All Screen articles in 5 May 2003

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    Chada, Campion pledge support for UK women in film scheme

    2003-05-05T04:05:00Z

    Directors Gurinder Chadha and Jane Campion have pledged their support to a UK scheme for women in film launched this week by industry agency Women in Film and Television and distributor United International Pictures (UIP).Titled Directing Change, the scheme will allow women directors to work alongside an experienced and internationally ...

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    UK's BFI undergoes major internal review

    2003-05-05T04:05:00Z

    Anthony Minghella, the director who chairs of the British Film Institute (BFI), has launched a wide-ranging internal review of the venerable film body to develop a blueprint for the future of the organisation.The strategic review may well lead to an overhaul or even a scaling back at the National Film ...

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    Germany's BetaCinema moves into English-language films

    2003-05-05T04:05:00Z

    German sales agent BetaCinema has moved into English-language features for its line-up at the forthcoming Cannes market. The Munich-based outfit, which is now headed by Andreas Rothbauer (international sales) and Robert Czajkowski (acquisitions), has picked up Canadian filmmaker Ruba Nadda's feature debut Coldwater, starring Arsinee Khanijan, Simon Abkarian ...

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    Father Amaro ordained by Mexican press awards

    2003-05-05T04:05:00Z

    Mexican blockbuster The Crime Of Father Amaro has won four Silver Goddess awards from the Mexican Press Association, Pecime. Now on its 33rd edition, these are the second most prestigious awards after Mexico's Oscars, the Ariel.Carlos Carrera's priest scandal drama went home with the awards for Best Picture, Director, Cinematography ...

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    Mexico's production activity intensifies

    2003-05-05T04:05:00Z

    Despite a challenging economic climate, a raft of new film companies are suddenly launching in Mexico - all hoping to hit the big time with their new projects.Many have been spurred on by the kind of success seen by local blockbuster El Crimen Del Padre Amaro. The new outfits are ...

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    Hopkins receives tribute at Maui Film Festival

    2003-05-05T04:00:00Z

    Anthony Hopkinswill receive the Silversword Award Tribute at the 4th Annual Maui Film Festivalat Wailea, Hawaii, which runs from Jun 11-15.The honour,named after a rare indigenous plant, goes to actors or film-makers whosecontributions to cinema and their personal commitment affect positive change inthe world. Clint Eastwood collected the accolade last ...

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    New Line takes domestic on romantic comedy Laws

    2003-05-05T04:00:00Z

    New Line Cinemahas acquired North American distribution rights to the romantic comedy LawsOf Attraction starringPierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore which is scheduled to go into production inDublin and New York on June 16, 2003.The studio beatout other studios including MGM, Paramount and Disney to the film which isproduced by Deep ...

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    Plummer joins Farrell in Malick's New World cast for New Line

    2003-05-05T04:00:00Z

    Christopher Plummer, whosemyriad credits include A Beautiful Mind, The Sound Of Music and The Insider, will join Colin Farrell in Terrence Malick's upcoming epic The NewWorld for New Line. Plummer will play CaptainChristopher Newport, an English officer who is among the first settlers in theNew World and who becomes president ...

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    Wallace launches film rep outfit with Capitol as client

    2003-05-05T04:00:00Z

    Ronna Wallace, the seasoned independent production and acquisitions executive associated with such companies as Samuel Goldwyn and Stratosphere as well as Live Entertainment during its film financing heydey a decade ago, has launched her own film rep company, Eastgate Pictures.Under the new banner, Wallace will serve as producer's rep on ...

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    Sheridan to receive BAFTA/LA award of excellence in Nov

    2003-05-05T04:00:00Z

    Jim Sheridan is to behonoured with BAFTA/LA's John Schlesinger Britannia Award for ArtisticExcellence at the 2004 Britannia Awards in Beverly Hills on Nov 4. In a statement BAFTA/LAchairman Gary Dartnall paid tribute to the film-maker for creating "some of themost affecting cinema in history". Sheridan's work has garneredtwo Academy Awards ...

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    Veneziano is back at Alliance Atlantis, moves from LA to London

    2003-05-05T04:00:00Z

    ArielVeneziano has been appointed director of motion picture sales and internationalhome video distribution at Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group, president ofdistribution Ted Riley announced today (May 2).Effective immediately,Veneziano will be based in the company's London office where he willoversee European film sales and worldwide home video distribution (excludingNorth America).He will report ...

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    Prewitt, Wolf sign new contracts at AFMA till 2006

    2003-05-05T04:00:00Z

    Jean Prewitt will continueas president and chief executive officer of AFMA and Jonathan Wolf will retainhis position as AFMA executive vice president and managing director of the AFMfollowing a unanimous vote by the board of directors. "Our board moved early andenthusiastically to ensure Jean and Jonathan's continued presence," MichaelRyan, chairman ...

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    Marketing vet Kalish in filmmaking foray

    2003-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Ambergate Associates, the outfit spearheaded by veteran marketing consultant Eddie Kalish, is expanding its activities to include film and television development and production, music management and live event presentation.In co-production with writer-producer Elliot Geisinger's (Amityville Horror, The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia, Child's Play) Gem Films, Ambergate is ...

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    X2 marks the spot with $155.2m worldwide opening

    2003-05-05T00:00:00Z

    X marked the spot for 20th Century Fox over the weekend as the hugely anticipated comic book sequel X2: X-Men United raised the curtain on the summer season in spectacular style, storming to number one on an estimated $85.9m.Bryan Singer's follow-up to his 2000 worldwide smash X-Men also grossed an ...

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    X2 marks the spot with $155m worldwide opening

    2003-05-05T00:00:00Z

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    Hollywood prays for summer salvation

    2003-05-02T04:05:00Z

    When 20th Century Fox's X2: X-Men United opens in the US (and 92 other territories) this weekend, it will trigger the start of a nervously anticipated domestic summer season.Box office in the first quarter of this year has been sluggish, casting doubts over whether 2002's all-time record of $3.16bn in ...

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    Solo takes German rights on Jester Till

    2003-05-02T04:05:00Z

    Peter Heinzemann's Solo Film has picked up theatrical and video/DVD rights for producer-director Eberhard Junkersdorf's (pictured) latest animated feature Jester Till (Till Eulenspiegel).The Euros 15m co-production between Junkersdorf's Munich Animation, the UK's Scala Productions and Illuminated Film Company, Belgium's DFJ Motionworks and German media fund CP Medien will be ...

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    Icon seduced by Loach's Fond Kiss

    2003-05-02T04:05:00Z

    Ken Loach may not be such a stranger in his own land after all. Having typically financed his films with little more than a TV deal out of the UK, the director's regular producer Rebecca O'Brien has secured an all-rights pre-sale on Ae Fond Kiss to Icon Film Distribution.The deal ...

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    Out Of Control wins top Britspotting prize

    2003-05-02T04:05:00Z

    Dominic Savage's Out Of Control has won the Best Feature Film Award at the 4th 'britspotting' British Independent Film Festival in Berlin.The award for the hard-hitting study of three juvenile delinquents from the poverty stricken estates of South London includes Euros 13,000 worth of post-production and online editing work to ...

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    Post-production monopoly challenged in Argentina

    2003-05-02T04:05:00Z

    A new major post production facility will launch in August in a bid to challenge the monopoly of leading facility Cinecolor in Argentina. The new lab, called LACSA, aims to bring down the prices set by Cinecolor which has forced major and local distributors to deeply reduce their local ...