All Screen articles in 15 July 2002 – Page 3
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Hong Kong's Filmko sells Inner Senses to Horizon for Europe
Hong Kong production outfit Filmko Pictures has sold European rights to supernatural thriller Inner Senses to Vancouver-based sales company Horizon Entertainment.Horizon has several years experience handling Asian films in the European and North American markets. Its slate includes the celebrated Ring series, produced by Japan's Asmik Ace, one of its ...
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Edinburgh unveils impressive festival line-up
The 56th Edinburgh International Film Festival (August 14 - 25) will open with the UK premiere of Lynne Ramsey's acclaimed Morvern Callar and close with Christopher Nolan's hit thriller Insomnia.Gala screenings joining previously the announced titles: Tadpole, The Guru, Rabbit Proof Fence, 8 Femmes and Changing Lanes include Mark ...
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Ster Century divests Polish and Greek cinema circuits
Ster Century Europe has sold its Polish and Greek cinema operations for a combined Euros 30.6m.The company's four-multiplex Polish circuit, which includes three sites and 37 screens in Warsaw and one site in Wroclaw with 9 screens, has been sold to IT International Cinemas for Euros19.8m.A major multiplex operator in ...
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France's Bac Majestic reveals the identity of its 'white knight'
French distribution group Bac Majestic has revealed the name of its 'white knight': Belgian entrepreneur Michel Litwak and his company Fragum III, who will help turn around the beleaguered company. Bac, which issued a profit warning in May, was seeking a $12.3m (Euros13m) lifeline in order to survive. The lifeline ...
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Spain's Admira offloads Argentinian Azul TV
Spanish media house Admira and JP Morgan have finalised the long-mooted sale of Argentina's Azul TV to Argentine consortium HFS Media SA.The sale was prompted by an Argentine regulation which prohibits a single company from owning more than one television channel locally. Admira, the media arm of Spanish telecoms giant ...
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Deepa Mehta plans $10m English-language historical drama
Toronto-based Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta (pictured) is planning to make a $10m English-language feature about the 1914 epic journey by Punjabi immigrants from India to Canada and back on a ship named the Komagata Maru. The film is based on the historical incident of the steamship Komagata Maru that sailed ...
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Li Ka Shing makes play for HK TV group
Tom.com, a Hong Kong multimedia company owned by the territory's richest tycoon, Li Ka-shing, is buying a 32.75% stake in local free-to-air broadcaster Asia Television (ATV).The move marks Li's first foray into TV broadcasting and forms part of Tom.com's diversification strategy. The company was listed as an internet portal in ...
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Halcyon hooks Weisz, Denneen for thriller projects
Los Angeles-based independent production outfit Halcyon Entertainment has attached two hot music video and commercials directors to two films in active development. Halcyon was created in Los Angeles by British producer Chris Coen in 1999.Martin Weisz will direct The Sett, a thriller based on the novel by Ranulph Fiennes and ...
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Brandon Fowler sets up Transdermal Entertainment
Independent Los Angeles producer Brandon Fowler has set up Transdermal Entertainment, a financing and production company focused on films with "mid-range" budgets.The company is has two projects in development: Reverie, a drama about two young men making a documentary about the homeless and how it changes their lives forever, and ...
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Ethan Hawke & Fisher Stevens among new director Gotham nominees
Six film-makers have been nominated for the Open Palm Award for outstanding directorial debut at this year's Gotham Awards which will be presented in New York City on Sept 29. The awards, presented by IFP/New York, celebrate outstanding achievement in New York's film-making community.Nominees for the $10,000 award are Bertha ...
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Nowhere In Africa (Nirgendwo In Afrika)
Dir. Caroline Link. Germany. 2001. 134mins.A sprawling epic about a Jewish family sheltering in Africa just before World War Two, Nowhere In Africa is a natural crowd pleaser that has already stormed to success in Germany. Adapted from Stefanie Zweig's best-selling autobiography, the film, which is now playing on 224 ...
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Men In Black II takes $11.7m in first five international territories
In its first international roll-out weekend Columbia's Men in Black II scored a combined gross of $11.7m from Australia, Japan, Russia, New Zealand and Columbia, averaging $10,400 from 1,129 screens. In Japan MIBII took $5.3m - coincidentally the same amount Men in Black grossed when the original came out in ...
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Vivendi subject to accounting probe as it secures Euros 1bn loan
Vivendi Universal confirmed today (July 10) that it has obtained a Euros 1bn unsecured credit line from a group of international banks. But there are more problems for the group as the stockmarket opened a preliminary investigation into its accounting practices.The widely expected credit move is likely to be followed ...
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German film funds face new threat
The future of Germany's film funds has come under further threat with news of proposed tighter regulations by the Federal Ministry of Finance German business daily the Handelsblatt reported that the Ministry of Finance (BMF) intends to consider investors in film funds merely as acquirers of film rights rather than ...
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Japan's Takeshi Kitano wraps Dolls
Dolls, the latest feature from Japanese powerhouse Takeshi Kitano has wrapped principal photography and is set for local release in October by Office Kitano and Shochiku.Made for $2.5m (Y300m), Dolls is the director's 10th feature produced by Office Kitano and financed by a consortium of backers including Office Kitano, Bandai ...
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Copestake joins Buena Vista International Television
Buena Vista International Television has appointed Steve Copestake as vice president of marketing, reporting to Tom Toumazis, senior vice president and managing director, BVI - TV.Copesake joins BVI - TV from the UK's BSkyB, where he was head of marketing communications.
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Channel 4 confirms FilmFour closure
The UK's Channel 4 yesterday confirmed that it is to close FilmFour. It is planning to replace the $46.1m (£30m) a year vertically-integrated film division with an in-house development and production operation with an annual budget of around $15.4m (£10m). FilmFour was the UK's larfgest single film financier and was ...
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Austrian Film Institute gets 30% budget boost
The Austrian Film Institute is to get a substantial increase in its 2002 budget from Euros 7.4m to Euros 9.8m, in order to give its national film industry a better profile in the European arena.Austria's Secretary of State for Arts Franz Morak, announced the increase at a parliamentary hearing on ...
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Champion
Dir: Kwak Kyung-taek. Korea. 2002. 117minsLike its hero, Kim Deuk-gu, who tried to become Korea's first boxing world supremo, Champion gives a very worthy account of itself, but ultimately fails to deliver a knock-out punch. With sumptuous looks and a determinedly physical central performance by Friend star Yoo Oh-sun, the ...
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