All Screen articles in 29 October 2004 – Page 4
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The Grudge
Dir: Takashi Shimizu. US.2004. 90mins.The second Hollywoodremake of a J-horror movie after blockbuster hit The Ring, The Grudgehas confirmed the wide appetite for this kind of unsettling chiller with a $40mopening weekend in North America.Domestic distributorColumbia Pictures positioned the film to perfection, scoring a teen-friendlyPG-13 rating, creating intriguing TV spots ...
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The Polar Express
Dir: Robert Zemeckis. US.2004. 92mins.Only Hollywood couldproduce a film as lavish and technologically ground-breaking as The PolarExpress, and Warner Bros is banking on that fact to entice millions offamilies around the world into their seasonal heartwarmer.The film brings to lifeChris Van Allsburg's classic US kids' book using a new animation ...
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Dead Man's Shoes leads BIFA contenders
The British Independent Film Award (BIFA) nominations wereannounced today, with Shane Meadows' DeadMan's Shoes leading the field with eight nominations, closely followed byMike Leigh's Vera Drake with seven nods including Best Actress for ImeldaStaunton.Other strong contenders include Pawel Pawlikoski's My Summer Of Love; Kevin Macdonald's Touching The Void and Shaun ...
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BAFTA Scotland announces film award nominees
Young Adam, American Cousins and Afterlifelead the nominations for the BAFTA Scotland Awards to be held in Glasgow onNovember 14.A significantexpansion of the previous biennial awards honouring new talent, these nowannual awards will honour Scottish achievement at all levels as well asrecognising developments in new technology and new media.Scots actor ...
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UK/IRELAND 26 October
Aliens and predators may have fought their way into secondplace in the UK/Ireland chart but they were still no match for UIP's animatedsharks.Shark Tale heldthe lead for a second weekend, dropping 36% from its opening week, notincluding previews. It has quickly established a strong $22.7m (£12.4m)cumulative gross.Alien Vs Predator(AvP) got ...
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Glickman wins over French film-makers
The 14th annual Rencontres Cinematographiques de Beaunewrapped up on Sunday (Oct 24) after three days of debates which welcomed scores of Frenchand American talent as well as new MPAA president Dan Glickman.The Rencontres is organisedby French writers, directors and producers' association ARP, and eachyear reunites industry and political heavyweights in ...
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Levinson, Goldberg reteam to form DVD distributor Tango
UK industry veterans Paul Levinson and Warren Goldberg havelaunched DVD distributor Tango Entertainment, which will acquire product in allgenres for North America and the UK, with the aim of offering everything fromcut-price to star-driven titles.The company is currently based out of Santa Monica and London,with plans to open an East ...
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The Forgotten opens top in Spain and Mexico for CTFDI
Revolution Studios' supernatural mystery The Forgotten launched well in its first marketsthrough Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), opening topin both Spain and Mexico on $1.4m on 262 screens and $1m on 300 respectively.Smaller launches in Taiwan,where it ranked top on $320,000 on 19, and South Africa, where it opened ...
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Minghella, Chadha sign for Script Factory's SCENE
Directors Anthony Minghella and Gurinder Chadha have bothsigned up for Script Factory's SCENE Festival.SCENE (November 27-30) is The Script Factory's annualmini-festival within TheTimes bfi London Film Festival and puts some of theworld's leading filmmakers on stage to talk about their work and theprocess of filmmaking.The Script Factory recently announced Gwyneth ...
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Most High, Capricciosa are top winners at Hamptons
Reza Bagher's Swedish drama Capricciosa won the Golden Starfish Award for BestInternational Film at the 12th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival,while Marty Sader's drug drama Most High won Best Narrative and Leslie Sullivan's A Touch OfGreatness took the SpikeTV Best Documentary Award.The Golden Starfish Short Film Award went to Gary ...
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Freestyle buys into Hamptons prize winner Riley
Susan Jackson, Mark Borde and Mike Doban's fledgling USdistributor Freestyle Releasing has acquired all North American rights fromVisualeyes Productions and Jellyworks to Eddie O'Flaherty's directorial debut FightingTommy Riley.CURB Entertainment will handle international sales on the title,which won the Kodak Award For Cinematography at the 12th annual at the HamptonsInternational Film ...
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Universal's Bourne opens top in Germany
A number one $2.9m debut inGermany on 528 screens was the key driver as Universal's The BourneSupremacy raised its internationalrunning total through UIP to an estimated $85.5m.The German launch claimed21% market share as it eclipsed Shark Tale in its second weekend by 31%, opening 12% bigger than The BourneIdentity in ...
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New bidder enters race for Swedish exhibitor
A new bidder, independentexhibitor Triangelfilm, has said it would like to buy the Sandrew Metronome'scinema chain to stop it being sold to rival SF Bio.Sweden's second biggest exhibitor Sandrew Metronomeannounced in August that it had sold its cinema chain to SF Bio. The deal meantthat SF Bio, owned by Swedish ...
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Bavaria wraps Surprise sales
Bavaria Film International (BFI) has concluded a number ofsales for the German 2004 blockbuster Dreamship Surprise - Period 1 after its market premiere at MIFED.While Pony Canyon secured all rights for Japan, Believen picked up the sci-fi spoof forRussia, Intwest for Ukraine, Discovery for ex-Yugoslvaia and Best Hollywood forHungary, ...
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Shall We Dance' opens top in Australia
Miramax's romantic comedy remake Shall We Dance' began its international roll-out with astrong $1.5m number one opening in Australia through Buena Vista Internationalat the weekend.The picture, which stars Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez andclimbed to third in the US charts this weekend, grossed AU$2.1m on 231 screens.Shall We Dance' is ...
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Festival of India to honour Amritraj
Indian born Hollywood producer Ashok Amritraj, Chairman andCEO of Hyde Park Entertainment is to be honoured at the International FilmFestival of India being held in Goa (Nov 29 - Dec 9).The festival will screen five of his recent films in asection called Spotlight on Ashok Amritraj, an Indian Success Story ...
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Allen's Melinda to open Stockholm
Woody Allen's Melinda & Melinda has replaced Oliver Stone's Alexander as the opening film of the Stockholm InternationalFilm Festival on Nov 18.The move follows the decision to move the US opening of Alexander from the beginning of November to November 24.Stone will now arrive in Stockholm on November 25, where ...
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Myriad acquires world on Holland's Beethoven
Los Angeles-based Myriad Pictures has acquired worldwide rights toAgnieszka Holland's love story Copying Beethoven, starring Ed Harris and Diane Kruger.The story centres on a love affair between the composer and hisyoung assistant as he completed work on his last major piece, Symphony No.9.Michael Taylor and UK-basedDavid Pupkewitz serve as producers ...
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I, Robot takes Italy by storm with $2.8m opening
I, Robotis fast approaching the $200m milestone for Fox International following astrong Italian debut that raised the international running total to $193m.The sci-fi thriller grossed an estimated $2.8m on 456 Italianscreens for an unconfirmed first place.After an excellent run in Japan that saw it stay top for fiveconsecutive weeks, I, ...
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Grudge gives Ghost House, Senator Int roaring start
Ghost House Pictures' Japanese horror remake The Grudge, released in North America by ColumbiaPictures, scored the third biggest October debut of all time as it opened topon an estimated $40m, dethroning DreamWorks' animated hit Shark Tale (the second biggest Oct opening of all time) in its fourth weekend.Rated a teen-friendly ...