All Screen articles in 15 February 2002
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New Zealand mourns actor Kevin Smith
New Zealand is mourning the untimely death of local actor Kevin Smith, who died in a Beijing Hospital as the result of a fall. At the time of the accident he had been preparing to return home and begin preparation for Man Of War with Bruce Willis, a role many ...
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Two major Nordic industry events join forces
The Nordic region's two major festival and market events have joined forces to increase their international profile. The two festivals, in Gothenburg (Sweden) and Haugesund (Norway), have long been the favourite meeting places for the Nordic industry, but in recent years have also succeeded in attracting buyers and festival programmers ...
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World's largest film studio to be built in Quebec
Two weeks after the announcement of plans to build a massive studio in Toronto, another facility is going forward in the province of Quebec. The backers of Studio Bromont plan to convert a 1.2 million sq. ft automobile plant north of Montreal into the largest film production studio in the ...
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Oliver Stone to interview Castro for Cuba project
Spanish producers MediaPro, Morena Films and Argentina's Esperanza Films have joined Madrid-based Pentagrama Films to produce a documentary about Cuba for director Oliver Stone.Provisionally titled Looking For Fidel, the documentary is based on an original idea by Pentagrama producer Jose Ibanez exploring the history and future of the island. Production ...
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Grill Point's international sales heat up
Even before the audience's rapturous applause at the announcement of Grill Point (Halbe Treppe) being awarded the Jury Grand Prix, Silver Bear at the Berlinale on Sunday (Feb 17), Andreas Dresen's bittersweet comedy had already impressed a host of international film buyers.Bavaria Film International (BFI) closed a number of sales ...
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Sweden's Film I Vast lines up topnotch local slate
Film I Vast, Sweden's successful regional film fund, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in January, has lined up another busy schedule, including highly anticipated new films from Jalla! Jalla! director Josef Fares, Executive Protection's Anders Nilson and Dan Ying (Home Sour Home).Fares will shoot his as yet untitled action comedy ...
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Germany's Helkon raises Euros 20m loan
Ahead of its AGM on Feb 19, German license trader-producer Helkon Media has announced that its credit lines with the Hamburg-based Vereins- und Westbank AG and Cologne's Stadtsparkasse Koeln has been transferred into a syndicated loan giving the company additional funds of Euros 20m.The new arrangement is part of ...
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UK cinema admissions continue to rise
Having recorded the highest admissions last year (156 million) since 1972, the upward trend in UK cinema attendance and box office takings looks set to continue in 2002.Figures for January 2002 show that the month's box office figure of£59.6m is a year-on-year rise of 25% over the same period in ...
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Cannes to subsidise festival attendees
The Cannes film festival is to subsidise the attendance of more than fifty young French film-makers at this year's festival, with the initiative expanding to include European film-makers next year.With the support of the Cannes hotel and restaurant owners' unions, the film-makers only have to pay Euros 115 towards ...
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Queen Of The Damned
Dir Michael Rymer. US 2002. 100 min.A new star is born in Queen Of The Damned, the horror picture based on Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles and a follow-up to Neil Jordan's Interview With The Vampire, which was also produced by Warner Bros. Assuming the role of Lestat ...
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Crossroads
Dir Tamra Davis. US 2002. 95 min.Naive and amateurish in both the positive and negative sense of these terms, Crossroads, Britney Spears' feature screen debut, provides a decent showcase for the pop icon and youth symbol, who seems to be everywhere this month. As a coming of age yarn, ...
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Columbia TriStar boards Mexican co-production
Columbia Tri Star Mexico has boarded its first Mexican co production, the comedy thriller Sin Ton Ni Sonia, currently shooting in Mexico City. In addition to from covering 20% of the estimated $1m budget, Columbia TriStar has picked up the local and international distribution rights to the project. ...
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Conrad Hall wins ASC honours for Road To Perdition
Conrad Hall, who died on Jan4 this year, took top honours at the American Society Of Cinematographers (ASC)annual Outsanding Achievement Awards in Los Angeles over the weekend for hiswork on Road To Perdition. Theaward was accepted by his son Conrad W Hall.Hall beat out MichaelBallhaus for Gangs Of New York,Pawel ...
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Dick Cook named chairman of Walt Disney Studios
Hollywood has a new studiochief in Richard W Cook, the veteran of Walt Disney Studios who was namedchairman of the company on Friday. Cook, who has spent 31 years at Disney,steps into the position vacated eight months ago by Peter Schneider whoresigned in June 2001 after only 18 months on ...
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Avrio acquires Red Green comedy Duct Tape Forever
Vancouver-based independentproducer/distributor Avrio Filmworks which was founded by producer MichaelDerbas has acquired worldwide sales rights to Duct Tape Forever, a $4m comedy produced by Toronto's S&SProductions, and starring TV comic Red Green.The film is the first basedon the hit Canadian TV series The Red Green Show and follows the adventures ...
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Splendid backs new Bille August noir thriller
Splendid Pictures, the newproduction and sales outfit formed from the merger of Germany's SplendidMedien and LA-based Cutting Edge Entertainment, is to produce BilleAugust's next English language feature the noir thriller WithoutApparent Motive.Set to begin production inLos Angeles this spring, the film is being produced by Bob Yari, Faye Schwaband Mary ...
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Denzel's John Q triumphs with $20.6m
Denzel Washington confirmedhimself as a major box office star over the weekend as his latest drama JohnQ opened at the top of the boxoffice over Presidents Day weekend with a powerful estimated $20.6m gross at2,466 sites. The film, released by New Line Cinema, received lukewarm reviews(at best) but its emotional ...
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Nigel Clark promoted again at Sony to senior evp
Nigel Clark hasbeen promoted to senior executive vice president of international marketing atColumbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), continuing a careerat Sony Pictures Entertainment that has lasted 11 years. Clark, who is thesenior executive in the international division, reports to Jeff Blake,president of worldwide marketing and distribution at the studio."Nigel ...
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Lagaan sweeps Indian Filmfare Awards
Aamir Khan's performance as Bhuvan in his debut film as a producer, Lagaan won him the Best Actor Award at the Filmfare Awards 2001, held at Mumbai's bandra-Kurla's MMRDA grounds. Lagaan also won the best picture and best director award for Ashutosh Gowarikar. Indian Actress Kajol was the popular choice ...
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Lions Gate's gross profits turn to net loss
Vancouver-based Lions Gate Entertainment recorded a third quarter loss of $3.1m for 2001-2002 as increasing distribution and marketing costs ate into revenue. It was the second consecutive losing quarter. Although gross profits were up 59% from the same period a year ago, distribution and marketing costs more than tripled.Motion picture ...