All Screen articles in 25 February 2003
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Henderson named vp production at Senator int'l
Senator International has appointed Aubrey Henderson as vice president of production. Reporting directly to Nathan Kahane, the company's executive vice president motion pictures, Henderson will be responsible for identifying, developing and packaging new production projects. Prior to working at Senator, Henderson held positions at CAA and ICM where she worked ...
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Lightning gets rights on The Job
Lightning Entertainment has picked up international sales rights on The Job, a recently wrapped crime thriller produced by Dan Levin and Marc Levin's Platform Entertainment. Directed by Kenny Golde, the film stars Daryl Hannah as a cold-blooded contract killer who becomes pregnant and struggles with the choice of whether to ...
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Movies phone home in Germany
Having been one of the most depressed places around, German TV is set for a rebound thanks to last week's takeover of Premiere and the arrival of Deutsche Telekom as a video-on-demand (VoD) broadcaster. Represented by former Kirch executive, Daniel Otto, Telekom's on-line subsidiary T-Online is at the AFM as ...
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Lions Gate hip hops with urban sales push
Lions Gate International has launched a sales initiative of the urban movies that its parent company produces in an effort to capitalise on the worldwide popularity of hip-hop and US black culture. The company scored sales success with Dr Dre/Snoop Dogg vehicle The Wash, which grossed over $10m in the ...
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TVB sells majority stake in Galaxy to Intelsat
Hong Kong broadcaster TVB has announced a deal to sell a 51% stake in its long-delayed pay-TV platform, Galaxy Satellite Broadcasting, to US satellite services provider, Intelsat. The deal clears the way for Galaxy to be launched in the third quarter of this year, presenting Hong Kong's dominant pay-TV operator, ...
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Korean horror scares up French sale
Cineclick Asia secured a "low six figures" pre-sale of Korean horror flick A Tale Of Two Sisters to France's Wild Side Films. The film, based on a traditional Korean folk tale is a chamber piece involving an interfering ghost, a cruel stepmother and two sisters with very different characters. The ...
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Hannibal knocks on Dylan's door
Richard Rionda Del Castro's Los Angeles-based Hannibal Pictures has acquired all rights to Masked And Anonymous in Italy, France, Spain, Greece and Turkey from Nigel Sinclair and Guy East's Spitfire Pictures. Larry Charles' picture, which stars Bob Dylan as a singer on the comeback trail, premiered at Sundance and was ...
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Cannes contenders take shape
Cannes this year looks set to be a feast of high-art with stalwarts Lars Von Trier, Michael Haneke, Arturo Ripstein, Peter Greenaway and Ingmar Bergman all set to light up the Croisette with their latest films. According to international gossip - but absolutely without any sort of confirmation from the ...
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Keitel political thriller sells to Brazil, Portugal
The Galindez Mystery, a political thriller starring Harvey Keitel and Saffron Burrows, has been bought by Mandra Film for Brazil and Madragoa Filmes for Portugal. The film is handled by Slav International, the new sales outfit founded in January by former TF1 International executive Max Saidel. It is an adaptation ...
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Italian drama heads for box-office glory
Italian director Gabriele Muccino's new film, Remember Me (Ricordati di Me), has grossed a massive $6.8m since its release on February 14th - placing it well on the path to local blockbuster glory. The bitter-sweet drama stars Son's Room actress Laura Morante, Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Teeth), emerging actress Nicoletta Romanov and ...
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UK buys into Boorman's Skull
Icon Film Distribution has pre-bought John Boorman's South African-set drama Country Of My Skull for the UK, affirming the UK as one of the most active territories at the AFM. Icon picked up all UK rights from UK-based The Works, which is going into production next month with Samuel L ...
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US distributors seek legal block on Mexico's cinema levy
In an exclusive interview with Screen International, Steve Solot, MPA senior vice president for Latin America (pictured) has commented about the recent uproar in Mexico over MPAA head Jack Valenti's recent letter to Mexican President Vicente Fox. (screendaily.com/Feb 10 & 20). In his missive, Valenti warned President Fox that ...
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Korea's most expensive live-action film begins shooting
Leading production house Kang JeGyu Films has just got underway on the largest ever live-action film - and possibly the country's most topical given current global tensions - ever made in Korea. Tae Guk Gi - which translates literally as "Korean national flag" - is a $11.5m about the Korean ...
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Man Of The Year attracts US buyers
Brazilian international sales company Grupo Novo de Cinema e TV is fielding at least three offers from US buyers to Jose Henrique Fonseca's The Man Of The Year (O Homem Do Ano), which made the official selection in Berlin last month. The story of how a regular guy turns into ...
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Armada pre-sells One Point Zero
Chris Sievernich's Armada Pictures International has announced a raft of pre-sales on Jeff Renfroe and Marteinn Steiner Thorsson's thriller One Point Zero. New Select has picked up the film for Japan, New Legend has bought for Germany, A-Film Distribution for the Netherlands, Cinema Park for Russia and Jumbo Film for ...
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Arclight skateboards with Deck Dogz
Arclight Films has added Australian skateboarding movie Deck Dogz to its sales slate. The film is directed by Steve Pasvolsky, who was nominated for a short live action Oscar for his film Inja, and is being produced by Bill and Jennifer Bennett and their b:j films. Bill Bennett is the ...
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Modern classics for sale at UK's 3DD
UK distributor 3DD Entertainment is offering its newly acquired library of modern classics for sale at the AFM, including rarely seen film versions of Peter Hall's adaptation of the Harold Pinter play The Homecoming and Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters directed by Lawrence Olivier. 3DD acquired all worldwide media rights (excluding ...
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AFM 2003 verdict: slow but steady
A few disillusioned buyers may have already left the AFM deal tables this weekend to try their luck at the slots in Las Vegas, but if the market corridors felt emptier this year, at least the remaining buyers were serious. Indeed, many of those who resisted sin city's allure spent ...
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IMAX signs with Regal for two more US IMAX systems
IMAX Corporation announced today (Feb 24) that it has signed adeal with Regal Entertainment Group to install two additional IMAX(R) theatresystems, increasing the number of IMAX theatres operated by Regal to 14 - morethan any other third party operator in the world. The two theatres will belocated in Boise, Idaho ...
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Daredevil scores in Philippines, Jamaica openings
Fox International opened its superhero adaptation Daredevil at number one in Jamaica over theweekend, grossing $29,000 from six screens. The picture also opened top of thecharts in the Philippines, taking $743,000 from 143 screens to register Fox'sfifth biggest bow of all time and the industry's second biggest February bow inthe ...