All Screen articles in 4 February 2004 – Page 3
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NORWAY
Despite a number of new releases, the top five spots of the Norwegian chart remained unchanged with The Last Samurai in front of Petter Naess' Just Bea.However, the latter dropped only 5% and performed almost as well, despite the limiting 15 label it received from local censors. Julia Roberts' considerable ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
As expected, The Return Of The King dominated the Serbian-Montenegrin chart for the fifth weekend in a row - attracting 5,451 tickets (down 50%) to add to its massive cumulative gross of $622,213 for Tuck.Tuck also opened The Rundown with 4,472 tickets and $12,485 - giving the company the top ...
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Muxmauschenstill wins Max Ophuls Prize
Marcus Mittermeier's feature debut Muxmauschenstill, which will be screening in the Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino, was the big winner at this year's 25th jubilee edition of the Max Ophuls Prize Film Festival (26 January - 1 February, 2004) for newcomer German-language cinema in Saarbrücken.The black comedy by Berlin-based Schiwago Filmproduktion ...
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FRANCE
The combination of Julia Roberts and La Joconde weren't enough this week to unseat Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai now in its second week at number one.Mona Lisa Smile opened at number two with a respectable 337,134 admissions on a relatively low 394 screens for a film starring the world's ...
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A Tale Of Two Sisters takes top prize at Gerardmer festival
The 11th annual FantasticFilm Festival of Gerardmer drew to a close Sunday night with A Tale Of TwoSisters taking the Grand Jury Prize.The South Korean film by KimJee Woon is a psychological thriller set in a very dysfunctional family thatwas roundly considered the most terrifying of all eight competition filmsdespite ...
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En Route (Unterwegs)
Dir: Jan Kruger. Germany 2004. 80mins.A psychological road movie in which an outsider opens up tensions within a holidaying family, Jan Kruger's low-key but absorbing drama won one of the three Tiger Awards at this year's Rotterdam Film Festival. It should bring further plaudits to the young German director, whose ...
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The Return graced with Golden Eagles
Despite being snubbed by the Oscars, director Andrei Zvyagintsev's The Return swept to victory at the second edition of the Golden Eagles, one of Russia's two top film awards.At a ceremony held Saturday night at the Mosfilm Studios the country's National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded the ...
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Twin Sisters (De Tweeling)
Dir: Ben Sombogaart. Netherlands. 2002. 135minsProving that Miramax doesn't have a monopoly on well-crafted, Oscar-friendly literary adaptations, Twin Sisters is a sweeping version of the European best-seller by Tessa de Loo. A straightforward account of twin sisters separated by family circumstances and the bitter divisions in wartime Europe, it should ...
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Don Bird joins DTS as vice president of marketing
Don Bird has joined digitaltechnology company DTS as vice president of marketing, where he will overseemarketing and branding activities for all areas of the company's entertainment,technological and corporate business.Bird brings with him morethan 20 years of experience in the development and marketing of technicalproducts for the entertainment industry.Prior to DTS, ...
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Luppi begins shooting directorial debut
Federico Luppi, Argentina's most internationally renowned actor, began shooting his directorial debut in Spain last week.Written by Luppi's wife Susana Abascal, the drama titled Pasos is co-produced by San Sebastian-based Igeldo Communicaciones. Igeldo also co produced Chilean drama B Happy, set to have its European premiere in the Berlinale's Forum ...
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Daiei brand to become extinct
Kadokawa Shoten Publishing president Tsuguhiko Kadokawa has announced a reorganisation of the company's film businesses and a relaunch on April 1 under the name Kadokawa Pictures.The reshuffle, which will merge film-related subsidiaries of Kadokawa Holdings with film producer and distributor Kadokawa Daiei, will result in the extinction of the Daiei ...
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Crombie resigns from South Australian Film Corp
The South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) is without both a contracted chief executive and a chair following the resignation of chief executive Judith Crombie during Friday's board meeting, effective immediately. The State Government had earlier decided not to reappoint David Minear as chair.Some mystery surrounds Crombie's decision to leave four ...
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Polly stays top in Australia, Grams is hot in Spain for Universal
Universal's Along CamePolly stayed top in Australia as itgrossed an estimated $1.1m and fell 44% in its second weekend for a $3.9mrunning total.The romantic comedy is dueto roll out in the other major markets over the next two months and its nextbow will be Portugal on Feb 6.21 Grams had ...
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Dembia joins Denmead as account manager
Former Artisan Entertainmentdirector of corporate communications Dennis Dembia has joined Denmead Marketingas account manager.Dembia will work withcompany president Nikki Parker and will be based at Denmead's headquarters inHollywood, reporting directly to Parker.Besides day-to-day publicityand maketing duties, he will work closely with Parker overseeing corporateaccounts and handling international marketing and publicity ...
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Samurai is still first with $22.4m weekend in 45 markets
The Last Samurai has passed $350m in worldwide ticket sales accordingto Warner Bros Pictures Int'l following an estimated $22.4m weekendinternational gross from 5,907 screens in 45 markets.With mostly smaller bowsincluding Finland and four in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the actionadventure raised its international cumulative total to a mighty ...
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You Got Served races ahead over Superbowl weekend
Screen Gems' hip-hop drama You Got Served took advantage of the quiet Superbowlweekend, opening top on an estimated $16m.Paramount's high school drama The Perfect Score opened fifth on $5m while WarnerBros' crime caper The Big Bounce flopped in 12th place on $3.3m.You Got Served stars Omarion, Marques Houston and Omarion'sfellow ...
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Peep 'TV' Show
Dir: Yutaka Tsuchiya. Japan 2004. 98mins.A portrait of alienated cyber-youth, Peep 'TV' Show is so much of the moment - so hyperbolically trendy, even - that it risks becoming dated overnight. But as a fiction with a quasi-documentary flavour, Yukata Tsuchiya's panorama of a voyeuristic technological culture makes for revealing ...
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Trio win Rotterdam Tiger Awards
International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR) has awarded its three Tiger Awards to films from Taiwan, Germany and Bosnia-Herzegovina.Directors Lee Kang-sheng (The Missing), Sredjan Vuletic (Summer in the Golden Valley) and Jan Krüger (En Route) received the awards worth Euros 10.000 at the Friday night (Jan 30) at the closing ...
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Monster launch for new German theatrical player
Leading German DVD distributor e-m-s new media is to launch its own in-house theatrical distribution arm 3L Filmverleih to release the Oscar-nominated Monster for which it holds the German language rights.The new outfit is expected to handle between five and eight releases each year, with Monster being the first 3L ...
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Canadian production 'under siege', says report
Competition from off-shore shooting destinations trying to lure US projects is causing concern amongst Canadian producers, according to the annual report issued by the Canadian Film and Television Production Association.Foreign-financed shoots spent US$1.42bn in 2001-2002, nearly 40% of the country's total production volume of US$3.7bn.Although there was an increase of ...