All Screen articles in 19 May 2003 – Page 4
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Daddy Day Care
Dir: Steve Carr. US. 2003. 93 mins Working with animals in his two Dr Dolittle movies, Eddie Murphy produced some decent laughs and some good box office numbers (approaching $500m in total). Working with children in Daddy Day Care, Murphy and Dolittle 2 director Steve Carr come up with a ...
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Celestial gets drunk on Kung Fu masters
Hong Kong's Celestial Pictures has picked up international rights to action title Drunken Monkey directed by and starring veteran kung-fu master Lau Kar-Leung. Lau, who directed classics such as 36th Chamber Of Shaolin and Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, came out of retirement to make the film which was produced ...
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Cold War drama defects to Lions Gate
Lions Gate Films has bought US rights to Marek Kanievska's A Different Loyalty starring Sharon Stone and Rupert Everett which began shooting last month in Montreal. The film which is sold here by Arclight Films will move to locations in London, Malta and Moscow during its shoot.The film is set ...
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IEG wed to Thurman comedy
Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) has agreed to fully finance The Accidental Husband which IEG's Graham King will produce with the film's star Uma Thurman and Jason Blum. Thurman is joined by Brendan Fraser in the romantic comedy which will be directed by Hugh Wilson (The First Wives Club).IEG is handling ...
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Stealing Rembrandt to open first Copenhagen festival
The first edition of the Copenhagen International Film Festival, which unspools in Denmark's capital from August 13-20, will have the highly anticipated feature debut from Jannik Johansen, Stealing Rembrandt, as its opening gala screening. The full festival programme and the competition films will be announced in late July, but head ...
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Copenhagen to host int'l documentary fest
Copenhagen's first international documentary film festival, cph:dox, will take place from Nov 7-16 2003. The new independent festival is organised by the NatFilm Festival in cooperation with the Copenhagen Cinémathèque and the European Documentary Network. cph:dox plans to present some 60 new international documentaries. Like its popular sister event NatFilm, ...
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FAME strikes deal with Handprint
Film and Music Entertainment Ltd (FAME) has signed an exclusive US representation deal with management company Handprint Entertainment. In pacting with Handprint, FAME's Mike Downey and Sam Taylor believe that not only their access to US talent will be smoother and less time consuming, They also expect to benefit from ...
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FAME strikes deal with Handprint
Film and Music Entertainment Ltd (FAME) has signed an exclusive US representation deal with management company Handprint Entertainment. In pacting with Handprint, FAME's Mike Downey and Sam Taylor believe that not only their access to US talent will be smoother and less time consuming, They also expect to benefit from ...
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Fandango finds Tom, picks up Kusturica
Dynamic Italian producer Domenico Procacci, whose Fandango outfit produced Critics Week closing film B&B and The Cormoran, is continuing to ramp up his international production and distribution labels. Procacci has boarded upcoming Australian picture Missing Tom, through the Australian company he runs with directors Rolf de Heer and Richard Lowenstein.At ...
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First Look Thais up Tesseract
First Look Media has acquired worldwide rights excluding Japan and Thailand to Oxide Pang's The Tesseract, an English-language thriller based on Alex (The Beach) Garland's bestselling novel starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Saskia Reeves and Thai child actor Alexander Rendel.First Look has also acquired worldwide rights to Simon De Selva's Lethal ...
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Universe handles Hui's Goddess
Universe Films Distribution has picked up international rights to the next film from Hong Kong director Ann Hui, Jade Goddess (working title), which is currently shooting in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan. The cast is headed by rising mainland actress Vicky Zhao, Hong Kong star Nicholas Tse and ...
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Golden Scene scares up Lau's Park
Hong Kong buyer Golden Scene is also attending Cannes as a seller for the first time this year with horror title The Park, directed by Andrew Lau, whose credits include hit crime thriller Infernal Affairs.The film, which stars Bobo Chan, Tiffany Lee and Edwin Siu, wrapped in Thailand at the ...
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UK outfit plans Imax studio
Aiming to tap into an anticipated rise in large-format releases such as The Matrix: Reloaded, UK production company North Star Entertainment is planning to create a 3D Imax studio. The Bradford-based company is setting up offices in London and Toronto and developing a 3D Imax science fiction feature.
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UK outfit plans Imax studio
Aiming to tap into an anticipated rise in large-format releases such as The Matrix: Reloaded, UK production company North Star Entertainment is planning to create a 3D Imax studio. The Bradford-based company is setting up offices in London and Toronto and developing a 3D Imax science fiction feature.
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Travolta joins The Punisher
John Travolta has joined Thomas Jane in the cast of The Punisher, the latest actioner from a Marvel Comics character which is being produced by Artisan Pictures and Marvel Studios and sold here by Summit Entertainment.Travolta will play the lead villain in the film Howard Saint, a man involved in ...
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Travolta joins The Punisher
John Travolta has joined Thomas Jane in the cast of The Punisher, the latest actioner from a Marvel Comics character which is being produced by Artisan Pictures and Marvel Studios and sold here by Summit Entertainment.Travolta will play the lead villain in the film Howard Saint, a man involved in ...
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Optimum bags Comandante, Animal Factory for UK
UK distributor Optimum Releasing has acquired four films including Steve Buscemi's gritty prison drama Animal Factory, starring Edward Furlong and Willem Dafoe, and Oliver Stone's Fidel Castro documentary Comandante.The distributor also picked up Brazil's Man Of The Year and Chinese festival favourite Blind Shaft from Grupo Novo de Cinema and ...
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Chow joins Yeoh in $30m costume epic
Chow Yun-Fat has joined Michelle Yeoh in the cast of $30m costume drama Hua Mulan which is being produced by Yeoh's Mythical Films and Han Entertainment.Described by Han managing director Thomas Chung as "Braveheart meets Ran", the film is scheduled to shoot in China from mid-August. Peter Pau, who directed ...
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Chow joins Yeoh in $30m costume epic
Chow Yun-Fat has joined Michelle Yeoh in the cast of $30m costume drama Hua Mulan which is being produced by Yeoh's Mythical Films and Han Entertainment.Described by Han managing director Thomas Chung as "Braveheart meets Ran", the film is scheduled to shoot in China from mid-August. Peter Pau, who directed ...
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Intermedia benefits from cost-cutting, eyes T4
IM Internationalmedia AG, the corporate parent of Intermedia, has announced its second consecutive positive quarterly result - scoring EBITA of Euros 4.3m for the first quarter 2003 as compared to a negative Euros 5.4m in the first quarter of 2002. The results come just as Intermedia prepares to launch its ...