All Screen articles in 21 November 2003
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Manulis-produced LA riots satire starts shooting
John Manulis'Visionbox Pictures has started production in Los Angeles on The LA RiotSpectacular, a satire onthe 1992 Los Angeles riots written and being directed by Marc Klasfield.The movie stars Charles Dutton, TK Carter, Emilio Estevez,Charles Durning, William Forsythe, Christopher McDonald, Jonathan Lipnicki, TedLevine and cameos from Snoop Dogg, George Hamilton ...
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David Attenborough gets career award from IDA
DavidAttenborough will receive the International Documentary Association (IDA)'s2003 Career Achievement Award during the 19th annual IDAdistinguished documentary achievement awards gala in Los Angeles on Dec 12.'Sir DavidAttenborough has made incomparable contributions to advancing our understandingand appreciation of natural history," said IDA President Michael Donaldson in astatement. "His 13-part series Life ...
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Barenholtz et al buy movie rights to comic strip AstroCity
Ben Barenholtz,Kurt Busiek and Jonathan Alpers have teamed up to form the partnership PanamaLeo LLC and acquired all film rights to the comic book series AstroCity.AstroCity, whichdebuted in 1955 at Image Comics, is the brainchild of Busiek and tells storiesof humans living in a wildly superhuman world. Busiek will be ...
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PeaceJam to open Global Peace Fest in Florida
The inauguralGlobal Peace Film Festival, which will take place in Orlando, Florida, from Dec10 to 14 has unveiled its lineup.The openingnight film is PeaceJam,the US documentary directed by Dennis Flippin which follows five teens over asix-year period as they face the realities of growing up in the USA today whileworking ...
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German exhibitors rage at funding proposals
German exhibitors are considering taking legal action against the new Film Funding Law (FFG) which is set come into effect on January 1, 2004.The law means that cinemas will be obliged to contribute an average of 2.7% of their gross turnover to the financing of the Federal Film Board (FFA), ...
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San Francisco Film Fest takes delegation to Cuba
A selection offilms from this year's San Francisco International Film Festival will screen atthe 25th International Film Festival of New Latin American Cinema inHavana, Cuba which takes place Dec 2-12.The filmsselected are Lost Boys Of Sudan and The Weather Underground which are both shortlisted for this year's Academy Award, HeartOf ...
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Paramount Classics falls for Michell's Love
Paramount Classics, thespecialty arm of Paramount Pictures, is in final negotiations to buy NorthAmerican and select other territorial rights to Roger Michell's next film EnduringLove from Pathe International.Starring Daniel Craig,Samantha Morton and Rhys Ifans, the film is an adaptation of the Ian McEwanbestseller about the obsession that develops by one ...
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Universal looks to spread Love around Europe
Universal will be looking to spread Love Actually around major European territories this weekend, in a bid to repeat the film's excellent $2.2m number one launch in Italy last weekend. Germany (505 prints) and The Netherlands (108 prints) received the ensemble film yesterday (Nov 20). It rolls out in the ...
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South Africa unveils US, European alliances at Sithengi
A string of international alliances between Southern Africa, Europe and Hollywood were unveiled at this year's Sithengi in Cape Town (13-16 Nov).The major event of the TV and film market was the signing of a co-production treaty between Italy and South Africa. It is the country's second treaty with a ...
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Cosmic Africa scoops top South African award
Feature length documentary Cosmic Africa won the best film prize at South Africa's National Television and Video Association (NTVA) annual Stone Awards this week.Aland Pictures' documentary - which is currently on theatrical release - also won seven other awards at the ceremony, including best direction, cinematography and art direction.The film ...
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Cosmic Africa wins top South African award
Feature length documentary Cosmic Africa won the best film prize at South Africa's National Television and Video Association (NTVA) annual Stone Awards this week.Aland Pictures' documentary - which is currently on theatrical release - also won seven other awards at the ceremony, including best direction, cinematography and art direction.The film ...
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European box office flatlines in 2003
After a period of sustained growth, the European box office is heading for its second consecutive year of stagnation. With Germany last week recording a slump of 13.3% for the first nine months, this year's box office in all five of the big European markets is expected to be more ...
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Lee's Red Eagle to soar for Film Hanza
Hong Kong director Daniel Lee is attached to direct action movie Red Eagle for Thailand's Film Hanza - a new production company set up by Cinemasia co-founders Duangkamol Limcharoen and Nonzee Nimibutr. Limcharoen was awarded "Producer of the Year" on Thursday night at the CineAsia conference in Bangkok. The award ...
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Mifed was good news for documentary sales
Last week's Mifed film market will have brought financial cheer to a number of documentary producers who saw their works licensed for theatrical release. The annual market in Milan is normally focused of feature films and forthcoming projects, but this year also saw a growing emphasis on documentaries.Although the market ...
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Dans Grozny Dans wins inaugural cph:dox
Copenhagen's first international documentary film festival cph:dox, which wrapped this weekend, saw its major awards go to Jos de Putter's Dutch film Dans, Grozny, Dans and Jose Padilha's Brazilian Bus 174. "Dans, Grozny, Dans is a deeply humanistic tale of a dance group and their dedicated teacher in a tale ...
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Highlight figures paint mixed picture of Constantin takeover
Highlight Communications' takeover of Germany's Constantin Film has had mixed results, according to the Swiss media concern's nine-month figures.On the one hand, profits dropped. Highlight reported a 41% contraction in operating profit to $11.3m (CHF 14.7m) due to the net loss contributed by Constantin. Revenues, however grew. Following the takeover ...
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Cactus Three snags top documentary talent
A pioneering New York partnership that specialises in high-end international documentaries has hit the ground running with a debut slate brimming with Oscar-winning theatrical talent and the prospect also of the first-ever continuing non-fiction series for HBO.Julie Goldman, Caroline Stevens and Krysanne Katsoolis, all previously associated with Wellspring Media, have ...
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Former IDFA winner takes brutal look at war
Today (Saturday)'s industry discussion 'Shooting In Warzones' will no doubt draw heavily on the recent war in Iraq. So too does Reporters At War, a new documentary mini-series by film-maker Jon Blair, who won an Oscar and IDFA's Wisselzak Prize for Anne Frank Remembered in 1995.The series paints an un-sanitised ...
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Germany rides DVD boom
Germany's home entertainment market has posted record results for the first nine months of 2003 thanks to the ever increasing popularity of the DVD.New figures published by the trade association BVV (Bundesverbandes audiovisuelle Medien) show overall turnover for the sector grew year-to-year by 10.4% from Euros 888.5m to Euros 981m.This ...