All Screen articles in 12 December 2003 – Page 2
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Honorary Oscar to go to Blake Edwards on Feb 29
Blake Edwards will receive an honorary Oscar at the 76th AcademyAwards on Feb 29, 2004.The veteran film-maker will collect the honour in recognition ofhis "extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement"."For more than 50 yearsEdwards has had an extraordinary career writing, directing and producing mainlyhis own material," Academy president Frank Pierson said ...
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Israeli satellite channel launched for local films
Israeli satellite broadcaster Yes has launched a new channel dedicated to locally produced feature films. Israeli filmmakers have long been aware that while their films are often shunned theatrically, they score high ratings when they are broadcast.They will also benefit from one more, much needed, source of income, though ...
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India's distribution, box office system to be upgraded
India's chronically out-dated film distribution and box-office infrastructure is set to enter the 21st century with the announcement of a major distribution tie-up between Zee Telefilms and Rajshri Pictures.The companies will jointly distribute films produced, co-produced and acquired through the 20 distribution offices of Rajshri in India. Zee is one ...
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Astala quits Finnish Film body for broadcaster YLE
After eight years as head of production at the Finnish Film Foundation, Erkki Astala, has been wooed by public broadcaster YLE to become its new head of co-productions. Astala replaces veteran Eila Werning, who retires after holding the position since 1990. The shuffle is part of a bigger restructuring at ...
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BAFTA Scotland to launch annual awards event
BAFTA Scotland is to establish an annual awards ceremony recognising excellence in the Scottish screen industries. The organisation hosted a major ceremony every two years throughout the 1990s until the Scottish Media Group (SMG) withdrew their support for the event in 1999. SMG owns Scottish Television and Grampian Television. BAFTA ...
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Spain's Goya Award nominations announced
Domestic abuse drama Take My Eyes and Civil War feature Soldiers Of Salamina led the nominees with nine and eight nods, respectively, for Spain's annual Goya Awards, to be held January 31.Antonio Mercero's surprise nominee 4th Floor (Planta Cuarta) will compete for best film against Iciar Bollain's Eyes (Te Doy ...
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Committee appointed for alternative Diagonale
The alternative Diagonale (3-7 March, 2004) has taken another major step forward towards realisation with the appointment of a seven-person committee to select the films and programme the festival.The programme committee's members are: film journalist Frank Arnold, film academic Robert Buchschwenter, film academic Birgit Flos, curator and writer Marcy Goldberg, ...
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Dutch producer Egmond boards Alexander
Dutch production company Egmond Film and Television (responsible for Oscar-winner Antonia's Line) has become one of the major backers of Oliver Stone's Alexander, currently shooting in the UK. Egmond, which is investing Euros 15m - some 10% of the budget, will in return participate in the film's profits - which ...
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Montreal film fest to fete Adjani
Next year's Montreal World Film Festival will pay tribute to French actress Isabelle Adjani. Making the announcement, MWFF president Serge Losique deemed Ms. Adjani 'an extraordinary artist, an actress who is equally at home in transforming herself into her films' profound and exceptional characters or playing seemingly light roles with ...
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Nippon Herald to slash Hollywood acquisitions
Leading Japanese independent distributor Nippon Herald plans to reduce its acquisition of major Hollywood titles to improve revenues in its film distribution business.This year, the company recorded an $11.8m loss in operating profit in the half year from April to September. The main cause of the decline was ...
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Lynton steps in for Calley at SPE
Michael Lyntonhas been named chairman and chief executive officer of Sony PicturesEntertainment (SPE), stepping into the void left by John Calley's retirement inOctober.SPE vicechairman Amy Pascal is promoted to chairman of the motion picture group andwill assume responsibility for all films produced and distributed by SPE. Bothappointments become effective in ...
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Canton unveils new production/finance outfit Atmosphere
Former studio chief MarkCanton and investment manager Mark J Kimsey have launched AtmosphereEntertainment, a fully funded production and finance company that already hasseveral theatrical projects in development.The partners plan to producethree to five features a year as well as a television slate and say they haveacquired "substantial" film assets from ...
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Alliance Atlantis makes sweeping cuts in production
Toronto-based entertainmentcompany Alliance Atlantis plans massive cuts to its production arm, cutting upto 60 positions nearly half the division's workforce - and axing the twomost senior production executives, EntertainmentGroup CEO Peter Sussman and Seaton McLean, the group's president for productionand one of the founders of the original company, Atlantis ...
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Cowan's in at Toronto, to run festival alone by 2007
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival has appointed Noah Cowan to the new position of co-director. Theappointment, which was widely anticipated, will see Cowan sharing programmingduties with Piers Handling during a three-year transition period before takingover the festival's reins. Handling will assumefull-time duties as the CEO of the Toronto International Festival Group ...
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Slamdance unveils 18-film lineup for tenth festival
Twelve world andtwo US premieres are among the biggest ever line-up of 18 features at theupcoming 10th annual Slamdance Film Festival, which runs in Park City, Utahfrom Jan 17-24 2004.The rosterincludes 11 narrative features and seven documentaries, which for the firsttime will be judged by two separate sections of the ...
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SPAIN
BVI's Finding Nemo continued to dominate the Spanish box office over the weekend, raking in Euros 3.9m off 383 copies after its record opening for BVI and as an animated film in Spain of Euros 4.68m last weekend.Columbia TriStar's SWAT placed second with Euros 1.75m off 403 copies, followed closely ...
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Mona Lisa Smile
Dir: Mike Newell. 2003. US. 117mins.Mona Lisa Smile is a not-bad movie that is, alas, fatally at war with itself. On the one hand, it's a well-acted, convincingly-mounted period piece set in smug, elitist Wellesley College in 1953 that takes up, far more seriously than anyone had a right to ...
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A Touch Of Spice (Politiki Konzina)
Dir. Tassos Boulmetis. Greece. 2003. 108 mins.A natural crowd pleaser and by far the most successful Greek picture of the year (where it has outgunned the likes of Pirates Of The Carribean with 1m admissions since it opened in late October), this ode to traditional Balkan cuisine and its Ottoman ...
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Something's Gotta Give
Dir: Nancy Meyers.US. 2003. 123mins.In this terrific new romantic comedy, writer-director Nancy Meyers (The Parent Trap, What Women Want) has given Jack Nicholson the Christmas present of a lifetime. Turning to her (and his) advantage the actor's off- and on-screen persona as skirt-chaser who specialises in younger women, Meyers ...