All Screen articles in 5 May 2008 – Page 2
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2008 Q1: YEAR-ON-YEAR COMPARISON BY COUNTRY
Q1 2008 vs. 2007 BOX OFFICETerritoryPercent ChangeAUSTRALIA11.0%BRAZIL6.0%CHINA87.0%DENMARK17.0%FRANCE23.0%GERMANY46.0%HONG KONG22.0%INDIA-28.0%ITALY-5.0%JAPAN0%MEXICO20.0%NORWAY39.0%RUSSIA42.0%SOUTH KOREA-59.0%SPAIN14.0%TAIWAN-36.0%TURKEY-22.0%UK4%
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2008 Q1: FILM GROSSES
TOP GLOBAL GROSSERS *TitleInternationalDomesticGlobalI Am Legend213,203,91456,994,417270,198,331National Treasure: Book of Secrets173,279,70285,045,379258,325,08110,000 B.C.144,116,39084,992,525229,108,915Jumper118,756,27878,399,493197,155,771Horton Hears a Who75,649,082117,589,254193,238,336Juno70,917,544114,050,090184,967,634Alvin and the Chipmunks99,125,70869,424,545168,550,253Cloverfield77,912,20679,952,254157,864,460Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis157,314,114157,314,114The Bucket List58,150,95990,676,598148,827,55727 Dresses58,549,45476,150,977134,700,431Asterix aux jeux Olympiques130,521,428130,521,428Vantage Point56,554,22069,399,231125,953,451Sweeney Todd100,431,77124,613,476125,045,247The Spiderwick Chronicles48,772,48969,399,646118,172,135P.S. I Love You81,195,21728,440,670109,635,887Step Up 253,214,22457,207,787110,422,011No Country for Old Men77,601,27632,603,588110,204,864Enchanted91,286,43416,144,602107,431,036The Golden Compass96,726,54510,195,239106,921,784Rambo60,407,81742,781,147103,188,964The Water Horse61,330,65122,992,81484,323,465Alien vs. Predator - Requiem69,852,69613,590,64783,443,343Fool's Gold10,161,17968,102,98478,264,163Atonement38,130,67839,653,01677,783,694Charlie Wilson's War45,965,37528,125,44274,090,817There ...
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2008 Q1: DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE BY COMPANY
DomesticFox413,824,62318.60%Warner Bros.370,044,98516.70%Buena Vista264,196,55411.90%Sony215,238,7709.70%Paramount203,009,7619.20%Lions Gate135,134,8466.10%Universal126,795,3325.70%Fox Searchlight119,017,6545.40%Paramount Vantage64,318,7532.90%New Line61,086,5502.70%Focus55,643,9712.50%Miramax37,916,8721.70%Summet30,765,4861.40%MGM29,923,0181.40%Overture20,784,5540.90%Other70,924,6353.20%2,218,626,364
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2008 Q1: INTERNATIONAL MARKET SHARE BY COMPANY
Q1 share of international Q1 revenuesInternationalCompanyGrossMkt ShareFox572,567,20413.40%WB545,022,99012.70%Pathe351,686,1418.20%BV345,487,0078.10%Paramount305,962,8597.10%Universal212,408,7055.00%Summit168,369,9993.90%Sony164,041,5223.80%New Line112,585,5122.60%Toho100,437,7862.30%Gaumont81,008,9501.90%Millennium/NuImage62,734,1431.50%UTV58,612,2061.40%Wild Bunch56,868,1371.30%Caroprokat51,463,2411.20%Weinstein Co.45,535,3261.10%Showbox35,977,8900.80%Misc. U.S. Indies191,192,3884.50%Misc. Italian99,587,4222.30%Misc. German97,804,0002.30%Misc. Japanese91,532,7502.10%Misc. Korean88,225,5192.10%Misc. Chinese84,268,0622.00%Misc. Other European78,006,1221.80%Misc French64,926,8621.50%Misc. Turkish55,049,9271.30%Misc. Bollywood34,365,9340.80%Misc. Eastern Europe33,875,4060.80%Misc. English Language29,486,2370.70%Misc. Russian25,333,7360.60%Misc. Other21,797,1580.50%Misc. Hispanic15,859,3230.40%4,282,080,464
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The Guard Post
Dir. Kong Su-chang. South Korea . 2008. 122 mins.Like Park Chan-wook's Joint Security Area (2000), The Guard Post is set on the edge of the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas. Also like JSA, it uses an investigation into an incident involving a group of army recruits as an ...
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An Empress And The Warriors
Dir. Tony Ching. Hong Kong/China. 2008. 93 mins.Celebrated action choreographer Tony Ching's latest and most ambitious directorial outing is a case study in the dangers of setting out deliberately to make a martial arts epic with wide territorial outreach and broad audience appeal. A light yarn about a female ruler's ...
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L: Change The World
Dir: Hideo Nakata. Japan . 2008. 130 mins.A strong whiff of the well-milked cash cow hangs around this pedestrian follow-up to the hugely popular Death Note films - live-action versions of Takeshi Obata's bestselling manga. Though Goths the world over will rejoice at the top billing given here to cool, ...
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Box office gap between international and domestic widens in Q1
Screen International's first-quarter box office survey indicates a widening gap between international and domestic performance.Click here to see international market share by distributorClick here to see North American market share by distributorClick here to see 2008 grosses by filmClick here to see 2007/2008 comparisons by countryWhile US and Canadian revenues ...
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Let The Right One In takes top narrative award at Tribeca
Tomas Alfredson's Let The Right One In from Sweden took the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature as the Tribeca Film Festival announced its winners [May 1].The awards were unveiled several days before the festival closes on May 3. At time of writing no major deals had closed, although there ...
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Seattle announces lineup including 16 world premieres
World Premieres of Dan Ireland's Jolene, Russell Brown's The Bluetooth Virgin, Cornelia Durye Moore's The Dark Horse and Julia Sweeney's Letting Go Of God are among the expected highlights at the 34th Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF).Randall Miller's Bottle Shock will close the festival on June 14 and as previously ...
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PPI's Iron Man takes off worldwide and kicks off summer
It's all about Iron Man this weekend as Paramount Pictures International (PPI) kicks off the 2008 summer blockbuster season with a huge day-and-date rollout.Paramount will release the Marvel Studios film in North America on May 2 and the top-line cast of Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jeff Bridges allied ...
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New Zealand - Q&A - Ralph Winter
Name: Ralph Winter, producerProduction: The main unit of Twentieth Century Fox's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, directed by Gavin Hood, filmed for two-and-a-half weeks and the second unit for six weeks in New Zealand, principally in Queenstown and environs, Dunedin and Milford Sound, a fjord. All are in the lower half of ...
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New Zealand - Q&A - Richard Wright
Name: Richard Wright, producerProduction: Underworld 3: Rise Of The Lycans shot in and around Auckland for 11 weeks earlier this year.- Why did you decide to shoot in New Zealand'We had to shoot January through March because of actors' availability. The film takes place almost completely at night and mainly ...
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New Zealand - Q&A - Jon Landau
Name: Jon Landau, producerProduction: Avatar, directed by James Cameron, spent five months in Stone Street Studios, Wellington. The project also shot on location in Hawaii.- Why did you decide to shoot in New Zealand'First and foremost it had the calibre of artisans we were looking for to get the quality ...
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International - Kingdom leaps to top
Martial-arts adventure The Forbidden Kingdom came up trumps this weekend with a $16.8m take from 10 territories, making it this weekend's number one international film.The Chinese-US co-production expanded in five territories including Russia and South Korea, for a mammoth second weekend rise of 416%.The film, starring Jet Li and Jackie ...
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Screen opinion- The Games people play
Reading the coverage of the launch of videogame Grand Theft Auto IV this week, one might be forgiven for thinking the main crime was against the poor old film industry.For those uninitiated in the gaming world, the latest instalment of the role-playing phenomena is set to be the biggest entertainment ...
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In focus - Talking points - 'We just have to be more targeted'
IM Global chief Stuart Ford was in Tokyo visiting buyers when the news about Gaga broke. "I think the announcement's been interpreted as a more drastic change of strategy than may actually be the case," he says. "The Gaga brand is an important one in Japanese cinema and I think ...
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Red-Carpet Reality: the prospects for theatrical docs
It is a big year for documentaries at Cannes. Three are in official selection: Marina Zenovich's Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired, which premiered at Sundance and is screening at the Croisette out of competition, Israeli director Ari Folman's animated film Waltz With Bashir in the Competition, and James Toback's film ...
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New Zealand - Facilities - Delivering post
"Everybody thinks we went to New Zealand for its exotic locales," says Jon Landau, producer of James Cameron's 3D sci-fi epic Avatar. "We never left the studio. We did rent a warehouse off-site because we needed more space, but all our filming was studio-based."Landau wanted New Zealand's talent rather than ...
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Focus: the changing face of Japanese distribution
As the world's third largest box-office territory behind the US and UK, Japan is a hugely influential player in the international sales business. And until a few years ago, Japanese distributors would regularly stump up 10%-12% of the budget of heavyweight independent films.So it is not surprising Usen Corp's recent ...