All Screen articles in 21 January 2003 – Page 3
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Ozon's 8 Women leads French Cesar nominations
Francois Ozon's 8 Women leads the nominations for France's Cesar Awards, which were announced on Friday in Paris. Ozon's all star ensemble piece received 12 nominations, while Roman Polanski's The Pianist received 10 nods, Constantin Costa-Gavras' Amen got seven and Cedric Klapisch's Europudding (L'Auberge Espagnol) sixWhile it's no shock to ...
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United Artists clinches Pieces Of April for $3.5m
United Artists (UA) closed the biggest deal of the Sundance Film Festival yesterday, beating competitors including Fox Searchlight and Focus Features to worldwide rights to fest favourite Pieces Of April. The price paid was $3.5m.The film once again comes from the digital video production powerhouse InDigEnt and backer IFC Productions, ...
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The Thirteen Steps (13 Kaidan)
Dir: Masahiko Nagasawa. Jap. 2002. 122mins.In the past, Japanese audiences have flocked to Hollywood Death Row films like Dead Man Walking and The Green Mile - and local producers have taken note. Now Masahiko Nagasawa has directed The Thirteen Steps (13 Kaidan), which tells the story of two men who ...
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New Line has record $1bn domestic home entertainment year
New Line Home Entertainment announced today (Jan 23) its highest level of annual shipments since it formed 10 years ago, with more than $1bn in gross sales in North America, 74% of which was attributable to DVD. The achievement was driven chiefly by The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship ...
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Question mark hangs over Irish film industry
The near-demise of the Irish Film Board last year has placed a question mark over the future direction of the Irish industry.It was the nightmare before Christmas, really. During the seasonal party time it emerged that the Irish Film Board had come within a hair's breadth of abolition in a ...
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Theatrical distributor Cinemac launches in Colombia
Despite a 40% dip in admissions over the last two years, a new distributor has launched in Colombia in a bid to introduce more independent cinema to the country. Under the banner Cinemac, the new indie plans to release three to four titles a month, starting with Victor Salva's Jeepers ...
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Zentropa to cut staff by 25%
Danish production company Zentropa is to cut a quarter of its staff; while local authorities investigate a number of its subsidiary companies.Peter Aalbæk Jensen and Lars von Trier's Zentropa is set to lose 20 out of a total of 80 of its staff in the weeks to come.At the same ...
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Forum of New Cinema line-up finally unveiled
Fifty two films from 24 countries have been selected for the Forum of New Cinema at next month's Berlin International Film Festival. Directorial debuts by young filmmakers from Argentina, China, Japan, Mozambique, Hungary, the United States and Thailand together make up almost a third of the entire programme. Twenty-six of ...
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Arclight takes international on Dentists
Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films has picked up international rights to Alan Rudolph's The Secret Lives Of Dentists which screens this week in the premiere section of the Sundance Film Festival after its world premiere at Toronto last September.Manhattan Pictures has domestic rights to the film which was produced by Holedigger ...
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Miramax tracks down Station Agent at Sundance
Marking its first Sundance Film Festival acquisition this year, Miramax Films beat out several other rivals to pick up all English speaking territories and Italian rights to The Station Agent, a small, intimate character study from first-time director and screenwriter Tom McCarthy that appears in dramatic competition here.Although no price ...
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Jeremy Thomas returns to UK distribution
Leading UK producer Jeremy Thomas is returning to UK distribution some 15 years after launching Recorded Releasing with Island Records founder Chris Blackwell.Thomas is close to taking a stake of around 20% in Optimum Releasing, the independent UK distributor which has been steadily building a reputation with canny specialist releases ...
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City Of God to open Mar Del Plata festival
Fernando Mereilles' City Of God will open the upcoming Mar del Plata International Film Festival (March 6-15), the oldest film festival in the Americas.Artistic Co-ordinator Miguel Pereira announced that Meirelles' critically acclaimed film will screen out of competition, as will the selection for the closing night - Spanish director Carlos ...
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Takeshi Kitano eyes blind swordsman project
Takeshi Kitano will direct and star in a feature film version of the Japanese Zatoichi film series, playing the title role of the blind masseur and master swordsman. The original series of films, starring Shintaro Katsu, began in 1962 and ran for 26 episodes, until 1989. It has long been ...
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Barrandov Studios to be re-nationalised'
Czech Barrandov Studios owner Moravia Steel has brushed off government suggestions that the Prague film complex might be re-nationalised, with Moravia Steel supervisory board chairman Tomas Chrenek saying he had only read about the suggestion in the press and had heard no official word from the government about the proposal. ...
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Vivendi Universal closer to selling US entertainment assets
Vivendi Universal, the European media conglomerate which owns Universal Studios and StudioCanal, has moved up a gear in its attempt to dispose of its US entertainment assets. According to reports, Vivendi Universal has appointed lawyers to help it unwind its relationship with Barry Diller, the former Fox chief who oversees ...
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Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself
Dir: Lone Scherfig. Den-UK. 2002. 111minsA bittersweet reflection on love and death, Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself should beguile the same sophisticated audience who warmed to Italian For Beginners and also win writer-director Lone Scherfig a fresh wave of admirers. Displaying the same quirky charm and bone dry humour of ...
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Kaurismaki wins Palm Springs FIPRESCI prize
The 14th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival ended yesterday (Jan 20) with Finland's The Man With A Past by Aki Kaurismaki winning the FIPRESCI prize for Best Official Foreign Language Film of the Year. In other awards, Nir Bergman won the new John Schlesinger Award for debut feature film ...
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Gaga strikes Sundance deal for drag comedy
Gaga Communications has acquired Japanese rights to comedy Girls Will Be Girls from Cinetic Media for a mid-six figure sum. The deal confirms Sundance's growing importance as a foreign rights-trading arena and precedes any domestic or worldwide-rights deal closed by Cinetic on the film.Directed by Richard Day, the film, which ...
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Buffalo Soldiers provokes fury at Sundance
The Sundance Film Festival reached a half way mark yesterday (Tuesday) with a startling incident at the screening of Buffalo Soldiers. The controversial film bought for North American distribution by Miramax Films in Sept 2001 - but only set to be released this spring - had just finished screening at ...
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Two Towers breaks Italian opening record
New Line International's The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers scored the biggest bow of all time in Italy over the weekend as it opened on a staggering $9.4m. The second instalment of Peter Jackson's J R R Tolkien adaptation averaged $11,773 from 800 screens after opening on Jan ...
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