All Screen articles in 19 May 2002 – Page 4
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E Pictures launches Zenith's action thriller
E Pictures, the Korean sales house that was set up a year ago, is launching a new big-budget picture from Zenith Entertainment, the production outfit behind last year's $25m blockbuster My Boss, My Hero.The picture Four For The King: Code Paris is an Asian action suspense thriller with European elements. ...
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Australia's Rialto acquires Mystic Masseur
Rialto Entertainment has acquired rights for Australia and New Zealand to director Ishmail Merchant's The Mystic Masseur.The Auckland-based distributor plans to release the film over the Christmas holidays. The film has had high-profile openings in London and New York, including a launch by Bill Clinton at New York's Paris Theatre ...
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Buyers plunge into Cameron's Abyss
Summit Entertainment has concluded a wave of sales on Walden Media's Ghosts Of The Abyss, James Cameron's ground-breaking 3-D large screen documentary exploring the wreckage of the Titanic. Telepool took the film for Germany, Buena Vista International (BVI) for the UK, UGC for France and Belga Films for Benelux. Gaga ...
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The Works climbs aboard Ward's River Queen
UK-based sales outfit The Works has stepped up its international production activities by boarding New Zealand director Vincent Ward's River Queen, a large-scale historical piece about the Maori's war against the British in the 19th century.Confirmed cast for the production include Sam Neill and Cliff Curtis. Don Reynolds is producing ...
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REVIEW: Kedma
Dir: Amos Gitai. Israel/France/Italy 2002. 100 mins.Following films such as Kadosh and his last Cannes entry Kippur, Kedma is the latest of Amos Gitai's provocative inquiries into Israeli history and identity. Set in 1948, seven days before the creation of the state of Israel, Kedma proposes a return to historical ...
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REVIEW: Marie-Jo And Her Two Lovers
Dir: Robert Guediguian. France. 2001. 124 mins.In CompetitionRobert Guediguian's recent work has fallen into two distinct categories: his tough social stories set in Marseilles (A La Place Du Coeur; La Ville Est Tranquille) and the lighter "contes", or fantasies (Marius Et Jeanette; A L'Attaque!) set in L'Estaque, the working-class port ...
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REVIEW: Sex Is Comedy
Dir: Catherine Breillat. France. 2002. 92 mins.Director's FortnightA welcome reprieve from the joyless intensity of such recent succes de scandale as Romance and A Ma Soeur, Sex Is Comedy allows Catherine Breillat to reveal the kind of light touch and easy humour that some critics may have thought was beyond ...
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France braces for TFI, Miramax partnership
The French film sector is waiting with baited breath for details of a dramatic new production and distribution alliance between French television powerhouse TF1 and Miramax Films that will be unveiled at a heavyweight press conference this afternoon featuring their respective chiefs, Patrick Le Lay and Harvey Weinstein.The venture, which ...
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France braces for TFI, Miramax partnership
The French film sector is waiting with baited breath for details of a dramatic new production and distribution alliance between French television powerhouse TF1 and Miramax Films that will be unveiled at a heavyweight press conference this afternoon featuring their respective chiefs, Patrick Le Lay and Harvey Weinstein.The venture, which ...
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REVIEW: Bowling For Columbine
Dir: Michael Moore. US. 2002. 120 minsThose convinced that America is the home of the crazed and the land of the trigger happy will find ample support for their views in Bowling For Columbine. Michael Moore's emotive exploration of the constitutional right to bear arms is a wide-ranging, often shockingly ...
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REVIEW: Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress
Dir: Dai Sijie. France. 2002. 116 mins.Un Certain Regard (Opening Film)The French connection makes Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress, a gentle, partly autobiographical coming-of-age tale from the Paris-based Chinese director Dai Sijie, a natural choice to open Un Certain Regard although, in the event, it emerges as on the ...
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Tiger tamer role Tailor-Made for Kate Winslet
With a debut slate headed by a $36m production in which Kate Winslet plays a tiger tamer, newly-launched Tailor-Made Films has emerged as a UK production outfit to watch.Founded by former freelance TV producer Miriam Segal with backing worth£1.3 million from a group of private investors, the company has been ...
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Tiger tamer role Tailor-Made for Kate Winslet
With a debut slate headed by a $36m production in which Kate Winslet plays a tiger tamer, newly-launched Tailor-Made Films has emerged as a UK production outfit to watch.Founded by former freelance TV producer Miriam Segal with backing worth£1.3 million from a group of private investors, the company has been ...
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Vortex takes international rights to Scala's Leopold
Vortex Pictures, the international sales and finance outfit, set up by Nicolas Chartier and Dean Shapiro, has acquired international rights to Leopold, the latest picture from Nik Powell's Scala Productions directed by Mehdi Norowzian and starring Joseph Fiennes, Elisabeth Shue, Sam Shepard, Dennis Hopper, Deborah Kara Unger, Mary Stuart Masterson ...
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Ryan Phillipe signs up for The I Inside
Ryan Phillippe has signed to star in MDP Worldwide's thriller The I Inside to be directed by Germany's Roland Suso Richter (The Tunnel) and set to start shooting in the UK on June 10. The film marks a return to the UK for Phillippe who appeared in Robert Altman's Gosford ...
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Tesela heads new slate with Manas project
Firming up its reputation as a wellspring for new talent in Spain, start-up Tesela Producciones is prepping four new films for its second-year slate headlined by writer-director Achero Manas' follow-up to his multiple award-winning debut feature Pellet (El Bola).Manas, who won four of Spain's top Goya awards and the EFA's ...
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Raimi teams with Senator for low-budget genre label
Sam Raimi, whose Spider-Man is set to become one of the biggest grossing films in history, has teamed with Joe Drake's Senator International to launch a genre label producing "intelligently budgeted" horror, sci-fi and fantasy movies - returning Raimi to his low-budget horror roots of The Evil Dead.Senator will fully ...
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Raimi teams with Senator for low-budget genre label
Sam Raimi, whose Spider-Man is set to become one of the biggest grossing films in history, has teamed with Joe Drake's Senator International to launch a genre label producing "intelligently budgeted" horror, sci-fi and fantasy movies - returning Raimi to his low-budget horror roots of The Evil Dead.Senator will fully ...
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Korenberg quits Fox to set up Traction Media
Rosanne Korenberg, the well-known acquisitions executive from 20th Century Fox, has left the studio to form repping, production and consulting company Traction Media with LA-based entertainment boutique law firm Stone, Meyer & Genow.The venture will represent finished films seeking North American distribution as well as packaging and producing projects. "We're ...
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Italy prepares for flood of summer movies
The Italian film industry is bracing itself for a breakthrough summer at cinemas nationwide, after local distributors officially agreed to reverse the pattern of previous years and release 60 films on 1,500 screens between May 15 and July 31.Among the summer releases to hit cinemas - one third of which ...