All Screen articles in 13 December 2002
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Zidi prepares to shoot Super Ripoux
French director Claude Zidi will next month start work on the second sequel to 1984 hit Le Cop (Les Ripoux), his comedy about two corrupt policemen. The new episode, titled Super Ripoux, begins shooting on Jan 21 in and around Paris and will see the re-teaming of Philippe Noiret and ...
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'Extraordinary' Kinderfilmfest expected
Films from South Korea, Finland, Israel, Germany and Japan are among the first seven titles confirmed by the Berlinale Kinderfilmfest's new director Thomas Hailer for a programme which, in his words, "promises to be both diversified and extraordinary."Two films have been invited from Finland: Arto Koskinen's The Handcuff King (Kahlekuningas) ...
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Italian comedy brings festive local box office cheer
Defying global patterns, Italian comic sensation Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo's new film, The Legend Of Al, John And Jack has knocked Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets off the number one spot at the local box office just one week after its release.The Legend of Al, John And Jack ...
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Indian megastar cast in Bollywood Pride And Prejudice
Indian megastar Aishwarya Rai is to star in Pride And Prejudice - The Bollywood Musical, the all-singing, all-dancing take on Jane Austen's novel from Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder ChadhaChadha confirmed that Rai, best known outside India for Cannes title Devdas and winning Miss World, has agreed in principle ...
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Eichinger joins Constantin Film supervisory board
Bernd Eichinger is being lined up to succeed Commerzbank's Franz Jung as a member of Constantin Film's supervisory board from January 1, 2003.Eichinger, who built Constantin Film up into Germany's most successful independent production and distribution house over the two decades since joining the company in 1979, had served ...
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Australian Competition Commission protects indie exhibitors
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has stepped in to protect cinema owners not part of the country's exhibition troika, The issue in question is the future of cinema advertising or, more specifically, of the only national provider of these services, Val Morgan. Village, Hoyts and Greater Union, which ...
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UK's PACT appoints Planalp as director of film
UK producers body PACT has appointed Ronnie Planalp as director of film following Bertrand Moullier's exit earlier this year.Planalp was formerly EMI's senior vice president of new media/business development, Europe. She will have overall responsibility for PACT's film strategy, working with the PACT executive team, the PACT film policy group ...
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Andrew Mason appointed to FTO board
Producer Andrew Mason has been appointed to the board of the New South Wales Film and Television Office (FTO) for three years. Although best known as someone who shepherds offshore films such as The Matrix through Australia, he has also been building a local production business. Mason replaces Laurie Patton, ...
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Winchester mulls sale option as shares slump
UK-based Winchester Entertainment has effectively put itself up for sale, saying it is considering "strategic options".UK distributor Helkon SK is seen as a possible buyer after earlier this year buying a 3.67% stake in the AIM-listed company, which this week declared half-way losses on continuing operations of $10m (£6.3m). Winchester ...
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Extreme Ops
Dir: Christian Duguay. Ger-UK. 2002. 93mins.Some effectively shot extreme skiing and snowboarding footage is the primary excuse for Extreme Ops, an otherwise pretty cheesy, virtually plot-free Euro-American action romp with a mid-level cast of youngsters and older hands from the British, German and US film and TV worlds. The long-completed ...
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Italy's Mediaset takes control of Spain's Telecinco
Italy's Mediaset has agreed to pay Euros276m to Spanish media conglomerate Grupo Correo Prensa Espanola for an additional 12% stake in Spanish broadcaster Telecinco.Mediaset - controlled by the family of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi - thereby ups its interest in the broadcaster to a majority 52% while Grupo Correo ...
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Film comedy gets own gong show
As the North American awards season gathers pace the USComedy Arts Festival (USCAF) and HBO have got in on the gong-giving act byannouncing that next year's ninth annual event will feature the inauguralComedy Film Honours. The awards will recognise Studio Comedy Film, Independent ComedyFilm, First-Time Director and the Entertainment Weekly ...
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Chicago heads Golden Globe nominees
Miramax musical Chicago has emerged as front-runner in nominations for the 60th annual Golden Globes, with a total of eight nods - just ahead of Stephen Daldry's The Hours which is nominated in seven categories.Other multi-nominated films include Spike Jonze's Adaptation with six nods and Alexander Payne's About Schmidt and ...
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Globes circle round Chicago, The Hours
The dark and sometimes twisted streak running through so many of this year's Golden Globe nominations confirms what the pundits have been declaring for weeks now: that the awards pendulum has swung firmly back towards more rarefied audience tastes and away from the popcorn entertainment most often identified with Hollywood. ...
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Jacob re-appointed as Cannes president
Gilles Jacob was yesterday re-appointed as president of the Cannes Festival.Jacob has been at the festival for nearly 25 years and was its head selector for over 20 years. He relinquished the head selector job two years ago, handing over to Thierry Fremaux (artistic director) and Veronique Cayla (managing director), ...
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International skew to 2003 Sundance writers lab
The Sundance Institute has announced the 12'signature' projects, a third of them originated from outside theUS, which will participate in the upcoming Screenwriters Lab, which takes placein Utah next month. The Lab gives participating writers the opportunity to developtheir screenplays through workshop sessions with a stellar cast of leadinginternational screenwriters ...
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MGM TV reorganises US sales operations
In light of agrowing global production and distribution role, MGM Worldwide TelevisionDistribution Group has reorganised its US sales operations, with Paul Danylikarriving as senior vice-president of national sales and Joe Patrick relocatingto Los Angeles from MGM's UK office to serve as vice president of basicand pay cable sales. The announcement ...
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Kino launches Kedma at New York Jewish festival
Kino International hasannounced that Israeli director Amos Gitai's drama Kedma will receive its US premiere on Jan 23, 2003, as theclosing film of the 12th Annual New York Jewish Film Festival. This will befollowed by a two-week run at Makor from Jan 27-Feb 6, where the picture willplay twice a ...
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Had To Be Made year-round film festival launched in US
The inauguralHad To Be Made Film Festival (HTBMFF), which seeks to raise public awareness ofAmerican independent pictures by making its entire programme available forrental at participating video stores, has announced its first call for entries.Festival director Michael Kyle said yesterday (Dec 16) that the event willlaunch on Feb 1, 2003 ...
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Francois Ozon returns to Focus Features
Focus Featureshas acquired US distribution rights to the thriller Swimming Pool, the latest picture by 8 Women director Francois Ozon, from sales agentCelluloid Dreams. Announcing the move today (Dec 17), Focus co-presidents DavidLinde and James Schamus said Swimming Pool will be released in 2003.Swimming Pool is the first English-language picture ...