All Screen articles in 9 October 2002
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Mexico's Televisa takes film package from Universal
Hit films including The Scorpion King, The Mummy Returns and Gladiator headline a package of feature films and made-for-TV programming licensed by Universal to leading Mexican broadcaster Televisa.The deal, announced at MIPCOM, is a multi-year contract giving Televisa exclusive terrestrial free-TV rights in Mexico. It spans new and library product. ...
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Hungarian filmmakers shine at Szolnok film festival
Hungarian filmmakers stole the show at The International Film Festival of Fine Arts in Szolnok in HungaryThe jury, led by film critic Gyorgy Baron awarded the festival's Grand Prize to Hungarian director Istvan Orosz' Black Hole-White Hole (pictured). The jury awarded the rest of the prizes in three categories, ...
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Disney signs raft of output deals
Declining advertising revenue and challenging times for pay-TV broadcasters have barely dented the sales prowess of Buena Vista International Television, the division responsible for selling feature films to TV and making and selling TV programming.The company used the MIPCOM programmes market in Cannes to unveil a raft of new output, ...
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NonStop extends deal with Sandrew Metronome
Swedish distribution company NonStop Entertainment has extended its long-term distribution agreement for theatrical releases and video in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland with leading pan-Scandinavian distributor Sandrew Metronome International. The agreement is set for another three years from January 1st 2003."Sandrew Metronome is very pleased to continue the co-operation with ...
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Highlight increases stake in Constantin
Swiss media concern Highlight Communications has increased its stake in German distributor-producer Constantin Film from 23% to 25% and announced an agreement for cooperation on theatrical distribution in Germany.Highlight increased its shareholding in Constantin on October 4 by acquiring shares on the stock market, which means that there has been ...
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Australian critics applaud films with strong indigenous themes
The Australian Film Critics Circle has nominated Australian Rules, produced by Mark Lazarus, Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce, Christine Olsen), The Tracker (Rolf de Heer, Julie Ryan), and Walking On Water (Liz Watts) for best film in this year's awards.Noyce and de Heer have also been nominated for their role as ...
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Carlton International announces MIPCOM deals
Carlton International, the media rights distributor of the UK's Carlton group, has announced a number of film deals to various European channels and distributors during this week's MIPCOM TV programme market in Cannes.As part of its existing output deal with Carlton International, TF1 has acquired a range of TV movies ...
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Nominees announced for Nordic council's new film prize
The nominees for the inaugural $46,000 (DKR350,000) Nordic Council's Film Prize, which will be awarded at the council's 50th anniversary on October 29, include ten new films from Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. The films range from internationally acclaimed features like Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without A Past, Susanne ...
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Canadian-South African co-production Proteus starts shoot
Canada's iconoclastic "queer' filmmaker John Greyson has teamed up with his South African equivalent Jack Lewis, a gay activist and filmmaker, on the $550,000 gay and historical feature film Proteus which has just begun its third week of shooting in and around Cape Town. The Canadian/South African co-production is produced ...
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UK film industry accounting methods criticised
The way in which financial performance is measured in the UK film and television industry should be given a total overhaul, according to a new report from business and financial advisers, Grant Thornton.The report entitled "What happened next'", reviews the accounting policies of 177 UK film and TV companies and ...
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European cinema admissions see double-digit growth during 2002
The international growth in cinema admissions during 2001 seems to be continuing this year, according to new research, with double digit growth rates in a number of major European markets.Latest figures from industry research publication, Screen Digest, show that cumulated admissions in eight major territories are up by 12.2% for ...
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Beta Film takes 12 titles from Intertainment
Beta Film, the German-based international rights and sales arm of the insolvent Kirch Media, has sealed a European distribution deal for twelve feature films from Neuer Markt-listed financier Intertainment.The deal will see Beta distributing titles such as The Art Of War, starring Wesley Snipes, across TV, video and some theatrical ...
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Valladolid film festival to open with 11-09-01
Commemorative effort 11-09-01 will inaugurate the official section of Spain's 47th annual Valladolid International Film Festival (Oct 25-Nov 2).The compilation of short films from eleven renowned directors about the aftermath of last year's September 11 terrorist attacks will screen out of competition in the official section, which features another nineteen ...
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People I Know
Dir: Daniel Algrant. USA. 2001. 100mins.Anyone who wants to see Al Pacino in his one of his most impressive roles since Scent Of A Woman is going to have to get on a plane to Rome, at least for the time being. A combination of commercial bad timing and self-regulatory ...
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UK movie software hits Hollywood, first stop ICM
US talent and literary agency ICM became the first licensed user on Monday of a new financial software application designed to facilitate contract negotiations. The application is called movie dealflow and was designed by clearcounsel, a digital solutions subsidiary set up and wholly owned by UK entertainment law firm Olswang. ...
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Garage Days
Dir: Alex Proyas. Australia. 2002. 105mins.With the major backing of Fox Searchlight and a US$7m budget - hefty by Australian standards - Alex Proyas' eagerly anticipated first feature since his acclaimed, effects-laden dramas The Crow (1994) and Dark City (1998) is a surprisingly lightweight comedy about an underachieving Sydney band's ...
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Magical cast lines up for Pathe's Roundabout
A host of star names, including Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue are to provide the voices for Pathe Pictures' CGI animated feature The Magic Roundabout.The $20m movie, to be directed by Dave Borthwick of Bristol-based animation studio bolexbrothers, will also feature the voices of Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, Joanna Lumley, ...
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Cinecitta backs Ferretti exhibition, screening series in Los Angeles
Italy's Cinecitta Holding, the parent company of the famed Rome-based Cinecitta Studios, announced yesterday that it will be involved in an exhibition of the work of renowned production designer Dante Ferretti at the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences in Los Angeles as well as a film series featuring ...
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AWP picks up Chopin, Anarchist Cookbook
Mark L Lester's American World Pictures (AWP) has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Polish biopic Chopin: Desire For Love and international rights to US ensemble The Anarchist Cookbook. The films will be screened for buyers at MIFED for the first time. Chopin: Desire For Love stars Danuta Stenka and Piotr ...
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Meistrich's Film Movement makes first three acquisitions
Larry Meistrich's fledgling US distribution outfit Film Movement has acquired three award-winning films for select theatrical and limited DVD release. Yamina Benguigui's Inch'Allah Dimanche, Eric Eason's Manito and Giuseppe Piccioni's Light Of My Eye will be shown in select markets, with free admission for Film Movement members who will also ...