All Screen articles in 11 September 2002 – Page 5
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Warner Bros. to supply films to CinemaNow internet service
Warner Bros. has signed up to supply films to internet movie service CinemaNow. This is CinemaNow's first deal with a major studio and Warner's entry into web-based video-on-demand (VoD). Warner Bros. says that it will provide some new hits such as Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone and older, library ...
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Miramax buys domestic rights to Mullan's Venice winner
In its second acquisition of the Toronto International Film Festival, Miramax Films has clinched domestic rights to Venice Golden Lion winner The Magdalene Sisters directed by Peter Mullan. Miramax beat out other buyers including Fine Line Features and Sony Pictures Classics. Over the weekend, Miramax also bought rights in the ...
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Miramax buys domestic rights to Mullan's Venice winner
In its second acquisition of the Toronto International Film Festival, Miramax Films has clinched domestic rights to Venice Golden Lion winner The Magdalene Sisters directed by Peter Mullan. Miramax beat out other buyers including Fine Line Features and Sony Pictures Classics. Over the weekend, Miramax also bought rights in the ...
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Dirty Pretty Things
Dir: Stephen Frears. UK. 2002. 98mins.Stephen Frears' latest film doesn't just expose the rotten underbelly of London: it slices it wide open. By turns macabre (often stomach-churningly so), funny and tender, this elaborate tale of moonlighting and illegal organ transplants set among the city's invisible underclass of immigrant service workers ...
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Noe shocker gets US distribution through Lions Gate
Lions Gate Films closed a deal yesterday in Toronto to buy US rights to Gaspar Noe's super-controversial Irreversible, the scandale of this year's Cannes Film Festival which is also screening at this week's Toronto International Film Festival. Kicked off by a harrowing rape scene, Irreversible tells its story in reverse ...
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Noe shocker gets US distribution through Lions Gate
Lions Gate Films closed a deal yesterday in Toronto to buy US rights to Gaspar Noe's super-controversial Irreversible, the scandale of this year's Cannes Film Festival which is also screening at this week's Toronto International Film Festival. Kicked off by a harrowing rape scene, Irreversible tells its story in reverse ...
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The Four Feathers
Director: Shekhar Kapur. US-UK. 2002 125minsThe question of whether the world really needs another version of The Four Feathers is convincingly answered by Shekhar Kapur's stirring approach to the venerable tale of Empire and honour. Boasting a strong cast of rising young stars and handsomely captured locations, the classic adventure ...
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The Four Feathers
Director: Shekhar Kapur. US-UK. 2002 125minsThe question of whether the world really needs another version of The Four Feathers is convincingly answered by Shekhar Kapur's stirring approach to the venerable tale of Empire and honour. Boasting a strong cast of rising young stars and handsomely captured locations, the classic adventure ...
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Feminale festival announces first competition line-up
The first Chinese production about a relationship between two women - Li Yu's Fish And Elephant -, Marilyn Freeman's study of group therapy GROUP, and Eliane de Latour's documentary Bronx-Barbes about teenage gangs in the West African city of Abidjan are among seven international films selected to compete for the ...
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Argentina's production industry suffers from inflation
Film production in Argentina hit another low point after Argentine Directors Association (DAC) reported that the average cost of making a local film shot up from $120,500 (pesos 1.2m) to $180,800 (pesos 1.8m). Since the peso lost its parity with the dollar, - currently pegged at 3.6 pesos to a ...
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DNA seeks joint venture backer
Fox Searchlight is in talks to form a joint venture with DNA, the UK National Lottery franchise of leading British producer Andrew Macdonald and Duncan Kenworthy.The offshoot of Twentieth Century Fox is likely to take over from DNA's current backer Universal Studios, although the franchise has been talking to other ...
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Tokyo film festival boosts international profile
The 15th edition of the Tokyo international film festival, (Oct 26 to Nov 4) is to welcome high-profile Hollywood guests at the same time as increasing the number of Japanese films at the event. Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, festival organisers have introduced a number of changes to the ...
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Sweden's fantastic film festival reveals competition line up
Nick Willing's Doctor Sleep, Robert Schwentke's Tattoo and Paul Harather's The Praying Mantis are among the films lined up to compete for the Silver Méliès at Sweden's Fantastic Film Festival (FFF) on September 21-29.The full line-up of the festival includes a total of 27 features and 41 short films from ...
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Loews leads South Korean exhibition push
The South Korean exhibition industry looks to be stepping up its rate of growth, with U.S.-based Loews Cineplex announcing an additional $21m investment in Megabox Cineplex. With ambitious plans for expansion both among independent exhibitors and the nation's four major cinema circuits, some industry figures predict a further 700 ...
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Spain's Grupo PI taps into The Mind Of A Killer
Spain's Grupo PI will handle international sales on San Sebastian competition entry Aro Tolbukhin In The Mind Of A Killer (Aro Tolbukhin En La Mente Del Asesino).Directed by Agusti Villaronga, Lydia Zimmermann and Isaac P Racine, and based on an historical figure, the film works as a false documentary to ...
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Toronto Comment - September 11
On the evening of Sept. 10, at about this time last year in Toronto, a filmmaker and his posse of producers and sales representatives could not have been more euphoric. Gregor Jordan's Eurobacked festival film, Buffalo Soldiers, had just secured a US distribution deal through Miramax Films and there was ...
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Toronto: A Festival Of Quiet Americans
Last year at Toronto, the events of September 11 pushed everything else into numbed insignificance. This year, the Festival offered a comforting sense of business as usual - Miramax and Lion's Gate cherrypicked the top titles, celebrity-spotting recaptured the front pages and the old, familiar debate resumed over whether the ...
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UK's Granada Film axed
Granada Film, the UK operation behind Ghost World, Bloody Sunday, The Gathering and Mira Nair's upcoming Vanity Fair adaptation, is being axed.The move means that none of the major ITV commercial broadcasters in the UK have a permanent film operation, despite announcements that the service would spend $155m (£100m) on ...
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Toronto Comment - The Battle For Screens
It is one the aggravating paradoxes of the cinema business that even as internationally flavoured film festivals keep growing in popularity in every corner of this globe, the films they show are finding it ever harder to secure a distribution toehold in even the most adventurous of commercial theatres. The ...
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Toronto Comment - The British Are Screening!
It is just 20 years since screenwriter Colin Welland held an Oscar aloft and famously declared: "The British are coming!" Chariots of Fire was the Oscar Cinderella story that year, Gandhi was waiting in the wings and filmmakers as diverse as Bill Forsyth and Peter Greenaway were about to leave ...