All Screen articles in 8 October 2004 – Page 4
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SWEDEN 5 October
Though As In Heaven, which is now Sweden'sofficial Oscar candidate, stayed securely at the top of the local chart havinggrossed $4.3m and retaining the best screen average of $5,347 from its 103prints, this week's most impressive performance was by another local film.Afteropening in the shadow of Home On TheRange and ...
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GERMANY 5 October
Constantin's The Downfall - Germany's entry for theForeign Language Oscar - held on to the top spot for a third week in a row andpassed the 2m admissions barrier with a total gross of over $18.3m.With Les Choristes slipping out of the Top10, another Constantin release - Franziska Buch's family ...
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UK/IRELAND 5 October
Entertainment Film Distriibutors won the battle of theopeners this week, which saw eight new titles enter the top 20 including threewide releases.Horror film Sawproved the best performer playing at just over 300 locations for an excellent$2.2m (£1.2m) weekend take despite its audience-limiting 18-certificate. Thesite average of $7,400 was the best ...
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Foreign hopefuls jockey for position in Oscar race
The foreign language Oscar race kicks off in earnest thisweek after the deadline for submissions closed on Friday (Oct 1).The last few days before the deadline saw a flurry ofheavyweight films added to the long list of contenders (see list, below).They included Venice prize winner The Sea Inside by Spain's ...
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here! Films takes US rights to Horizon's Eternal
Paul Colichman and Stephen P Jarchow's US distribution outfit here! Films has acquired domesticrights to Wilhelm Liebenberg and Federico Sanchez's thriller Eternal from Horizon Entertainment.here! Films will release Eternal in early 2005; Horizon willhandle worldwide sales and premiere the feature at AFM in November.Eternal wasproduced by Liebenberg and Sanchez, who ...
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Wimbledon stays top at UK box office for Universal/UIP
Universal's Wimbledon remains the top picture in the UK after adding $2.8m in itssecond weekend for 19% market share and a $7.6m running total.The romantic comedy opened third in Australia through UIP on anestimated $1.4m on 210 screens, while $180,000 on 45 in New Zealand was goodenough for fourth place.Overall ...
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EuropaCorp bankrolls Brazilian drugs thriller
Two Brazilian brothers have secured $1m investment from LucBesson's studio EuropaCorp for the European company's firstco-production in Latin America. The deal was announced at the Rio InternationalFilm Festival.The deal with Erik and Christian de Castro is for adrugs-based thriller called Federal whichwas written by Erik, aged 33, and is being ...
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Molfenter named as Babelsberg managing director
Babelsberg's new owners have appointed Henning Molfenter asmanaging director of Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures (SBMP).It is the first major personnel decision made by CarlWoebcken and Christoph Fisser since they officially took over the German studiosfrom Vivendi Universal on September 1.Molfenter replaces Thierry Potok, who attempted anunsuccessful management buyout of the ...
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Yesterday
Dir. Darrell James Roodt.S Africa. 2004. 91mins.Yesterday, DarrellJames Roodt's touching and only too familiar African tragedy, which claims tobe the first Zulu-language feature, has more to offer than unfamiliar language,spectacular landscapes and a touch of exoticism.Without entering any of thepolitical minefields that many films about South Africa (Forgiveness, CountryOf My ...
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Innocent Voices (Voces Inocentes)
Dir. Luis Mandoki. Mexico. 2004. 120mins.Luis Mandoki, the Mexican film-maker whohas built a comfortable career around middling Hollywood melodramas such as WhenA Man Loves A Woman and Message In A Bottle, returns to his LatinAmerican roots with a powerful true story about a young boy growing up in themidst of ...
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UGC denies international circuit sale
UGC has officiallydenied a report in The Times newspaper that its entire European circuitis up for sale with a price tag of £400m ($715.8m).According to TheTimes, US buyout firm the Blackstone Group, as well as VUE Entertainment,the group formed last year by the merger of Warner Village and SBCInternational, will ...
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Dinard Festival of British Film unveils jury
The Dinard Festival Of British Film has unveiled its juryfor this year's event (Oct 7-10).Actors Hugo Speer, Phil Davis and Kieran O'Brien make up theBritish contingent on this year's jury.Veteran French TV personality Jacques Chancel is this year'sJury President, presiding over an eight strong jury. His fellow FrenchJury includes actresses ...
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Bride And Prejudice
Dir: Gurinder Chadha.UK-India-US. 2004 111mins.Bollywood spectacle andBritish comedy of manners collide head on in Gurinder Chadha's Bride AndPrejudice, an entertaining if wildly uneven updating of Jane Austen'snovel.Chadha throws Indian,English and American characters into the mix, cheerfully trading in allavailable national stereotypes as she goes. Much grates. The direction is oftensurprisingly ...
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Shark Tale breaks October opening record for DreamWorks
DreamWorks' animated Shark Tale snapped up the biggest October openingof all time at the weekend, defying a broadly unenthused critical response togross an estimated $49.1m.In a debut that bodes well for the proposed spin-off ofDreamWorks' animation unit, Shark Tale recorded the studio's second biggest ever opening behind Shrek2's $108m back ...
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IFC Films, Focus team to co-acquire Bier's Brothers
IFC Films and Focus Features have jointly acquired US rights fromTrust Film Sales to Susanne Bier's Danish language drama Brothers, the Toronto hit that earned top actinghonours for Connie Nielsen and Ulrich Thomsen at San Sebastien.The collaboration marks the first time the distributors haveteamed up. IFC will take the lead ...
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Bacon, Winslet to receive honorary awards at Santa Barbara
Kevin Bacon and Kate Winsletare to receive honourary awards at the upcoming 20th annual Santa BarbaraInternational Film Festival (SBIFF), which runs from Jan 28-Feb 6 2005.Bacon, who is generating buzz for his role as a paedophile in theupcoming drama The Woodsman, will receive the American Riviera Award highlighting his career,while ...
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The Syndicate hires Rainin for feature after short wins award
Filmmaker Michael Rainin has been hired by LA production companyThe Syndicate to shoot the $1m feature Learning To Fly after his short Waiting For Woody Allen won the Discovering New Artist Award atthe Los Angeles International Short Film Festival.The Syndicate sponsored theaward and chose Rainin from 500 short filmmakers as ...
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MIFED exhibitor bookings fall as AFMA boycott hits hard
Exhibitor bookings for thisyear's MIFED are significantly down as a result of the AFM decision to launch aNovember market, according to new figures released by the Milan marketorganisers.Fiera di Milano generaldirector Carlo Bassi said that the majority of worldexhibitors who traditionally attend MIFED will be there again this year - ...
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Arcand's awards run continues with Directors Guild of Canada accolade
Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions continued its winning ways, earning Arcandthe Directors Guild of Canada Outstanding Achievement in Direction - FeatureFilm prize and earning the film the Outstanding Team Achievement prize.Accepting the prize, Arcand quipped that the win was necessarybecause four months had passed since he had last received an ...
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HONG KONG 4 October
New Police Story, starring and produced by Jackie Chan, beatTom Hanks vehicle The Terminal to thetop spot at the Hong Kong box office, grossing US$1,263,166 from 58 screens inits first six days on release.Produced by JCEMovies, Chan's joint venture with local tycoon Albert Yeung, the film has beenlauded as a ...