All Screen articles in 18 February 2004 – Page 6
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Dogme retains its bite
Often thought to be on the verge of extinction, the Danish Dogme-movement fathered by Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg back in 1995, is as alive and kicking as ever.The success of Annette K. Olesen's Berlin competition entry In Your Hands, which despite its dark themes won acclaim after screening ...
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Leconte Berlin favourite goes to Paramount Classics
Paramount Classics hasclosed a deal for multiple territory rights on Berlin Film Festival favourite ConfidencesTrop Intimes (aka IntimateStrangers). The studio specializedarm has bought rights in North America, Latin America, Australia/New Zealandand Japan from sales outfit StudioCanal.The film is directed byPatrice Leconte whose 1999 movie Girl On The Bridge and last ...
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Arclight strikes Beautiful deal with GMM
Australo-British sales company Arclight Films has picked up world sales rights to Beautiful Boxer, the Thai drama about a kickboxer who fought to earn money for a sex change that appears in Berlin's Panorama section. The deal is expected to be the beginning of a long-term relationship between Arclight and ...
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Amnesty to launch film prize at Berlinale 2005
Amnesty International is to launch a new prize at the Berlinale next year for films dealing with subjects such as human rights and human dignity.The Amnesty International Film Award is being launched to put these films in the spotlight, to offer them a larger audience and to encourage committed filmmakers.Starting ...
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The Stratosphere Girl
Dir/scr: M X Oxberg. Ger-UK-Fr-Switz-It. 2004. 92 mins.It's a chilly place, the stratosphere, and the air can get pretty rarefied. Nothing wrong with that, of course: but down here on earth, cinemagoers need a little character warmth and a little story oxygen, and the third feature by young German director ...
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Mendes unveils debut Scamp slate
Oscar winningdirector Sam Mendes has launched Scamp Film And Theatre, a new London basedfilm and theatre production company with co-directors Pippa Harris and CaroNewling.The company hasalso unveiled a high profile film development slate, which includes projectsfrom some of the UK's top TV dramatists such as Paul Abbott, David Yatesand Peter ...
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Mendes unveils Scamp debut slate
Oscar winningdirector Sam Mendes has launched Scamp Film And Theatre, a new London basedfilm and theatre production company with co-directors Pippa Harris and CaroNewling.The company hasalso unveiled a high profile film development slate, which includes projectsfrom some of the UK's top TV dramatists such as Paul Abbott, David Yatesand Peter ...
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Tupperware! movie in the works at Crossroads
Crossroads Films has optioned film rights to Laurie Kahn-Leavitt'sdocumentary Tupperware!and plans to turn it into a narrative feature charting the history of therevolutionary kitchenware design.Narrated by Kathy Bates, Tupperware! made its national debut on PBS'sAmerican Experience strand; it traces the rise of reclusive inventor Earl Tupper'shumble plastic bowls to the ...
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Paramount closes in on worldwide DVD rights to Metallica
Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE) is understood to be closing inon worldwide DVD rights for the hotly contested Sundance documentary Metallica:Some Kind Of Monster,which has reportedly got international buyers in Berlin lining up fortheatrical rights. A domestic theatrical deal is also close, with IFC Filmsleading the pack.DVD rights would be a ...
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Tom Cruise serves as honorary chair at Independent Spirits
Tom Cruise will serve as honorary chair for the 2004 IFPIndependent Spirit Awards, which are set to take place in Santa Monica on Feb28."We are so pleased to honour Tom Cruise and his ongoing commitmentto independent film," IFP/Los Angeles executive director Dawn Hudson said in astatement."He has used his position ...
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Von Trier Peace speech censored
Speaking to Screen, Danish director Lars Von Trier has expressed surprise that his video-taped acceptance speech at Monday's Diamond for Peace Award was censored by the organisers.Von Trier, who is famously averse to flying, sent in a video speech critical of the Cinema For Peace committee.However, the tape was cut ...
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Bill Nighy joins voice cast of Magic Roundabout
Pathe has signed Bill Nighy - to voice the character of the rabbit, Dylan, for its CGI animated feature The Magic Roundabout.Nighy rounds out the previously announced voice cast members for the film of The Magic Roundabout, which is based on the classic cult TV series of the same name, ...
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Beautiful Country
Dir: Hans Petter Moland. Norway/US. 2004. 126 mins.A beautifully photographed but dramatically clunky saga about a Vietnamese war child's journey to rejoin his father in America, Beautiful Country is as much Terence Malick's film as it is that of Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland. Malick wrote the treatment, co-produced and ...
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Master And Commander sails off with London Critics awards
Master And Commander was the toast of last night at the 24th London Film Critics Circle Awards taking away Best Film, Best British Actor for Paul Bettany and Best Screenwriter for John Collee and Peter Weir.The other winners of the night included Mystic River for Best Director and Best Actor ...
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Karma leads Hong Kong Film Award nominations
Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai's action comedy Running On Karma leads the race for this year's Hong Kong Film Awards with 13 nominations, although the second instalment in Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Infernal Affairs trilogy is close behind with 12 nods.Running On Karma, which stars Andy Lau as a ...
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Croff guarantees Biennale autonomy
Hours after his appointment was finally confirmed by the Italian parliament, new Venice Biennale president Davide Croff issued a statement saying that he intends to "guarantee the Biennale's autonomy" and appoint a festival director as soon as possible."The Venice Biennale needs stability and transparency at this delicate time. I therefore ...
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Ariel Veneziano joins Greene Street as sales head
Ariel Veneziano has joined GreeneStreet Films International (GFI)as vice president, where his chief duties will include supervising thedivision's marketing, distribution and administrative functions andselling all GreeneStreet Films and Raw Nerve productions in select territories.Veneziano will report to Cedric Jeanson, GFI president andGreeneStreet Films partner, with whom he will work to ...
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NORTH AMERICA
Opening off the chart in 37th place this week, with $142,632, was Fox Searchlight's The Dreamers, Bernardo Bertolucci's heady tale of sexual awakening at the time of the 1968 student riots in Paris.It opened in five New York and Los Angeles theatres for a superb $28,526 per-site average that defied ...
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Echo Bridge to launch at AFM, armed with PM library and 94 CineTel titles
Veteran entertainment industry executives Michael Alexander, DougHamilton, Michael Rosenblatt and Lucie Salhany have teamed up to form the worldwidesales and distribution company Echo Bridge Entertainment.The company, which will get its official launch at the upcomingAFM, operates with a mandate to acquire "commercially driven" pictures forworldwide distribution and to target and ...
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British industry rocked by $375m equity cull
The British filmindustry has been left in a state of shock following the surprise announcementthis week that tax authority the Inland Revenue is pulling down the"guillotine" on the UK's tax equity funds.Veteran producerJeremy Thomas warned that the move would have "major implications"for employment in the UK industry.Pointing out thatup to ...