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  • News

    Along Came Polly dethrones Return Of The King with $27.6m bow

    2004-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Universal's romantic comedy AlongCame Polly ended the four-week rule of The Return Of The King as itopened top on an estimated $27.6m - the highest opener over the Martin LutherKing Day holiday weekend since Save The Last Dance in 2001.The poorly reviewed filmstars Jennifer Aniston as a woman who spices ...

  • News

    Along Came Polly dethrones Return Of The King with $27.6m bow

    2004-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Universal's romantic comedy AlongCame Polly ended the four-week rule of The Return Of The King as itopened top on an estimated $27.6m - the highest opener over the Martin LutherKing Day holiday weekend since Save The Last Dance in 2001.The poorly reviewed filmstars Jennifer Aniston as a woman who spices ...

  • News

    Along Came Polly dethrones Return Of The King with $27.6m bow

    2004-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Universal's romantic comedy AlongCame Polly ended the four-week rule of The Return Of The King as itopened top on an estimated $27.6m - the highest opener over the Martin LutherKing Day holiday weekend since Save The Last Dance in 2001.The poorly reviewed filmstars Jennifer Aniston as a woman who spices ...

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    The Return wins FIPRESCI honours at Palm Springs

    2004-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Andrei Zvyagintsev's drama TheReturn was named best foreign language film by the FIPRESCI panel ofinternational critics at the 15th Palm Springs International FilmFestival's closing ceremony last night (18).In other awards, the JohnSchlesinger Award for first feature went to Yann Samuell's French Film Galalove story, Love Me If You Dare. The ...

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    Cold Mountain leads Bafta nominations

    2004-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Cold Mountain has emerged as the front runner for this year's Bafta awards, taking an impressive 13 nominations including best film and best director.Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is just behind with 12 nominations, while Girl With A Pearl Earring has ten, Lost In Translation and ...

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    Cold Mountain heads Bafta nominations

    2004-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Cold Mountain has emerged as the front runner for this year's Baftas, taking an impressive 13 nominations including best film and best director.Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is just behind with 12 nominations, while Girl With A Pearl Earring has ten, Lost In Translation and Master ...

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    Rotterdam director joins UK production outfit Illuminations

    2004-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) co-director Simon Field is to become a director of UK production company Illuminations Films.Field will take up the position at the end of this year's festival, which runs from Jan 21 until Feb 1. Sandra Den Hamer, who has been co-director with Field for several ...

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    HONG KONG

    2004-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Overall box office takings were noticeably down after the highs of Christmas and New Year, although they're likely to pick up again next week with the release of The Last Samurai and two Chinese New Year films.Three new releases - one each from the US, Thailand and Hong Kong - ...

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    ShoWest: Fox puts spotlight on five summer flicks

    2000-03-13T11:50:00Z

    20th Century Fox chose to focus just on its five summer movies at its luncheon today (Thursday) at Showest in Las Vegas.Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman Bill Mechanic introduced trailers for animated epic Titan AE (June 16), Martin Lawrence-starrer Big Momma's House (June 2), The Farrelly Brothers' latest comedy Me Myself ...

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    NEW ZEALAND

    2004-01-19T00:00:00Z

    At last The Return Of The King - the epic adventure that features fabulous New Zealand scenery - has been overhauled at the home box office. All-action newcomer The Last Samurai - another epic adventure that features fabulous New Zealand scenery - topped the takings (NZ$629,295) and the screen averages ...

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    FRANCE

    2004-01-19T00:00:00Z

    The Lord Of The Rings still rules the French box office followed closely by favourite son Mathieu Kassovitz's first foray into English, Gothika.Good news for art house pics with Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation breaking in at number 4 following seriously good press. Nathalie, starring Emmanuelle Beart and Fanny Ardant ...

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    NORDIC Production Listings - January 19 2004

    2004-01-19T00:00:00Z

    DENMARK - January 19IN PRE-PRODUCTIONEUROTRASH(Wise Guy Productions) Co-prod: Zentropa Productions. Budget: Euros 1.1m. Dist: Sandrew Metronome (Den). Youth drama about two friends' attempt to get out of their miserable life in the concrete ghetto by robbing the local superDenmarket. Exec prod: Peter Aalbaek Jensen. Prod: Thomas Stegler. Dir/scr: Stefano Gonzalez. ...

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    Nordic film industries look to increased government funding

    2004-01-19T00:00:00Z

    For full Nordic listings click HEREAlthough the Nordic film industries can look back on 2003 as a year when local market shares either boomed - as in Norway and Finland - or maintained a solid streak - as in Denmark and Sweden - the many unresolved issues of ...

  • Reviews

    Garden State

    2004-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Zach Braff. US. 2004. 112mins.Screening in Dramatic Competition at Sundance, Zach Braff's promising first feature has three of the elements that make debut films appealing: a new face, a fresh voice and a distinct way of seeing the world, all embodied in the triple threat that is Braff: director, ...

  • Reviews

    Motorcycle Diaries

    2004-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Walter Salles. US-Argentina-Chile-Peru. 2003. 128minsA stirringly compassionate road movie that charts Ernesto "Che" Guevara's political awakening over the course of one seminal year, Motorcycle Diaries proved the early revelation at this year's Sundance Film Festival where Focus Features swept it up within hours of its world premiere screening on ...

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    Angelopoulos juggles pair of projects

    2004-01-20T04:00:00Z

    Theo Angelopoulos - whose latest film Trilogy 1: The Weeping Meadow will screen in competition at next month's Berlinale - is preparing to shoot his next film.Angelopoulos is developing two projects. He told ScreenDaily.com: "I cannot determine right now which one will start rolling first but I am determined to ...

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    Seven sign on for Berlinale jury duty

    2004-01-20T04:00:00Z

    The Berlin International Film Festival has named the seven members of its main competition jury, which will be chaired by Oscar winning actress Frances McDormand.The jury will comprise:Maji-da Abdi (Ethiopia)Maji-da Abdi's directing credits includeThe River that Divides (2001), which tells of the war experiences of Ethiopian women. Her producer credits ...

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    Besson's Parisian studio plan wins gov't backing

    2004-01-20T04:00:00Z

    Luc Besson's Cinema City project received a shot in the arm late last week when it was listed among France's 50 priority development projects by prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin.The proposed complex would house studios, soundstages, production offices and eventually even an amusement park. Planned for the Seine Saint-Denis suburb just ...

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    August embarks on Bond writers' Return

    2004-01-20T04:00:00Z

    Danish film-maker Billie August has begun filming Moviefan Scandinavia's Return To Sender, the long gestating project from Bond screenwriters Robert Wade and Neal Purvis, in Denmark.The $7m Danish-UK thriller, which is being produced by Michael Lunkerskov and executive produced by Stephen Woolley, stars Aidan Quinn, Connie Nielsen and Kelly Preston.The ...

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    Wortmann makes US debut with Pleswin-backed comedy

    2000-03-12T20:27:00Z

    Sonke Wortmann, German director of Der Bewegte Mann, will make his US production debut with The Hollywood Sign which also marks the first US picture to be produced and financed by Dutch production outfit Pleswin Entertainment Group, a partnership between Eric Pleskow and Leon De Winter.Burt Reynolds, Rod Steiger and ...