All Screen articles in 29 July 2004 – Page 4
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Catwoman
Dir: Pitof. US. 2004. 105 mins.Warner Bros' push to develop new franchises from the characters in its DCComics stable gets off to a shaky start with Catwoman, a flashy butuninvolving Batman spin-off (of sorts) with Halle Berry starring andone-named French talent Pitof directing.Berry's popularity, as well as brand and character ...
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Former BVI chief Zapata takes over at DeAPlaneta
Former BVI chief AlvaroZapata has been appointed executive president of Grupo DeAPlaneta, the giantproduction-distribution company established by Italy's DeAgostini and Spain'sGrupo Planeta in 2000.Taking over from GiorgioSbampato, Zapata, who spent the last 12 years with BVI as vice President forSpain and Portugal, will oversee all the group's activities in theatrical,video, ...
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Festival debut for Book Group director
AnnieGriffin, the writer and director of award-winning UK TV show The Book Group,will make her feature debut with Festival, an ensemble comedy set duringthe annual Edinburgh Festival.Daniella Nardini, Clive Russell, Deirdre O'Kane, ChrisO'Dowd and Stephen Mangan head the cast of the £1.8m feature which is financedby the UK Film Council ...
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Lions Gate starts Diary Of A Mad Black Woman
Principalphotography began in Atlanta, Georgia, this week (July 21) on Lions Gate'scomedy Diary Of A Mad Black Woman.Adapted by Tyler Perry from his hit play of the same name,the project is set in an affluent community and centres on a devoted wife of 20years who flips out when she discovers ...
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Spurlock stands up before Congress with Super Size Me presentation
Super Size Me writer-director Morgan Spurlock isteaming up with members of the US Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine(PCRM) in a special screening and anti-obesity presentation before Congresstoday (July 23).The film-makerplans to address lawmakers on Section 1428 of the Commonsense Consumption Act,more commonly known as the Cheeseburger Bill, which if passed ...
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Zidi, Schatzberg, Robert among Montreal Film Festival jurors
French filmmakerClaude Zidi will head the eight-person international jury at the 28thMontreal World Film Festival, August 26 to September 6. The director of suchfilms as Les Ripoux, LesSous-doues and their sequels as well as AsterixEt Obelix, Zidi hasworked with the pantheon of France's onscreen talent, including GerardDepardieu, Philippe Noiret, ...
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Hudson & Welland together again on rugby tale
ScreenwriterColin Welland and director Hugh Hudson, the team behind 1981 Oscar winner ChariotsOf Fire, are gettingback together again to make rugby movie Harder They Fall with John Daly, former Hemdale boss andnow running another new company Typhoon Entertainment, producing.Former Welsh international rugby star Mark C Thomascreated the story and set ...
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Thunderbirds ready to go on 600 prints in UK
Universal-Working Title'slive action version of the hit 1960s television series Thunderbirds gets its global launch in the UK this weekend,opening through UIP on 600 prints on Jul 23.Universal executives havehigh hopes for the family-friendly adaptation, and it will be intriguing to seehow diehard fans of the series receive this radically ...
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Star Trek spoof smashes German records
(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1, Michael "Bully" Herbig's sequel to his2002 blockbuster Manitou's Shoe,has posted the best ever opening in Germany with over 625,000 admissions in thefirst 24 hours of release.The German produced film is asend up of the Star Trek series. Accordingto distributor Constantin Film, 164,000 cinema-goers had attended ...
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Kidd's PS to open Venice Critics' Week
PS I Love You, Dylan Kidd's follow-up to Rodger Dodger, will open Critics' Week at the upcoming Venice Film Festival(Sep 1-11).The romantic comedy, written by Kidd and Helen Schulman,stars LauraLinney as a 38-year-old admissions director at New York's ColumbiaUniversity who believes that her former boyfriend has been reincarnated.Earlier this month, ...
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Master composer Jerry Goldsmith dies in LA at the age of 75
Jerry Goldsmith,the avant-garde Hollywood composer who earned more than a dozen Academy Awardnominations and won the Oscar in 1976 for The Omen, died in his Beverly Hills homeyesterday aged 75 after a long battle against cancer.Among hisoriginal score credits were Chinatown, Planet Of The Apes, Papillon, Patton, Basic Instinct and ...
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ITALY 23 July
Columbia Tristar's street dancing movie You Got Served opened at number three in Italy last weekend,grossing $226,32 from 99 screens.The Chris Stokes film earned the box office's second highestscreen average, at $2,286, but still failed to dethrone either Eagle Pictures'sTimeline, which remained at number onewith a total gross of $1,512,661, ...
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