All Screen articles in 19 August 2003 – Page 4
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NORDIC Production Listings - August 15 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalNORDIC TERRITORIES - August 15DENMARKPRE-PRODUCTIONBIG PLANS(Angel Productions) Budget: dkr13.2m. Backer: Danish Film Institute, TV2/Denmark, TV2/Norway, RUV. Dist: Angel Distribution (Den). Comedy. A paroled crook decides to reform his old gang to prove to his eight-year-old son that he is not a failure. Exec prods: Poul Erik Lindeborg, Mogens ...
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30,000 pirate DVDs and VCDs seized by MPAA in Malaysia
More than 30,000 pirate copies of DVDs and VCDs as well asmanufacturing and computer equipment have been seized in raids on an onlinemail-order syndicate in Malaysia.The raids were carried out on three sites in Penang on Aug 11 byMotion Picture Association of America (MPAA) staff and a 20-person team fromMalaysia's ...
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Hammer partners on horror with Paradise
British horror company Hammer Films is to develop a slate of low-budget horror movies with Australian production outfit, Pictures in Paradise.The partners aim to deliver a slate of up to six horror films over five years. The films will be targeted at young cinemagoers and designed to have strong potential ...
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Locarno Piazza programme comes in for criticism
Locarno's Piazza Grande open-air programme has come under harsh criticism from Roger Crotti, general manager and vice president of Buena Vista International (Switzerland) - whose world premiere screening of Nigel Cole's Calendar Girls was seen by an audience of 9,500 on Saturday (Aug 9).In an interview with the Swiss daily ...
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Tsui Hark readies Chinese pair
Film Workshop's Tsui Hark is lining up two US$3.9m (HK$ 30m) Chinese-language dramas to be directed by Tsui himself later this year and early next year.The first is titled Initial D, adapted from a hit Japanese comic book of the same name, which tells the story of a delivery boy ...
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Swiss producers set for broadcaster boost
Swiss public broadcaster SRG SSR plans to inject an additional US$11m (CHF15m) into the local film industry between 2004-2007.SRG SSR director-general Armin Walpen revealed at the Locarno Film Festival this week that the TV station proposes to provide an additional US$2.7m per year on top of the current annual budget ...
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Out Of Time to world premiere at Toronto
Director Carl Franklin's Out Of Time will have its world premiere as a Gala Presentation at the 28th Toronto International Film Festival. Starring two-time Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington, the film also stars Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan, and Dean Cain in a story of one man's race against time to solve ...
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Kim's Spring, Summer gathers Locarno heat
Prolific Korean film-maker Kim Ki-duk's Locarno competition film Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...And Spring has been picked up by Israel's United King Films. "Strong interest" has also been reported from Brazil by sales agent Bavaria Film International after Wednesday's press show and ahead of today's public world premiere screening.The tale about ...
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Gori Vatra (Fuse)
Dir. Pjer Zalica. Bosnia-Herzegovina/Austria/Turkey/France, 2003. 105 min.Competing in Locarno and the opening attraction at this year's Sarajevo Film Festival, Pjer Zalica's debut feature displays all the boisterous energy verging on the vulgar, the black sense of humour but also the tragic pathos which have become the trademarks of the better ...
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Freddy Vs Jason
Dir: Ronny Yu. US. 2003. 97mins. Hoping to squeeze fresh revenue out of a pair of ageing horror franchises, New Line pits two of the genre's most recognizable icons - Nightmare On Elm Street's Freddy Krueger and Friday The 13th's Jason - against one another in Freddy Vs Jason, a ...
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Moreau presides over Flanders jury
Jeanne Moreau, the iconic star of more than 100 films includingFrancois Truffaut's Jules Et Jim, has been confirmed as president of the jury of the 30th FlandersInternational Film Festival.Moreau joins the directors Ahmed Imamovic and Gaston Kabore andcomposers Daan Stuyven and Stephen Warbeck on the jury panel for the event,which ...
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Eastwood's Mystic River pulls out of Edinburgh
The critically acclaimed Clint Eastwood thriller Mystic River has been pulled from the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Aug 13-24) programme. One of the Festival's star attractions, the film was set for two sell-out screenings next week but has been withdrawn by distributor Warner Brothers who have claimed 'unforeseen scheduling conflicts' ...
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Distant Lights to open Warsaw fest
The 19th Warsaw International Film Festival (Oct 2-13) will feature 15 films in its competition programme, a Ventura Pons retrospective and a selection of the newest Polish films as part of the Warsaw Screenings section.The festival, the country's sole FIAPF-accredited feature film event, will open with Hans-Christian Schmid's Berlinale FIPRESCI-award ...
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Currency crunch hits Internationalmedia
Internationalmedia(IM) - parent company of Intermedia - has blamed currency imbalances between the Euro and the Dollar for a 5.7% year on year revenue fall in the first half of 2003.IM's CEO Moritz Borman said that "had the Euro and the Dollar maintained their comparative values from a year ago, ...
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