All Screen articles in 4 February 2004 – Page 4
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Berlusconi government boosts support for Italian film
A report has surprisingly revealed that while the Italian government upped its investment in Italian films by 34.8% last year compared to 2002, private investment in local titles dropped a worrying 5.25%,The Italian film industry invested a total of Euros 301.7m in films in 2003, up 8.68% on the previous ...
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France's CNC outlines Soficas spending for 2004
France's national cinema centre, the CNC, has announced figures for Sofica funds to be pumped into production in 2004.There are currently nine such tax shelters which collected Euros 40.99m in 2003. Under their obligation to invest 90% of annually raised funds, the Soficas will invest Euros 36.89m.In 2002 Euros 35.14m ...
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SWEDEN
The Return Of The King fought off more resistance this weekend at the Swedish box-office where it withstood the new releases of The Last Samurai and the new installment in the seemingly never-ending family series Lilla Jonssonligan.Though both films had impressive screen averages, The King's massive 150 prints kept it ...
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Love In Thoughts
Dir. Achim von Borries. Germany. 2004. 90 mins.The latest film from Stefan Ardnt's and Tom Tykwer's X Filme creative pool, Love In Thoughts (Was Nuetzt Die Liebe In Gedanken) made its world debut in the Sundance Film Festival's Premiere section. Like a dark fairytale, the film paints an achingly beautiful ...
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WHV reshuffles senior global personnel
Warner Home Video (WHV) hasshuffled several key personnel in a bid to reallocate its global resources tomeet the changing demands of the marketplace.Mark Horak becomes executivevice president and general manager for Canada, Latin America and Australia,Jeffrey M Brown becomes senior vice president of worldwide marketing, PhilippeCardon is named senior vice ...
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FINLAND
Close to nothing changed at the Finnish box-office chart this weekend, as Minna Virtanen's erotic drama Addiction (aka Restless 3) stayed on top in front of The Return Of The King, which it toppled last week.Though it dropped 31%, it retained the best screen average on its 43 prints. Though ...
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Distant Lights wins German critics prize
Hans-Christian Schmid's Berlinale 2003 competition entry Distant Lights (Lichter) was the big winner at this year's German Film Critics Awards, winning the prizes in the categories of Best Feature Film, Best Actor and Best Editing.The Awards were presented during a gala ceremony at the Max Ophuels Prize Film Festival in ...
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Mean Creek
Dir: Jacob Estes. US. 2004. 87mins.One of the hidden treasures at the Sundance Film Festival this year, Mean Creek is a haunting teenage take on Deliverance in which a prank turns to tragedy. Sombre, gripping and often painfully true in its evocation of teenage concerns, it marks a stunning directorial ...
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Picture This! teams with Forbidden City on Latter Days sales
In an unprecedentedalignment of gay niche companies, Doug Witkins' Picture This! Entertainmentwill handle international sales on Funny Boy Films' Latter Days in association with Forbidden City International.Beverly Hills-basedForbidden City co-produced writer-director C Jay Cox's film with Funny BoyFilms and acquired foreign rights prior to production. It will begin acting asthe ...
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Jackie Chan's son joins Twins Effect II cast
Jackie Chan's son, Jaycee Chan, is making his feature acting debut alongside his father in Emperor Multimedia Group's The Twins Effect II (working title) - the sequel to last year's blockbuster action comedy - which is scheduled to start shooting next week.The US$10m martial arts action adventure reteams Hong Kong ...
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Oscar nominees set to capitalise on recognition led by King
New Line International's The Lord Of The Rings: The Return OfThe King shouldcapitalise on its 11 Academy Award nominations in all its markets and nowherewill this be felt more acutely than in Italy, where the film scored a record$12.2m opening last weekend.The fantasy finale has grossed $548.5m at the international ...
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The Wooden Camera
2003 Dir: Ntsuaveeni Wa Lurili. UK-Fr-South Africa. 90mins.Brazil has enjoyed five Oscar nominations thanks to City Of God, a tale of a camera-toting good guy caught in the crossfire of gang-warfare in Rio's favelas. The Wooden Camera, the story of a video-toting South African boy with choices to make, has ...
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The Wooden Camera
2003 Dir: Ntsuaveeni Wa Lurili. UK-Fr-South Africa. 90mins.Brazil has enjoyed five Oscar nominations thanks to City Of God, a tale of a camera-toting good guy caught in the crossfire of gang-warfare in Rio's favelas. The Wooden Camera, the story of a video-toting South African boy with choices to make, has ...
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Blockbuster quits Hong Kong market
High rents and rampant piracy have forced video rental giant Blockbuster to quit the Hong Kong market and scrap plans to expand into mainland China.The company will close its 24 Hong Kong outlets as their leases expire over the next 18 months and lay off 200 staff, according to a ...
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Thai studio readies Ong Bak sequel for March shoot
Thai studio Sahamongkol Film International has unveiled details of the second film from Ong-Bak star Tony Jaa and director Prachya Pinkaew, in which the Australian underworld gets a taste of Thai-style kickboxing.Called Tom Yum Goong, after the spicy Thai soup, the US$4m action comedy is scheduled to start shooting in ...
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Gaumont realigns with Columbia TriStar for French distribution alliance
Columbia TriStar Films France and French studio Gaumont haveformed Gaumont Columbia TriStar Films in a deal that will see the new entitydistribute in France all films produced and acquired for France by SonyPictures Entertainment, Columbia TriStar and Gaumont.Headed up by Columbia Tri Star International's current presidentEric Brune, the joint venture ...
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Newmark/Echelon acquires A Tale Of Two Pizzas
Production, financing,international sales and distribution house Echelon Entertainment has acquired Vincent Sassone's romantic comedy A Tale Of Two Pizzas.Newmark/Echelon Entertainment Group plans a domestic releasebefore the summer.Set in Yonkers, New York, the story centres on two families whofeud over a secret pizza sauce recipe and stars Vincent Pastore (TheSopranos) and ...
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Pixar files for divorce from Disney, relationship to end in 2006
Pixar and Disney broke off talks to extend their existingfive-film deal yesterday (29), leaving the animation cash-cow free to enterdiscussions with other studios competing to distribute its titles beginning in2006.After completing the final two films under the current agreementwith Disney - The Incredibles in 2004 and Cars in 2005 - ...
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Kinowelt expands local production slate
Kinowelt Filmproduktion has added another three local titles - Playa Del Futuro, Antikoerper and Max & Moritz - to its production line-up.The company has previously made commitments to co-produce an adaptation of Wladimir Kaminer's Russendisko with Christoph Meyer-Wiel's CMW Films and Joachim von Vietinghoff's Von Viettinghoff Filmproduktion (see ScreenDaily.com, October ...