All Screen articles in 22 May 2003
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Johnny English passes $100m in international ticket sales
Universal/Working Title's smash spy spoof Johnny English passed $100m at the international box office over the weekend.The comedy grossed $3.3m at 2,276 venues in 24 countries for a $102.7m running total after 39 days on release.British comic Rowan Atkinson stars as the bungling junior intelligence officer forced by circumstances to ...
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X2 hits $150m at international box office
Fox International's sci-fi sequel X2: X-Men United reached $150m in international ticket sales over the weekend.The comic book adaptation grossed $18.5m in its third weekend on release and was the second biggest international film of the weekend behind Warner Bros' The Matrix Reloaded.X2 fared best in those territories where The ...
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Party Monster to open 21st Outfest
Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's paean to 1980s excess Party Monster will open Outfest 2003, the Los Angeles-based lesbian and gay film festival that celebrates its 21st anniversary this year.The event, which runs from Jul 10-21 and is lining up 188 films from 26 countries, will close with Emile Gaudreault's ...
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Samuel Goldwyn takes US on Anything But Love
Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up US distribution rights to Anything But Love (formerly Standard Time), a throwback to the 1950s Technicolor musicals that is set for theatrical release this autumn.The film was co-written by director Robert Cary and Isabel Rose, who stars plays an aspiring nightclub singer who becomes ...
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Eddie Saeta boards Argentine Chong
Barcelona-based company Eddie Saeta, producer of Marc Recha's Un Certain Regard entry Where Is Madame Catherine' (Les Mains Buides), has boarded Argentine co-production Chong for director Lucho Bender.The father-son reconciliation tale set in Patagonia will shoot in late 2003 or early 2004. Bender's prior credit is 2000 Gaston Pauls-starrer Merry ...
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Australia calls for cultural exception
The Australian Film Commission (AFC) is calling for recognition of the special status of Australia's film and media industries in trade agreements between Australia and the US. The AFC held a briefing in Cannes yesterday (Monday) to coincide with the start of negotiations in Hawaii for a Free Trade Agreement ...
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Bohemian takes delivery of Life
Bohemian Films, the production, financing and distribution company formed last Cannes by Fran and Kaz Kuzui and Fortissimo principals Wouter Barendrecht and Michael J Werner, has taken delivery of its first film, Last Life In The Universe (pictured). It is expected to appear at a number of autumn festivals. The ...
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Cannes to host piracy summit next year
Next year's Cannes festival will be host to a conference on anti-piracy issues it was announced after a meeting between MPA chief Jack Valenti and France's minister of culture Jean-Jacques Aillagon. 'We urge the creative community and cinema professionals of France, the US and all countries to join together in ...
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Oz caper picked up by Myriad's radar
Myriad Pictures has acquired worldwide rights excluding Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea to Australian comedy caper Under The Radar directed by Evan Clarry and produced by Chris Brown and Chris Fitchett of Picture In Paradise Productions.The film stars Nathan Phillips, Steady Eddy, Clayton Watson and Chloe Maxwell as a ...
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Egoli Tossell dives into cash pool
Egoli Tossell, one of the leading German indie producers, has won itself a pool of fresh cash to boost its development slate. The company, which was involved in last year's Cannes competition title The Russian Ark and Nana Djordjadze's 2000 Directors Fortnight film 27 Missing Kisses, was granted a $1.5m ...
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Saidel's sales house gets name change
Max Saidel's recently formed sales house has changed its name from Slav International to Vision International. The company, which comes to Cannes with a bulging slate of international art-house and smaller commercial titles, is celebrating the success of Toutes Les Filles Sont Folles, which is the first film to be ...
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Hsu's latest joins 'Changing China' series
Taiwan's Arc Light Films has set Hsu Hsiao-Ming's Love Of May as the next film in the 'Changing China' series that it is co-producing with France's Pyramide group. A romantic drama about the relationship between a girl from the Chinese mainland and a Taiwanese boy, the film will star Chen ...
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Zentropa, Nimbus continue Nordisk romance
The prolific Danish production outfits Zentropa and Nimbus Film have extended their output deal with exhibition-distribution major Nordisk Film for another two years. The deal includes a number of new films from directors such as Annette K. Olesen, Per Fly, Susanne Bier, Soren Kragh Jacobsen, Natasha Arthy, Aage Rais Nordentoft, ...
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Modigliani finds his muses
Bauer Martinez Studios has assembled an international cast to join Andy Garcia in Modigliani, a $12m picture about the last days in the life of the famous artist that is scheduled to start shooting in Bucharest on May 25.Elsa Zylberstein will play Jeanne Hebuterne, Omid Djalili will play Picasso, Eva ...
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Weg India on US shopping spree
Indian sales and distribution company Weg India is becoming an aggressive buyer of US product snapping up Indian rights to five pictures during this market so far. Among the pictures acquired by Weg are three from Franchise Pictures - The In-Laws, starring Michael Douglas, The Whole Ten Yards with Bruce ...
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Rainstorm, Uncharted Territory team for Juggernaut
Steven Kaplan, Gregg Daniel and Richard Katz's fledgling LA-based production company Rainstorm Entertainment is teaming up with Volker Engel and Marc Weigert's Uncharted Territory on the second world war drama Juggernaut.The film concerns the fate of two brothers and is set in the North African desert as the Allies battle ...
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Reconstruction
Dir: Christoffer Boe. Denmark. 2003. 89minsAfter sowing its wild oats, Dogme has settled down and started a family. Christoffer Boe, one of the first products of this post-Lars generation, is not so much concerned with stripping cinema down to its basics as with manipulating its shimmering surface. The first full-length ...
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Tube speeds to Shochiku
A major Japanese deal for its top action title has crowned the return to market of Korea's Tube Entertainment. Tube Entertainment has had a convoluted corporate history and returned to Cannes this year as a seller for the first time since regaining its independence from an on-off takeover by CJ ...
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Stormy Weather
Dir: Solveig Anspach. France-Iceland-Belgium. 2003. 90minsA compact little film destined to do well on TV screens, and with careful handling on the arthouse circuit as well, Solveig Anspach's third feature goes back to medical matters, but is quite different from those she explored in her Haut Les Coeurs' debut. This ...
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Mia Bays goes Missing In Action
Mia Bays is leaving her post as head of marketing and distribution at UK National Lottery franchise The Film Consortium to launch her own production company, Missing In Action Films.Bays has already assembled a broad slate of commercial and edgier fare, mostly at first draft stage, including horror title Regeneration, ...