All Screen articles in 14 November 2003 – Page 5
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Cineclick's Old Boy conjures up Euro deals
Old Boy, a thriller about a man who is challenged to find out why he was kidnapped, is drawing market and remake heat for Cineclick Asia.The film, which is one of the hottest titles at Mifed, has already closed a number of deals. France's Wild Side bought the Park Chan-Wook ...
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Intolerable Cruelty boosts its int'l running total
Universal's black comedy Intolerable Cruelty grossed $6.4m from 2,382 sites in 24 countries through UIP at the weekend to raise its international running total to $46.4m.The film finished its third week at number one in Italy, where it dropped 18% and has grossed $8m to date, and added $1.2m in ...
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KWA takes off with Astronautas, Bolchevique
Madrid-based sales agent Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has just picked up world-wide distribution rights to two new Spanish pictures: Astronautas and La Flaqueza Del Bolchevique.Santi Amodeo's Astronautas is a bittersweet comedy about an alcoholic artist who gets back onto the straight and narrow with the help of a young girl. ...
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Camel trots into France with ARP
ARP has bought French rights to The Story Of The Weeping Camel, one of the surprise hits of the Toronto Film Festival and the official Mongolian entry for this year's best foreign language film Academy Award. Sold to the French independent by Menemsha Entertainment, which has worldwide sales rights, the ...
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Camel trots into France with ARP
ARP has bought French rights to The Story Of The Weeping Camel, one of the surprise hits of the Toronto Film Festival and the official Mongolian entry for this year's best foreign language film Academy Award. Sold to the French independent by Menemsha Entertainment, which has worldwide sales rights, the ...
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Camel trots into France with ARP
ARP has bought French rights to The Story Of The Weeping Camel, one of the surprise hits of the Toronto Film Festival and the official Mongolian entry for this year's best foreign language film Academy Award. Sold to the French independent by Menemsha Entertainment, which has worldwide sales rights, the ...
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Japan's Movie-Eye kicks off with Arclight's Crash
Movie-Eye Entertainment, the new Japanese production, distribution and management company, has acquired its first international film here, Crash starring Heath Ledger and Brendan Fraser, from Arclight Films.The company, run by former Gaga Communications executives Kaz Tadashiki and Taku Ushiyama, was formed this summer with shareholders including the two principals and ...
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ET creator dials up Dark animation
Legendary ET creator Carlo Rambaldi is lining up an animation feature about a human being who ends up on another planet.The picture, entitled Jo Dark, will be directed by Rambaldi's son, Victor, whose credits as director include 1995's Decoy and 1988 movie Primal Rage.Jo Dark, which is planned as an ...
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Cattleya charges ahead with Winspeare drama
Italian director Edoardo Winspeare, whose last film The Miracle screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival, is now preparing to direct a WW2 picture about an Italian Lawrence of Arabia.Winspeare is currently writing the film, which will focus on the life of Amedeo Guillet, an Italian cavalry officer who ...
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Giffoni, AFMA Foundation give birth to Teen LA
One of Europe's leading youth-oriented events, Italy's Giffoni Film Festival, has sealed a landmark deal with the AFMA Foundation to establish a twin event in Los Angeles next summer, to be called Teen LA.'Giffoni isn't just a festival. It is a year-round operation dedicated to promoting cinema for young ...
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ACE deals Card Player to Japan, UK
Japan's Gaga Communications and the UK's Arrow Film Distributors have both acquired local distribution rights to The Card Player, the new film from cult Italian suspense master Dario Argento.Sold by Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE), The Card Player is about an unstoppable serial killer who kidnaps young women, holds them hostage ...
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20 films look to break out of The Asylum
LA-based independent home video production and distribution outfit The Asylum has secured private funding to produce 20 films over the next 18 months, with the first title set to begin principal photography in January 2004 for a summer US release.The line-up will comprise mostly horror, sci-fi and thriller titles budgeted ...
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20 films look to break out of The Asylum
LA-based independent home video production and distribution outfit The Asylum has secured private funding to produce 20 films over the next 18 months, with the first title set to begin principal photography in January 2004 for a summer US release.The line-up will comprise mostly horror, sci-fi and thriller titles budgeted ...
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Pescarolo lines up $18m She shoot
Shooting is due to start in May in Shanghai on Leo Pescarolo's $18m international movie, She (aka Draconis).She is produced by Rome-based Pescarolo's Imago Film with Massimo Pacilio for Movieweb, together with Fred Wang from Hong Kong's Salon Media Films, France's Mandarin Films, Germany's CMW Film Company and Australia's Darnley ...
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Fortissimo learns to speak more English
Fortissimo Film Sales haspicked up world rights to More Than Scarlet, an Australian drama from the stable of Jan Chapman,producer of Lantana and ThePiano. The company is also poised topick up two other Aussie pictures in moves that underline its growing influencein the English-languagesector. The Hong Kong andNetherlands-based company has ...
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NETHERLANDS
With the onslaught of Warner Bros The Matrix Revolutions helping Dutch box office to a 52% rise week-on-week it was local drama Cloaca that held up best.Dropping just 7% in its third week and boasting the second highest screen average of the week, after Revolutions, with $4,175 Cloaca gained one ...
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Nuan scoops Tokyo Grand Prix
Huo Jianqui's romantic drama Nuan was awarded the Grand Prix at the 16th edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival. Jury President Gong Li announced the winner, follow-up to Huo's acclaimed Postmen In The Mountains, at the closing ceremony in Tokyo on November 9, together with fellow jurors Irwin Kershner, ...
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GERMANY
As to be expected, the final part of the Matrix trilogy, The Matrix Revolutions (Warner) wrestled the top spot away from Soenke Wortmann's The Miracle Of Bern which had reigned on high for the last three weeks. The latest Matrix instalment's 1.1m admissions (including 230,000 from the additional Wednesday screenings) ...
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Government 'death sentence' for Mexican cinema
Mexico's film industry is in an uproar over the federal government's plans to sell or shut down the country's key film institutions. The surprise proposal comes as part of a $150bn austerity package that includes getting rid of state-owned production house Imcine, the decades-old Churubusco Azteca film studio and national ...
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Something stirs sales for Senator
LA-based Senator International has struck a raft of sales on Clare Kilner's romantic comedy Something Borrowed, the first title in its multi-picture co-financing deal with Gold Circle Films.Medusa has picked up all rights for Italy, Village Roadshow for Australia and New Zealand and TMC for Turkey, joining a list of ...