All Screen articles in 21 March 2002 – Page 4

  • News

    Ice Age rocks box office record book

    2002-03-17T20:55:00Z

    One week before the AcademyAwards, 20th Century Fox, which has one of the lead contenders in MoulinRouge, celebrated a victory at theNorth American box office with Ice Age. The CGI animated comedy about a family of prehistoric beasts trying toreunite a human baby with its mother took a massive estimated ...

  • News

    International appeal to save Buenos Aires festival

    2002-03-17T17:55:00Z

    Jacques Gerber, assistant programmer of the Cannes Directors' Fortnight, has announced the Quinzaine's intention to launch an international appeal to rescue the Buenos Aires Independent Cinema International Festival, which has lost 80% of its funding. Over the last three years, director Eduardo Antin (Quintin) has developed the festival into the ...

  • News

    Columbia Tristar enters Korean film production

    2002-03-17T17:52:00Z

    Columbia Tristar is to fully finance a major new Korean production directed by Cinema Service founder Kang Woo-suk. The $10m feature, titled Silmi Island, is the first instance of a Hollywood studio fully funding and taking on worldwide distribution rights for a Korean movie.The Korean-language film, which will be produced ...

  • News

    India's film & TV industry set to double by 2006

    2002-03-17T16:11:00Z

    India's entertainment sector is set to double in size within five years, according to data presented over the weekend at the Frames 2002 industry seminar in Bombay. Consulting firm Arthur Andersen said that the local film industry would grow steadily at a compound annual rate of 15%, to reach a ...

  • Reviews

    Showtime

    2002-03-17T15:51:00Z

    Dir Tom Dey. US 2002. 95mins.In the silly, utterly redundant, and only sporadically funny action comedy Showtime, Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy try to have their cake and eat it, cashing in on their established screen images while at the same time spoofing and deviating from them. Cliche-ridden and ...