All Screen articles in 20 January 2003
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France's EuroPalaces maintains market dominance
EuroPalaces held on to its status as top French exhibitor last year. The company, a marriage between Pathe and Gaumont's cinema circuits, attracted 40.6 million visitors in its multiplexes across France for the year - out of total national ticket sales of 185 million.The strong showing helped EuroPalaces' balance ...
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Italy mulls new film censorship law to protect children
Italy plans to establish a new film censorship law, ensuring that no film can be banned from release, and imposing tighter restrictions for children.Currently, a local censorship commission can ban a film from being released altogether at the cinema, and can also restrict viewing to audiences over the age of ...
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Italy to introduce tougher anti-piracy laws
The Italian Parliament has approved a new anti-piracy law that will put behind bars those who use counterfeit smart cards to access pay-TV channels.While anti-piracy legislation already exists in Italy, prison terms had until now been excluded. But now, as legislators attempt to curb the rampant piracy which has caused ...
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Berlin's Panorama Dokumente series announced
The Panorama Dokumente series of the Berlin International Film Festival has announced its programme for 2003.The series will open on Feb 7 with Traces Of A Dragon: Jackie Chan And His Lost Family by Mabel Cheung and Alex Law (Hong Kong, China).The other films will be: Comandante by Oliver ...
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Panorama Dokumente series announced
The Panorama Dokumente series of the Berlin International Film Festival has announced its programme for 2003.The series will open on Feb 7 with Traces Of A Dragon: Jackie Chan And His Lost Family by Mabel Cheung and Alex Law (Hong Kong, China).The other films will be: Comandante by Oliver ...
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Istituto Luce names Andrea Piersanti as new president
Andrea Piersanti has been named the new president of Istituto Luce, the Rome-based state distributor which is also involved in production and exhibition.Piersanti, 44, is currently the president of the catholic entertainment organisation, Ente dello Spettacolo. He replaces Antonio More, who was temporarily appointed after industry veteran Angelo Guglielmi stepped ...
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Sony Pictures signs up Garnett to production deal
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has entered into a first-look production deal in the UK with Tony Garnett and John Heyman's London-based World Productions, a further move in its expansion into non-US film production. Garnett and Heyman co-founded World in 1990 and have focused principally on TV series with a ...
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Sundance Channel launches US theatrical initiative
TheSundance brand will make its theatrical debut in the US, as The SundanceChannel announced yesterday that it will launch a film series that will seefour features released in at least ten major US markets from August throughNovember 2003. Similar in spirit to the film series launched by now-defunct TheShooting Gallery ...
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Levity
Dir: Ed Solomon. US. 2003. 100mins.From its portentous title to its lofty themes, Levity reeks of a self-importance which is rarely justified. The ambitious directorial debut of Ed Solomon, the screenwriter of Men In Black and the two Bill And Ted films, was the opening night film of the Sundance ...
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Chicago, The Hours strike Gold at the Globes
Miramax Films' Chicago was the big winner at the 60th annual Golden Globe, picking up three statuettes at last night's ceremony that was held amid tight security and wildly divergent Oscar predictions at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. The musical, which grossed a stunning $8m over the weekend, ...
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Kangaroo Jack hops to the top for Disney and Bruckheimer
With so many class acts in contention for the Golden Globes today(Jan 19) it was little surprise that audiences craved some throatier laughsover the weekend, propelling Warner Bros' Kangaroo Jack and Columbia's National Security into first and second places on$17.7m and $15.7m respectively. The two openers shunted last week's topper, ...
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Kangaroo Jack hops to the top for Warner, Bruckheimer
With so many class acts in contention for the Golden Globes today(Jan 19) it was little surprise that audiences craved some throatier laughsover the weekend, propelling Warner Bros' Kangaroo Jack and Columbia's National Security into first and second places on $17.7mand $15.7m respectively. The two openers shunted last week's topper, ...
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Sundance teen drama Thirteen baits Fox Searchlight
Fox Searchlight Pictures isin final negotiations to take all worldwide distribution rights outside the UKto Thirteen, one of only a smallhandful of dramatic competition films to have excited buyers during the firstfew days of this year's Sundance Film Festival.Although no distributiondeals had been formally announced by the end of the ...
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Sundance teen drama Thirteen baits Fox Searchlight
Fox Searchlight Pictures isin final negotiations to take all worldwide distribution rights outside the UKto Thirteen, one of only a smallhandful of dramatic competition films to have excited buyers during the firstfew days of this year's Sundance Film Festival.Although no distributiondeals had been formally announced by the end of the ...
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Soft Money - Australia
AustraliaAustralia's new 12.5% tax offset is designed to encourage footloose productions to spend more of their budgets in Australia. Sandy George reportsIt was an e-mail that was never meant to be made public. It described a Los Angeles telephone call, now 18 months ago, from angry Warner Bros executive Bob ...
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Entera appoints int'l production & acquisitions team
New international production-distribution company Entera has appointed three executives to form its cross-Atlantic production and acquisitions team. Los Angeles-based Keith Resnick will act as head of production for the US; Christopher Brough, head of production in Canada; and Madrid-based Margaret Nicoll, director of international production. Entera was formed by US ...
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Sundance: Women Make Movies acquires domestic rights to Love & Diane
30 year-old film non-profitorganization Women Make Movies (WMM) has acquired North American distributionrights to the documentary Love & Diane which world premiered at the Locarno Film Festival last year, winningthe Golden Leopard, and played at the New York Film Festival before itsAmerican Spectrum screenings at this week's Sundance Film Festival.Directed ...
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UK leads host of strong openings for 8 Mile
A stunning $7.2m launch for 8 Mile in the UK and Ireland is the latest box office triumph for US rapper Eminem's acting debut.The UIP-released film, which is directed by Curtis Hanson, claimed a powerful $7.2m (£4.4m) over the weekend in the UK - including $771,995 (£477,093) of previews. The ...
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Miracle debut wins Max Ophuels Prize
Writer-director Anne Wild's feature debut My First Miracle (Mein Erstes Wunder) (pictured) has won this year's $38,500 (Euros 36,000) Max Ophuels Prize The prize, for up-and-coming German language cinema, was awarded at the Max Ophuels Prize Film Festival (January 13-19) in Saarbruecken, Germany.The story about a friendship between an eleven ...