All Screen articles in 28 October 2003 – Page 2
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SPAIN
The Coen brothers' Intolerable Cruelty had a strong but far from record-breaking opening in Spain, earning Euros 1.6m off 235 copies through UIP, enough to place it in top spot. Columbia's Hollywood Homicide placed second, with just shy of Euros 1m off 275 prints.Other first-weekend openers included: Clint Eastwood's Mystic ...
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NEW ZEALAND
New openers had a boost in New Zealand last weekend as Monday (Oct 27) was a public holiday providing an extra day for films to tally figures (the chart covers the normal four-day Thurs-Sun period). After a strong performance on previews the weekend before, Columbia TriStar's S.W.A.T. recorded a mighty ...
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ITALY
New 01 Distribution title Caterina Va In Citta was the highest grossing Italian film of the weekend at the local box office, where it beat stiff competition from Ermanno Olmi's highly anticipated pirate epic Singing Behind The Screens.Paolo Virzi's comedy, about a 13-year-old girl who moves to a big city ...
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WBITD restructures Euro sales operation
Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) has restructured some of its European sales operations.Mickie Steinmann, who currently serves as sales director for Scandinavia, Benelux, Finland, Greece and Cyprus, is being promoted to vice president, sales, and will continue to handle Scandinavia, Benelux and Finland while adding Israel and pan regional ...
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Elf
Dir: Jon Favreau. US. 2003. 97 mins. Elf is a Christmas comedy that's as sweet-natured and goofily amusing as its title character, a gangly innocent played, in his first solo-starring role, by in demand former Saturday Night Live funny man Will Ferrell. Looking to get a jump on the extended ...
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Mouth To Mouth rolls with Egoyan as exec producer
Atom Egoyan is acting as executive producer on Mouth To Mouth, the feature film directorial debut of Alison Murray.A turbulent story about a young girl's search for a place to belong, Mouth To Mouth marks the first co-production between producers M2M Films and Egoli Tossell. Producer Anne Beresford is behind ...
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Dutch Film Fund names de Vries as film supervisor
Actor, director and writer Edwin de Vries has been appointed by the Dutch Film Fund as its new film supervisor, playing a major role in advising and developing commercial film projects. He succeeds director Jean van de Velde and producer Burny Bos.De Vries is best known in the Dutch film ...
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Romand-Monnier joins France's Cinematheque
Michel Romand-Monnier has been named deputy managing director of Cinematheque, France's national film archives. The move follows the nomination of Claude Berri to the presidency of Cinematheque earlier this month.Romand-Monnier will take up his duties on November 3.With a long career encompassing communications and the film industry, the 49 year ...
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Juarez joins Spain's Intuition as production chief
Ele Juarez's Madrid and Miami based consultancy Intuition Media has appointed Patrick Juarez as managing director of feature film and documentary production arm Intuition Films.Juarez will oversee the selection and production of projects for the newly opened division, which aims to make one or two films per year possibly ...
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FIPRESCI to award prize at Geneva's Cinema Tout Ecran
The international critics federation FIPRESCI will award a prize for the first time this year at Geneva's Cinema Tout Ecran's Festival (November 3-9).The festival's International Competition of 13 films from 12 countries will include world premieres of Pu Sheng's The Pure Land (Jing Tu) and Emmanuel Bourdieu's Cadets De Gascogne ...
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NORTH AMERICA
Scary Movie 3 was the talk of the town last weekend following its exuberant $48.1m number one opening, trailing several records and a timely lesson in how to revive a franchise in its wake.The horror spoof scored the biggest ever October opening (overtaking Red Dragon's $36.5m in 2002) and was ...
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Universal taps into Hannover Leasing fund
Hannover Leasing, financier of two parts of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, is set to board The Bourne Supremacy, Universal Studios' sequel to its box-office success The Bourne Identity.Backing for the film is earmarked to come from Hannover's new media fund, Montranus Beteiligungs GmbH & Co Verwaltungs KG, worth ...
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Dreyfuss gets on Kumar's Road To Ladakh
Actor Richard Dreyfuss production outfit Dreyfuss/James Prods. has pacted with Indian born writer-director Ashvin Kumar to turn his short film Road To Ladakh into a feature film. Judith James of Dreyfuss/James Prods, who discovered the film at the Cannes Film Festival this year, will now co-produce the film with Ashvin ...
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US films dominate French video market
The French video market is more heavily dominated by US films than France's theatrical market. A new study published by the Centre National de la Cinematographie (CNC) shows that Hollywood films accounted for 74% of gross receipts between 1996-2001 in the video sector, compared with a 57% market share of ...
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Odyssey pacts with Polone in two title deal
US agent-turned-producer Gavin Polone, whose credits include Panic Room, has struck a two title deal with Ralph Kamp and Louise Goodsill's sales agent Odyssey Entertainment.The UK-based seller has taken international rights to upcoming production Old Man Johnson and completed film Seeing Other People, both from Polone's production company, Pariah. "We ...
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Polish broadcaster beefs up film spend
Polish public broadcaster TVP has vowed to increase its funding for the beleaguered Polish film industry amid signs that the crisis faced by producers over the last two years is beginning wane. TVP has been one of the major backers of Polish films throughout the 1990's, investing in nearly 90 ...
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USA comes under scrutiny at Amsterdam
25 documentaries on the state of the USA - tackling topics such as the aftermath of September 11, the impact of US led globalisation and militant American organisations - will form the backbone of a USA Today programme at this year's International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam.The documentaries include: New Americans ...
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Mason joins Channel 4's commercial arm
Graeme Mason, former UK-based president of acquisitions at Universal Studios, has been appointed to the newly-created role of head of media projects for 4 Ventures, the commercial arm of UK broadcaster Channel 4.Mason, who has been working as a consultant for Channel 4, is focusing on identifying programming ideas that ...
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UK/IRELAND
Despite being listed in a recent UK poll of the top 100 books of all time, the film adaptation of Louis Sachar's best selling children's title Holes made little impact on the UK/Ireland box office.Two new family films launched wide at the weekend to take advantage of the national school ...
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Sin Ton Ni Sonia
Dir. Carlos Sama. Mexico, 2003. 112 min.A real script and a tough editor would have done a world of good for this messy little comedy rushing all over Mexico City in its despondent attempts to cover three plots, a host of characters and several film genres at the same time. ...