All Screen articles in 29 July 2003
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Warner International hits $1bn after seven months
Driven by the worldwide successes of Harry Potter And TheChamber Of Secrets, The Matrix Reloaded and Two Weeks Notice, Warner Bros Pictures International has passed $1bn inticket sales after just seven months of the year.The $1.012bn running total is the sixth time the distributor hasreached the $1bn mark (after 1993, ...
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All Tomorrow's Parties
Dir: Yu Lik Wai. China-France. 96minsShot digitally for the sake of flexibility and screened the same way in Un Certain Regard at Cannes - though a film version is in the making, to judge by the credits - Yu Lik Wai's second feature attempts to explore the near future ...
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MPAA unleashes nationwide anti-piracy campaign on Thursday
After months of apocalyptic warnings about the global threat ofpiracy the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is ready to unleash itsfirst nationwide US educational campaign.Starting on Thursday (July 24) a series of 30-second publicservice announcements produced by 20th Century Fox will air on more than 35network and cable outlets ...
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Strikes hit Paris Cinema attendance figures
A week after the curtain closed on the inaugural Paris Cinema, organisers have announced that roughly 70,000 Parisians attended the festival. The two-week mini-festival which ran from July 2-15 was backed by the city and run by former Directors' Fortnight artistic director Marie-Pierre Macia. While good intentions, a healthy programme ...
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Filmstiftung NRW backs four international co-productions
Four international co-productions - by the UK's Christopher Smith, Argentinian Pablo Trapero, Palestinian Hany Abu-Assad and German newcomer Till Franzen - are among seven feature projects receiving a total of Euros 2.5m production support from Filmstiftung NRW in its latest round of funding. Euros 500,000 was allocated to Smith's fantastic ...
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Nina's Tragedies: A Very Sad Comedy (Ha'assonoth shel Nina)
Dir: Savi Gabizon. Israel, 2003. 106mins.Film-maker Savi Gabizon's gently nonsensical humour has been much appreciated in the past by both Israeli critics and audiences. His new coming-of-age comedy, which looks at a gallery of eccentric, obsessive characters engineering themselves into impossible corners, should do reasonably well at home, especially after ...
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Kidman parts company with Von Trier's USA trilogy
Despite collaborating to great acclaim on Dogville, Nicole Kidman and Lars Von Trier will no longer work together on the next two instalments of the director's planned USA trilogy.Because of Kidman's busy schedule, Lars von Trier feels he cannot wait for the Hollywood star and will shoot the films with ...
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Pictorion Das Werk unveils new management structure
Pictorion Das Werk - formerly Das Werk - has unveiled its new management structure and the opening of an additional post house in Cologne.The move comes three months after Helmut Breuer's Media Select took over the insolvent Das Werk postproduction group' facilities in Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich and Frankfurt-based ...
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Father And Son (Otets Y Syn)
Dir: Alexander Sokurov. Germany. 2003. 81mins.Alexander Sokurov's new film is the second part of a trilogy that began in 1996 with the esteemed Mother And Son, which brought the director to international attention. Subsequent appearances in Cannes competition have included Moloch (1999), Taurus (2000), and Russian Ark (2002), the last ...
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Spinetta named MD of FreemantleMedia production
Emanuela Spinetta has been appointed managing director of FremantleMedia's production business in Spain with immediate effect. FreemantleMedia, formerly known as Pearson Television, is one of the major international producers of entertainment and drama productions, responsible for more than 260 programmes in over 40 countries.In addition to her new role, Spinetta ...
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Locarno prepares to showcase global talent
Films by Korea's Kim Ki-Duk, Argentina's Martin Rejtman, Germany's Soenke Wortmann, Austria's Barbara Albert and Switzerland's Dominique de Rivaz Knecht will be unveiled on July 24 as world premieres at the forthcoming Locarno International Film Festival (August 6-16).The official Locarno competition line-up will be fully unveiled on July 24 at ...
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Japanese Story
Dir: Sue Brooks. Australia. 2003. 107minsA seemingly conventional mixture of life-changing road movie and cross-cultural romance becomes something much more interesting and intense thanks to an unexpected plot twist in the final third of Japanese Story. It may come too late for some viewers who will have already lost patience ...
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DPS buys into Vanguard Animation, forms co-production giant
Digital Production Studios(DPS), the New Jersey-based 3D animation subsidiary of IDT Media, has teamed upwith John Williams' UK-based Vanguard Animation in a major co-productionpartnership.The move paves the way foran animation giant following an eight-figure capital injection into Vanguardfrom the deep pockets of IDT Media's parent company IDT Corp, themultinational carrier, ...
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Historias Minimas sweeps Los Premios Condor, Argentina's Oscars
Carlos Sorin's MinimalStories (Historias Minimas) made a sweep on Monday night of Argentina's Oscars, Los Premios Condor. The Spanish-Argentinian co-productiontook home eight awards from its twelve nominations, including trophies for bestpicture, director, original screenplay, new actor, cinematography and sound. Adrian Caetano's Un OsoRojo, won only one award out of anequal ...
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MGM in strongest ever position, says Yemenidjian
Fresh from the sale of its 20% equity stake in Rainbow CableNetworks, MGM's chairman and chief executive officer Alex Yemenidjian said thecompany was in its best ever financial shape as second quarter results wereunveiled.Company figures state that operating activities for the periodended Jun 30 generated $51.2m in net cash, compared ...
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15 year old's Madness leads Venice Critic's Week
The 18th International Critics Week line-up at the Venice Film Festival (Aug 27-Sep 6) will feature eight films this year, including Joy Of Madness by 15-year-old Hana Makhmalbaf (pictured), daughter of Iranian director Moshen Makhmalbaf and younger sister of Samira.A documentary, Joy Of Madness was filmed in Afghanistan and tells ...
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Indian beer baron moves into film production
Indian beer baron Vijay Mallya has entered the Indian film business and is to produce his first Hindi film, Rakth. Mallya runs UB Group, whose best-known brand is Kingfisher beer. Kingfisher is the market leading beer in India and sells in 65 countries around the world. Rakth, which is about ...
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Imax beefs up China presence
Imax Corp. has increased to ten the number of giant-screen cinemas set to open in China by the year 2005, signing a deal with Shanghai United Cinema for two Imax MPX theatre systems. MPX systems can screen both Imax 2D and 3D large-format films as well as its DMR-branded transfers ...
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Toronto puts Canadian film-makers into Perspective
Canadian filmmakers Gary Burns, Deepa Mehta and Guy Maddin have been awarded prominent positions in the line-up of the Toronto International Film Festival, as the event announced its Perspective Canada programme. Burns' A Problem With Fear (pictured) will open the programme, Mehta's The Republic Of Love will be a ...