All Screen articles in 18 September 2002 – Page 3
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Alcon buys Pemberton script
Alcon Entertainment, theWarner-based production outfit behind Insomnia and The Affair Of The Necklace, has purchased the comedy spec script The WholePemberton Thing written byfirst-time screenwriter Mike Samonek. The story deals with the volatile relationshipbetween a young executive and his Machiavellian, oddball office mate.Samonek has simultaneouslysigned a first-look deal with Alcon ...
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Antwone Fisher
Dir: Denzel Washington. US. 2002. 117minsAn assured directorial debut from double Oscar-winner Denzel Washington, Antwone Fisher is an inspirational true story of one man's struggle to overcome the legacy of an abused childhood. It may sound like the subject matter of countless TV-movies dramas but, handled with discretion and sensitivity, ...
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Phone Booth
Director: Joel Schumacher. US. 2002. 80minsA slick, Twilight Zone-style premise is stretched to the limit of narrative credibility in Phone Booth, a trim, trashy little thriller that reunites the Tigerland team of director Joel Schumacher and star Colin Farrell. A compelling central performance and energetic direction serve to distract from ...
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BVI's Signs flies high in UK, Germany, Mexico
BuenaVista International (BVI) scored its biggest ever live-action opening in the UKover the weekend as it continued the international roll-out of Signs, M Night Shyamalan's domestic sci-fi hit. Thepicture grossed $5.7m from 443 screens in the UK, including previews, which wasalso the biggest UK opening for star Mel Gibson. In ...
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Chen Kaige leads Chinese delegation to Denver
Together director Chen Kaige will be part of a Chinesedelegation attending next month's 25th Starz Denver International Film Festival(DIFF) as part of a tribute to Chinese cinema. The festival, which runs fromOctober 10-20, will present a 'Salute To Chinese Cinema' as part of its annualfocus on a country or region ...
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Fradis & Cohen team for new film investment fund
Anatoly Fradis of Alfa FilmEnterprises Inc and Joseph N Cohen of American Entertainment Investors Inc haveformed a new film investment outfit called Marching Band Productions. Fradisand Cohen have already closed their first deal for the company - forthree pictures with Nigel Sinclair and Guy East of Spitfire Productions kickingoff with ...
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Sony rebrands its TV units, dropping Columbia TriStar
Sony Pictures Entertainment(SPE) has renamed its domestic and international television concerns, removingthe Columbia TriStar moniker and rebramding them with the Sony name. ColumbiaTriStar Domestic Television and Columbia TriStar International Television willnow operate as Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and Sony Pictures TelevisionInternational (SPTI).The move is calculated tocapitalise on the strength of ...
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Signs points to strong UK gross for Gibson
Mel Gibson enjoyed his biggest opening to date in the UK at the weekend when M Night Shyamalan's Signs claimed a massive $5.9m (£3.8m) from 443 sites - including $481,566 of previews at 375 locations.Giving distributor Buena Vista International (BVI) its second biggest opening of the year, overtaking the $1.8m ...
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$20m Edgardo Mortara bites the dust
Edgardo Mortara, one of the most ambitious productions at the UK's FilmFour, has collapsed only weeks before it was due to start principal photography.The $20m period epic starring Anthony Hopkins and Javier Bardem appeared to have survived Channel 4's decision to close down FilmFour as a stand alone operation and ...
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Antwone Fisher to open AFI FEST, Talk To Her to close
Thisyear's AFI FEST in Los Angeles will open on Nov 7 with the gala screeningof the psychological drama Antwone Fisher, the long awaited directorial debut of Denzel Washington, whichpremiered at the weekend in Toronto. The festival will also screen the USpremiere of Atom Egoyan's Araratas its Centerpiece Gala on Nov ...
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Italy's cinema department chief to be ousted
Rossana Rummo, the popular head of the Italian government's cinema department is to be replaced on October 1st by Gianni Profita, a political ally of Silvio Berlusconi.Profita is known to be close to Carmelo Rocca, currently the general secretary of the cultural ministry. He is a media professor at Rome's ...
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German exhibitor launches theatrical distribution operation
German exhibitor Kinostar Theater GmbH has expanded its operations to embrace in-house theatrical distribution in the field of arthouse cinema in addition to its exhibition and production activities.The first release will Philip Groening's drama L'Amour, L'Argent, L'Amour (pictured) which won a Best Actress Silver Leopard at the 2000 Locarno ...
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Sundance opens its doors to international docs
The SundanceFilm Festival is opening its doors to international documentaries, launching asection of approximately eight films from around the world beginning at nextyear's event which will take place Jan 16-26, 2003 in Park City, Utah.The international documentary section will co-exist with the World Cinemaprogramme which features some 32 international dramatic ...
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UK takes the lead in European DVD penetration
The UK overtook France in 2001 to become the European country with the highest penetration of DVD players. This followed a generic campaign funded jointly by hardware and software companies to promote DVD over VHS.New figures from industry research company Screen Digest show that the overall European market for rental ...
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Michael Thornhill wins Australia's Cecil Homes Award
Filmmaker Michael Thornhill has won this year's Cecil Homes Award in a unanimous vote by the board of the Australian Screen Directors Association.The award is for a filmmaker who has promoted the art of directing and advocated the role of the director and he has done that tirelessly -- often ...
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The Pornographer forced into double UK video release
The UK's Tartan Video is to release Bertrand Bonello's The Pornographer on video in two different versions due to the restrictions of the British Video Recordings Act 1984. One version with an 18 certificate will be available for 18 year olds to purchase in normal high-street retail outlets ...
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Brazil's Rio festival to showcase 400 films
Brazil's most prominent film event, the Festival do Rio BR, will showcase up to 400 films in more than seventeen sidebars. Running from September 26 to October 10, the festival will include the latest works by internationally renowned directors led by Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Arturo Ripstein, Atom Egoyan and ...
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Endemol acquires hit-making Spanish TV production outfit
Endemol Entertainment has bought out 100% of Barcelona TV production outfit Gestmusic Endemol.Endemol, itself 100% owned by Spanish telecoms company Telefonica, originally bought into the producer in 1994 and owned 60% prior to the latest move. Gestmusic founders Tony Cruz and Jose Maria Mainat will stay on as co-executive directors ...
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Northbeach launches into Australian distribution market
Yet another player has joined the growing band of small Australian distributors specialising in independent and foreign films. Northbeach Film Distributors, owned by journalist and publisher David Pearce, is planning a limited release of Spanish director Ventura Pons' first English language film Food Of Love, a comedy drama starring five ...
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Australia's Beyond blames losses on revaluation of film catalogue
Beyond International managing director Mikael Borglund has played down the company's US$12m (A$22m) loss for the year ending June 30, saying it was principally due to a $10.7m revaluation of non-performing films and television programs from the catalogue. Total writedowns were actually $12.6m with the addition of online investments and ...
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