All Screen articles in 11 January 2002 – Page 2
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Another large-screen operator secures its future
In the week that beleaguered large-format operator Imax Corp. put itself onto firmer financial ground by repurchasing $42m of its own debt, another large format operator in the tight North American exhibition market has secured its future.Iwerks Entertainment yesterday completed its previously announced strategic merger with SimEx, which sees Iwerks ...
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Graz fest highlights three filmmakers
Filmmakers Heddy Honigmann, Gustav Deutsch and Alexander Hammid are the subject of special sidebars being staged at this year's Diagonale showcase of Austrian cinema in Graz from March 18-24, 2002.Dutch filmmaker Honigmann will attend the festival's homage of her oeuvre, while a tribute is being dedicated to filmmaker and artist ...
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Electronics manufacturer wins Chinese films deal
Chinese state-owned film company, Century Hero Film Investment, has signed a worldwide distribution pact with Hong Kong's Mandarin Resources, an electronics manufacturer that has no track record in film.Under the terms of the deal, Mandarin's wholly-owned subsidiary, Eagle's Wing Limited, has been appointed sole distributor of Century Hero product in ...
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Messier puts 'cultural exception' record straight
Last month in New York, Vivendi Universal chairman Jean-Marie Messier (pictured) declared "The French cultural exception is dead", sparking a furore in the French media. Last week he sought to put the record straight with an article in Le Figaro newspaper - the complete text of which we reproduce below:"What ...
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Yukisada's Go sweeps top Japanese awards
In addition to being selected as Japan's nomination for best foreign-language Oscar, Isao Yukisada's Go has now been awarded a record seven prizes from a critics' panel for Kinema Jumpo, Japan's oldest film magazine. The Kinema Junpo awards, considered Japan's most prestigious, went to Go for Best Film, to Yukisada ...
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Mr Bones breaks more South African records
Local comedy sensation Mr Bones continues to break records in South Africa. Earning over $1.75m (Rand 20m) at the South African box office so far the film is already the highest grossing local film of all-time. On release less than five weeks Mr Bones can also claim the record as ...
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FULL LIST OF INDIE SPIRIT AWARD NOMINATIONS
The 2001 IFP/West Independent Spirit Award nominations were announced on Tuesday night in Los Angeles, with winners to be unveiled at the Spirit Awards on March 23. Films nominated were selected based on criteria such as original, provocative subject matter, uniqueness of vision, economy of means and percentage of independent ...
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Julian Levin's role expanded at Fox
Julian Levin, executive vicepresident of digital exhibition and special projects at 20th CenturyFox, has expanded his role at the studio to encompass non-theatrical sales anddistribution and large screen (70mm) and IMAX presentations. His new title isexecutive vice president for digital exhibition and non-theatrical sales anddistribution.Levin, well-known in theinternational community as ...
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Alliance Atlantis cuts 80 jobs, merges TV, film
Alliance Atlantis will cut 80 staff positions ' approximately 9% of its work force -- as the Toronto-based entertainment company consolidates its television and motion picture production operations along with their attendant distribution and promotion departments. Among the high-profile employees affected are Mark Horowitz, Los Angeles-based president of Alliance Atlantis ...
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Enrique Posner joins Warner Sogefilms in Spain
Well-known Spanish executiveEnrique Posner has been named deputy general manager at Warner Sogefilms AIE,the Spanish distribution joint venture between Warner Bros and Sogepaq. Based in Madrid, Posner willbe responsible for supervising Warner's distribution and marketingactivities in Spain. He will report directly to joint venture general managerLuis Hernandez and to Warner ...
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US PR agency MPRM hires Libby, promotes four
Bicoastal US publicrelations agency mPRm has promoted Paul Breton, Kristen Wareham, Chris Reichertand Jennifer Vogelmann to senior account executives, and hired Chris Libby as asenior account executive in the film division of the firm's west coastoffice.Libby joins the filmdivision after several years in independent film releasing at companies such asTrimark ...
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First Look buys US rights on A Song For Martin
First Look Pictures hasacquired domestic rights to Bille August's latest film A Song ForMartin and will open the film inspring, after a one-week awards qualifying run in December last year.The Swedish-language film isa love story featuring the late Viveka Seldahl and her real-life husband SvenWollter. Seldahl plays a symphony violinist ...
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Stephens, Yorn, Pike join cast of Bond 20
Toby Stephens, Rick Yune andRosamund Pike have joined the cast of the currently untitled Bond film, the 20thin the 007 series which starts shooting on Monday at Pinewood Studios in theUK.Pierce Brosnan returns tothe role of James Bond for the fourth time, with Halle Berry as the female leadJinx and ...
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Strand close to US rights for Smokers Only
Los Angeles-based StrandReleasing is in advanced talks to pick up US domestic rights to Argentineandrama Smokers Only (VagonFumador). The directorial debut offilm editor Veronica Chen narrates the story of a disillusioned young womanwho finds friendship with a male street hustler in Buenos Aires. SmokersOnly made its ...
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Eight films shortlisted for Visual Effects Oscar
Eight films have beenselected for achievement in visual effects for the 74th AcademyAwards for 2001. They are AI Artificial Intelligence, Black Hawk Down, CatsAnd Dogs, The Fast And The Furious, Harry Potter & The Sorcerer'sStone, Jurassic Park III, The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring andPearl Harbor.15 ...
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Burning In The Wind (Brucio Nel Vento)
Dir: Silvio Soldini. It-Switz. 2001. 118 mins.An Italian director makes a film set in Switzerland with mainly Czech actors and dialogue, based on a novel by a Hungarian refugee who writes in French. Sounds like a recipe for an indigestible Europudding. In reality, however, Brucio Nel Vento is Silvio ...
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Capitol Films hires Wallace as US consultant
London-based sales outfit Capitol Films has appointed veteran film executive Ronna Wallace as the company's consultant in the US, in a bid to strengthen the company's interests across the Atlantic.Based in New York, Wallace will acquire films and projects at script stage for Capitol, as well as representing a selection ...
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Lord Of The Rings' $6m in six days in S Korea
Worldwide smash The Lord Of The Rings has scored an impressive opening in South Korea, where it has drawn $6m and over a million viewers in its first six days. Distributed by local major Cinema Service, the film opened on January 1 on 184 screens nationwide, earning $1.44m on ...
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Unifrance's Paris screenings in bullish mood
Unifrance's fourth Paris screenings (Rendez-Vous Europeen du Film Francais) to be held January 11-15, will kick off in an upbeat mood as the French-language cinema foreign box-office has more than doubled up in 2001. According to Unifrance's latest report, French-language films attracted more than 18.9 million admissions abroad last year ...
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UK film production spend down in 2001
UK production spending fell by nearly 10% in 2001, with much of the drop blamed on the shadow cast by the threat of a summer SAG strike, according to research compiled by Screen International.Screen International's 2001 figures - which include every feature shot in the UK or abroad produced by ...
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