All Screen articles in 16 March 2003
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Chicago dominates SAG Awards; Moore, Hare win WGA prizes
In the final stretch of the Academy Awards race over the weekend, Chicago dominated the Screen Actors Guild (SAG)Awards in Los Angeles taking the award for ensemble cast as well as bestactress for Renee Zellweger and best supporting actress for CatherineZeta-Jones.Daniel Day-Lewis was named best actor for Gangs Of New ...
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Disney back in the frame for the Jim Henson Company
Walt Disney has reportedly come back into the picture as a possible bidder for The Jim Henson Company (JHC) after a US investment group terminated its non-binding letter of intent with JHC's current owner Germany's EM.TV & Merchandising for the partial sale of 49.9%.EM.TV announced that the negotiations would continue ...
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Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen wins top jury prize at Santa Barbara
Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen won the grand jury prize in the internationalcompetition section at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival whichclosed last night with a screening of Thaddeus O'Sullivan's The Heart Of Me.A special jury prize in thissection was awarded to director Pan Nalin for Samsara and special mention was ...
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Paulo Valente named MD of Universal Pictures Brazil
Universal Pictures International has named Paulo Valente as managing director of Universal Pictures Brazil. Based in Sao Paulo, Valente will report to Wayne Borg, vice president, Universal Pictures, Latin America and Asia Pacific. The appointment is effective 24th March 2003.Valente succeeds the present MD, Marc Caux, who successfully ...
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Disney and Hyde Park champion with Bringing Down The House
Buena Vista's comedy BringingDown The House did just that over theweekend, opening number one on a superb $31.7m that marked the third biggestMarch opening of all time behind last year's Ice Age and Blade 2.It was also Steve Martin's best opening and proved too much forthe rest of the pack, ...
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Mieli named new president of Italian state broadcaster
Paolo Mieli, a former editor of national Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, has been appointed president of state broadcaster RAI. The Italian parliament and senate's appointment of Mieli, a widely-respected journalist, historian and political commentator, followed the resignation of president Antonio Baldassarre and remaining board member Ettore Alberoni. Last week, ...
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J Lo's Maid makes her an international movie star
Jennifer Lopez confirmed her status as an international star overthe weekend as Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) scoreda powerful $11.5m weekend gross for Revolution Studios' Maid In Manhattan.In a series of excellent openings, the romantic comedy wentstraight to number one in the UK, Australia, Mexico, the German-speakingregions of Switzerland, ...
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Monsieur N
Dir: Antoine de Caunes. Fr-UK-South Africa. 2003. 129mins.French TV presenter and sometime journalist Antoine de Caunes takes on Napoleon, with decidedly mixed results for the historical thriller Monsieur N. The made-for-co-production story straddles two cultures, but despite this, Monsieur N will not easily sell to the English-speaking territories it hopes ...
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German fund gathers around 80 Days
Frank Coraci's Around The World In 80 Days starring Jackie Chan is one of 30 projects awarded a total of Euros 4.5m by the Central German film fund Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung (MDM). US-based Walden Media's production partner Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures received Euros 500,000 production support for the action comedy which ...
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Argentinian films dominate Films in Progress event
The Latin American Film Screenings of Toulouse, France (March 21-30) and Spain's San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27) have unveiled the five new feature films set to participate in this year's third annual Films in Progress (Cine en Construccion) program, which aims to bring needed financiers on board unfinished ...
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Barrandov Studios no longer for sale
Prague's Barrandov Studios owner Moravia Steel announced last week that after a drawn out sale process that has stretched on for nearly a half-decade, it is not selling the fabled film complex after all. A spokesperson for the steel maker told weekly Prague Business Journal that Moravia Steel has decided ...
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UK Film Council funds seven company slates
The UK Film Council has invested US$1,878,401 (£1,171,000) in seven company slate deals with British film production outfits.The money is the second part of a proposed three year business investment scheme set up by the Film Council's Development Fund, originally announced in July and November 2001, following a review of ...
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Spain cordinates European Film workshops
Spanish authors' rights body SGAE is coordinating three workshops on "European Films Crossing Borders" to be held just prior to the next Cannes, San Sebastian and Berlin film festivals.The workshops are co-organised by French authors' rights counterpart SACD and Spanish multimedia promotion body Fundacion Autor, and have support from the ...
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NuVision strikes deal with US Hispanic specialist Venevision
In what may signal the end of its plans to start up a US distribution company, Mexico-city based regional distributor NuVision has sold a package of titles produced by its sister company Altavista to Venevision International, a Spanish language distributor based in Miami. For the moment, Venevision has limited its ...
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MovieSystem launches Monaco VoD service
In partnership with Monaco Telecom and Alcatel, MovieSystem has launched a Video-on-Demand service for television via DSL, Sesame TV. At a press conference in Monaco last week, the project was unveiled and followed by an impressive demonstration of DVD quality resolution. Sesame TV will offer Monaco residents the opportunity to ...
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Swedish talent to shine in Three Suns
Richard Hobert, director of last year's Everyone Loves Alice, has assembled some of Sweden's top actors to star in his new film, Three Suns (Tre Solar). Actors such as Lena Endre (Faithless, Everyone Loves Alice), Maria Bonnevie (I Am Dina), Mikael Persbrandt (Everyone Loves Alice) and 11-year-old Natalie Minnevik ...
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UK's Odeon cinema chain sold for $690m
The UK's Odeon cinema chain has been bought by a syndicate led by German investment bank WestLB for $690m (£431m).In addition to a 25% equity stake, WestLB will take on £330m of debt, which it will refinance and securitise against future cinema ticket sales. The other members of the consortium ...
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Lilo & Stitch has top 2-D animated opening for US film in Japan
Buena Vista International (BVI)'s Lilo & Stitch grossed an impressive $2.8m on 481 screens in its pre-holiday Japanese opening over the weekend, raising the animated feature's international running total to $103m. The Japanese bow was the biggest ever traditional US-produced animated opening and the fourth biggest ever opening for a ...
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Fox hits all-time bullseye with Bond's 20th film
Fox International's Die Another Day has become the highest international grossing James Bond picture of all time with a $246.9m international cumulative score, overtaking the $242m set by GoldenEye.The 20th Bond title passed the record mark with a mighty opening in Japan over the weekend, taking $3.4m from 325 screens ...