All Screen articles in 12 August 2003 – Page 2
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Venice names jury members
The Venice Film Festival has unveiled the jury members for both its competitions, confirming that veteran Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli will head the jury of the traditional Venice 60 competition (ScreenDaily.com Aug 12)Joining Monicelli, who received Venice's Golden Lion award in 1959 for his classic film The Great War, will ...
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Zombie debut earns Melbourne festival praise
A self-financed debut film about zombies has been awarded the 2003 FIPRESCI Award for Emerging Filmmakers at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Undead, directed by Queensland brothers Michael and Peter Spierig, was earlier this year picked up for distribution in the US by Lions Gate. It set to be released ...
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Montreal unveils full competition line-up
New films from African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo and Japan's Yoshimitsu Morita (Copycat Killer) are among 15 titles unveiled by the 27th Montreal World Film Festival (Aug. 27-Sept. 7), which has announced the balance of its Official Competition line-up. But the announcement also reveals anticipated conflicts with rival Venice festival (Aug. ...
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Neeson re-surfaces at Columbia TriStar Int'l
Weeks after leaving his post as president of theatrical at FoxInternational, Scott Neeson has joined Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI) as senior executive vice president of marketing.Neeson will start work on Sept 8, when he will set aboutdevising overseas marketing strategies on upcoming Columbia Pictures andRevolution Studios' films including Spider-Man ...
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BVI's Pirates strikes gold in the UK
Buena Vista International enjoyed its second highest opening of the year, after Bruce Almighty, in the UK and Ireland this weekend as Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl sailed into the lead position.The Jerry Bruckheimer production defied sweltering weather (see separate ScreenDaily.com story) to take a ...
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BVIP seduced by F&ME's Loving Glances
UK-based independent production house Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) has struck a deal with Bjorg Veland's BVIP to represent its UK/Serbia and Montenegro co-production Loving Glances (Sjaj U Ocima) for international sales.The move comes ahead of the film's competition screening at the Venice International Film Festival and its presentation in ...
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BVIP falls for F&ME's Loving Glances
UK-based independent production house Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) has struck a deal with Bjorg Veland's BVIP to represent its UK/Serbia and Montenegro co-production Loving Glances (Sjaj U Ocima) for international sales.The move comes ahead of the film's competition screening at the Venice International Film Festival and its presentation in ...
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Hulk bulks up in India
Universal enjoyed several excellent openings at the weekendincluding number one bows for The Hulk in India and American Pie: The Wedding in Australia.The Hulkgrossed $214,000 from 81 theatres in India for Universal's ninth biggestopening ever in the territory.It also opened top of the table in Lebanon, grossing a decent$40,000 from ...
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Flach Pyramide takes on Bosnian Fuse sales
Bosnian director Pjer Zalica's feature debut Fuse (Gori Vatra) which had its world premiere in the Official Competition at the Locarno International Film Festival on August 11, has been picked up for international distribution by Flach Pyramide International.The tragicomedy about a small-town in Bosnia embarking on a race against the ...
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BAFTA/LA puts kettle on for Emmy nominees
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts/Los Angeles(BAFTA/LA) is teaming up with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences toco-host an inaugural annual tea party honouring the British 2003 Emmy nominees.The event will take place one week prior to the awards onSept 20 at The St Regis Hotel in ...
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DreamWorks' new indie label goes fishing with anime
Hot on the heels of the launch of Warner Independent Pictures,DreamWorks SKG has launched specialty distribution arm Go Fish and will openfor business with the release of Japanese anime hits Millennium Actress in September and Ghost In The ShellII in 2004.The unit will be run by Joan Filippini, the current ...
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Spacey biopic finds new backing singer after MDP exit
Mark Damon's MDP Worldwide has pulled out of Kevin Spacey's BeyondThe Sea, the Bobby Darinbiopic it was co-producing with Spacey's Trigger Street productions. In a statement released yesterday, Damon, the company's chairmanand chief executive officer, said the withdrawal was entirely amicable and dueto scheduling conflicts.It is understood Spacey, who will ...
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Fox enjoys South African honeymoon with Just Married
Fox International opened the comedy Just Married in South Africa at the weekend on anexcellent $134,000 from 60 screens, raising the film's international runningtotal to $44.3m.The film grossed around $152,000 in total and has threemarkets to go, including Japan.Elsewhere, the thriller Phone Booth added $2.6m from 754 screens in 12 ...
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Perfect Strangers (NZ, 2003)
Dir: Gaylene Preston. New Zealand. 2003. 96mins.After its sold-out premiere at the Melbourne Film Festival, Gaylene Preston's "chilling romance" has, unsurprisingly, been invited to Montreal in September, a timely reminder that New Zealand cinema has more to offer than Lord Of The Rings blockbuster fantasy. Perfect Strangers is an adult, ...
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India's most expensive film to be a trilogy
The $20m three-part epic The Rising, directed by Ketan Mehta is set to be the most expensive film ever to be produced in India.The India/UK production, set in the backdrop to the 1857 mutiny and the first War of Indian Independence, will be divided in to three episodes of 100 ...
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Venice considers collaboration with Mifed
Cinecitta holding president Pupi Avati has approached the Venice Film Festival and Mifed with plans to establish a new film market on the Lido to run alongside the festival.The collaboration between the three organisations is believed to involve several initiatives, although the market element is likely to create the most ...
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Festival considers collaboration with Mifed, Cinecitta
Cinecitta holding president Pupi Avati has approached the Venice Film Festival and Mifed with plans to establish a new film market on the Lido to run alongside the festival.The collaboration between the three organisations is believed to involve several initiatives, although the market element is likely to create the most ...
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Italy's Bim swoops on four festival titles
Bim, one of the most muscular buyers in the Italian market, has acquired local rights to four films in the Venice International Festival, including the hotly anticipated 21 Grams.21 Grams, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's second feature after international hit Amores Perros, centres on the lives of three people fatefully brought ...
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Italy's Bim swoops on four Venice titles
Bim, one of the most muscular buyers in the Italian market, has acquired local rights to four films in the Venice International Festival, including the hotly anticipated 21 Grams.21 Grams, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's second feature after international hit Amores Perros, centres on the lives of three people fatefully brought ...
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Japanese horror takes Asian box office by storm
Japanese hit horror The Grudge (Ju-on) is repeating its box office success across Asia. In Hong Kong, the horror has grossed $750,000 since its release on May 29 on 17 screens, while in Singapore it has taken $650,000 from 23 screens since June 12. The Grudge (pictured), has achieved ...
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