All Screen articles in 11 July 2003 – Page 4
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Local titles to compete for Norway's Amanda awards
When the Norwegian film and TV awards, the Amandas, are handed out for the 19th time on August 22, festival titles like Jens Lien's black comedy Jonny Vang and Bent Hamer's crowd-pleaser Kitchen Stories will face off against Paal Oie's low-budget thriller Dark Woods in the best film category. Produced ...
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UK cinema admissions on track to be biggest in Europe
Cinema admissions in the UK this year could outstrip all other European countries for the first time, according to industry estimates.According to the latest research in France, local box-office continued its decline in June with a staggering 21% drop-off from 2002's June figures. June saw 11.3 million tickets sold ...
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Dendy adds two titles to Australian release slate
Dendy Films has acquired Australian and New Zealand rights to writer/director Tod Williams' Door In The Floor and to Capturing The Friedmans, the Grand Jury Prize winner in documentary at this year's Sundance Film Festival.Door In The Floor is an adaptation of John Irving's novel A Widow For One Year ...
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Qwerty takes on Kinsey, Searchlight, Myriad to distribute
Michael Kuhn’s Qwerty Films has boarded Bill Condon’s Kinsey which is set to start shooting on July 28. Qwerty will produce and finance the film which stars Liam Neeson and Laura Linney, with Fox Searchlight Pictures taking rights in North America, UK, Italy and Latin America.Kuhn closed a ten-picture distribution ...
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Wolfe goes theatrical with Poco Piu Di Un Anno Fa
Wolfe Video, the US videodistributor specializing in gay and lesbian product, is to enter the theatricalmarket in early 2004 with Italian drama A Little More Than A Year Ago (Poco Piu Di Un Anno Fa) directed by Marco Filiberti. Film consultant OrlyRavid will head up Wolfe's initial theatrical distribution efforts.The ...
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The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Dir: Stephen Norrington. US. 2003. 110minsThis extraordinary misfire from Blade director Stephen Norrington is like Coca-Cola without the fizz. All the elements are in place but nothing - not the cast, the production design, the effects, the one-liners, the fight scenes, the camp - can bring it to life and ...
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Paris court rules against Messier severance
A ruling Wednesday by the president of the Paris High Court has blocked Vivendi Universal from making any payments to former chairman Jean Marie Messier. On June 27 Messier was awarded upwards of 20 million euros by an arbitration court in New York, permitting him to recoup a hefty severance ...
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Young Adam to open Edinburgh film festival
David Mackenzie's critically-acclaimed Scottish drama Young Adam will open next month's Edinburgh International Film Festival. A dark, disturbing adaptation of the Alexander Trocchi novel starring Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton, the production is part of a strong line-up of premieres that underline the event's importance as a showcase for British ...
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Phileine Says Sorry to open Netherlands film fest
Phileine Says Sorry (Phileine Zegt Sorry), anticipated as one of the highlights of a big year for Dutch films, has been set as the opening picture for this year's Netherlands Film Festival (24 Sept-3 Oct) in Utrecht.The film is a romantic comedy, adapted and directed by Robert Jan Westdijk from ...
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Norwegian Film Fund greenlights seven new features
Seven new local features have been greenlit with backing from the Norwegian Film Fund (NFF). The films come from all over the country and a number of them are feature debuts - aswith Tore Rygh's romantic musical melodrama Alt For Egil (Everything For Egil), which is set in and around ...
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Spurgeon named finance director at UK's South West Studios
Former FilmFour finance director Chris Spurgeon has taken up the post of finance director at start-up UK film and TV studio South West Film Studios.Joining Spurgeon at the $9.4m (£5.76m) Cornwall facility is Kate Hughes, former head of corporate marketing & publicity for FilmFour. Hughes becomes marketing director at the ...
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New German production outfit targets Czech talent
Pandora Filmproduktion's Karl Baumgartner has launched a new production outpost, Pallas Film, in the east German town of Halle to focus on projects with filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe.One of Pallas Film's first projects will be a feature film entitled Happiness by Czech director Bohdan Slama whose quirky Wild ...
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CineMedia shares soar as Tele Muenchen ups stake
CineMedia Film's shares soared by over 29% on Tuesday from 93 cents to Euros 1.20 on the news that the Tele Muenchen Group (TMG) has reached agreement with Amsterdam-based German Equity Partners BV (GEP) to acquire all of its 905,000 shares.This transaction, which is expected to be completed in the ...
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Rising ticket prices to drive European box office
Pan-European cinema admissions will reach 1 billion in 2005, rising from 910 million in 2002 - 20% over the three year period - according to a new report by research house, Screen Digest. Box office revenues will rise at an even faster rate over the same period - by 33% ...
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Michel Gomez named director of French body, ARP
Following a meeting of the board, Michel Gomez has been named as director of France's authors-directors and producers association ARP. Gomez will succeed outgoing director Pascal Rogard who is heading off to run the writers' syndicate SACD. Gomez, who moves up from his post as ARP's deputy director, was formerly ...
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Hong Kong/China trade agreement heralds production boom
The Hong Kong film industry is looking forward to a surge in production activity following the signing of a trade agreement that exempts Hong Kong movies from the mainland's import quota of 20 foreign films a year (Screen Daily, June 26). The Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA), signed by the ...
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Arndt to produce Roehler's Agnes
X-Filme creative pool's Stefan Arndt, named European Producer of the Year at last month's Cinema Expo in Amsterdam, wasn't planning to produce any features this year after the demanding production history of Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin!But Arndt was tempted back into the producer's chair by Oskar Roehler's next feature ...
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Luther gets US outing through RS Entertainment
Randy Slaughter's newUS distribution outfit RS Entertainment has acquired US rights to Luther, Eric Till's biopic of Martin Luther starringJoseph Fiennes and Peter Ustinov. The film will open on Sept 26 in 45 marketsaccording to Slaughter.Luther was shot in Germany, Italy and the Czech Republiclast year and is produced by ...
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Wellspring buy worldwide rights to Revolution #9
US distributor Wellspringhas acquired worldwide rights except North American theatrical and TV to TimMcCann's psychological thriller Revolution #9 and has set a video/DVD release date in the US forOct 7.The film, which played atlast year's Toronto and Telluride film festivals and won the top juryprizes at the Nantucket and Mar ...
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Buddy
Dir. Morten Tyldum. Norway. 2003. 104minsA feel-good, eminently likeable romp about three young Norwegians in their early 20s struggling through the rites of passage from adolescence to maturity, this feature debut by a director with a solid reputation in commercials should be a welcome addition to the youth-oriented film repertoire ...