All Screen articles in 28 November 2002
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Gebirtig to open Max Ophuels prize festival
Lukas Stepanik and Robert Schindel's co-directed drama Gebirtig - Austria's entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar - will be the opening film at the 24th Max Ophuels Prize Festival (January 13-19, 2003) in Saarbruecken. The Austrian-German-Polish co-production between Cult-Film, Daniel Zuta's Cologne-based DaZu Film and Akson Studio in Warsaw, ...
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France mulls Eurimages exit
Europe's leading film producing nation, France is considering withdrawing from Eurimages, the Council of Europe-backed support body.The proposal is only one of several suggestions made by the country's film regulator, the Centre National de la Cinematographie (CNC), in a report into Eurimages' usefulness. Although France is a net beneficiary - ...
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Peter Scarlet named executive director of Tribeca film fest
Former San Francisco festival head, Peter Scarlet has been appointed executive director of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.The festival, in its second edition (May 6-11, 2003) was founded last year by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal. The main focus of the 2003 will be an official selection ...
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The Magdalene Sisters makes a deep impression on Ireland
After just five weeks on release Peter Mullan's prize-winning The Magdalene Sisters has been seen by one in twenty of the Irish population, having passed the Euros 1m mark in the Republic.According to its Irish distributors Eclipse Pictures, "indications are that it will play in Irish cinemas right into the ...
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Cineclick Asia unveils string of international sales
Last week's Pusan festival was background for Cineclick Asia to unveil a string of English-language territory deals on its slate of high profile Korean movies.Action comedy, My Wife Is A Gangster and boxing drama Champion were both sold to the UK's Medusa. Friend, the action drama which briefly held the ...
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Europa Cinemas recognises youth-oriented activities
Film theatres in Barcelona, Spain and Liege, Belgium were presented with the inaugural Europa Cinemas awards for the quality and diversity of their programming and for in-house activities for young audiences.The winners were the 9-screen, Barcelona-based Cinemas Verdi and Verdi Park, run by Enrique Perez Font and the 4-screen, Churchill ...
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Danish production companies unite for $13m, five-feature slate
Two Danish production outfits Easy Film and ASA Film have joined forces to produce their future projects in collaboration. The companies have secured backing from distributor Scanbox for the development of five new features, of which they aim to produce two a year. Scanbox takes Scandinavian rights and will distribute ...
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Columbine bowls over international audiences
The past two weeks have seen two box office behemoths unleashed into the international market. Two consecutive weekends of nearly $60m in international grosses have marked a huge start for Harry Potter sequel The Chamber Of Secrets and a $25m-plus debut last weekend marked a triumphant return for James Bond ...
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Etre Et Avoir wins European documentary award - Prix ARTE
European cultural channel ARTE and the European Film Academy have named French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert's Etre Et Avoir as the winner of this year's European Documentary Award - Prix ARTE which will be officially presented at the European Film Awards gala in Rome's Teatro dell'Opera on December 7.Philibert's film was ...
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Three new Korean films maintain strong local market share
South Korean cinema continues to perform strongly, with local films currently maintaining a 45% market share in Seoul and three Korean titles heading the box-office this weekend. Cinema Service's Jail Breakers (pictured) has become the latest comedy to top the box-office, drawing 554,000 admissions nationwide in its first four days ...
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New Zealand film commission eager to promote co-productions
The New Zealand Film Commission is trying to capitalise on the country's high profile due to Lord Of The Rings, by helping to develop international co-productions.John Gilbert, Academy Award nominee for his editing on The Fellowship Of The Ring and producer of a popular NZ sitcom, is in discussion with ...
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Film Studio planned for Cape Town
South Africa's provincial minister of finance and economic affairs has announced plans to build a $27m film studio in Cape Town.The minister, Ebrahim Rasoo, also called for expressions of interest from the private sector, which was followed up by a nationwide campaign in the country's press calling for tenders to ...
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Das Werk divisions begin insolvency proceedings
Key divisions of Germany's Das Werk post-production group have begun filing for insolvency, three weeks after their parent company began insolvency proceedings (Screendaily.com, Nov 7).Das Werk post-production companies at Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Ludwigsburg and Munich as well as Hamburg-based Magic Video have each filed for insolvency. The ...
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IMAX announces major European expansion plans
In the wake of expansion into China, Russia and India, Toronto-based large format operator IMAX Corporation has announced its intention to establish itself in more European markets.Speaking in London at the European launch of the company's DMR technology - which digitally re-masters 35mm films for projection on IMAX systems - ...
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Spain to alter local TV ownership rules
In a decision that will directly affect both parties in Spain's pending pay-TV merger, the Spanish government has announced that it will prohibit companies from owning shares in more than one broadcaster at the national, regional and local levels. Grupo Prisa and Telefonica - the backers, respectively, behind set-to-merge digital ...
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African film industry buoyed by record breaking Sithengi
South Africa's Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri may have failed to show at the opening party for the seventh edition of Sithengi, Southern Africa's Film and TV Market. But that did not dampen the spirits of delegates who acknowledged that, despite organisational hiccups, it was the best Sithengi so far. ...
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China assesses co-production potential with South Africa, Australia
The Chinese government is increasing its level of cultural exchanges with South Africa and Australia with a view to the development of potential co-productions.A delegation of Chinese government officials and film industry players is currently visiting South Africa to coincide with the country's first Chinese film week.Hosted by the Department ...
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Europe's broadcasters exceeding minimum quotas by 50%
For all the everyday complaints about imported programming, Europe's TV broadcasters are comfortably exceeding local content quotas set down by the Television Without Frontiers directive. According to a European Commission report broadcasters devote an average 62% of airtime to European works in 2000, up from 60.7% in 1999. The minimum ...
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Optimum adds two to 2003 UK release slate
UK independent distributor Optimum Releasing has picked up all UK rights to Roger Dodger from Alliance Atlantis and XX/XY from Senator International.Artisan Entertainment is currently distributing Roger Dodger in the US, where the Venice title is on more than $650,000. The film, which stars Campbell Scott and Isabella Rossellini, tells ...
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Solaris
Dir: Steven Soderbergh. US 2002. 99 minutes For a film which purports to be about the deepest recesses of the human heart, this sci-fi romance is curiously lacking in emotion. It is a fatal flaw and, while the marquee value of international heartthrob Clooney and wunderkind film-maker Soderbergh promises encouraging ...