All Screen articles in 18 September 2003 – Page 2
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Hawn, Hopkins, Howard get Hollywood Film Fest honours
Ron Howard, Anthony Hopkinsand Goldie Hawn will receive outstanding achievement awards at the HollywoodFilm Festival's awards gala ceremony on Oct 20.The Lord of The Rings star Orlando Bloom and Scarlett Johansson, whoearned critical acclaim this year for her roles in Lost In Translation and Girl With A Pearl Earring, will ...
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Michell embarks on Enduring Love shoot
Shooting has started on Enduring Love, an adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel directed by Roger Michell. Daniel Craig, Rhys Ifans and Samantha Morton star in the project, produced by Free Range Films and backed by Pathe Pictures, Inside Track, FilmFour, Ingenious Media and the UK Film Council. Pathe Distribution will ...
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Hot Swedish newcomer readies Disease debut
Swedish newcomer Daniel Espinosa will make his feature debut under Nordisk Film's low-budget label, Director's Cut, with Babylonsjukan (literally The Babylon Disease), a look at the world as seen through the eyes of a thirteen year-old girl in Stockholm. The film will be the first of its kind in Sweden, ...
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Veteran Danish writer directs King's Game debut
Nikolaj Arcel's feature debut Kings' Game (Kongekabale) has begun shooting this week.The script by Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg (Midsummer) is inspired by a controversial fact-based novel by Niels Krause Kjaer, which deals with a power-struggle in recent Danish politics. The cast is led by Anders W. Berthelsen (Mifune, Italian For ...
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Loewy lines up UK trip to recruit Momentum chief
Victory Loewy, CEO of Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution Group, is planning a return to the UK to recruit a new senior executive for Momentum Pictures, the company's wholly-owned UK distribution company. Current Momentum director David Kosse has accepted a position as London-based president of international marketing and distribution for ...
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Dutch tax break system faces closure
The Netherlands' tax incentive scheme (CVs) for film production, which has been in place for the last five years, looks set to close. Proposals for the new state budget were published yesterday and made no allowance for the continuation of the scheme.Separately, a government-commissioned report into the CV system was ...
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Von Trier books into Swedish studio for Manderlay
Swedish regional fund Film I Vast has once again attracted Danish maverick Lars von Trier, who will shoot his upcoming Manderlay at the Trollhattan studio early next year. It had been speculated that von Trier might shoot this second part of his U.S.A. trilogy in either Germany or Norway. But ...
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DNA, Searchlight board Fellowes romance
The new joint venture between DNA Films and FoxSearchlight has boarded its first project following an agreement to collaborateon Julian Fellowes' A Way Through The Woods with the UK's Celador Films.The romance will be financed 50:50 by Celador and DNA,with Fox Searchlight handling worldwide distribution.Shooting beganon Sept 8 in and ...
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Veteran Russian director shoots with terrorist biopic
One of Russia's most well known directors Karen Shakhnazarov is in production on a new film that takes the audience inside the mind of the world's earliest terrorist's.The Pale Horse, based on the life of Russian author and terrorist movement leader Boris Savinkov, is produced by Mosfilm Cinema Concern and ...
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Spain unveils Oscar contenders, Belgium submits Sea
Soldiers Of Salamina, Danube Hotel and South From Granada have made Spain's short-list for the nomination to the foreign-language Oscar. The final nominee will be announced October 1. Meanwhile, Sea Of Silence (Verder Dan De Maan) by Stijn Coninx has been selected as this year's Belgian entry for the Foreign-language ...
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Scott Free's Tristan & Isolde begins shoot in Ireland
Filming has begun in Galway, Ireland on Scott Free's Tristan & Isolde, directed by Kevin Reynolds.Set in the Dark Ages, it is the story of a princess and young warrior's love affair which threatens to tear apart an uneasy peace between England and Ireland.Written by Dean Georgaris (Lara Croft Tomb ...
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UK Film Council calls on distributors to apply for support
The UK Film Council has called on film distribution companies planning to release British films at UK cinemas between Dec 1 and March 31, 2004 to apply for support from its UK Film Distribution Programme.The £1m funding programme is retrospective and aims to reward distributors who release British films in ...
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DPS buys animation house Mainframe Entertainment
DigitalProduction Studios (DPS), the New Jersey-based 3D animation subsidiary of IDTMedia, has signed a binding letter of intent to acquire a controlling interestin direct-to-video and TV computer animation house Mainframe Entertainment.The move, whichis subject to regulatory approval, is the latest plank in DPS' globalexpansion strategy following the partnership with John ...
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SPAIN
Fox's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG) held onto the lead in Spain for a second week, despite a 55% drop-off from its debut weekend. New releases, launching on a smaller scale than LXG, were unable to trouble the action adventure, which has grossed Euros 6.9m and sold 1.4m tickets ...
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ICELAND
Opening day-and-date with North America, Robert Rodriguez's return to his Latin roots with Once Upon A Time In Mexico blasted its way to the top of the Icelandic box-office with an impressive 4,020 admissions.The first international territory to receive the film, the final part the director's El Mariachi trilogy, Iceland ...
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UK's ICA plans Sheffield premiere for Five Obstructions
ICA Projects is to release The Five Obstructions, the latest work from Danish directors Jorgen Leth and Lars von Trier, following a UK premiere at next month's Sheffield International Documentary Festival.ICA will open the film in November, aiming for a publicity boost from Leth attending Sheffield and giving a masterclass. ...
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South Korea fully opens up to Japanese film
South Korea's Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced the complete opening of the Korean market to Japanese live-action films, effective from January 1, 2004. This marks the last stage of the incremental dismantling of a ban on Japanese popular culture, that was enacted shortly after Korean independence in ...
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Valladolid fest to open with Dogville
Following its tradition of attracting high-profile independent premieres for Spain, the 48th annual Valladolid International Film Week (Oct 24-Nov 1) will open with Lars von Trier's Dogville and close with Woody Allen's Anything Else.Four Spanish productions have also been unveiled for the official competition: Santi Amodeo's Astronautas, Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde's La ...