All Screen articles in 16 October 2003
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H2V Entertainment prepares inaugural animated slate
H2VEntertainment, a Montreal-based production and distribution house that softlaunched in 2000, is approaching completion on its inaugural slate of threefully financed animation features.Manga Latina: Killer On The Loose, Monica Made In Americaand Pinatas are all aimed at the teen and young adult market and are dueto wrap in spring 2004.Fivemore ...
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AFI Fest unveils 24 world premieres
Worldpremieres of Mark Sobel's Kennedy era drama The Commission and Lisa GayHamilton's profile of activist Beah Richards in Beah: A Black Woman Speaksare among an eclectic line-up unveiled by organisers of the AFI Fest 2003,which runs from Nov 6-16.Theroster of 134 international titles includes 72 world, North American and USpremieres ...
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MDP Worldwide changes name to Media 8 Entertainment
Reflectinga shift in business strategy towards production and financing, MDP Worldwidehas changed its name to Media 8 Entertainment.Media8 will continue to actively operate its in-house distribution division tolicense both international and domestic rights to its films."Media8 Entertainment is now one of the few independents in the marketplace that hasthe financial ...
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Castle Hill, Dream acquire What Alice Found
CastleHill Productions and Dream LLC have acquired US and English-speaking Canadianrights to A Dean Bell's award-winning crime drama What Alice Found.Thecompanies will jointly release the film in US theatres, starting with New Yorkon Dec 5 and Los Angeles and San Francisco on Dec 19.Thedeal was brokered by Dream LLC's chief ...
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Agencies launch Writers and Artists Group International
Talent boutique Writersand Artists Agency (WAA) and music agency Artist Group International (AGI) havejoined forces under the banner of Writers and Artists Group International.Both companies, whichhave offices in New York and Los Angeles, will continue to operate as their ownbrands while also offering clients an enhanced and confluent service throughthe ...
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Thompson joins Prisoner Of Azkaban
Emma Thompson has swelled the ranks of Warner Bros' ensemblecast on Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban after signing on to playthe eccentric professor of divination Sybll Trelawney.Thompson joins Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint,Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman, David Thewlis andMichael Gambon - who stepped ...
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BELGIUM
French romantic comedy Je Reste! cycled to success on a small eight screen release in Belgium last weekend. The film claimed $37,042 (Euros 31,856) for a strong $4,630 average for Alternative Films - which was the best screen average for any opener this week and the third best of the ...
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Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest unveils youth prize
The Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest (Feb. 6-15, 2004) has unveiled a new award for next year's event - the Crystal Bear for the Best Youth Film The new youth film competition will showcase films aimed at audiences of 14 years of age and older. In its first year up to six films ...
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Palm picks up Legend Of Leigh Bowery
PalmPictures and Arthouse Films have acquired worldwide distribution rights toCharles Atlas's The Legend Of Leigh Bowery and plan a New York releaseon Nov 21 with DVD and video to follow in 2004.Thedeal was negotiated for Palm Pictures and Arthouse Films by David Koh, head ofacquisitions and production, and Jose Martinez ...
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Carmen
Dir: Vicente Aranda. Sp-UK-It. 125 minsAs in any of the dozens of previous film versions of Carmen, the revelation in Vicente Aranda's latest take on the classic Merimee novel (rather than the Bizet opera) is Carmen herself, played here by actress Paz Vega. After provocative turns in Julio Medem's Sex ...
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Cuba selects Suite Havana for Oscars
Fernando Perez's Suite Havana, a poetic meditation on everyday life in Havana which opened the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival last month, has been nominated to represent Cuba in the foreign-language Oscar race.The dialogue-free film, a majority Spanish co-production between Spain's Wanda Vision and Cuban film institute ICAIC, was also ...
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Valenti takes piracy fight to Europe
Inthe latest bid to stamp out piracy and the causes of piracy, MPAA chief JackValenti is heading for Dublin on Oct 11 to hold talks with Irish Prime MinisterBertie Ahern.Thefive-day trip is seen as an opportunity to urge Ahern and his top brass to takea lead on the anti-piracy fight ...
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Rio loves a good Story
Festival favourite The Story Tellers (Narradores De Jave) by Elianne Caffe nabbed four major prizes at the Rio International Film Festival which wrapped Thursday, October 9. The comedy revolves around a Brazilian village which invents a local history in order to gain national heritage status and avoid being demolished by ...
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Iran, Taiwan take top Pusan prizes
South Korea's Pusan International Film Festival wrapped up its 8th edition on October 10, with prizes in the New Currents section for first and second-time Asian directors going to Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-sheng's directorial debut The Missing and Iranian director Alireza Amini's Tiny Snow Flakes. A special mention was also ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
Three week in a row champion LXG remains at the top of the chart despite competition last weekend from Bad Boys II and Matchstick Men, from the same distributor Tuck.Bad Boys sold 4,208 tickets to and Matchstick Men's 2,712 over the weekend, garnering $9,385 and $7,960 respectively, not enough to ...
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Australian critics single out four films
The same four films - Alexandra's Project, Gettin' Square, Japanese Story and Swimming Upstream - have been nominated in the best film, best director and best editing categories of the annual awards of the Film Critics Circle of Australia. All four films were also nominated for their screenplays, alongside Black ...
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CNC figures paint mixed picture for French box office
France's National Cinema Centre (CNC) this week released box office figures for September - as well as unveiling an accord with the UK Film Council and announcing the winner of its screenwriting prize.While overall figures for 2003 continue to spell depressing news - down 5.6% compared to 2002 - the ...
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Five Italian films win Brazilian distribution
Five Italian films have found distribution in Brazil at the International Rio De Janeiro Film Festival (Sep 25 - Oct 9) after Italy became the first country to join an experimental international scheme aimed at encouraging the distribution of independent films across the world. The scheme, which operates under ...
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Extraordinary weekend for Fox as BVI goes in for Kill
Fox International's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG) will be the one to watch this upcoming weekend with openings in Italy and Japan.Last weekend's mighty European roll-out propelled the action title's running total to $54.3m and a second consecutive number one performance at the international box office looks likely.LXG opens ...