All Screen articles in 4 January 2005 – Page 2
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French box office hits 20-year high
The French box office for2004 was released Tuesday by France's exhibitors federation (FNCF). In what isthe best year of the past twenty, 196 million tickets were sold, a 12% increaseon 2003. The first half of the yearproved the engine for the growth, with a 19% increase over the first six ...
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Nunnari buys film rights to Coelho's 11 Minutes
Gianni Nunnari'sHollywood Gang Productions has optioned movie rights to Eleven Minutes, the bestselling novel by Paolo Coelho,who also wrote the worldwide hit The Alchemist.ElevenMinutes centres on ayoung Brazilian girl's quest for romantic satisfaction as she navigates thewaters of sexual pleasure and true love.The titlederives from the apparent fact that the ...
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Doc fever continues as What The Bleep passes $10m
Samuel Goldwyn Films &Roadside Attractions reported yesterday (4) that William Arntz, Betsy Chasseand Mark Vicente's docudrama What The #$*! Do We Know' has passed $10m at the North American box office.The picture wasself-financed by Arntz to tune of $5m and released by the filmmaker in February2004. Samuel Goldwyn Films and ...
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Incredibles regains international chart lead
A dearth of wideinternational launches meant that holdovers were left to do battle over the NewYear weekend. BVI's TheIncredibles regained the chart lead over the final weekend of the 2004 boxoffice year (Dec 31-Jan 2) and is fast approaching the $300m mark.It was a goodweekend for BVI, which saw a ...
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Quebec boosts tax credit for foreign shoots
The Quebec provincial government will boostits labour-based film production tax credit from 11% to 20%, following asimilar move in Ontario before Christmas. Ontario increased its production servicescredit from 11% to 18% and its credit for local production from 20% to 30%.Production service providers in British Columbia are calling on theirprovincial ...
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Woolworths blames DVD piracy for poor Christmas
High street retailer Woolworths has blamed DVD piracy forcontributing to disappointing trading results over the Christmas period. Chief executive Trevor Bish-Jones told The DailyTelegraph that Woolworths was particularly hit by DVD piracy, losing £1.5m ofsales on some individual titles. The latest Harry Potter film, Prisoner of Azkaban,released in November, sold ...
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Kung Fu Hustle continues strong run for SPRI
KUNGFu Hustleadded anestimated $10.1m on 1,095 screens in sixmarkets at the weekend through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) toraise its international cumulative total to $31.1m.Key highlights were a $3.2m second place debut on 368 Japanese screens behindHayao Miyazaki's reigning champion, Howl's Moving Castle. SPRIexecutives expect strong results going into the ...
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Sands confirmed as DreamWorks president
Miramax chief operating officer Rick Sands has joined DreamWorksSKG as president and chief operatingofficer. Sands' long anticipated departure comes as Miramax grapples withrecent layoffs and an ongoing contract dispute between parent company Disney andMiramax co-chief executives Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein. Sands will be primarily responsible for day-to-day management ofDreamWorks ...
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Berlinale gets new perspective
The fourth PerspektiveDeutsches Kino section of the Berlinale has revealed its first five films to beselected."The breadth of themesand characters in these films covers everything from social hardships under thecurrent wave of reforms to the tenderness of heartfelt moments. What's beingdealt with is always authentic - no matter whether it ...
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Technicolor enters battle for digital dominance
TechnicolorDigital Cinema has signed a deal with US chain Century Theatres to installdigital projection systems for up to 120 screens.The betatest is the start of a plan to convert 5,000 screens in the next three to fiveyears. Technicolorsays it wants its digital equipment in 15,000 screens in the next 10 ...
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Italian producers take legal action against cultural ministry.
Some members of the Italianfilm industry have taken legal action against the Italian government afterwaiting for over a year for public funds that had been awarded to theirprojects.Producers of 20 emergingwriters and directors who won a public competition at the end of 2003, have nowtaken legal action to freeze the ...
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Alexander approaches $50m in international ticket sales
Alexander added an estimated $7.5m on more than 1,400 screensin 29 territories through I.S. Film Distribution at the weekend to raise its international running total to$43.5m.The picture opened well in South Korea, ranking number one on justover $4m on 270 screens and 801,000 admissions. Results for India wereunavailable at time ...
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Polar Express maintains 3D heat in North America
Warner Bros' The Polar Express: An Imax 3D Experiencecontinued its record-setting running at the North American holiday box office,earning $7.18m on 62 screens during the 10-day holiday period from Dec 24 toJan 2 for a per-screen average of $116,000.The picture's three-day gross on the ultimate weekend of 2004 was $2.1m, ...
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Palms Springs to honour Payne
Alexander Payne will receivethe Director of the Year award at the 16th Annual Palm SpringsInternational Film Festival (PSIFF).Payne, whose latest picture Sideways has garnered a host of best pictureawards from North American critics groups and picked up seven Golden Globenominations, will collect the honour at the annual awards gala on ...
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Ocean's Twelve, Polar Express pass $100m international
Ocean'sTwelveand The Polar Express both passed $100m at the international box officein a bumper weekend for Warner Bros Pictures International.Ocean's Twelve added an estimated $20.9m haul on 4,900 prints in 49countries to raise its total to $107.3m. The picture is scheduled to open inJapan on Jan 21 and the UK ...
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Ocean's, Polar Express pass $100m at International box office
Ocean'sTwelveand The Polar Express both passed $100m at the international box officein a bumper weekend for Warner Bros Pictures International.Ocean's Twelve added an estimated $20.9m haul on 4,900 prints in 49countries to raise its total to $107.3m. The picture is scheduled to open inJapan on Jan 21 and the UK ...
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Ocean's Twelve, Polar Express pass $100m international
Ocean'sTwelveand The Polar Express both passed $100m at the international box officein a bumper weekend for Warner Bros Pictures International.Ocean's Twelve added an estimated $20.9m haul on 4,900 prints in 49countries to raise its total to $107.3m. The picture is scheduled to open inJapan on Jan 21 and the UK ...
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Meet The Fockers reigns supreme
Universal's Meet TheFockers stayed atop the US charts with a mighty second weekend's businessthat propelled the comedy past $150m and helped set a new annual domestic boxoffice record.The picture grossed an estimated $42.8m over three days, raising its runningtotal to $163.4m, which means Fockers should pass Meet The Parents'$166.2m lifetime ...
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Meet The Fockers reigns supreme
Universal's Meet TheFockers stayed atop the US charts with a mighty second weekend's businessthat propelled the comedy past $150m and helped set a new annual domestic boxoffice record.The picture grossed an estimated $42.8m over three days, raising its runningtotal to $163.4m, which means Fockers should pass Meet The Parents'$166.2m lifetime ...
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Meet The Fockers stays top as records fall
Universal's Meet TheFockers stayed atop the US charts with a mighty second weekend's businessthat propelled the comedy past $150m and helped set a new annual domestic boxoffice record.The picture grossed an estimated $42.8m over three days, raising its runningtotal to $163.4m, which means Fockers should pass Meet The Parents'$166.2m lifetime ...
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