All Screen articles in 2 October 2001 – Page 2
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Dutch fest fetes low budget and tax scheme titles
The 21st edition of the Dutch Film Festival has ended with awards both for high profile tax scheme funded titles, and low-budget debuts. Holland's private investors can congratulate themselves on increasing budgets - and quality - for titles like the Frisian biopic Nynke, already a box office hit, and the ...
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Mike Bassett: England Manager scores at home
Mike Bassett: England Manager, the first film to emerge from UK support body The Film Council's Premiere Fund, took a strong $1,226,745 (£830,000) from 263 screens in the UK this weekend.The football mockumentary with local TV comedy star Ricky Tomlinson narrowly beat another UK title, Enigma. The code-cracking adaptation with ...
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San Sebastian's hope: next year's 50th anniversary
This year's San Sebastian International Film Festival (September 20-29) may well be remembered more for the promise of next year's high-profile anniversary event, as well as the unfortunate global circumstances which affected the 49th edition, than for the festival's own merits. Coming in the wake of the September 11 terrorist ...
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Taxi Para Tres (A Cab For Three)
Dir: Orlando Lubbert. Chile. 2001. 90 mins. The unexpected winner of the Golden Shell for best film in San Sebastian, A Cab For Three (Taxi Para Tres), a black comedy about a taxi driver drawn into a life of crime, continues the festival's current preference for South and Central American ...
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Dog Days (Hundstage)
Dir Ulrich Seidl. Austria 2001. 120 min. Dog Days, Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's astonishing feature directorial debut, is a dark, probing, truly disturbing exploration of angst, anomie, and alienation, as they manifest themselves in Vienna's upscale suburbs. Easily the most provocative movie in this year's Venice ...
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Madstone taps veteran to spearhead exhibition push
Madstone Theaters, the US exhibition upstart that plans to create a new generation of art-house multiplexes equipped with digital projectors, has hired veteran film executiveJim Sheehan (pictured left) as its president.Previously president and chief operating officer of the Mann Theaters circuit and, most recently, MGM's vice president of sales administration,Sheehan ...
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Word, Zoolander, Hearts revitalise US box office
Americans went back to the movies over the weekend as three new films opened well and box office was up 52% on last weekend and 26% up on the same weekend last year.20th Century Fox's psychological thriller Don't Say A Word, produced by New Regency Productions, was the box office ...
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MGM moves Windtalkers from Nov to summer 2002
Just weeks before its scheduled release, MGM Distribution Company has moved its epic war movie Windtalkers from Nov 9 to June 14, 2002, to avoid any uncertainties that might affect the box office in the wake of the Sept 11 tragedy.Windtalkers is one of the biggest films to emerge from ...
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Universal/UIP cook up $8m German opening for Pie 2
Universal Pictures and its international distribution operation UIP have scored the biggest opening of the year in Germany with American Pie 2. The comedy sequel took an estimated $8m in its first three days this weekend on 900 screens.The movie opened 4% ahead of Pearl Harbor, 17% ahead of Hannibal, ...
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Artisan valued at $160m after Landscape merger
After many months of pursuing strategic alliances, acquisitions and mergers, Artisan Entertainment has closed a deal, merging with Landscape Entertainment, the production company founded by former DreamWorks executive Bob Cooper and backed by Canadian conglomerate Bell Globemedia.The deal, closed last Wednesday, sees Canadian broadcaster CTV, a division of Bell Globemedia, ...
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Pathe, Lions Gate board John Cusack-starrer Max
Pathe Pictures and Lions Gate Films have boarded Menno Meyjes' directorial debut Max, formerly known as Hoffman, which will start principal photography in Hungary on Nov 5 with a cast headed by John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski and Molly Parker.Pathe International will handle international sales and Lions Gate domestic ...
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Matsushita launches digital film business
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. will launch its first digital film production company, Progressive Pictures Co., on October 1. Company president Hidenori Ishii is a former vice president of Japan Victor Entertainment US, with extensive experience in the film industry. Capitalised at $1.68m (Y200m), the Tokyo-based company will produce films with ...
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Ritchie's Love, Sex, Drugs And Money starts shoot
Swept Away, UK director Guy Ritchie's follow-up to Snatch which starts a six-week shoot on location in Malta and Sardinia today (Oct 1), has changed its title to the snappier Love, Sex, Drugs And Money.The film unites Ritchie with his wife Madonna, who takes the main role of Amber - ...
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Belgium prepares new film tax shelter legislation
Belgium's proposed tax-shelter legislation is to be readied for parliamentary debate at a meeting between finance minister Didier Reynders and film producers this week (Oct 3).The current proposal, drawn up by Senator Philippe Monfils, is aimed at encouraging domestic and foreign investors to set up limited partnerships for specific productions. ...
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Luna Rossa (Red Moon)
Dir: Antonio Capuano. Italy. 2001. 117mins. "The only way you can control people", says the Mafia boss, "is if they know you can kill them anytime you want". This upbeat moral epigram could provide the poster tag for Antonio Capuano's new film, which screened in the main competition at Venice. ...
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Taxi Para Tres is San Sebastian surprise winner
Chilean director Orlando Lubbert was the surprise winner Saturday Oct 28, at the 49th annual San Sebastian International Film Festival, walking away with the Golden Shell award for best film for the little-known A Cab For Three (Taxi Para Tres). Jury president Claude Chabrol's reading of the top prize was ...
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Executive overhaul redirects UK's Film Consortium
Chris Auty has replaced Richard Holmes as managing director of Civilian Content as the UK media concern slashes back in-house production and development and focuses on financing and international sales at its National Lottery franchise, The Film Consortium.Holmes is understood to have clashed over film-making styles with Auty, also chief ...
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EM.TV and ProSiebenSat.1 see income fall
German film rights trading group EM.TV has announced a 2001 first-half operating profit (EBIT) of $53.4 million (DM114m) and a pre-tax loss of $59.5m (DM127m).In a statement, the company said that it had total sales in the first half of $443.8m (DM947m). The pre-tax loss included interest charges of $130.8m ...
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Local films fly the flag in Ireland and France
A string of high profile Irish and French productions, both in recent weeks and upcoming, are showing strength in their respective local markets. Showing a seasonal release pattern in spring and autumn for both territories, local films seem to be taking full advantage of the downtime between the power of ...
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Spirited breaks Japan's all-time admissions record
Spirited Away, the Hayao Miyazaki animation that has led the Japanese box office since its release on July 20, has set a new all-time admissions record for the territory, with 16,878,000 tickets sold as of September 26. The previous record was held by Titanic with 16,831,000 admissions after 62 weeks ...
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