All Screen articles in 11 September 2003 – Page 2
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Italian BO jumps 8 per cent
The Italian box office grossed Euros 307,701,166 in the first eight months of this year, marking a rise of 7.79% compared to the same period last year, according to national film body Anica. According to Cinetel, which monitors around 75% of screens in the country, admissions between January and August ...
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Sony warns against movie piracy
Sony vice chairman and the chief of its entertainment operations Sir Howard Stringer today warned of the growing threat of online movie piracy from broadband-connected homes, as the entertainment giant announced plans for its own legal online music service.Speaking to Sony dealers in Paris, Sir Howard said that more than ...
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Award-winning Bosnian directors ready new English features
Award-winning Bosnian directors Danis Tanovic (No Man's Land) and Pjer Zalica (Fuse) are preparing English-language features as their next projects. Tanovic, who received the Foreign Language Oscar for No Man's Land last year, is preparing the spy love story Ship High In Transit for shooting from December in Morocco with ...
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Wenders back on the road...
Wim Wenders has won back control of Road Movies, the production outfit he sold to the now insolvent German media group Das Werk.Wenders and Peter Schwartzkopff, his partner in a new venture set up last year, Reverse Angle Production, have secured ownership of Road Movies Factory and will rename it ...
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...and behind the camera for InDigEnt
Wim Wenders will direct the 12th, as yet untitled, project forInDigEnt, the digital video collective created by New York-based IFCProductions' Jonathan Sehring and Caroline Kaplan, producer-director GaryWinick and Cinetic Media's John Sloss.Principal photography is scheduled to begin later this month inLos Angeles.This is the first time InDigEnt has teamed up ...
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Five Euro distribs form Indie Circle buying pool
Five European distribution companies have pooled ther resources to create a jointly-owned film acquisition service. The pool, dubbed Indie Circle, will have its offices in Paris and be headed by Christophe Mercier (see Screen International Sept 05 edition for profile).The five distributors are A-Film from the Netherlands, Cineart (Belgium), Frenetic ...
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Vivendi mulls sale of UGC cinema stake
Vivendi Universal, the French group that earlier this week agreed to merge with NBC to create a $40bn media colossus, is understood to be planning to sell half of its stake in the UGC cinema circuit. A consortium of minority shareholders brought to the table by the Verrechia family, looks ...
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2003 festival winners list
Venice 2003 - MainCompetition (Venice 60), feature filmsGolden LionTheReturn (Ozvrasnje) Dir: Andrej ZvjagintsevGrandJury Prize (Silver Lion)Le Cerf-Volant Dir: RandaChahal SabbagBest direction (Silver Lion)Takeshi Kitano for ZatoichiSpecial prize for an individualcontributionMarco Bellocchiofor the screenplay of Buongiorno, Notte Coppa Volpi forbest actorSean Penn in 21 Grams Coppa Volpi forbest actressKatja Riemann in ...
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Venice 2003 festival winners list
Venice 2003 - MainCompetition (Venice 60), feature filmsGolden LionTheReturn (Ozvrasnje) Dir: Andrej ZvjagintsevGrandJury Prize (Silver Lion)Le Cerf-Volant Dir: RandaChahal SabbagBest direction (Silver Lion)Takeshi Kitano for ZatoichiSpecial prize for an individualcontributionMarco Bellocchiofor the screenplay of Buongiorno, Notte Coppa Volpi forbest actorSean Penn in 21 Grams Coppa Volpi forbest actressKatja Riemann in ...
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Venice festival is classy Toronto prequel
The main competition jury managed to shirkoff local pressure and pre-release publicity for Marco Bellocchio'slocal favourite Buongiorno, Notte and indoing so proved wrong detractors who have warned that Venice is becoming parochial. Alerted to a lesserprize than the Golden Lion, Bellocchio returned to Rome to work off his anger.It would ...
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Venice festival shakes off some of its detractors
The main competition jury managed to shirkoff local pressure and pre-release publicity for Marco Bellocchio'slocal favourite Buongiorno, Notte and indoing so proved wrong detractors who have warned that Venice is becoming parochial. Alerted to a lesserprize than the Golden Lion, Bellocchio returned to Rome to work off his anger. Itwould ...
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Venice festival winners list
Venice 2003 - MainCompetition (Venice 60), feature filmsGolden LionTheReturn (Ozvrasnje) Dir: Andrej ZvjagintsevGrandJury Prize (Silver Lion)Le Cerf-Volant Dir: RandaChahal SabbagBest direction (Silver Lion)Takeshi Kitano for ZatoichiSpecial prize for an individualcontributionMarco Bellocchiofor the screenplay of Buongiorno, Notte Coppa Volpi forbest actorSean Penn in 21 Grams Coppa Volpi forbest actressKatja Riemann in ...
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Venice festival sees Return to form
The main competition jury managed to shirkoff local pressure and pre-release publicity for Marco Bellocchio'slocal favourite Buongiorno, Notte and indoing so proved wrong detractors who have warned that Venice is becoming parochial. Alerted to a lesserprize than the Golden Lion, Bellocchio returned to Rome to work off his anger.It would ...
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The Return (Vozvrashcheniye)
Dir. Andrei Zvygatinsev. Russia, 2003. 105 min.This intimate, almost metaphysical study of rebellion against parental authority does everything a Hollywood picture doesn't. Not only because it is refreshing to see, for a change, that adolescence does not relate only to sexual glands, but also because it takes a considerable risk ...
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Dali/Disney short among 15 selected for New York Film Festival
Salvador Dali's mythical abandoned project for Walt Disney will beamong a series of 15 international shorts to screen at the 41st New York FilmFestival, which runs from Oct 3-19.The surrealist Spanish painter never finished Destino, which finally comes to the screen afterit was completed by director Dominique Monfrey and a ...
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Polanski readies Oliver Twist adaptation
A Roman Polanski adaptation of Oliver Twist may sound odd, but the film's producer Robert Benmussa insists 'a family film' like this 'will really suit him'.News emerged this week that Polanski is teaming up again with the makers of The Pianist for an adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic.Oscar winning ...
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Kordon takes top prize at Montreal, Gaz Bar Blues second
Goran Markovic's intense drama Kordon from Serbia/Montenegro won the top prize- the Grand prix des Ameriques - at the Montreal World Film Festival on Sundaynight. Set in Belgrade in 1997, the film follows a police patrol on its roundsaround the city which is swept up in a sea of unrest ...
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Germany's Boll gets film rights to video game BloodRayne
Fledgling German production company Boll KG has picked uptheatrical and merchandise rights to the popular video game BloodRayne from games developer and publisherMajesco.Executive producer and director Uwe Boll plans to begin filming in2004 with Shawn Williamson of Brightlight Pictures set to produce.The production will be in the $30m range and ...
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Dickie leads moribund week at the box office
The autumn season began with a whimper at the weekend asParamount's Dickie Roberts: Child Star opened top on $7m while Fox's The Order flopped in sixth place on $4.3m.The weekend after Labor Day is noted for its lack of sparkle. Evenso, Paramount's first chart topper since How To Lose A ...
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Goodmorning, Night (Buongiorno, Notte)
Dir: Marco Bellocchio. Italy. 2003. 105 mins.Marco Bellocchio's passionate but controlled psychological study of Red Brigade terrorism is not the masterpiece that some Italian critics would claim; nor was Bellocchio 'robbed' of the Golden Lion at this year's Venice festival, which went to a better film, Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Return. ...