All Screen articles in 29 October 2002 – Page 2
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XXX opens at number one in Japan
Columbia/Revolution's actionthriller XXX opened top of thecharts in Japan over the weekend, grossing $2.45m from 407 screens for aper-theatre average of $6,007. Studio executives expect the picture to play foreight weeks and will be aiming for a final cumulative score above $17m. Thepicture also opened at number one in Sweden ...
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Modern Entertainment expands into international sales
Modern Entertainment hasannounced it is expanding into worldwide sales and will be offering two newindependent pictures at MIFED, the Australian action thriller The Pact and the US erotic action thriller Fear Of Speed. 'We have been exploringthe market for some time now and we believe that these films offer enormousopportunities. ...
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Modern Entertainment expands into international sales
Modern Entertainment hasannounced it is expanding into worldwide sales and will be offering two newindependent pictures at MIFED, the Australian action thriller The Pact and the US erotic action thriller Fear Of Speed. 'We have been exploringthe market for some time now and we believe that these films offer enormousopportunities. ...
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James Harvey named director of distribution at Myriad
James Harvey has beenappointed director of distribution at LA-based production and distributioncompany Myriad Pictures.Harvey will haveresponsibility for supporting all domestic and international sales made byMyriad and will oversee the administration of content and rights management,handle distributor loyalty reporting and manage the corporate database. He willbe based at the corporate headquarters ...
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New Line signs Metropolitan to its first output deal
New Line International (NLI) has completed extensions to 2005 on two major output deals - with Village Roadshow in Australia and Svensk Filmindustri in Scandinavia - and closed a third, also to 2005, with Metropolitan Filmexport in France. It is the first time NLI has struck an output deal with ...
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New Line signs Metropolitan to its first output deal
New Line International (NLI) has completed extensions to 2005 on two major output deals - with Village Roadshow in Australia and Svensk Filmindustri in Scandinavia - and closed a third, also to 2005, with Metropolitan Filmexport in France. It is the first time NLI has struck an output deal with ...
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Cooper promoted at Sundance
John Cooper has beenappointed director of film festival programming at the Sundance Film Fesitval,Sundance Institute executive director Ken Brecher and Sundance Film Festivaldirector Geoffrey Gilmore announced today. Cooper will run the film festivalprogramming team, which includes senior programmer Trevor Groth and programmersShari Frilot and Caroline Libresco, who in addition to ...
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Trio of high profile hopefuls submit Oscar contenders
With the deadline for the best foreign language film Oscar category looming at the end of this week, another three countries have unveiled their official submissions for the Academy Awards.As widely anticipated, Brazil has chosen Fernando Meirelles' tour de force City Of God (Cidade De Deus), while Sanjay Leela Bhansali's ...
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Japanese film wins Grand Prix at Cinema Tout Ecran
Japanese director Tetsuo Shinohara's The High-School Girl's Friend (Jogakusei no tomo) received the $6,715 (CHF 10,000) 'Grand Prix Cinema Tout Ecran' for Best Film at this year's Cinema Tout Ecran Festival in Geneva (October 21-27) which also featured a retrospective dedicated to Atom Egoyan.The International Competition jury, including Pierre-Henri ...
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Red Dragon scares up international box office revenues
UIP's Red Dragon launched in 10 new territories over the weekend taking $7.1m - towards its total weekend gross of $8.9m from its current 17 markets.The weekend saw a slew of major territories receiving the picture. In Italy it opened with $2.3m (Euros 2.4m) from 326 screens for a mighty ...
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Two more Fox projects to be backed by German fund
20th Century Fox's thriller The Clearing, starring Robert Redford, Helen Mirren and Willem Dafoe, and the family comedy Catch That Girl have been added to the projects to be financed by Ideenkapital's Mediastream III fund, due to investor demand.. Ideenkapital had originally planned to raise Euros 246.7m from private ...
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Austin opens in France, Germany, Austria
New Line International's AustinPowers In Goldmember opened insecond place in Germany over the weekend with $1.6m from 695 screens for a$2,297 per-screen average. The third instalment of the Austin Powers franchise rolled out in Austria on Thursday with$298,392 from 74 screens and a per-screen average of $4,031. In France aWednesday ...
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Lilja 4-Ever accepted as Sweden's foreign-language Oscar submission
Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-Ever has been selected as Sweden's entry for the best foreign-language Oscar, despite the film being almost entirely in Russian. As reported on screendaily.com, Lilja 4-Ever faced the threat of being ineligible as a Swedish submission due to its dialogue being almost entirely in Russian. The Academy ...
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Ice Age inches closer to $200m after Baltic openings
Ice Age inched closer to $200m in international ticket salesover the weekend as it expanded into the Baltic States, where Fox registeredits best ever bow in Estonia, opening number one on $45,836 from four screens.This was also the industry's second highest opening of all time in Estonia. Theanimated feature also ...
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Cuts at Signpost point to Till joining UIP
Signpost Films is to make further staff cuts this week, while its founder Stewart Till has held talks to take over from Paul Oneile as head of United International Pictures (UIP).Coming hard on the heels of slashing its UK-based sales operation, the latest round of cuts appear to signal the ...
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Danes choose Dogme hit Open Hearts for Oscar race
As expected, Susanne Bier's acclaimed Dogme hit Open Hearts (Elsker Dig For Evigt) has been chosen as the Danish candidate for the Academy Awards' best foreign language film Oscar. The film received rave reviews on its domestic release and has scooped an impressive 450.000 admissions in eight weeks, never leaving ...
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Sony to increase investment in China
Sony is to invest over $100m in production of Chinese movies, according to group chief executive Idei Noboyuki.Idei announced the proposals, according to Reuters, during a visit to Beijing on Monday. "In the next three years, Sony will invest about $100m in the Chinese movie industry," he said. It will ...
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UK BOX OFFICE
Despite six out of seven new releases entering the top 15, the top four titles in the UK chart saw no change from the previous week.The table was led by Columbia TriStar's XXX for the second consecutive week, earning $3.2m (£2m), a 34% drop from its opening weekend, from 435 ...
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German police arrest Kinowelt's Michael Koelmel
Kinowelt co-founder Michael Koelmel has been arrested by Munich police, just three days before his Euros 32m acquisition of the insolvent Kinowelt Medien Group is due to go through.According to a report in the German daily tabloid newspaper Bild Zeitung, Koelmel has been taken into custody because of an "insolvency ...
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Cecchi Gori is placed under house arrest in Italy.
Fallen media baron Vittorio Cecchi Gori has been placed under house arrest for alleged wrongdoings linked to the bankruptcy of his former Serie A football club, Fiorentina.Firemen entered Cecchi Gori's house early on Tuesday morning with a ladder after police failed to obtain a response from the entrepreneur who was ...
