All Screen articles in 29 October 2004 – Page 2
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Lightning takes international rights on Mexican
LosAngeles-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has pickedup international rights outside the US and Mexico from Televisa Cine to the hitMexican satire A Day Without A Mexican.Sergio Arau's picture will make its market debut at theAFM in Santa Monica next week. It arrives on the back of a successful ...
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Eddie Michaels relaunches LA PR firm as Insignia
LosAngeles-based publicity firm Eddie Michaels & Associates relaunches asInsignia Public Relations and Media Strategies today (28) with company founderEddie Michaels announcing three key promotions.Zachary Rosenfieldhas been named a principal of the firm and will continue to work closely withMichaels in managing strategic media campaigns for the firm's productioncompany, producer, and ...
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Dutch video rental sector in decline
Film piracy is becoming an increasingly serious threat tothe Dutch video rental industry. According to the latest data, 80% of videooutlets are suffering declining business, with drops of as high as 15 %compared to 2003.Industry body, the NVDOdescribes the situation as 'disastrous', with the main reason for thedecline being the ...
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Teen horror novel Scared Stiff comes to the screen
LosAngeles-based production house Puzzle Box Productions is teaming up withauthors Jahnna Beecham and Malcolm Hillgartner to adapt their Scholastic Booksteen horror bestseller Scared Stiff for the big screen.The story involves a brotherand sister who live above their parent's mortuary business and work together tostop the corpse of a vengeful mass ...
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Golden Harvest closes Taiwan exhibition deal
Following lengthynegotiations, Hong Kong's Golden Harvest Entertainment has reached a deal toacquire Taiwan's Warner Village cinema circuit - a joint venture between WarnerBros and Australia's Village Roadshow - with a consortium of Taiwanese partnersfor US$38m.Golden Harvest istaking a 40% stake in the circuit for US$15.2m while Taiwanese companies -including disc ...
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Perabo clicks with Parker debut
US actress Piper Perabo (pictured) has joined the cast of Click, a romantic comedy that has just started shooting in London.The directorial debut of screenwriter Ol Parker, the film tells the story of a woman who faces doubts as she's about to marry her long-term boyfriend.Click is produced by Cougar ...
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MGM Channel launches in Taiwan, will launch in Malaysia
Marking theone-year anniversary of the launch of MGM Channel for the Greater China andSoutheast Asia market, MGM announced yesterday (27) it has launched in Taiwanwith Malaysia to follow in "coming months".The announcementmeans MGM Channel now operates in seven countries in the region, including HongKong, Singapore, Indonesia, Macau and Thailand.The MGM ...
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Kimmel signs sales partnership with Capitol
Sidney Kimmel's Los Angelesand New York-based production company Sidney Kimmel Entertainment has signed anon-exclusive foreign sales partnership with Capitol Films in time for AFM.Capitol will represent NickCassavetes' drama Alpha Dog,starring Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Bruce Willis and Sharon Stone, aswell as the Julianne Moore/ Billy Crudup romantic comedy Trust The ...
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Japan's Gaga bought by Usen Corp.
Japan's Usen Corp. has announced the purchase of GagaCommunications, a leading independent film distributor.Usen, a major supplier of broadband services in Japan, plansto acquire a 57.6% stake, amounting to $94.3m (Y10 billion) and operate Gaga asa subsidiary. It will invest the funds in two share issues that Gaga isplanning for ...
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Irish greyhound comedy races towards record book
Redbus Film Distribution'scomedy road movie Man About Dog iswell on its way to becoming one of the most successful Irishindependently-financed films ever.A hit at the Irishbox-office, the Paddy Breathnach-directed film is on course to go up 7% compared to last week.Redbus estimates it will pass the $1.8m (£1m) mark by ...
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Talent from Maria, Woodsman among Gotham Breakthrough nominees
Mos Def andCatalina Sandino Moreno are among Breakthrough Actor Award nominees and RodneyEvans and Nicole Kassell are in the running for Breathrough Director Awardhonours in IFP/New York's upcoming 14th Annual IFP Gotham Awards on Dec 1.Formerly knownas the Open Palm Award for Outstanding Directorial Debut, the BreakthroughActor Award features five ...
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Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason
Dir: Beeban KidronUK-US-Fr 2004 107minsBridget Jones is back, as fretful and neurotic as ever,in an expertly crafted (if rather soulless) sequel which is likely to hit allthe right buttons for Working Title. Renee Zelwegger again excels as the podgy,thirtysomething London singleton with the ineffably messy love life. She is fedplenty ...
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French engage with Amelie follow-up
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's highlyanticipated Euros 45m A Very Long Engagement scored the fifth bestopening day of the year when it was released in France on Wednesday (Oct 27).With 220,821 tickets soldthroughout the country on 707 screens, the wartime epic had the best opening of2004 for a French film.Compared with other filmslaunched ...
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DreamWorks Animation raises $812m in IPO
In the first initial publicoffering by a major studio in seven years, DreamWorks Animation raised $812myesterday (26), far higher than analysts expected.While the projected range of shares was $23 to $25 per share, theIPO priced shares at $28 per share, according to reports.Riding high on the recent success of Shrek ...
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NORWAY 28 October
The pairing of Cruise and Foxx made Collateral the big winner at the Norwegian box-office this weekend,where it took an impressive NOK44,012 screen average from its 35 prints.The second highest average belonged to Before Sunset (NOK38,088), which, however, only managed to get into 15th spot with itsjust five prints.While most ...
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HUNGARY 28 October
Despite five new films hitting the screens in Hungary lastThursday, not one of them could capture the admissions' top spot, a positionsecured by the Bruce Willis comedy TheWhole Ten Yards in its second week of release.Collateral faredbest of the newcomers coming in second place but with less than 19,000admissions on ...
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INTERNATIONAL 28 October
Albeit off thechart, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11became the first documentary to achieve $100m from international markets duringlast week. The film added $392,745 over the weekend with Japan and recentlaunch territory Hong Kong currently providing the highest numbers. The filmhas taken $100.8m and may get some boost still from next week's ...
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European regional funding network swells its ranks
The UK's Screen South, Sweden's Film I Vast and Spain's IVACLa Filmoteca are among eight regional film funders who have swelled the ranksof the Cine-Regio network of European funding agencies to bring the membershipup to 13.Part-financed by the European Union's Interreg IIICprogramme, the Cine-Regio network was launched at the beginning ...
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Reynolds, Reeds leave Curb to start Fabrication
KjehlRasmussen's fledgling Hollywood-based distributor Fabrication Films has pickedup its first two features for worldwide distribution and will bring them to theAFM in Santa Monica next week.The company,which plans to distribute six to nine titles a year including US theatricalreleases, has acquired all worldwide rights to Jay Anania's mystery Her NameIs ...
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UK faces co-production reality-check
UK filmcommissioner Steve Norris has called for the British qualifying certificationof UK co-productions to be taken over by the UK Film Council.Speaking during apanel discussion on co-productions at Screen International's UK Film FinanceSummit in London last week (Oct 21), Norris said that the UK film industryneeded to develop a co-production ...