All Screen articles in 11 February 2003 – Page 7
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UK's Winchester gets Last Orders settlement
The UK's troubled Winchester Entertainment has reached a $2.5m (£1.53m) settlement with German fund MBP after a dispute over payments on Last Orders.The agreement sees $1.6m (£980,000) paid to Winchester in cash. The AIM-listed UK company will receive the balance of $906,500 (£550,000) in instalments over the next six months.The ...
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In This World to get UK release by ICA Projects
Michael Winterbottom's Berlin competition title In This World has secured a UK release though ICA Projects, the distribution-exhibition offshoot of UK cultural institute the ICA.ICA's acquisition of UK theatrical and video rights to the film continues its aggressive acquisition policy on specialist titles such as Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without ...
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Catch Me If You Can runs up European revenues
Catch Me If You Can swept through a host of new territories over the weekend notching up more than $15.5m from the nine territories that received it. These openings included UIP's launches in three major European territories: Germany, Italy and the UK.The unquestionable box office draw of megastar triumvirate Leonardo ...
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French film critics vote documentary Etre Et Avoir as best film
Cesar nominees Etre Et Avoir and Talk To Her took the major French film critics' awards on Monday evening at a ceremony in Paris. Etre Et Avoir is a documentary by Nicolas Philibert centering on a small provincial school with only one class. The film's star, professor Georges Lopez, has ...
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Taormina festival plots date change to attract Hollywood
The Taormina film festival is to move one month forward, in a bid to establish the event as a European launch-pad for summer blockbusters. This year's edition will run from June 7 - 14.Ever since he took over the festival's reins in 2000, former Venice director Felice Laudadio (pictured) ...
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Babelsberg gets Around The World
Babelsberg Studios has been given a major boost with news that Jackie Chan's Around The World In 80 Days will be shot at the studios from this spring.Frank Coraci (The Wedding Singer) directs the big-budget production for US-based Walden Media at Babelsberg and on location including Berlin and Central Germany. ...
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Taxi 3 gets off to flying start
The third instalment in French action-comedy franchise Taxi got off to a racing start in three European territories this weekend. Taxi 3 sped into top positions in France and Belgium and saw an impressive launch in French-speaking Switzerland to take a total weekend haul of $11.6m.Launching in France last Wednesday ...
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Changes at Myriad: Roberts signs three-year production deal
Moving tobolster the production and development divisions at Myriad Pictures, companypresident Kirk D'Amico today (Feb 4) announced that former vice presidentof acquisitions and development Karen Roberts has signed a three-pictureproducing deal with the company. In addition, Neil Butler has been promoted todirector of development and JC Rappaport becomes manager of ...
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Fine Line wins battle to release HBO Films' Splendor
For the second time in six months, HBO Films has sealed adeal to release one of its productions theatrically in North America before itsHBO TV premiere, this time teaming with AOL Time Warner sister company FineLine Features to release American Splendorwhich last month won the Grand Jury Prize at the ...
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Marshall, Swedlin among four new BAFTA/LA board members
The British Academy of Filmand Television Arts/Los Angeles (BAFTA/LA) has elected producers Alan PMarshall and Rosalie Swedlin, Universal Studios Home Video vice president ofpublicity Vivian Mayer Sr, and Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, partner at Glassman, Browning& Saltsman, to its board of directors. The four new board members joinreturning directors Ian Abercrombie, David ...
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Former agent, producer Peter Shaw dies in LA, aged 84
Peter Shaw, the formerHollywood agent who married Angela Lansbury and produced her in thelong-running TV series Murder, She Wrote, has died of heart failure after a long illness. He was 84. Shaw was born in Reading,England, in 1918 and served in the Army in the Second World War beforerelocating to ...
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The Recruit
Dir: Roger Donaldson. US. 2003. 115mins. Ireland's Colin Farrell proves that he has warranted Hollywood's grooming in The Recruit, a slick, improbable thriller driven by his charismatic movie star presence which even puts Al Pacino in the shade. Farrell has already demonstrated his considerable talent in Tigerland, Hart's War and ...
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EUROPEAN FILM FINANCE SUMMIT
SCREEN INTERNATIONAL EUROPEAN FILM FINANCE SUMMITFebruary 5th 2003 - BerlinTHE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN CINEMAStewart TillChairman & CEO, UIPI am sure I have primarily been chosen to deliver the keynote speech today because, over the last three years, I have had the luxury of four different perspectives of the ...
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Remember Me (Ricordati Di Me)
Dir: Gabriele Muccino. It-Fr-UK. 2003. 100mins.Remember Me, Italian golden boy Gabriele Muccino's fourth film, exposes the terrifying moral and intellectual void at the heart of modern Italy. Unfortunately, it's not trying to - at least not very hard. Rather than channelling the emptiness to make a point about today's TV-fed, ...
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Confidence
Dir: James Foley. 2002. US. 98minsJames Foley's con-thriller, Confidence, tries to be as clever as the word play in its title, but this attempt at a clever-clever heist story fails due to a slack script and so-so performances. Despite some snappy dialogue, twists and turns and toying with the linear ...
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Capturing The Friedmans
Dir: Andrew Jarecki. US. 2003. 107minsCapturing The Friedmans walked away with this year's Sundance grand jury prize for best documentary and deservedly so. An engrossing, troubling and, in the end, profoundly ambiguous re-examination of a child molestation case that tore one upper-middle class family apart on New York's Long Island ...
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Berlinale jury member wins Goldene Kamera
Berlinale international jury member and Mostly Martha star Martina Gedeck was named best German actress at this year's Goldene Kamera Awards which were presented in Berlin yesterday evening.Winner in the best German actor category was Juergen Vogel, who last year starred in Doris Doerrie's Naked (Nackt) and makes a cameo ...
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Berlinale jury member wins Goldene Kamera
Berlinale international jury member and Mostly Martha star Martina Gedeck was named best German actress at this year's Goldene Kamera Awards which were presented in Berlin yesterday evening.Winner in the best German actor category was Juergen Vogel, who last year starred in Doris Doerrie's Naked (Nackt) and makes a cameo ...
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Berlinale jury member wins Goldene Kamera
Berlinale international jury member and Mostly Martha star Martina Gedeck was named best German actress at this year's Goldene Kamera Awards which were presented in Berlin yesterday evening.Winner in the best German actor category was Juergen Vogel, who last year starred in Doris Doerrie's Naked (Nackt) and makes a cameo ...