All Screen articles in 4 February 2004
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Mexico's Imcine is granted $14m budget, the highest total in six years
Not only has Mexican film institute Imcine survived plans to axeit but it has also won the biggest budget allotment from the government in sixyears, according to Imcine director Alfredo Joskowicz.The state-backed film financing entity was granted a 2004 budgetof nearly $14m (150m pesos), more than double last year's budget ...
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Restaurant owner named chairman of UK's Channel 4
Luke Johnson, owner of London's famous Ivy restaurant, has been appointed as the new chairman of broadcaster Channel 4 - parent company of FilmFour.Media regulator Ofcom appointed Johnson as Channel 4's new chairman. He replaces Vanni Treves.Johnson, 42, whose Ivy restaurant is a favourite among celebrities, will work alongside Channel ...
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Aaltra
Directors: Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern. Belgium. 2004. 90 mins.Tell people that a festival's hot ticket is a black-and-white Belgian road comedy, and you're liable to be greeted with scepticism, especially when the protagonists are two middle-aged men in wheelchairs. Nevertheless, Aaltra is this year's surprise delight at Rotterdam (where it ...
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City Of God gets second wind after Oscar nominations
The surprise winof four key Oscar nominations by Brazil's gangland epic City Of God has prompted both Miramax in NorthAmerica and Lumiere in Brazil to expand the theatrical release of the film intheir respective territories.Miramax has the film currently playing on four screens inNew York, Los Angeles and San Francisco ...
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Amenabar, Medem shepherd Spanish short film-makers
Alejandro Amenabar and Julio Medem are two of five established Spanish directors godfathering an up-and-coming filmmaker each in new short film initiative 50 Minutes.Sponsored by Nescafe as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, the initiative matches five established directors with five newcomers to make five ten-minute short films.The other big-name ...
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DENMARK
Though no match for The Return Of The King's still massive 103 prints, the new release of Annette K. Olesen's In Your Hands (Forbrydelser) saw a solid opening on its 33 prints attracting 15,046 admissions.The drama about faith and forgiveness set in a woman's prison, which screens in the main ...
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GERMANY
Julia Roberts' lasting appeal in Germany was underscored by its No. 1 position on the opening weekend for Columbia TriStar's Mona Lisa Smile with Euros 2.8m from 600 screens, while the Eddie Murphy-starrer The Haunted Mansion topped the Euros 2m mark at No. 3.Lost In Translation may have slipped down ...
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And the reactions are...
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The KingProducer Barrie Osborne partnered with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh on the entire Lord Of The Rings trilogy and has been nominated for all three episodes. As part of a select band that includes Jackson, he wears a tattoo bearing the ...
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South Africa to host shoot for UA/Lions Gate picture Hotel Rwanda
Production is set to begin in Johannesburg this month on TerryGeorge's true-life rescue story Hotel Rwanda, which stars Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte andSophie Okonedo.United Artists has North American distribution rights for thedrama and Lions Gate Films International will handle internationaldistribution.Based on a script by George and Keir Pearson and produced ...
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Newcomer Heughan to star as Alexander in Salkind's rival epic
21-year-old newcomer Sam Heughan has signed to play the title rolein Jalal Merhi's Macedonia's Alexander The Great, the first of a trilogy that isscheduled to start filming in Greece and Egypt on Feb 7 for release in October.Heughan was discovered afterproducer Ilya Salkind and UK producing partner Jeffrey Taylor tested ...
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Evil pays off at Sweden's Guldbagga awards
Mikael Haafstroem's crowd-pleaser Evil has had a rather good week. Not only has it picked up a best foreign language Oscar nomination, but it was also awarded the best film prize at the Guldbaggas, Sweden's national film awards.The award was picked up by producers Hans Loennerheden and Ingemar Leijonborg. Peter ...
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Sellers find Shangri-La at Bangkok Film Market
The first Bangkok Film Market (BFM) - organised as part of the 2004 Bangkok International Film Festival - kicked off in the Thai capital on Tuesday (Jan 27) with more than 60 companies taking rooms at the Shangri-La Hotel.In total, about 120 companies from 23 countries have registered to take ...
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Romania's Silver Bullet launches London office
Romanian production company Silver Bullet Film has opened a London office as part of a move to lure UK productions to shoot in the country.Silver Bullet Film was founded by cinematographer Viorel Sergovici who has shot more than thirty film features and over 150 commercials. His recent credits include the ...
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Wils named chief of De Niro's Tribeca Film Institute
Madelyn Wils, chairperson of Community Board 1, has been namedpresident and chief executive officer of the Tribeca Film Institute and will assumeher new post in February.In her role, Wils will oversee the institute's year-round,non-festival-related programming and educational activities.Her appointment means the institute will expand its mandate toinclude performing arts and ...
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Hungarians target foreign producers during Film Week
Twenty-three new Hungarian features will be presented at the annual Hungarian Film Week (Jan 27-Feb 3) to local audiences and the approximately 120 foreign guests invited to the country's most important film event.Sixteen of the new films screen in the festival's competition programme, including Benedek Fliegauf's Dealer which will also ...
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Giannini tipped for Venice figurehead role
Oneof the favourite betting games at the Rotterdam festival this week has beenspeculation about who will front the next Venice festival, with the smart moneynow riding on a split role between a figurehead chief and a chief selectoror artistic head.Sources close to the Venice festival organisation say that an announcement ...
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Shochiku ramps up slate as it goes for growth
After six straight quarters of improving sales and profits, boosted by such hits as The Twilight Samurai and the Lord of the Rings films, Shochiku is ramping up its slate of domestic and foreign titles.At a January 23 presentation to 400 exhibitors, investors, analysts and reporters, Shochiku officials, led by ...
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Korean industry stunned as top production houses merge
A major re-alignment is set to sweep the South Korean production sector, as leading production houses KangJegyu Films and Myung Films have been acquired by local manufacturing company Seshin Buffalo.The companies will be re-launched as a merged entity called MK Buffalo in April.MK Buffalo will become the first film-related company ...
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Cannes is set to be long on shorts
The Cannes Market is toextend its operations with the launch this ear of a separate section for shortfilms.In the Palais des Festivalsthe market will create a new area "Short Film Corner" devoted entirely toshorts. It will include a meeting place for short film producers, institutionsand festival programmers that is equipped ...
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Senator takes on worldwide rights to 3D CGI Moebius movie
SenatorInternational has picked up worldwide sales rights from digital contentproducer GDC Holdings to celebrated French artist Jean "Moebius" Giraud'ssci-fi fantasy adventure Thru The Moebius Strip.Themove marks the first foray into animation for both companies and is also thefirst full-length CGI feature for GDC Holdings subsidiary GDC Productions andthe first 3D ...