All Screen articles in 17 June 2003 – Page 2
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EasyCinema runs into UK exhibition difficulties
easyCinema, the UK no-frills exhibitor which sells tickets for as low as £0.20, has secured a range of previously-released titles from Warner Bros, including the first two installments of the Harry Potter franchise. But none of the titles are first-run, and all are available on DVD and video in the ...
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Danes launch FilmFyn regional fund
New Danish regional fund FilmFyn launches this week with a budget of US$2.7m (DKR17m), which will be divided among three to four feature films annually at least until 2006. The first regional fund of its kind in Denmark, FilmFyn is modelled on the hugely successful Swedish regional fund, Film I ...
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Cult French comedy heads for big screen
Camera Cafe, a comedy program that airs before the nightly news on French channel M6 will make a leap to the big screen in 2004. Created by and starring Bruno Solo and Yvan Bolloc'h, the show - which has been sold widely around the world - is a comedic look ...
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Japan acts to protect copyright of Golden Age directors
Japan has passed a revised Copyright Law extending copyright protection for movies and animated films from the current fifty years to seventy following the date of release. The new law goes into effect in January.The Japanese film industry has campaigned long and hard for this revision. The copyrights on films ...
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Martin Sorrell's WPP invests in Spain's MediaPro
Multinational communications giant WPP has taken a 30% stake in growing Spanish media firm MediaPro. The remaining 70% of the company remains in equal parts with MediaPro's three founding partners: Jaume Roures, Gerard Romy and Jose Maria Benet. The value of the WPP sale was not revealed. MediaPro president Roures ...
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Hollywood Homicide
Dir: Ron Shelton. US. 2003. 115minsYou can't hit a home run every time you come up to bat, but director Ron Shelton (Bull Durham, Tin Cup, White Men Can't Jump) strikes out completely with his latest film, a buddy-buddy action comedy set not in the world of sports but against ...
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Hopkins misses Maui festival tribute
A last minute family emergency forced Sir Anthony Hopkins to cancel his trip to the fourth Maui Film Festival this weekend, where he was due to collect the Silversword Award Tribute. "We wish Sir Anthony well and would love to present the award to him next year," Barry Rivers, executive ...
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Topeka tops Huesca's short film competition
Spain's 31st annual Huesca Film Festival closed Saturday night with three-minute dialogue-free Topeka taking the top prize and the various short film competition juries coinciding on many of the other main awards.Basque native Asier Altuna won the international jury's top prize, worth Euros 6,000, for his three-minute dialogue-free Topeka. France's ...
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Salvatores wins Italy's Nastro D'Argento for best director
Gabriele Salvatores scooped Italy's prestigious Nastro D'Argento (Silver Ribbon) prize as best director for I'm Not Scared, during a ceremony held on Saturday night in Taormina's ancient Greek amphitheatre.Adapted from author Niccolo' Ammaniti's hit novel, I'm Not Scared tells the story of a young boy in a desolate Southern Italian ...
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Back to the top for Pixar megahit Nemo
Buena Vista/Pixar's underwater adventure Finding Nemo resurfaced at the top of the chart over the weekend, grossing an estimated $29.2m going into its third week on release.The animated yarn has amassed $192.3m and is expected to finish in the $275m-$300m range, which would surpass the Pixar record set in 2001 ...
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Cage gets lifetime award at Chicago Film Festival
Nicolas Cage is to receive the Career Achievement Award at the 39th Chicago International Film Festival's Summer Gala on Jul 19.Cage won the best actor Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas in 1996 for which he also won the Golden Globe, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Film ...
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Seattle audiences give Whale Rider its top awards
The 25-day Seattle International Film Festival ended its run yesterday with audience awards - aka the Golden Space Needle awards - going to Niki Caro's Whale Rider as best film and Caro as best director. Whale Rider, which is now on release in the US through Newmarket Films, was also ...
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Reloaded grabs another $22m for $347m total
Warner Bros International's The Matrix Reloaded grossed an estimated $22m over the weekend, raising its projected cumulative score to $347m.In its second weekend in Japan the sci-fi sequel took around $9m (Yen 1bn), representing a 20% drop-off from the record opening weekend.It was the third or fourth biggest second weekend ...
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Buffalo Soldiers finally gets UK release
Pathe Distribution has scheduled a UK release date of July 18 for Buffalo Soldiers, the long-delayed GIs and drugs feature which Miramax Films held back in North America after September 11.The UK distributor said it is going out on a hefty 250 prints on the film, which it acquired when ...
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Besson brings short film to the masses
Having jump started the careers of several of France's most important young filmmakers , Luc Besson is at it again. Via his mini-studio Europa Corp., Besson has packaged 10 short films together into one feature length movie which will open in France on June 18. Called Zero Un, ...
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UK tax funds bankroll Bauer Martinez slate
UK tax financier Tower Film Productions has partnered with fellow funding operation UKFS to bankroll a slate of films involving Dennis Hopper, Andy Garcia, Ringo Lam, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Gina Gershon and Dominique Swain.Most of the titles are being produced through Philippe Martinez's US-based Bauer Martinez. Tower chief executive Stephen ...
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Banff winner tipped for US theatrical run
A feature-length version of documentary Chavez - Inside the Coup, the critically acclaimed winner of the top award at this week's Banff television festival, is under negotiation for a US theatrical release says its producer, David Power of Ireland's Power Pictures. Speaking to Screen Daily, David Power said that theatrical ...
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Scott takes Tristan And Isolde to Prague in August
Ridley Scott's Tristan And Isolde is set to go into production in the Czech Republic at the end of August.The film is a co-production between Quality International and ApolloMedia/ApolloProMedia, UK-based MFF and Filmgroup 111 Prague. Moshe Diamant is set to produce and Ridley Scott oversee as Executive Producer. Kolin Luxembourg ...
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Korean film-makers rage against quota threat
The South Korean film community has reacted strongly to statements from Korea's Ministry of Finance & Economy calling for the reduction or abolition of the nation's Screen Quota system. In a hastily-arranged press conference on June 12, a coalition of directors, actors, and producers issued a sharp rebuttal to ...
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Niki&Flo
Dir: Lucian Pintilie. France-Romania. 2003. 98minsVeteran Romanian director Lucian Pintilie has crafted a fitfully amusing, occasionally absorbing fable of slow disintegration around a fragile story of a father who feels increasingly lonely and alienated as his children leave home, one for the afterlife and the other for the US. Mixing ...
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