All Screen articles in 11 February 2003 – Page 4
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US buyers flock to Berlin
American acquisition teams have turned up in Berlin in good number and it seems are now poised to buy festival and market films. The biggest hit to date with US buyers is Gabriele Salvatores' competition film I'm Not Afraid (Io No Ha Paura), which is on the radar of many ...
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US buyers flock to Berlin
American acquisition teams have turned up in Berlin in good number and it seems are now poised to buy festival and market films. The biggest hit to date with US buyers is Gabriele Salvatores' competition film I'm Not Afraid (Io No Ha Paura), which is on the radar of many ...
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Lovenheim appointed head of production at BVIP
Robert Lovenheim has been appointed head of production to oversee a massive slate being ramped up by diversifying sales agent BV International Pictures (BVIP).Lovenheim, a US TV executive and European co-producer whose credits include The OJ Simpson Story and The Last Of His Tribe, has previously been consulting for the ...
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Apollo to launch four English-language productions
German media fund ApolloMedia has unveiled a raft of four titles to go into production in the first half of 2003.The first pictures to roll are Mick Garris' thriller Riding The Bullet based on an e-book by Stephen King (who is serving as one of the film's executive producers) and ...
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Almodovar pair comes into Focus
Pedro Almodovar's next film as director, Bad Education (La Mala Educacion), has locked in its production financing structure two months before shooting is due to start in Spain, with Pathe taking a large swathe of European rights and Focus International handling sales in all other territories. The budget is estimated ...
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Flanders revamps support agencies
The Belgian region of Flanders is using the Berlin festival to announce the rebirth and expansion of many of its support agencies.Just before the festival, Flanders Image, the promotional agency for the northern Flemish-speaking part of Belgium, was absorbed into the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds) which started operations ...
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How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days tops the chart with $24.1m
Paramount's romantic comedy How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days showed how to win the audience's heartsin three with a terrific table-topping $24.1m bow over the weekend, accordingto studio estimates. Matthew McConaughey plays a commitment-phobe who bets hisfriends he can date a woman for 10 days or lose his ...
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Soderbergh returns to remake trail
Steven Soderbergh is behind a planned remake of Argentinian heist picture Nine Queens (Nueve Reinas). Section Eight, the company he owns with George Clooney, will produce an English-language version of the picture with Gregory Jacobs making his directing debut and co-writing the screenplay with Soderbergh. The rights to Nine ...
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Spain's Zebra Films lines up three features
Madrid-based production company Zebra Films is preparing three new feature films including the as-yet-untitled next project from recent best original script Goya Award winner Antonio Hernandez (The City Of No Limits).The project is a surreal mystery with a twist about a woman haunted by her dead lover. Zebra chief Antonio ...
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Japan's Fair Trade Commission investigates Fox
Officials of Japan's Fair Trade Commission have launched an investigation into Twentieth Century Fox (Far East) on suspicion of violating Japan's Antitrust Act. On January 6 FTC officials visited Fox offices in Tokyo and other locations to gather evidence regarding charges that Fox forced exhibitors to drop discounts on tickets ...
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Consolidation boosts UK independent cinema sector
City Screen, the UK's leading specialist exhibitor, is expanding its business and launching a cinema programming and management division.The new arm will be headed up by Clare Binns, previously managing director of Zoo, the cinema programming and management outfit. In a significant move towards consolidation in the UK's specialised and ...
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Cape Town studio project attracts massive interest
South Africa's Western Cape government's plans to establish a $27m film studio in Cape Town has received a staggering 13 expressions of interest in the project. The public/private partnership project is seen as vital for the future of the local film industry, which has been constrained by the lack of ...
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Screen International Summit assesses European issues
The need for smarter thinking, savvier marketing and greater professionalism across the European film industry were recurrent themes at the Screen International European Film Finance Summit.Starting with the keynote guest Stewart Till, speaker after speaker highlighted a need for greater understanding of the film industry on the part of film-makers ...
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Screen International Summit assesses European issues
Smarter thinking, savvier marketing and greater professionalism across the European film industry were recurrent themes at the Screen International European Film Finance Summit.Starting with the keynote guest Stewart Till, speaker after speaker highlighted a need for greater understanding of the film industry on the part of film-makers in Europe and ...
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Regal moves in on Hoyts America cinemas
No-one in Australia is publicly commenting on Regal Entertainment Group's widely publicised to buy 554 Hoyts America screens.But then Australia's richest man, Kerry Packer, whose family company Consolidated Press Holdings (CPH) is apparently getting $200m split evenly between cash and stock from the sale, is not known for encouraging a ...
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Nordisk Film forges alliance with Finland's MRP
Nordic major Nordisk Film has signed an output deal with the prolific Finnish production outfit MRP Matila Röhr Productions. The three year deal will see the production company, which is Finland's largest, produce six new features. The deal is the first of its kind in the Finnish film industry, which ...
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Susannah Ludwig wins Silverman prize from Sundance
The Sundance Institute andthe Mark Silverman Fellowship for New Producers have announced that SusannahLudwig is to receive the 2003 Mark Silverman Fellowship. Set up in tribute toSilverman, who died in 1989 and worked on titles including Blood Simple and Raising Arizona, the award includes $5,000 for pre-production costs.Sundance will form ...
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Fiji opens LA office in advance of location tax breaks
In a drive to boost itsprofile as a location for international productions and promote proposed taxbreaks, the Fijian government has opened the Los Angeles offices of the FijiAudiovisual Commission (FAVC). Headed up by CEO Dan Bolea, the commission willact as a 'one-stop shop' for Los Angeles film industryprofessionals, promoting Fiji's ...
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TV5 to broadcast Cesars live on US network
TV5, in agreement with CanalPlus, will broadcast the 28th Cesar Awards live on Feb 22 on its US network,TV5 tats-Unis. The annual French film awards will be hosted by GeraldinePailhas, who won the Cesar in 1992 for best newcomer and recently starred inNicole Garcia's L'Adversaire. This year's leadingcontenders are ...