All Screen articles in 1 October 2004 – Page 3
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Cinecitta eyes expansion into Africa, Eastern Europe
Rome's Cinecitta Studios is aggressively pursuing itsplans for expansion and, after buying two Italian studios, is soon set to moveinto Eastern Europe and North Africa."We are nowlooking for a winter studio with mountains in Eastern Europe and a summerstudio with a desert in Morocco or Tunisia," Cinecitta Studios director ofmarketing ...
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Lions Gate adds Bobby Long to awards lineup
Lions Gate Filmshas picked up North American theatrical and pay TV rights from El CaminoPictures to Shainee Gabel's family drama A Love Song For Bobby Long.Lions Gate plans a platform release on Dec 29 and willexpand nationally in mid-January. The picture premiered at Venice recently.Written anddirected by Shainee Gabel, the ...
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France allocates Euros 40m for film tax scheme
France has earmarked Euros 40m for its newlycreated tax credit scheme for the film and television sectors.The funding has been made available in an effortto stem runaway production and keep up with successful tax based film supportsystems in countries like the UK. The money will become available at the startof ...
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The Forgotten
Dir:Joseph Ruben. US. 2004. 90mins.Itstarts out feeling like a slightly soppy episode of The X-Files, withmotherly love replacing paranoia as the driving emotion. But teasing thriller TheForgotten gets perked up by a handful of judiciously used special effectsand a sense of mystery that could be described as Shyamalan-esque (as in ...
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Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha Ham Parvaz Mikonand)
Dir/scr:Bahman Ghobadi. Iran-Iraq, 2004. 95mins.Fouryears after he first emerged on the international scene, first as an actor inSamira Makhmablaf's Blackboards, then as director of A Time ForDrunken Horses, Bahman Ghobadi returns with Turtles Can Fly.Thestory is again located in Ghobadi's native Kurdistan and deals once more withthe tragic misery of ...
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NonStop takes on Sayles' Silver City
Scandinavian-based filmsales agent NonStop Sales has taken over international sales to John Sayles' SilverCity. "We are so pleased thatNonStop is handling Silver City," the film's producer Maggie Renzi ofAnarchists' Convention told ScreenDaily.com. "Somehow it makes sense tolet a European company handle the sales of a film like this," she added,referring ...
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Brothers (Brodre)
Dir: Susanne Bier. Den. 2004. 110minsThe consequences of love and the personal trauma ofglobal conflict prove a potent combination in Brothers. The latestcollaboration between Open Hearts director Susanne Bier and screenwriterAnders Thomas Jensen takes the stuff of cheap melodrama and transforms it intoa heartfelt human drama.Once again their collaboration is ...
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Spanish film-makers win major funding boost
Spain'snew Socialist government has increased funding for Spanish cinema by 89%,fulfilling its election promises to support cultural industries.The national film institute's (ICAA) Cinema Protection Fund,the key funding body for Spanish cinema, now totals Euros 63.13m.ICAA's own budget rose by 62%, part of an overall 6.5%increase to culture funding under the ...
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European Film Awards to fete Liv Ullmann
LivUllmann will receive the European Achievement in World Cinema award at thisyear's European Film Awards ceremony, to be held on December 11 in Barcelona.The Norwegian-born actress and director is best known forher collaborations with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, including Persona,Scenes From A Marriage and Cries And Whispers, among others. Theirmost ...
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Mueller re-confirmed as Venice artistic director
MarcoMueller has been re-confirmed as the artistic director of the Venice FilmFestival for a further three years.The Biennale appointed Mueller in March on a four-yearcontract, although it reserved itself the right to "carefully examine thefestival's results at the end of that year's edition."In spiteof the organisational chaos that marred the ...
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Fox nabs Latin American rights to Sea Inside
Sogepaq has sold all Latin American rights to 20thCentury Fox on Alejandro Amenabar's Spanish-language hit The Sea Insidestarring Javier Bardem.LatinAmerica was the last remaining major territory to sell excluding Germany, forwhich Sogepaq says it is considering various offers.Seawon both the Grand Jury Prize and the best actor Volpi Cup at ...
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark To Finish
Dir/scr:Peter Greenaway. Neth-Sp-Lux-Hung-It-Ger-Russ. 2004. 120mins.Youmay, to paraphrase a football commentator, have thought it was all over. Wellit is now. The final part of Peter Greenaway's seven-hour Tulse Luperopus, From Sark To Finish, unrolled at the Venice Film Festival. Itssubdued reception came as a marked contrast to the anticipatory buzz that ...
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HUNGARY 29 September
With a multitude ofnew releases hitting Hungarian cinemas last week, it was M. Night Shyamalan's The Village that grabbed the box officetop spot with over 32,000 admissions on a strong twenty-eight prints. The Terminal was able to maintain secondspot despite powerful challengers and Hungarian action-comedy Argo is still third and ...
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Horley named head of sales at Lumina Films
Samantha Horley has beenappointed head of sales at international sales outfit Lumina Films, which willnow base its operations in LondonHorley takes over fromMarina Fuentes who will remain as a consultant, focusing on production, basedin Madrid.Horley was formerly seniorVP distribution at Myriad Pictures, VP sales at Summit Entertainment and priorto that, ...
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Foreign Oscar race heats up as deadline looms
As Friday's (Oct 1) deadline for Oscar foreignlanguage film submissions draws close, the Academy has received a raft of bids- including Thailand's The Overture,Korea's Tae Guk Ki and Austria's Antares and Serbia-Montenegro's Goose Feather - for contention.Repped by Fortissimo Films, The Overture premiered at Toronto and has already found aJapanese ...
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Thriller pair win Danish funding
The Danish Film Institute has shelled out $2.2m (DKK13.1m)in production support for two new local thrillers that begin shooting inOctober.Nordisk Film received $900,000 for their production of AakeSandgren's $1.7m Fluerne Paa Vaeggen(literally: The Flies On The Wall),which is made under Nordisk's low-budget Director's Cut label in collaborationwith broadcaster TV2/Denmark.Sandgren also ...
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DiCaprio, Bening join awards rollcall at Hollywood Film Awards
Annette Beningwill receive the Hollywood Actress of the Year Award and Leonardo DiCaprio willcollect the Hollywood Actor of the Year Award at the upcoming Hollywood Film Awardsgala ceremony on Oct 18.Other awardsrecipients already announced include John Travolta for the lifetime achievementaward, Mel Gibson for producing, Michael Mann for directing, and ...
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China, Australia head for co-production treaty
It is highly likely a co-production treaty will be signedbetween Australia and China following an eight-day visit by a Chinesedelegation that ended on Saturday (Sept 25)"There is a great enthusiasm on their part and anintention to conclude an agreement, and the same goes for us," said KimDalton, chief executive of ...
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Tibetan documentary wins audience prize at Atlantic Film Fest
What Remains of Us, a documentary dealing with resistance in modernTibet, won the The Movie Network People's Choice Award at the 24th AtlanticFilm Festival in Halifax, Canada on Saturday. Directed by Francois Prevost andHugo Latulippe, the film follows an exiled Tibetan, Kalsang Dolma, as shereturns to the occupied nation with ...
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Amberwood to make movie of animated TV series Zeroman
Ottawa-based animation houseAmberwood Entertaintainment is in pre-production on an animated movie builtaround its Zeroman TV series. Theproject was commissioned by Canadian animation station TELETOON.Zeroman is an action-hero spoof inspired by the charactersplayed by actor Leslie Nielsen, star of such films as Airplane and The Naked Gun. The series airs on ...