All Screen articles in 2 October 2003 – Page 3
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Garlock joins WBPI in new promotions senior vp post
Gene Garlock has been appointed to the new post of senior vicepresident of promotions at Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI).Reporting directly to Sue Kroll, president of marketing at WBPI,Garlock will head up the promotions department with particular focus ondeveloping third-party business tied to international releases.Along with developing and managing ongoing ...
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Leigh embarks on untitled London shoot
Iconic UK director Mike Leigh started shooting his latest feature today (Sept 30) at locations around London.The film, set to shoot for ten weeks, stars Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Daniel Mays, Alex Kelly, Adrian Scarborough and Heather Craney.Typically for a Mike Leigh project, details at the production stage are sketchy. ...
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Pontecorvo classic gets US re-issue via Rialto, Classic Collection
Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle Of Algiers, the legendary re-telling of thestruggle for Algerian independence from France, will be re-released in the USby Rialto Pictures in association with The Classic Collection, a joint ventureof Janus Films and Homevision Entertainment, in January 2004.The film will open in New York, Los ...
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Germany dismisses calls for tax incentives
The Gerhard Schroeder SPD-Green coalition administration has dashed any hopes for the introduction of tax incentives into Germany, similar to those in place in the UK and Canada. The move came in a response to a parliamentary question on the film industry tabled by the CDU and CSU opposition parties. ...
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Warner Bros UK promotes Strafford, Cressey
Warner Bros. Entertainment UK has named Patrick Strafford to the newly created position of group commercial development director and Alison Cressey to the newly created position of group marketing director.Both will report directly to Josh Berger, executive vice president & managing director, Warner Bros. Entertainment UK.Strafford will work with the ...
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Filmax funds boosted by Spanish investors
In a long-anticipated move which gives national and regional government interests direct shares in a film business, Spanish producer-distributor-exhibitor Filmax has undergone a capital increase worth Euros 32m.The five bodies underwriting the increase are Catalan government-backed Finance Institute (ICF) with 3.9%, the Galician government's investment fund XesGalicia with 9.8%, the ...
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Mexico, Bolivia unveil Oscar contenders
Mexico has selected Mexican-Spanish co production Aro Tolbukhin: In The Mind Of A Killer to vie for the best foreign language Oscar. Directed by Agustin Villaronga, Lydia Zimmerman and Isaac Pierre Racine, the docu fiction drama is based on a true story of a Hungarian in Guatemala who killed seven ...
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Elling set to become a trilogy
A third film about Norway's favourite neurotic Elling - the main character from the Oscar nominated Norwegian box-office hit - is set for the big screen, producer Dag Alveberg of Maipo Film confirmed this week."This is not a case of boiling soup on a thin bone," he told ScreenDaily.com "There ...
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Green Planet dominates Pusan Critics Awards
The Pusan Film Critics Association has unveiled the winners of the 4th Pusan Film Critics Awards, with the genre-bending Save The Green Planet by Jang Jun-hwan taking Best Picture, Best Actor (Shin Ha-kyun), and Best New Director. The acclaimed debut work has previously won Best Director at the Moscow ...
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Oscar winning outfit lines up Nowhere In Africa sequel
MTM Medien & Television Muenchen is planning a sequel to its Oscar-winning production of Caroline Link's Nowhere In Afrika (Nirgendwo In Afrika) and an international children's TV series based on the film.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com, producer Andreas Bareiss revealed that MTM is developing a feature film based on Nowhere In ...
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Revolutions to open day and date in 60 territories
Hoping to hit the pirates where it hurts and capitalise on aninternet-savvy global fan base, Warner Bros will open its sci-fi trilogy finaleThe Matrix Revolutions simultaneouslyin 60 territories including the US on Nov 5.Orchestrated in association with Village Roadshow by Warner Bros'president of domestic distribution Dan Fellman and president of ...
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SWEDEN
Mikael Haafstroem's highly anticipated Evil (Ondskan) had a tremendous opening weekend with 108,000 admissions on its 95 prints, more than double the take of second-placed, Pirates Of The Caribbean. With more than two million copies sold of Jan Guillou's autobiographical novel from 1981, it wasn't surprising that expectations were high ...
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The Rundown
Dir: Peter Berg. US. 2003. 104 mins. Having successfully flexed his muscles in last year's Mummy spin-off The Scorpion King, wrestler-turned-actor The Rock proves in The Rundown that he can also carry a contemporary movie - with a little help from some more experienced co-workers at any rate. This entertaining ...
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November (Noviembre)
Dir: Achero Manas. Spain. 2003. 104minsActor-turned-director Achero Manas marks his position as one of the most interesting young filmmakers in Spain with November, but it is unlikely that the film will get him recognition beyond what he gained from his impressive debut Pellet (El Bola). But this well-acted and great ...
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NORWAY
The record 100 print release of newcomer Alexander Eik's romantic comedy The Woman Of My Life paid off in the film's first weekend, where it pushed American Wedding down 43% and Pirates Of The Caribbean 30%. Well known for his sure hand at marketing, veteran producer John M. Jacobsen has ...
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Hausfater lands at Miramax in international role
Industry veteran Jere Hausfater has landed at Miramax Films asexecutive vice president and co-head of Miramax International.Breaking tradition for the company's international arm, he will bebased in Los Angeles but will report to New York-based COO Rick Sands. He willwork alongside Stuart Ford, the Miramax executive vice president who took ...
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GERMANY
Solo Film's Jester Till (Till Eulenspiegel) comfortably exceeded the 100,000 admissions barrier to take $600,187 for 118,687 tickets from 507 prints. The large-scale release of the Euros 15m animation feature by Eberhard Junkersdorf's Munich Animation studio is seen by some observers as something of a turning point for Solo-Film who ...
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Hero scores number one opening in France
Zhang Yimou's action epic Hero opened number one in France at the weekend, grossing$1.9m from 375 theatres. According to executives atUniversal, which distributed the film there after acquiring rights from Focus,the opening was well ahead of the 10 other new entries and comprised 60% of the2000 opening for Crouching Tiger, ...
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DENMARK
The release of Christoffer Boe's multiple-award winning feature debut Reconstruction couldn't have bought the publicity up to its premiere if it had wanted to. Just the day before it's release it became the Danish submission for the Oscars; before that it had picked up the Camera d'Or in Cannes and ...
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The Story Of The Weeping Camel
Dir: Luigi Falorni & Byambasuren Davaa. Mongolia/Germany. 2003. 90mins.One of the few buyer talking points at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, The Story Of The Weeping Camel is an illuminating portrait of nomadic shepherds in the Gobi desert which recalls everything from Nanook Of The North to Nikita Mikhalkov's ...