All Screen articles in 4 September 2001
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Summer Catch
Dir: Mike Tollin. US. 2001. 104mins. Summer Catch tries to cover a lot of bases: part baseball drama, part bawdy jock romp and part star-crossed romance, it ends up feeling like an Identikit summer movie. An attractive cast led by Freddie Prinze Jr might incite enough audience interest for a ...
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REP's Sheffield to join Hoyts' Oz distribution arm
Richard Sheffield, of Australia's REP Film Distribution, is believed to be joining the newly-formed Hoyts Distribution, with responsibility for international acquisitions, although neither party would confirm the move. Sheffield, one of the original founders of REP Films in 1987, left the company eight years later to establish the Australian subsidiary ...
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Korea may withdraw national film festival support
Korea's Ministry of Culture and Tourism is reconsidering the financial support it awards to the nation's international film festivals. Faced with a substantial increase in the number of festivals applying for support, the ministry has announced that its current policy will apply only until the end of 2002, after ...
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Australia's April reveals strong slate
Australia's April Films has announced a slate of seven films, two and a half years after it launched on the back of a first look deal with Universal Pictures. The most developed project is The Campaign, a contemporary screwball comedy written by Tony McNamara and with Praise director John Curran ...
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Dragon and Andell merge to launch Mission
Graham Broadbent and Damian Jones, the UK producers behind Very Annie Mary and Welcome To Sarajevo production outfit Dragon Pictures, have teamed with Andrew Hauptman and Ellen Bronfman's well-heeled film operation, Andell Entertainment, to launch Mission Pictures. Mission aims to fuel an ambitious drive into internationally-oriented, bigger-budget projects with an ...
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Objects and Bunuel open and close San Sebastian
Rose Troche's The Safety Of Objects and Carlos Saura's Bunuel And King Salomon's Table (Bunuel Y La Mesa Del Rey Salomon) will open and close, respectively, the official section of the 49th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 20-29).Troche's drama, an adaptation of several short stories by ...
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UK Box office
Studio revenues in India are predicted to double over the next five years as the territory begins a period of rapid growth, both in terms of cinema infrastructure and production investment.According to a new report, Bollywood: India's Film Industry, from UK-based industry analysts Dodona Research, production investment will rise 70% ...
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Dutch industry decries foreign use of tax breaks
Just one week after the European Commission approved Holland's new tax break system (valid until 2003), the Federation of Film Interests - a union made up of screenwriters, directors, producers, actors and other professionals - has called for a regulation of the system. The federation is talking to policymakers and ...
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Russia to double film industry grant next year
The Russian Ministry of Culture has announced that it will double the amount of government funding for the film industry next year. The Ministry of Culture budget for 2002 will include $60m for film, 70% of which will support film production with the remaining 30% allocated for the funding of ...
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Oldenburg reveals festival line-up
Ralf Huettner's romantic comedy Mondscheintarif will open this year's Oldenburg International Film Festival (September 5-9) which will also feature the world premieres of Salome Breziner's Fast Sofa, Richard Stanley's The Secret Glory, and Sheree Folkson's Gypsy Woman . Oldenburg will also feature new films by German filmmakers Claus Strobel (Das ...
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Lions Gate gets US rights for The Grey Zone
Lions Gate Films has acquired all North American rights to Millenium Films' The Grey Zone, which is set for its world premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival.Directed by Tim Blake Nelson and based on his own award-winning Off Broadway play, The Grey Zone is a drama, set ...
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Hungary's Mafilm faces coproduction starvation
Mafilm, Hungary's largest film production company, responsible for many local and international successes such as last year's award-winning Hungarian movie, Jadwiga's Pillow, is fighting the erosion of its dominant hold on the country's filmmaking business."A new Hungarian opera-based film, Bank Ban which has a budget of $2.9m (800m Forint) hasn't ...
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KirchGroup will not acquire EM.TV shares
Germany's KirchGroup has announced that it will now not acquire a 16.74% stake and minority voting rights of 25.1% in the debt-ridden EM.TV & Merchandising and has withdrawn its application to the German cartel authority "in agreement with EM.TV". Earlier this year, the anti-trust authority had launched a three-month investigation ...
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Sandrew wins case against A.I. certification
Nordic distribution major Sandrew Metronome has won a court appeal against the decision of the Swedish State Board of Censors, which would have prevented children under the age of15 from seeing Steven Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence. As a result of the court ruling, the film now has an 11-rating which ...
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Germany's VCL teams with UIP for distribution
After Scanbox cooperated with US major UIP in Scandinavia for theatrical distribution of its films, Scanbox's mother company, German media concern VCL Film + Medien's theatrical arm VCL Licensing has now entered into a distribution cooperation with UIP's German outpost to handle the physical distribution of its films.The first ...
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Cairo Film Festival celebrates 25 years
Cairo International Film Festival, which for the past 10 years has been recognised as a competitive event by international producers' body FIAPF (and remains one of only 11 festivals to be given this A-grade status), celebrates its 25th anniversary this year with a retrospective of some of the most important ...
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Gas Attack
Dir: Kenny Glenaan. Scotland. 2001. 70 minsA troubling blend of stark facts and alarming fiction, Gas Attack belongs to a long tradition of controversial British documentary-dramas that includes the nuclear attack landmarks The War Game (1965) and Threads (1984). Told with all the urgency of a breaking news story, ...
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UK's Film Council looks for European partners
The UK's Film Council is eager to collaborate with other European film funding bodies in the fields of development and nurturing filmmaking talent. The first collaborative venture is already being prepared by the Fund with France's CNC on the making of a series of shorts to be shot in both ...
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Bridget Jones's Diary records $100m
On a weekend that saw a sharp disappointment for UK box office hopeful Lucky Break, UK mega-hit Bridget Jones's Diary passed the $100m international box office mark, having debuted in several territories, including Germany, Switzerland, Hungary and Finland. Distributed in most international territories by UIP, the romantic comedy has taken ...
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Germany's Kinowelt on the verge of bankruptcy
Two days ahead of the publication of its half-yearly figures, debt-ridden German media group Kinowelt Medien joined the ranks of the so-called "penny stocks" as trading on Wednesday sent the share price down by some 17% to a new all-time low of Euro 0.90.The latest slump in the share price ...