All Screen articles in 2 October 2002
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Mira Nair to launch film training lab in Uganda
Internationally acclaimed director Mira Nair is planning to create a 'film lab' in Uganda, inspired by the Sundance Institute's training initiative, to offer four East African and four Indian students six weeks of tuition.Speaking during her Cinema Militans Lecture at this year's Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht, Mair explained that ...
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Wales paves way for new international film studio
Plans for a film studio complex in Wales received a boost yesterday, when the Welsh parliament scrapped its main objection to the project. Based in the south Wales valleys, the 350-acre development - called Dragon International Studios - is hoping to be built on a former opencast coal site near ...
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Two from Takashi Miike get US exposure through Vitagraph
Vitagraph Films, a USmicro-distributor affiliated with the LA-based American Cinematheque, hasacquired US rights to prolific Japanese bad-boy film-maker TakashiMiike's splatter musical The Happiness Of The Katakuris (2001) as well as his hyper-kinetic action picture TheCity Of Lost Souls (2000).Under president DavidShultz, Vitagraph has been buying movies for the last two ...
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Paramount shifts The Core from Nov to March
Paramount Pictures has movedthe US release date of its sci-fi action thriller The Core from Nov 1 this year to March 2003, taking it out ofthe end-of-year holiday season which would have seen it up against I Spy, The Santa Clause 2 and 8 Mile as well as Harry Potter ...
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China's film industry reforms stalled in run-up to Party Congress
With all policy decisions and initiatives on hold until after the Communist Party's 16th National Congress next month, it looks as if China's long-awaited second distributor won't be launched until the beginning of next year at the earliest.The new entity, which is set to break China Film Corp's monopoly in ...
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Sundance to champion European cinema
The Sundance Film Festival is set to become a platform for European filmmakers, according to festival director Geoffrey Gilmore, speaking at the Holland Film Meeting in Utrecht.While admitting that he only had "a modest goal" and was not intending to create "a European-focused festival per se", Gilmore declared that he ...
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Benigni to record English-language version of Pinocchio
Roberto Benigni will use his own voice to dub the English soundtrack for the international version of his new film, Pinocchio, which is released this Friday in Italy and on Christmas day in the US.The comic's wife, Nicoletta Braschi, who plays the fairy godmother in Benigni's adaptation of the Carlo ...
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THINKFilm is Spellbound by spelling bee doc
One year-old domesticdistributor THINKFilm has acquired North American rights to the documentary Spellbound which recently played in the Toronto InternationalFilm Festival. The film, directed by Jeff Blitz and produced by Sean Welch,follows the real-life experience of the National Spelling Bee as seen throughthe eyes of eight, driven young spellers competing ...
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London's Imperial War Museum wins IDA preservation award
The Imperial War Museum(IWM) in London will receive the 2002 International Documentary Association(IDA) Preservation and Scholarship Award at the 18th annual IDADistinguished Documentary Achievement Awards on Dec 13 in Los Angeles. Themuseum's keeper of the film and video archives Roger Smither will acceptthe award.Founded in 1917, the IWM wasmandated by ...
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Rialto and Arclight team for Roger Dodger
Rialto Entertainment, the only New Zealand company that distributes films in Australia, and Australia's newest sales agent, Arclight Films, have co-acquired what they describe as one of the few buzz films from the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals, namely the New York comedy Roger Dodger.The story of a schoolboy's attempt ...
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Murdoch finally agrees Telepiu takeover terms
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has agreed to buy the financially crippled Italian pay-TV operation Telepiu from Vivendi Universal through a cash-and-debt agreement worth Euros893 million.News Corp said it would pay Euros470 million in cash for Telepiu and will assume Euros423 million worth of the outfit's debt.The deal, which is expected ...
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Norwegian sales agent backs two southern hemisphere projects
Norwegian sales agent BV International Pictures has penetrated yet another corner of the globe by signing for a film in Australia and another in New Zealand. The UK/New Zealand co-production Castle Of Lies starring James Caan and the Australian road movie/comedy Thunderstruck are both grounded in reality but there the ...
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Caine gets AFI FEST tribute, Quiet American gets US premiere
AFI FEST 2002, the AmericanFilm Institute's Los Angeles film festival, will honour Michael Cainewith a special tribute at this year's event which takes place Nov 7 to 17this year. The tribute includes an on-stage interview with the double Oscar-winningactor (Nov 16) as well as a short retrospective of his films ...
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Rio festival sambas on despite election fever
Competing forattention in Rio seems impossible in presidential election week. Streets aredraped with banners for leftist favourite Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva -known as simply as Lula - and if that wasn't distraction enough, druglords ordered an unofficial curfew on Monday, possibly as a sabre-rattlingexercise ahead of Sunday's voting.And yet, ...
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StudioCanal grabs Mars Films, gives Bac new hope
StudioCanal is to throw Jean Labadie's Bac Majestic group a desperately-needed financial lifeline. But it will kill off the Bac Distribution joint venture and instead take theatrical releasing of its films in-house."StudioCanal and Bac Majestic are seeking, in the framework of the ongoing discussions, the means to assure the release ...
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Singapore admires Chan's Tuxedo
Jackie Chan's latest film, The Tuxedo opened with a record $586,665 (S$1.05m) in Singapore last weekend, the territory's biggest-ever September opening. The Tuxedo, directed by Kevin Donovan, scored a stellar average of $22,564 from 26 screens. It tells the story of a millionaire's chauffeur (Chan) who tries on his ...
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Seattle absorbs Women In Cinema fest, expands focus on women
The Seattle International FilmFestival (SIFF), which next year runs from May 22 to June 15, has announcedthat it will embrace a focus on films by women film-makers into its ownprogramming following the decision not to run a separate Women in Cinemafestival next year. The Women in Cinema event has run ...
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Speculation mounts about successor to German culture minister
SPD politicians Thomas Krueger, president of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, who has served on several film funding committees, and Monika Griefahn, who chairs the Bundestag's cultural committee have been tipped as a possible successor to Julian Nida-Ruemelin as Germany's Federal Commissioner for Affairs of Culture and the ...
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Oldest living Japanese director shoots The Owl
Veteran Japanese director Shindo Kaneto is currently producing his latest feature, The Owl (Fukuro). The 90 year-old Shindo (pictured) is best known in the west for his The Island / Naked Island (1960) which was awarded to the Grand Prix at Moscow international film festival in 1961. Written and directed ...
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Korean box office hit may be the last of the blockbusters
New Korean gangster comedy, For The Glory Of Our Family (pictured) looks like it could be a contender for the new local all-time box-office crown. But the relative success of its performance pales in comparison with the recent disastrous failure of local mega-budget title: Resurrection Of The Little Match Girl.One ...