All Screen articles in 29 July 2004 – Page 3
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Thunderbirds are so-so at UK box office
Universal-Working Title's Thunderbirds remake opened third in the UK throughUIP at the weekend - its first launch anywhere in the world - on an estimated$2.4m (£1.3m) including previews on 433 screens.The live-action family adventure version of Gerry Anderson'spuppetry and pyrotechnics television series of the 1960s trailed Spider-Man2, which was in ...
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Boorman to preside over Venice jury
Director John Boorman will preside over the competition juryat the upcoming 61st Venice Film Festival, with other jury members set toinclude Spike Lee and Scarlett Johansson, the Biennale has announced.Boorman, Lee and Johansson will be joined on the festival's main Venice 61 jury by Italian Oscar-winning film editor Pietro Scalia ...
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FFC pledges backing to Jindabyne, Revelation
Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) has pledged fundingon a conditional basis to Jindabyne, arelationship drama with mystery elements by Lantana director Ray Lawrence, and The Book OfRevelation, a follow-up to HeadOn for director Ana Kokkinos.Content International has world sales rights for The BookOf Revelation, which Kokkinos and AndrewBovell have adapted ...
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Haneke's Hidden cranks up with Binoche, Auteuil
Daniel Auteuiland Juliette Binoche, brought together as husband and wife in the romance film TheWidow of Saint-Pierre,will be once again reunited on the screen in Austrian director MichaelHaneke's Cache (Hidden), a thriller based on the theme of guilt andatonement, which started shooting this month between Paris and Austria.Thedirector's previous films ...
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Mercero's 4th Floor wins top Giffoni prize
Spanish director Antonio Mercero's 4th Floor has scooped the top Golden Gryphon prize at theGiffoni Film Festival (17-24 July), the Italian youth-themed festival which isnow set to export its winning formula to Albania, Los Angeles and Australia.4th Floor tells thestory of a group of 15-year-olds who are all fighting for ...
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Harry adds $11m, flies past $450m for Warner Bros
Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban added an estimated $11m on approximately5,000 screens at the weekend to raise its international running total to$458.6m.The family picture added $2.2m on 302 screens in its secondweekend in South Korea, where it was expected to hold on to the number one ...
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Fahrenheit makes history as first $100m documentary
Fahrenheit 9/11 fulfilled its destiny and became the first documentary in historyto pass $100m at the US box office at the weekend, reaching the milestone onSaturday (24), its 32nd day of release.Michael Moore's anti-Bush polemic grossed an estimated $5m in1,855 theatres and dropped 30% for a $103.4m running total, going ...
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Spider-Man 2 has $31.6m weekend on 9,000 screens
Sony's Spider-Man 2 continued its international dominance at the weekend as it addedan estimated $31.6m from 9,000 screens through Columbia Tri-Star FilmDistributors International (CTFDI) for a $267m international cumulative score.A $1.6m opening in India was the highlight of this weekend'ssmaller bows. Spideywent out on 303 screens in the sub-continent and ...
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Marseille
Dir:Angela Schanelec. Germany. 2004. 95minsAngelaSchanelec's Marseille starts badly and gets worse. Festival-goers - thefilm played in Un Certain Regard at Cannes - are all too familiar with the kindof movie in which someone unnamed wanders aimlessly and interminably, withoutbenefit of characterisation or plot, around a city. The sad thing about ...
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Skillset's Inside Pictures launches new training programme
Skillset's Inside Pictures, the UKfilm business training programme now funded by the Skillset Film Skills Fund,is accepting applications for its next course.Comprising three intensive one-weekmodules, Skillset's Inside Pictures takes place in London and Los Angelesbetween November 2004 and May 2005.Seminars, workshops and studiovisits are hosted by some of the US ...
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In The Battlefields (Maarek Hob)
Dir/scr:Danielle Arbid. Fr-Bel-Leb. 2004. 90minsThe war thatengulfed Lebanon in the early 1980s, turning Beirut from the Paris of theMiddle East into a scarred wasteland of pockmarked and rusting buildings, isonly a metaphor for the chaos and turmoil that most interests the youngLebanese documentary and shorts film-maker Danielle Arbid in her ...
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AUSTRALIA 26 July
In its second weekof previews, Fahrenheit 9/11 tookA$1,134,249 for Hopscotch from 89 screens to claim the third spot after I, Robot and King Arthur. This is an amazing result for a political documentaryand especially for one that is yet to officially open.I, Robot, in its opening weekend for 20th Century ...
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NEW ZEALAND 26 July
I, Robot grossed NZ$619,601 from 60 screens for 20th Century Fox in its firstweekend, taking top honours in the box office chart and pushing Shrek 2 down into second place.The green ogre tookNZ$239,178 from 84 screens for UIP. It has lead the chart for four of the sixweeks it has ...
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UK Production Update - July 26
UK Production Update - July 26 2004See also International Production ListingsIN PRODUCTION:THE DARK ((Impact Pictures, Constantin Film) Backers: Constantin Film, the UK Film Council. Int'l sales: Constantin Film, Summit Entertainment. A gripping supernatural chiller about a series of mysterious occurrences that befall a young family who move to a remote ...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 DVD set for October launch in UK
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is set for a UK DVDlaunch through Optimum Home Entertainment in October 2004 - just ahead of theUS Presidential Election in November.In its first ten days of release, the film had alreadyreached a total gross of £2.74m in the UK, surpassing the record set by Touchingthe ...
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Universal has Supremacy over Warner's Catwoman
Universal's thriller sequel TheBourne Supremacy stormed to the topof the charts at the weekend on an estimated $53.5m, vying for attention with Fahrenheit9/11, which as expected became thefirst documentary in history to pass $100m.Paul Greengrass' $75mfollow-up to Doug Liman's 2002 hit The Bourne Identity almost doubled that picture's $27.1m bow, ...
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Arahan dominates at Puchon Fantastic festival
Local hit Arahan proved to be the big winner at SouthKorea's Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan), taking home theBest of Puchon grand prize as well as the Audience Award.The festival jury,led by U.S. director Stuart Gordon, also presented a Jury Award to Japanesedrama The Taste Of Teaand a Best ...
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San Sebastian to open with Allen's Melinda
The world premiere of Woody Allen's new film, Melindaand Melinda, is set to open Spain'sSan Sebastián Film Festival on September 17.Allen himself, currently filming in London, will attend thescreening.The premiere of Melinda and Melinda spearheads the festival's extensive tribute toAllen, showing all of his work as a director, actor and ...
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Universal is supreme with $53.5m for Bourne sequel
Universal's thriller sequel TheBourne Supremacy stormed to the topof the charts at the weekend on an estimated $53.5m, vying for attention with Fahrenheit9/11, which as expected became thefirst documentary in history to pass $100m.Paul Greengrass' $75mfollow-up to Doug Liman's 2002 hit The Bourne Identity almost doubled that picture's $27.1m bow, ...
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Producers of Sexual Dependency found Periscope
David Guy Levyand Gregory Leonarczyk, who produced Rodrigo Bellott's Bolivian smash SexualDependency, have formedthe independent production company Periscope Entertainment in Los Angeles.Backed by private equity,the partners and financial investors plan to develop and produce three to fourpictures a year with budgets ranging from $2m-15m, and will also providecompletion funds.Levy will ...
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