All Screen articles in 18 February 2001 – Page 3
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Kieslowski Awards to be rolled out across Europe
Young European talent is to get a new chance to break into the movies thanks to an extension of the Kieslowski Awards.The prizes, which have operated in France for the last three years, are now being rolled out throughout the 15 European Union countries. The scheme, which gives writers and ...
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Thoeren quits Ufa to focus on producing
Veteran producer Konstantin Thoeren is exiting his post as managing director of Ufa International Film & TV Produktion at the end of this week. Thoeren told ScreenDaily that he will now concentrate on producing through his own outfit Patrola Films Inc, based in Munich and Los Angeles, although he will ...
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Babelsberg beefs up production division
Germany's Studio Babelsberg has expanded its in-house production division in a bid to attract more big-budget international productions to the legendary production facility. The studio's CEO Rainer Schaper announced during the Berlin Film Festival that production manager Udo Happel, who has most recently supervised Jean-Jacques Annaud's Berlin opener Enemy At ...
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Ang Lee wins third best foreign-language Oscar nod
It was an extraordinary morning for Ang Lee, the Taiwanese director overlooked by the Academy for Sense And Sensibility in 1995 and The Ice Storm in 1997. Not only did he win picture and director nominations for his box office sensation Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon but he won his third ...
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Gladiator, Crouching Tiger lead Oscars race
Gladiator and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon led the field in the 2000 Academy Award nominations announced this morning in Los Angeles, which generated a few surprises and set some unusual records.Crouching Tiger became only the third foreign-language film in history to win a Best Picture nomination as well as a ...
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Women stays on top; Rocky opens well
Icon Film Distribution's What Women Want easily retained the number one spot in the UK over the weekend with a three-day gross of $3,635,896 (£2,512,404). The romantic comedy dropped just 26% from its opening weekend pulling in a site average of $8,890 from 409 sites. The film's closest challenger was ...
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In The Bedroom
Dir: Todd Field. US. 2001. 135mins.Indie actor Todd Field makes an impressive feature directorial debut with In The Bedroom, a sharply-observed portrait of how one upper-middle-class family comes to terms with sudden tragedy. Set in New England, this meditative, multilayered drama is as much noteworthy for its accomplishments, providing a ...
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Threshold to produce customised CG animated movie
Larry Kassanoff's Threshold Entertainment has started production on a $50m CGI animated movie set in a supermarket called Foodfight! through its subsidiary Threshold Digital Research Labs (TDRL). The difference with this film, however, is that it will be produced by animators - and feature consumer brands - from around the ...
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UK's Nicola Usburne wins Silverman Fellowship
Nicola Usborne, the UK producer of FilmFour's Sundance hit Jump Tomorrow, has been selected as the recipient of the 2001 Mark Silverman Fellowship which supports "visionary independent producers who have committed to a film project and still face the challenge of moving forward into production."The award is bestowed by The ...
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FULL LIST OF AFM SEMINARS & CONFERENCE AGENDA
The American Film Market has announced the lineup for its AFM Seminars at the Le Merigot Hotel as well as the participants in the AFM Finance Conference which will take place on Feb 23 from 9.00 to 12.30 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel.FEB 23:The two panels at the Finance Conference ...
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Judi Dench rejoins Hallstrom, Miramax in News
Judi Dench has joined the cast of The Shipping News, Lasse Hallstrom's movie version of the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E Annie Proulx, which is currently in pre-production and is set to start shooting in March. Produced and financed by Miramax Films, it marks the fourth Miramax picture in ...
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Beacon, UPI reteam to sell The Palace Thief
Beacon Pictures is reteaming with Universal Pictures International (UPI) to sell one of its newest projects in international territories - The Palace Thief, a drama to star Kevin Kline and be directed by Michael Hoffman (One Fine Day, Soapdish). Per its long term domestic distribution deal, Universal Pictures will handle ...
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Picture This! picks up Confusion Of Genders for US
Picture This! Entertainment, Doug Witkins' boutique distribution outfit that specialises in stories presenting non-stereotypical gay, lesbian and bisexual characters, has acquired all US rights to the raunchy French sex comedy The Confusion of Genders (La Confusion Des Genres). Written and directed by Ilan Duran Cohen, a 37-year-old graduate of New ...
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Alliance buys into Canada's indie film network
Less than two months after losing out to Novia Scotia's Salter Street Films in a bid to launch Canada's first English-language movie network dedicated solely to independent filmmaking, Alliance Atlantis has offered some C$80m ($53m) to buy out Salter Street under an agreed takeover. Since Alliance Atlantis already enjoys long-term ...
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Canal Plus Polska signs output deal with Kinowelt
Germany's Kinowelt International and Canal Plus Polska have signed a three-year agreement which gives Canal Plus' Polish pay-TV offshoot exclusive broadcast rights to all New Line Cinema titles.The agreement covers all titles distributed by Kinowelt International - a subsidiary of Kinowelt Medien which handles the German group's international development through ...
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Pinewood-Shepperton eyes European expansion
Pinewood-Shepperton Holdings, owner of the $145m (£100m)-plus super studio formed this week from Pinewood Studios' effective takeover of Shepperton Studios, has set its sights on a link-up with a production facility on the European Continent.Michael Grade, the former Pinewood chief who becomes executive chairman of the new group, confirmed that ...
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Ferch to star in Iceland's Seagull's Laughter
German actor Heino Ferch, who recently headlined SAT1's East-West drama The Tunnel, is to play one of the leads alongside Margaret Vilhjalmsdottir and Ugla Egilsdottir in Icelandic director Agust Gudmundsson's next project The Seagull's Laughter (Mavahlatur). The film, which starts shooting in Iceland from February 26, is being executive produced ...
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Medusa hit comedy moves from screen to console
Italian mini-major Medusa is seeking a US co-production partner to develop a line of video games spun off from its film properties. It is already preparing its first title, set to feature the money-spinning comic trio Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo. Medusa plans to release the game, which is being ...
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Palace, Istituto Luce strike two-pronged pact
Italian state distributor Istituto Luce and Australia's Palace Films have signed a two-pronged deal under which they will co-produce features and jointly distribute Italian titles in the Australian market.The deal, which is expected to lead to the creation of a jointly owned company in the next few months, marks a ...
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Buyers get first taste of Von Trier's Dogville
Poland's Gutek Film and Switzerland's Monopol Pathe have already signed up for Lars von Trier's next project, Dogville, following the screening in Berlin of a five-minute film, shot last month to test the project's innovative concept.Only the international backers of von Trier's last film, Dancer In The Dark, were invited ...
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