All Screen articles in 7 April 2004 – Page 2
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Sundance Channel, Wellspring team up for Cho's third concert film
US pay-cable network TheSundance Channel and independent theatrical and video distributor Wellspringhave teamed up to acquire distribution rights to Margaret Cho's latest comedyfilm Revolution (pictured).Sundance will air the worldpremiere of the film on June 19 as part of its Out Loud programming month andWellspring will then release it on home ...
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Morante named as mistress of ceremonies
Italian actress Laura Morante will act as mistress of ceremonies for the 57th Cannes Film Festival which begins on May 12.Morante succeeds Monica Bellucci who held the post last year.Her duties will include opening and closing the official competition and welcoming jury president Quentin Tarantino on the first night of ...
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Morante named as mistress of Cannes ceremonies
Italian actress Laura Morante will act as mistress of ceremonies for the 57th Cannes Film Festival which begins on May 12.Morante succeeds Monica Bellucci who held the post last year.Her duties will include opening and closing the official competition and welcoming jury president Quentin Tarantino on the first night of ...
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Tribeca snags Cholodenko, Burns world premieres
LisaCholodenko's latest Cavedweller,Ed Burns' Looking For Kitty andDavid Duchovny's directorial debut House Of D starring Robin Williams will have their worldpremieres at this year's Tribeca Film Festival which takes place May 1 to 9.Allthree films are featured in the Spotlight section unveiled yesterday, whichfocuses on the work of movie stars ...
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Teen comedy Formula cracks Taiwan box office
Taiwanese teen comedy Formula 17, produced by start-up production company Three Dots Entertainment, has surpassed expectations for a local film over its opening weekend in Taipei, achieving a screen average of US$11,777 (NT$387,660) - the highest among all new releases.Following its premiere at the Taipei Film Festival on March 22, ...
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French cinema looks to boost profile in China
For the first time ever, Unifrance is to organise a French film Panorama in Beijing (April 8-11) with the aim of boosting the profile of French cinema in China.In conjunction with the Chinese authorities and the French embassy in China, ten French films have been selected by the Chinese Film ...
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Telefilm Canada strikes deal with CAA to boost Canadian films
Telefilm Canada has hired anagent. Canada's public sector film financier has entered an agreement with CreativeArtists Agency (CAA) that could see Hollywood's largest talent agency packagingprojects for production in Canada.According to a leaked memodirected to Canadian producers from Telefilm executive director RichardStursberg, the purpose of the agreement is "to assist ...
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Asian territories embrace The Christ
IconEntertainment's The Passion Of The Christ showed that it could play beyond traditional US and European strongholds over the weekend, placing number one in the market in five Asianterritories for Fox International. In South Korea, where 49% of the population is Christian, it amassed a huge $2.3m opening on 157 ...
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Alliance Atlantis gets Canadian rights to Super Size Me
Alliance Atlantis's OdeonFilms has acquired Canadian rights to Morgan Spurlock's Sundance-prize winning SuperSize Me. The deal was negotiated bySpurlock and Odeon president Bryan Gliserman between Sundance and Austin'sSouth-By-Southwest Festival (SXSW).Odeon vice-president ofmarketing and publicity Mark Slone told ScreenDaily that the film was the idealtheatrical documentary release because of its marketability. ...
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Knots to close Gen Art Film Festival on Apr 20
Greg LombardoC;s comedy Knots has been named the closing night film of this yearC;sGen Art Film Festival on April 20 in New York City.The festival which starts onApril 6 is now in its ninth year and was founded in 1996 to showcase emergingUS independent film-makers. Among the films it has ...
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Knots to close Gen Art Film Festival on Apr 20
Greg Lombardo's comedy Knots has been named the closing night film of this year'sGen Art Film Festival on April 20 in New York City.The festival which starts onApril 6 is now in its ninth year and was founded in 1996 to showcase emergingUS independent film-makers. Among the films it has ...
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CTFDI's Gothika surges to $6.1m weekend
Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International (CTFDI) saw its horror thriller Gothika surge to $6.1m on 1,737 screens over the weekend oninternational release, including a strong $2.6m opening in the UK on 306screens for third position in the market.The Halle Berry-starrer hasnow totaled $58.1m in CTFDI territories which consist of all internationalexcept ...
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ITALY
As Italy braces itself for the release of The Passion Of The Christ on April 7, five new films opened at the box office last weekend, although none of them garnered a warm reception during what turned out to be a particularly lukewarm weekend.Columbia Tristar's Peter Pan opened at number ...
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GERMANY
A ridge of high pressure over Central Europe brought a spate of unexpected warm spring weather over the weekend. Consequently, cinemagoers disappeared into the beergardens rather than the cinemas and the result was seen in the lower overall attendance.Disney's Brother Bear held onto the top spot for a third week ...
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Faithless Games wins Plzen Czech film fest
Michaela Pavlatova's Faithless Games was the winner of the GoldenKingfisher Award for Best Feature Film at this year's Finale Festival of Czech Films in Plzen (29 March - 4 April)The festival's International Jury called Faithless Games "a well-crafted work reflecting the unpredictable aspects of everyday life." The film had previously ...
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Tarantino plots anime prequel to Kill Bill
Quentin Tarantino isconsidering a continuation of his Kill Bill epic by writing and producing an anime prequel whichtells the early life story of Bill before the fatal events in his two-volumepicture.Tarantino said he wouldwrite and oversee the picture and David Carradine would voice Bill. The filmwould be animated in the ...
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Media Programme, Eurimages merger 'inevitable'
Jacques Toubon,head of the Eurimages production aid scheme, thisweek told Screendaily.com that mergerwith the Media programme may become "inevitable".The former French culture minister said that such a move could be a consequence ofthe imminent enlargement of the European Union (EU)."Soon the MEDIAProgramme and Eurimages' membership will overlap, with the consequence ...
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Scorsese to present The Leopard at Lake Placid
Martin Scorsese will presenta special screening of Luchino Visconti's The Leopard at this year's Lake Placid Film Festival which takesplace June 2 to 6.Scorsese will talk about thefilm which will then screen in a restored version which runs to 180 minutes.The director has always cited Visconti's 1963 epic as one ...
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Warner wins international weekend with Scooby off the leash
WarnerBros opened Scooby Doo 2 in 27markets over the weekend for an estimated total of $15.5m from 3,800 screens.After two weekends on release, the film has now taken $17.7m.Thefilm opened top in the UK, with an estimated $6.3m, more than double the secondfilm in the country The Passion Of The ...
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Czech film funder faces reduced revenues
The lower house of the Czech parliament voted March 31 to reduce advertising on public network Czech Television, fuelling film industry fears that a major source of financing is drying up.Czech Television spokesman Martin Krafl told ScreenDaily.com that if the upper house and president approve the measure, "We will lose ...