All Screen articles in 29 August 2003
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'I've stolen from all the great Italian masters,' jokes Allen
The 60th Venice International Film Festival kicked off in hot and humid weather on Wednesday night with a black tie opening ceremony attended by a sprinkling of stars, followed by the world premiere of Woody Allen's latest comedy, Anything Else.Stars who sashayed up the giant wooden runway in the shape ...
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'I've stolen from all the Italian masters,' jokes Allen
The 60th Venice International Film Festival kicked off in hot and humid weather on Wednesday night with a black tie opening ceremony attended by a sprinkling of stars, followed by the world premiere of Woody Allen's latest comedy, Anything Else.Stars who sashayed up the giant wooden runway in the shape ...
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Anything Else
Dir. Woody Allen. US, 2003. 108 min.The prevalent notion that a Woody Allen comedy is just what the doctor ordered for the opening night of a major festival, may take another inauspicious turn after this year's Venice curtain raiser. Not only is the smart wit frayed at the edges and ...
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New Zealand set for arthouse exhibition boost
US exhibitor Reading Cinemas is to open a local version of its Angelica Film Center in New Zealand's capital Wellington.The Angelika Film Center is an iconic six screen arthouse multiplex in downtown New York.The news comes as Reading's Australian and New Zealand subsidiary prepares to open a new cinema complex ...
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ITALY
Thrillers continue to be hot property at the Italian box office - at least until distributors start unleashing their autumn titles over the next couple of weeks to coincide with some of these films' premiere at the Venice Film Festival (Aug 27- Sep 6).Final Destination 2 grossed a further Euros ...
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SWITZERLAND
Devdas received a strong opening in the German-speaking region of Switzerland last weekend (Aug 21-24) playing at just four screens for an average of just under $4,900 per screen. This was only bettered over the weekend by wide-released blockbuster Pirates Of The Caribbean. Devdas was released in the French-speaking region ...
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Amenabar's Out To Sea gets ship shape
The cast and crew for Out To Sea (Mar Adentro), Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar's much-anticipated follow-up to international hit The Others, is taking shape prior to its October shoot in Spain.The film stars Javier Bardem in a tale based on the real life story of a paralysed man's struggle for ...
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Taiwan producer targets Golden Horse awards
Taiwan's Central Motion Picture Corporation (CMPC) is wrapping up three films at a total budget of $6.6m (NT$225m)In recent years Taiwan's film output has dwindled dramatically to around 10 films a year, compared to around 80 films a year in Hong Kong.The three films from CMPC are Alex Yang's Taipei ...
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Russia bankrolls Moscow Heat
Russian body builder and actor Alexander Nevsky begins shooting a landmark production in Moscow this week.His new film, Moscow Heat, marks the first time a Russian production, backed by Russian money, has hired a predominantly American cast and crew and brought them to Moscow to make a film.Nevsky who has ...
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San Sebastian to showcase controversial docs
Spanish director Julio Medem (Sex And Lucia) will present his new documentary about life in Basque country as one of five charged "special screenings" lined up for the Zabaltegi section of the 51st Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27).La Pelota Vasca, La Piel Contra La Piedra mixes hours of ...
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Den Hamer named as Rotterdam festival director
Sandraden Hamer (pictured) is to succeed Simon Field as the sole director of the InternationalFilmfestival of Rotterdam (IFFR). den Hamer has been co-director with Field forthe last three years, and the two will be jointly responsible for the nextfestival (Jan 21-Feb 1, 2004) before she takes charge on March 1.DenHamer ...
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Schuster teams with Ster-Kinekor for Shucks
Leon Schuster, South Africa's highest grossing local star, has signed a deal with leading South African distributor/exhibitor Ster-Kinekor for his latest outing Oh, Shucks, I'm Gatvol. The exclusive theatrical/non-theatrical and broadcast deal marks a return for Schuster to Ster-Kinekor, the local distributor who was responsible for a number of his ...
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ARGENTINA - box office 29/08/2003
Buena Vista International continues to dominate the top three spots in Argentina's box office ratings this week. With kids back in school after the winter break, animated Disney juggernaut Finding Nemo has been displaced by Vin Diesel vehicle A Man Apart, a new release from local indie, ...
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Jeepers Creepers 2
Dir: Victor Salva. US. 2003. 106 mins.Writer-director Victor Salva's sequel to his modest summer 2001 horror hit Jeepers Creepers is as efficiently jolting as the original but not as refreshingly spare or classically creepy. Opening wide in the US (through MGM) and UK (through Pathe) this weekend in the middle ...
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HONG KONG Production Listings - August 29 2003
HONG KONG - August 29 PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE EYE II(Applause Pictures) Budget: US$4m. Int'l sales: Fortissimo Film Sales. Genre: Horror. Prods: Peter Ho Sun Chan, Lawrence Cheng. Dirs: Danny and Oxide Pang. Scr: Jojo Hui. Shooting in Hong Kong and Thailand from September 2003. Release date: Spring 2004.Contact: Fortissimo Film Sales (852) ...
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EU acts to protect national film support schemes
Europe's film many national subsidy and support schemes for local film-making this week were given new protection following a joint initiative by the European Union's Culture and Monopolies Commissions. Speaking at the Venice film festival on 29 Aug, culture and education commissioner Viviane Reding said that she and anti-monopolies chief ...
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EU acts to protect national film aid schemes
Europe's film many national subsidy and support schemes for local film-making this week were given new protection following a joint initiative by the European Union's Culture and Monopolies Commissions. Speaking at the Venice film festival on 29 Aug, culture and education commissioner Viviane Reding said that she and anti-monopolies chief ...
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Joggers Park director dies just ahead of film's release
Anant Balani, the director of Hindi film Joggers Park, died of a cardiac arrest in Mumbai on Aug 28 - 17 days ahead of the film's release. Balani made his directorial debut with Gawahi (1989). His latest films Joggers' Park and Mumbai Matinee are to be released in September. He ...
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Berney teams up with P&F in New York to form new outfit
Publicity veteran JeanneBerney, most recently executive vice president at Rogers & Cowan, isteaming up with P&F Communications to form P&F Communications/TheBerney Group, a PR, promotions and marketing agency headquartered in New YorkCity.The one-stop full-serviceagency is now run by Berney with P&F's Barbara Pflughaupt and Raymond LForsythe who co-founded promotions business ...