All Screen articles in 9 March 2004 – Page 2
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The Passion Of The Christ took A$2,095,841 from 151 screens to retain first place in the chart during its second four-day weekend on release. This was about two thirds of the gross of the corresponding period a week earlier from a screen count that rose by six prints.Speaking of prints, ...
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Singapore set as host for Indian International Academy Awards
The 2004 International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) AwarY
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Singapore set as venue for Indian International Academy Awards
The 2004 International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards will be held on
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Singapore set as host for Indian International Academy Awards
The 2004 InternationalIndian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards will be held on May 22 in Singapore.The IIFA presentationceremony launched four years ago at London's Millennium Dome and is thehighlight of a three-day show honouring the best of Indian cinema.The IIFA Weekend will runfrom May 20-22, culminating in the fifth IIFA Awards ...
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SPAIN Production Listings - March 9 2004
SPAIN - March 9PRE-PRODUCTIONNever Again (Nunca Mais)(Producciones do Pais Nunca Mais, MediaPro) Budget: Euros 620,000. Feature-length film made up of short films about the Prestige oil spill off Spain's Galicia coast. Exec prods: Suso Iglesias, Carlos Ares, Andres Mahia, Xose Castro, Jose Manuel Blanco. Dirs/scr: Gracia Querejeta, Joaquin Oristrell, Daniel ...
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Malaysia cranks up local production
Malaysiais poised to become the second largest film producer in South East Asia, thanksto an increasing number of pictures being churned out by local producers.Twoof the biggest producers in Malaysia are planning to increase film output thisyear: Metrowealth has set to make 11, up from six last year, while TayanganUnggul ...
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Disney looks to UK tax funds to support distribution costs
Walt Disney Studios isbelieved to be the latest Hollywood major to tap a UK tax-based fund tounderwrite their distribution costs.The studio is finalizing apact to licence about eight films to the Timeless Releasing scheme devised byUK tax financier Future Film in a deal understood to be worth up to £200m.The ...
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Stillking opens Cape Town production office
Prague based production service company Stillking Films hasopened an office in Cape Town, South Africa.The move highlights the growing importance of South Africaas an international film location. Stillking is the Czech Republic's topproduction services company, working on films such as The Bourne Identity (Universal), Shanghai Knights (Disney), Van Helsing (Universal), ...
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...as Cape Town studio drafts in Hollywood designer
Scott Carter, whodesigned the Disney sound stages in the US, has been chosen to designDreamworld, Cape Town's film studio complex."We went toHollywood and got the best man we could find," says Mike MacCarthy, oneof the directors of the DreamWorld consortium along with producer Anant Singhwho is chairman of the group.Carter ...
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French directors call for curbs on film print numbers
About 200 filmmakers have signed an open letter in Frenchdaily Le Monde calling for a limit tothe number of prints sent out to theatres on a film's release.Among the signatories were members of the Agence Pour LeCinema Independant Et Sa Diffusion (ACID) including Chantal Akerman, CedricKlapisch, Bertrand Tavernier, Nicolas Philibert, ...
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Las Palmas lines-up 30 projects for market
The Las Palmas International Film Festival is gearing up forits fifth annual edition (March 12-20), and is set to host the second annualEuroForum Co-Production Market where more than 30 new projects will bepresented from 10 different countries.Honorary award recipients Mia Farrow and Omar Shariff areamong the stars expected to turn ...
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FRANCE
The top two films at the French box office traded places last week with three week old hit comedy Podium shooting back up to number one from second position knocking last week's winner The Crimson Rivers: Angels Of The Apocalypse down a notch.Podium has garnered 2.6 million admissions so far ...
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Walden denies Kidman link to Narnia
Walden Media has denied widespread rumours that Nicole Kidman is poised to take a major role in the forthcoming The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.Early this week, several New Zealand newspapers - including The New Zealand Herald, The Sunday Mail and The Dominion Post - reported that Kidman spent ...
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UK Film Council offers digital projection funding for film clubs
The UK Film Council has launched a £500,000 National Lottery funded initiative to boost access to films in areas without a local screen.Film clubs and local film societies, community groups and mobile film exhibitors are to apply to the digital fund for non-theatrical exhibition. The organisations can secure up to ...
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Minghella, Rickman back UK launch of Stellar Network
Jude Law, Anthony Minghella and Alan Rickman are lending their names to the Stellar Network, the starry New York networking organisation which is opening its doors in London.Other boardmembers from across film, theatre and television include director Peter Kosminsky, playwright and screenplay writer David Hare, showbusiness journalist Baz Bamigboye and ...
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Gothika opens top for CTFDI in Brazil, Philippines
Fired up by number oneopenings in Brazil and the Philippines, Columbia's horror picture Gothikacontinued to score steady international business at the weekend.The picture is releasedthrough Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) and grossed anestimated $410,000 from 140 screens in the Latin American market and a powerful$200,000 from 10 in the ...
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Kinnear, Davis join Brosnan black comedy Matador
GregKinnear and Hope Davis will join Pierce Brosnan in the black comedy Matador, which is being financed by Bob Yari and Mark Gordon's Stratus FilmCompany and is due to go into production in Mexico City in April.RichardShepard wrote the screenplay and will direct, with Irish DreamTime principalsBrosnan and Beau St ...
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Universal's Along Came Polly scores table-topping Mexico bow
Universal's romantic comedy AlongCame Polly grossed an estimated $8.2m from 1,600 sites in 14 markets through UIP at theweekend to raise its international running total to $24.3m.The highlights were a firstplace $1m bow in Mexico from 233 sites including previews and second place inGermany on $2.9m from 469.The picture remained ...
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Passion stays top, races past $200m in second weekend
Newmarket Film's ThePassion Of The Christ streaked past $200m in its second weekend, holding onto top spot and adding an estimated $51.4m for $212m.Newmarket president BobBerney said Mel Gibson's picture fell only 39% - a very strong hold bearing inmind releases of this scale typically fall 50% in their second ...
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Something's Gotta Give closes in on $100m international
The romantic comedy Something'sGotta Give added an estimated $8.3m from 2,400 screens at the weekend,raising its international cumulative total to $91.1m.Released internationallythrough Warner Bros, the picture grossed $6.9m in European markets for a $64.6mregional total there.It has amassed $18.5m in theAsia-Pacific region and $8m in Latin America.