All Screen articles in 29 January 2005 – Page 5
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Italy pledges Euros 74m for local film-making
Silvio Berlusconi'sgovernment has announced that it will hand out around Euros 74m to the localproduction sector in 2005. Local producers now hope that the government promisewill finally put an end to a crippling two-year freeze in state subsidies.Around Euros 54m will beawarded to support feature-length films that are deemed of ...
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On The Outs leads Slamdance winners
A highly successful Slamdance that produced record attendance and severalmajor deals closed on Saturday (29) as LoriSilverbush and Michael Skolnik's drug drama On TheOuts won the Grand Jury SparkyAward for Best Narrative Feature and the corresponding audience award,while Jenny Abel and Jeff Hockett's hoaxer study AbelRaises Cain took the Grand ...
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LA memorial service for Jorge Gallegos this Friday
A "Celebration Of Life"memorial service will be held for Jorge Gallegos on this Friday Feb 4 at 11amat the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.Mr Gallegos died tragicallywhile on holiday in Thailand on Dec 26 as a result of the tsunami disaster.He was a veteran in theworld of independent film ...
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Eastwood raises his Oscar prospects
Clint Eastwood was votedbest director by the Directors Guild of America (DGA) at the weekend for MillionDollar Baby, strengthening his claim on next month's Academy Award.The DGA honour is a key indicator of Oscar success, with 50 out of 56recipients going on to win it since the inception of the ...
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Submarine drama triumphs at Russian Oscars
VladimirKhotinenko's 72 Metres, about a Russian submarine crew strandedbelow sea, has won the best film prize at the Golden Eagles, Russia'sequivalent of the Oscars.Theannual awards ceremony was presided over by its founder and Russian Oscarwinner, Nikita Mikhalkov.Controversially,Russian blockbuster Nightwatch failed to score a nomination in the bestfilm category. Produced by ...
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Hide And Seek discovers winning form
TwentiethCentury Fox's thriller Hide And Seekopened top at the weekend on an estimated $22m that was some way ahead of lastweekend's champion Are We There Yet', which was shunted into secondplace on $17m for $39.1m after two weekends.John Polson's picture went out on 3,005 screens and averaged $7,321 on the ...
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The Incredibles, National Treasure prosper for BVI
Buena Vista International's(BVI) The Incredibles passed $350m at the international box office atthe weekend and is expected to break into the industry's all-time top 20pantheon within a week.The Pixar hit added an estimated $4.6m for $353.3m and is currently the 22ndbiggest international release of all time, according to results issued ...
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Forty Shades Of Blue wins top prize for US drama at Sundance
IraSachs' intense drama Forty Shades Of Blue was named winner of the America Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and EugeneJarecki's Why We Fight was winnerof the American Documentary Grand Jury Prize as the Sundance Film Festivalwound down to a close on Saturday night.Meanwhilein the inaugural world competition sections, Zeze Gamboa's The ...
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Best Original Screenplay form guide
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY FRONTRUNNERS1 Woody Allen, MatchPointMaybe Allen needed a change of location to get his mojoback, since his London-set thriller about the randomness of luck is one of hisbest-reviewed in a decade. It features an amoral plot worthy of PatriciaHighsmith and one of the most delicious endings in his 35-film ...
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Sea Inside dominates Spain's Goya awards
AlejandroAmenabar's Oscar-nominated The Sea Inside dominated Spain's 19th annualGoya Awards ceremony on Sunday night, making history by winning 14 statues inthe 15 categories in which it was nominated..Sea Inside (Mar Adentro) beat the competition - includingPedro Almodovar's Bad Education (La Mala Educacion) which went homeempty-handed - in the best film ...
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Alone In The Dark
Dir: Uwe Boll. US. 2004.96mins.Feeling like a throwbackto the video quickies of the late 1980s, Alone In The Dark, from Germandirector Uwe Boll, is an amusingly cheesy screen version of the popular Atarivideo game of the same name. Economical screen versions of video game hits havesometimes worked well in the ...
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Closer nears $50m for SPRI
Closer added an estimated $10.1m on 2,353 screens in 28markets through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) at the weekend,bumping up its international cumulative total to $44.4m.Highlights were $1.6m on 330 in Australia for an unconfirmed ranking, $235,000on 27 in Holland for third place, and a $215,000 number one debut in ...
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HONG KONG 31 January
Good word-of-mouth helpedpropel Universe Entertainment's Crazy N' The City from fourth to firstposition in its second week.The US$2m action dramaleapfrogged an almost spent Kung-fu Hustle and opener Blade Trinitywith US$284,289 from 22 screens. Directed and written by James Yuen, the filmtells the story of a spineless cop who is inspired ...
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AUSTRALIA 31 January
Closer has knocked Meet The Fockers off the top ofthe chart, where UIP's in-laws comedy has reigned for the previous fiveweekends. In its opening weekend SonyPictures' Closer took A$1,609,499 from 157 screens for the four days toand including January 30, equating to a screen average of A$10,252, the highestin the ...
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FRANCE 31 January
Mike Nichols' Closeropened in the top spot this week with nearly 500,000 admissions. Japanese legend HayaoMiyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle spent its second week at number two witha now cumulative $4,668,259. The film fared well against the competition, asdid many others this week, only dropping off by 13% from the previous ...
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Hide And Seek dominates weekend with $22m debut
Twentieth Century Fox'sthriller Hide And Seek opened topat the weekend on an estimated $22m that was some way ahead of last weekend'schampion Are We There Yet', which was shunted into second place on $17m for$39.1m after two weekends.John Polson's picture went out on 3,005 screens and averaged $7,321 on the ...
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Hide And Seek dominates weekend on $22m
TwentiethCentury Fox's thriller Hide And Seekopened top at the weekend on an estimated $22m that was some way ahead of lastweekend's champion Are We There Yet', which was shunted into secondplace on $17m for $39.1m after two weekends.John Polson's picture went out on 3,005 screens and averaged $7,321 on the ...
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Japanese box office surges in 2004
The Japanese box office was worth $2.05bn (Y211bn) in2004, an increase of 3.8% over 2003, according to figures released today by TheJapan Motion Picture Producers Association (Eiren). Admissions stood at 170 million.In comparison, the US box office reached $9.4bn in 2004 on ticket sales of 1.51 billion; the UK saw ...
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Elektra passes $14m for Fox International
Fox International'sElektra grossed an estimated $5.5m on 1,721 screens at the weekend after numberone debuts in Spain and string of Asian markets raised its international cumulativetotal to $14.4m.The picture opened on $1.9mon 350 screens in Spain, while other table-topping launches saw it take$556,000 on 155 in Thailand, $462,000 on 109 ...
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Ray approaches $10m for UIP
Universal's Ray addedan estimated $3.9m on 1,050 screens in 22 markets through UIP at the weekend toraise its international running total to $9.2m.The picture opened in Australia on $860,000 on 159 and ranked third bySaturday, and opened fifth in Japan on $400,000 on 103.Spain produced $400,000 on 129 for eighth ...