All Screen articles in 21 April 2004
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UK production sector weathers the storm
Government crackdowns on UK tax relief earlier this year may have cast uncertainty over the production sector - and led to the high-profile collapse of productions such as John Madden's Tulip Fever - but the UK is as busy as it was at this time during its record year last ...
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WBITD renews multi-year deal with Nine Network
Australia's NineNetwork has renewed its multi-year free television output deal with Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD).The dealcontinues a long-standing programming distribution relationship and involvesfree television rights to the studio's current and upcoming television series,features, animation and library titles."Our programmes, such as Friends, ER, Without A Trace and Two And A ...
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Spain's Filmanova seeks new co-production opportunities
Spanish producer Filmanova is beefing up its production activities thanks to the creation of private investment fund Filmanova Invest.The company currently has more than half a dozen films in various stages of development and production, many with European and Latin American partners, and is actively seeking new projects for 2005.Backed ...
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Cinema Jove to screen early works of Roman Polanski.
Spain's 19th annual Cinema Jove International Film Festival (June 19-26) will dedicate a retrospective to the early works of Roman Polanski.The youth-oriented festival, which last year hosted a cycle on the Young Coppola, will screen feature and short films Polanski shot before he turned 35.New French Filmmakers will be featured ...
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Julie Delpy to bring Sunset to Transylvania
Actress Julie Delpy has confirmed her participation in this year's Transylvania International Film Festival in the Romanian town Cluj between May 28 and June 6.Delpy is currently developing a film about the blood-drinking countess Elisabeth Bathory, a serial killer whose pet hobby was bathing in the blood of virgins. It ...
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India-Pakistan co-productions becoming a reality
The Indian and Pakistani film industries having begun working together, in a move that echoes the growing political dialogue between rival countries.Pakistan-based film and TV star Rashid Khawaja and Punjabi film producer Iqbal Dhillon have announced a co-production, Village Girl (Pind Dee Kuri), between the two countries. The film is ...
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Sunshine gets first foreign bows in Australia, Taiwan
Focus Features' EternalSunshine Of The Spotless Mind kickedoff its international run in Australia at the weekend with a record bow for aCharlie Kaufman picture that produced $416,000 from 60 screens and eighthplace.The romance claimed thebiggest per-screen average of the top 10 on $6,937. Released through VillageRoadshow, it grossed $518,600 overall ...
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Asian jewels to shine at Udine
Udine's festival of Far Eastern Film (23-30 April) looks set to present many of the most commercially successful films of the year from Asia.Bookended by Feng Xiao Gang's Cell Phone and Kang Je Gytu's Tae Guk Gi the main programme is a line-up of 41 films from China, Hong Kong, ...
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Yet another film distributor launches in the Netherlands
"Born out of necessity" is how producer Els Vandevorst describes the expansion of her production company Isabella Films into theatrical distribution.Dutch feature Het Zuiden (South) is the second film Isabella has released theatrically this year following Thomas Vinterberg's It's All About Love. Vandevorst served as one of the producers on ...
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500,000 admissions for Italian film without a distributor
An Italian film without theatrical distribution entitled Il Natale Rubato (The Stolen Christmas) has become a sensation, after it emerged that the self-financed picture has already racked up a massive 500,000 admissions in Italy on an "underground" exhibition circuit.While a recent report revealed that 30 Italian films are currently in ...
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Turn Left, Turn Right (Xiang Zuo Zou, Ziang You Zou)
Dirs. Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai. Hong Kong, 2003. 102mins.Softer compared to some of Johnnie To's recent fare like PTU, the latest offering by the prolific Hong Kong director is firmly planted with one foot in the West and the other in the East. Warner Bros Pictures first Chinese-language film Turn ...
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Donnie Darko gets director's cut world premiere at Seattle fest
Newmarket Films willpremiere the director's cut of Richard Kelly's surreal love story and cult hit DonnieDarko at the upcoming Seattle FilmFestival on May 29.The acclaimed picture starsJake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone and Drew Barrymore and was originally released in2001, gaining popularity through video and cable platforms and eventuallybecoming a midnight special ...
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Cannes unveils competition line-up
Below is a list of 18 films selected for competition for the 57th Cannes Film Festival.More details to follow shortly.Shrek 2 - Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon (USA)The Ladykillers - Joel et Ethan Coen (USA)Woman Is The Future Of Man (Yoja-nun Namja-ui Miraeda) - Hong Sang-soo (South Korea)The Life ...
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Cannes Competition and Un Certain Regard line-up
MAIN COMPETITIONOpening film (Out Of Competition): Bad Education Pedro Almodovar (Spain)Closing film (Out of Competition): De-Lovely Irwin Winkler (USA)In CompetitionShrek 2 - Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon (USA)The Ladykillers - Joel and Ethan Coen (USA)Woman Is The Future Of Man - Hong Sang-soo (South Korea)The Life and Death ...
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NEW Slimline Cannes hides its surprises in the detail
Cannes' competition holds few surprises in that the line-up has been widely predicted. But it contains a number of innovations and presents a genuinely diverse panoply of film-making around the world.In the spirit of small is beautiful, the number of films in main competition has been cut from 23 last ...
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Slimline Cannes hides its surprises in the detail
Cannes' competition holds few surprises in that the line-up has been widely predicted. But it contains a number of innovations and presents a genuinely diverse panoply of film-making around the world.In the spirit of small is beautiful, the number of films in main competition has been cut from 23 last ...
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Cannes artistic director explains his selection
Interview with Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux - abstracted from today's Cannes festival press statement.In 2004, the Cannes Festival Official Selection is composed of feature films presented in three categories: Competition, Out of Competition, Un Certain Regard. The Official Selection also includes the short film competition and film school competition ...
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Artistic director explains his selection
Interview with Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux - abstracted from today's Cannes festival press statement.In 2004, the Cannes Festival Official Selection is composed of feature films presented in three categories: Competition, Out of Competition, Un Certain Regard. The Official Selection also includes the short film competition and film school competition ...
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Anschutz reorganises film companies under Weil, Granat
Philip Anschutz hasreorganised his film interests with the creation of Anschutz Film Group (AFG),a Los Angeles-based holding company that will serve as parent to subsidiariesWalden Media and Bristol Bay Productions, formerly known as CrusaderEntertainment.Attorney David Weil, who forthe past year has served as Anschutz's chief advisor on film investments, joinsfrom ...
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BELGIUM 21 April
Warner Bros' Taking Lives swiped the lead spot from The Passion Of The Christ just one week after Mel Gibson's international hit launched. The psychological thriller, which sees Angelina Jolie as an FBI agent called in to aid Montreal police track down a serial killer, claimed pole position opening on ...