All Screen articles in 9 October 2002
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Latin American sizzle heats up foreign markets
In the fickle world of acquisitions, Latin America has a fair claim to being this week's hot new cinema. Boosted by Miramax's expected Oscar push for Brazilian sensation City Of God and a strong reception for Mexican Cannes title Japon, Wild Bunch director of acquisitions, Alain De La Mata was ...
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Prague slashes location shooting fees
Prague city council this week slashed location shooting fees in the Czech capital by 75%.The reduction effectively reverses a controversial location fee increase introduced in June, when shooting costs in the city's historic centre were raised fivefold from $0.32 to $1.62 per square metre - working out as an increase ...
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The Legend Of Suriyothai
Dir. Chatri Chalerm Yukol. Thai 2001/US 2002. 154minsThis mammoth historical pageant, originally directed by a prince who is also one of his country's leading filmmakers, broke all home box office records in Thailand last summer, grossing over $14 million, about three times as much as Titanic did in that territory. ...
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Achterbahn files for insolvency
Achterbahn AG, producer of the hugely successful animated Werner features, has become the latest in a long line of publicly listed German media companies to file for insolvency.In a statement the executive board said that it believed that there were possibilities to continue business activities after the insolvency proceedings.Founded in ...
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Germany's F.A.M.E. to be axed after shareholder vote
Film & Music Entertainment (F.A.M.E. AG) is to be dissolved after shareholders accepted management proposals to close the company.F.A.M.E.'s executive board argued that negative market conditions and the remote prospects of recovery in the media sector made liquidation necessary. The board said there was "no possibility to profitably continue ...
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Cinema Service boosts investment in Korean film industry
South Korean major Cinema Service is to boost its investment in local film production amidst what appears to be an exodus of venture capital from the industry. With industry sources predicting leaner times ahead for production companies, the increased spending by Cinema Service is expected to give it even ...
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Indie veterans Manne, Tait create Duopoly
Two veterans of the New Yorkindependent scene - Liz Manne andCatherine Tait - have teamed up to form Duopoly, a production andstrategy company which will executive produce "entertainment properties"as well as providing strategic services to production companies.Manne was most recentlyexecutive vice president, programming & marketing, for The Sundance Channelwhere she ...
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Aro Tolbukhin: In The Mind Of A Killer
Dirs: Agusti Villaronga, Lydia Zimmermann, Isaac P Racine. Sp-Mex. 2002. 96mins.Aro Tolbukhin: In The Mind Of A Killer is a profoundly spooky, startlingly original contribution to the cinema's enduring fascination with serial murderers. This intricate, multi-layered false documentary based on a notorious real-life case is by no stretch of the ...
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The Pianist strikes a chord at the box office
Last weekend saw both a host of new European openings and a return to the top in Poland for this year's Cannes' Palme D'Or winner The Pianist. The Roman Polanski film launched in France and Belgium on Sept 25 and Switzerland on Sept 26 to strong scores.In France the film ...
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Meheut appointment signals Canal Plus floatation
Canal Plus Group, the Vivendi Universal off-shoot spanning its French television interests and StudioCanal, moved a step closer towards a separate stockmarket flotation with the appointment of Bertrand Meheut.Meheut, a former chemical industry colleague of Vivendi Universal chief Jean-Rene Fourtou, was appointed president and chief operating officer of Canal Plus ...
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Spanish arthouse distributors form industry association
Four of Spain's leading arthouse distributors have formed the Independent Film Distributors' Association (ADICINE) to provide a lobby for their interests in the exhibition of European films in Spain.Alta Films, Wanda Vision, Golem Distribucion and Vertigo Films are responsible for some 80% of European films exhibited ...
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Studio threeway Peter Pan starts shooting in Australia
The big budget live actionfilm version of Peter Pan, forwhich Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures and Revolution Studios teamed in anunusual three-way studio co-venture, has begun principal photography inQueensland, Australia under local director PJ Hogan (Muriel's Wedding,My Best Friend's Wedding).Jeremy Sumpter, who playedone of Bill Paxton's sons in Frailty, is playing ...
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Swedish Film Institute greenlights three new features
Three Swedish feature films have been greenlighted after receiving funding from the Swedish Film Institute (SFI).Children's film Misa Mi is by first-time director Linus Torell. The story, about a 10-year-old girl whose mother is dead, takes place in the forests of the north of Sweden. The film will be produced ...
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Tom Quinn gets vp stripes at Samuel Goldwyn Films
Tom Quinn has been promotedto vice president, acquisitions, for Samuel Goldwyn Films. In his new role, hewill continue to oversee the acquisitions department at the company; his mostrecent acquisitions are Raising Victor Vargas, Peter Sollett's Cannes hit which was renamedfrom Long Way Home, CarlosCarrera's Mexican smash The Crime Of Father ...
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One For The Road starts to roll
One For The Road, the UK's Film Council and FilmFour Lab-backed feature debut of writer-director Chris Cooke, has started production on location in Nottingham. A black comedy set on a rehabilitation course for drink drivers, the DV-shot film received£240,000 from the Film Council's New Cinema Fund, and is also backed ...
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Red Dragon breaks Oct opening record with $37.5m
Universal's Hannibal Lecter horror thriller Red Dragon scored the highest ever October opening over the weekend as it scorched to the top of the charts with a redoubtable $37.5m, according to estimates released today (Sunday). Although this was considerably less than the $58m opening for MGM's Hannibal in February 2001 ...
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No recovery in sight for German TV advertising
Spending on TV advertising in Germany is forecast to decline by 8.2% this year, according to a study commissioned from market research institute Prognos AG by the ProSiebenSat.1 Group.Before publication of the study, the Group had anticipated that the maximum contraction would be 5%, but, based on Prognos' findings, ...
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Foreign films take top Danish children's awards
At the 3rd Copenhagen International Children's Film Festival - BUSTER - which ended this weekend, Achero Manas' Spanish The Pellet (El Bola) and Nabil Ayouch's French-Maroccan Ali Zaoua took top honours. The festival's children's jury, made up of eight 12-13 year-olds awarded the 'best BUSTER film' prize of $6,600 (DKR50,000) ...
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Bloody Sunday wins over Dinard jury
Paul Greengrass's Bloody Sunday added to its tally of festival prizes over the weekend, winning the top award - the Hitchcock D'Or - at the Dinard British Film Festival (3-6 October).The Northern Ireland set drama has already received various international awards including the Golden Bear at Berlin and the Audience ...