaking debutant, Don Roos returns to Park City with this year's opening night attraction. Happy Endings, his third directorial outing, promises a benign beginning to the Park City festivities, if only because ...
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Buyers hit Paris for weekend Rendez-Vous
The 7th annualFrench Film Rendez-Vous opens today (Jan 21) with 350 foreign distributors and110 foreign journalists making the trek to Paris to get a taste of forthcomingFrench films.Organised by French export body Unifrance, the event runs until Mondayand is an intimate gathering where buyers are treated to screenings and meetand ...
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Spanish get busy with winter market deals
Spanish companies are busy setting up business deals on theeve of the first winter festivals and markets in Sundance and Berlin.Spanishsales consortium Grupo Pi has picked up international rights on directorMariano Barroso's Ants In The Mouth (Hormigas En La Boca), a romanticthriller set in 1958 Cuba and starring Ariadna Gil, ...
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Anti-piracy raids across Asia seize 6m pirate discs
Police forces across 12Asian countries this week completed a total of 876 raids, resulting in 277arrests and the seizure of 5.9 million pirate discs, according to the MotionPicture Association (MPA).As part of an extendedcampaign, 'Operation Eradicate', launched in December 2004, the initiative cameto a close this week with law enforcement ...
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Unconscious (Inconscientes)
Dir: Joaquin Oristrell.Sp-Port-Ger-It. 108mins.Spain's Joaquin Oristrelltakes time off from contemporary urban dramas and, with Unconscious,delivers an attractive and witty mystery comedy that maintains its screwballenergy throughout.Although the elements ofperiod comedy, an unappealing title and foreign language might deter somebuyers from looking deeper into this delightful Sherlock Holmes-Meets-Freudpiece, distributors and festivals ...
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Golden Scene takes on sales for Kwan's Regret
Hong Kong distribution company Golden Scene has picked upinternational sales rights to Stanley Kwan Kam Pang's forthcoming Chang HenGe (which translates literally as Everlasting Regret).The film is based on a prize winning novel and wasadapted by Elmond Yeung and Jiang Liping.Production design is by William Chang. Starring Sammi Cheng, Tony ...
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The Sundance gamble
Coinciding as it does withthe western New Year, the Sundance Film Festival has always found itself in afortuitous slot. This event kick-starts the industry calendar like no other.Those who flock to Park City do so with that January zeal for renewal; whetherthey are distributors, agents or critics, they all feel ...