All Screen articles in 5 December 2002
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Spain's digital TV merger is finally approved
The Spanish government has approved a merger between the country's two leading digital satellite TV operators Canal Satelite Digital (CSD) and Via Digital. The government regulator placed some 34 conditions on the merger. More than a dozen of these concern rights to cinema content and thematic channels. Ten further conditions ...
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Argentinian production levels leap 50% - despite economic crisis
Argentina is producing an astonishing number of films, despite the country experiencing the worst economic crisis in its history. According to Bernardo Bergeret, marketing director of Argentinian film institute (INCAA), so far there have been 156 feature films in various phases of production this year, 50% more than in 2001. ...
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Anomalies delay foreign language Oscar announcement
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has delayed naming its list of official entries for the 2003 foreign language Oscar category in order to clear up anomalies over submissions from Afghanistan, Palestine, Hong Kong and the UK. The list was expected to go up on the Academy's official ...
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Tracy Geraghty appointed director of Film Makers Ireland
Film Makers Ireland (FMI) has announced the appointment of Tracy Geraghty as the new Director of the association.Until recently, Geraghty has been programme manager with North by Northwest, the Denmark-based script development programme supported by the MEDIA Programme. Prior to that she had worked with Eurimages and with the Irish ...
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Portugal's national film institute appoints new president
Portugal's National Film Institute ICAM has appointed a new president in the midst of an industry-wide controversy concerning the funding body's outstanding debts.Elisio Cabral de Oliveira was appointed to replace long-time ICAM president Pedro Berhan da Costa, who resigned late last month amid multiple back-and-forth accusations of incompetence with the ...
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Asian film libraries prepare to reveal hidden treasures
Two years after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the jury is still out on whether the film created a huge, global market for Chinese-language film. However, several Asian companies are still working on the assumption that the film's international box office success managed to kick down numerous doors, and not just ...
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Germany's Tobis breaks away from StudioCanal
The future for German distributor Tobis has become much clearer after a management buyout (MBO) by shareholders Kilian Rebentrost and Pathe.The MBO has seen the duo acquire StudioCanal's 60% majority holding in the Berlin-based company. They have also taken over the activities of its local production arm StudioCanal Produktion, which ...
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Cinema City complex opens in Israel, despite troubles
A new state-of-the-art 21-screen multiplex, Cinema City, opens on the outskirts of Tel Aviv today, while plans are revealed for what could be the world's largest cinema, a 34-screen megaplex in Lisbon.Cinema City, which is the largest complex in the Middle East, boasts Sony's SDDS sound system in every ...
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Fantasporto film festival unveils competition titles
Spike Jonze's Adaptation and Plots With A View by Nick Hurran are to be the opening and closing films of Portugal's Oporto film festivalThe 23rd edition of Fantasporto will be held between February 21 and March, 1 and will include a homage to Stephen King film adaptations and to ...
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Koelmels miss Kinowelt payment deadline, but get extension
The Koelmel brothers' bid to take over their former company is set to drag on for yet another week after they missed the November 27 deadline for the transfer of the Euros 32m purchase price.On November 22, insolvency administrator Wolfgang Ott said that "if the confirmation by the Sparkasse Leipzig ...
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Harry and 007 clean up over Thanksgiving
Several tried but ultimatelyno newcomer could topple the might of Harry Potter And The Chamber OfSecrets and Die Another Day, which combined for a one-two ranking over thethree-day portion of a solid Thanksgiving Weekend and switched positions overthe full five-day holiday. According to studio estimates released today, ChamberOf Secrets took ...
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Potter and 007 clean up at Thanksgiving box office
Several tried but ultimately no newcomer could topple the might of Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets and Die Another Day, which combined for a one-two ranking over the three-day portion of a solid Thanksgiving Weekend and switched positions over the full five-day holiday. According to studio estimates released ...
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Cannes discoveries head Delluc shortlist
Shortlisted for the Prix Louis Delluc are three Cannes films L'Adversaire, La Chatte A Deux Tetes and documentary Etre Et Avoir. But there is no place for France's Oscar hopeful 8 Femmes.A jury of critics and film personalities announced their candidates for this year's Louis Delluc prize late last week. ...
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Eight Crazy Nights
Dir: Seth Kearsley. US 2002. 71 minutesAdam Sandler has been extending his acting range recently but Eight Crazy Nights, an animated film in which he voices most of the key characters, is not likely to be confused with Punch Drunk Love. Comedies are always a tough sell abroad and Sandler ...
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Deathwatch
Dir: Michael J Bassett. UK. 2002. 95 mins.The old maxim that war is hell gets dusted down yet again for Deathwatch, a horror film set in the trenches of World War I which will attract attention as Jamie Bell's first role since his applauded and awarded performance in Billy Elliott ...
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Lanzarote wraps busiest-ever film screenings event
The Spanish Film Screenings of Lanzarote closed its busiest-ever, fourth annual edition on Saturday night after three full days attended by almost 90 buyers from around the world. Spanish participants said the invitation of Latin American buyers was the most significant new addition to the event this year, with fourteen ...
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UK shooting costs come under fire
UK support body the Film Council is aiming to slash production costs under a code of practice for films budgeted at $3.1m - $6.2m (£2m-£4m). Producers body PACT and crews union BECTU are already negotiating an agreement based on the code, which, coupled with other proposals in the Council's report, ...
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Dublin to get new international film festival
With the slogan 'DIFF - it's different' the formation of Ireland's new Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) has been announced. The first edition is set to take place from March 6 to 13 2003 at the Screen and Savoy cinemas in Dublin. According to festival Director Michael Dwyer the DIFF ...
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Germany named Europe's fastest-growing DVD market
Germany is set to become the fastest growing DVD market in Europe, according to new data collected by the national DVD trade body.In the light of the current DVD boom, DVD-Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DVD-AG) has had to revise its forecast of the number of DVD players in German households at the end ...
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Germany's Senator reports massive net loss
Senator Entertaiment has posted a net loss of Euros 59.5m for the first nine months of 2002 - a massive reversal compared with last year's Euros6.9m net profit The company also announced the reduction of its management board by one member as part of its cost-cutting and restructuring programme.The ...