All Screen articles in 1 March 2002 – Page 2
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Adjani replaces Marceau for Bon Voyage
Isabelle Adjani is to replace a pregnant Sophie Marceau as the female lead in the much-awaited Bon Voyage, Jean-Paul Rappeneau's first film after the 1995 Horseman On The Roof.This is not the only change in the lengthy setting up of Bon Voyage, a WWII romantic drama set in Bordeaux in ...
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Hong Kong cinemas slash ticket prices
Hong Kong's largest cinema chains have slashed ticket prices in an attempt to counter the combined effects of piracy, a post-Chinese New Year cinemagoing decline and a slowing economy with record levels of unemployment.UA and Broadway cinemas announced that tickets would cost $3.20 (HK$25) every Tuesday and Wednesday in ...
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Alliance Atlantis posts 66% distribution increase
Alliance Atlantis Communications' film distribution business jumped 66% in the third quarter ended Dec. 31, 2001, with revenues up $25m (C$40.2m) to $62.6m (C$100.7m) from $37.6m (C$60.5m) in the prior year's period, boosted by the strong performance of Lord Of The Rings:, increased video and DVD demand and sales to ...
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Film division boosts Sogecable's net profit
Spanish media group Sogecable has reported positive year-end financial results for the first time since 1998, citing the success of its film division Sogecine, as a major contributing factor. Sogecable posted Euros 2.8m in net profits for 2001 compared with a loss of Euros 11.4m in 2000. Group revenue rose ...
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An uncertain regard at Cannes' Lynch-mob hopefuls
While Cannes Film Festival selector Thierry Fremaux is said to have been given freer rein this year by festival president Gilles Jacob, there seems a good chance that many familiar, arthouse heroes will be strutting the Croisette than ever before.Despite selectors from all of the festival's sections said to be ...
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Stones (Piedras)
Dir: Ramon Salazar. Spain. 2001. 130mins.Some Spanish critics have seen Ramon Salazar as Pedro Almodovar's heir, and Stones certainly looks on paper like a sequel to the latter's 1991 comedy High Heels: it tells five women's interlocking stories through their feelings about their feet. The female-dominated subject, a light scattering ...
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UK's Granada and Carlton call off merger talks
UK commercial television companies Granada and Carlton have called off merger talks, it was announced on Wednesday (Feb 27).A link-up would have given the broadcasters 90% control of commercial television network ITV. The decision is said to have been made because of onerous regulatory hurdles, although talks could restart ahead ...
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UK's Granada and Carlton end secret merger talks
UK commercial television companies Granada and Carlton have called off a planned merger, it was announced on Wednesday (Feb 27).A link-up would have given the broadcasters 90% control of commercial television network ITV. But the annual savings from the merger - estimated at $71m (£50m) by 2002-3 - pale beside ...
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Premiere Group unveils first titles starting June
Mitchell Goldman's USdistribution outfit The Premiere Marketing & Distribution Group -which he announced at AFM last year - has finally unveiled its debutslate which will kick off with Slap Her, She's French, a comedy originally housed at Fox Searchlight, onJune 7. Action drama Madisonstarring Jim Caviezel will follow on Aug ...
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Lauren Bacall to present Denmark's top film award
Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall will add extra glamour to this weekend's award ceremony in Copenhagen, when the Danish association of film critics hands out its prestigious Bodil awards on March 3. 77 year-old Bacall, who is presently starring opposite Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany and fellow veterans Ben Gazzara and Philip ...
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Lantana, Moulin Rouge bag Oz critics awards
Producer Jan Chapman won the best film award for Lantana at the Film Critics Circle Awards on Feb 22, while Baz Luhrmann took home the best director trophy for Moulin Rouge, making it less of a one-horse race than the Australian Film Institute Awards in November had been. Lantana also ...
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Hollywood plans remakes of Korean comedies
Two Korean hit comedies from 2001, My Sassy Girl and Hi, Dharma!, have been sold to Hollywood studios for English-language remakes. Korean distributor IM Pictures revealed that DreamWorks SKG has bought remake rights to My Sassy Girl (pictured) for $750,000 plus 4% of worldwide revenues earned by the remake. ...
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Shaolin Soccer scores with Hong Kong award nods
Stephen Chow's kung fu and soccer comedy, Shaolin Soccer, led the pack in the nominations for the 21st Hong Kong Film Awards with 13 nods including best film and best director.The record-breaking film, which became Hong Kong's biggest-grossing local production ever last year, with a box office haul of $7.4m ...
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European DVD market sets new sector records
The meteoric rise in the global popularity and profitability of the DVD format has seen Germany and the UK join the many markets experiencing record business in the sector.In Germany, the home video industry's turnover exceeded the Euros 1bn mark for the first time ever in 2001, according to ...
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Coastlines
Dir Victor Nunez. US. 2002. 116min.Coastlines, Victor Nunez's latest film to be set on the unique landscape of Florida's unfamiliar coast, should be regarded as an instalment in his Panhandle trilogy, a follow-up to the poetic Ruby In Paradise (1993) and character-driven Ulee's Gold (1997), which featured Peter Fonda in ...
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Every Stewardess Goes To Heaven
Dir: Daniel Burman. Argentina/Spain. 2001. 98mins.A brooding, fatalistic romance, faintly reminiscent of Julio Medem's Lovers Of The Arctic Circle or Vincent Ward's A Map Of The Human Heart in mood, Every Stewardess Goes To Heaven establishes third-time director Daniel Burman as a talent to watch. Burman's first two films, A ...
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Charlotte Gray struggles to find box office gold
Charlotte Gray's status as FilmFour's biggest production to date failed to translate into UK box-office gold this weekend. But FilmFour calculates that the WW2 drama, based on the novel by Sebastian Faulks, will still have a profitable UK release across all windows after taking $644,104 (£450,229) from 217 sites.Along with ...
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Deutsche Telekom/Liberty deal is blocked
Germany's Federal Cartel Office has blocked Deutsche Telekom's planned sale of six regional cable TV companies to the US media concern Liberty Media throwing the German media landscape into disarray.In an official communique, Deutsche Telekom (DT), which had seen such a transaction as being "a clear stimulus to competition", regretted ...
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Stuart Ford named acquisitions co-head at Miramax
Stuart Ford who is currentlysenior vice president of acquisitions and international operations at MiramaxFilms has been promoted to co-head of acquisitions alongside Agnes Mentre,executive vice president and co-head of acquisitions and co-productions.Together with Mentre, Ford will oversee Miramax's busy acquisitionsdepartment.Ford, who is based in NewYork, will report to Mentre and ...
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Celluloid Dreams closes out 8 Femmes sales
After launching FrancoisOzon's 8 Women at the AFMlast year, French sales house Celluloid Dreams has come full circle with aspate of finalised deals. PierreMenahem, who has been overseeing the market for the independent outfit, saidyesterday that only four territories remain unsold (Singapore, South Africa,Peru and India) but that those could ...
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