All Screen articles in 27 January 2004
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Merchant eyes Venice festival slot
The Merchant Of Venice producer Barry Navidi has confirmed that he hopes to premiere the film at the next Venice Film Festival, which runs from Aug 27-Sep 5."The Merchant Of Venice belongs to Venice," Navidi told ScreenDaily.com from the 15th century villa in the suburb of Mestre where the picture ...
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Speck speaks up for 'explosive' Panorama programme
The Berlinale's Panorama, which opens on Feb 5 with Eytan Fox's Walk On Water, has "a particularly bold, raw and energetic programme this year", according to section head Wieland Speck.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com, Speck cited "such explosive films as Abdellatif Kechiche's L'Esquive which really touches one through its unbelievable energy to ...
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UK Conservatives pledge to simplify tax system
The UK's Conservative Party has pledged to simplify the country's tax system and has highlighted the Section 42 sale and leaseback tax break for the UK film industry as an example of over complex legislation.Shadow Chancellor Oliver Letwin - whose Conservative Party has edged ahead in the opinion polls of ...
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South Korean cinema scores record market share
South Korean cinema recorded a 53% local market share in 2003 - the strongest on record - according to a report just released by the Korean Film Commission (KOFIC).The nationwide figure is an estimate based on a 49.7% local market share for Seoul (where accurate figures are more readily available, ...
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Laudadio named director of Rome's Casa del Cinema.
Felice Laudadio, director of the Taormina Film Festival and former head of the Venice Film Festival, has been named the director of the "Casa del Cinema", an ambitious new cinema and cultural complex that will be unveiled in Rome in September 2004.The brain-child of Rome mayor and cinephile Walter Veltroni, ...
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Second UK First Light film awards to be held in Feb
The UK's second First Light Film Awards are to be held in London on February 25.The awards are part of a $1.6m initiative launched in May 2001 between UK funding body The Film Council and Birmingham-based Hi8us Projects to give young people aged between 7 and 18 the opportunity to ...
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Full list of Oscar nominations
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King has emerged as the front runner for the Oscars this year, with eleven nominations including best picture and best director.Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World is just behind with ten nominations, followed by Seabiscuit and Cold Mountain ...
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Dutch Film Fund names ten directors for development scheme
The Dutch Film Fund has unveiled a new initiative called Ten To Watch, which sees ten directors given Euros 10,000 to develop their next film project.The scheme was launched during this week's International Film Festival of Rotterdam with the aim of stimulating more artistic and less commercial productions in the ...
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Fox comedies Stuck and Cheaper continue rollouts
Fuelled by a decent openingin Spain at the weekend, Stuck On You added $2.5m from 1,166 international sites to raise its running totalto $17m.Fox International opened thecomedy in second place in Spain on $1.4m. It also scored good bows in Belgium,grossing $210,000 from 35 screens, and Greece, where it took ...
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UK delegation travels to Bollywood for scriptwriting project
A delegation of UK film industry players have travelled to Mumbai to lead a week-long intensive series of workshops to identify Indian scriptwriting talent and match it with UK industry skills.The UK Film Council has produced a four day programme starting on 27 January focusing on the western "development process" ...
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Irish Film Board looks to recruit key staff
The Irish Film Board (IFB), Ireland's national screen agency, has advertised for five full time positions.The IFB currently has 15 staff and the positions advertised largely arise from vacancies created by departing staff.The positions advertised are deputy head of production investment, development manager, business executive, policy executive, and executive assistant.Staff ...
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Nemo finds its place in the half a billion dollar club
Finding Nemo passed $500m at the international box office overthe weekend, becoming the 10th title in history and the first animated filmever to cross the half-billion threshold.Nemo added $5.2m at theweekend for $504.2m, featuring $2.3m in its eighth weekend in Japan for astunning $93m running total. It is set to ...
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Anatomy Of Hell (Anatomie De L'Enfer)
Dir: Catherine Breillat France 2004. 77mins.Forthright French director Catherine Breillat made her international breakthrough in 1999 with Romance, the centrepiece of a retrospective at the Rotterdam Film Festival. Breillat has returned to Rotterdam to premiere her tenth film Anatomy Of Hell, which takes Romance's sexual explorations even further, into territory ...
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King lords over Italy with $12.2m in four days
Powered by a new industryrecord for an opening weekend in Italy, New Line's The Lord Of The Rings:The Return Of The King boosted itsworldwide cumulative total to $876.5m at the weekend to become the sixth biggestgrossing title of all time.Peter Jackson's trilogyfinale added an estimated $28.7m from 7,187 screens in ...
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King rules with 11 Oscar nominations
New Line's The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King has emerged as the frontrunner for Academy Award glory with 11 nominations including best picture and a second best director nod for Peter Jackson following The Fellowship Of The Ring in 2002.Twentieth Century Fox's naval adventure Master And ...
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Strong Paris sales for Wild Bunch
French sales house WildBunch will go into Berlin and AFM buoyed by a raft of strong sales followinglast week's Rendez-Vous De Paris market.Its biggest seller wasPierre Salvadori's Apres Vous. The film was sold to Crystal Films forCanada, Alta Films for Spain, Audiovisual for Greece, IIF for Italy, Atalantafor Portugal, Cinema ...
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Redbus dives into Open Water
UK distributor and producerRedbus Pictures has acquired UK rights to low budget shark thriller OpenWater, which premiered at Sundancelast week.Redbus bought the picturefrom Lions Gate Films and plans to release it on 300 plus prints in the latesummer or early autumn later this year.Based on the true story oftwo married ...
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Seven scripts selected for top Oz development scheme
Seven creative teams have been selected for Australian script development programme SPARK 2004, developed by the Australian Film Commission (AFC) and the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS).Australian cinema has often been accused of neglecting its scripts and scriptwriters. Acting, camerawork and production design are usually first rate, while ...
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Rotterdam debates the future of digital
Independent cinema versus corporate America was the underlying theme of a big set-piece debate at the Rotterdam festival yesterday (Sun 25 Jan).The discussion on digital cinema and its potential threats to conventional film-making took the form of a parliamentary debate, a format which inevitably produced colourful language and a spirit ...
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Madrid targets foreign shoots with film commission launch
Long the capital of the Spanish film and television sectors, Madrid has finally made official the launch of its much-anticipated Film Commission.An estimated 70% of Spanish films shoot in Madrid, yet producers have long complained of complications shooting here. A large clutch of producers turned out to Friday's presentation to ...