All Screen articles in 27 March 2002
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THINKFilm makes first worldwide rights acquisition
Recently formed NorthAmerican distributor THINKFilm has made its first acquisition of worldwiderights to a film - Thom Fitzgerald's ensemble drama The Event.Currently in production, the picture marks a returnto theatrical film for the acclaimed director of The Hanging Garden and Beefcake after his USA Networks TV movie Wolf Girl. Starring ...
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Labadie, Chiche establish Wild Side video label
French film group Bac Films has launched its first two home video titles - Scary Movie 2 and Spy Kids - on the rental market through its recently created home video company, Wild Side Video. Wild Side Video -- a 100% subsidiary of Jean Labadie's Bac Films launched in February ...
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PVR opens first multiplex outside Delhi
Delhi based Priya Village Roadshow (PVR) will next year launch first multiplex outside Delhi when it opens the doors of an 11 screen complex in suburban Mumbai (Bombay). The company is planning to expand from 12 screens to over 80 screens by 2005 and invest up to $30m. PVR director, ...
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Little big guy Dudley Moore dies aged 66
Dudley Moore, the multi-talented comedian and musician who starred In Beyond The Fringe before becoming an unlikely Hollywood film star, died on Wednesday (Mar 27) after a long battle against illness. Sixty six year old Moore died of pneumonia as a complication of supranuclear palsy.A diminutive man, Moore was renowned ...
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Sasani CEO Sandra Gordon steps aside
South Africa's facilities giant Sasani Limited has announced that Sandra Gordon, who joined the group as chief executive officer three years ago, has not renewed her contract and will be leaving on 31 March 2002. In an unrelated move, Ralf Degni ...
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Losses pile up at fallen stars of Neuer Markt
German companies' stars have waned with stunning speed in the last 12-18 months, making the Neuer Markt an ominous label today, when previously it was a badge that suggested dynamism and wealth. The end of year results that emerged from Germany's quoted media firms at the end of last week ...
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The Rookie
Dir John Lee Hancock US 2002 127minsThe Rookie is an earnest and uplifting baseball saga structured along the lines of the equally fact-based and inspirational Remember The Titans, also produced by Disney. Rendering one of his most accomplished performances yet, Dennis Quaid plays ageing Texan baseball player Jim Morris, who ...
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Richard Saperstein leaves New Line for Artisan
High-ranking Hollywoodproduction executive Richard Saperstein, who spent the last nine years at NewLine Cinema, has joined Artisan Pictures as president of development andproduction. Reporting directly toArtisan Pictures CEO Bob Cooper, Saperstein is charged with overseeing thecompany's daily theatrical film development and production activities.Saperstein will work closely with Cooper to assemble ...
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Schamus wins screenwriting honour at Nantucket
James Schamus, the Oscar-nominatedscreenwriter of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Ice Storm, will be honoured with NBC's screenwritertribute at this year's Nantucket Film Festival which will take place June20-23, 2002.The festival, which isdedicated exclusively to screenwriting and the concept that the writer'scontribution is at the core of all good ...
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Nick Nolte, Josh Lucas, Sam Elliott join The Hulk
Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott andJosh Lucas have joined the cast of Ang Lee's big screen version of TheHulk which started principalphotography this week.The film, which is scriptedby James Schamus and produced by Gale Anne Hurd, Avi Arad, Schamus and LarryFranco, stars Eric Bana as Bruce Banner whose inner demons transform ...
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Hurt to star in Lea Pool's Blue Butterfly
William Hurt is set to star in the $7.8m Canada-UK co-production BlueButterfly, opposite young US actor Marc Donato and Canadian actress PascaleBussieres under the direction of Swiss-Canadian director Lea Pool. Based on a true story with a script by Pete McCormack, the film tells of a terminally ill boy ...
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Nine Japanese firms nurture young film-makers
Nine Japanese film-related companies, led by Tokyo Theatres and Gaga Communications, will launch a film series showcasing the work of young scriptwriters, directors and other new talent this April. Called Garinpeiro, which means "prospector" in Spanish, the series will start with Hogi-Lala, a dark fable about a shipwrecked youth on ...
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Killing Me Softly
Dir: Chen Kaige. US. 2002. 99mins.The real mystery about this unconvincing MGM film noir is what Chen Kaige is doing directing it. Perhaps the lukewarm reception afforded to his most recent Chinese outing, The Emperor And The Assassin, persuaded the director to try his luck with a thoroughly Western film. ...
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UK's ITV Digital calls in administrators
ITV Digital, the biggest pay-TV rival to UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB, has sought protection from its creditors by applying for administrators to run the business.The move comes after the cash-strapped broadcaster failed to renegotiate its payments for rights to broadcast matches from the English Football League. The service is co-owned ...
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Buena Vista rides with UK's Four Horsemen
Buena Vista has signed a three-year European distribution pact with Four Horsemen Films, the newly-launched youth and genre label of UK producer-financier Random Harvest.The US studio will have a first-look option for theatrical distribution and exclusive rights for video and television on 12 feature-length films from the UK outfit. The ...
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Festival chief Bergdahl exits Gothenburg
Gunnar Bergdahl is steeping down as head of Sweden's Gothenburg Film Festival, the most important meeting place for the Nordic film industry.Bergdahl has been involved with the festival since 1987 and has been responsible for its diverse programme since 1994. The festival, which celebrated its 25th anniversary this year, will ...
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Shaw to press on with Movie City studio project
The venerable Shaw Brothers group is to press on with plans to build Movie City, a $109m (HK$850m) studio complex in Hong Kong's Tseung Kwan O district.The scope of the development, which has been mooted for many years, was expanded last year, but looked close to collapse last month when ...
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Telecinco profits hit by competition, ad recession
Calling itself the "most profitable broadcaster in Europe" for a third consecutive year, Spain's free-to-air private network Telecinco posted net profits for 2001 of Euros112m. But the total was a 28% decline compared with the previous year's Euros155m.The company attributed the slide to the advertising recession. But Spain's commercial channels ...
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Middle East's Showtime buys package for PPV
Middle Eastern pay-TV network Showtime has acquired a large package of Arabic films for broadcast on its new pay-per-view (PPV) channels.The films come from Egyptian group Al Arabia For Cinema Production & Distribution. Pictures Rehlat Hob starring Mohammed Fouad, Ga'ana Al Bayan Al Tali featuring Mohamed Heneidi and Amir Al ...
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Frida controversy brews with Mexican critics
Members of the Mexican press who have been privy to test screenings of Julie Taymor's $12m biopic Frida are apparently appalled at the liberties taken in portraying the anguished Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Co-produced by Mexican actress Salma Hayek who plays the painter, the film allegedly shows Frida Kahlo as ...