All Screen articles in 13 August 2001 – Page 2
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Danish Feltwave goes into receivership
Feltwave, the Danish-based sister operation of Increasingly prolific London-based post operation WAVEpictures, has gone into receivership, citing a downturn in the TV sector.Torsten Leschly,(pictured) who owns the two companies, may look to ease financial problems by selling a stake in the UK company, which invests equity in films and has ...
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Renny Harlin to shoot Finnish WWII movie
Finnish expatriate and Hollywood director Renny Harlin is set to return to his homeland, to direct a World War II drama, for the first time since making his US debut as director of A Nightmare On Elm Street 4 in 1988. Harlin, seen here directing Sylvester Stallone in his last ...
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Italian road movie wins Locarno's Golden Leopard
Italian director Maurizio Sciarra's Alla Rivoluzione Sulla Due Cavalli (pictured) - a road movie about three friends who travel to witness Portugal's 1970s revolution - won both the Golden Leopard and Best Actor Bronze Leopard at this year's Locarno International Film Festival.Headed by US writer and film critic Janet Maslin, ...
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Sequel weekend: Pie 2 takes $45m, Rush Hour 2 $31m
The domestic box office continued to roar over the weekend. Not only did Universal's third sequel of the summer American Pie 2 open to a massive $45.1m but New Line Cinema's Rush Hour 2 took $31.5m in its second weekend bringing its ten day total to a spectacular $131.9m.Meanwhile Miramax ...
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French audiences smitten by Kiss Of The Dragon
The latest Jet Li martial arts thriller Kiss Of The Dragon high-kicked its way into the French charts this week. Released by Europa Distribution, the film, which also stars Bridget Fonda and Tcheky Karyo, achieved 506,000 admissions in its first seven days from 612 screens. Dethroning last week's top spot ...
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Warner releases Osmosis Jones in dual formats
Osmosis Jones will become the first Warner Bros release to premiere in both an all-digital and conventional 35mm format this weekend.A handful of the theatres in the US and Canada that are projecting the Farrelly brothers' latest comic invention, a PG-rated blend of live action and animation, will do so ...
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James Cameron is going back to Titanic
James Cameron is going back to Titanic. Teaming up with Cary Granat's recently launched Walden Media, his EarthShip Productions is producing Ghosts Of The Abyss, an underwater exploration project which will examine the respective sinkings of the Titanic and Bismarck. The six-week expedition to look at the wreckages which will ...
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Miramax acquires Bridget-style diary of its own
Has MiramaxFilms found the next Bridget Jones' The New York film studio appears to have the recent Working Title transatlantic smash firmly in mind when it acquired the film rights yesterday to Allison Pearson's upcoming novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, based on her popular weekly newspapercolumns in ...
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UK Film Council unveils training initiatives
UK support body The Film Council has unveiled training initiatives targeted at script writing, script reading and development.Roughly half the total investment of $783,000 (£549,000) goes to project development workshops to provide training for writers with active projects. The National Lottery-supported schemes also include short courses for script readers and ...
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Bingham Ray, new UA head
In 1999, when Bingham Ray sold his stake in October Films - the company he co-founded with Jeff Lipsky - he came to several conclusions. One was that he was keen to produce. Another that he would think twice about getting into any more partnerships. The other was that maybe ...
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Reviews
The Others
Dir Alejandro Amenabar. US-Spain. 2001. 103 minsSumptuously crafted, with moody eeriness and almost surreal visual imagery, Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar's The Others is a terrific supernatural thriller that builds and sustains its considerable suspense, without ever relying on violence or special effects. Cast in a role she was born to ...
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Nordisk and TV2 launch 'Director's Cut'
Danish major Nordisk Film and national broadcaster TV2 have formed a pact to produce feature films with an average budget of $1m (DKR8.5m). Titled 'Director's Cut' the project has four directors already attached - veterans Morten Arnfred and Birger Larsen, and newcomers Tomas Villum Jensen and Christoffer Boe, the latter ...
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Kinowelt's Arthaus could lose its boss Fabritus
The unravelling of German media group Kinowelt Medien has taken a further twist this week with reports spreading through the German distribution sector that Juergen Fabritius, managing director of Kinowelt's arthouse distribution arm, Arthaus Filmverleih, has left the company ahead of plans to fold Arthaus into the mainstream Kinowelt Filmverleih. ...
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UK studios suffer decline in Hollywood production
The investment by Hollywood productions shooting in the UK has plummeted by more than 65%, according to figures from the British Film Commission. The total value of overseas productions to start shooting in the UK in the first six months of 2001 crashed to $109m as UK studio facilities were ...
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RAI launches on-demand channels in Italy
RAI Click, the Italian joint venture TV on-demand service set up by RAI and multimedia publisher e.BisMedia has launched over broadband cable, according to a report in Cable Europe.RAI Click, which is 60%/40% owned by the two companies respectively, will see RAI programming transmitted over a fibre-optic IP network which ...
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Brazil and Germany revive co-production accord
It has been nearly two years since Brazil and Germany forged a co production agreement but nothing much has emerged from it. To revive the dormant accord, the Goethe Institute of Sao Paolo and production and sales company for Brazilian films, Levine Film have organized a co production workshop slated ...
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Canadian provinces offer film shooting incentives
With confusion still surrounding the status of Australia's tax laws for film investors, Canada could profit from international productions seeking an alternative tax-friendly location - especially now that its provinces are offering special incentives.The weakness of the Canadian dollar, skilled crews and good locations have long drawn foreign and local ...
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Life As A House to premiere at Toronto Festival
Irwin Winkler's Life as a House will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival it was announced August 7. One of the festival's gala presentations, the film stars Kevin Kline and Kristin Scott Thomas. Life as a House is billed as a poignant, multi-layered and often humourous ...
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FilmFour signs first-look deal with Pipedream
FilmFour has signed a first-look deal with Pipedream Pictures, the production company of Lee Thomas and John McKay, the hot film-making team behind its sell-out Cannes title, Crush.The duo, seen as two of the strongest, commercially-oriented new film-makers in the UK, are also moving forward on the £10-£15m comedy Knickers. ...
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Warner Village Cinemas' millionth online ticket
Warner Village Cinemas UK, a division of Warner Bros. International Theatres, has sold its millionth online ticket, through its website (www.warnervillage.co.uk), just two years after launch.Since going live in July 1999, the system, which was conceived and created in-house, has posted a 20% year-on-year rise in online bookings, and there ...
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