All Screen articles in 24 June 2003
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Jones to quit UK's Mission Pictures
Damian Jones, co-founder of UK production outfit Mission Pictures, is to leave the company to return to independent producing.According to a statement, Jones felt removed from the independent film production arena as Mission's development and production management work increased. He leaves with a two-year, non-exclusive independent production arrangement with the ...
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Pandora to produce Nalin's Valley Of Flowers
German production house Pandora Filmproduktion, producer of Indian director Pan Nalin 2002 feature debut Samsara, are to team up again for his next project Valley Of Flowers which is set to go into production in the Himalayas, Tokyo and a Cologne studio from summer 2004.Currently budgeted at around Euros 4m ...
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Imax reveals screen plans for Disneyland Paris
Imax Corp and French exhibitor EuroPalaces have signed an agreement to open an Imax 3D cinema at Disneyland Resort Paris, the 47th Imax cinema in Europe.The facility, which will be located within Disney Village and is set to open in June 2004, is expected to showcase Imax DMR films, that ...
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Israeli Cinemas to slash ticket prices
Israeli Theatres Cinemas has announced a reduction in ticket prices across its entire circuit for the whole summer season (until end September) and for all shows, by 22.5%.Instead of the present $7.50 the price of a single ticket will be $5.80 for the period. Israeli Cinemas, one of the ...
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Cruz steps up to Castellitto's Don't Move
Penelope Cruz has signed to star in Italian-Spanish co-production Don't Move (Non Ti Muovere) for actor-turned-director Sergio Castellitto. The film, which begins shooting in Rome on July 28, would mark Cruz's first Spanish co-production since 2001's No News From God (Sin Noticias De Dios) and her third film in Italian. ...
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Premiere secures pay-TV package from Warner Bros
Matrix Reloaded, Good Bye, Lenin! and Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets are among the titles in a multi-year pay TV package deal concluded by Germany's digital pay TV platform Premiere and Warner Bros. International Television (WBIT).The deal, which is an extension of an existing agreement signed last October ...
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Loyalty schemes, local production assessed at Cinema Expo
The Media Salles Forum at Cine Expo in Amsterdam presented evidence of a link between the increase in box office in some European territories and an increase in home-made films.Its Focus On Europe seminar : 'A Panorama of Cinemagoing in Europe in 2002: Marketing Strategies by Exhibition Companies for building ...
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Morris appointed new UK film minister
Estelle Morris has effectively succeeded UK film minister Kim Howells following a government reshuffle.Morris has a higher ministerial ranking than the outspoken Howells, although, along with film and creative industries, her brief as arts minister covers such diverse matters as museums and street crime.Culture Secretary, Tessa Jowell confirmed that Lord ...
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Tunisia's Bouzid wins Innsbruck with Arais Al-Tein
Tunisian filmmaker Nouri Bouzid's Poupees D'Argile (Arais Al-Tein) picked up three prizes at this year's Innsbruck International Film Festival (June 18-22) which is dedicated to films from South America, Africa and Asia. The international jury, including Austrian filmmaker Andrea Maria Dusl, Benin's Idrissou Mora Kpai, and Brazil's Paulo Roberto de ...
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Euro film alliance lobbies for increased broadcaster investment
At a public hearing held in Brussels yesterday to discuss the review of the TV without Frontiers directive, the European Film Companies Alliance (EFCA) called on the European Commission to propose stronger investment and market access obligations for European films to broadcasters."Today a broadcaster can comply with the TV without ...
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UK's Momentum provides revenue boost for Alliance Atlantis
UK-based Momentum Pictures has boosted its contribution to the bottom line of parent company Alliance Atlantis. Announcing its fourth-quarter and year-end results, the company said Momentum generated 20% of the fiscal 2003 EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) of its Motion Picture Distribution Group, or $7.9m of the ...
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French comic book to get feature adaptation
Continuing the trend, France's latest comic book character to make a jump from the page to the screen will be Rene Goscinny's Iznogoud. Patrick Braoude will direct a cast that could include comedian Michael Youn and beloved comic actor Jacques Villeret.The film will begin shooting in early 2004. Canal Plus ...
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Sequel rolls out fast and furious across Europe
UIP's 2 Fast 2 Furious screeched into 15 European territories over the weekend taking $19m from 2,282 venues. The film, which claimed more than $21m over the weekend including its holdover territories, has taken $33m to date from international markets after launching in Australia on June 5. The absence of ...
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Sony revamps worldwide financial services dept
As part of itsongoing drive to consolidate marketing and distribution, Sony PicturesReleasing's (SPR) financial services department is expanding to handleservices including accounts receivable and worldwide collection.Eileen Lomis,senior vice president of worldwide theatrical financial administration for theColumbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, will oversee the division'sexpansion.Lomis, a 25-yearveteran of Columbia, TriStar and ...
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Eliasoph named new head of Warner China
Ellen R Eliasophhas been appointed to the new post of managing director of China at Warner BrosPictures International.Eliasoph willset up and run a company office in Shanghai, from where she will oversee thesubsidiary's Beijing office as well as its Hong Kong-based productionsand acquisitions staff.Herresponsibilities will include supervising the studio's theatricaldistribution ...
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Break A Leg wins audience prize at CineVegas
Monika Mitchell's drama Break A Leg won the Audience Award for best featureat the fifth CineVegas Film Festival, which ran from Jun 13-21. In Break A Leg, John Cassini stars as a frustrated actor who decides to takematters into his own hands and make his dreams of success come true. ...
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The Hulk explodes with five number one openings in Asia
The Hulk grossed an estimated $3.1m from 325 theatres in fivenumber one Asian openings over the weekend, complementing Universal'stable-topping bow in the US.In Hong Kong it took$700,000 from 39 venues, which Universal claimed was roughly twice as much asthe opening for Gladiator andjust ahead of X2: X-Men United.Universal scored its ...
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My Architect wins feature prize at new US doc festival
NathanielKahn's My Architect won the inaugural Sterling Award for a feature film at theSilverdocs: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival.More than 70films screened at the festival, a joint venture between the American FilmInstitute and the Discovery Channel, which ran from Jun 18-22 at the SilverTheatre And Cultural Centre in Silver Spring, Maryland.My ...
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Cinemark opens three new multiplexes in Latin America
CinemarkInternational, one of the leading Latin American exhibitors, has opened threenew stadium-seating theatres in Southern Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica.The Galerias Boulevardsite in Southern Mexico's Tuxtla Gutierrez region is an eight-screen, 1,850-seatcomplex and the first to open in the city of Chiapas.It was built incooperation with the existing Liverpool site, ...
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Williams to get career achievement award at Chicago Film Festival summer gala
Robin Williams will be presented with a career achievement awardat the 40th Chicago International Film festival's annual summer gala on Jul 17.Organisers plan a retrospective of Williams' work, which includesan Oscar winning turn in Good Will Hunting and acclaimed performances in Dead Poets Society and Good Morning, Vietnam."There are only ...