All Screen articles in 14 November 2003 – Page 2

  • News

    Nordisk strikes multiple deals on Reconstruction

    2003-11-13T04:05:00Z

    Nordisk Film International struck a bundle of deals on its Cannes Camera d'Or winning picture Reconstruction. The Christoffer Boe-directed romantic thriller was licensed to Korean Arts Centre for Korea, A-Film for Benelux. Two companies split Spanish-speaking Latin American rights on the title. Cineplex took Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and ...

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    Tartan Films signs five picture deal

    2003-11-13T04:05:00Z

    Tartan Films,which is carving out a new theatrical market for Asian films in the UK, has bought a five picture package from Korea's CineclickAsia. Managing director, Laura De Casto yesterday committed to a deal headed by Park Chan-Wook's Mifed favourite Old Boy. It also included H, A Tale Of TwoSisters, ...

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    Winterbottom, Chereau, Kaurismaki to speak at EFA conference

    2003-11-13T04:05:00Z

    Directors Michael Winterbottom, Patrice Chereau and Mika Kaurismaki and Isabelle Coixet as well as producer Nik Powell - in his new incarnation as the UK's National Film & Television School chief - are among the speakers recruited by the European Film Academy (EFA) for its conference "Let's Talk About Content!" ...

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    Banned Palestinian film cleared by Israeli Supreme Court

    2003-11-13T04:05:00Z

    Overturning a previous decision of the Israeli Censorship Board, the country's The Supreme Court of Justice has lifted the ban on Mukhammad Bakkri's controversial documentary Jenin Jenin. Bakkri's report on the Israeli military incursion into the Jenin refugee camp and its tragic outcome put the entire blame on the Israeli ...

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    44th Thessaloniki festival announces line-up

    2003-11-13T04:05:00Z

    The Thessaloniki International Film Festival has unveiled today the full line-up of its 44th edition.The Festival kicks off November 21, with Takeshi Kitano's Venice winner Zatoichi and closes with Jim Sheridan's In America on Saturday November 29. Vincent Gallo's controversial Brown Bunny is, in its new ...

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    Israeli Film Authority announces 2003's fund allocations

    2003-11-13T04:05:00Z

    The Israeli Film Authority, which allocates state funds for the cinema industry, has finally announced its long-awaited allocations for 2003. As expected, 85% of the $13.5m (NIS 61m) distributed by the government will go to production (two thirds of it for features, the rest divided between documentaries, shorts and experimental ...

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    75% more entries for 2nd Berlinale Talent Campus

    2003-11-13T04:05:00Z

    The Berlinale Talent Campus has received 75% more applications for next year's event with 3,500 entries coming from 101 countries, compared to 2,000 from 70 countries for the first edition last February.Talent Campus project manager Christine Dorn told ScreenDaily.com that applications had come from countries like Mali, Azerbaijan, Syria, Senegal ...

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    HUNGARY

    2003-11-13T00:00:00Z

    Although taking over the top spot at the Hungarian box office without a doubt, the third Matrix episode didn't quite match the success of Matrix: Reloaded. Its gross of HUF 132 million in its opening weekend, gives Matrix: Revolutions the fourth best opening ever in Hungary and the third best ...

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    House Of Sand And Fog

    2003-11-13T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Vadim Perelman. US. 2003. 126minsHouse Of Sand And Fog is a film that takes itself very seriously, and it should. Adapted from the novel by Andre Dubus III, which was featured on Oprah Winfrey's Book Club, it's drenched in poetic atmospherics that many will find haunting and others pretentious. ...

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    House Of Sand And Fog

    2003-11-13T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Vadim Perelman. US. 2003. 126minsHouse Of Sand And Fog is a film that takes itself very seriously, and it should. Adapted from the novel by Andre Dubus III, which was featured on Oprah Winfrey's Book Club, it's drenched in poetic atmospherics that many will find haunting and others pretentious. ...

  • Reviews

    House Of Sand And Fog

    2003-11-13T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Vadim Perelman. US. 2003. 126minsHouse Of Sand And Fog is a film that takes itself very seriously, and it should. Adapted from the novel by Andre Dubus III, which was featured on Oprah Winfrey's Book Club, it's drenched in poetic atmospherics that many will find haunting and others pretentious. ...

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    DENMARK

    2003-11-13T00:00:00Z

    While Matrix Revolutions took the box-office crown with a solid if not amazing 775 admissions screen average on its 79 prints, the film that was most influenced by it was Kill Bill, which dropped from number one to six, down some 60%. Last week's new local release from newcomer Oliver ...

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    Warner Bros confirms Revolutions record

    2003-11-13T00:00:00Z

    Warner Bros confirmed yesterday (Nov 12) that The Matrix Revolutions had indeed scored the biggest five-day worldwide opening of all time with a final estimate of $202.8m.The estimated international running total for the same period - spanning the global day-and-date release on Nov 5 through to Nov 9 - was ...

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    Sellers sells for HBO

    2003-11-12T04:05:00Z

    HBO Films London has sold all rights in four territories to its drama The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers.Toshiba has picked it up for Japan, LNK for Portugal, Spentzos for Greece and Noah for Israel.The company has also reported strong interest from French, Italian and Spanish buyers at Mifed ...

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    Sellers sells for HBO

    2003-11-12T04:05:00Z

    HBO Films London has sold all rights in four territories to its drama The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers.Toshiba has picked it up for Japan, LNK for Portugal, Spentzos for Greece and Noah for Israel.The company has also reported strong interest from French, Italian and Spanish buyers at Mifed ...

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    Lions Gate takes over world for New France

    2003-11-12T04:05:00Z

    Lions Gate International has acquired worldwide rights excluding France and Canada to Jean Beaudin's epic historical romance New France, starring Gerard Depardieu, Tim Roth and Colm Meaney.The in-production Canadian-French-UK joint venture is being shot in English and French-language versions on locations in Canada, France and the UK.The company's co-presidents Nick ...

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    Lions Gate takes over world for New France

    2003-11-12T04:05:00Z

    Lions Gate International has acquired worldwide rights excluding France and Canada to Jean Beaudin's epic historical romance New France, starring Gerard Depardieu, Tim Roth and Colm Meaney.The in-production Canadian-French-UK joint venture is being shot in English and French-language versions on locations in Canada, France and the UK.The company's co-presidents Nick ...

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    Europe opens up to Tube

    2003-11-12T04:05:00Z

    Tube Entertainment's big underground action picture Tube has scored additional sales in Europe selling to AV Film for Italy and Pathe for France. Spain's Manga Entertainment bought both Tube and Jan Sun Woo's sci-fi fantasy Resurrection Of The Little Match Girl. Tube has also struck a deal with John Sloss' ...

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    Europe opens up to Tube

    2003-11-12T04:05:00Z

    Tube Entertainment's big underground action picture Tube has scored additional sales in Europe selling to AV Film for Italy and Pathe for France. Spain's Manga Entertainment bought both Tube and Jan Sun Woo's sci-fi fantasy Resurrection Of The Little Match Girl. Tube has also struck a deal with John Sloss' ...

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    Dutch producer under financial investigation

    2003-11-12T04:05:00Z

    The future of First Floor Features, the Dutch company owned by producer Laurens Geels, who made the Oscar-winning Character, appears to be in the balance. First Floor's backers this week launched an investigation into the financial position of the company and as a result the release of three films, Views ...