All Screen articles in 21 April 2002
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NewsEveryman cinema to open in Maida Vale, London
New cinema will be Everyman Media Group’s ninth venue
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Queensland launches Gold Coast film festival
The Gold Coast City Council is one of the main drivers behind the launch this year of a film festival that it hopes will draw attention to the filmmaking capabilities of the region, and boost economic development. Over $54,000 (A$100,000) has already been raised from government sources.Queensland's Gold Coast, south ...
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Finance chief of KirchGroup holding company steps down
Brian Cook, chief financial officer of KirchGroup holding company, TaurusHolding has left the company after just nine months.In a press communique, the holding stated that the resignation had "occurred now in light of the fact that the restructuring of the KirchGroup of companies is increasingly being managed by the insolvency ...
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Canada's Decode to shoot The Church Mice
Canadian Production company Decode Entertainment has announced plans to make its first children's feature. The film: The Church Mice is to be shot like the Hollywood feature film Babe, combining computer graphics and live-action. Funded by the Canadian government, the feature is expected to go into production in around 18 ...
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Shaolin Soccer scores at Hong Kong Film Awards
Stephen Chow's Shaolin Soccer was the big winner at the 21st Hong Kong Film Awards on Sunday night (April 21), scoring seven of the 19 prizes, including best film and best director.Chow also scooped the best actor and best new director awards, while his co-star Wong Yat Fei won best ...
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Beyond, Chaos team for Australian home entertainment
A range of Australian cinema classics will be among at least 30 titles released on DVD and video in the next 12 months under a new deal between Beyond International and information technology group and home entertainment distributor Chaos. Upcoming titles licensed by Beyond will also be manufactured, marketed and ...
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Thailand begins approving more filming requests
As competition heats up in the bid to be the 'shooting capital of Asia', and despite expected protests from environmentalists, Thai authorities have gone ahead and approved the filming of CBS' high profile reality TV program Survivor on Tarutao, a pristine southern island.According to the Thai Film Office (TFO), some ...
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First titles in Cannes Directors' Fortnight announced
The selection committee of the 34th Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Realisateurs ) section of the Cannes film festival has announced a partial line-up of titles.Abouna - Mahamat-Saleh Haroum - Chad / France (world premiere)Angela - Roberta Torre - ItalyBibo Breviarium (Istvan Bibo, fragments) - Peter Forgacs - Hungary (international premiere)Blue ...
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Nirgendwo In Afrika leads German Film Award nominations
Caroline Link's Nirgendwo In Afrika has picked up four nominations for this year's German Film Awards (Lolas) which will be presented in Berlin's Tempodrom on June 14. At the announcement of this year's nominees during a gala event in Berlin on April 19, Link's adaptation of Stefanie Zweig's bestseller was ...
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Vivendi and Kirch troubles impact int'l film sales business
Industry executives around the world were this week weighing up the impact of the unfolding crisis at Vivendi Universal. The ousting of Canal Plus boss Pierre Lescure and the management turmoil at parent company Vivendi Universal has thrown into doubt the ability of Europe's most diverse pay-TV group and the ...
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Venice film festival selects Buschmann for German liaison
Venice Film Festival's new director Moritz de Hadeln has named filmmaker/producer Christel Buschmann as the festival's correspondent for Germany to liaise with German producers wanting to place their films in Venice.Buschmann - who Gibbi-Westgermany (1980), Comeback (1982) and Ballhaus Barmbek - Let's Kiss And Say Goodbye (1988) - is no ...
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Brown steps into vacated SPAA exec director job
Geoff Brown has been appointed executive director of the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) following the sudden resignation of Joanne Yates who joined only six months ago. Brown, already involved with the organisation as policy manager in an acting capacity while the incumbent was on maternity leave, is a ...
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Spanish film industry holds breath as pay-TV sector wavers
The Spanish film industry is up in arms over what is seen as a halt in acquisitions at pay TV platforms Via Digital and Canal Plus/Canal Satelite Digital, two of the most important financing sources for Spanish producers and distributors.While the rumours about a stall have been circulating since early ...
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Australia to get its first competitive film festival
Sydney Film Festival director Gayle Lake has confirmed that the festival will become a competitive event from 2003, the year it celebrates its 50th birthday, with filmmakers' first or second feature films being eligible. Australia does not currently have a competitive festival.A new directors program was introduced in 1999 and ...
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Japanese distributor launches international film production arm
Japanese film distributor Klockworx is entering the international film production business with the unveiling of its first project, Meher Grougian's Citizen Zero, due to start shooting in Los Angeles in December. Budgeted at $1m, the SciFi thriller about a man who has lost his identity, will be the director's first ...
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MIP-TV receives general approval from mixed market
The MIP-TV market (Apr 14-18) drew to an effective close yesterday as buyers scurried out of town and deal announcements dwindled from a trickle to something closer to a drip feed. But most participants gave the impression of having had a more useful market than they had envisaged.Statistics from MIP-TV ...
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Turkish website protests against Egoyan's Ararat
A Turkish website is protesting against Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan's new film Ararat claiming it distorts history and misrepresents Turkish actions. Tipped to premiere in competition at Cannes, the film tells the story of a present-day ethnic Armenian director filming an historical drama about the 1915 uprising of Armenians and ...
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Icon adds Bend It Like Beckham to Oz release line-up
Icon Film Distribution Australia has acquired the rights to UK soccer hit Bend It Like Beckham, directed by Gurinder Chadha. The tentative release date is July in Australia and August in New Zealand. It is generally acknowledged that British films can work as well in the Australian marketplace as US ...
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German banks provide KirchMedia with Euros 100m
German banks Commerzbank, HypoVereinsbank, Bayerische Landesbank, and DZ Bank have reportedly agreed to provide the crisis-ridden KirchGroup's KirchMedia with Euros 100m working capital to enable the company, which filed for Chapter 11 at the beginning of last week, to continue operations as a going concern. This cash boost will also ...
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The Scorpion King
Dir: Chuck Russell. US. 2002. 92mins.The Mummy franchise lives on in this rumbustious, two-fisted prequel that serves up breathless, B-movie action with A-level production values. Promoted to centre stage, Dwayne Johnson, aka wrestler The Rock, lays down a persuasive marker as a 21st-century action hero and the heady mixture of ...