All Screen articles in 7 November 2003 – Page 4
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Palm packs Wolf, Butterfly domestic rights
ChrisBlackwell's Palm Pictures has acquired US and Caribbean rights to MichaelHaneke's Time Of The Wolf and North American rights to Lou Ye's Purple Butterfly. Both films played in official selectionat this year's Cannes Film Festival.The distributorplans limited theatrical releases followed by DVD/video roll-out for bothtitles in 2004, with Time Of ...
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Palm picks up US rights to Wolf, Butterfly
ChrisBlackwell's Palm Pictures has acquired US and Caribbean rights to MichaelHaneke's Time Of The Wolf and North American rights to Lou Ye's Purple Butterfly. Both films played in official selectionat this year's Cannes Film Festival.The distributorplans limited theatrical releases followed by DVD/video roll-out for bothtitles in 2004, with Time Of ...
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Willing to direct Burns in River King for Myriad
Edward Burnswill star in an adaptation of Alice Hoffman's supernatural thriller TheRiver King that is beingput together by Myriad Pictures' London arm, Canadian production company imXcommunications and UK-based Grosvenor Park's First Choice Films.Principalphotography in Canada is due to begin in spring 2004 with Nick Willing set todirect based on a ...
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Willing to direct Burns in River King for Myriad Pictures
Edward Burnswill star in an adaptation of Alice Hoffman's supernatural thriller TheRiver King that is beingput together by Myriad Pictures' London arm, Canadian production company imXcommunications and UK-based Grosvenor Park's First Choice Films.Principalphotography in Canada is due to begin in spring 2004 with Nick Willing set todirect based on a ...
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Mel Stuart named recipient of IDA's Pioneer Award
Veteran directorand producer Mel Stuart will receive the International Documentary Association'sPioneer Award at the 19th Annual IDA Distinguished Documentary AchievementAward ceremony in Los Angeles on Dec 12."Mel Stuart richly deserves this recognition," IDApresident Michael Donaldson said in a statement. "His films have enlightenedpast and current audiences about some of the ...
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Exhibitors set for alternative content bonanza
Exhibitors are set to reap major financial benefits from alternative content screenings such as sports events, according to a new report.The report - Alternative Content: The New Cinema Profit Engine by Screen Digest - says exhibitors should take advantage of new opportunities created by digital technology and that there is ...
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Austria's Diagonale fest agrees to producer demands
The fate of Graz's Diagonale Festival of Austrian Cinema took another turn last week, with the festival's new management agreeing to accept a series of demands made by the Association of Austrian Film Producers (AAFP).The Diagonale is at the centre of a major row within the Austrian industry about moves ...
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Hands off our subsidies, say Euro film agencies
Europe's national film funding agencies have called on the European Commission to call off a major re-examination of the cobweb of national film support schemes that is scheduled to take place next year.In a letter addressed to culture and education commissioner Viviane Reding, the 16 state funding bodies called for ...
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Nemo crosses $50m mark in UK alone
Buena VistaInternational (BVI)'s Finding Nemo stayed top of the UK charts for the fourth consecutive week witha $5.8m haul that raised its territory total to an extraordinary $52m.Overall the animated hit has grossed around $150m at theinternational box office and BVI will be eying its upcoming continental Europerollout with glee.Elsewhere ...
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LXG passes $100m for Fox International
FoxInternational's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG) elevated its international runningtotal to $105.4m with a $4.6m weekend haul from 2,457 screens in 23 marketsthat saw decent holdovers in the UK, Germany and Japan.Thefantasy-adventure added $1.4m from 362 screens in its third week in the UK,dropping 31% for a $9.8m running ...
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Cruelty is kind for Universal, takes another $10.8m
IntolerableCruelty grossed $10.8mthrough UIP from 2,457 sites in 24 countries at the weekend to raise itsinternational running total to $35.6m.Chief highlightswere a strong $550,000 opening in Korea in 75 venues and number one holds insecond weeks in Australia, Italy and Spain.The black comedyenjoyed 22% market share in Australia and added ...
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UK/IRELAND
The Halloween weekend was ably represented in the UK last weekend when the remake of 1974 horror classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre launched into second position with $2.3m (£1.4m).Including preview figures of $118,908 (£70,037) the film, which stars Jessica Biel as a young woman who, with a group of friends, ...
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SWEDEN
As the top of the Swedish chart remained all but unchanged for another weekend with the two local hits Evil and The Third Wave in front, the new release of Kjell-Aake Andersson's drama comedy Let's Play House (MammaPappaBarn) confirmed how difficult it has been a many of the new local ...
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NEW ZEALAND
Calendar Girls showed amazing resilience in its fourth weekend by reclaiming the top spot from S.W.A.T, which is on 13 more screens and only in its second week. The gap between them only amounted to NZ$5,000 but Calendar Girls' highest-in-the-chart screen average indicates there is a lot more life in ...
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JAPAN
The strategy of releasing a made-for-Japan version of Kill Bill Vol. 1 is paying off big time in the world's second largest film market. The film scored a rousing $1,960,630 on 20 major city screens for a $79,564 screen average. This compares with Y74,370,200 ($670,002) on the same number of ...
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UK launches review of co-production treaties
The UK government today launched a review of its international co-production treaties in a bid to crack down on filmmakers accessing tax relief while only spending a small proportion of the budget in the country.The culture department, which will carry out the review with support body the UK Film Council, ...
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Camara Oscura to open Sitges
Catalan newcomer Pau Freixas' Camara Oscura is set to open the Sitges International Film Festival, which this year has pushed its dates back to run Nov 27 - Dec 7.Greg Marcks' US-Canadian co-production 11:14, starring Hilary Swank, Rachel Leigh Cook and Patrick Swayze, will close a high-profile line-up unveiled on ...
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France's CNC awards screenwriting prize to Mihaileanu
France's national cinema centre, the CNC, has awarded its prize for best screenwriter of 2003 to Radu Mihaileanu. The award went to the Romanian writer for his film Va, Vis Et Deviens which was written in collaboration with Alain-Michel Blanc.Va, Vis Et Deviens is about an Ethiopian child adopted by ...