All Screen articles in 12 December 2002
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Transit Film picks up Fassbinder In Hollywood
Transit Film has picked up international sales on Robert Fischer's documentary Fassbinder In Hollywood which was produced to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the legendary German director's untimely death in June 1982.The production by Fischer's Fiction FACTory and Ulli Lommel's Los Angeles-based company Lavida looks at Fassbinder's relationship to ...
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Italian government set to change state funding criteria
The Italian government could soon overhaul the much-criticised way films are currently selected for state funding, and base its selection process on a picture's potential exportability rather than just its "national cultural interest."At a conference held in Rome on the sidelines of the EFA film awards, Gianni Profita, the newly-appointed ...
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UK's Midnight Transfer brings post-production investment to Prague
Prague Studios has received financing from the UK's Midnight Transfer to expand the Czech studios to include a post-production facility.According to Prague Studios head Tomas Krejci Midnight Transfer, a post-production house with facilities in London's Soho and Twickenham Film Studios, plans to build editing facilities at the former aircraft ...
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Yasujiro Ozu to be honoured with Berlinale retrospective
The forthcoming Berlinale (February 6-16) will devote a retrospective to the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth on December 12, 2003.His most famous work Tokyo Monogatari (Tokyo Story) will be screened at the Berlinale Palast, while other works by and about Ozu will be ...
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Van Warmerdam begins Grimm shoot
Dutch filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam has begun filming Grimm, a fairytale-inspired tale of a young couple who travel to Spain for a fresh start in life. The picture shoots for ten weeks in Spain, Germany and The Netherlands. World sales are by Fortissimo Film Sales.Grimm, which was also written by ...
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Israeli Censorship Board bans Jenin camp documentary
After 15 years of inactivity, Israel's Censorship Board is back in action, and courting controversy with its ban on Wednesday of the documentary Jenin, Jenin.The board's decision to ban the public screening of the documentary shot by Israeli-Arab actor-director Mukhammad Bakkri in the Jenin refugee camp after the military incursion ...
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European Film Promotion 2003 gets full MEDIA Plus support
For the first time, the pan-European marketing initiative European Film Promotion (EFP) has received confirmation of support in advance for a whole year from the European Commission's MEDIA Plus Programme rather than on a project-by-project basis. "This year-long contract will allow us the necessary lead time to develop our projects ...
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Holly Hunter to receive Sundance Independent Vision Award
Holly Hunter will receivewith the Sundance Institute Tribute to Independent Vision Award at the 2003Sundance Film Festival, which runs from Jan 16-26, 2003. The honour will bepresented in a tribute show at the Egyptian Theatre in Park City on Jan 21 thatfeatures retrospective clips, an onstage interview and party. Hunter, ...
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ASC honour Norman Jewison with board of governors award
Norman Jewison is to receivethe American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Board of Governors Award, whichis presented annually to an individual who has made a significant and enduringimpression on the art of filmmaking. The Board of Governors Award is the onlyrecognition that the ASC bestows on individuals who are not cinematographersand ...
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Lovely & Amazing, Far From Heaven top Spirit Award nominations
Lions Gate's comedy Lovely& Amazing led the field with six2003 IFP Independent Spirit Awards nominations today (Dec 11) while FocusFeatures' 1950s drama Far From Heaven weighed in with five including best female lead andsupporting male nods for Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid. Both picturesgarnered best director nominations for Nicole Holofcener ...
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Magic Lamp Releasing to produce Afghan doc
US distributionand services company Magic Lamp Releasing announced today (Dec 11) it is movinginto production with the documentary Life After War - The Sarah Chayes Story, based on American efforts to rebuildAfghanistan. Inspired by an idea from Marla Lewin Halperin, who has handled publicityand promotions on Magic Lamp's five releases, ...
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Academy gives formal rejection to Bloody Sunday
PaulGreengrass' acclaimed historical drama Bloody Sunday was officially rejected today (Dec 11)by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences after it fell foul ofeligibility criteria stemming from a UK television broadcast earlier this year.The multi-award winner is a vivid recreation of the infamous events of Jan 301972, when British ...
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New Line, Alliance Atlantis renew vows till 2005
Alliance Atlantis and NewLine Cinema have renewed their long-running subdistribution deal that sees theUS company's output released through the Canadian company'sreleasing arm. The deal, first signed in 1989, covers all New Line and FineLine motion pictures in all media in Canada and runs until Dec. 31, 2005.Powered by such New ...
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Mondays In The Sun shines in Goya nominations
Fresh from his sweep of the European Film Awards last weekend, Pedro Almodovar now faces stiff competition at home for Spain's Oscar-equivalent Goya Awards, the nominations to which were revealed today in Madrid prior to their February 1 ceremony.Almodovar's internationally acclaimed Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella) earned seven nominations, ...
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French investigators raid Vivendi offices
French legal investigators have raided Vivendi Universal's headquarters as part of a probe into records during the era of former chairman Jean-Marie Messier."We can confirm there is a search going on and the company is co-operating completely with the law," a Vivendi spokesperson told Reuters.Reuters also reported that police had ...
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Analyze That
Dir. Harold Ramis. US. 2002. 95mins.Analyze That reunites the cast and creative talent of the hit 1999 comedy and, as with most sequels, the result is a half-measure. But while critics are apt to consider the glass half-empty, audiences are sure to find it half-full, although its $11m opening on ...
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Academy unveils animated Oscar contenders
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has given the greenlight for 17 films to compete in the best animated feature film Oscar category in the 2002 Academy Awards competition.The 17 films are: Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy NightsAlibaba & the Forty ThievesEdenEl bosque animado (The Living Forest)Hey Arnold! The ...
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Miramax Italia increases its involvement in local production
American actor Breckin Meyer will be the voice of Pinocchio in the US version of Roberto Benigni's Italian blockbuster, to be released in North America on December 25th. Meyer - whose credits include Clueless, Rat Race and The Insider - joins Glenn Close, who will dub the Blue Fairy - ...
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Studio Hamburg World Wide Pictures lines up two new projects
The Studio Hamburg's WorldWide Pictures (WWP) fund has lined up another two potential projects - Colour Me Kubrick and Dudes - to back after its first production, John Irvin's The Great Ceili War, wrapped on the Isle of Man last week on December 4.WWP has optioned the $7m satirical comedy ...
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UK power-directors Daldry, Winterbottom team with Rudin
Top UK directors Stephen Daldry and Michael Winterbottom have boarded pictures for Scott Rudin, the New York-based producer who is one of Paramount Pictures' chief suppliers as well as a force in US theatre.Daldry, who directed this season's highly touted awards contender The Hours for Rudin, has taken over from ...