All Screen articles in 14 April 2004
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Fortissimo earns Forgiveness
Hong Kong and TheNetherlands-based Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up international rights to Forgiveness,a timely South African drama from the DV8 stable.With a cast headed by TheMummy star Arnold Vosloo, the story is that of an anti-hero. A former Apartheidpoliceman is psychologically tormented by the atrocities he committed in hispast. ...
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Sydney to get two more sound stages by July
Two additional sound stages, each with a floor area of 1,000 square metres, are to be open for business in Sydney by July."We have been a little behind schedule due to building delays but as promised we will have fully sound proofed stages available for hire," said Serenity Cove Studios ...
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Restored Wang movie to kick off VC Film Festival in LA
A newly restored print ofWayne Wang's 1982 crime drama Chan Is Missing will kick off the 20th anniversary edition of theVisual Communications (VC) Film Festival 2004, which runs in Los Angeles fromApr 29-May 6.The annual showcase of Asianand Asian-American films will screen more than 100 features and shorts,including the US ...
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Kinowelt's Koelmel faces possible jail term
Kinowelt's Michael Koelmel will appear before Munich's District Court from today (Wednesday) to answer claims of embezzlement, delaying the filing of insolvency and bankruptcy.According to German press reports, the indictment against the media manager runs to 343 pages and the trial documents already fill some 100 files. The trial is ...
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Eight projects vie for co-production market
Projects by eight South-East European filmmakers are in the running to be pitched at the second CineLink co-production market to be held during the Sarajevo Film Festival in August in collaboration with Rotterdam's CineMart.The projects selected by the CineLink regional jury are:Albanian Tales - dir: Saimir Bajo (Albania)Gravity - dir: ...
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CJ plays it both ways in South Korea
South Korea's distribution sector looks set for a major realignment, with CJ Entertainment announcing plans to invest in both halves of soon-to-be-split rival Plenus Entertainment.CJ's initial focus will be on the internet/game business, part of its efforts to expand into a "total entertainment company" encompassing film, exhibition, cable TV, and ...
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Miramax score best ever openings in Spain, Australia
Miramax's Scary Movie 3 opened top in Spain through Buena VistaInternational (BVI) at the weekend on a superb $3.8m for the fifth biggest BVIlive-action bow ever and the best opening for a Miramax title.Overall the sequel grossed$5.3m at the weekend to raise the international running total from BVI marketsto $70.4m.Starsky ...
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Israeli box office hit goes to Wellspring in North America
US distributor Wellspring hasacquired all North American rights to Savi Gabizon's Israeli box office hit Nina'sTragedies.Wellspring plans an early2005 US release for the picture, which won 11 Israeli Academy Awards andrecounts a turbulent year in the life of a Tel Aviv family through the eyes ofa sensitive teenage boy.Marie Therese ...
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Horizon acquires Proteus to launch at Cannes
Vancouver-based productionand international sales company Horizon Entertainment has picked upinternational rights to John Greyson and Jack Lewis' 18th century interracialgay love story Proteus.The South African-Canadianco-production will receive its first market screening at Cannes and will screenas part of a South African retrospective at the festival to mark the 10thanniversary of ...
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Horizon acquires Proteus for Cannes launch
Vancouver-based productionand international sales company Horizon Entertainment has picked upinternational rights to John Greyson and Jack Lewis' 18th century, interracialgay, love story Proteus.The South African-Canadianco-production will receive its first market screening at Cannes and will screenas part of a South African retrospective at the festival to mark the 10thanniversary of ...
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Skillset, UK Film Council unveil $90m training strategy
Training agency Skillset and support body the UK Film Council have announced further details of their new £50m UK film skills strategy, which aims to revolutionise training and skills in the UK industry.A key component of the five-year strategy - called A Bigger Future - is a network of Screen ...
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TV4 signs long-term deal with MGM for Nordic market
MGM Networks has signed adeal to provide an MGM-branded film block every Monday night on the new NordicTV4 Film Channel, as well as a long-term supply of pictures that will airacross the channel.The TV4 Film Channel isscheduled to debut this month and will be available to cable, satellite and DTTsubscribers ...
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Theron, Ricci among Outfest gay and lesbian Screen Idols 2003
Monster and Angels In America dominated LA Outfest's fourth annual Screen Idolawards in honour of the best four performances in a gay, lesbian, bisexual ortransgendered role in a feature film or movie for television.Charlize Theron won the leadactress award for her Oscar winning performance as the serial killer AileenWuornos in ...
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India braces for The Passion on May 15
Deepak Nayar'sKintop Pictures has scheduled the Indian release of Mel Gibson's The PassionOf The Christ for May 15and has already begun a publicity blitz over the Easter weekend with brochuresdistributed in churches across the sub-continent and special screenings heldfor church groups."We will release50 prints of The Passion Of The Christ ...
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The Whole Ten Yards
Dir: Howard Deutch. US. 2004. 99mins.When Bruce Willis makes his entrance in headscarf, frilly apron and bunny slippers you can somehow tell that The Whole Ten Yards is going to be a less black and much broader comedy than its fairly amusing predecessor, The Whole Nine Yards. The sequel doesn't ...
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NORWAY
Even though a slew of new films were released a week ago, Mel Gibson's Passion easily stayed on top of the Norwegian box-office chart in its third week.Meanwhile Erich Hortnagl's local psychological thriller A Cry In The Woods (Den Som Frykter Ulven), based on a best-selling Karin Fossum novel, on ...
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Home On The Range
Dirs: Will Finn, John Sanford. US. 2003. 75mins.The comedy is fun and the music has its moments, but by Disney standards Home On The Range is a lightweight animated offering, with little of the emotional pull exerted by the studio's best work. Kids should be able to pass a contented ...
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The Eye 2
Dirs: Danny and Oxide Pang. Hong Kong. 2004. 94minsDespite some truly edge-of-the-seat moments, The Eye 2, the Pang brothers' follow-up to one of Hong Kong's most successful recent horror exports, only partially lives up to its predecessor's promise.Sporting new characters and a different cast, it shares the first film's theme ...
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GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZ Prod Lists - April 14 2004
AUSTRIAIN PRE-PRODUCTIONCACHE(Wega Film) Backers: Filmfonds Wien. Thriller. Prod: Veit Heiduschka. Dir/scr: Michael Haneke. Cast: Juliette Binoche.Contact: Wega Film, (43) 1 982 57 42CRASH TEST DUMMIES(Amour Fou Filmproduktion) Co-prod: Catpics Co-productions (Switz). Backers: OFI, ORF, Filmfonds Wien. A Romanian couple are stranded in Vienna without any money, drift apart and have ...
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Return Of The King is top in Japan for ninth straight weekend
New Line International's The Lord of The Rings: TheReturn of The King continued to rule themall in Japan for the ninth consecutive weekend, adding $1.6m from 589 screensto raise its total there to a superb $86.2m.The trilogyfinale is active in 48 markets on 1,874 screens but figures were hard to ...