All Screen articles in 29 July 2003 – Page 2
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Shaw replaces Shields as international sales chief at Full Moon/Shadow
Christopher Shaw has beennamed director of international sales at independent production company FullMoon/Shadow Entertainment following the departure of Ed Shields to launch EJSInternational.Shaw, who has held severalpositions in the company's international department, will remain at Shadow'sHollywood offices.He will work closely withcompany founder Charles Band to oversee foreign sales of the ...
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Secretary team join Pressman in Arbus biopic
Secretary director Steven Shainberg and screenwriter ErinCressida Wilson have been hired to adapt Arbus, Patricia Bosworth's acclaimed biography ofphotographer Diane Arbus, for Edward R Pressman Film Corporation, BonnieTimmermann and Vincent Farrell's Iron Films.Michael Roban, who served asexecutive producer on Secretary,will serve in the same capacity on the project along with ...
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Italian distributors contest 'inaccurate' admissions data
The Italian box office is growing at a healthy rate, says Richard Borg, the newly-appointed head of Italy's national distributors union, UNIDIM, describing as "inaccurate" previously released data showing that industry figures had dipped in the first semester of 2003.Earlier this week, Cinetel data showed that ticket sales had dipped ...
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T3 tops international releases with $19.4m
Terminator 3: Rise Of TheMachines continued its march toward$100m over the weekend, grossing a mighty $19.4m from 2,590 screens (includingJapan and Korea, where CTFDI does not have distribution) for an $85.2minternational running total in its third week.In a series of impressive number one bows in its thirdweek on release, the ...
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Wondrous Oblivion scoops top Giffoni prize
British director Paul Morrison's Wondrous Oblivion won the top Golden Gryphon prize at the Giffoni International Film Festival (19th - 26th July), one of the world's leading festivals dedicated to children and youth-oriented films.Written and directed by Morrison, who earned an Oscar nomination in 2000 for his debut feature, Solomon ...
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Hong Kong indies Go for local films
Three Hong Kong distributors - Golden Scene, Edko Films and Panorama Entertainment - and local exhibitor Newport have set up a joint venture distribution company, Go Film Distribution, which aims to specialise in locally produced films.The company - which has been set up in response to the shrinking market share ...
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Venice fest set for Italian showcase
Italian films may be the ones to profit most from the absence of big-name auteur directors that looks set to afflict the Venice festival this year.From Italy the official selection is likely to include Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers in an out of competition slot, Marco Bellocchio's Buongiorno Notte, Edoardo Winspeare's ...
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Sarajevo fest lines up world premieres
No Man's Land lead actor Branko Duric's directorial debut Sour Cream And Marmalade and Srdan Vuletic's Summer In The Golden Valley are among four world premieres confirmed for the Regional Programme of the forthcoming Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) (August 15-23).Duric's film is described as being "about a couple from the ...
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UIP strikes Croatian licence deal
United International Pictures is to distribute its films in Croatia through a new licence arrangement with Blitz Film and Video effective from August 1.UIP used to distribute in Croatia through Zagreb-based Kinematografi.Amongst the line-up of Universal, Paramount and DreamWorks films that UIP will bring to Croatian audiences through the new ...
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Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life
Dir: Jan De Bont. US. 2003. 118mins.Smarter, sexier and more stylish than its predecessor, the second film of the Tomb Raider franchise drops the video-game pretence and goes the Bond route. Dean Georgaris' screenplay gives Lara Croft more to do and more to be, and Angelina Jolie responds with a ...
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San Sebastian unveils Spanish competition premieres
Three films from high profile young Spanish directors - Iciar Bollain, Cesc Gay and Achero Manas - have been selected for the official section of this year's San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27). One other Spanish film will also screen out of competition, while at least two works by ...
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Mutt Boy (Ddong-gae)
Dir: Kwak Kyung-Taek. Korea. 2003. 101 mins.Not quite slice-of-life drama, nor exactly a coming-of-age tale, Mutt Boy is a finely-crafted, but ultimately unfulfilling, chunk-of-growing-up-in-contemporary-Korea story by one of the country's most skilled directors, KT Kwak. Though it shares elements with them, Mutt Boy is drawn on a smaller scale than ...
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Game Over wins the box office race
Dimension's Spy Kids 3D: Game Over was the clear winner in an otherwisetight top five this weekend, opening on an estimated $32.5m.The final instalment in RobertRodriguez's family espionage saga opened to mixed reviews; it finds the Cortezchildren entering a video game to thwart the maniacal Toymaker, played bySylvester Stallone.Antonio Banderas, ...
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Vivendi Universal mulls Benelux pay-TV offers
Vivendi Universal is reported to be considering two or three offers for its pay-TV operations in Benelux. But the bids are said to be considerably less than the conglomerate had hoped for and could see the break-up of the group into three separate operations.Telecoms group Telnet in association with a ...
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Tomb Raider sequel enjoys robust Asian debut
Paramount's sequel Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life may have seen disappointing results in North America over the weekend but it got off to a stronger start internationally.The action adventure title opened in four Asian territories through international distributor UIP, taking $2.3m and setting records for a Paramount ...
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Arkles buys Nemesis Game for NZ
New Zealand distributor Arkles Entertainment has acquired local rights to the UK/NZ/Canadian co-production Nemesis Game and plans to release it in October. The film has been on release for some time in the US.Nemesis Game is about a university student whose life comes under threat due to a fascination with ...
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Ster Century sells off UK exhibition circuit
Ster Century, the South African-owned UK and Ireland cinema circuit, has been sold to Aurora Holdings, a UK-based outfit whose partners include ex-Ster Century Europe managing director Mike Ross.Ross, who will now become CEO of Ster Century, would not comment on the value of the deal, which was backed by ...
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Korean summer box office heats up
South Korea's mid-summer season is proving to be quite competitive at the box-office, with four local pictures and two Hollywood films waging an intense competition for screens and viewers.Korean feature Singles currently sits atop the Seoul charts in its second week, having drawn 95,000 admissions over the two-day weekend on ...
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Studios look to consolidate summer box office takings
With upcoming international releases thin on the ground in the major territories this weekend, several films stand to consolidate their running totals.The French release of international hit Johnny English is cause for interest. The comedy, which has taken $117.3m to date internationally for UIP, was unable to repeat that success ...
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O'Connor to head HBO US theatrical releasing arm
HBO Films hascemented its theatrical ambitions with the launch of a domestic releasing armsupported by a distribution partnership with Fine Line Features, the specialtydistribution division of HBO's AOL Time Warner sister company New LineCinema.United Artistsmarketing chief Dennis O'Connor has been brought in to head up the newunit - called HBO ...