All Screen articles in 14 November 2001
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Cuaron hires Torresblanco for El Delirio NY
Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron is setting up a New York office to complement the existing LA and Mexican branches of his Good Machine-backed production company, newly dubbed El Delirio. Frida Torresblanco, line producer for Spanish heavyweight Lolafilms, has been hired to help set up the new operation alongside Cuaron. El ...
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IMAX sees diminishing returns, improving prospects
Canadian large format operator IMAX Corporation has announced its third quarter results, which continue the company's downwards slide, exacerbated by economic downturn and the US exhibition sector's ill health.Third quarter revenues for the company, which has 220 large format theatres in 30 countries, hit $23.3m - down from $32.9m last ...
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Eurocinema TV channel proposed by EC minister
The President of the European Council of Audiovisual Ministers, Richard Miller, announced at the Strasbourg Forum of European Cinema in the European Parliament that he had personally earmarked funds for a feasibility study on the creation of a 'Eurocinema' television channel. The pan-European channel would feature European films, film education ...
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Eurocinema TV channel proposed by EC minister
The President of the European Council of Audiovisual Ministers, Richard Miller, announced at the Strasbourg Forum of European Cinema in the European Parliament that he had personally earmarked funds for a feasibility study on the creation of a 'Eurocinema' television channel. The pan-European channel would feature European films, film education ...
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Fry, Winterbottom projects on Revolution's slate
The UK's Revolution Films is developing a slate of new films including actor Stephen Fry's directing debut, Bright Young Things, which Fry is adapting from Evelyn Waugh's classic novel, Vile Bodies, as well as a Michael Winterbottom project about the conflict in Afghanistan.The Fry project is part of a concerted ...
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Ontario bans Breillat's controversial Fat Girl
Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl (A Ma Soeur!) has been banned by Ontario Film Review Board (OFRB). According to Noah Cowan, co-president of Cowboy Booking which is co-releasing the film with Lions Gate in North America, the OFRB requested cuts that would have reduced the movie to a mere 40 minutes ...
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Pusan Promotion Plan rewards outstanding directors
Chinese director Lin Cheng-sheng and Korea's Kim Ki-duk were the big winners at the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP), Asian co-production workshop which wrapped on Wed, Nov 14 in Korea.At a ceremony involving much of the top brass from the Cannes festival including chief selector Thierry Fremaux, newly installed Critics' Week ...
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Global warning: erosion of worldwide cinema market
The comparative strength of the dollar exacerbated a 2.8% decline (185m) in worldwide cinema admissions last year to cause the first fall in the total dollar value of the global theatrical market for eight years in 2000.According to the latest data from monthly research publication, Screen Digest, there was an ...
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Spain's Admira creates content acquisition arm
Spain's Admira (Telefonica Media) has created a content acquisitions division to be overseen by Ele Juarez, general manager of strategic alliances.By centralising rights management Admira aims "to take maximum advantage of synergies within the group." The company also points to a streamlined presence for all the ...
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Toronto's Fireworks hires Pasternak
Toronto-based Fireworks Entertainment has hired local attorney Steven Pasternak into the newly created position of general counsel. Previously a founding partner of the legal firm that advises Fireworks, Pasternak will be involved in furthering the business interests of Fireworks as well as special projects. His old firm, formerly Hall Pasternak ...
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Bac sells Paris cinemas to French heiress
French distributor/exhibitor Bac Majestic (which handles both Miramax and StudioCanal titles) has sold its five Paris cinemas to Sophie Dulac (a French heiress who is partnering with arthouse exhibitor Jean Henochsberg, of Cine Classic) for a reported $5m.Bac Majestic's theater circuit, Les Ecrans de Paris, which includes five high profile ...
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Italy and Iceland submit their Oscar candidates
As expected, Nanni Moretti's The Son's Room has won Italy's nomination to join the foreign language Oscar race. The Moretti picture, which won the Cannes Palme d'Or in May, beat competition from local heavyweights The Last Kiss and Ignorant Fairies. Meanwhile, Iceland has selected Agust Gudmundsson's new feature The Seagull's ...
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The new Hollywood style: co-dependents
Abstracted from Screen International in three parts: Part IIt's an ongoing process, but the balance of power in Hollywood is shifting out of all recognition. With more films now co-financed between independents and the seven Hollywood majors (49 out of the 101 to be released this year), it seems any ...
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US DVD sales continue to break all records
The fourth quarter of 2001 is fast proving to be a key turning point in the fortunes of DVD, with sales records smashed week in, week out. When Shrek was released in the US on DVD it sold 2.5 million copies in three days. With a retail value of more ...
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Oz features take a dive in number and value
Government sources provided 53% of the $42.7m (A$82m) spent on the 26 Australian films that went into production in the 12 months to June 30, 2001, according to the Australian Film Commission's (AFC) production survey released Nov 13. This is the lowest number of local features, the lowest amount spent, ...
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Japanese rights sold on Chinese classic remake
Japanese powerhouse Daiei has picked up local Japanese rights to the high-profile remake of Chinese classic Springtime In A Small Town.The film, is a story of lust unleashed on a respectable bourgeois family following the arrival of a mysterious visitor, is now being filmed by The Blue Kite director Tian ...
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Palm Springs Film Fest 2002 set for Jan 10-21
The 13th annual Nortel Networks Palm Springs International Film Festival will take place in Palm Springs, California, from Jan 10 to 21, 2002, with the deadline for submissions set as Nov 15, 2001. The festival was co-founded by Sonny Bono and festival director Denis Pregnolato in 1989 and last year ...
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Piano Teacher plays up against Potter-mania
The weekend grosses for most films in the UK chart were severely effected this week by the two-day preview screenings of Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone - which would easily have claimed top position, if previews were included in box office charts prior to the actual opening ...
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Shallow Hal
Dirs: Bobby and Peter Farrelly. US 2001. 113mins.Bobby and Peter Farrelly, masters of the outrageous and gross-out comedy (Dumb And Dumber, There's Something About Mary) take an artistic step backwards with Shallow Hal, a soft, disappointingly sentimental comedy about the true nature of beauty, or the gap between physical surfaces ...
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Tom Cruise warms to Minghella's Cold Mountain
Anthony Minghella will directTom Cruise in a screen adaptation of the US Civil War bestseller ColdMountain next summer, producerSydney Pollack reportedly confirmed from Australia this morning. The film is a co-production betweenMGM and Miramax Films.Cruise would take the lead roleof Inman, a wounded confederate soldier who embarks on a long ...