All Screen articles in 20 January 2002 – Page 3
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Last Orders opens with limited taster
Pathe's Rat Race was the winner amongst this week's melee of new releases in the UK but was still unable to topple The Lord Of The Rings or Harry Potter from their one-two chart positions. The best average recorded by an opener this week was for Metrodome's limited release of ...
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Hysterical Blindness
Dir: Mira Nair. US. 2002. 98mins Despite securing the prized "centrepiece" premiere slot at this year's Sundance, Mira Nair's immediate follow-up to her Venice-winning Monsoon Wedding succumbs to some of the perils involved in adapting stage plays to the big screen - should this made-for-cable film, about the struggles of ...
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Miramax unveils Neverland, The Forger
Miramax Films has announced two new pictures - it has signed Marc Forster (Monster's Ball) to direct Neverland, the film of Allan Knee's play The Man Who Was Peter Pan and it has acquired the rights to Paul Watkins' novel The Forger and hired Proof playwright David Auburn to adapt ...
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Perrier teams with Palm for film-maker contest
Bottled water group Perrier is teaming up with Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures and RES to launch "Perrier Across America", a new initiative for 2002 which will select five film-makers from thousands of submissions and then supply them with vehicles, digital cameras, professional producers and other resources to drive across the ...
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Bruce Berman to stay at Village Roadshow till 2007
Bruce Berman, the chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures (VRP), has extended his deal for another four years keeping him in his current position till 2007. The deal was agreed to with 18 months still remaining on his current pact by Berman and Graham Burke, managing director of Village ...
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Sony to unveil Mr Deeds at ShoWest in March
Sony Pictures is to participate in this year's ShoWest exhibitors convention in Las Vegas with a premiere screening of its romantic comedy Mr Deeds and the final day luncheon. The events will take place on March 7.This year is a particularly high-powered one for Sony Pictures with a lineup including ...
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Sundance: Lions Gate buys worldwide rights to May
The third deal of the Sundance Film Festival was closed yesterday as Lions Gate Films acquired worldwide rights to horror picture May written and directed by Lucky McKee. A loose retelling of Roman Polanski's Repulsion, May stars Angela Bettis as a girl who wants to make friends but lacks the ...
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Helkon severs ties with Buena Vista International
German media concern Helkon Media has severed its last link with the local outpost of Buena Vista International (BVI) by ending its booking and billing arrangement for the German theatrical release of its films after ending its TV output agreement with BVI at the end of last year.In future, Helkon ...
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Venture capitalist funds EM.TV share acquisition
Dutch venture capital company Constant Ventures is to finance EM.TV board chairman Werner Klatten's acquisition of shares in the company.In an agreement signed on Jan 14 with Klatten's company: WKB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Constant Ventures will secure finance for WKB to acquire 36.16m EM.TV shares. On the basis of the current ...
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Berlinale Panorama: two thirds confirmed
New films by Lynne Stopkewitch, Mika Kaurismaki, Monica Treut, Ventura Pons and Marius Holst are among the films which have been confirmed so far as two-thirds of the line-up for the Berlinale's Panorama section.26 nations will be participating with films in the Panorama's main programme and the Panorama Dokumente and ...
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Berlinale Panorama: two thirds confirmed
New films by Lynne Stopkewitch, Mika Kaurismaki, Monica Treut, Ventura Pons and Marius Holst are among the films which have been confirmed so far as two-thirds of the line-up for the Berlinale's Panorama section.26 nations will be participating with films in the Panorama's main programme and the Panorama Dokumente and ...
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Policewoman, Slurb rule German Critics nominations
Andreas Dresen's The Policewoman (Die Polizistin) and Ben Verbong's family film The Slurb (Das Sams) have each bagged three nominations from the German critics association (Verband der Deutschen Filmkritik) for this year's German Film Critics Prize Both films are nominated in the Best Film category along with Oliver Hirschbiegel's The ...
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CJ Ent wins Korea's film industry flotation race
South Korean major CJ Entertainment will become the territory's first film company to go public with an initial public offering on Korea's KOSDAQ exchange on February 5. The company plans to float 30% of its stock, hoping to raise a minimum of $31m.A founding shareholder of DreamWorks SKG and one ...
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IM profit warning clouds Spyglass deal
Neuer Markt-listed Internationalmedia's (IM) announcement that it will miss its 2001 targets has clouded analyst enthusiasm about the Spyglass takeover deal and sent shares falling by over 20% to Euros 18 by mid-afternoon Monday (Jan 14).In an ad.hoc announcement for the Spyglass transaction, IM also declared that "according to first ...
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Large format Beauty & The Beast's $8m fortnight
Disney's North American large-screen format release of Beauty And The Beast is performing at near-record box office levels across the giant screen US network. Playing on 67 screens in the U.S. and Canada, the film has grossed $8m since its Jan 1 launch including approximately $2.1 million over last weekend.In ...
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Hamburg's public film fund under threat
The German city of Hamburg's status as a film and TV production location is under serious threat following plans by the new Senate to slash almost $915,000 (DM 2m) from the 2002 budget for the city's public FilmFoerderung film fund.Until now, the city's cultural and economic senates had each contributed ...
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California proposes production tax incentives
An apparently escalating decline in local production has prompted the state of California to propose a tax incentive to encourage film and TV producers to shoot in the state. California governor Gray Davis has announced that, if instituted, the labour-based tax credit would return $230m to the production community over ...
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Tadpole
Dir: Gary Winick. US. 2002. 78minsA comic delight that features one of the painfully funniest restaurant scenes in recent memory, Gary Winick's Tadpole became an audience favourite the moment it screened in Sundance this year and an immediate target for studio distributors who saw the potential for a theatrical breakout ...
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Gerry
Dir: Gus Van Sant. US-UK. 2001. 103mins.After reaching the nadir of his career with the pointless remake of Psycho, followed by mainstream Hollywood fare Finding Forrester, an old-fashioned star vehicle for Sean Connery, Gus Van Sant goes back to his independent roots with Gerry, a visually compelling road movie that ...
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Tragic death of indie film-maker Ted Demme
Ted Demme, the film director who most recently made Blow starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz, died tragically of a heart attack yesterday aged 37.Demme, the nephew of Oscar-winning film-maker Jonathan Demme, had forged a reputation as a film-loving commentator on the Independent Film Channel (IFC) as well as director ...
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