All Screen articles in 26 May 2002
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India's location shooting rules to be relaxed, as local production soars
As a result of meetings held in Cannes last week, the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is considering relaxing the rules for international companies planning to shoot films in India.Senior government officials met several filmmakers who showed interest in shooting in India but were put off by the red ...
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Polanski's Pianist tops list of Cannes winners
A roar of approval, but applause that fell a long way short of a prolonged standing ovation, greeted Roman Polanski's Palme d'Or win at Cannes 2002 with The Pianist.Jury president David Lynch opened the evening's ceremonies by saying that there were not enough prizes to go round, but that the ...
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The full list of Cannes winners
Cannes 2002 PrizesPalme d'OrThe Pianist Dir: Roman PolanskiGrand Jury PrizeThe Man Without A Past Dir: Aki KaurismakiBest ActressKati Outinen in The Man Without A PastBest ActorOlivier Gourmet in The Son (Dirs: Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)Best Direction (joint)Im Kwon-Taek for ChihwaseonPaul Thomas Anderson for Punch ...
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Irreversible wins shock value but no awards
Anger and outrage followed the bombshell detonated by Gaspar Noe's Irreversible, a tale of rape and revenge that is depicted more brutally than any film that has been shown at the Cannes festival. That it did not win a single prize probably reflected its jury-dividing content, outweighing Noe's awesome technical ...
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Wildside takes Tongan Ninja
France's Wildside Films, the distributor headed by Manuel Chiche, has picked up Tongan Ninja from the New Zealand Film Commission. The off-beat martial arts comedy previously went to Vision Africa for South Africa and to Pacific Entertainment for Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore and to Sar-an for Turkey.
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Sollet's Long Way finds US home
Samuel Goldwyn and Fireworks have bagged Peter Sollet's Long Way Home ahead of its Un Certain Regard screening for their US joint distribution venture IDP.The title - sold by Studio Canal's division Wild Bunch which also co-produced along with Forensic Films - has been hotly pursued by US distributors.Long Way ...
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Warner expands European production push
Warner Bros Pictures has hired Crisilde Dominici as director, local production, Italy as part of its expansion drive into European production and acquisitions, and has declared its intentions to embark on a Spanish local production plan later this year.Dominici, who has worked with directors such as Nanni Moretti, joined the ...
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Germany remains weak as Miramax strikes multi-territory deals
Miramax International may have completed a string of deals here but one territory it wasn't closing on was Germany. "We've seen everyone, but the offers are just too low," said worldwide distribution chief Rick Sands. "Their mission was to push down pricing, but we have to tough it out. Germany ...
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Wild Bunch flies with Purple Butterfly
StudioCanal division Wild Bunch is boarding Purple Butterfly, the next film by Suzhou River director Lou Ye, which will topline Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's star Zhang Ziyi.Produced by Shanghai Film Studios, Purple Butterfly is an Hitchcokian adventure/romance set in Shanghai at the time of the Japanese invasion of China. ...
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Gala brings Trespasser to the UK
Gala Films has nabbed all UK rights to Beto Brant's The Trespasser (O Invasor), winner of the Sundance Best Latin American feature this year. Brazilian international sales agent Grupo Novo closed the deal with the arthouse distributor today in Cannes. According to Grupo Novo sales chief Alfredo Calvino, Gala Films ...
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Borgia inches forward
Regarded as a barometer of the health of large-scale film financing in a depressed European market, Neil Jordan's epic Borgia appears to be finally coming together as a mammoth co-production between the UK, Germany, Italy, Ireland and possibly France.Co-producers and partners deep into talks include BBC Films for the UK ...
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Belgium unveils film tax plan
Belgium is to become the latest European country attempting to use tax as a way of boosting film production.Didier Reynders, the Belgian finance minister is expected today (Friday May 24) to announce the launch of a new tax shelter.The new measures are expected to allow film investors to set off ...
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Sogepaq wraps Asian deals
Spain's Sogepaq has closed a range of sales to Asia on four recent pictures from sister company Sogecine.Daniel Calparsoro's Kosovo-set action drama Guerreros has sold to Japan (Gaga), Korea (Cinestar), Hong Kong (Winson), Taiwan (Spring Cinema) and Thailand (MJC Entertainment). Japan's Gaga also picked up English-language sci-fi pic Stranded from ...
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Columbia launches German arthouse distribution division
The German office of Columbia TriStar Film has launched Columbia Pictures Art Selection - a classics-style division for the theatrical release of arthouse titles.The first releases will be Ed Harris's biopic Pollock on June 6, Marleen Gorris' Nabokov adaptation The Luzhin Defence (Sept 5) and Fred Schepsi's Last Orders (Oct ...
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Sweden's Film I Vast lines up another busy slate
Swedish regional film fund Film I Vast has lined up another busy schedule, including the eagerly awaited new film from Jalla! Jalla! director Josef Fares.The as yet untitled action comedy shoots for Lars Jonsson's Memfis Film in June, where production also starts on Kristian Petri's Details from Gotafilm based on ...
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Kapadia boards St Agnes' Stand
The Warrior director Asif Kapadia has boarded Miramax Films' western St Agnes' Stand.Kapadia, who transplanted the spaghetti Western to India for The Warrior, is expected to bring an epic Sergio Leone feel to Agnes, a western story about an injured gunslinger on the run in New Mexico. Reminiscent of Kapadia's ...
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Dreamworks falls for Millennium Actress
Millennium Actress, an animated drama handled by distributor Klockworx, has become the first foreign-language animation to be acquired by Dreamworks SKG.Dreamworks has picked up all rights outside Asia to the film, which won the best animation prize when it premiered at Fant-Asia last July and took the animation award at ...
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Miramax Australia makes debut acquisition with debut film
Miramax Films has acquired the Australian and New Zealand distribution rights to Anthony Mir's directorial debut You Can't Stop The Murders, marking the first acquisition for Miramax's newly formed Australian office under Victoria Treole.The film is a comedy which also features stand-up comedian Mir alongside fellow comedians Gary Eck ...
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Spain's MediaPro buys 60% stake in Ovideo
Spanish audiovisual company MediaPro has bought out 60% of film and TV producer Ovideo TV.The company has also bought a 20% share in Italian producer and consultancy Gruppo Comunicazione Italia (GCI) with an option to raise the stake later this year.The deals follow MediaPro's announced full-fledged entry into feature film ...
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Cannes 2002: tough choices for Palme readers
Constantly improving after far from auspicious beginnings, Cannes 2002 should finally settle in the memory as a robust and rewarding vintage. Filled with uncompromising auteurist statements, exciting discoveries and tender explorations of the human condition, it was a Festival to restore anyone's faith in the health and vigour of world ...