All Screen articles in 1 July 2002 – Page 2
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Sales agents, distributors awarded MEDIA cash
The UK's FilmFour, Pathe International, Bavaria Media and Adriana Chiesa Enterprises are among 18 European sales agents granted over Euros 700,000 in financial support by the European Union's MEDIA Plus programme to promote the trans-national distribution of European films. MEDIA's sales agent support scheme works in two phases. Firstly, there ...
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Jingle Ma to direct Jackie Chan in $40m Titanium Rain
Media Asia has lined up hot Hong Kong director Jingle Ma to direct its $40m Jackie Chan vehicle Titanium Rain.The futuristic action title is set in China, the US and Japan and is being scripted in both English and Mandarin. Production is scheduled to start next March for release during ...
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Ketan Mehta to produce The Rising, raise $12m via IPO
Veteran Hindi film producer and director Ketan Mehta has announced plans to produce a three-part international English-language feature titled The Rising based on the 1857 revolt of the Indian forces against the British Raj. Mehta, chairman and managing director of Maya Entertainment Ltd (MEL), told Screendaily that the company is ...
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Myriad backs Bombay Ice, ropes in Burton, Willing
Myriad Pictures has optioned Leslie Forbes' novel Bombay Ice and has closed a deal with Mark Burton, the producer of Cherish who himself has close ties to India, to produce it. Nick Willing (Dr Sleep, Photographing Fairies) is in negotiations to write and direct the film.A murder mystery set in ...
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Shaolin Soccer is still the talk of the town
One of the hottest topics of conversation at the Hong Kong international film & TV market (FilMart) is not the level of deal-making at the event, or even the forthcoming World Cup final, but the enduring box-office success of local hit comedy Shaolin Soccer.As World Cup fever continues to dominate ...
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Spider-Man takes Spain's opening gross record - by a whisker
Spider-Man's Spanish release has seen the film claim the all-time biggest opening gross in the territory, by a slender margin of just $4,088.The film grossed $4,966,824 (Euros 5,014,686) for Columbia TriStar Films de España, narrowly beating previous record-holder Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, which earned $4,962,736 (Euros 5,010,559) on ...
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European Film Awards to travel to Rome
Following an invitation by Rome's cinephile mayor Walter Veltroni, the European Film Awards will be travelling for the first time to the Italian capital. Traditionally alternating between the European Film Academy's home town of Berlin and other European cities, the relocated ceremony will take place on December 7th 2002. The ...
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Singapore's Raintree strikes joint production deal with Media Asia
Singapore's Raintree Pictures is planning a substantial production expansion after signing a deal with Hong Kong major Media Asia.The deal sees the two companies agree to jointly produce between four and six films per year. Production costs will be equally shared. "It resembles a first look deal, but with a ...
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Teze confirmed as head of Miramax and TF1's TF/M Distribution
TF1 has confirmed the appointment of Perrine Teze as head of TF/M Distribution, the French broadcaster's theatrical joint venture with Miramax. Teze, formerly deputy general manager of TF1's foreign sales division TF1 International, has developed close ties with Miramax. "In fact, it was them who suggested my candidature," she ...
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Unknown Pleasures (Ren Xiao Yao)
Dir: Jia Zhang-Ke. China 2002. 113 mins. CompetitionA film about teenage aimlessness that evokes its subject only too well, the third feature by Jia Zhang-Ke, director of Xiao Wu and Platform, is a loose, funky digital venture that undoubtedly feels as if it captures the authentic beat of contemporary Chinese ...
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Women In The Mirror (Kagami No Onnatachi)
Dir: Kijyu Yoshida. Japan. 2002. 129mins.Kijyu Yoshida's first feature in 14 years, Women In The Mirror, is a throwback to the humanistic films with a political slant that once flowed from Japan's 1960s Nouvelle Vague, of which he was a key member. It is also a reminder of why such ...
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And Now... Ladies And Gentlemen
Dir: Claude Lelouch. France. 2002. 135 mins. His Palme D'Or in 1966 for A Man And A Woman notwithstanding, Claude Lelouch has never been a critics' favourite and his latest offering, unveiled to the press in Cannes to sniggers and walk-outs, was no exception. And indeed even the director's fans ...
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Can DreamWorks' Spirit run free at the international box office'
DreamWorks SKG's latest animated effort, Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron, made its European debut in Germany this week, its first major international territory, but can the 2D-film finally give the company an international triumph over rival studio, and animation giant, Disney'Spirit, distributed internationally by UIP, is DreamWorks first animated title ...
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Black And White
Dir: Craig Lahiff. Australia/UK. 2002. 99mins.The Sydney Film Festival traditionally opens with the world premiere of a quality Australian feature: last year it was the free-flowing, cinematically intense Lantana. This year's opener was an altogether more stolid affair - the worthy dramatisation of a 1958 South Australian murder trial and ...
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Angela
Dir: Roberta Torre. Italy. 2002. 95mins. Dispensing with the musical numbers that peppered her first two films, but remaining true to her fascination with the character and people of Palermo, Roberta Torre still adds little new to the well-worn themes of Angela. Based on true events from the mid-1980s, the ...
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28 titles join Nielsen EDI's international $100m club
UIP picked up ten Nielsen EDI International Gold Reel awards, which are given to distributors with films grossing more than $100m internationally, at the Cinema Expo exhibitor's conference in Amsterdam. UIP's $100m-plus grossers included A Beautiful Mind, Shrek and Bridget Jones's Diary. "They are the bedrock of the industry and ...
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10
Dir: Abbas Kiarostami. Iran/France 2002. 94 mins. In competitionA defiantly no-frills exercise even by his ascetic standards, 10 is Abbas Kiarostami's triumphant vindication of digital video's potential to produce a kind of cinema that cannot be achieved by other means. This is screen minimalism at its most uncompromising: 10 sequences ...
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Cinema Expo seminar poses the $10bn digital question
It may have been the first major picture to be shot entirely with high-end digital technology, but the release of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones has seen the film projected at cinemas around the world using considerably less digital equipment.Episode II has been released on only ...
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German TV rights package boosts market optimism
RTL Television, Germany's leading private broadcaster, has acquired a package of films and TV series from Warner Bros. International Television (WBIT), including the free TV rights to Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, The Lord Of The Rings, Ocean's Eleven, The Matrix, and The Perfect Storm.RTL's CEO Gerhard Zeiler declared ...
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VU's fifth board member exit leaves Messier on the brink
Jean-Marie Messier has retained his position as chairman of the world's second-largest media group - despite the departure of the fifth board member this year and a temporary dive in Vivendi Universal share value to a 13-year low.Yesterday, June 25, Vivendi Universal shares rebounded to $19.80 following a turbulent slide ...
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