All Screen articles in 13 December 2002 – Page 2
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Havana fest honours City Of God, Suddenly
Over 500 films were screened at Havana's 24th Festival of New Latin American Cinema, confirming the pre-eminence of Brazil and Argentina in the region.Fernardo Meireilles' magnificent epic City of God shared the top prize, the Premio Coral, with Diego Lerman's sparkling debut, Suddenly. These two films, along with A Red ...
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German insolvency blow softened by Peppermint takeover
Helkon Media's production subsidiary Kinofilm Muenchen Filmproduktion and the Vienna-based associated company Helkon Media GesmbH have become the latest divisions of the bankrupt German media group to file proceedings for insolvency. Kinofilm Muenchen Filmproduktion, which produced such films as Hans-Guenther Buecking's Die Haeupter Meiner Lieben and Peter Gersina's Vienna, submitted ...
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Spain's Prodigius Audiovisual unveils first three projects
Prodigius Audiovisual, the new TV movie joint production venture of Spanish media groups DeAPlaneta and MEDIApro, has unveiled its first three projects in a push to produce and back ten made-for-TV movies per year.Jaume Santacana, the newly-appointed director of the venture, says as many as half those ten projects could ...
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Rotterdam sidebars underline event's artistic integrity
New sidebars featuring Indian film-makers and a back to its roots examination of digital film-making, underline the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)'s commitment to cinema at the artistic end of the scale. The festival (Jan 22- Feb 2) has picked Indian director Girish Kasaravalli for retrospective treatment in its regular ...
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Great American Songbook to close Palm Springs fest
Performer-composer MichaelFeinstein's The Great American Songbook, a homage to American musicals and song, will closethe 14th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival on Jan 19, 2003.Feinstein will perform after the screening while the evening will be hosted bywriter-comedian Bruce Vilanch. Carol Channing and Jerry Herman will also appearon stage as ...
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Schmidt, Adaptation lead US broadcast critics noms
AlexanderPayne's About Schmidt and Spike Jonze's Adaptation each received four nominations includingbest picture today (Dec 17) from the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA),which announced its 10 Best Films of 2002 as well as a host of nominees inother categories.In addition toits best picture nod About Schmidt yielded a best actor ...
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Anouk Aimee to get Berlinale lifetime achievement award
French actress Anouk Aimee will be honoured with the Berlinale's Homage and receive a Lifetime Achievement Golden Bear at a screening of Lola on February 13.Announcing the tribute, festival director Dieter Kosslick stated that "Anouk Aimee is one of the great European stars to whom we owe so many ...
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70s cinema doc gets multi-platform release by IFC
The Independent Film Channel(IFC) announced today (Dec 16) a multi-platform distribution plan for ADecade Under The Influence, theextensive account of cinema in the 1970s that was film-maker Ted Demme'slast project before he died. The picture, which was co-directed by RichardLaGravenese who made Living Out Loud, is set to premiere in ...
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Sundance II: 3rd annual online film festival launched
The SundanceInstitute today (Dec 17) launched the Third Annual Sundance Online FilmFestival at www.sundance.org. This year's event runs until Feb 5, 2003,and features 31 projects in four categories: Animation, Short Subject, Galleryand New Forms. Participating films will be highlighted during the mainfestival, which runs from Jan 16-26, in the Zenith ...
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Sundance I: Festival announces Native Forum lineup 2003
The SundanceInstitute announced details of the 9th Native Forum programme for the 2003Sundance Film Festival today (Dec 17). The Native Forum highlights films madeby Native Americans and indigenous peoples and opens on Jan 17 with the USpremiere of Alanis Obomsawin's new documentary Is The Crown At WarWith Us' The rest ...
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Dirty Pretty Things continues strong run of product for Buena Vista
Buena Vista International scored with another strong limited release performer this week as Dirty Pretty Things grossed an impressive $225,541 (£141,865) from just 50 sites. The drama, from British director Stephen Frears, showed a strong per site average of $4,511, laying claim to seventh position in the chart.Dirty Pretty Things ...
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New chief appointed at UK's FilmFour
Channel 4 drama chief Tessa Ross is to head its new film division FilmFour, the broadcaster confirmed on Wednesday.Ross will step down as head of drama to focus on film, a move seen as crucial in proving that the channel is committed to film after closing down its stand-alone operation ...
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Toronto critics hail Adaptation
SpikeJonze's Adaptation has beennamed the best film of 2002 by the Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA), with Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love and Alfonos Cuaron's Y Tu Mama Tambien as runners-up.Adaptation received three other prizes: Nicolas Cage was namedbest actor for his two roles as twin brother screenwriters, Chris Cooper ...
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Koelmels in the home straight
The seemingly never-ending saga of the Koelmel brothers' bid to take over their insolvent Kinowelt empire looks like having been resolved.After a meeting on December 13 between the Koelmels' Neue Spielfilm Vertriebs- und Marketing GmbH, the insolvency administrator Wolfgang Ott, representatives of Sparkasse Leipzig and members of the creditors committee, ...
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Spitfire starts in on The Great War
Intermedia announced today (Dec 16) that Spitfire Pictures, Guy East and Nigel Sinclair's new production company with which it has an overall, non-exclusive deal, is to develop the First World War script The Great War (working title). Larry Ramin, who won an Emmy Award earlier this year for HBO's Winston ...
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New Hayao Miyazaki film heads Toho line-up
Three new works by Japanese animation powerhouses head Toho's line-up for 2003-2004. Leading the line-up is Howl's Moving Castle, the latest film by Hayao Miyazaki, whose Spirited Away set an all-time Japanese box office record last year and is being tipped for an Academy Award nomination. Based on a 1986 ...
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Copenhagen Film Festival sets launch date
After juggling with different launch dates for months the new Copenhagen International Film Festival (CIFF) has set the date for its first edition, Aug13-20 2003. Festival director Janne Giese sees the event as the next obvious step after the success of Danish film in recent years. "It is a patchwork ...
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Regions to become the bankers of French cinema'
With film financing facing a crunch, France's regions ("provinces") are expected to take a greater role in bank-rolling film-making. But local producers would prefer the regions' role to be cultural rather than economic.The hotly contested subject was at the centre of a debate last week organised by l'Atelier Production du ...
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Yash Chopra wins India's highest film award
Veteran Hindi film-maker Yash Chopra has been chosen for the highest national award for a filmmaker - the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2001. "His films are about love, romance and drama and the stars of his films become icons for film buffs. Chopra has been instrumental in tapping the potential ...
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Chamber Of Secrets soars on, passes $350m gross
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets maintained the magic with an estimated $42.4m in international ticket sales for Warner Bros over the weekend, bringing its cumulative total so far to a mighty $350m. There were 7.6m million admissions from more than 9,000 screens in 45 territories. In South Korea, ...