All Screen articles in 1 July 2003 – Page 3
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Danish Cannes hit Reconstruction gets US visa from Palm
ChrisBlackwell's Palm Pictures has acquired rights in the US and the Caribbeanto Christoffer Boe's Reconstruction, the Danish drama which won both the Camera d'Or andLabel Regards Jeunes at the Cannes Film Festival this year.The deal was concluded between Palm's David Koh (head of acquisitions andproduction) and Ryan Werner (head of ...
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Ontario groups show united front to attract Hollywood productions
A coalition of Ontario-basedfilm and television industry interest groups has formed a united front to lobbythe federal government and market the province as a production destination toHollywood. Amongst the members of theOntario Film and Television Consortium (OFTC) are more than 30 companies,including the leading service producer in the country, Dufferin ...
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Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Dir: McG. US. 2003. 111 mins. As its title suggests, the sequel to autumn 2000 hit Charlie's Angels revs up the goofy humour and preposterously gaudy action elements of the first movie - and leaves coherent narrative even further behind in the dust. Youthful moviegoers who helped the original to ...
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Moodysson returns to Sweden with Terrorists
Less than ten months after the Swedish premiere of Lilya 4-ever, Lukas Moodysson returns to local cinemas with another controversial film.His latest project Terrorister - En Film Om Dom Domda (Terrorists - A Film About Those Who Were Sentenced) is a gritty and unflinching documentary about some of the young ...
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Finalists selected for Sarajevo's CineLink market
Vedran Fajkovic's Bosanski Ionac and Namik Kabil's Zadnji Dan are among six projects selected by producers Cedomir Kolar and Behrooz Hashemian and sales agent Philippe Bober to be presented at Sarajevo Film Festival's first CineLink Market from August 20-22.The complete line-up of the six finalists is:Bosanski Ionac - Vedran FajkovicGola ...
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China to lift quota restrictions for Hong Kong films
The Hong Kong and Chinese governments are close to signing a trade agreement that could give Hong Kong movies greater access to the mainland market, according to Hong Kong chief executive Tung Chee-Hwa in a statement made on Wednesday night. Senior officials from Hong Kong and the mainland are scheduled ...
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Distributor resistance could force easyCinema out of business
UK no-frills exhibitor easyCinema has admitted that it could be forced to close its flagship Milton Keynes cinema and exit the exhibition business if it continues to experience difficulties in securing first run titles.easy - which has no concessions stand or box office and offers tickets online for as low ...
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French cinema promotion event attracts decreasing numbers
France's three-day Fete du Cinema, when ticket prices are reduced by some 60%, saw ticket sales falling to 3 million, down from last year's 3.6 million. With the current downturn in French cinema -going, the results are perhaps less surprising.. Ticket sales for the first six months of 2003 are ...
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New deputy MD appointed at Columbia TriStar Germany
Gerd Bender, sales director for Columbia TriStar Film in Germany since 1990, has been promoted to deputy managing director, by Martin Bachmann, the new managing director of Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International's (CTFDI) German operation. Bender will also continue in his capacity as sales director. "I have known Gerd since ...
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Cologne conference hands out annual awards
zero film's Martin Hagemann and Thomas Kufus, producers of Max Faerberbock's September and Alexander Sokurov's Father And Son, are the winners of this year's Producers Award at the Cologne Conference.The Casting Award went to casting director Sabine Schroth, whose credits include international productions The Name Of The Rose, Homo Faber ...
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Pineapple Bun Prince to follow animated McDull
Bliss Concepts, the Hong Kong animation house behind popular animated feature My Life As McDull, is producing a second film - Pineapple Bun Prince - which it plans to release in Hong Kong this Christmas.The first McDull movie, directed by Toe Yuen and written by Brian Tse, recently scooped the ...
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Palm Springs moves short film festival to Sept
The Palm SpringsInternational Festival of Short Films is abandoning its traditional August slotand will run this year from Sept 16-22 in Palm Springs.Explaining thedecision in a statement, festival director Kevin McGuire said: 'We arelooking to offer greater educational opportunities for students and Septemberis a better month for schools to participate ...
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Robert Greenblatt named president of entertainment at Showtime
Veterantelevision executive Robert Greenblatt is joining US cable giant ShowtimeNetworks as president of entertainment.Greenblatt willstart work at his Los Angeles offices on Jul 14 and will oversee creative andprogramming activities on all existing and planned channels.In addition hewill supervise original productions, acquisitions, scheduling and businessaffairs and have direct involvement in ...
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Mark Gill negotiates to leave Stratus for Warner Bros
Mark Gill, the formerpresident of Miramax LA and currently a partner in Stratus Film Company, is infinal negotiations to leave Stratus and take the helm at Warner Bros'long-in-the-works specialized division. Warner confirmed reports inthe Hollywood trade press yesterday that Gill is in talks for the job, but saidas yet that ...
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New York Film Critics move awards to Dec 15
The New YorkFilm Critics Circle (NYFCC) will announce its awards on Dec 15 at the MuseHotel in New York.The awards willbe given out at the group's annual awards dinner on Jan 4 2004 at Nochein Manhattan.'2003 hasalready proven to be a great year for films of all kinds, and we're ...
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Pippin to get the Miramax musical treatment
Miramax Films, which earlier this week announced that it hadsecured film rights to one of Bob Fosse's classic stage musicals DamnYankees, has picked uprights to another - Pippin.Pippin,which has never been filmed before, charts the life of the eponymous son ofCharlemagne who dabbles in sex, politics and war before realising ...
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IMAX screens touted as remedy for over-screening
Cinema exhibitors with excess capacity following the multiplex building boom of the last decade should consider refitting theatres with IMAX screens, a seminar at Cine Expo in Amsterdam has heard. Two new systems unveiled earlier this year by IMAX Corporation mean it is now feasible for IMAX screens to be ...
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Music documentary Amandla! sings to South African audiences
On a screen for screen, basis music documentary Amandla! A Revolution In Four-Part Harmony, which was released in South Africa on Friday, June 20, outgrossed the Oscar-winning documentary, Bowling For Columbine on its first weekend of release. Amandla! earned $9,583 (R76 168) with eight prints, outgrossing Bowling For ...
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Glover to chair International Black Panther festival
Danny Glover will serve ashonourary chair of the third International Black Panther Film Festival, whichruns in Harlem, New York City, from Jul 31-Aug 4.Screenings at the biannualevent are scheduled to include Raoul Peck's acclaimed Congolese true-lifedrama Lumumba, Cuban directorGloria Rolando's Eyes Of The Rainbow and Robert Mugge's concert film on ...
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Winchester Entertainment results 'not pleasing'
The UK's Winchester Entertainment has posted its preliminary results for the year ended 31 March 2003, with turnover at £5.1m, down from £6.5m in 2002, and a pre-tax loss of £11.2m, up from £8.3m in 2002. This resulted in a loss per share of 40.2p. But the company, listed on ...
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