All Screen articles in 21 April 2003 – Page 2
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Working Title prepares to shoot Shaun Of The Dead
Working Title Films is to start shooting romantic zombie comedy Shaun Of The Dead in May, the UK-based production powerhouse confirmed on Tuesday.Edgar Wright, who directed hit TV series Spaced, is directing the story of a group of friends who encounter a literal night from hell at their local pub. ...
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Swedish Komedy to be remade by Columbia
Swedish comedy Kopps is to beremade by Primal Pictures and Adam Sandler's companyHappy Madison for Columbia Pictures, under a deal signed this week. The film, originally directed byJosef Fares, is a tale about policemen who go on the rampage in a small town inorder to boost crime figures and keep ...
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Children's films honoured at Swedish and German festivals
At the fourth edition of the Swedish children's film festival Stockholm Film Festival Junior, Finnish production Hayflower And Quiltshoe (Heinahattu Ja Filttitossu) by Kaisa Rastimo won the award for best film. The Stockholm Film Festival Junior, which saw a record attendance of 7,000 young visitors this year, is further evidence ...
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French effects, post house files for bankruptcy protection
French effects and post-production house Duran Duboi, which provided effects for Amelie, has filed for bankruptcy protection citing a downturn in the market.The crisis affects two of the group's main companies, Duran and Duboi - the former working in digital effects for television and the latter in digital effects for ...
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US distributors facing p&a cost rises in Argentina
The US majors in Argentina are facing an escalation of print production costs that is forcing them to dramatically reduce their local print runs.There is even talk of some form of strike by US majors in Argentina, where they are obliged to process their prints in a local laboratory, Cinecolor ...
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US distributors facing print and advertising cost rises in Argentina
The US majors in Argentina are facing an escalation of print production costs that is forcing them to dramatically reduce their local print runs.There is even talk of some form of strike by US majors in Argentina, where they are obliged to process their prints in a local laboratory, Cinecolor ...
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French admissions in March show weakness
French cinemaadmissions in March hit 15.47 million, a gain of 3.4% compared with the samemonth last year. However according to data from the Centre National dela Cinematographie (CNC) the total for a rolling 12month period was down by 3.2% at 178.8 million, compared with 184.8 million. The CNC data also ...
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German producer readies Alone In The Dark adaptation
Infogrames Entertainment's video arcade game Alone In The Dark is to be given the silver screen treatment by German director-producer Uwe Boll after his film version of Sega's cult game The House Of The Dead.Boll told Screendaily.com that this new feature, which will be financed by the private film fund ...
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Four S.A. majors join Dv8 in digital film initiative
South Africa's Rand Merchant Bank, The National Film & Video Foundation, broadcaster SABC2, and distributor Ster-Kinekor have partnered with Jeremy Nathan's & Joel Phiri's Dv8 films to produce and distribute four digital feature films per year over three years.Dv8, a feature film initiative originally launched at the end of ...
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Ohtake named director of ops at DTS Japan
Consumer electronics veteranNao Ohtake has been named director of operations of DTS Japan, the Japanese armof digital entertainment technology provider Digital Theatre Systems (DTS).Ohtake will be based inTokyo, where he will be responsible for overseeing and managing all DTSactivities in Japan. He will report to Jon Kirchner, president and chiefexecutive ...
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Miramax celebrates its biggest hit ever
Chicago, the winner of six Academy Awardsincluding one for best picture, became the highest grossing film in MiramaxFilms' 24-year history last night (Apr 14) after it passed $157.1m at thedomestic box office.Themusical's record running total overtook Miramax's previous best of$157m set in 2000 by Scary Movie, which came out under ...
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Chartier quits Vortex to head up Arclight US office
Nicolas Chartier- the co-founder of Vortex Pictures and former sales and acquisitionsexecutive at Myriad Pictures - has left Vortex to head up the US officefor Arclight Films.Chartier, whoseappointment became effective yesterday (Apr 15), will oversee all sales andacquisitions activities and will serve as the point person between Arclight,partner Spice Factory ...
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Manhattan takes North America to Off The Map
ManhattanPictures International has acquired all North American rights to CampbellScott's drama Off The Map, which received its world premiere at Sundance and only days agowon the top prize at Taos Talking Picture Film Festival. A theatrical releaseis planned later this year.Negotiations between Manhattan's Paul Cohen and George VanBuskirk, president of ...
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What A Girl Wants
Dir: Dennie Gordon. US. 2003. 95mins. Although the trailers made it look like another trashy teen flick, What A Girl Wants surprisingly possesses a degree of class. The fairy-tale story of a Brooklyn teenager who runs away to England to discover her aristocratic dad recalls Disney smash The Princess Diaries ...
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Fear And Trembling (Stupeur Et Tremblements)
Dir: Alain Corneau. France. 2003. 107mins.An unusual French take on life in the Japanese workplace, Stupeur Et Tremblements (literally Fear And Trembling) is a tightly-executed social drama with a vein of absurdist humour discretely buried beneath the surface. The film, which by some accounts only just missed out on a ...
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Bulletproof Monk
Dir: Paul Hunter. US. 2003. 104mins. Hollywood's latest attempt to infuse a familiar genre with added youth appeal casts Hong Kong legend Chow Yun-Fat in a slight but pleasantly breezy East-meets-West martial arts adventure leavened with odd couple comedy. To hardcore Chow fans - who have been waiting more than ...
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Rod Stoneman to step down as CEO of the Irish Film Board
Rod Stoneman, CEO of the Irish Film Board, is stepping down to take up the position of director at the newly-established Huston School of Film and Digital Media at the National University of Ireland Galway.The Huston School has been established by NUIG in tribute to John Huston and with the ...
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Cannes main jury line-up announced
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the make-up of the main jury for this year's edition. As reported by Screendaily last week, Indian actress Aishwarya Rai has been confirmed along with American actress Meg Ryan, French actress Karin Viard and French actor and elder-statesman Jean Rochefort. Also on the panel ...
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Mulher Policia wins top European Film Festival prize
The 4th European Film Festival in Lecce, Southern Italy, awarded its top Ulivo d'Oro competition prize to Portuguese director Joaquim Sapinho's Mulher Policia. The Portuguese-Spanish-French production, which won Euros 5,000, tells the story of a young widow who helps her troubled teenage son run away from the police.The Reunion, a ...
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Danish director scores production hat trick
The Danish Film Institute has put writer-director Jesper W. Nielsen (pictured) in a highly unusual situation for a Danish filmmaker. With its $792,700 (DKR 5.5m) backing for his new comedy Don't You Know John Lennon (working title), Nielsen will have had a new film released three years in a row. ...
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