All Screen articles in 4 September 2001
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A Knight's Tale gallops into UK Box Office
FilmFour's Lucky Break failed to come back from a disappointing start last weekend, falling 35% in its second weekend as Columbia TriStar's A Knight's Tale charged into the UK box-office.Knight's Tale, starring latest Aussie export Heath Ledger alongside local talent including Rufus Sewell, The Full Monty's Mark Addy and Gangster ...
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Monsoon Wedding
Dir: Mira Nair. India. 2001. 115mins.Since the late 1980s, Mira Nair has acted as the official face of Indian cinema in the West. Most high-frequency cinemagoers in Europe and the US will have seen at least one of Nair's trio of exportable Indian features: Salaam Bombay! (1988), Mississippi Masala (1991) ...
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Jeepers Creepers
Dir: Victor Salva. US. 2001. 90 mins.There's a refreshing innocence to Jeepers Creepers, a stylish horror-thriller from Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope that indulges in the odd knowing genre joke but puts most of its energy into delivering good old-fashioned B-movie thrills. Teens raised on Scream and its imitators might ...
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US studios protected from online competition
Hollywood studios planning to sell online movie downloads got good news last week in a report by the US Copyright Office on the 1998 Digital Millenium Copyright Act The report, requested by Congress to assess the effects of the Act, saw no need to extend the so-called 'first-sale doctrine' to ...
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Rai cinema seeking European production partners
Confirming its intention to build up a solid international presence, Italy's Rai Cinema announced that it is actively seeking European co-production partners in Germany, Spain and France. Giuliano Montaldo, chairman of Rai Cinema, the Rome-based film arm of public broadcaster Rai Cinema, said the company plans to announce a European ...
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Movieweb plans 12 Italian films per year
Movieweb, the Italian production company which has backed producer Rita Rusic's latest movies after her split from husband Vittorio Cecchi Gori, has revealed plans to become the country's leading production outfit with its bid to boost its production slate to 12 movies a year. Movieweb, which is managed and funded ...
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Bittersweet success for The Greatest Thing
After years of commercial disappointment, which earlier this year saw the closure of the studio, Norwegian state-owned production company Norsk Film last week-end found the success it had long been denied with the release of its final film, The Greatest Thing (Den Storste I Verden). Ironically, the costume drama based ...
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San Sebastian unveils new awards
Legendary British actress and singer Julie Andrews will be the recipient of San Sebastian's Donostia Award at this September's 49th edition, the festival announced Monday.In the final weeks running up to its September 20 start date, the festival also unveiled the line-up and a newly created award for best Latin ...
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Kuhn and Parfitt team up for Sky Boys
Michael Kuhn has partnered with Academy Award-winning producer David Parfitt on Sky Boys, an action drama that marks the first project unveiled in the former PolyGram Filmed Entertainment chief's bid to make big-budget European films. The story of a heist on the Empire State building during its construction has been ...
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Long Run
Dir: Jean Stewart. South Africa. 2001. 111mins.This attempt to create a simple triumph-against-adversity story, set against the world of long distance running in post-apartheid South Africa, has many good elements including a stand-out performance from Armin Mueller-Stahl and picaresque camerawork by British lenser Cinders Forshaw. However, the script fails to ...
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RAI accused of monopolising Italian distrib sector
On the weekend that it released its first ever title, RAI Cinema and StudioCanal's new theatrical offshoot 01 Distribuzione was accused of "unfairly monopolising" the [Italian] distribution sector.The charges, made by Giampaolo Sodano, president of the national distributors association, UNIDIM, and Aurelio De Laurentiis, president of indie distributor FilmAuro, have ...
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Huge losses stoke Kinowelt bankruptcy talk
Six month trading figures published by Kinowelt on Friday evening (Aug 31) after the stockmarkets closed served only to heighten film industry and finance sector speculation about the possible insolvency of the stricken German distributor. In Venice several sources claimed to have knowledge of a bankruptcy announcement within the next ...
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Me Without You
Dir: Sandra Goldbacher. UK. 2001. 107 mins. Sandra Goldbacher's follow-up to The Governess is a another female-centred period piece, although of a very different kind. A bittersweet comedy tracing a tempestuous friendship over 30 years, it's shrewdly observed and beautifully mounted, but suffers from an unevenness of tone and a ...
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Warner gets distribution of New Line in Germany
New Line Cinema has confirmed that it is finalising a deal for German distribution of its films through 2002 and 2003 with sister company Warner Bros. The arrangement will replace New Line's current German deal with financially troubled independent Kinowelt. The Kinowelt deal expires at the end of this year ...
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Beattie joins Lewis Horowitz Organisation
Los Angeles-based film finance operation The Lewis Horowitz Organization (LHO) has named former Equicap Financial Corporation executive Robert Beattie as its new Canadian representative. Beattie will be based in Vancouver, British Columbia. LHO founder and president Lew Horowitz said Beattie's presence in Vancouver will "significantly increase our ability to assist ...
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Moore heads Fox's theatrical and home video units
Twentieth Century Fox has united its international theatrical and international home video units under the supervision of Stephen Moore, president of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment International for the past four years. In his new position as president of Twentieth Century Fox International, Moore will continue to oversee the international ...
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Hermann to head Nordisk post-production facilities
Despite the fact that the appointment, in January 2000, of producer Lars Hermann as head of development for the Danish Film Institute was widely approved by the local industry, he has decided to move on to head up Nordisk Film's new conglomeration of it's post-production facilities ShortCut and Johan Ankerstjerne ...
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Denmark's Egmont announces restructuring plan
Nordic media major Egmont has announced a significant change in its group management structure. Analysts call the initiative vigorous as new CEO, Steffen Kragh only took up his position three weeks ago. Kragh says the changes are necessary to increase the company's profitability and re-focus the international business. Denmark's 123 ...
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Italy's Cortesi prepares new Infascelli project
Massimo Cortesi, head of the Rome-based company Navert Film which co-produced Claire Peploe's Triumph of Love and Giuseppe Bertolucci's Love Probably - both screening in Venice - is lining up a new film to be directed by Italy's Fiorella Infascelli. Cortesi said he is looking for international co-production partners to ...
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Italy doubles script development funding
The Italian Cultural Department has more than doubled the funding it started allocating last year for script development, giving state distributor Istituto Luce the task of managing the project for the second year in a row. Istituto Luce president Angelo Guglielmi confirmed that the distributor has now set up a ...