All Screen articles in 30 March 2004 – Page 4
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Cheaper goes up against Starsky in Germany
Germany is shaping up to be the comedy battleground this upcomingweekend as Fox International's Cheaper By The Dozen goes up against Buena Vista International's(BVI) Starsky & Hutch.Cheaper By The Dozen opens on a wide 605 prints and executives will be looking tobuild on the comedy's $40m international running total.Starsky & ...
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Magnolia acquires US rights to Al-Jazeera doc Control Room
Magnolia Pictures has acquired domestic rights to Jehane Noujaim'sControl Room, abehind-the-scenes look at the Al-Jazeera network's coverage of the recent Iraqwar and the criticisms it faced for its coverage.Magnolia will open the documentary in New York in mid-May followedby a nationwide release. Control Room premiered at Sundance earlier this year.The ...
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Spider-Man 3 to hit theatres on May 4, 2007
Spider-Man 3 is a go. Sony Pictures vice chairman Jeff Blakeshowed a new trailer to Spider-Man 2 last night and announced that Spider-Man 3 would open in US theatres on May 4, 2007 with TobeyMaguire and Kirsten Dunst in the roles of Peter Parker and Mary-Jane Watson and SamRaimi once ...
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Sundance Institute unveils first documentary grants for 2004
Eleven feature-length documentaries covering subjectsas diverse as women prisoners in Yemen to the aftermath of the Rwandan genocidewill receive a total of $395,000 in the first round of grants awarded by theSundance Institute Documentary Fund for 2004.The fund was set up in 2002 as a result of a gift by ...
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Reconstruction takes top prize at Sofia film fest
Danish director Christoffer Boe's Reconstruction won the top prize of Euros 5,000.at the 8th edition of the Sofia International Film Festival.The five-member jury led by director Jerry Schatzberg, awarded a special mention to a production from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Srdjan Vuletic's Summer In The Golden Valley - which also won ...
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Lescure to head Equinoxe workshop
Former Canal Plus chief Pierre Lescure will act as president of the upcoming Equinoxe screenwriters' workshop in Marrakech from April 26-May 3. Former president Jeanne Moreau will take up the role of honorary president.Since its inception 11 years ago, the twice yearly event has generated 64 films which have won ...
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Italian producer Seregni lines up Corpses
Rosanna Seregni, the independent Italian co-producer behind Vodka Lemon, has boarded a new French-Slovenian film that is being produced by No Man's Land's Dunja Klemenc and Cedomir Kolar.Set in Sarajevo in 2001, the film, whose working title is Well Tempered Corpses, tells the story of four corpses who are brought ...
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Norwegian film fund backs eight new features
Eight new features from newcomers and experienced filmmakers like Petter Naess, Erik Skjoldbjaerg and Paal Sletaune have been awarded funding from the Norwegian Film Fund.Elsk Meg I Morgen (literally Love Me Tomorrow) is the third and final instalment in the successful trilogy about Elling, and it will be directed by ...
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Raindance, BIFA announce 2004 events
Raindance and The British Independent Film Awards have announced their programme of events for 2004.Raindance also announced its move into UK home entertainment distribution with the formation of the Raindance Distribution Company, a joint venture with Anchor Bay Entertainment to create a new DVD label which will release six to ...
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De Posch is new CEO at ProSiebenSat1
Following last winter's management reshuffle ProSiebenSat.1 Media's CEO Urs Rohner is leaving the company on April 30 to take up "a new professional challenge" at a multinational corporation in his native Switzerland. He was appointed CEO of ProSieben Media in 2000 and then became the CEO of ProSiebenSat.1 Media ...
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SWEDEN
Little changed at the top of the Swedish chart except for local coming of age drama The Ketchup Effect moving down fifth. However, the best performer was 21 Grams which on its just nine screens had an impressive $7,331 average, more than twice any other film.Less impressive was the other ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
Despite its continuous decline (56% this weekend), Robbery Of The Third Reich is still taking up most of the Serbian-Montenegrin box office. After this weekend's 9,907 admissions, the local blockbuster has now grossed a total of $754,596 for Mirius.The following three positions belong to Tuck's Something's Gotta Give, Runaway Jury ...
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HUNGARY
Five new releases hit the Hungarian cinemas last weekend including multi award-winning The Return and Vadim Perelman's House Of Sand And Fog but once again it was only the action flicks and comedies that made it into the box office top ten.Torque starring Ice Cube and Martin Henderson landed the ...
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Death In Gaza
Dirs: James Miller/ Misha Manson-Smith. UK/US. 2004. 80minsJames Miller was considered one of his generation's most observant witnesses to war. An Emmy-winning journalist who had reported from Bosnia, Lebanon and Iraq, he was shot dead by an Israeli soldier in May 2003. Miller was just 34 and had been working ...
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Hollywood costs go through the roof
The average cost to MPAA-affiliated studios of making andmarketing a film crossed $100m for the first time in 2003, outgoing MPAApresident Jack Valenti announced at ShoWest yesterday (23).Combined US box office for MPAA films was the second highestin history, dropping 0.3% against last year's $9.5bn record tally for $9.47bn,while the ...
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Venture capital firm sells entire stake in exhibitor Kinepolis
Belgian venture capital firm GIMV has sold its entire 10% stake in exhibition company Kinepolis Group, realising capital gains of Euros 5.5m, according to the company.GIMV sold its 686,860 shares for an estimated Euros 13m after Kinepolis posted results showing a consolidated net profit of Euros 2.7m for 2003 - ...
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Valenti bids tearful farewell to ShoWest
Hollywood figurehead JackValenti bade a tearful farewell this morning to ShoWest, the assembly oftheatre-owners that he has addressed as chief executive of the Motion PictureAssociation of America (MPAA) for the past 37 years.A packed room of exhibitorsin Las Vegas put side any differences they may have had with their sometimenemesis ...
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Valenti on the screener ban: 'I would have done it differently'
MPAA chairman and CEO JackValenti expressed regret at how he handled the awards screener ban at his pressbriefing yesterday morning for the opening of ShoWest in Las Vegas.When asked why he had leftthe imposition of the ban till so late in the year last year, he said that withthe wisdom ...
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THINKFilm acquires Boston Red Sox movie for North America
New York-based THINKFilm has acquired North American rights to TheBoston Red Sox Movie,which chronicles the highs and lows of the legendary baseball team set againstthe tumultuous 2003 season and is scheduled to open in Boston on May 7.Produced by sports filmproduction house Bombo Sports & Entertainment, the film covers lastyear's ...
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