All Screen articles in 29 July 2004 – Page 2
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UK/IRELAND 28 July
The advertising may announce that Thunderbirds Are Go! butthe box office results suggest they aren't going very far.In need of its own international rescue, Jonathan Frakes'film grossed a so-so $2.5m (£1.35m) over its opening weekend includingpreviews. Without the previous weekend previews, which represented $0.5m(£0.29m) of the total takings, the actual ...
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SWEDEN 28 July
The newrelease of Jerry Bruckheimer's KingArthur, which stars Hollywood's favorite Swede Stellan Skarsgaard as thevillain, easily cut into the top spot on the Swedish chart this weekend. With astrong $6,643 screen average on its 95 prints, Arthur dethroned Spider-Man 2 after three weeks at the top.Meanwhilelocal newcomer Anette Winblad's coolly ...
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INTERNATIONAL 28 July
Stellar openings in three territories saw interstellar spoofcomedy (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1gain second place on the international chart - the highest placing anon-Hollywood film has achieved since Screen International launched itsexclusive international chart at the end of March this year.Going out through Constantin Film in Germany and Austria thelatest ...
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ITALY 28 July
Another slow mid-summer weekend at the Italian box officesaw just two new releases: Mediafilm's House Of The Dead and IstitutoLuce's A Good Lawyer's Wife.Dead opened on 99screens at number three but failed to toppleeither The StepfordWives or Timeline. The picturegrossed $231,601, scoring a solid average of $2,339 per screen.Istituto Luce ...
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Top Korean directors launch production outfit
Nineof Korea's top directors including Park Chan-wook (Old Boy) and BongJoon-ho (Memories Of Murder) have established a new film companyto finance the cost of developing future projects.NineDirectors, Ltd. is being launched with individual contributions from eachdirector, and will provide filmmakers with the freedom to plan and write thescreenplay for new ...
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Sarajevo festival confirms first competition contenders
The world premiere of Zornitza Sophia's MilaFrom Mars (Bulgaria) and international premieres of Arsen Ostojic's AWonderful Night In Split (Croatia) and Ljubisa Samardzic's Goose Feather(Serbia & Montenegro) are among the first titles confirmed for the SarajevoFilm Festival's Regional Programme competitionOther films lined up include the Europeanpremiere of Silvije Petranovic's Society ...
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Spyglass to co-finance Geisha, Zorro with Sony
SpyglassEntertainment, which has a first-look, non-exclusive production agreement withColumbia Pictures, will co-finance the eagerly awaited Memoirs Of A Geisha and action sequel The Legend Of Zorro.Spyglass holds all international rights to bothpictures and Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) willdistribute in select markets for Spyglass. Both films are scheduled for ...
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Courtney Valenti promoted to evp, production, at Warner Bros
Courtenay Valenti (pictured) has been promoted to executive vice president ofproduction at Warner Bros.Valenti joined the studio in 1989 as a creative executive and roseto vice president of production two years later, eventually moving up to seniorvice president of production in 1996.She has overseen the development and production of such ...
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Kessler tipped to quit France's CNC in autumn
The French press is awashwith rumours that David Kessler, president of film support body the CNC, is tostep down this autumn to be replaced by Catherine Colonna, the spokesperson forthe Elysee Palace - France's equivalent to the White House.Asked by ScreenDaily.comif the speculative reports in Le Film Francais, Le Monde ...
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Spelling sells ahead of Locarno world premiere
Paris-based sales agent Funny Balloons hasclosed its first deals on Jean-Jacques Zilbermann's Bad Spelling (LesFautes D'Orthographe) ahead of its world premiere as Locarno InternationalFilm Festival's opening film on the Piazza Grande on August 4.The coming of age story set in the 1960s,starring Carole Bouquet, Olivier Gourmet and rising star Damien ...
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I, Robot has powerful $3.3m opening in Australia
Fox International's sci-fithriller I, Robot continued its100% number one opening record at the weekend as a major bow in Australia drove$5.5m in ticket sales from 916 screens in nine territories.I, Robot opened on $3.3m on 346 screens Down Under for thedistributor's seventh biggest ever opening there, while Singapore produced$538,000 on ...
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Police question Taxi 2 director Krawczyk
The director of Taxi2, GerardKrawczyk, was put under police examination last week for involuntarymanslaughter following the lethal accident causing the death of a cameraman onAugust 16, 1999 during the shooting of the film produced by Luc Besson, accordingto judiciary sources.Alain Dutartre,41, died from head injuries hours after a Peugeout 406 ...
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Tarantino, Dante to be Venice 'godfathers'
Venice has announced that Quentin Tarantino and Joe Dantewill be on the Lido for the duration of the festival as "godfathers"of the festival's "Italian Kings of the B Movies" retrospective.The sidebar will screen 20-25 restored Italian genre movies,which will then be distributed after the festival both on DVD and in ...
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Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
Dir: Danny Leiner.USA 2004. 87 min.There's something sweet, almost childlike about a filmthat equates freedom and the American dream with a fast-food hamburger. But inthe puerile stoner buddy comedy Harold& Kumar Go To White Castle, a sort of melting-pot After Hours for the multiplex set that will likely divide audiencesin ...
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GERMANY 27 July
While it didn't top HarryPotter And The Philosopher's Stone's opening record of 2.59m admissions,Michael 'Bully' Herbig's sci-fi spoof (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1can claim to have the all-time best opening weekend for a summer releasewith 2,164,000 admissions from 899 prints. In comparison, Herbig's previousblockbuster Manitou's Shoe clocked up945,000 admissions in ...
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DENMARK 27 July
Despitean unimpressive DKK17,704 screen average in its third week on release, Spider-Man 2's 84 prints kept it infront of the new comic book hero, Hellboy.The latter scared up a DKK18,630 average for its 40 prints, considerably betterthan Raising Helen's DKK13,878, and Godsend's DKK18,298 but not Elephant's DKK24,335.However,none of the three ...
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Fine Line takes English-speaking world on Out To Sea
Fine Line Features has acquired North American and allEnglish-speaking territory rights from Spain's Sogepaq to Out To Sea (Mar Adentro), Alejandro Amenabar's eagerly awaitedfollow-up to The Othersthat stars Javier Bardem as real-life euthanasia campaigner Ramon Sampedro.The company plans aplatform release in the US before the end of the year and ...
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UK Film Council extends slate scheme deadline
The UK Film Council has extended its deadline forapplications for "super slate" development funding by three weeks,from September 10 to September 30 2004.This shift is seen by many asa direct response to the criticisms voiced by UK producers' organisationPACT about how the slate funding scheme was set up. Earlier this ...
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Look At Me to open, Sideways to close New York Film Festival
Agnes Jaoui's Look At Me will open the 42nd New York Film Festival, whilePedro Almodovar's Bad Educationhas been named the Centerpiece screening and Alexander Payne's Sideways will close the event, which runs from Oct 1-17.Look At Me (Comme Une Image), Jaoui's second picture and follow-up to her 2000sex comedy The ...
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China features to colour Pusan festival
Ten new films from mainland China will colour this autumn'sPusan International Film Festival (7-15 Oct), while its burgeoning projectmarket Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) will expand to 23 titles, from 18 last year."It looks set to be an exceptionally strong year forChinese films," PPP director and Pusan selector Jay Jeon told ...
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