All Screen articles in 12 December 2003 – Page 3
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Miramax plunges into Deep Blue
Miramax Films has acquired North American rights to Alastair Fothergill and Andy Byatt's feature-length documentary Deep Blue, produced by the UK's BBC Worldwide and Germany's Greenlight Media. Inspired by David Attenborough's international hit TV series The Blue Planet, Deep Blue explores life above, below and far beneath the ocean's surface ...
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Italian, Kosovan films share top prize at Tirana
The first edition of the Tirana International Film Festival ended with the best short film prize being awarded ex aequo to Italian director Alessandro Dominici's The Last Gunman and Kosovan filmmaker Burbuqe Berisha's Kosovo 9/11. The festival, which ran from Dec 1 to Dec 7 featured 82 short films from ...
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India's Zee Telefilms unveils expansion plans
Zee Telefilms, India's largest listed media company, plans to invest $30m over the next two years in the production and distribution of Indian films. The company will also set up a distribution network for Indian films overseas. Zee has appointed film producer Nittin Keni - formerly with National Film Development ...
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European Film Promotion launches sales support scheme
European Film Promotion has launched a new scheme to help exports of European films. It will underwrite travel and print costs for sales companies attending Latin American, Asian and East European festivals.The pilot scheme, Film Sales Support (FSS) will provide up to 50% of promotional and marketing costs for films ...
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Sandrew Metronome finds Finnish Blind Spot
Major Nordic distributor Sandrew Metronome continues to strike output deals with local production outfits, and this week its Finnish arm Sandrew Metronome Distribution Finland (SMDF) signed a three-year agreement with local production company Blind Spot Pictures. The deal sees Sandrew Metronome take Nordic distribution rights to all films currently being ...
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Start-up UK production outfit to shoot William Blake biopic
Acclaimed British artist Sam Taylor-Wood is to make her feature directorial debut with Jerusalem, a film based on the life of William Blake starring Ray Winstone as the celebrated artist, poet and religious visionary.Jerusalem will be the first film from Flicks Productions, a new production company formed by agent and ...
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Von Trotta, Rothemund get Bavarian cash funding
New films by Margarethe von Trotta and Marc Rothemund are among the projects awarded a total of Euros 3m by the Bavarian regional film fund FFF Bayern.Von Trotta received the highest sum of Euros 700,000 for her new project Ich Bin Die Andere (I Am The Other Woman) about the ...
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CineLink to widen net and introduce awards
Sarajevo Film Festival's CineMart-style co-production market CineLink is to widen its catchment area to include the entire South-East European region and will award Euros 25,000 each to two of the CineLink projects.The first edition of CineLink last August was open for projects from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia & ...
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AMC quits Swedish exhibition sector
Less than four years after its arrival in Sweden, American exhibitor AMC is quitting the territory. Scandinavian major SF Bio will now be taking over its multiplex in Heron City in the southern region of Stockholm. The name of the multiplex, which has 18 screens and a total of 4,166 ...
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Malaysia's Metrowealth to almost double film production
Malaysia's Metrowealth Movies Production has an ambitious target for 2004 - aiming to produce 10 Malay-language films, almost doubling this year's output of six films made at a total cost of $22.1m (RM84m).With six films under its belt, Metrowealth is already the most active producer of 2003. Of these, Cinta ...
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SPI Int'l aquires Alexander rights
Multi-national East European distributor SPI International has picked up all rights to Oliver Stone's forthcoming opus Alexander for the Czech Republic and for Slovakia. The film, which is budgeted at over $150m, is financed and sold by Intermedia. The company previously licensed it to Warner Bros for North and South ...
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Belvaux, Lvovsky share France's 61st Louis Delluc prize
PARIS - In a split decision, the 61st Louis Delluc prize has been awarded to Lucas Belvaux's trilogy of films Un Couple Epatant, Apres La Vie and Cavale and to Noemie Lvovsky's Sentiments. While that prize goes to the best French film of the year, the prize for best first ...
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Deschanel, Gyllenhaal to present at Sundance Awards
Zooey Deschanel and JakeGyllenhaal will co-host the 2004 Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony on Jan24 2004, which will be broadcast live in the US by Sundance Channel.Both actors are festivalalumni. Deschanel and Gyllenhaal appeared together in The Good Girl (Sundance 2002), Gyllenhaal starred in DonnieDarko (2001) and Deschanel starredin All ...
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Sofia Coppola's Oscar hopeful Lost In Translation opened on a high at the Italian box office, scoring the weekend's second highest screen average after BVI's Finding Nemo with a superb $6,250 per screen.On its first release in a major international territory, the Bill Murray and Scarlett Johanssen picture, which screened ...
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UK film industry welcomes pre-budget report
The UK industry has welcomed a surprise signal from Chancellor Gordon Brown that he intends to renew tax-based support when the influential Section 48 expires in 2005.The government's pre-budget report stated that it would unveil the results of talks with the industry about a so-called son of Section 48 in ...
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New shorts by Jarecki, actor Azaria in Sundance shorts programme
Sundance Film Festivalorganisers have announced a line-up of 86 short films for January's event andwill also introduce a jury prize for international short film-makers.Titles include Just AClown by Capturing The Friedmans director Andrew Jarecki, Nobody's Perfect by the actor Hank Azaria, and Destino, Dominique Monfery's completed animated short thatwas begun ...
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Adjani to receive special tribute at Montreal Film Festival 2004
Next year'sMontreal World Film Festival will pay tribute to French actress IsabelleAdjani. Making the announcement, MWFF president Serge Losique deemed Ms. Adjani"an extraordinary artist, an actress who is equally at home in transformingherself into her films' profound and exceptional characters or playingseemingly light roles with an expert touch." Despite thisyear's ...
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Pirates sells 11 million DVD and VHS units in first seven days in US
Pirates Of The Caribbean has scored the biggest home entertainmentlive-action opening week in history after selling 11million DVD and VHS unitsin its first seven days of sales."We couldn't bemore thrilled with the success our home entertainment titles have had thisyear," Buena Vista Home Entertainment (BVHE) president Bob Chapek said ina ...
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Vangelisti joins First Look as senior vp, TV sales
Dina Vangelistihas joined First Look Media as senior vice president of television sales andwill oversee the company's activities in the US and Canada for its threedivisions, First Look Pictures, First Look Home Entertainment and OverseasFilmgroup.Vangelisti willreport directly to First Look Media president Bill Lischak and chief executiveofficer and co-chairman Chris ...
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Ogilvie moves to vp Europe position at WBITD from MTV
Alex Ogilvie has been namedvice president of business development, Europe, at Warner Bros InternationalTelevision Distribution (WBITD).Ogilvie will focus on allnew business opportunities for WBITD, develop the division's pay televisiondeals and oversee development of video-on-demand and other television modelsacross Europe.In addition, he will workwith all of WBITD's European sales executives on ...