All Screen articles in 22 July 2002

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  • News

    India's Censor Board chairman resigns over porn proposal

    2002-07-22T04:05:00Z

    Vijay Anand chairman of India's Censor Board of Film Certification is understood to have offered to resign after his proposal to legalise the exhibition of X-rated films in selected approved cinemas in the country was rejected by the Indian Government. The Government of India is yet to respond to ...

  • News

    Mexico's widest-ever release threatened with ban

    2002-07-22T04:05:00Z

    El Crimen Del Padre Amaro - due to get the widest release ever for a Mexican film, on 300 prints - is provoking controversy ahead of its scheduled local release on August 16th. A Catholic group has launched a website inviting people to petition for the ban of Carlos Carrera's ...

  • Reviews

    Dirty Deeds

    2002-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Dir: David Caesar. Australia. 2002. 98 mins.Hot on the heels of the last Australian gangster caper, The Hard Word, comes David Caesar's equally macho, amoral and raucous Dirty Deeds, with the distinct advantages of a decent budget, a smart script and a vibrantly realised late-1960s setting. In addition, a top ...

  • News

    Macquarie Film Corp. - from Dirty Deeds to Wannabes

    2002-07-22T00:00:00Z

    At the same time as Australia's Macquarie Film Corp. was celebrating the successful weekend opening of its first backed film Dirty Deeds; it was also announcing the eighth and final film to be backed under its current scheme: The Wannabes.Dirty Deeds, the first film to benefit from Macquarie's interest in ...

  • News

    Scorsese, Kiarostami to preside over Cannes' Cinefondation

    2002-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Directors Martin Scorsese and Abbas Kiarostami have agreed to be honorary presidents of the Cannes Festival's Cinefondation. As such they will preside over the twice yearly "Residence" internship, which helps young film-makers prepare for their first or second feature film.The festival said: "they wished to show their attachment to the ...

  • News

    Vivendi Universal sued, Canal Plus Group to be broken up

    2002-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Against the background of French newspaper reports suggesting that its Canal Plus division will now be broken up, Vivendi Universal and former chairman Jean-Marie Messier are to be sued by a group of US investors. The investors, operating under the banner Rosenbaum Partners, bought shares between February and July of ...

  • News

    Brother wins top prizes at PiFan

    2002-07-21T00:00:00Z

    Clearly there was no World Cup animosity. German film Getting My Brother Laid (aka Mein Bruder Der Vampir) was the big winner at the 6th edition of the Pucheon International Festival of Fantastic Film (PiFan) in South Korea. The film, which won Sven Taddicken the best new director prize at ...

  • News

    Hong Kong films performing 30% below 2001 levels

    2002-07-21T00:00:00Z

    While Hong Kong has high hopes for the international success of big budget summer films like The Touch, Highbinders and Hero, many feel that mainland China will prove a bigger market for Hong Kong movies than the West. The first half of 2002 has been disappointing for Hong Kong film, ...

  • News

    Stuart Little 2 is big, but still disappointing, in lacklustre movie weekend

    2002-07-21T00:00:00Z

    Columbia's latest box office victory was a small one. Family sequel Stuart Little 2 opened at the top of the charts over the weekend with a so-so $15.6m take, according to studio estimates released yesterday. That beat DreamWorks' adult drama Road To Perdition by a mere $0.3m.It was an uncharacteristically ...

  • News

    MIIB storms Germany with $11.2m, scores $26m weekend

    2002-07-21T00:00:00Z

    Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI)'s Men In Black II (MIIB) continued its impressive international run with an $11.2m opening weekend in Germany on 1,166 prints, according to studio estimates released today. When figures are confirmed this week it should establish MIIB as the sixth highest opener of all time ...

  • News

    Australian actors are getting behind the camera

    2002-07-19T04:05:00Z

    Russell Crowe's mooted directorial debut, The Long Green Shore, is just one example of a host of Australian actors currently getting behind the camera with projects to direct or produce.Toni Collette is in the process of producing an adaptation of Luke Davis's novel Isabelle The Navigator alongside Icon Shanahan Productions' ...

  • News

    Packer nets $130m from sale of Cinemex exhibition stake

    2002-07-19T04:05:00Z

    Australian entrepreneur Kerry Packer has sold his stake in Mexican exhibition company Cinemex to Canadian investment firm Onex and Los Angeles-based Oaktree Capital Management, netting a profit of $130m, according to local newspaper The Australian.Packer acquired the 35% stake in Cinemex in 1999 when his Consolidated Press Holdings bought ...

  • News

    Devdas expected to gross $10m in first week on release in India

    2002-07-19T04:05:00Z

    Devdas has been declared a hit in India, with industry sources telling Screendaily that the film is expected to pass $10m at the box office by the end of its first week in the country. The film opened to capacity screenings at 300 cinemas across the territory, grossing nearly $50,000 ...

  • News

    France's TF1, M6 jointly acquire 25% of TPS

    2002-07-19T04:05:00Z

    French private broadcasting groups TF1 and M6 have jointly acquired the 25% stake held by French utilities group Suez Lyonnaise in digital satellite platform Television Par Satellite (TPS).TF1, which previously held a controlling 50% stake in TPS, following the acquisition in December last year of the 25% stake jointly held ...

  • News

    Shanghai Disneyland sparks fears of Hong Kong rival

    2002-07-19T00:00:00Z

    Plans have been initiated for a Shanghai Disney theme park. It was reported in the Hong Kong Economic Times that Shanghai's government signed a letter of intent with Walt Disney Co. The news has prompted concerns that the park would rival Hong Kong Disneyland, currently under construction and hoped to ...

  • News

    Bewkes named entertainment overlord at AOL Time Warner

    2002-07-19T00:00:00Z

    HBO's top executive JeffBewkes has been put in charge of AOL Time Warner's entire entertainmentportfolio, including both Warner Bros and New Line Cinema, as part of amanagement re-shuffle that sees the back of the troubled media empire'schief operating officer Bob Pittman.Pittman, who becameincreasingly frustrated at being made the media scapegoat ...

  • News

    Kismet announces Dog Soldiers sequel, boards two with Seven Arts

    2002-07-19T00:00:00Z

    Kismet Entertainment Group, the LA-based production outfit behind British horror hit Dog Soldiers, has announced that it will produce Dog Soldiers 2 as well as two new pictures in alliance with Peter Hoffman's Seven Arts Pictures.Kismet, headed by entrepreneur David E Allen, first connected with Hoffman on the recently completed ...

  • News

    Legendary costumier Monty Berman dies aged 90

    2002-07-19T00:00:00Z

    Monty Berman, the legendary British costumier, died in Monte Carlo on Monday after a short illness. Berman was head of the London-based costume house Berman's, which later became Berman's And Nathan's.His list of clients encompassed some of the biggest names in movies including Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Katharine Hepburn, Rex ...

  • News

    Mad Love opens 6th LA Latino int'l film festival

    2002-07-19T00:00:00Z

    The 6th Annual Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) presented by co-founder/actor Edward James Olmos kicks off today (Friday July 19th) with Vicente Aranda's Juana La Loca (Mad Love) from Spain. To be held at its traditional venue, the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, from July 19th to July 28th, ...

  • News

    Serbian local productions unable to repeat 2001's success

    2002-07-19T00:00:00Z

    While Serbia's local productions regularly outperform Hollywood releases, this year home-grown titles are suffering - despite overall admissions rising 21% year-on-year for the first six months of 2002, from 1,665,245 in 2001 to 2,021,843 tickets sold this year. Unlike most emerging and mature markets, summer is a slow season ...