All Screen articles in 16 October 2003
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Mifed unveils market premieres
Milan's Mifed market has announced its market premieres for its 70th edition (Nov 9-13), as well as unveiling a new strand designed to showcase young European filmmakers to buyers.Mifed's new titles include Wild Bunch's Janis And John, Samuel Benchetrit's film about Janis Joplin which stars Marie Trintignant in one of ...
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Rotterdam focuses on US politics
The Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR), to be held from Jan 21 - Feb 1, 2004, has lined up an edgy thematic sidebar focusing on the current US political climate.Called Homefront USA, it presents works by American filmmakers and other artists reflecting on the climate of neo-conservatism and the global ...
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Spain's FAPAE names Perez as new president
The Spanish Producers' Federation FAPAE has elected former Via Digital president Pedro Perez as its new president, replacing Eduardo Campoy.Perez previously held the FAPAE post from 1993 to 1997. His new candidacy, which went uncontested and was voted in by a majority, will last for a minimum of two years.Campoy ...
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Scotland to don Maybury's Jacket
Scotland is to host the shoot of John Maybury's $32m The Jacket, starring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley.The Jacket will be produced by George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh's Section Eight, with Peter Gruber's Mandalay Pictures in association with German fund VIP Medienfonds. Warner Bros has US rights and it is ...
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Luna lined up to star in romantic road movie Solo Dios Sabe
Diego Luna, who seizedglobal attention after his star turn opposite Gael Garcia Bernal in Y TuMama Tambien, has been lined up tostar in Mexican-Brazilian co-production Solo Dios Sabe.Theromantic drama/ road movie, co-written and to be directed by Luna's long-timefriend Carlos Bolado (Bajo California: El Limite Del Tiempo) of Mexico, will ...
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Jonjo Mickybo cranks up in Northern Ireland
Filming began in Northern Ireland yesterday (Oct 15) on Jonjo Mickybo, designer Terry Loane's feature film debut as writer and director.Loane previously worked as a designer in theatre and on many short films, including the Oscar-nominated short Dance Lexie Dance, before turning to film writing and direction with the short ...
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Panahi dedicates Chicago Gold Hugo to Shirin Ebadi
Jafar Panahi, whose drama CrimsonGold won top honours at the ChicagoFilm Festival last week, has dedicated his award to the Iranian Nobel PeacePrize winner Shirin Ebadi.In an open letter publishedin Iranian newspapers, Panahi, whose previous credits include The Circle,The White Balloon and Mirror, wrote: "The news of your winning the ...
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Rialto buys Bresson, Godard classics for US theatrical re-release
New York-based RialtoPictures has acquired theatrical rights to four classic titles from Paris-basedArgos Films and will kick off with the release of Robert Bresson's acclaimed1966 drama Au Hasard Balthazar atNew York's Film Forum on Oct 17.Au Hasard Balthazar, an allegorical musing on saintliness, willsubsequently go out on national release and ...
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Comfortable premiere anticipated at Bergen
Norway's Bergen International Film Festival (Oct16-21) will see the world premiere of highly anticipated local documentary, Gunnar Hall Jensen's Gunnar Goes Comfortable.The Bergen-based filmmaker's highly autobiographical documentary has been much talked about since an incomplete version won the Swedish Film Institute's Documentary Award back in 2002. It follows Jensen who ...
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New Brazilian cinema initiative aims to double country's screen count
Plans are afoot to doublethe current screen count of Brazil, currently estimated at 1,700. An outreachproject dubbed Cinema For All (Cine Para Todos), spearheaded by leadingnational exhibitor Cinemas Severiano Ribeiro and top veteran producer LuizCarlos Barreto (Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands, Middle Of The World), has unveiled plans to ...
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Stander's South African debut disappoints
Bronwen Hughes's Stander had a disappointing world premiere in South Africa over the weekend for distributor Nu Metro. The $15m film, starring Thomas Jane and Deborah Unger, is one of the first South African-content films that is neither driven by politics nor candid-camera type farce. It is based on the ...
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Mifed unveils 2003 market premieres
Milan's Mifed market has announced its market premieres for its 70th edition (Nov 9-13), as well as unveiling a new strand designed to showcase young European filmmakers to buyers.Mifed's new titles include Wild Bunch's Janis And John, Samuel Benchetrit's film about Janis Joplin which stars Marie Trintignant in one of ...
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UK Spellbound by new releases
The UK saw a quartet of hugely successful openings this week from an eclectic mix of titles. A low budget horror; a documentary about a highly competitive US spelling competition; a computer animated fish tale; and a rip-roaring rampage of revenge sought out audiences in different sectors of the market ...
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ARGENTINA
Buoyed by favourable reviews and a strong following of the teen slasher franchise, Freddy Vs Jason opened strong to dominate the ranks this weekend. Alejandro Agresti's Valentin held its ground at number two, with an 11% rise in admissions since last weekend. Bad Boys II slipped to third after opening ...
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SpaaMART names its hottest scripts
Nadia Tass, director of the popular comedies Malcolm and The Big Steal, John Curran of cult hit Praise fame, and Tony Ayres, whose recent debut feature Walking On Water drew wide critical acclaim, are at the helm of three of the 23 films to be presented at this year's inaugural ...
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Video-on-demand gathers speed
The way forward for video-on-demand (VoD) seems suddenly to be gaining momentum around the world - although pure VoD in which all content is always available at the click of a button still looks a very remote possibility.The technology to deliver VoD has existed for several years, but until recently ...
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Evil director returns to school for ghost story
While Mikael Haafstroem's adaptation of Jan Guillou's autobiographical bestseller, Evil (Ondskan), is still dominating the local box-office, he has started shooting his new film Strandvaskeren (literally 'the body washed ashore') outside Stockholm. A co-production between Hans Lonnerheden's Greta Film and Nordisk Film's H.P. Lundh, the SKR16.8m psychological thriller takes place ...
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Solo Film, EuroVideo sign license deal
German theatrical distributor Solo Flim Verleih has concluded a wide-reaching deal with EuroVideo Bildprogramm for the rental and sell-through video/DVD rights to sixteen of its titles.The package includes such films as The Good Thief, The United States Of Leland and 11:4 as well as the current release Jester Till (Till ...
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MIPCOM closes with host of deals
The studios were particularly active in using MIPCOM to announce film and made-for-TV film deals:Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) struck a multi-year agreement with Lusomundo for the pay-TV broadcast of its entire Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures slates in Portugal. The first-time deal covers features and TV movies which ...
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Belgian Oscar hopeful gets new ending
In a remarkable move, Belgian director Stijn Coninx has decided to change the ending of his new film Verder Dan De Maan (Sea Of Silence), the Belgian submission for the foreign-language Oscar - even though the submission deadline has already passed. The film was screened at the recent Dutch Filmfestival ...