All Screen articles in 7 April 2004 – Page 5
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IFC backs documentary about Z Channel from Cassavetes
The Independent Film Channelhas unveiled its latest original documentary Z Channel: A MagnificentObsession which is the feature directorialdebut of Xan Cassavetes. The film looks at the ground-breaking LA film channelof the 1970s and 1980s and its brilliant but troubled programmer Jerry Harvey,who committed suicide after murdering his wife in 1988.The ...
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Sundance Channel acquires two features, 10 shorts from Plympton
US pay cable network TheSundance Channel has picked up two features and 10 shorts by the animator BillPlympton for broadcast in a May spotlight on the film-maker's work."Get to Know: Bill Plympton"will present the US television premiere of his animated sci-fi feature MutantAliens as well as his first feature TheTune, ...
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UK studio to seek London stock market listing
UK studio group Pinewood Shepperton has confirmed it is seeking to float this year.The group aims to refinance all its current debt and create a capital structure for further growth. 3i, the venture capital company which bankrolled Michael Grade and Ivan Dunleavy's purchase of Pinewood from Rank in February 2000, ...
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Record year for Swiss video industry
The Swiss video industry posted record turnover in 2003 thanks to the rise in popularity of the DVD format and would have been even higher if it had not been for the problems of piracy and illegal parallel imports.According to the Swiss Video Association, the turnover in DVDs increased year ...
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Lolafilms to get retrospective at US Museum Of Moving Image
The US premiere of Fernando Trueba's comedy-drama Girl Of YourDreams (La Nina DeTus Ojos) starringPenelope Cruz will kick off a two-week retrospective of Spanish productioncompany Lolafilms in New York on Apr 30.Overall nine pictures will screen at the American Museum of theMoving Image including Goya In Bordeaux, LA Comunidad, Second ...
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Baober In Love (Lian Ai Zhong De Bao Bei)
Dir: Li Shaohong. China. 2004. 100minsHad the Berlin festival in February been just a touch more adventurous it might have scheduled Baober In Love as the Chinese film in competition rather than Sylvia Chang's pleasant but predictable 20 30 40. Programmed in the International Forum sidebar, the surprising Baober was ...
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Scooby unleashed by Warner Bros in 26 territories
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed is being let loose on 26 internationalmarkets this upcoming weekend in Warner Bros' first major push outside the US.The family sequel goes out inGermany on Apr 1 and Mexico, Spain and the UK on Apr 2, when executives areanticipating high scores to boost the picture's $4.3m ...
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Filmfest Dresden suffers unexpected funding cut
This year's Filmfest Dresden has been dealt a financial blow by the city hall just three weeks before the opening of the international festival of animation and short films on April 13.The City of Dresden has slashed its support for the 2004 edition by 40%, leaving the festival with a ...
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Wincer readies Pasternak epic, seeks investors for Clancy
Australian director Simon Wincer is scheduled to start shooting the epic love triangle The Loneliness Of Always from September 13 in Moscow.His own Billabong Productions is the producing entity and he will also take a producer credit alongside Robert Katz. The "highly complicated co-production" involves partners in Germany, Britain, Russia, ...
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Telefilm Canada greenlights four from Quebec
Canadian public sector filminvestor Telefilm Canada has given the greenlight to four projects from Quebec,including films from Bernard Emond, whose 20h 16 Rue Darling screened in the Critics Week at Cannes 2003, and JeanBeaudin, who is currently wrapping the Canada-France historical epic NewFrance.Emond's project, entitled JeanneEt Francois, tells the story ...
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Warner Bros signs first volume TV deal in China
Marking its first-evervolume programming distribution deal with a Chinese broadcaster, Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed a multi-yeartelevision deal with China Movie Channel (CCTV-6).The deal calls allows CCTV-6to broadcast selected current and library feature films as well asmade-for-television movies and was negotiated by WBITD's director of strategicdevelopment and sales ...
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South Korea mulls substantial film tax breaks
South Korea's Ministry of Finance And Economy has introduced plans to expand its system of tax breaks for small and medium-sized firms in the service sector to include the film industry.The changes, if ratified by Korea's National Assembly later this year, will grant a five-year, 50% reduction in corporate taxes ...
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Taormina reveals details of 50th edition
Stephen Frears, Peter Weir and Jane Campion are among the guests attending the 50th edition of the Taormina Film Festival (June 13-20).Felice Laudadio, former Venice director who has headed the Taormina Film Festival since 2000, said that Anjelica Huston, Margarethe Von Trotte, John Jost and Roberto Perpignano are also expected ...
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JAPAN
In the box office battle between Disney's bears and Shochiku's dog, the latter again emerged victorious for the second week running.Helmed by Yoichi Sai, a director better known for his excursions into the underworld and, on TV, his pungent wit, Quill grossed $883,396 on 17 major urban screens, compared ...
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Innocence
Dir/scr: Mamoru Oshii. Japan. 2004. 99mins.Japanese sci-fi animation, from Katysuhiro Otomo's Akira (1988) onwards, often points towards a post-apocalyptic part-human future. For all the blasts 'n' babes - the buffed heroines in spandex pouring thousands of rounds into clanking foes - the essential vision is dark. But as Mamoru Oshii's ...
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Cianciotta returns to distribution at Canada's Capri
Gabriella Martinelli's CapriFilms has appointed exhibition and distribution veteran Tony Cianciotta aspresident of its new distribution division, Capri Releasing.The Toronto-based shingleannounced its first release: Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster, for which Cianciotta picked up Canadian rights atBerlin from Films Transit. The documentary, directed by Joe Berlinger and BruceSinofsky, chronicles the ...
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Ritchie Boys gets world premiere at Hot Docs
Christian Bauer'sCanada-Germany coproduction The Ritchie Boys, the story of German Jews who formed an eliteintelligence unit for the US Army during WWII, will make its world premiere atthe 11th Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.The festival, North America'slargest film event devoted to non-fiction fare, will present the worldpremieres of a ...
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ScreenDaily.com launches exclusive International Box Office chart
ScreenDaily.com today launches a new and exclusive International Box Office chart, to complement the existing 25 global box office charts. These continue to be constantly updated on the site.The new chart comprises the very latest box office data from more than 60 international territories and is accompanied by a commentary ...
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NORTH AMERICA
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed scampered to the top of the US charts with $29.4m at the weekend, averaging a healthy $8,888 from 3,312 sites. Family specialist Raja Gosnell's follow-up to his 2002 original didn't come close to that picture's $54.1m opening weekend, although it didn't open in a lucrative summer ...
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Oscar names its 2005 dates: Feb 27 is the big night
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has setits key dates for next season with the 77th Academy Awards scheduled to takeplace on Feb 27 2005 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.Nominationballots will be mailed on Dec 27 2004, the polls will close at 5pm PST on Jan15 2005 ...
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