All Screen articles in 12 December 2003
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Lucky Red picks up Tavernier's Lola
Roman arthouse distributor Lucky Red has acquired all Italian distribution rights to two new films, including veteran French director Bertrand Tavernier's upcoming movie, Holly Lola.Sold by TF1 International, Holly Lola is about a French couple who are trying to adopt a child in Cambodia, a former French territory. The film, ...
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UK producers flock to new tax fund model
With the UK's film tax funding in flux, financiers, producers and even two US studios are flocking to a new breed of fund that is not reliant on the current regulations under Section 48.The latest fund devised under general accountancy principles rather than any film-specific tax break sees UK financier ...
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UK Film Council launch diversity proposals
The UK Film Council and its cultural diversity working group under Working Title Films co-chief Tim Bevan have launched a series of proposals aimed at increasing diversity within the UK film industry workforce.Proposals in a paper called Success Through Diversity And Inclusion include a new code of practice and schemes ...
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Cape Town hosts Long Supper
The streets of London's South Kensington are being recreated in South Africa's Cape Town, which is hosting the shoot of the $2m The Long Supper. The dark comedy stars South African born Henry Goodman, the acclaimed British stage star who has just completed a run of Richard III for the ...
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Touch Of Spice eyes landmark box office haul
Greek hit Touch Of Spice looks set to pass the landmark one million admissions mark at the local box office.After seven weeks on release, the Tasos Boulmetis directed film has already scored 800,000 admissions, way ahead of the top performing foreign film Pirates Of The Caribbean with 440,000 admissions.Hitting the ...
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Japan moves to boost film industry
An advisory body to the Japanese government has drafted a report calling for wide-ranging government support of content businesses, including films. Headed by Ushio Electric chairman Jiro Ushio, the Contents Special Survey Committee will formally issue the report in March of next year and expects its recommendations to become law ...
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Berlusconi defends controversial media law
Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has publicly defended the controversial new media law which is set to consolidate his sprawling media empire in an inflammatory press conference, where he pointed out that it will prevent 1,000 people from losing their jobs at one of his Mediaset TV channels.The Gasparri Law, which ...
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Redford picture added to Sundance lineup
Dutch producer Pieter JanBrugge's debut The Clearing,starring festival founder Robert Redford, Helen Mirren and Willem Dafoe, hasbeen added to the list of Sundance Film Festival premieres and is among adocumentary-heavy slate of 16 additional titles that will screen from Jan15-25, 2004.Brugge's producingcredits include The Insider and ThePelican Brief and his ...
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Report reveals Irish gov't thinking over Section 481
The thinking behind the Irish government's decision to grant a reprieve to Section 481 in last week's Budget is revealed today in a major PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) report.The report was commissioned jointly by the Irish Film Board and the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and was sent to the Department ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
There seems to be nothing new at Serbian-Montenegrin film market. After last week's opening of Tuck's Master And Commander: Far Side Of The World in first position, the season's favourite Small World is back on top with 194,170 admissions and total gross of $458,857. Peter Weir's latest sold 5,675 admissions ...
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Miravista's Ladies Night is a Mexican smash
Like a much-awaited Christmas present, Mexican cinema finally hasreceived its much needed box office hit. Romantic comedy Ladies Night debuted Wednesday December 10 to becomethe third largest local opening ever in Mexico. The first Mexican production of fledgling Disney Latin Americanproduction label, Miravista, Ladies Night opened with $310,000 (3.1m PESOS) ...
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HUNGARY
The year's most awaited romantic comedy, Love Actually had a decent start at the Hungarian box office, debuting in second place. With nearly thirty thousand admissions the film was no real competition for Finding Nemo and also failed to fare better than previous Richard Curtis films, Notting Hill or Bridget ...
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Sheridan, Elfman join honorees at Palm Springs Film Festival
Jim Sheridan will receive the International Film-maker Award forProducing and Directing and Danny Elfman will collect the Frederick Loewe Awardfor Career Achievement in Film Composing at the 15th Annual Palm SpringsInternational Film Festival, which runs from Jan 8-19 2004.Both will collect their awards on Jan 11 at a ceremony that ...
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Breillat's Hell to world premiere at Rotterdam
Catherine Breillat's new film, Anatomy of Hell (Anatomie De L'Enfer), will receive its world premiere at the upcoming 33rd edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 21-Feb1, 2004). .According to Rotterdam co-director Simon Field the film could be her most controversial piece of work yet. Based on her novel ...
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Bon Voyage, Dogville bookend Miami Film Festival
The 21st Annual Miami International Film Festival will open on Jan30 with the East Coast premiere of Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Nazi-era comedy ofmanners Bon Voyageand closes on Feb 8 with Lars von Trier's Colorado-set thriller Dogville.Programmed for the second year by festival director NicoleGuillemet, the festival features 63 films from 34 ...
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Nordic football duo lined up for Berlin sidebars
Another two Nordic features have been confirmed for the upcoming Berlin Film festival. Magnus Martens' Norwegian romantic football comedy United has been selected for the new 14 plus sidebar of youth films, while Aage Rais-Nordentoft's Danish coming of age drama Kick 'n' Rush has been singled out for the Panorama. ...
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Columbia bears The Grudge from Senator International
Columbia Pictures has picked updomestic distribution rights from Senator International to The Grudge, Ghost House Pictures' English-language remake ofthe Japanese horror thriller Ju-On.The Grudgecentres on a lethal curse that passes like a virus among its victims and killsthem in the grip of a powerful rage.The project is scheduled to start ...
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ARGENTINA
Disney's Brother Bear opened to top the charts this week. However, Clint Eastwood's drama Mystic River achieved the best screen average of 1,975 admissions. Columbia TriStar's SWAT opened in third followed by teen gross out comedy American Pie: The Wedding which came in fourth and benefited from an earlier opening ...
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Brazilian bank BNDES ups investment in local films to $5m
Brazilian bank BNDES has raised its level of commitment to thefilm industry, announcing an increased budget of $5m in support of 41 projects.The investment more than doubles last year's commitment and brings it back inline with the 2001 budget.The announcement comes following the recent news that state-ownedoil company Petrobas has ...
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Nemo eyes $300m international haul
Buena Vista International's (BVI) worldwide hit Finding Nemo is expected to pass $300m any day now and should use the upcoming weekend to consolidate its ballooning box office gross.By Dec 10 it had grossed $291.2m at the international box office and executives believe it will finish on more than $400m.BVI ...