All Screen articles in 10 June 2002 – Page 2
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Mama, Look! gets attention at Mediawave festival
British director Grant Thobur's production Mama, Look! was awarded the Grand Prize at this year's Mediawave International Festival of Visual Arts in Gyor, Hungary. Dutch films were also very successful at Mediawave 2002 receiving the awards for Best Dance Film and Best Experimental Film. In the documentary category, Russian films ...
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Spain's Alquimia pacts with France's Fidelite for co-productions
Spain's Alquimia Cinema and France's Fidelite Productions have signed a two-picture co-production deal likely to be expanded to include two further forthcoming titles. Included in the deal are Alquimia's Euros 6m Utopia, a thriller from director Maria Ripoll (Tortilla Soup), and Fidelite's $6m Cronique Des Anees De Baist, a chronicle ...
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Buena Vista Spain adds two more co-production projects
Buena Vista International Spain (BVIS), which last autumn announced its full-fledged entry into local feature film co-production, has added two more titles to its slate: Cat Kisses (Besos De Gato) and Hold-Up At 3... Thirty (Atraco A Las 3... Y Media). Rafael Alcazar directs the Euros 2m Kisses, a co-production ...
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Sam Neill's next role is acting as investor
Actor Sam Neill will be putting more effort than usual into his next film role - as well as starring in Gaylene Preston's romantic thriller Perfect Strangers, Neill is also an investor through his Huntaway Productions Neill's partners in Huntaway - the New Zealand production company that he set ...
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Germany's DVD sell-through market leaps 79%
Germany's DVD sell-through market has leaped 79% in the first quarter, over 2001, helping to boost overall turnover in the national video industry by 25.5% to $332.2m in the first three months of 2002.Statistics compiled by GfK for the trade association Bundesverband Video (BVV) show that the video/DVD sell-through sector ...
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Good Spanish opening doesn't mean Snipes' drama will be undisputed hit
Wesley Snipes latest film Undisputed received its debut this week in Spain, four months prior to its US launch. However, just how the film will perform internationally is hard to gauge as despite achieving a second-placed chart position in Spain, behind Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones, ...
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DTS renews credit line from Comerica
Comerica Entertainment Group, the entertainment lending subsidiary of Comerica Bank-California, has struck a new two year revolving line of credit facility with digital audio technology outfit DTS (Digital Theater Systems Inc), a client since 1997. Comerica has also increased the company's borrowing power from $7.5m to $10m.A pioneer in multi-channel ...
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Barbara Hannegan tops restructured publicity team at Universal International
Barbara Hannegan has been promoted to vice president, international publicity, at Universal Pictures, completing a restructure of the studio's international publicity team which sees the arrival of three new staff publicists - Larry Angrisani, Mark Markline and Elena O'Gorman.Hannegan will report to Randy Greenberg who is senior vice president of ...
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Pathe, FilmFour in holy alliance for Bulletproof Monk
In a high profile move that underlines the growing co-operation between the two companies, Pathe Distribution and FilmFour have picked up UK rights to Bulletproof Monk. In another deal begun at Cannes, Filmax confirmed that it is to handle Spanish rights to the picture. The $55m action-adventure is the first ...
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Highlight takes German-speaking rights for Tadpole
Highlight Communications, the Swiss-based distributor and licensor, has picked up German-speaking rights to Tadpole, a low-budget coming of age drama directed by Gary Winick.The sale was the only one to Germany that Miramax agreed during Cannes. "We have seen everyone, but the offers are just too low," said Miramax International ...
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Ireland's Film Fleadh shows international flair
Ireland's 14th Galway Film Fleadh from July 9 to 14 will host an actors' masterclass and public interview with Irish American actor Aidan Quinn. Quinn, who is in Ireland for two films - TV project Dark Eagle (previously titled Benedict Arnold), and Song For A Raggy Boy, scheduled for a ...
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Holmes, Euston Films partner for The Farmer Wants A Wife
Shooting Fish and Waking Ned producer Richard Holmes has partnered with Euston Films, the reincarnation of UK broadcaster Thames Television's film division, to co-produce $10m romantic comedy The Farmer Wants A Wife. The true story of a campaign to find wives for lonely farmers marks Euston's first step in a ...
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Distant Horizon takes world rights to Promised Land
Anant Singh's Distant Horizon has picked up world rights to Promised Land, the directorial debut of Jason Xenopolous.The South African film is a drama about one man's journey to find truth and a nation's struggle to hide it. It stars Nick Boraine, Yvonne van den Bergh, Daniel Browde and Ian ...
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News Corp's Fortune Star unveils first projects
Fortune Star, the new production company housed at News Corp's Star TV group, has unveiled its first projects made for the ancillary markets."I don't expect to unveil our theatrical slate until much nearer Mifed," said Fortune Star general manager Peter Poon. "We refuse to produce the kind of low budget ...
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De Niro quip gives birth to Siberian film festival
While most people would consider a resort like Cannes or Venice as the ideal location for a major festival, the organisers of a new film festival - to be held mid-winter in Siberia - are hoping to turn that concept on its head.The new Spirit Of Fire competitive film festival ...
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Svensk Filmindustri boards Bergman's Saraband
Svensk Filmindustri (SF) has boarded legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's new picture Saraband. The film, previously titled Anna, is a long-delayed sequel to Bergman's classic 1973 drama Scenes From A Marriage. Marainne decides to contact her ex-husband Johan after many years of estrangement, they rekindle an autumnal romance, but both ...
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Danish Film Institute backs foreign-language co-productions
Two new foreign-language projects have tapped the Danish Film Institute's under-exploited funds. The two, both co-produced with Zentropa, are eligible for DFI support with a local minority co-production partner on board.Holland's Els Vandevorst will produce Sea Of Silence for her Isabella Films to be directed by the Oscar-nominated Belgian Stijn ...
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New Zealand film awards cancelled due to lack of films
While New Zealand's filmmaking profile is at an all-time high because of the worldwide success of The Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring, The New Zealand Herald reports that the local film awards will not be going ahead this year because of a shortage of films. Three films ...
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Australia's film industry to overhaul trailer policy
The Australian film industry is to get together to try and overhaul the rules that govern the screening of trailers in the territory. The Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) gets more complaints about trailers than about any other subject, while the industry wants to be able to show ...
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Ruiz, Clark to get first Backup assistance
A project by Raoul Ruiz and another executive produced by Larry Clark are the first pictures to be assisted by one of Europe's newest producer's representatives Backup Films.The company, founded earlier this year, sees itself as a financial specialist that can put together packages of funding solutions on behalf of ...
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