All Screen articles in 14 November 2003 – Page 3
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Movieweb casts Shadow with English-lang slate
Movieweb's Massimo Pacilio has teamed up with the UK's Studio Eight and Canada's GFT Entertainment to produce a line-up of big-budget English language pictures.Among the first projects to be made through the new partnership is Shadow Dancer, a $10m movie starring Harvey Keitel, Giancarlo Giannini and Gerard Depardieu. Produced by ...
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Movieweb casts Shadow with English-lang slate
Movieweb's Massimo Pacilio has teamed up with the UK's Studio Eight and Canada's GFT Entertainment to produce a line-up of big-budget English language pictures.Among the first projects to be made through the new partnership is Shadow Dancer, a $10m movie starring Harvey Keitel, Giancarlo Giannini and Gerard Depardieu. Produced by ...
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Arclight clinches sales on The Merchant Of Venice
Arclight Films has completed a string of deals on Michael Radford's The Merchant Of Venice, starring Al Pacino.MGM has taken the film for the UK, Art Port for Japan, Manga for Spain, Paradise for Russia and New Films for Eastern Europe and Latin America.The $30m film of Shakespeare's play will ...
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Arclight clinches sales on The Merchant Of Venice
Arclight Films has completed a string of deals on Michael Radford's The Merchant Of Venice, starring Al Pacino.MGM has taken the film for the UK, Art Port for Japan, Manga for Spain, Paradise for Russia and New Films for Eastern Europe and Latin America.The $30m film of Shakespeare's play will ...
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Medusa adopts Polanski's Oliver
Italy's Medusa is the first major territorial buyer to parent Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist from Summit Entertainment. The distributor is in final negotiations to take Italian rights to the $60m film which is being produced by Polanski, Alain Sarde and Robert Benmussa.Polanski is currently scouting locations in eastern Europe for ...
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Medusa adopts Polanski's Oliver
Italy's Medusa is the first major territorial buyer to parent Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist from Summit Entertainment. The distributor is in final negotiations to take Italian rights to the $60m film which is being produced by Polanski, Alain Sarde and Robert Benmussa.Polanski is currently scouting locations in eastern Europe for ...
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Warner marches abroad with Alexander
Warner Bros Pictures has acquired the key English-language territories of UK, Australia and New Zealand to Oliver Stone's untitled Alexander The Great project from Intermedia and Summit Entertainment. Warner already has rights in North America and plans to release it on Nov 5, 2004."Warner Bros. continues to be a great ...
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Warner marches abroad with Alexander
Warner Bros Pictures has acquired the key English-language territories of UK, Australia and New Zealand to Oliver Stone's untitled Alexander The Great project from Intermedia and Summit Entertainment. Warner already has rights in North America and plans to release it on Nov 5, 2004."Warner Bros. continues to be a great ...
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MIFED dangles inducements for 2004
Fiera Milano International (FMI) general division director Carlo Bassi is expected to introduce major incentives to lure buyers and exhibitors to MIFED next year. The incentives could include subsidising flights and hotel accommodation in Milan, and are being offered at a time when opinion is divided among buyers and sellers ...
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MIFED dangles inducements for 2004
Fiera Milano International (FMI) general division director Carlo Bassi is expected to introduce major incentives to lure buyers and exhibitors to MIFED next year. The incentives could include subsidising flights and hotel accommodation in Milan, and are being offered at a time when opinion is divided among buyers and sellers ...
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UK/IRELAND
Jim Sheridan's In America held up well against the onslaught of Warner Bros' The Matrix Revolutions thanks to an increased presence in the UK and sustained strength in the Republic of Ireland.Adding two extra screens in Ireland the autobiographical drama, written by Sheridan and his daughters Naomi and Kirsten, slipped ...
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SWEDEN
After seven weeks at the top of the chart even Mikael Haafstroem's Evil had to step down to the Matrix Revolutions' massive 134 prints and impressive $8,441 screen average. However, since both Evil and the action-thriller The Third Wave are still out in 91 and 96 prints respectively, they are ...
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SPAIN
Despite its massive local release on 417 prints and a simultaneous worldwide marketing campaign, Warner Brothers' Matrix Revolutions wasn't among the top five biggest openers ever in Spanish history. With Euros 4.2m on the weekend (and a cumulative gross through Sunday of Euros 5.5m), the film also trailed its predecessor ...
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FRANCE
Continuing on its impressive opening, Francis Veber's buddy comedy Rudy & Quentin remains at number one with a mere 18% drop off from last week. The film passed the one million admissions mark in less than two weeks which will likely land it among France's highest grossers this year. With ...
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Caterina In The City (Caterina Va In Citta)
Dir: Paolo Virzi. Italy. 2003. 106mins.This contemporary commedia all'italiana squeezes some enjoyable mileage out of the old "hick in the big city" trope, in its tale of a 13-year-old girl who moves to Rome from the provinces, and is immediately caught up in the factional politics of her new high ...
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Old Boy
Dir: Park Chan-Wook. Korea. 2003. 135 mins (approx)Director Park Chan-Wook helped Korean cinema break into a front of mind position with international distributors with his first film Joint Security Area, a tense stand-off on the North-South Korean border. He showed a darker, edgier side with Sympathy For Mr Vengeance, a ...
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German blockbuster opens London festival of German cinema
Germany's current blockbuster The Miracle Of Bern, which has grossed over $ 14.5m in its first four weeks of release in German cinemas, will open this year's Festival of German Cinema in London on November 27 with director Soenke Wortmann and lead actors Peter Lohmeyer and Louis Klamroth (who are ...
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68 projects chosen for Mannheim co-production meetings
New features by Ineke Smits (The Aviatrix Of Kazbek), Nicholas Kendall (The Singing House), Gyorgy Palfi (Taxidermia), Pablo Trapero (Rolling Family), Damjan Kozole (The Dark Side Of Earth) and Joan Chen (The Concubine) are among 68 projects from 27 countries being pitched at the 7th edition of the Mannheim Co-Production ...
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Outlook rosy with $350m investment equity fund
Outlook Films, the newindependent LA film outfit formed earlier this year by CAA agent Adam Krentzmanand Francois Lesterlin, has closed financing deals worth $350m with equityinvestors Pacificap Entertainment and Renaissance Millenium Pictures.Outlook, which plans tofinance and produce up to six films a year, has closed a deal valued at $150mwith ...