All Screen articles in 4 August 2003
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Rings fever hits Japan early
Japanese distributor Nippon Herald Films has sold a record number of advanced tickets to The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King - even though it does not open in Japan until Spring 2004.13,645 advanced tickets were sold on August 2 in nine key cities for the third ...
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Oz cheaper than Canada for runaway shoots says report
A Hollywood producer would save significant amounts of money shooting a big budget film in Australia compared to Canada, according to a report published this week.The report, which was produced by Sydney's best-known film accountancy firm for the Australian Government, concludes that a Hollywood producer would save 7.5% if he ...
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Bavaria picks up world sales for San Sebastian film
Bavaria Film International (BFI) has picked up world sales rights for Spanish filmmaker Cesc Gay's In The City (En La Ciudad), the follow-up to his internationally successful Krampack.Starring Monica Lopez, Eduard Fernandez and Leonor Watling, the tragicomedy about a group of friends who gradually discover the truth about one another ...
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Hong Kong submits Affairs for Oscar consideration
Blockbuster action thriller Infernal Affairs has been selected as Hong Kong's official entry for the best foreign-language category of the 76th Academy Awards. The selection was unveiled by Crucindo Hung, chairman of the Federation of Motion Film Producers of Hong Kong. The choice of Infernal Affairs was unanimous.Infernal Affairs topped ...
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Everett boards cast of France's Jet Set 2
British actor Rupert Everett has joined the cast of Jet Set 2, the sequel to hit French film of 2000, which is set to start shooting in Ibiza in September.Miramax acquired remake and US distribution rights to the original French-language comedy Jet Set (Screen Daily, May 23, 2000). A "fish-out-of-water" ...
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Le Divorce
Dir: James Ivory. US/France. 2003. 115mins.It's no coincidence that Kate Hudson's character is named Isabel Walker, a thinly disguised Isabel Archer, in Merchant Ivory's latest film Le Divorce. Diane Johnson, herself an American who has lived in Paris, wanted to update the Henry James concept of American naifs being influenced ...
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Memories Of Murder (Salinui Chueok)
Dir: Bong Joon-Ho. Korea. 2003. 129mins.Memories Of Murder is one of the most complete and compelling films to have come out of South Korea in recent years. Set up as a detective thriller, the film is by turn mysterious, dramatic, creepy and corroding - and it comes loaded with a ...
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Trans-Pacific Media ventures into production with five horror remakes
International distributionconsultancy Trans-Pacific Media is making its first foray into production,teaming with Sick-O-Scope Motion Picture and Novelty Manufacturing Company toremake five horror films by cult director Herschell Gordon Lewis.The companies acquired theremake rights from Jimmy Maslon, who holds rights to most of the Lewis library,and say every project will be ...
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Locarno shines spotlight on film foundations
Locarno's Film Industry Office is to cast a spotlight on the workings of film foundations such as Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund and Montecinema Verita at this year's festival.Held on August 12, the event will examine the potential role for international sales companies or distributors becoming involved at an early stage ...
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Pawlikowski embarks on Love shoot
Pawel Pawlikowski, the acclaimed director of Last Resort, has started shooting his new film, My Summer Of Love.Described as a loose adaptation of the book by Helen Cross, it is the story of the friendship and burgeoning sexuality of two teenage girls - one rich, one poor - who form ...
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Irish viewers elect favourite films for broadcast
Irish terrestrial broadcaster RTE has launched an innovative, interactive scheme which allows its viewers to vote for and choose the film they want to watch each week. Called Cinepicks, the scheme sees viewers vote for one of two possible films. Viewers vote by calling one of two premium rate telephone ...
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Euro pay-TV outfits set for revenue boom
For the past three years, the news emanating from most of Europe's pay-TV outfits has been consistently grim.Financial cutbacks, bankruptcies and mergers in countries such as Germany, Italy, Spain and France hit the film industry hard as the leading pay-TV players cut back on their investment in movies.However, a new ...
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Oz producers bemoan lack of homegrown hits
An air of despondency is beginning to settle over Australian producers as, one by one, 2003's crop of local films fail to take off at the box office. The two latest Australian releases, Roadshow's comedy Bad Eggs and 20th Century Fox's Danny Deckchair, while only just out of the starting ...
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Indian music major unveils ambitious film plans
Indian music major Saregama is planning to re-enter movie production and has unveiled plans to produce 20 Indian language films over the next three years.The owner of the largest music catalogue in India, the move is part of Saregama's plan to become an all-round entertainment company which will allow it ...
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IFP LA moves 2004 Independent Spirit Awards forward by a month
Abandoning its traditional March berth but sticking to its Oscarweekend slot, IFP/Los Angeles has announced that the 2004 IFP IndependentSpirit Awards will take place one day before the Academy Awards on Feb 28,2004.The move is in response to the truncated awards 2003/04 season, anupcoming logistical melee triggered last year when ...
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Blonde 2 takes $4m including number two opening in UK
Fox International rolled out the MGM comedy sequel LegallyBlonde 2: Red, White & Blonde in the UK and several smaller European territories at theweekend, grossing $4m.The comedy opened number two inthe UK and took $2.5m (including previews) from 351 screens.In other openings, Belgium scored $178,000 from 40, Swedenproduced $100,000 from ...
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Miramax acquires six-hour Italian family saga
Miramax Films has acquired Marco Tullio Giordana'sacclaimed Italian drama La Meglio Gioventu(Best Of Youth) from Rai Tradefor North America (excluding French Canada), the UK, Ireland, Australia and NewZealand.The six-hour film, which won the Un Certain Regard - Altadis Awardat Cannes earlier this year, was originally conceived as a televisionmini-series and ...
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Freaky Friday
Dir: Mark Waters. US. 2003. 97mins.An original remake sounds like an oxymoron, but the new Freaky Friday, Disney's reworking of its own 1976 film, is smart, energetic and loads of fun. Indeed, it is almost as good as The Parent Trap, a 1998 Disney re-make that, not so coincidentally, starred ...
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Screen International to sponsor EFA prize
Screen International is once again to sponsor a major prize at the European Film Awards.The Prix Screen International will be presented to the best non-European film at this year's Awards, which will be held in Berlin on Saturday Dec 6.Nominations for all categories will be unveiled in the first week ...