All Screen articles in 8 October 2004 – Page 3
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A Dirty Shame
After the laboured comedyof Cecil B Demented, it's reassuring to find John Waters on morefamiliar terrain in A Dirty Shame, a dirty sex comedy which really isgood clean fun. Already slapped with an NC-17 rating in the US by the MPAA, thefilm's gleefully flagrant bad language and sexual situations will ...
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Korea resolves foreign Oscar controversy
Afterprotracted deliberation which has caused considerable controversy at home,South Korea has chosen Kang Je-gyu's Korean War film Tae Guk Gi torepresent the country in the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar competition.A special5-person jury appointed by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) decided on Sept 22to conditionally recommend Kim Ki-duk's award winning ...
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Collateral damages Village reign
Thefive week reign of BVI's The Village over the international chart endedthis week as UIP's Tom Cruise starrer Collateral moved to the head ofthe pack.Aseries of new number one bows in Europe, including France, Belgium, TheNetherlands and Poland boosted Collateral into the lead. Collateral launchedinternationally the same week as The ...
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Head In The Clouds
Dir/scr: John Duigan.Canada-UK. 2004. 132mins.Head In The Clouds aims to be asweeping romantic epic but it falls short, the victim of a fatal lack of energyand a scale that cannot live up to the film's ambitions. Set in Europe as itbuckles under Fascism, it's the story of an untenable love ...
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South Africa, US address piracy threat
The question oframpant DVD piracy was brought up in South Africa's parliament on Monday. TradeMinister Mandisi Mpahlwa reported that police and customs officials betweenJanuary and July this year seized over 286,000 pirated DVDs - double the numberseized throughout the whole of 2003.Mpahlwa said thataccording to research done by Ster Kinekor ...
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London Film Festival to launch 'mini-market'
The Times bfi London Film Festival (Oct 20-Nov 4) is set tostage its own, unofficial mini-market.Fortissimo,Celluloid Dreams, Wild Bunch, Bavaria Film and Trust are among theinternational sales agents already confirmed to attend the festival, which willbe organising industry screenings at London's Curzon Soho from Oct 25- 27. Thesales agents, all ...
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League Of Gentlemen starts Dublin, London shoot
Principal photography has begun on the feature film The League of Gentlemen - Royston Vasey (working title).Directed by Steve Bendelack, The League of Gentlemen - Royston Vasey is from the team behind the award winning UK comedy TV series TheLeague of Gentlemen, created by and starring Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton,Reece ...
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WBITD renews free-TV deal with SAR-AN in Turkey
Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD) has renewed its multi-year freetelevision deal with Turkish television distributor SAR-AN International.Under the termsof the deal SAR-AN has acquired broadcast rights to a number of films includingthe first two Harry Potter instalments, the final two Matrix episodes, Ocean's Eleven and The Last Samurai.The package includes ...
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Motorcycle Diaries falls through foreign-language Oscar cracks
Walter Salles'pan-Latin American co-production The Motorcycle Diaries - one of the year's most popularforeign-language films - has been ruled ineligible for the foreign-languagefilm Oscar category this year. It joins A Very Long Engagement, 2046 and Bad Education in the list of acclaimed internationalfilms which have been excluded from that race.TheMotorcycle ...
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Danish Film Institute names Ramskov as production chief
The board of the Danish Film Institute has appointed JoergenRamskov as its new manager for production and development. He will beresponsible for the DFI department charged with spending Euros 16.5m on backingDanish film.Ramskov replaces Lars Feilberg who resigned earlier thisyear.Atrained journalist, the 47 year-old Ramskov has worked for the DanishBroadcasting ...
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Civilian Content celebrates Summer sales
Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer Of Love has racked up$2.3m worth of international sales, according to financing and sales outfitCivilian Content.Ina statement to the London Stock Exchange it said the sales significantlyexceeded management's expectations. The sales were handled by Civilian's salessubsidiary The Works.At last month's Toronto Film Festival, the Works sold ...
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Germany's Downfall proves a hit with buyers
Germany's EOS Distribution saidthat Germany's Oscar hopeful The Downfall by Oliver Hirschbiegel has nowbeen sold in more than 25 territories and demand from buyers is still strong.Thefilm, which puts a human face on tyrant Adolf Hitler, was last week sold toSandrew Metronome for Scandinavia and to Best Hollywood for Hungary. ...
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Basil-Jones gets top international job at DreamWorks
DreamWorks hasconfirmed that Stephen Basil-Jones has been named head of internationalmarketing and distribution, filling the interregnum created by JonathanChissick's departure earlier this year.Basil-Jones, whois currently based in Los Angeles as senior vice president of marketing atColumbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), will relocate toLondon where he is expected to start ...
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Alien Vs Predator tops Australian box office for Fox
Fuelled by a $2.2m numberone opening in Australia on 224 screens at the weekend, Fox International'shorror-thriller Alien Vs Predatorraised its international running total by $3.2m from 902 screens to $21.6m.A $1.7m second place openingin Germany on 501 screens was the prime mover in Dodgeball's weekend as it added $6.1m on ...
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BVI unveils South African and Chinese TV deals
Buena Vista InternationalTelevision (BVITV) has announced a new accord with the South AfricanBroadcasting Corporation (SABC) for various series and features, as well asrenewing its features deal with China's CCTV. The deals were both announced atthe MIPCOM television market which is currently underway in Cannes.Films in the SABC package include 10Things ...
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21 Grams producer strikes Swedish output deal
Swedish major Svensk Filmindustri (SF) has concluded athree-year co-operation agreement with New York based film outfit This is That.Accordingto the agreement, SF gets the rights to distribute all This is That'sproductions on cinema, video and television throughout the Nordic region.This is That was founded in 2002 by Good Machine founder ...
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Spider-man 2 continues to play in Italy, passes $400m
A strong third weekend inItaly was the key driver for Columbia's Spider-Man 2 at the weekend as it added $2.5m from allterritories for a $403.2m international running total.The action sequel remainedtop in Italy for its third weekend in a row with a $2.3m haul through ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) ...
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Going Upriver: The Long War Of John Kerry
Dir. George T. Butler.US. 2004. 130mins.The 2004 US presidential election is widely considered oneof the most divisive in memory, mostly the result of polarity between those whosupport the US-led invasion of Iraq and those who consider it an error equivalentto that nation's adventure in Vietnam a generation ago.A number of ...
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Berlinale launches World Cinema Fund
After three years ofpreparation, the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund (WCF) has been launched with anannual budget of Euros 500,000. The funds are to be provided over the nextthree years by the German Federal Cultural Foundation to support the productionand distribution of films from Latin America, Africa, and the MiddleEast/Central Asia.According ...
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SOUTH KOREA Production Listings - October 6
SOUTH KOREA October 6PRE-PRODUCTIONDAENSEO-UI SUNJEONG(Culture Cap Media) Backer/Dist:Show East. A famous overseas Korean dancer is invited to Korea for acompetition, but her sister ends up coming in her place by accident. Exec prod:Kim Dong-joo. Dir: Park Young-hoon. Main cast: Moon Geun-young. Shooting fromlate October.Contact: Show East, (82) 2 3446 9590GEUK-JANG-JEON(Jeonwonsa) ...