All Screen articles in 10 June 2002
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Bad Company
Dir: Joel Schumacher. US. 2002. 111 mins. Given producer Jerry Bruckheimer's track record with odd-couple action movies (Beverly Hills Cop, Bad Boys, Enemy Of The State), and the promising pairing of Anthony Hopkins with Chris Rock, action comedy Bad Company could hardly be a better proposition or a bigger disappointment. ...
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Ten Minutes Older - The Trumpet
Dirs: Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Chen Kaige, Aki Kaurismaki, Spike Lee, Victor Erice, Wim Wenders. 2002. 92 mins. There are enormous advantages to the short-film format. It allows directors a creative freedom rarely enjoyed these days by even the most bankable names. For the audience, it offers a chance to ...
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Lew Wasserman 1913-2002
Hollywood was paying tribute yesterday to the last great movie mogul Lew Wasserman, who died at the age of 89 on Sunday in Los Angeles. The patriarch of Universal Studios - or MCA/Universal as it was in his day - who ate lunch at his usual table on the lot ...
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Worldwide film spending predicted to jump by $20bn by 2006
Global spending on filmedentertainment will expand at a promising 5.7 percent compound annual growthrate over the next five years, increasing from $59bn in 2001 to $79bn in 2006,predicts PricewaterhouseCoopers as part of its latest five-year outlook reporton the worldwide media and entertainment sector.Fueling that growth willbe strong box office receipts, ...
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E Pictures adds Euro-Asian thriller One For The King
E Pictures, the Korean sales house that was set up a year ago, is launching a new big-budget picture from Zenith Entertainment, the production outfit behind last year's $25m blockbuster My Boss, My Hero. The picture Four For The King: Code Paris is an Asian action suspense thriller with European ...
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UK openers affect but can't dethrone Episode II
Two major openers made a huge dent in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones' UK box office this weekend but failed to dethrone the blockbuster.UIP's Josh Hartnett vehicle, 40 Days And 40 Nights, scored best of this week's openers with $1.5m (£1.03m) from 324 sites. With a ...
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South Africa's Mbalo happy with NFVF progress
'Big strides have been made over the three years of the NFVF's existence,' said an upbeat Eddie Mbalo, chief executive of South Africa's National Film & Video Foundation for the last year.'We were originally conceived as a funding body, but now see ourselves in a much wider role, responsible ...
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Cowboy picks up North American rights to Sinclair's Toy Love
New York-based Cowboy Pictures has acquired North American rights to Toy Love, the comedy from hot New Zealand director Harry Sinclair, which had its market premiere at Cannes. John Vanco of Cowboy negotiated the deal with Kathleen Drumm of the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) at Cannes and plans to ...
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Man Without A Past sells internationally for Bavaria
In what was described as a "substantial deal" on the eve of its main competition screening Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without A Past was sold to BIM Distribuzione for Italy. The film is now handled by Bavaria Film International, having previously been sold by Orfeo/Christa Saredi.Previous sales include Filmcoopi for ...
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Brazil changes Spider-Man rating in response to public outcry
Sony Pictures' money-spinning Spider-Man is gathering an extra bit of mileage in Brazil thanks to a change in the film's classification during its first week on release in the South American nation. The film, which was released May 17 through Columbia-TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) on an unprecedented 507 prints, ...
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Fortissimo strikes slew of sales on Cannes market slate
Fortissimo Film sales has completed a clutch of sales on its Cannes market slate. Thai director Danny Pang's The Eye was sold to Europa Corp for France, Deaplaneta for Spain, Fu Works for Benelux and AudioVisual for Greece.Peter Pau's The Touch, starring and produced by Cannes jury member Michelle ...
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Fund veteran Marco Mehlitz named COO at Cinerenta
Marco Mehlitz, the former head of production at VIF International Films, has been named chief operating officer of German production fund Cinerenta. He will be responsible for sourcing projects to be produced by Cinerenta and overseeing the projects alongside Michael Ohoven, CEO of LA-based Infinity International Entertainment, the US consultant ...
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Tavernier's latest finds safe passage in US with Empire
Empire Pictures, the NewYork-based art-house distributor that released Patrice Chereau'sBerlinale Golden Bear-winner Intimacy unrated in the US last year, has acquired American rights to anotherBerlin Film Festival award-winning French title, Bertrand Tavernier's Laissez-Passer.The deal was confirmedlast week by Empire Pictures president Edmondo Schwartz and John Kochman,director of international sales at ...
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Karanovic shoots Loving Glances at F.A.M.E.
Belgrade-based director Srdjan Karanovic's new picture Loving Glances, which gets underway next month, is the latest addition to the burgeoning slate of Film & Media Entertainment (F&ME).The romantic comedy, set among the former Yugoslavia's displaced communities, is Karanovic's first since Virdjina - A Kind Of Woman ten years ago. ...
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Filmalbatros spreads its wings
Filmalbatros, the outfit set up for Italian director Marco Bellocchio's competition film The Hour Of Religion (L'Ora Di Religione), is branching out for a wider production slate.The company was established a year ago as a joint venture between Bellocchio and Sergio Pelone's company Bottom Line and is now extending into ...
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The Sum Of All Fears
Dir: Phil Alden Robinson. US. 2002. 124 mins. It's not the efficiently staged action that stands out in the fourth movie adapted from Tom Clancy's series of best-selling Jack Ryan political thriller novels. Nor even the debut of Ben Affleck as a younger, sexier incarnation of CIA stalwart Ryan. Rather, ...
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Kino takes North American rights to restored Metropolis
New York-based arthouse distributor Kino International has licensed North American distribution rights to the digitally restored 35mm presentation of Fritz Lang's 1927 silent masterpiece Metropolis from Munich-based Transit Films. The film will premiere in New York on July 12, followed by a national expansion.Not to be confused with the 1984 ...
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Graham Bradstreet's Montage merges with Viastar
In a deal concluded at Cannes last month, Graham Bradstreet's Montage Media & Capital has merged with publicly traded Viastar Holdings VISH and Bradstreet has been appointed chairman of the new group.Viastar, which is run by CEO George Malasek, is an outfit dedicated to developing portfolio companies in the media ...
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Intertainer launches European broadband VOD co
Jonathan Taplin's US broadband video-on-demand (VOD) venture Intertainer has teamed up with Italian new media giant Freedomland to launch an Internet Protocol (IP) VOD service for broadband customers throughout Europe. As part of the deal, Freedomland has made an equity investment of E10 million in Intertainer in return for a ...
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Portman, Hoffman, Ribisi, Gleeson to climb Cold Mountain
The glittering cast of Anthony Minghella's upcoming epic Cold Mountain is taking shape, with the addition of Natalie Portman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Giovanni Ribisi and Brendan Gleeson this week. Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger play the three lead roles in the film, which is a co-production between Miramax ...