All Screen articles in 14 June 2002 – Page 3
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Celador Films appoints head of production and development
Leading UK independent TV producer Celador Films, best known for hit quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire', is stepping up its film activities.The company has appointed Christian Colson, head of development at Miramax Films' UK arm, to oversee production and development. Colson and Celador have just collaborated on ...
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Metro Tartan adds to Cannes acquisitions
Independent UK distributor Metro Tartan Distribution has acquired Un Certain Regard title Angel On The Right and Respiro, which won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Critics Week.Other recent additions to Metro Tartan's line-up include Full Time-Killer, a Hong Kong film directed by Johnny To and starring Andy Lau, and ...
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India scraps $2m limit on bank financing for films
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has withdrawn the $2m ceiling on banks for film financing, opening the way for much-needed boost to industry investment.The RBI stated that banks should fix an overall exposure limit to the film industry and ensure that advances are distributed over a number of films ...
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Sony Pictures Classics snares Spider for US
Sony PicturesClassics has picked up US rights to David Cronenberg's Cannes competitionentry Spider, payingbetween $1.5m and $2m. The deal was finalized with Spider's sales agent Capitol Films onlyyesterday, according to SPC co-president Tom Bernard.Bernard told ScreenDaily he plans on releasing the $12m Canada/UKcoproduction for an Oscar-nomination run at Christmas. "It's ...
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Disney, Admira team up on Mexican-set chick flick
Miravista, thefledgling co production venture created by Walt Disney's Latin Americanoperation and Telefonica Spain's Admira, have signed up Argentine-born LosAngeles resident Gabriela Tagliavini to direct its debut feature, Ladies'Night. A co production with Mexico's Televisa and ArgosComunicacion, the $1.5m - $2m romantic comedy is scheduled to start principalphotography this fall. ...
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Russian films return to Moscow film festival
Three Russian titles feature in this year's Moscow International Film Festival competition line-up, after last year's total lack of any local films in competition at all. The Festival, which runs June 21-30, this week unveiled its competition programme of sixteen feature films including, Alexander Rogozhkin's Cuckoo, Roman Pregunov's Solitude Of ...
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Norwegian hit Elling to get prequel and sequel
Following its latest triumph at Spain's Peniscola international comedy film festival, Norway's Maipo Film is preparing two further films based on the Elling franchise, now that the comedy has become one of the most successful Norwegian films ever.Theatre director Peter Naess' second big screen effort Elling became the biggest local ...
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Italian directors team for Israeli-Palestinian conflict documentary
Eleven Italian filmmakers, including celebrated veterans Ettore Scola, Mario Monicelli and Francesco Maselli are currently on location in Palestine shooting a documentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The group of directors, from Italy's Cinema del Presente Foundation have visited parts of Israel including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and are currently examining ...
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Korean comedy scores during World Cup fever
Despite huge competition from the World Cup, South Korean comedy Bet On My Disco has scored triumphantly for new distributor A-Line, drawing over half a million admissions ($2.8m) in its first four days.Released on 160 prints nationwide, the film drew a robust screen average of $10,670 and looks set to ...
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Monica Bellucci to star in Muccino's Remember Me
Hot on the heels of Gaspar Noe's Irreversible, Monica Bellucci is set to star in Italian filmmaker Gabriele Muccino's (The Last Kiss) upcoming movie, Remember Me (Ricordati Di Me).Local production outfit Fandango confirmed that Bellucci will star alongside popular Italian actors Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Hotel, Holy Tongue) and Laura Morante, who ...
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Czech arthouse flourishes during mainstream boom
With a boom in multiplex building and cinema admissions rising over the 10 million mark for the first time in half a decade, mainstream film is more popular than ever in the Czech Republic. And yet it is experimental film making that is grabbing most of the attention.Of all the ...
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8 Femmes, 8 1/2 open Bangkok film festival
The Bangkok International Film Festival (Nov 15 - 26) will open with a double bill of Federico Fellini's classic 8 1/2, followed by Francois Ozon's 8 Femmes - to introduce this year's theme of 'From Masters To Present'.The 11-day event expects to present 50 international features, including movies from South ...
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Bac Majestic to seek $12.2m cash lifeline
Bac Majestic, arguably France's most admired distribution group, is to raise $12.3m (Euros13m) in a bid for survival.In a statement to the Paris stock-market yesterday, Bac revealed that it has teamed up with an unnamed "European investor" with a view to "rebuilding its equity capital". The company, which put out ...
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Spider-Man sets yet more international records
The release of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man set yet more records following a host of new openings.In Paris, the June 12 opening saw a massive 10,645 admissions from 27 prints for its first screening. This beat French film Asterix and Obelix : Mission Cleopatra (8,818 tickets sold from 28 screens ...
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Collapse of Germany's Kirch empire now complete
The collapse of German media mogul Leo Kirch's empire was sealed on Wednesday with the filing for insolvency of two more divisions of the KirchGroup Management holding TaurusHolding and the KirchBeteiligung unit which holds shareholdings in other companies such as Axel Springer Verlag and Formula 1, both sought protection from ...
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Warner lines up Vanzina remake as second Italian pic
Warner Bros Pictures' has started production on its second Italian-language film, a sequel to 1970s cult movie La Febbre Del Cavallo starring Italy's Gigi Proietti, who also played the lead in the original comedy.The new picture, entitled La Febbre Del Cavallo - La Mandrakata is directed by popular filmmaker Carlo ...
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Nowhere goes somewhere with Zeitgeist
Following The Tunnel and Sun Alley (Screen Daily, May 29), Caroline Link's Nowhere In Africa (Nirgendwo In Afrika) has become the latest German film picked up for US theatrical distribution.Zeitgeist Films, who also handled Max Faerberboeck's Aimee & Jaguar starring Nowhere's lead actress Juliane Koehler, plans to release Link's adaptation ...
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Helkon to quit Germany's Neuer Markt
Helkon Media is seeking to leave the Neuer Markt by the end of the month as part of a programme of cost reduction and reorganisation. If the Deutsche Boerse approves its shares will be traded on the third tier Geregelter Markt from July 1. 'This section change will lead to ...
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Music For Weddings And Funerals to open Haugesund
The highly anticipated new drama from Unni Straume, Music For Weddings And Funerals (Musikk For Bryllup Og Begravelser), will be the opening film of this year's Norwegian film festival in Haugesund (Aug 18-25).Norwegian-born writer-director, Straume has lived in Italy since the early 1990s and is best known for her 1994 ...
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Italian producers told to get professional - or die
Italian producers should seek private financial partners - or risk extinction. That was the thunderous message delivered this weekend by Giampaolo Sodano, head of UNIDIM, Italy's national distributors' union at a conference near Rome. He revealed that more than 70% of Italian film companies have equity capital of less than ...
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