All Screen articles in 6 January 2004 – Page 2
-
News
DENMARK
The Return Of The King remained magestic at the top of the Danish box-office chart, but the new release of Scary Movie 3 performed impressively on its 36 prints and picked up a 1,035 admissions screen average for second.Both Finding Nemo and Mystic River managed to climb the chart 18.2% ...
-
News
Marchand confirmed as chief of UK's Momentum
Xavier Marchand has been confirmed as the new managing director of UK distributor Momentum Pictures with a mandate to expand the company into Europe and boost its UK presence.The appointment, which was predicted by ScreenDaily.com (Dec 2003), became effective January 1.Marchand will report to Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution LP ...
-
Reviews
The Card Player (Il Cartaio)
Dir: Dario Argento. Italy. 2003. 107mins.Italian horror-maestro Dario Argento will alienate many of his loyal cult followers with this surprisingly conventional ripper-flick, which revolves around a serial killer's challenge to police investigators to play online video-poker if they want to save the life of his trussed and webcammed victims. But ...
-
News
Fandango buys into UK's Civilian Content
Italian production and distribution outfit Fandango, headed by Domenico Procacci, has acquired a 29% stake in Civilian Content, parent company of lottery franchise the Film Consortium and sales company The Works.Procacci, who paid around £830,000 for the stake, has bought out Civilian founder Richard Thompson who no longer holds a ...
-
News
Veteran Blanco to step down from Spain's DeA Planeta
Veteran Spanish executive Adolfo Blanco will step down from his position as director of distribution at DeA Planeta.Blanco has been with publisher Grupo Planeta for five years since it first began setting up its media division under the name Planeta 2010 prior to merging its media interests with Italy's DeAgostini ...
-
News
AUSTRALIA
Australian box office contenders bowed before the all conquering concluding episode of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, Return Of The King. Its A$7,686,250 weekend on 453 screens boosted total takings past A$26.6m on only its second week.The two films that challenged the King's A$16,967 screen average were newcomer Welcome ...
-
Reviews
You've Got A Call (Chakushin Ari)
Dir: Takashi Miike. Japan. 2003. 112mins.Kuroi Kazuo, executive producer of You've Got A Call and president of Kadokawa-Daiei, insists that this shocker, about death-messaging mobile phones, is not yet another reworking of Ringu, the Hideo Nakata film that launched the Japanese horror boom back in 1998. "We're doing a different ...
-
News
Rotterdam line-up underlines festival's global accent
Sixteen films have been selected for this year's VPRO Tiger Awards Competition in Rotterdam (Jan 21-Feb 1), among them eight world premieres.The films come from all corners of the world, including Peru, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Japan and Macedonia (see full list below).International Film Festival Rotterdam director Simon Field said ...
-
News
Refn to revisit Pusher
Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn will return to his roots with a follow-up to his 1996 debut and breakthrough film Pusher.Shooting from late January, Pusher II will see the local heartthrob Mads Mikkelsen (Open Hearts, The Green Butchers, King Arthur) reprise his role from the first film, but this time ...
-
News
New Nordic films line up for Gothenburg
Eight new Nordic features have been selected for the Nordic Film Award at Sweden's major film festival in Gothenburg (Jan 23 - Feb 2).The films come from all over the region, and include a number of first time directors. The festival will open with the international premiere of Hilmar Oddsson's ...
-
News
Watts, Johansson, Ferretti and Sheldon join Palm Springs Film Festival honours list
Naomi Watts, Scarlett Johansson, production designer DanteFerretti and writer Sidney Sheldon will receive special honours at the upcoming15th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's awards gala on Jan 11.Watts, who has already been nominated as best lead actress of 2003by the Broadcast Film Critics Association and other bodies for her ...
-
News
Splendor gets best film vote from National Critics
American Splendor was voted best film of 2003 at the 38th NationalSociety of Film Critics Awards on Saturday (Jan 3), while Bill Murray won bestactor for Lost In Translation andCharlize Theron took actress honours for her acclaimed performance in Monster.Clint Eastwood was namedbest director for Mystic Riverand best foreign film ...
-
News
Love Actually nears $55m in UK, scores big in Korea
Love Actually has become Working Title's second biggest and Universal's thirdbiggest film ever in the UK as it climbed 25% in its seventh week on anestimated $2.1m for a mighty $54.1m running total, ranking third.The romantic comedy - released by Universal through UIP in mostcountries - also ranked third in ...
-
News
Towne teams with Carlton for another remake of The 39 Steps
The Oscar winning writer and director Robert Towne (Chinatown,Shampoo) has signed adeal with Carlton International Media to remake The 39 Steps, John Buchan's classic thriller that wasfirst filmed, famously, by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935.Towne will write and direct thestory about a man who becomes embroiled in a complex murder plot ...
-
News
Nemo rises to number 11 of all time after bonanza Christmas
Finding Nemo added a little over $22m at the weekendto raise its international cumulative score to more than $440m, according toearly estimates from Buena Vista International (BVI).The latestfigures elevate the animated hit to the 11th biggest ever internationalperformer ahead of Spider-Man, which managed $418m. Nemo's $780m global box office ranks ...
-
News
Hungary passes new film law, offers new tax rebates
The HungarianParliament has passed a new film law which should position the country as oneof the most attractive in the world for incentive-hungry internationalproductions.The law, which passed justbefore Christmas on Dec 22, offers two kinds of incentives. The first is astraight rebate system for productions shooting in Hungary which offers ...
-
News
Return is still king of the box office
New Line's TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is expected to pass $300m any day now in North Americafollowing an estimated $30.8m third weekend haul that boosted its domesticgross to $291.9m.Internationalresults are even more impressive as the fantasy finale raised its tally to astaggering $385m, which combines ...
-
Reviews
The Young Black Stallion (LSF)
Dir: Simon Wincer. US. 2003. 50mins.A prequel to 1979 family classic The Black Stallion, The Young Black Stallion, Disney's first live-action dramatic movie made specifically for giant screen exhibition, is, predictably, strong on visuals and weak on story. A Christmas Day opening in the US on 51 IMAX screens yielded ...
-
News
Tax-driven film financing develops funding alternatives
For the latest UK production listings click HEREWith the UK's film tax funding in flux, financiers, producers and even two US studios are flocking to a new breed of fund that is not reliant on the current regulations under Section 48.The latest fund devised under general accountancy principles rather ...
-
News
Hungary passes new film law, offers new tax rebates of up to 20%
The HungarianParliament has passed a new film law which should position the country as oneof the most attractive in the world for incentive-hungry internationalproductions.The law, which passed justbefore Christmas on Dec 22, offers two kinds of incentives. The first is astraight rebate system for productions shooting in Hungary which offers ...
- Previous Page
- Page1
- Page2
- Page3
- Next Page