All Screen articles in 18 September 2003
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San Sebastian opens on realistic note
Spain's leading film festival, the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-28), kicks off today with award-winning Cuban director Fernando Perez's dialogue-free fictionalised documentary Suite Havana - one of several bold programming selections sure to set tongues wagging at this year's edition.Yet the real controversy looks likely to surround Sunday's ...
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Sogepaq takes on sales for San Sebastian contender
Making its fourth third-party pick-up in two weeks, Spanish distribution house Sogepaq has taken worldwide rights on San Sebastian competition title Take My Eyes (Te Doy Mis Ojos).One of the most anticipated new Spanish films of the season, Take My Eyes offers a heartwrenchingly realistic take on domestic abuse. Laia ...
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Phoenix gets film rights to UK kids' book Skellig
Mike Medavoy and Arnie Messer's Phoenix Pictures hasacquired film rights to UK author David Almond's award-winningchildren's novella Skellig.Annabel Jankel, whoco-directed the 1988 thriller D.O.A.,is attached to direct and produce, while Irena Brignull, whose TV writingcredits include Come Together, isin line to adapt the screenplay.Phoenix executive consultantAnne Rodman brought the project ...
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Scorsese's The Blues gets Montreal world premiere
Filmmaker MartinScorsese's new film series, The Blues, will makes its world premiere at the 32nd MontrealInternational Festival of New Cinema and New Media (FCMM), Oct 9 -19. Produced by Scorsese,directed by noted filmmakers from Wim Wenders to Clint Eastwood, the seriesfeatures seven distinct films meant to capture the essence of ...
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Barbarian Invasions gets Canada's Oscar vote
Denys Arcand's TheBarbarian Invasions will beCanada's submission to Best Foreign Language Film category of the AcademyAwards. The decision was announcedWednesday by Telefilm Canada, which oversees the 24-person selection committee.It's a been stellar week for Arcand: on Sunday he accepted the C$30,000Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the Toronto ...
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Austria unveils co-production market plans
Next year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema (March 13-21, 2004) is to become the latest in a line of international film festivals launching a CineMart-style co-production market and Film Market/Industry Office under the new management of Miroljub Vuckovic and Tillmann Fuchs. Introducing the new concept for the Graz-based festival, ...
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Company, Invasions screen at Aspen Filmfest
A retrospective of 1970sAmerican cinema, a focus on women directors and the latest films from DenysArcand and Robert Altman are among the highlights of the 25th Aspen Filmfest,which runs from Sept 30-Oct 5.The Colorado event openswith Altman's ballet ensemble The Company and will close with Alejandro Agresti'saward-winning Spanish-language relationship drama ...
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Huppert signs up for erotic adaptation
Isabelle Huppert is to star in Ma Mere, an adaptation of the erotic novel by Georges Bataille which to be directed by Christophe Honore Ma Mere is produced Paolo Branco and his company Gemini Films. Shooting begins on the film, for which budget details were unavailable, in October in the ...
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ADV acquires domestic rights to Korea's animated Mari
Houston-based ADV Films, a producer-distributor of Japaneseanimation in North America, has acquired North American rights to LeeSeong-Kang's award-winning Korean digital animated feature, My BeautifulGirl, Mari.The film won best feature at the 2002 Annecy InternationalAnimated Film festival and is a magic-realist tale of a boy who takes refugefrom his family's troubles ...
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Bayside Shakedown 2 swells Toho's coffers
Boosted by the smash success of Bayside Shakedown 2, Japan's largest film distributor and exhibitor Toho has announced record six-month earnings. Half year revenues, for the period ending in August amounted to $422m (Y48.9bn), representing a 4.9% gain over the previous period, as well as a huge improvement on an ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
French blockbuster Taxi 3 parked in the number one spot in its second week, selling 7,503 admissions improving 35% on its launch for distributor Pro Vision.Tuck's A Man Apart sold 4,146 tickets in its prolonged opening weekend, garnering $11,018 and taking the third position, behind the former four-week champion, and ...
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FRANCE
German blockbuster Good Bye, Lenin! and local co-production Labyrinths (Dedales) scored strong openings this week in France.Good Bye, Lenin! sold 163,695 tickets from just 89 screens in its first week on release, netting $1.03m. This awarded the film third place in the French chart and saw it boast a screen ...
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Mongoland director cranks up Norwegian surfer tale
Acclaimed Danish actors Kim Bodnia and Iben Hjejle will join the cast of the unusual Norwegian surfer love story Monsterthursday directed by Arild Ostin Ommundsen, who made his feature debut with the low-budget surprise hit Mongoland in 2001. Shooting from Oct 7 until Nov 21 in and around the coastal ...
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UK politicians press for continued tax relief
An all-party parliamentary committee charged with reviewing public funding for British cinema has urged the UK Government to continue offering tax relief as "absolutely essential for the health of the industry." However, those tax-driven incentives should "evolve" to encourage both the production and distribution of British films. The current Section ...
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Good Bye, Lenin! named as German Oscar contender
Wolfgang Becker's tragicomedy Good Bye, Lenin! has been selected by Germany's nine-person national jury as its candidate for the Foreign Language Oscar category.Since opening in German cinemas in February, the X-Filme creative pool production has attracted over 6.2m admissions, won 10 "Lolas" and prizes at festivals in Berlin, Budapest, and ...
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Good Bye, Lenin! named as German Oscar contender
Wolfgang Becker's tragicomedy Good Bye, Lenin! has been selected by Germany's nine-person national jury as its candidate for the Foreign Language Oscar category.Since opening in German cinemas in February, the X-Filme creative pool production has attracted over 6.2m admissions, won 10 "Lolas" and prizes at festivals in Berlin, Budapest, and ...
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Spooked draws Murphy back to New Zealand
Geoff Murphy is back on home soil to direct the thriller Spooked, his first New Zealand film since leaving for LA 15 years ago. Don Reynolds and Merata Mita, both of whom he worked with on Kiwi films during the 1980s, are two of the film's producers. Spooked goes into ...
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ARGENTINA
Alejandro Agresti's Valentin opened fifth this past weekend, scoring a good launch for the local title and taking the second highest per screen average after The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which pushed Bruce Almighty off the top. The Jim Carrey comedy had played in the number one slot for four ...
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Cinecitta, Air Hollywood team to create European aviation-themed facility
Cinecitta Studios in Romeand Los Angeles-based aviation standing sets and prop rental company AirHollywood have teamed up to create what they claim is Europe's largestaviation-themed facility.Proposed sets that willresult from the partnership and serve expected market needs include an airportterminal concourse, state-of-the-art airplane mock-ups and a business jet.The move complementsCinecitta's ...
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UK producers pair up for Magic Light Pictures
UK producers Martin Pope and Michael Rose have joined forces to launch a new UK based film company Magic Light Pictures which they will jointly own and run.Specialising in comedy and family entertainment, Magic Light Pictures aims to produce talent driven, quality feature films for a worldwide, commercial audience - ...