All Screen articles in 12 December 2002 – Page 4
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The Housekeeper (Une Femme De Menage)
Dir: Claude Berri. France. 88 min.Wistful, wry and touching, The Housekeeper is a small but finely observed tale about a middle-aged man who takes on a young girl as a cleaning woman and gets more than he bargained for. Claude Berri closes out a fabulously successful year as France's leading ...
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Bond returns to the top, Analyze That limps into second
Die Another Day continued its yo-yo cycle with a $13m haul in its third week that took it back to the top for MGM, according to studio estimates released yesterday (Dec 8). The 20th James Bond instalment has now amassed $120.4m and is expected to become the biggest grossing Bond ...
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Talk To Her triumphs at European Film Awards
The 15th European Film Awards were a huge triumph for Spanish maestro Pedro Almodovar and something of a let down for Europe's cherished diversity in a year that saw a wide array of international films score with both critics and audiences. For his touching coma drama Talk To Her (Hable ...
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The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
Dir: Peter Jackson. New Zealand-US. 2002. 179mins.The second film in Peter Jackson's trilogy of JRR Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings is one of the year's best. Having introduced the elaborate story and its myriad characters in the much-garlanded first film The Fellowship Of The Ring, Jackson is now free ...
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Saturday, The Magdalene Sisters win Ljubljana prizes
Juan Villegas's Saturday and Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters garnered top honours at the 13th annual Ljubljana International Film Festival, held in the Slovenian capital.Villegas, an Argentine, won the festival's top award, the Kingfisher Award, worth Euros5,000. The award is given to the most promising first- or second- time director. ...
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Italy's Mediaset mulls majority stake in Spain's Telecinco
More changes to Spain's television landscape are in order if Italy's Mediaset follows through on plans to up its 40% stake in Spanish broadcaster Telecinco to a majority 51% share.Speaking at a conference in Cordoba, Telecinco president Alejandro Echevarria confirmed the move to reporters. The broadcaster's remaining shareholders include Grupo ...
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Film industry worries over Spanish pay-TV merger
The government approval last week of the merger between Spain's rival pay TV platforms - Canal Satelite Digital (CSD) and Via Digital - has produced as many questions as it has answers for the film industry.The government released a surprisingly long list of 34 conditions on the merger (Screendaily.com, Nov ...
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Gaga takes over veteran Japanese film magazine
Gaga Crossmedia Marketing, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gaga Communications, has purchased a majority stake in Kinema Jumpo, Japan's oldest and most highly regarded film magazine. Founded in 1919, Kinema Jumpo has long played a leading role in promoting film culture in Japan. Though best known for its Kinema Jumpo ...
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Fledgling Italian distribution outfits swoop on raft of titles
Undeterred by the current tough economic conditions for Italian distributors, some of the newest kids on the Roman block have unveiled a series of hot international acquisitions.Domenico Procacci's fledgling distributor Fandango has picked up Matt Dillon directorial debut, City of Ghosts. Co-written by Dillon and Wild At Heart novelist Barry ...
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Bollywood braces itself for most expensive Indian film yet
Devdas producer Bharat Shah has joined forces with director Ram Gopal Varma to make a film with acting superstar Amitabh Bachchan that will be the most expensive ever made in Bollywood.The US$13m film is billed as an international political thriller that will be shot in five countries, including India and ...
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BAFTA declares Oscar reject The Warrior is British
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has confirmed it considers The Warrior as British, despite the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' decision that the film is ineligible as the UK entry for the foreign-language Oscars.Duncan Kenworthy, chair of BAFTA's film committee, said in a ...
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Norwegian Film Fund backs Play, Bum's Rush
The Norwegian Film Fund has invested in two new feature films, the Norwegian Play and Scottish/Norwegian The Bum's Rush, with $276,000 (NKR2m) and $317,000 (NKR2.3m) respectively. John Sullivan wrote and directed the $468,000 Play for Dinamo Story and producers Tomas Backstrom, Tom Remlov and Gard A. Andreassen. It tells the ...
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Alliance Atlantis rolls with Foolproof
Ryan Reynolds and David Suchet are set to star in William Phillip's Foolproof. The film is produced by Alliance Atlantis and Atom Egoyan's Ego Film Arts. The film also stars Kristin Booth, Joris Jarsky, James Allodi and David Hewlett. It is the second feature of writer/director Phillips, whose debut Treed ...
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Former Canal Plus exec Godfroid joins Air
Former Canal Plus executive Bibiane Godfroid has joined Air Productions, one of France's most successful television production houses.Godfroid, who had been with Canal since 1996, was executive managing director of the Canal Plus Group at the time of her departure earlier this year. She left Canal amid the restructuring ...
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European Film Academy lambasts French, German broadcasters
German and French broadcasters have come under fire from the European Film Academy (EFA) for not airing this year's European Film Awards, which takes place in Rome this Saturday (Dec 7)."It is a political and cultural scandal that the television broadcasters in France and Germany are unwilling to partner with ...
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sundance list
PREMIERESLEVITYDir: Ed SolomonAfter serving 19 years for killing a teenager in an attempted robbery, a man (Billy Bob Thornton) encounters a mysterious minister (Morgan Freeman) and two needy women (Dunst and Hunter) in his search for redemption. Sony Pictures Classics will release this Sundance Opening Night film stateside, with StudioCanal ...
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Gangs Of New York
Dir: Martin Scorsese. US. 2002. 165 mins.In terms of old-fashioned spectacle, few films today come anywhere near Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York. Already a part of movie folklore, the shooting of Gangs on mammoth sets at Rome's Cinecitta Studios is probably the last of its kind. A gargantuan undertaking, ...
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