All Screen articles in 11 February 2003 – Page 3

  • News

    Daldry throws weight behind FAME UK slate

    2003-02-10T04:05:00Z

    Stephen Daldry, in town to present today's competition screening of The Hours, is to executive produce two forthcoming films produced by the UK's Film & Music Entertainment (F&ME). The company, which recently bought itself out from the now depleted German company F.A.M.E., is putting together an impressive slate of pictures, ...

  • News

    Koelmels spell out Neue Kinowelt ambitions

    2003-02-10T04:05:00Z

    Rainer and Michael Koelmel have unveiled theplanned strategy of Neue Kinowelt,just ahead of their first market presence since regaining control oftheir insolvent Kinowelt empire.`We will no longer be in theleague of the majors as we were for a while in 1999`, explained Rainer Koelmel,`but we will certainly see ourselves in ...

  • News

    Koelmels spell out Neue Kinowelt ambitions

    2003-02-10T04:05:00Z

    Rainer and Michael Koelmel have unveiled theplanned strategy of Neue Kinowelt, just ahead of their first market presence since regaining control oftheir insolvent Kinowelt empire.`We will no longer be in theleague of the majors as we were for a while in 1999`, explained Rainer Koelmel,`but we will certainly see ...

  • News

    Wong Kar-Wai set for 2046 wrap

    2003-02-10T04:05:00Z

    WongKar-Wai's long-gestating 2046 is finally back in production in China and Hong Kong andis set to wrap at the end of March for delivery in time for this year's Cannes.The $15m film has been in and out of production since Wong shot In The MoodFor Love three yearsago, although the ...

  • News

    Gold Circle to establish UK presence, pre-buy US rights to UK films

    2003-02-10T04:00:00Z

    Gold CircleFilms - the LA-based production/financing outfit run by Paul Brooks whichscored the runaway hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding last year, is to establish a presence inthe UK with the imminent hiring of an acquisitions executive. The new executivewill likely be joined by one or two further Gold Circle ...

  • News

    Verhoeven, Mamet enter Franchise fold for AFM

    2003-02-10T04:00:00Z

    ElieSamaha's Franchise Pictures may be busying itself for its Aug 5 trialdate in its ongoing legal battle with Germany's Intertainment AG, but itcontinues to board new projects and has three new ones available for pre-saleat AFM -Paul Verhoeven's next picture Void Moon, the next from David Mamet entitled Spartan with ...

  • News

    Altman gets lifetime achievement award in San Francisco

    2003-02-10T04:00:00Z

    Robert Altman will receivethe Film Society Award for Lifetime Achievement in Directing at the 46thSan Francisco International Film Festival this year (April 17-May 1). The awardwill be presented to Altman in person on April 23 at Film Society Awards night.Altman will be interviewedon stage and three of his films - ...

  • Reviews

    I'm Not Scared (Io Non Ho Paura)

    2003-02-10T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Gabriele Salvatores. Italy. 2003. 107mins.An atmospheric, good-looking child's-view thriller set around a kidnapping in southern Italy during the 1970s, I'm Not Scared is Gabriele Salvatores 11th film. It is also his best: at last the Milanese director, whose previous films have been dragged down by a taste for grotesque, ...

  • News

    Extension sought for MEDIA Plus & Training

    2003-02-10T00:00:00Z

    The MEDIA Programme is seeking a year extension to funding support mechanism MEDIA Plus, which is due to end in 2005. 'We will be proposing a technical extension of MEDIA Plus and MEDIA Training for one more year until the end of 2006 so that the programme can ...

  • News

    Extension sought for MEDIA Plus & Training

    2003-02-10T00:00:00Z

    The MEDIA Programme is seeking a year extension to funding support mechanism MEDIA Plus, which is due to end in 2005. 'We will be proposing a technical extension of MEDIA Plus and MEDIA Training for one more year until the end of 2006 so that the programme can ...

  • News

    Mar del Plata re-invents itself

    2003-02-10T00:00:00Z

    The new artistic head of South American's leading film festival, Mar del Plata (March 6-15), unveiled his competition line-up in Berlin with a promise to redefine its identity as a festival created "by film-makers for film-makers". The line-up features a number of films that deal with globalisation, xenophobia and a ...

  • Reviews

    The Life Of David Gale

    2003-02-10T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Alan Parker. US. 2002. 128mins.The prosecution's case prevails in passing judgement on The Life of David Gale, a polemical thriller which has all the conviction and brio one expects of an Alan Parker film, but is let down by the two central performances and a spectacularly feeble script. Well-positioned ...

  • News

    Paris Je T'Aime woos Cruise and Cruz

    2003-02-10T00:00:00Z

    Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz are expected to board an unusual project where the city of Paris is the star.The picture, Paris Je T'Aime, is being put together by Novem, a Franco-US production company headed by Emmanuel Benbihy and Mel Gee Henderson. Structured as a portmanteau, the film-makers have ...

  • News

    Paris Je T'Aime woos Cruise and Cruz

    2003-02-10T00:00:00Z

    Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz are expected to board an unusual project where the city of Paris is the star.The picture, Paris Je T'Aime, is being put together by Novem, a Franco-US production company headed by Emmanuel Benbihy and Mel Gee Henderson. Structured as a portmanteau, the film-makers have ...

  • News

    Robert Carlyle to take on Hitler role

    2003-02-10T00:00:00Z

    Robert Carlyle is to play Adolf Hitler in a Canadian-backed miniseries that will explore his rise to power during the years prior to World War II.Currently filming in Prague under director Christian Duguay, the four-hour drama will 'focus closely on how the embittered, increasingly xenophobic and militaristic German society after ...

  • News

    Robert Carlyle to take on Hitler role

    2003-02-10T00:00:00Z

    Robert Carlyle is to play Adolf Hitler in a Canadian-backed miniseries that will explore his rise to power during the years prior to World War II.Currently filming in Prague under director Christian Duguay, the four-hour drama will 'focus closely on how the embittered, increasingly xenophobic and militaristic German society after ...

  • News

    Malkovich to board Drunkboat

    2003-02-10T00:00:00Z

    John Malkovich is set to star in Drunkboat, the first feature to be made by Daniel Walker, a Paris-based lawyer who has now moved into production. The film, which is written and directed by polymath theatre director-artist-actor Bob Meyer, is a coming of age story and a journey of self-discovery ...

  • News

    Nine Israeli titles make it to the Berlinale

    2003-02-10T00:00:00Z

    An unprecedented seven Israeli feature length titles and two shorts screen in various sections of the Berlinale this year - an impressive feat considering the present dire conditions of film making in Israel.The tally suggests that there must be something right about the much maligned Israeli Cinema Law, a ...