All Screen articles in 13 August 2002
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Flach Pyramide picks up Suddenly
Flach Pyramide International (FPI) has picked up international distribution rights on Argentinian director Diego Lerman's feature debut Suddenly (Tan De Repente) which had its world premiere in competition in LocarnoShot in black-and-white, Suddenly follows a solitary and straight-laced young shop girl travelling to the countryside to Buenos Aires where she ...
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KirchMedia to merge sports and film rights
KirchMedia's managing director sports rights, Dr Alexander Liegl has quit the insolvent German media group ahead of plans to merge its film and sports rights businesses under the management of one director.Kirch said Liegl will leave the company "with immediate effect," adding that his departure was "at his own request ...
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Tomorrow La Scala withdrawn from Edinburgh
Francesa Joseph's debut feature Tomorrow, La Scala! has been withdrawn from its UK premiere slot at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival (Aug 14-25).Well received at Cannes, the film centres on small operetta company's staging of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd in a maximum-security prison. It is understood an unresolved copyright ...
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The Deserted Valley takes Melbourne first
Vietnamese director Pham Nhue Giang's The Deserted Valley (Thung Lung Hoang Vang) from Vietnam has won the 51st Melbourne International Film Festival's first FIPRESCI (Federation Internationale de la Presse Cinematographique) and FCCA (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Prize. The film was included in the International Forum of this year's Berlin ...
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TV-Loonland to acquire majority stake in Metrodome
European media group TV-Loonland (TVL) is to acquire a majority stake in UK DVD and video distributor in a bid to boost the fortunes of its nascent home entertainment business.In a complex deal Metrodome will acquire TVL subsidiary rights-holding company Loonland Home Entertainment Ventures Ltd for£1.25m which will be paid ...
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The Longing
THE LONGING (DAS VERLANGEN)Reviewed by Sheila Johnston in LocarnoScreened in competitionDir: Iain Dilthey. Germany. 2002. 90mins.The winner of this year's Golden Leopard in Locarno, The Longing (Das Verlangen), a low-budget film school graduate work by the Scottish-born, German-bred director Iain Dilthey, presents a redoubtable marketing challenge. With its sombre subject ...
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Eight Legged Freaks
Warner Bros scored a surprise hit in the UK this week as its tongue-in-cheek mutant-spider romp Eight Legged Freaks grossed a mighty $1.6m (£1.03m).Released at 400 sites over the three-day weekend the film, which stars David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scott Terra and Scarlett Johansson, scored a good average of $3,931 ...
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Screen's Fainaru joins Venice Critics jury
Screen International's correspondent and film reviewer, Dan Fainaru will be one of three jurors at the Critics' Week sidebar of the forthcoming Venice Film Festival.Fainaru, who is FIPRESCI luminary, will join veteran Italian writer-director Carlo Lizzani, whose directing credits include The Last Days Of Mussolini (1974) and actress and ...
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Fainaru, Lizzani, Delpy to rule on Critics Week Winners
Screen International's correspondent and film reviewer, Dan Fainaru will be one of three jurors at the Critics' Week sidebar of the forthcoming Venice Film Festival.Fainaru, who is FIPRESCI luminary, will join veteran Italian writer-director Carlo Lizzani, whose directing credits include The Last Days Of Mussolini (1974) and actress and ...
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Deauville announces line-up
The Deauville Festival of American Film (Aug 30-Sept 8) unveiled a strong competition section of US independents and a starry line-up for its (French) premieres section.The indies section contains the stars of this year's Sundance such as The Good Girl and Secretary, one of the discoveries of Cannes Peter Sollet's ...
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The Longing tops Locarno winners
Scots-born, German director Iain Dilthey's austere The Longing (Das Verlangen) was the surprise winner of this year's International Competition in Locarno. Dilthey's graduation film from the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy won the top award of the Golden Leopard/Grand Prize of the City and Region of Locarno, with a purse worth CHF ...
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Sithengi film festival first targets world cinema
Sithengi, Southern Africa's Film and TV Market, is to hold a legitimate film festival for the first time in its seven-year history in an attempt to establish a greater role for world cinema.Sithengi, which will be held in Cape Town 9-16 November, said it expected to announce the appointment of ...
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San Sebastian announces line-up for Zabaltegi sidebar
San Sebastian announces line-up for Zabaltegi sidebarCannes' Palme D'Or winner The Pianist and Berlin's Golden Bear success Bloody Sunday among 16 featured films for Festivals Top strandThe Donostia-San Sebastian Film festival has announced the line-up for this year's Festival's Top strand, part of its Zabaltegi sidebar.According to San Sebastian organisers, ...
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Haynes' Heaven replaces Daldry's Hours; three more titles added
Miramax has withdrawn Stephen Daldry's period drama, The Hours, from the Venice film festival, explaining that the film is unfortunately "not yet ready." Venice artistic director Moritz De Hadeln said its place in the Venice 59 competition, where it was due to have its world premiere, will now be filled ...
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Koelmel brothers back in control at Kinowelt with E32m bid
Brothers Michael and Rainer Koelmel are back in the driving seat at Kinowelt after their bid to take over the running of the group's core interests was accepted by a committee of creditor banks. At a meeting in Munich on Friday (August 9) insolvency administrator Dr Wolfgang Ott, acting for ...
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Peppermint sold to management
Peppermint, the TV licence trading arm of the beleaguered Helkon group, has been sold to its management.The deal, sees the 51.1% interest held by wholly owned subsidiary Helkon International Production, sold to Peppermint's management for an undisclosed sum. The company is now 100% owned by its management.The disposal was approved ...
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Transmission Films launches first phase in online distribution system
New York-basedTransmission Films has launched a high-speed download system on its online filmdistribution site today (Aug 12), marking the first phase in thecompany's launch strategy. Transmission offers an online forum forindependent and foreign feature films for access by the online film-viewingcommunity while planning to create a revenue stream for film-makers ...
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Third consortium joins KirchMedia race
A group that includes existing minority shareholders has become the third party to enter the bidding for the core assets of insolvent German media outfit KirchMedia.The group, which is understood to have submitted a bid of around Euros2.5bn ($2.44bn) includes Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal's Kingdom Holdings, investment bank Lehman ...
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Cinecitta launches Masterclass, USC summer workshop
Famed Romestudio facility Cinecitta Studios has launched two new educational initiatives- a lecture series featuring more than 20 film-makers and technicians whohave worked at the studio and a six-week summer workshop at the studio forstudents at the University Of Southern California (USC) School OfCinema-Television.In addition,Cinecitta has hired executive producer and ...