All Screen articles in 11 September 2002 – Page 4
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Cowboy Pictures takes Morvern Callar to the US
New York-based Cowboy Pictures has acquired US rights to Samantha Morton's critically acclaimed Morvern Callar which premiered in Directors Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Cowboy president John Vanco negotiated the deal with Charlotte Mickie, managing director of international motion picture sales for Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group ...
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Cowboy Pictures takes Morvern Callar to the US
New York-based Cowboy Pictures has acquired US rights to Samantha Morton's critically acclaimed Morvern Callar which premiered in Directors Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Cowboy president John Vanco negotiated the deal with Charlotte Mickie, managing director of international motion picture sales for Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group ...
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Carmichael to head London-based Content International
ContentFilm, the aggressive one year-old production company launched by Edward R Pressman and John Schmidt, has launched an international sales arm Content International to be based in London and headed by sales veteran Jamie Carmichael.Carmichael, who will be managing director, will oversee the sale of ContentFilm's titles overseas as well ...
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Miramax gets Jet Lag as French comedy kicks off Toronto deals
Miramax Films has paid $1m for rights in the US, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to Daniele Thompson's French romantic comedy Jet Lag which teams Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno and which world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend. As of yesterday (Sunday), it was ...
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IN-motion exits Myriad as D'Amico reclaims company
Myriad Pictures president Kirk D'Amico was on bullish form at the Toronto International Film Festival this week, confirming that former majority shareholder IN-motion AG now holds no further interest in the company. "I am sole president," he said and "I have a majority interest in the company. They haven't funded ...
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Works starts on new film studio for Cornwall
Work is underway in St Agnes, Cornwall on the construction of a $9m (£5.76m) film studio complex, the first to be built in the South West of England.The studio is one of many currently in planning or construction stage throughout the UK - at least seven are thought to be ...
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Long Way Home wins top jury prize at Deauville
Peter Sollet's Long Way Home, which has been renamed Raising Victor Vargas for its North American release via Samuel Goldwyn Films and Fireworks Pictures' joint distribution venture IDP, has won the grand jury prize in the competition section of the Deauville Festival Of American Film which finished yesterday (Sunday).The film, ...
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US rights to Denmark's Open Hearts go to Newmarket
Susanne Bier's Danish drama Open Hearts has been picked up for US distribution by Bob Berney's Newmarket Films, marking the first straight acquisition for the company which is a division of Newmarket Capital Group. The film, sold by Trust Film Sales, was given a private screening at Cannes this year ...
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US rights to Denmark's Open Hearts go to Newmarket
Susanne Bier's Danish drama Open Hearts has been picked up for US distribution by Bob Berney's Newmarket Films, marking the first straight acquisition for the company which is a division of Newmarket Capital Group. The film, sold by Trust Film Sales, was given a private screening at Cannes this year ...
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Swimfan dives head-first into domestic theatres
Ushering in whatis traditionally a quiet month while the studios fine-tune their end-of-yearslates, the teen thriller Swimfan opened top of the charts over the weekend with a $12.4m estimatedhaul. The film is being distributed by 20th Century Fox and wasproduced by New York's GreeneStreet Films, best known until now for ...
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Starz Encore to shut down Starz! Pictures division
US pay TV channel operator Starz Encore Group is to shut down its Starz! Pictures cable movie development and production unit, laying off Los Angeles-based vice president of original movies Paige Orloff and her three-person development team. A Starz Encore spokesman confirmed that the unit, which most recently produced boxing ...
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Mendes gangster picture on Road to Fox profits in Germany, Spain
TwentiethCentury Fox rolled out Road To Perdition in a number of key territories over the weekend, scoring anumber one opening in Germany with $1.67m from 520 screens and a terrific$1.49m opening in Spain, where the picture played on 280 screens and trailedbehind Men In Black II.Sam Mendes' sombre gangster picture, ...
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The Good Thief
Director: Neil Jordan. UK-Fr-Ire. 2002. 108minsA loose-limbed, shaggy dog reworking of 1955 French crime classic Bob Le Flambeur, The Good Thief (previously known as Double Down) is writer-director Neil Jordan's most enjoyable and commercial feature for several years. Subverting the conventions of the heist caper with sly humour and a ...
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The Good Thief
Director: Neil Jordan. UK-Fr-Ire. 2002. 108minsA loose-limbed, shaggy dog reworking of 1955 French crime classic Bob Le Flambeur, The Good Thief (previously known as Double Down) is writer-director Neil Jordan's most enjoyable and commercial feature for several years. Subverting the conventions of the heist caper with sly humour and a ...
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Oasis
Dir: Lee Chang-dong. Korea. 2002. 134mins.His 2000 festival-pleaser Peppermint Candy made Korean writer/director Lee Chang-dong one of Asia's hot new arthouse properties. With Oasis, his third feature, he puts his talent for unusual stories and finely-nuanced characters (he is also a novelist) to good use to further that reputation. A ...
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Alliance Atlantis gets international rights to Sundance victor
Alliance Atlantis has picked up international rights (excluding the English-speaking world, Latin America and Italy) to Personal Velocity, the highly acclaimed triptych directed by Rebecca Miller which won the grand jury prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival. United Artists bought North American and the remaining territorial rights during Sundance.The ...
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Alliance Atlantis gets international rights to Sundance victor
Alliance Atlantis has picked up international rights (excluding the English-speaking world, Latin America and Italy) to Personal Velocity, the highly acclaimed triptych directed by Rebecca Miller which won the grand jury prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival. United Artists bought North American and the remaining territorial rights during Sundance.The ...
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AOL Time Warner boss stresses importance of UK and Europe
AOL Time Warner boss Dick Parsons said he wants to expand the company's international presence, with the UK and Europe seen as priorities for growth ahead of the rest of the world. However, he stressed that expansion in the UK and Europe would be cautious, largely because AOL Time ...
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The Other Side Of The Bed (El Otro Lado De La Cama)
Dir: Emilio Martinez Lazaro. 120mins. Spain. 2002.The makers of The Other Side Of The Bed (El Otro Lado De La Cama) took a gamble with this modern musical comedy set to popular Spanish and Latin American rock n roll tunes. It paid off mightily in Spain, where the genre's originality, ...
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Bourne identified as UK chart leader
The UK's new 12A certificate came into full effect this week as UIP released The Bourne Identity and Columbia TriStar re-released Spider-Man.The Bourne Identity, the first film released in the UK with the new certificate, which allows audience members under the age of 12 access to the film if accompanied ...