All Screen articles in 21 April 2003
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Vajna and Kassar prepare fantasy trilogy for Sony Pictures
Andy Vajna andMario Kassar's C-2 Pictures, which produced one of the summer's mostanticipated pictures in Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines, is preparing an epic fantasy trilogycalled Evermere whichhas landed at Sony Pictures. Describing the project as "Lord of The Rings meets Harry Potter," Vajna told Screen that he thought ...
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Kenneth Rive memorial
On Tuesday next week (April 29) anall-industry event will take place at the National Film Theatre to celebratethe life and work of Ken Rive, who died on December 30 at the age of 84.His involvement in the filmindustry started at an early age when his father went to work in ...
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Lizzie McGuire, Pokemon at Tribeca Family Festival
The worldpremiere of Lyman Dayton and Sam Pillsbury's drama Where the Red Fern Grows and New York premieres of Disney teencomedy The Lizzie McGuire Movie and Salma Hayek's directorial debut Maldonado Miracle are among the line-up for the TribecaFamily Festival, announced today (Apr 17). The Tribeca Family Festival runs onthe ...
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Anger unleashed in Australia with $2m opening
In the firstmajor international release for its number one US film Anger Management, Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI) opened the comedy at number one in Australia on anaggressive $2m.In a raft ofterritory records, this was the second biggest April bow (bettered only by TheMatrix in 1999), thebiggest ever bow for ...
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Anger manages to quell all newcomers
Jack Nicholsonand Adam Sandler continued to rule the charts as Columbia/Revolution's AngerManagement grossed aterrific $25.6m in its second weekend for an $80.3m running total, according tostudio estimates released today (Sunday).The hit comedyexpanded by 19 sites into a massive 3,570 theatres and looks good to retain thecrown next week, although it ...
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Media funds pledge to invest in German industry
German media funds have said they are willing to spend a set amount of the money they raise each year on films shooting in Germany.The move, announced by Verband Deutscher Medienfonds (VDM), the interest group founded last year by 18 of Germany's private media funds, is expected to bolster Germany's ...
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Head of development leaves Pathe UK
Matt Gannon has decided to leave his position as head of development at Pathe's UK operation, managing director Francois Ivernel confirmed on Thursday.Although Gannon has developed some of the company's highest-profile productions - including The Magic Roundabout and Pride And Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical - Pathe is scaling back its ...
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Top Italian animator prepares new feature
Top Italian animation writer, Umberto Marino, whose credits include local blockbuster Lucky And Zorba, is set to direct a new feature film, entitled La Fiamma Sul Ghiaccio (A Flame On Ice).Scripted by Marino, the film, which he describes as "a very visual and extreme love story" will be produced through ...
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Italian exhibitors issue formal complaint to MPAA, distributors, government
Italian exhibitors have formally complained to the MPAA, distributors and the Italian government about the lack of big pictures that are to be released in Italy this summer - and warned that the situation will damage future growth prospects of the local industry. In a letter published by local trade ...
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New theatrical distributor launches in Brazil
Brazilian home video distributor Imagem Filmes is venturing into the local theatrical distribution arena. The Sao Paolo-based company will continue to distribute home video product for Lumiere EBA, which has an output deal with Miramax. In recent years, Imagem has been acquiring all rights to a slew of high ...
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New distributor, Bright Angel to shine over Benelux
New Beneluxdistributor Bright Angel Distribution will launch from the end of this month.The company, which aims to handleall rights for eight-to-ten art-house films per year, is the creation of Chris Oosterom, currently programmer and head of acquisitions forFilmmuseum, and Patrizia Raeli, departing head of acquisitions at the UK's Metro Tartan. ...
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Mushroom options NZ gang tale Stonedogs
Sydney-based Mushroom Pictures has announced that it has optioned Craig Marriner's debut novel Stonedogs, which deals with gang and drug culture in a city resembling the author's home town of Rotorua in New Zealand.The novel was the controversial winner of the Deutz Medal for Fiction at NZ's 2002 Montana Book ...
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Underwater facility set to launch in Sydney
A major underwater filming facility is to be built in Sydney, which is being billed as one of the biggest and best in the world by the company behind the project. Industry veterans Greg Timms and Simon Kerslake are working at "breakneck speed" in order to accommodate several projects already ...
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Cannes Directors' Fortnight names first titles
Under the management of Francois Da Silva, the new Cannes Director's Fortnight is beginning to take shape as an enlarged and experimental section with an emphasis on diversity.The first four films to be announced range from a Yakuza genre film, to an intense drama by a normally mainstream director and ...
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Top directors benefit from Swedish funding
The Swedish Film Institute (SFI) has greenlit four new feature films, most of them from established, successful directors.The major recipient of funding was Swedish production and distribution company Sonet Film, which has already started shooting its first English-language feature film, The Third Wave (Den Tredje Vagen). The film is being ...
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Bruce Willis drops out of Intermedia's Me Again
Bruce Willis and independent giant Intermedia Films have partedcompany on the thriller Me Again due to creative differences, the company announced today (Apr16).Intermedia said it would remain on schedule with the LosAngeles-set film, which is due to go into production imminently.Cheyenne Enterprises, the production company run by Willis andpartner Arnold ...
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Karlovy Vary unveils first films
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4-12) has unveiled its preliminary programme.Among the slate of films to screen in the main competition will be two of this year's local hits, Jan Hrebejk's Pupendo (pictured) and Juraj Nvota's Czech-Slovak co-production Cruel Joys. The Festival has also announced it will honour ...
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UK box office lagging despite English boost
The combination of Working Title hit Johnny English and Disney animated sequel The Jungle Book 2 may have helped the UK box office to a 50% week-on-week rise last weekend, but figures were still down for the comparative weekend in 2002.The two new releases took top and second positions with ...
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Bon Voyage
Dir: Jean-Paul Rappeneau. 2003. France. 114mins.Thirteen years after he adapted Jean Rostand's Cyrano De Bergerac and seven years after his swashbuckling take on Jean Giono's The Horseman On The Roof, Jean-Paul Rappeneau throws off the cultural shackles of the heritage feature and returns to his first love: the romantic adventure ...
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MEDIA programme to be extended to 2006
The European Commission is to propose to the Council of Ministers and European Parliament that the existing MEDIA Plus and MEDIA Training programmes be extended for another year until the end of 2006. According to a statement, the aim of this extension would be "to ensure continuity of Community action ...