All Screen articles in 4 February 2003
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Simon Field to quit Rotterdam film festival
Simon Field is to resign as the director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The next edition in 2004 will be his last. His co-director, Sandra den Hamer, will remain in her position.In a statement Field said: "In 2004 I will have been with the festival for eight years, ...
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Dark Water triumphs at Gerardmer
Hideo Nakata's Dark Water won the Grand Prize at the Gerardmer fantastic film festival on Sunday. The Ring director also took home the Youth Jury Prize - given by a group of 12 film students from the region - and the International Critics' Prize.Nakata is the recognised master currently working ...
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Luca Bentivoglio named executive director at Latino Public Broadcasting
Former Warner Bros International executive Luca Bentivoglio has taken on the post of executive director at non-profit organisation Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB). In 1996, Bentivoglio launched the new Warner Bros. channel in Latin America and directed the programming, marketing and distribution efforts that propelled WB to become the leading family ...
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German media fund backs Oscar-winner's feature debut
Private media fund CP Medien has boarded Oscar-winning German director Florian Gallenberger's feature debut Schatten Der Zeit which begins shooting in India on February 4. The tragic love story between two childhood sweethearts who first meet working in a carpet factory and then cross paths again many years later in ...
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Ana Claudia Talancon to lead in Ladies' Night
Ana Claudia Talancon, lead actress of all time Mexican blockbuster El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, will star in the first Miravista production, Ladies' Night. Miravista is the pan-regional production company launched last year by The Walt Disney Company Latin America and Admira, the media arm of Spanish telco Telefonica.Talancon ...
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Refn and Danstrup form alliance with Nordisk Film
Following the successful world premiere of Fear X in Sundance, the Danish director-producer duo, Nicolas Winding Refn and Henrik Danstrup have announced that they will establish a joint company with Danish major Nordisk Film for their next two films. The company, which will retain the producers' NWR label, will most ...
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Danish Hitman takes aim at Hollywood
The Danish computer game Hitman looks to be the next hit game to get the Hollywood treatment. The game's international distributor EIDOS is currently negotiating with unnamed Hollywood studios - although it has an existing relationship with Paramount for the Tomb Raider franchise. The Danish developers at IO Interactive have ...
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Koltai sets start date for Fateless adaptation
Hungarian cinematographer Lajos Koltai is aiming for a Sept 30 start date for his directorial debut, an adaptation of Fateless - the Holocaust-themed novel by Nobel prize winner Imre Kertesz.Koltai has been trying for some years to find the necessary funds for the Euros 8m film.. Now the Hungarian government ...
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Open Hearts, Facing The Truth win Danish Academy Awards
At the Danish Film Academy's 20th ROBERT award ceremony on Sunday night in Copenhagen, Susanne Bier's Dogme-hit Open Hearts and veteran Nils Malmros' Facing The Truth fought it out for the top awards, while Ole Bornedal's I Am Dina dominated the technical prizes. The ceremony was attended by 650 industry ...
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Talancon takes lead role in Miravista's Ladies' Night
Ana Claudia Talancon, thelead actress of all time Mexican blockbuster El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, will star in Ladies' Night,the first production from Miravista, the pan regional production companylaunched last year by The Walt Disney Company Latin America and Admira, themedia arm of Spanish telco Telefonica.El Crimen received a ...
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Saint Monica wins Sarasota Film Festival
The 10-day 5thAnnual Sarasota Film Festival closed on Feb 1, with the Cultural ExpressionsNarrative Film Award going to Terrance Odette's Saint Monica, produced by Sharon McGowen. TheCultural Impressions Documentary Film Award went to Deconstructing The MythOf AIDS, directed andproduced by Gary Null. Special honourable mention in the narrative strand wentto ...
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Two Towers opens top in Poland just shy of Fellowship
New Line International's The Lord Of The Rings:The Two Towers edged closer to $450m overthe weekend with a $1.8m Polish bow on 135 screens. Despite being 5% off theopening recorded by The Fellowship Of The Ring the picture recorded a $13,494 per-screen average. Inits second weekend in Russia, The Two ...
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Eminem movie continues international rampage for UIP
Universal/UIP's8 Mile continued itspowerful international run with a $6.6m weekend haul from 1,974 screens in 22territories. With 18 markets still to open the drama has already run up a$57.8m international cumulative total and is scheduled to roll out in Spain onFeb 7, Korea on Feb 21, France on Feb 26, ...
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Warner Bros puts classics division on the fast track
Warner Bros hasconfirmed that it has put its plans for a specialized film unit back on thefast track and is now actively searching for an executive to run it. Warner hasbeen the only major studio without a classics division for some time and hasbeen toying with the idea for about ...
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Chris Sievernich launches his Armada
Chris Sievernich, the former Kinowelt USA CEO and founder ofPacifica Entertainment, today (Feb 3) announced the launch of Armada Pictures,his new independent financing, production and distribution company that willfocus on pictures of varying budgets.Matt Milich, Sievernich's vice presidentof development at Kinowelt USA, has been brought in as vice president ofproduction ...
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Harry Potter flies on with $4.8m over the weekend
Warner BrosInternational's Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets grossed an estimated $4.8m in 52territories over the weekend for a $576.5m international running total. Thefamily sequel recorded 755,000 admissions on more than 3,000 screens. Figuresfrom the Asian markets - particularly China in its second week - wereundeclared pending the end ...
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007 busts records in Norway, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Fox International's DieAnother Day scored three number oneopenings over the weekend to boost its international running total to $225m. InNorway the picture left the market shaken and stirred with a fine $1.2m bow on89 screens that was the biggest opening of all time in the territory for Fox,MGM and a ...
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Catch Me flies into the UK
UK audiences flocked to safe reliability and flirted with controversy amongst this week's openers as Catch Me If You Can landed the top spot and Irreversible played a solid limited launch.Steven Spielberg's latest, which received positive reviews in the territory and stars box office favourites Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, ...
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Nicole Mackey joins Capitol Films
Nicole Mackey has joined Capitol Films as head of international sales, replacing Josh Kramer who is relocating back to Los Angeles.Industry veteran Mackey most recently held the position of president, international sales at Stewart Till’s now defunct Signpost Films.Before joining Signpost in 2002, Mackey was president of international sales at ...
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Swedish Oscars acclaim Lilja 4-Ever
Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-Ever was the clear winner at Sweden's 38th Guldbagge awards ceremony held last night in Stockholm - winning in five of its six nominated categories.The dark, Russian-language drama about human trafficking triumphed with five awards, including best film, best director and best script. The film's cinematographer Ulf ...