All Screen articles in 7 July 2006
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...and takes powerful $20m international gross in just 11 markets
Warner Bros PicturesInternational (WBPI)'s Superman Returns burst on to the international scene with an outstanding $20m weekend haul from just 1,750 prints in 11 markets that generated 5.06million admissions.Opening number one in allits markets, the epic took $5.2m and 795,741 admissions from 303 prints in SouthKorea, and $3.8m and 525,843 ...
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Ira & Abby, Mario are LAFF audience favourites
Robert Cary's Ira & Abby won the audience award for best narrative feature, JeffWerner and Susan Koch's Mario's Storytook corresponding documentary honours, and Tomer Heymann's Paper Dolls won the audience award for best international feature atthe Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF) which finished last night (Sunday).The award for outstandingperformance in ...
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UK anti-piracy group adds theatrical investigator
The UK's Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) is clamping down on camcorder use in UK cinemas by creating the new role of theatrical investigator. The theatrical investigator will liaise with the UK exhibition and distribution industry to help prevent camcorder use and other forms of digital recording. The post reports ...
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No records broken but Superman still flies high in US
The Man of Steel soared overthe box office but not the record books as Warner Bros' Superman Returns added an estimated $52.2m over three days to raisethe five-day tally to $84.2m.While the result was nowherenear the five-day mark of $152.4m set by Sony's Spider-Man 2 exactly two years ago, it ...
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Dir: Gore Verbinski. US. 2006. 151mins.Coming three years after the originalride-turned-movie dug up a hoard of summer box office gold, the second voyageof Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer's PiratesOf The Caribbean franchise is bigger, longer and more spectacular than itspredecessor but at the same time less breezily entertaining. The novelty value ...
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Czech film industry promised help by expected government coalition
Leaders of the likely next Czech government have vowed to create a comprehensive film law to address the needs of film-makers in the Czech Republic, and are planning a provisional increase in subsidies to the industry.Mirek Topolanek, the leader of the centre-right Civic Democrats, which emerged the frontrunners in the ...
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Czech film industry promised help by expected government coalition
Leaders of the likely next Czech government have vowed to create a comprehensive film law to address the needs of film-makers in the Czech Republic, and are planning a provisional increase in subsidies to the industry.Mirek Topolanek, the leader of the centre-right Civic Democrats, which emerged the frontrunners in the ...
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Czech film industry promised help by expected government coalition
Leaders of the likely next Czech government have vowed to create a comprehensive film law to address the needs of film-makers in the Czech Republic, and are planning a provisional increase in subsidies to the industry.Mirek Topolanek, the leader of the centre-right Civic Democrats, which emerged the frontrunners in the ...
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Korean filmmakers protest as new quota becomes reality
An estimated 10,000protestors rallied in Seoul todemonstrate against the reduction of Korea's Screen Quota and the US-Korea free tradenegotiations on Saturday (July 1), the day that the reduced quota wasintroduced. Top stars such as AhnSung-ki (Silmido) and Choi Min-shik (Old Boy) led filmmakers, academics andrepresentatives from financial, cultural and audio-visual ...
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Krrish takes flight at Indian box office
Rakesh Roshan's Krrish, billed as India's first real superhero movie, has blasted its wayinto Bollywood's blockbuster league by grossing an estimated $15m (Rs690m) inits opening week (June 23-29).The $10m film has alsobecome a hit in overseas markets, debuting at number nine at the UK box office in its opening weekend ...
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Eurimages announces latest funding of $5.4m
MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Location: file:///C:/34889F51/wendy1.htmContent-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printableContent-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"The board of Eurimages has decided tosupport 12 features in its latest funding round, marking a total amount of =$5.4m(Euros 4.2m). The coproductoins supported are:35Rhums, dir. Claire Denis (Fran=ce,Germany, Belgium) Capri1934, dir. Benoit Jacquot (Fra=nce, Germany) Elsa, dir. Silvio Soldini (Italy, Switzerland) Fureinen Augenblick, Freiheit, ...
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Eurimages announces latest funding of $5.4m
The board of Eurimages has decided to support 12 features in its latest funding round, marking a total amount of $5.4m (Euros 4.2m). The coproductions supported are:35 Rhums, dir. Claire Denis (France, Germany, Belgium) Capri 1934, dir. Benoit Jacquot (France, Germany) Elsa, dir. Silvio Soldini (Italy, Switzerland) Fur einen Augenblick, ...
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Crowe and Luna among members of Venice jury
The Venice Film Festival(August 30-Sep 9) has announced its full competition jury, with membersincluding Cameron Crowe and Bigas Luna.As previously announced, themain competition jury of the 63rd edition will be presided over by Catherine Deneuve.Bigas Luna, whose new comedy Yo Soi La Juanis set for release at the end of ...
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Beauty In Trouble (Kraska v Nesnazich)
Dir: Jan Hrebejk. Czech Rep. 2006. 110mins.Film-maker Jan Hrebejkreturns with Beauty In Trouble,another chronicle about the morality of his Czech compatriots as they crossfrom the vestiges of their recent totalitarian past to the best of the West.Inspired by a Robert Graves poem about a beauty saved by an angelic presence, ...
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The Way I Spent The End Of The World (Cum mi-am petrecut sfarsitul lumii)
Dir: Catalin Mitulescu. Rom-Fr. 2006. 106mins.More like a quick guide to recent history rather thana fully rounded first feature, Catalin Mitulescu's debut TheWay I Spent The End Of The Worldpaints a disturbing realistic, if often disorganised,portrait of Romanian life during 1989, the last year of the Ceausescu era.Blending childhood pranksand ...
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The Way I Spent The End Of The World (Cum mi-am petrecut sfarsitul lumii)
Dir: Catalin Mitulescu. Rom-Fr. 2006. 106mins.More like a quick guide to recent history rather thana fully rounded first feature, Catalin Mitulescu's debut TheWay I Spent The End Of The Worldpaints a disturbing realistic, if often disorganised,portrait of Romanian life during 1989, the last year of the Ceausescu era.Blending childhood pranksand ...
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Fish Dreams (Sonhos De Peixe)
Dir/scr: Kirill Mikhanovsky. Braz-Russ-US.2006. 105mins.Russian-born Kirill Mikhanovsky makes a promising debut with Fish Dreams, which may be set in an impoverishedfishing village in Brazil but is heavily indebted to Italian neo-realism in itsreliance on non-professional actors and real locations. More specifically it recallsVisconti's masterpiece La Terra Trema (1948) in much ...
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Swede's first feature wins top prize at Moscow Film Festival
The 28th Moscow International Film Festival recovered from the debacle of Michael Haneke's eleventh-hour refusal to chair the main jury, finishing with a surprise best picture winner.The jury, including Julie Christie, Canadian actor Remy Girard and French film critic and producer Pierre-Henri Deleau, chose cult Polish filmmaker and existing ...
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Moscow gives top prize to Sweden's About Sara
The 28th Moscow International Film Festival (June 23-July 2) wrapped onSunday with the festival awards ceremony and Pedro Almodovar'sVolver as the closing night film. Despite thefestival's new hub this year being relocated to the Soviet-era Oktyabr Cinema multiplex, complete with a 1500-seatpremiere hall, organisers chose to hold opening and closing ...
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Veronique Tan gets on board with Wild Side
Wild Bunch label Wild Side Films has hired formerCelestial Pictures executive Veronique Tan to acquire Asian films for thecompany.Wild Side is active in theatrical and videodistribution and is looking to grow its Asian acquisitions. Tan will evaluateprojects from China, Hong Kong, Korea,Taiwan, Thailand, Japan and other Southeast Asiancountries.With a strong ...