All Screen articles in 7 November 2004 – Page 6
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ITALY 3 November
The November 1st holiday weekend in Italy saw Buena VistaInternational's The Village open at number one, as it registered a 3-daygross of $3,293,899 for a massive screen average of $8,014.Hot on its heels in dance-loving Italy was Jennifer Lopezand Richard Gere vehicle Shall We Dance',which grossed $2,989,347 for 01 Distribuzione.The ...
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GERMANY 3 November
UIP's release of 7Dwarves (7 Zwerge - Maenner Allein Im Wald) blasted into the German Top 15at No. 1 taking over $ 11.7m with a tremendous $ 15,076 screen average from its777 screens.Starring the creme de la creme of German comic talent suchas Otto Waalkes, Atze Schroeder, Christian Tramitz and ...
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fox21 to sponsor Slamdance's Teleplay Competition
SlamdanceFilm Festival has announced the year-round sponsorship of fox21, 20thCentury FoxC;s boutique production, kicking off at the upcoming festival inJanuary with the Blind Script Deal award for the winner of the TeleplayCompetition Grand Prize.Slamdanceset up the original teleplay competition to discover new voices in televisionwriting. The recipient of the Blind ...
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Sutherland prize shortlists three films for Trophy
Threefilms have been shortlisted for the British Film Institute (bfi)'s SutherlandTrophy.Selectedby a jury from ten nominated titles, the shortlist comprises Innocence,a haunting story of a girls' school from French director Lucile Hadsihalilovic;Tarnation, a psychedelic memoir from American director JonathanCaouette; and Thirst, an account of isolation and struggle byPalestinian director Tawfik ...
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Hurt joins Short Order cast
John Hurt will join the cast of theIrish/UK/German co-production Short Order, currently in the final days of the German leg ofthe shoot which is due to wrap in Hamburg on November 5.Hurt joins Emma de Caunes, RadeSerbedzija, Cosma Shiva Hagen, Vanessa Redgrave, and Jack Dee in the story oflife, by ...
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Neverland scores in UK, The Village in Italy for BVI
Finding Neverlandopened in fourth place in its first international market of the UK at theweekend, grossing an estimated $1.4m on 324 screens through Buena VistaInternational (BVI).Mystery TheVillage opened top inItaly on $3.2m on 302. Overall it amassed $3.5m at the weekend for a $136.1minternational running total.The PrincessDiaries 2 opened top ...
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Blethyn vehicle wins Oz funding
Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) is to backdirector Cherie Nowlan's comedy drama Clubland, starring Brenda Blethyn.Blethynplays a raunchy Sydney club performer whose shy 20-year-old son is forced to make a decision between her and his feisty new girlfriend.The RB Films project has the backing of MovieHouseEntertainment in the UK and ...
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NZ arthouse player plans expansion into UK and US
New Zealand's dominant arthouse player, Rialto, isplanning to establish distribution operations in the US and the UK, as well assetting up a cinema chain in Australia, where it has been distributing filmsfor nearly three years.The ambitious global expansion, to be funded through cashreserves, is unprecedented for a specialist distributor from ...
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Alien Vs Predator has strong French opening for Fox
Fox International's AlienVs Predator raised its internationalrunning total by an estimated $6.9m on 1,780 screens in 18 markets to $40.5m atthe weekend.The action horror pictureopened on $3.3m on 568 in France for an unconfirmed top five ranking, and openedtop in at least four markets including South Africa, Finland, Venezuela andIceland.The ...
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Storm clouds ahead for Canada's production sector
The "perfect storm" metaphor has beenflying around Canada's service production industry of late. There's nothinglike a handful of negative coincidences to put the fear into people.Item One: Mel Brooks decides to shoot theadaptation of his hit musical TheProducers in New York.Item Two: the state of New York and NewYork City ...
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Jeunet linked to Harry Potter 5
AVery Long Engagement director Jean-Pierre Jeunet says he has beenapproached as a possible director for the fifth Harry Potter movie.Askedin an interview with Empire magazine whether he had been approached,Jeunet said: "They proposed me something like this, yes."Potter producer David Heyman told ScreenDaily.com that "nodecision had yet been made" about ...
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Lions Gate, Twisted set Saw 2 for Halloween 05
Lions Gate Filmsand Twisted Pictures have announced plans to release Saw 2 over Halloween 2005 following the horrorpicture Saw's mighty$18.3m weekend debut.Saw opened in third place and averaged morethan $7,900 on 2,315 screens, ranking behind the second place opening of Ray and Columbia's The Grudge, which stayed top in its ...
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Controversial Dutch filmmaker murdered
Controversial Dutch director Theo van Gogh (47) was murderedthis morning in Amsterdam. According to police reports, the filmmaker, knownfor his provocative statements, was stabbed and shot in the centre of the Dutchcapital. A suspect was arrested near the scene of the crime after an exchangeof gunfire with police.Van Gogh had ...
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The Bridesmaid (La Demoiselle d'Honneur)
Dir. Claude Chabrol.Fr-Ger. 2004. 110mins.By now veteran film-makerClaude Chabrol should be able to deliver a film like The Bridesmaid (LaDemoiselle d'Honneur) with his hands tied behind his back - so comfortableand familiar and comfortable is he with the troubled, frayed fringes of theFrench bourgeoisie and their efforts to disguise themselves ...
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DENMARK 2 November
With itshigh 77 prints Sharks (Inkasso)stayed on top of the Danish box-office chart with the 60 prints of Kings' Game a close second.The newrelease of Michael Mann's Collateralcame in third with a better box-office screen average (DKK32,129) from its 40prints.However,that was marginally beaten by House OfFlying Daggers' DKK33,125 on fifth, ...
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NEW ZEALAND 2 November
The two most popular films at the box office on the weekendwere both openers, being Shall We Dance'which took NZ$267,734 from 58 screens for BVI/Miramax, and The Forgotten, which grossed NZ$198,866 from 10 fewer screens forColumbia TriStar.The strongest performer of the four other openers in thechart besides Shall We Dance' ...
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SWEDEN 2 November
After nine weeks on release and seven at the top of theSwedish chart, As In Heaven, has nowpassed 800,000 admissions and grossed $1,2m, and the theme song by HelenSjoeholm is second on the music chart.The new release of another local film, the low-budget youthfilm Fourteen Sucks (Fjorton Suger),won't reach those ...
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Shark Tale passes $100m internationally
Having already celebrated becoming the first studio toproduce two $100m animated hits in a single year in North America, DreamWorksAnimation can cheer again this week as SharkTale passed $100m internationally.It was DreamWorks' fifth $100m international hit, following1998's 2-D The Prince Of Egypt($117.2m), 2000's stop-motion animation ChickenRun ($118m) and 2001 3-D ...
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The Incredibles
Dir/scr:Brad Bird. US. 2004. 121 mins.Thesixth - and probably penultimate - Disney/Pixar collaboration is a technicallybrilliant piece of CG animation that also manages to introduce muscular actionand real family drama to a genre known mostly for bubbly fun. Not that TheIncredibles isn't also fun; it's just that in this, his ...
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US distributor TLA promotes Ross, hires Raisola
Richard Ross hasbeen named executive sales director at TLA Releasing, where he will workclosely with TLA President Raymond Murray and TLA partner and director ofacquisitions Richard Wolff.Ross joined thecompany as sales director in January 2002, and is the former Northeast salesmanager for Spartan Entertainment.He will beassisted by the new national ...