All Screen articles in 29 August 2003 – Page 3
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Phone Booth opens third in France for Fox
Fox International's thriller Phone Booth opened in third place in France at theweekend, grossing $1.8m from 276 screens.The decent bow raised the film's international cumulative score to$41.9m.Elsewhere the romantic comedy Down With Love opened fourth in Mexico on $288,000 on150 screens, raising its international running total to $2.5m.Overall the film ...
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NORTH AMERICA
The 2003 summer season ended in grand style over the long Labor Day weekend as Jeepers Creepers 2 set a record for the holiday weekend and four films passed $100m to raise to a record 14 the number of titles that have reached the milestone this season.The new arrivals at ...
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Altman confirms he will be Toronto Maverick
Robert Altman has confirmedhis participation in the Maverick programme, part of the events taking place atthe Toronto International Film Festival's Rogers Industry Centre (RIC). Among the array ofindustry-focused events are panel discussions on current issues facing theindustry, personality interviews with innovators such as Altman and seminars onissues ranging from how ...
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Altman confirms he will be Toronto Maverick
Robert Altman has confirmedhis participation in the Maverick programme, part of the events taking place atthe Toronto International Film Festival's Rogers Industry Centre (RIC). Among the array ofindustry-focused events are panel discussions on current issues facing theindustry, personality interviews with innovators such as Altman and seminars onissues ranging from how ...
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Alliance Atlantis spins off distribution businesses
Toronto-based Alliance Atlantis Communications has announced itsintention to spin-off its Canadian and UK distribution businesses into a so-calledincome fund. Through an initial public offering, the fund will indirectlyacquire a non-controlling interest in a new entity, Motion Picture DistributionLimited Partnership, which will then acquire the business conducted by AllianceAtlantis Motion Picture ...
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Spain's Sogepaq scores Football Days, Torremolinos 73
Spain's Sogepaq has acquired international rights to two high-profile third-party films: much-anticipated new release Football Days (Dias De Futbol) and four-time Malaga winner Torremolinos 73.The deal links the Sogecable group's Sogepaq to successful indie producer Telespan 2000, the co-producer with broadcaster Telecinco's film arm Estudios Picasso of both films as ...
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UK production update - Sept 3
UK - September 3PRE-PRODUCTIONA WAY THROUGH THE WOODS(Celador Films) Backer: Complete Communications. Anne shares a seemingly perfect marriage to James, until the arrival of Bill, and a tragic accident in their idyllic country village looks set to unravel their lives forever. Exec prod: Paul Smith. Prod: Christian Colson, Steve Clark-Hall. ...
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Berlin festival sets first titles for 2004
Mexican docu-fiction Digna Oaxa is the first film to have been selected for inclusion in next year's Berlin festival (5-15 February 2004). Festival director Dieter Kosslick said that he will include the film in the official line-up, though precise placement remains currently undetermined. Kosslick said that he has also already ...
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Universal's The Hulk breaks $100m barrier
Universal's The Hulk became the 15th film to pass $100m at the international boxoffice this year with a $3.1m weekend gross powered by a mighty number oneItalian bow.Released through UIP, the film took $2.8m from 255 sites in Italyfor Universal's and UIP's biggest opening weekend of the year in the ...
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The Return and Zatoichi light-up Venice
Two films in the Venice competition have been logging strong buyer interest and notching sales even before their world premieres later this week. Russian first film The Return by directed by Andrey Zvyagantsev, has added deals with France's Ocean Films and The Netherlands' Contact Films to previous licence agreeements signed ...
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Italian job for Spain's Family
In what is set to become the second Spanish film to get an Italian make-over, Lucky Red's Andrea Occhipinti has acquired Italian remake rights to Fernando Leon's comedy Family (Familia).The Mondays In The Sun director's 1996 movie, Family, tells the story of a lonely man who hires professional actors to ...
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Miramax is top priority says new Lauren chief
Spanish distributor-exhibitor Lauren Films has appointed Francesc Guardans as its new CEO to run the day-to-day operations of the company, whose financial difficulties have led to takeover talks in recent months.Guardans' most pressing task will be to ask for time and support from creditors, banks and suppliers - including Miramax, ...
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EU calls for co-ordination not cash
Better co-ordination of the public money available to European film, rather than a need for more cash, was one of the main conclusions to emerge from a four-day meeting that concluded in Venice this weekend.The other major policy proposal was for Europe's television broadcasters to make air-time available for promotion ...
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MPAA brings first UK lawsuit
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) widened its fight against movie pirates yesterday by mounting its first legal action in the English High Court against DVD copying firm 321 Studios.The MPAA, which has been involved in a series of legal claims and couter claims against 321 Studios in the ...
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RAI bags hot US trio
Italy's Rai Cinema has pre-bought Italian distribution rights to a trio of hotly anticipated US pictures: Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, Lakeshore's upcoming Philip Roth adaptation, American Pastoral, and Miramax's major new Jennifer Lopez vehicle, Shall We Dance.Sold by Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) and written by John Logan, The Aviator follows ...
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MIFED announces market premieres
MIFED has announced that its 70th edition, which runs from November 9 - 13, will screen the market premieres of a host of highly-anticipated films, including Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, Infernal Affairs 2, and Robert Altman's The Company. Also receiving a market screening in MIFED are Venice and Toronto titles ...
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Zatoichi
Dir. Takeshi Kitano. Japan, 2003. 116 min.A rousing, energetic take-off on a 19th century samurai tale which has become part of Japanese folklore, this black comedy, spurting fountains of digital blood and moving forward relentlessly at a fiery tempo, is a surprisingly entertaining departure for Takeshi Kitano from his dark ...
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Zatoichi
Dir. Takeshi Kitano. Japan, 2003. 116 min.A rousing, energetic take-off on a 19th century samurai tale which has become part of Japanese folklore, this black comedy, spurting fountains of digital blood and moving forward relentlessly at a fiery tempo, is a surprisingly entertaining departure for Takeshi Kitano from his dark ...
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UK/IRELAND
Limited releases were the toast of the UK/Ireland box office this week with releases in London's West End and the Republic Of Ireland scoring the best averages of the weekend.Pathe's Cypher, a sci-fi thriller from Vincenco Natali (director of 1997 cult-film Cube), opened at just seven screens in London's West ...
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SWITZERLAND
With cold, wet weather arriving at the weekend in Switzerland box office was up 61.7% in the territory, thanks to a massive 99% week-on-week rise in the German-speaking region of the country.Playing especially well in its second weekend in the German-region was Gabriele Muccino's drama Ricordati Di Me. The Italian ...