All Screen articles in 12 August 2003
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Germany's ProSiebenSat.1 returns to profit
Germany's ProSiebenSat.1 Group has posted strong financial results, just days before U.S. investor Haim Saban is likely to sign off on his deal to buy the broadcaster. The ProSiebenSat.1 Group reported a sharp earnings increase in the second quarter of 2003 and posted group pre-tax income for the first six ...
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Locarno Band Wagon starts to roll
The Locarno International Film Festival's 56th edition kicked off last night, on a scorching, hot and humid summer night, with a brand new print of Vincente Minelli's evergreen musical The Band Wagon. The opening, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film made by a director born 100 years ago, faithfully ...
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Media Luna picks up Locarno competitor Maria
Media Luna Entertainment has picked up world sales rights for Romanian first time director Calin Netzer's Maria which will receive its world premiere in Locarno Film Festival's Official Competition next Wednesday (August 13).Maria is a co-production by Artis Film Romania with France's Cine-Manufacture and Germany's Pandora Filmproduktion, which will be ...
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Moodysson cranks up Swedish family focused film
Acclaimed Swedish director Lukas Moodysson is to start shooting his new as yet untitled film later this month at the Trollhattan studio, where he shot his previous hits Fucking Amal, Together and Lilja 4-ever.The Swedish-language contemporary drama will again focus on a family, but as usual the writer-director is being ...
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Premiere posts healthier than expected figures
Thanks to substantial growth in revenues and further cost-cutting measures, German pay-TV platform Premiere has revised its predicted operating loss downwards a second time - to less than Euros 40m for 2003.In February, the Premiere had originally forecast a loss of Euros 80m. This was then revised downwards to a ...
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Argentinian films hunt for funding at Locarno
The Locarno International Film festival (August 6-16), which kicked off last night, is to hold a co-production workshop focusing entirely on projects from Argentina.New projects by Diego Lerman, director of the Silver Leopard-winning Tan De Repente in Locarno last year, Pablo Trapero (El Bonaerense), Santiago Loza (Extrano) and Juan Manuel ...
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Lerner named vp, Lewis, Winters hired at Bumble Ward & Assocs
Veteran entertainmentpublicist BeBe Lerner has been promoted to vice president at BeverlyHills-based PR company Bumble Ward & Associates (BWA).Ward, the company presidentwho founded BWA in 1994, has also brought in James Lewis as a publicist andpublic relations and marketing executive Rochelle Winters to spearhead thecompany's corporate division.'It is not anexaggeration ...
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UK launch for black film-makers sales outfit
Former High Point senior sales executive Sarah Chammartin has launched a new sales company which will specialise in handling films by black film-makers.Based in the UK and called Carre Noir Film, Chammartin says the aim is provide films by black film-makers to black communities around the world. Chammartin is currently ...
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Film-makers line up Indian Pakistani co-production
London based film producer Sevy Ali and well known Indian film maker Mahesh Bhatt are working together on an Indian Pakistani co-production. The yet to be titled film is a love story set against the backdrop of violence and turmoil that occurred during "partition" - the separation of Pakistan and ...
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UK Film Council plans nationwide film school network
The UK Film Council is understood to be planning a nationwide network of state-of-the-art film schools.The ambitious initiative is expected to be proposed next month when the Council, the UK's leading source of National Lottery cash, unveils the results of a high-powered training working group it launched in February with ...
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Germany secures future of film funds
Germany's Federal Finance Ministry has amended the way German media funds operate, bringing both an end to months of uncertainty about their future and giving investors more control over films in their portfolio.Last year, the future of German funds came under threat after the Finance Ministry proposed tighter regulations governing ...
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UK Production Listings - August 8 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalUK - August 8Pre-ProductionALEXANDER(Intermedia) Co-prod: Pathe (Fr). Int'l sales: Summit Entertainment (US). US dist: Warner Bros. Prod: Iain Smith. Main cast: Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins. Shooting from Sept. Contact: Pinewood Studios, (44) 1753 651 700BRONTE (Random Harvest Pictures) Budget: $12m. Period drama. The moors above Yorkshire are harsh ...
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Globo empire founder Marinho, dies aged 98
Roberto Marinho, once dubbed the Citizen Kane of Brazil for building one of Latin America's largest news and entertainment empires, died on Wednesday aged 98.Marinho turned his father's small newspaper into a media empire, becoming one of Brazil's richest men. He founded Organizacoes Globo, which encompasses television, cable, pay television, ...
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Universal, Arenas terminate partnership
Universal Pictures and advertising, PR and talent management firm The Arenas Group are dissolving their partnership in Arenas Entertainment, the US Latino-targeted film label launched in November 2001. "We are shifting to a non exclusive arrangement with Arenas," said Marc Shmuger, vice chairman of Universal Pictures. Rather than using one ...
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S.W.A.T.
Dir. Clark Johnson. US. 2003. 116minsBacked by another stand-out performance by Colin Farrell and the best tag line of the season - 'Even cops dial 911' - this superior piece of formula film-making should blow the doors off the box office when it opens in the US this weekend (Aug ...
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Terminator 3 looks for French connection
With a subdued slate of major international releases this upcoming weekend, all eyes will be on whether Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines can maintain its perfect record of opening number one in every market.The sci-fi sequel was the runaway number one performer last weekend and has amassed $153m to ...
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Love Actually gets world premiere at Toronto
The worldpremiere of Richard Curtis' romantic comedy Love Actually and North American premieres ofAlejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's 21 Grams, Jim Jarmusch's Coffee AndCigarettes and PhilipSaville's The Gospel Of John will screen as special presentations at the Toronto FilmFestival.Also included isLost In Translation,Sofia Coppola's follow-up to the acclaimed The Virgin Suicides. The ...
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Ryan takes over as chairman of AFMA
Veteran British filmexecutive Michael Ryan has been named the next chairman of AFMA, becoming thefirst person from outside the US to be appointed to the post.Ryan, who is currentlydirector at IAC Films & Television in London where he is executive producingthe dramas Elizabeth Rex and Escape, was a founding member ...
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UK Film Council backs Dog Soldiers follow up
Neil Marshall, director of UK werewolf hit Dog Soldiers, is returning to the horror genre with Outpost, one of a fresh slate of projects to receive development funding from public funding body the UK Film Council this week.In a premise similar to Marshall's hit debut, which follows a squad of ...
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Warner Bros boards two new Italian projects
Warner Bros PicturesInternational is to collaborate on the production and release of twoItalian-language films in Italy, working with BiancaFilm on L'AmoreRitorna (Love Returns) and with Cattleya on Tre Metri Sopra Il Cielo (Three Steps Over Heaven).Sergio Rubini will direct L'AmoreRitorna, a comedy-drama about acelebrated actor who reconsiders life after illness ...