All Screen articles in 11 January 2002
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Orange County is strong but Rings, Mind still top
Paramount Pictures enjoyed a strong estimated $15.1m opening with teen comedy Orange County over the weekend in North America but it was not big enough to topple New Line's The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring and Universal's A Beautiful Mind from the top two slots.Fellowship, playing ...
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Sudden, major changes announced at Spain's Admira
Spanish powerhouse Admira underwent a radical shake-up Friday (Jan 11) when parent company Telefonica announced the replacement of executive president Juan Jose Nieto by Luis Abril, who was appointed secretary general of Telefonica last year.Likewise, Juan Ruiz de Gauna, CEO of Admira's digital satellite TV platform Via Digital, was replaced ...
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Javier Bardem tipped for Scott's Pancho Villa role
Oscar-nominated Spanish actor Javier Bardem is in the running to play Mexican revolutionary hero Pancho Villa in a forthcoming film for director Tony Scott.Scott told Mexican newspaper La Jornada that he is considering Bardem for the role of the turn-of-the-century icon in a project he hopes to begin shooting in ...
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Euro is best thing to happen to European film
Less than two weeks after its official launch, a top European film executive has described the Euro as "the best thing that ever happened to the European film industry".Juergen Schau, head of Columbia Pictures' German subsidiary, said the single currency would have a dramatic impact on the European film industry, ...
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Shake It All About stirs up Danish awards list
First-time director Hella Joof's crowd-pleasing romantic comedy Shake It All About (En Kort En Lang) heads the list of nominations for the Robert awards, a prize giving ceremony that will cap off a sparkling year for Danish film.The film garnered 13 nominations, including best film, best direction, best actor (Mads ...
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IMAX and IT Int'l add two more Euro complexes
A cinema construction contract between giant-screen entertainment company Imax Corp. and Israel-based exhibitor IT International (I.T.) has been expanded from seven cinemas to nine. The additional theatres, scheduled to open in 2003, will be located in Athens, Greece and an undisclosed European location. I.T.'s first Eastern European location opened in ...
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Pony Canyon launches sci-fi extravaganza Returner
Production has started on Returner, a CGI extravaganza that promises to be one of the biggest Japanese releases of 2002. Directed by Takashi Yamazaki and starring Takeshi Kaneshiro, Returner is a sci-fi thriller about a killer for hire who boasts a matchless martial arts technique but has a soft spot ...
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Brosnan stays on board for Bond films 20 and 21
Pierce Brosnan has revealed that he plans to play James Bond in another film, which will take the Irish actor's tally of Bond appearances to five.Speaking at a press conference at Pinewood Studios, where the still-untitled 20th Bond film is gearing up to start shooting on Monday (Jan 14) Brosnan ...
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Christa Saredi bows out of world sales sector
Veteran film sales agent Christa Saredi is to shut up shop this Spring after more than two decades in the business.The decision means the closure of the highly successful Zurich-based outfit that bears her name - World Sales Christa Saredi - as well as Orfeo Films International, a Cologne-based joint ...
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David Lynch to head Cannes jury
David Lynch, whose Mulholland Drive is just starting a successful European release, is to head the jury of this year's Cannes film festival (15-26 May).Lynch a Cannes regular, said: "I am filled with excitement, fear and the full meaning of responsibility as I accept this honour to be named ...
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PGA nominations throw Oscar race wide open
All bets are off again in this year's Oscar race following the inclusion of both Shrek and Harry Potter And The Scorcerer's Stone among the five motion picture nominees for this year's Producers Guild of America Awards. They compete against A Beautiful Mind, Moulin Rouge and The Lord Of The ...
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ContentFilm buys into Blow Up
ContentFilm, the new production/distribution venture recently set up by Edward R Pressman and John Schmidt, and its international investors are acquiring a minority share in Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente's digital production outfit Blow Up Pictures.Blow Up, which since its launch in 1999 has been behind some of the most ...
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Goldwyn, Fireworks team for Elysian Fields
Samuel Goldwyn Films and Fireworks Pictures are teaming up again to acquire domestic rights to George Hickenlooper's The Man From Elysian Fields, the star-studded drama which world premiered at last year's Toronto Film Festival and is in the premiere section at the Sundance Film Festival this week.The film stars Andy ...
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Winchester takes Scotland, PA international
Winchester Films has acquired international sales rights to Billy Morrissette's Scotland, PA, a comedic retelling of Macbeth set in a fast-food restaurant in rural 1970s Pennsylvania. The deal was concluded between Winchester and New York-based production outfit Abandon Pictures.Domestic rights to the film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival ...
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Three KirchGroup companies renamed
The KirchGroup's three holding companies are to be renamed as a consequence of the planned merger of ProSiebenSat.1 and KirchMedia this June.Thus, KirchHolding will then be known as TaurusHolding, KirchPayTV as Premiere Medien, and KirchBeteiligung as TaurusBeteiligung, while the name KirchMedia will be retained for the new merged company.Commenting on ...
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Wim Wenders produces Berlin cinema
Film director Wim Wenders has joined forces with distributor Christoph Ott of ottfilm and exhibitors Gerhard Gross and Burkhard Voiges of the Hackesche Hoefe cinemas to re-launch one of Berlin's oldest cinemas, the KANT Kino, which first opened its doors in 1912.Most recently, the cinema in Berlin's Charlottenburg district had ...
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Euro MEDIA Programme supports 36 initiatives
Three industry events at the forthcoming Berlinale (February 6-17) are among 36 initiatives which have been awarded over Euros 2.8m by the European Commission's MEDIA Programme as part of its support for promotional measures and film festivals.The Berlin-based events are: the European Film Promotion's (EFP) Shooting Stars showcase of rising ...
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Cool & Crazy launch for new Norwegian distributor
Aage Hoffart, until recently head of marketing at Scandinavia's most established independent film distributor, has launched his own company in competition with his former employer.After 14 years with Norway's leading independent distributor Europafilm, Hoffart has unveiled his own distribution entity, Oro Film, with financial backing from private investment company Diopter.Oro ...
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Norway's state production co becomes media fund
Norwegian private investment company Diopter has acquired a majority stake in the state-owned production entity Norsk Film as part of its creation of a new media investment fund.The 77.6% stake in Norsk Film includes the name of the company, up to 20 films in various stages of development and ...
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Reviews
Impostor
Dir: Gary Fleder. US. 2001. 95 mins. With a McCarthy-era literary pedigree and thinking man's hunk Gary Sinese producing as well as starring, it's no surprise that Impostor is a sci-fi thriller more concerned with the genre's intellectual than visceral possibilities. Yet while the story offers some interesting topical parallels ...