All Screen articles in 9 June 2001 – Page 3
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UIP to go solo in Poland
Casting a vote of confidence in the local market, international distribution giant United International Pictures is to go it alone in Poland. It will release films through a newly-created local arm. Among the first UIP titles to go through the wholly-owned Polish subsidiary are The Mummy Returns, Shrek, Tomb Raider ...
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JSA hits top spot in Japan
Joint Security Area (JSA), the highest grossing Korean film of 2000, debuted at number one on the Japanese box office chart following its release on May 26. Distributed jointly by Cine Quanon and Amuse Pictures, which also handled the 1999 Korean megahit Shiri, JSA enjoyed the widest release of any ...
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UK writer slams agency signing-on fees
UK novelist James Follett has launched an on-line attack on Avalon Films, accusing the British production company of using his name as "window dressing" to encourage would-be screenwriters to pay registration fees.Follett put up a warning on his own website after Avalon - which is not related to the UK ...
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Taurus
Dir: Alexander Sokurov. Russia. 2001.90 mins. Alexander Sokurov's examination of fallible tyranny continues. After Moloch, in which Hitler and Eva Braun conducted what was often a non-relationship at Berchtesgarden, comes Taurus, in which Lenin, crippled by a stroke, negotiates a living death in a requisitioned mansion surrounded by strangers no ...
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De Luca named production chief at DreamWorks
Michael De Luca has been confirmed as the new head of production at DreamWorks Pictures, ending weeks of speculation as to whether the former New Line production chief would join the DreamWorks fold. De Luca reports directly to DreamWorks Pictures co-head Walter Parkes and studio principal Jeffrey Katzenberg.De Luca takes ...
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Vivendi not ready to sell BSkyB stake
French media group Vivendi Universal has denied that there is any foundation to reports in the UK press that claim that the company is exploring the possibility of selling its 23% in BSkyB to institutional investors.Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier pledged late last year to dispose of the stake within two ...
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10 year forecast: int'l box office keeps growing
The latest ten-year outlook for the worldwide theatrical exhibition sector looks stagnant, but increasingly focused on international and developing markets. According to the 4th edition of Informa Group's survey Global Film: Exhibition & Distribution, box office revenues are set to rise by $6bn or some 36% to $24bn between 2001 ...
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Pearl Harbor hit at UK box office
It may have seen off the opposition comfortably, but it was not all plain sailing for Buena Vista International's (BVI) Pearl Harbor on its opening weekend in the UK, its first major international outing since its US debut a couple of weeks ago. The film, which proved critic-proof on its ...
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AtomShockwave shuts up London shop
On-line film distributor AtomShockwave has confirmed that it is closing its London office as part of widespread cuts across the company only months after the on-line giant was created from the merger of AtomFilms and Shockwave.The San Francisco-based company, formed in December from the union of the two internet sites, ...
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Kimatrai to take over Fox office in Australia
Korean cinemas were besieged by a raft of new releases, but it was not the predicted winner that took the spot. Beating Blade II, was CJ Entertainment's unlikely blockbuster The Way Home. It also had a mighty impressive two-day screen average of $13,700.It is the story of a seven-year old ...
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Double Oscar winnner Anthony Quinn dies at 86
Two-time Academy Award winning actor Anthony Quinn died on Sunday in a Boston hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said. He was 86.Quinn, a spiky character actor who appeared in more than 100 movies, was perhaps best known for his title role in 1964's Zorba The Greek, a performance he claimed was ...
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Shrek gives Pearl Harbor a run for its money in US
Buena Vista's Pearl Harbor clung on to the top spot at the North American box office in its second weekend with a three-day take of $30m, but was closely followed by the dazzlingly successful Shrek from DreamWorks, which in its third weekend, took $28.4m. The Michael Bay-directed blockbuster fell over ...
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