All Screen articles in 19 May 2002 – Page 3
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Omar Sharif to star in Dupeyron's Momo
Omar Sharif will star in Momo, the next film by Francois Dupeyron, the director of 2001 Cannes title La Chambre Des Officiers (Officer's Ward).Produced by Michele Halbersdat and Laurent Petin's Arp Selection which also produced La Chambre, the film, set in Paris in the sixties, is adapted from a novel ...
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New Line rings up fresh quartet of hot titles
New Line Cinema is introducing four new pictures to buyers at Cannes: Secondhand Lions; the long-awaited Dumb And Dumber prequel; action thriller Highwaymen; and clash of the horror titans movie Freddy Vs Jason to be directed by Ronny Yu.New Line, which has its first ever film in competition with Alexander ...
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New Line rings up fresh quartet of hot titles
New Line Cinema is introducing four new pictures to buyers at Cannes: Secondhand Lions; the long-awaited Dumb And Dumber prequel; action thriller Highwaymen; and clash of the horror titans movie Freddy Vs Jason to be directed by Ronny Yu.New Line, which has its first ever film in competition with Alexander ...
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Moviehouse wraps Fear X, add two more
Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn has wrapped Fear X, his John Turturro-starring psychological thriller after a shoot that took him to Winnipeg and Copenhagen.The film has its market debut at Cannes, where it is represented by new UK sales outfit Moviehouse Entertainment.Fear X, about a man prompted by dark dreams ...
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The Importance Of Being Earnest
Dir: Oliver Parker. UK/US. 2002. 97 mins. Three years ago, writer-director Oliver Parker and the UK's Fragile Films re-invented Oscar Wilde's relatively obscure An Ideal Husband for the big screen, opening out the play to delightful effect and earning critical plaudits as well as some impressive box office grosses ($18.5m ...
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Counter programming exploits blockbuster fatigue
As the international box office anticipates the swollen revenues delivered by Spider-Man, Attack Of The Clones and the rest of the summer blockbusters, local and foreign titles are taking advantage of the counter programming and kick-back business during this heavy cinema-going period.This week a host of titles are doing just ...
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Lightning brings two new titles to market
Lightning Entertainment, the new LA-based sales outfit run by Richard Guardian and Mainline Releasing partners Rich Goldberg and Marc Greenberg, has acquired two new pictures for Cannes - taking worldwide rights to medieval thriller Anazapta with Lena Headey, Jason Flemyng and David La Haye and international rights to On_Line, an ...
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F&ME readies Yugoslav romantic comedy
Veteran Yugoslav director Srdjan Karanovic is to shoot romantic comedy Loving Glances (Sjaj U Ocima) for F&ME, the UK arm of Germany's FAME AG. Set amongst refugees in Belgrade, the production is to start shooting in June as a co-production with Belgrade's Yodi Movie Craftsmen and Paris-based Raphael Films.
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KWA strikes Lucky deals
Sales agent Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has announced the first sales on Argentine title A Lucky Day (Un Dia De Suerte) to Spain (Nirvana), Orler (Arg) and free TV in the UK (BBC), Holland (VPRO) and Finland (YLE). Director Sandra Gugliotta's prize-winning Day tells the story of a young Argentine ...
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NonStop Sales takes on new Grede film
NonStop Sales has acquired international rights to Sweden's Kjell Grede's as yet untitled new comedy based on Torgny Lindgren's book Till Sanningens Lov. It stars young talents Shanti Roney (Together) and Tuva Novotny, as well as Örjan Ramberg, Simon Norrthon and Ing-Mari Carlsson. The film tells the story of two ...
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Nieto moves to Picking Pack
Juan Jose Nieto, the former top executive of Telefonica media division Admira and broadcaster Antena 3, has been hired as president of digital reprographics and data management company Picking Pack. Nieto was replaced by Luis Abril at Admira last January as part of a management overhaul.
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Winchester racks up Scorched sales
Winchester has sold Alicia Silverstone comedy Scorched to Spain's Vertigo, Benelux's RCV and Scandinavia's Egmont. As reported on Screendaily in March, German private broadcaster RTL Television has bought the picture under its strategy of acquiring all rights will release the film in the UK through its own distribution arm, Winchester ...
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20th Century Fox taps new Euros 246m German production fund
20th Century Fox is tapping a new Euros 246m German production fund for three of its projects; The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Down With Love and Just Married.Mediastream III, set up by financial services company Ideenkapital and regional savings banks in Cologne and Duesseldorf, will invite private German individuals ...
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Ealing Studios teams with Odyssey for $40m animation
The UK's Ealing Studios has teamed with Ralph Kamp's newly-launched sales outfit Odyssey Entertainment to produce $40m CG animation film Valiant.John Williams, the US producer of Shrek and Jackie Chan film The Tuxedo, is producing with Barnaby Thompson, co-head of Fragile Films, one of the owners of Ealing.The film, which ...
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Ealing Studios teams with Odyssey for $40m animation
The UK's Ealing Studios has teamed with Ralph Kamp's newly-launched sales outfit Odyssey Entertainment to produce $40m CG animation film Valiant.John Williams, the US producer of Shrek and Jackie Chan film The Tuxedo, is producing with Barnaby Thompson, co-head of Fragile Films, one of the owners of Ealing.The film, which ...
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Europa Cinemas increases network to 896 screens
The MEDIA Programme's exhibition initiative Europa Cinemas has added 171 screens in 28 European cities to its network, bringing the total number of screens getting support from MEDIA Plus for programming European films, to 896 in 356 cinemas located in 201 cities in 17 countries.Combined with other similar cultural supporting ...
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Scorsese gangs up again with IEG, Di Caprio
Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) is backing the next film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio - whatever it turns out to be. Martin Scorsese told Screen International this week that his next film will definitely be either Alexander, his Alexander The Great movie, which IEG bought ...
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Scorsese gangs up again with IEG, Di Caprio
Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) is backing the next film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio - whatever it turns out to be. Martin Scorsese told Screen International this week that his next film will definitely be either Alexander, his Alexander The Great movie, which IEG bought ...
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Media Asia bolsters library, expands slate
Regional powerhouse Media Asia (MA) is moving to corner the market in Hong Kong catalogue films and has expanded its slate of current pictures.A long-term deal sees the company handle international rights to the 150-title Golden Princess library of martial arts films and dramas, including pictures by John Woo and ...
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Media Asia bolsters library, expands slate
Regional powerhouse Media Asia (MA) is moving to corner the market in Hong Kong catalogue films and has expanded its slate of current pictures.A long-term deal sees the company handle international rights to the 150-title Golden Princess library of martial arts films and dramas, including pictures by John Woo and ...