All Screen articles in 8 March 2002
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MIP-TV market seeks relevance with dates switch
MIP-TV, the Spring TV programmes market in Cannes, is to shift its dates from April to March as of next year.The move is intended to make the festival more relevant to buyers and sellers and will mean a March 24 start in 2003 compared with April 15 this year. Organisers, ...
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Sogecable to get five more years of Columbia pics
Spanish media group Sogecable has renewed its output TV deal with Columbia Tristar International Television for another five years beginning in January 2003. The original deal, signed in 1997, gave Sogecable exclusive rights to Columbia films for its pay-TV and pay-per-view (PPV) services on platforms Canal Plus and Canal Satelite ...
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San Sebastian, Toulouse team for Argentina promo
Argentina already has four films heading for September's San Sebastian International Film Festival after the event teamed with Toulouse's Latin American Cinema Screenings to trawl for films from Latin America.Films selected by the two events will screen to professionals in Toulouse in March before heading on to San Sebastian, Spain's ...
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Pusher director Refn shoots English-language debut
Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn starts shooting his long-anticipated English-language debut Fear X today, with John Turturro signed up to star and backing from the UK's Moviehouse Entertainment.(March 11).The cast includes US veteran James Remar, Canada's Deborah Kara Unger and Sweden's Jacqueline Ramel. Tom Sizemore signed up last year but ...
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Judi Dench to star in Fry's Vile Bodies adaptation
Judi Dench is expected to star in Bright Young Things, an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies that marks UK actor Stephen Fry's directing debut.The story about the fashionable 'it' crowd in 1930s London could mark the Academy Award winning actresses' next production, depending on how financing comes together. ...
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Vultures circle as Kirch misses debt repayment
Studios and other creditors are poised to pick choice morsels from the body of the Kirch group. The once glorious German media group this week also flirted with insolvency after it missed a loan repayment.According to the heavyweight Suedduetsche Zeitung Kirch is seeking to shed part of the debts accumulated ...
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Spain's Admira plans cash boost for Lolafilms
Spanish production house Lolafilms looks set to receive a much needed capital injection of Euros 21.6m by the end of March. Telefonica media subsidiary Admira, 70% majority owner of Lola, has proposed a refinancing scheme to balance Lola's estimated losses of Euros 11m and carry out a capital amplification with ...
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Fribourg fest fetes Latin America, Asia and Africa
Prominent figures of Afro-American cinema such as Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep), Billy Woodberry (Bless Their Little Hearts) and Haile Gerima (Bush Mama), and the South American documentary filmmakers Marta Rodriguez (Colombia), Vladimir Carvalho (Brazil) and Mario Handler (Uruguay) are among 50 directors who will be attending the 16th Fribourg ...
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Record number of submissions for Animation fest
A record 1,000 entries from more than 40 countries were submitted for the 11th International Animation Film Festival Stuttgart which will be staged from March 22-27 showing a total of 425 films with enlarged competition sections and a more international slant.This year, four competitive sections - International Competition, Young Animation, ...
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Bavaria Film completes Grill Point, Tattoo sales
In spite of an overall quiet AFM, Bavaria Film International (BFI) completed sales on the Jury Grand Prix/Silver Berlin Bear winner Grill Point (Halbe Treppe) and newcomer Robert Schwentke's thriller Tattoo. Only three weeks after the premiere of Andreas Dresen's film in the Berlinale official competition, BFI has already sold ...
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Spain gets new travelling filmhouse: Club del Cine
A group of Spanish industry vets have joined to launch an innovative new project to send little-seen films out to all corners of Spain.Launching with an initial first-year budget of around Euros 240,000 largely from the pockets of its six founders, the Club del Cine will work as a kind ...
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German producer and sales co to release Felsen
Medien & Television Muenchen (MTM), producer of the Berlinale competition film Der Felsen (A Map Of The Heart), and the film's sales agent Bavaria Film International plan to release Dominik Graf's film themselves theatrically in Germany."We are going to try an experiment", explained executive producer Andreas Bareiss of MTM. "Since ...
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US statistics offer hope for international markets
The current health of the North American distribution and exhibition market is generally assumed to be an indicator of the aches and pains that can be expected to occur in many international territories. If so, then the industry can allow itself a cautious sigh of relief.Here is a breakdown of ...
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South Korean production steps up activity
A frenzy of activity seems to have taken over South Korea's production sector. After a record 49% market share for 2001 that proved local films can make big money, more and more projects, many from the best known names in the Korean industry, are getting underway. "At the ...
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Secretary sold to multiple territories for Alibi
UK-based sales house Alibi Films International has sold a slew of international territories on its US romantic drama Secretary, including deals with Eagle Pictures for Italy and NonStop Entertainment for Scandinavia.The film, which stars James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Lesley Ann Warren, went to LNK for Portugal, Yehmax Film for ...
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Ali takes on international contenders
Michael Mann's Muhammad Ali biopic, simply titled Ali, took on a host of major international territories this week with inconsistent results.The film, for which stars Will Smith and Jon Voight are nominated for acting awards at this month's Academy Awards, came out fighting in France where it took second place ...
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All About The Benjamins
Dir: Kevin Bray. US. 2002. 96 mins. With three mid-level hits for New Line - Friday, Next Friday and The Players Club - already under his belt, rapper -turned-multihyphenate film-maker Ice Cube continues in a cheerfully generic vein with the studio's All About The Benjamins, only this time with the ...
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Simon Kenny leaves Disney for WBITD
Simon D Kenny has been named senior vice president, Europe, for Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD), assuming the responsibilities of Joshua A Berger who was recently promoted to the newly created position of executive vice president and managing director, Warner Bros UK.Based in London, Kenny will oversee WBITD's European ...
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Two movies share Sundance/Maryland prize
The Sundance Institute and the Producers Club Of Maryland have named two films as the recipient of the 2002 Producers Club Of Maryland Fellowship: Jacob & Josh Kornbluth's The Best Thief In The World and Tatia Rosenthal & Etgar Kerets' $9.99.The annual fellowship helps fund a film-maker's post-Sundance Lab and ...
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Carrie Fisher to host BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards
Carrie Fisher, the writer and actress who famously played Princess Leia in the Star Wars trilogy, will host the British Academy Of Film & Television Arts/Los Angeles (BAFTA/LA)'s 11th annual Britannia Awards show on April 12. Star Wars creator George Lucas is being honoured at the awards show with the ...