All Screen articles in 19 May 2003 – Page 6
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ABS traffics again with Luper partners
The Spanish co-producer behind The Tulse Luper Suitcases series, ABS Production-Barcelona, has boarded another project involving several of the same co-production partners: a thriller set against the world of art trafficking and forgeries.ABS is teaming up with Tulse Luper partners Kasander Film Company and Delux Productions on Paul Tickell's The ...
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Australia's development agency and archives to merge
The film industry is generally perplexed by last night's surprise news that the Australian Government has decided to merge the Australian FilmCommission (AFC), which has the principal role of developing Australian films and film-makers, and Screensound, the organisation which collects and preserves the country's audiovisual heritage.Legislation will have to be ...
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Film archivists convene in Sweden
The Swedish Film Institute and the Finnish Film Archive will host this year's congress of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). The event kicks off at Stockholm's Filmhuset on June1 and closes in Helsinki on June7. Attracting delegates from more than 60 countries, speakers will include UCLA film restorer ...
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Ardant, Placido team up
Fanny Ardant and popular Italian actor Michele Placido are to star in a new picture from acclaimed theatre-film director Mario Martone (Nasty Love).Named L'Odore del Sangue (The Smell Of Blood), the picture tells the parallel story of two 50-year-olds who are both in relationships with much younger people. The film ...
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Ardant, Placido team up
Fanny Ardant and popular Italian actor Michele Placido are to star in a new picture from acclaimed theatre-film director Mario Martone (Nasty Love).Named L'Odore del Sangue (The Smell Of Blood), the picture tells the parallel story of two 50-year-olds who are both in relationships with much younger people. The film ...
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Metro Tartan hires Asian buyer
UK distributor Metro Tartan Distribution has appointed Christine Iso as its head of acquisitions with specific responsibility for Asia.Effective immediately, Iso replaces Patrizia Raeli Shibata, who recently co-founded Bright Angel, an Amsterdam-based distribution company covering the Benelux region.Tartan's Hamish McAlpine and Laura De Casto will now primarily deal with all ...
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Cannes claims higher attendance
The Cannes market says that attendance is up 10% and registrations at new record levels.'Although the increase is slight, we are very pleased to see that companies have made the journey to the Cannes Market despite the threat of war, SARS and the transport strikes. We are still expecting further ...
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Valentino biopic gets Italian funding
Indie Italian producer-director Nico Cirasola looks set to be the first to get a new project about legendary gigolo Rudolf Valentino off the ground, after being awarded funding from the Italian government's Fondo di Garanzia.Named Rudi Valentino, The Return of the Sheik, the Euros 4m film is set to shoot ...
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Film Library offers Dragon Blade, Green Tea
Hong Kong and Los Angeles-based sales agent The Film Library has picked up international rights to US$10m Hong Kong animation Dragon Blade and Green Tea directed by mainland Chinese director Zhang Yuan. Dragon Blade, directed by Australian stunt co-ordinator Antony Szeto, is the first feature-length 3D computer-animated film to be ...
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Zelezny sacked from Czech broadcaster TV Nova
Czech broadcaster TV Nova sacked it director Vladimir Zelezny on Wednesday. Zelezny is charged with causing the Czech government $355m in damages by breaking Nova's contract with cosmetics heir Ron Lauder's Central European Media Enterprises (CME) in 1999. Hours later, a Swedish court of appeal issued the final verdict in ...
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Moviehouse reunites with Broomfield
Gary Phillips and Mark Vennis' UK-based sales house Moviehouse Entertainment has acquired Nick Broomfield's new Aileen Wuornos documentary Aileen: Life And Death Of A Serial Killer. Moviehouse, which sold Broomfield's Biggie & Tupac, has taken international sales rights to seven of Broomfield's earlier films, including Fetishes, Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam ...
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Fortissimo on song with Camp, Eye sequel
Fortissimo Film Sales has announced a raft of sales on musical comedy Camp and the Pang Brothers' highly-anticipated sequel to horror hit The Eye.Camp, directed by Todd Graff, has been sold to Highlight for Germany, Hopscotch for Australia and New Zealand, Asmik Ace for Japan, Cathay for Singapore, AQS for ...
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Fortissimo on song with Camp, Eye sequel
Fortissimo Film Sales has announced a raft of sales on musical comedy Camp and the Pang Brothers' highly-anticipated sequel to horror hit The Eye.Camp, directed by Todd Graff, has been sold to Highlight for Germany, Hopscotch for Australia and New Zealand, Asmik Ace for Japan, Cathay for Singapore, AQS for ...
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Korea's CJ expands Cannes slate
CJ Entertainment, the Korean major which yesterday received an official visit from French culture minister Jean-Pierre Aillagon, expanded its Cannes slate with the addition of supernatural thriller, The Uninvited.The film, which goes on release in Korea at the end of June, pairs two of the country's top stars Park ...
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First Indo-French co-production unveiled
Indian TV network Zee has signed a deal with France TV and Silhouette Films to co-produce One Dollar Curry, the first time France and India have allied on a film. The Euros 2m film will star Smriti Mishra and be directed by Paris based Indian filmmaker Vijay Singh (Jaya Ganga). ...
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NonStop dives with Cousteau
Sweden's NonStop Entertainment has signed a deal with Europe Images International SA to handle Jacques Cousteau's extensive catalogue of more than 100 titles for TV and video in Scandinavia and Iceland. The deal includes films like Silent World, Odyssey, Mississippi, Amazon and The Undersea World. The Cousteau film collection includes ...
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Curb involved in Merchant Ivory threesome
Curb Entertainment has taken on international sales excluding France, Italy and the UK to Merci Docteur Rey, a completed production from Merchant Ivory Productions in association with Eat Your Soup Productions. The film, which screened recently at the Festival du Film de Paris, was written and directed by Andrew Litvack.Dianne ...
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Mother seduces key Euro sales
Roger Michell's The Mother, the Director's Fortnight title which world premieres tonight has closed UK, French and Spanish deals. Momentum Pictures acquired UK theatrical and video rights from BBC Films, which financed the Hanif Kureishi screenplay about an older woman's affair with her daughter's boyfriend. Renaissance Films, which is handling ...
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French Toast: Gallic hits show international strength
Cedric Klapisch's comedy L'Auberge Espagnole managed a rare feat this week when it knocked Hollywood blockbuster X2: X-Men United off the top of a chart after just one week - in Poland.An opening of $79,872 (ZLO 299,026) for local distributor Spinka from 20,096 admissions gave L'Auberge Espagnole the lead position. ...
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UA pulled in by Green's Undertow
United Artists has acquired rights in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and South Africa to David Gordon Green's next film The Undertow which is being sold here by Content International. Gordon Green is the acclaimed young film-maker behind George Washington and All The Real Girls.UA president Bingham Ray ...