All Screen articles in 21 March 2003 – Page 3
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Facing Windows leads Italian Oscar race
Italian-Turkish director Ferzan Ozpetek's drama Facing Windows (La Finestra di Fronte) has scored the biggest number of nominations at the Donatellos, Italy's Oscars, winning 11 nods in all the main categories. But competition for the awards on April 9 is set to be the strongest it has been in recent ...
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Delayed Medusa-Cecchi Gori films finally get Italian release
My Name Is Tanino and L'Anima Gemella, two Italian films which screened at Venice last year before being caught up in the financial storm currently gripping local mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori, are finally set to be released in Italy, after Medusa sealed a joint distribution deal with the Cecchi Gori ...
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New Italian-Spanish co-production market planned
The Italian Institute for Foreign Commerce (ICE) is organising a new Italian-Spanish co-production market to take place in Madrid.The first Professional Meetings for Italian Media in Spain (May 6-8) aims to promote co-productions and consolidate relationships between companies from the two countries, as well as to boost the profile of ...
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Pleasant Days wins Sofia Festival's first international competition
Hungary's Pleasant Days has been awarded the Grand Prix at The Sofia International Film Festival's first ever competitive event.The seventh edition of the Bulgarian Film Festival had a total of 12 films were competing for the prizes awarded by a five member jury including Bulgarian actress Ani Valchanova, Croation director ...
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Culture Minister increases German Film Award prize money
Germany's State Minister of Culture Christina Weiss will increase the total prize-money allocated to the German Film Awards (Lolas) by Euros 310,000 to Euros 3.125m this year.An additional Euros 250,000 is being made available for a seventh title to be nominated in the "Best Feature Film" category, and a total ...
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Bille August gets Hans Christian Andersen Award, prepares biopic
Danish expatriate filmmaker Bille August will receive The Hans Christian Andersen Award 2003 from the city Odense, where the world famous author was born 198 years ago, on April 2. August has just returned from Hollywood after financing collapsed on his Without Apparent Motive with Oscar-darlings Richard Gere and Julianne ...
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Alliance Atlantis cuts 33 jobs, relocates Sussman
Alliance Atlantis is cutting 33 jobs from its production arm and relocating its main Los Angeles-based executive to Toronto. Peter Sussman, CEO of the company's Entertainment Group, who has been in Los Angeles since 1991, will continue to oversee the Los Angeles operation and, according to a release, "manage key ...
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CME wins damages from Czech government over TV Nova
The Czech government was this week ordered to pay $353m of damages and interest to Central European Media Enterprises (CME) in a case concerning control of commercial broadcaster TV Nova. The ruling by an international arbitration court is less than the $527m that CME had sought, but is big enough ...
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Carlton International sells film package to Showtime
Steven Soderbergh's sex lies and videotape, The Tamarind Seed and The Big Easy will screen on US pay-TV service Showtime, following a major deal with Carlton International, the sales arm of UK broadcast group Carlton Communications.Other library titles included in the package include Jacknife, Jon Voight and Kevin Costner in ...
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Academy plans modified awards ceremony and coverage
Producers of the 75th Academy Awards said yesterday (Mar 18) they would go ahead with a modified Oscars telecast on Mar 23, but were prepared to defer to breaking news from the Gulf.The announcement was made at a press conference in Hollywood by Gil Cates, the veteran producer of the ...
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European film councils make joint declaration on funding
The criteria for European public film support could shift to a more commercial footing after the continent's leading funding bodies unveiled an EU-wide accord yesterday.Public funding bodies, including the UK's Film Council, Germany's Filmforderungsanstalt and France's Centre National de la Cinematographie, are aiming to set the agenda in the run-up ...
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RTL unveils new management as revenues rise
Europe's leading broadcaster and content provider RTL Group has unveiled a new management structure as audited preliminary figures for 2002 show that group revenues performed strongly despite a difficult market.Just a week after he was appointed RTL Group's new CEO, Gerhard Zeiler has announced a new executive committee which will ...
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Entertainers launch Oz film outfit
Ned Kelly producer Nelson Woss has joined forces with live entertainment specialists Sports & Entertainment Limited (SEL) to form a new Sydney based film outfit.Called Woss Group Films/SEL, the company is looking to produce Australian projects with international ambitions as well as other international projects.Woss is one of the producers ...
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Sogepaq seals int'l sales on Mortadelo, Mondays
Spain's Sogepaq has announced a slew of sales on two local hits Mortadelo & Filemon - The Big Adventure and Mondays In The Sun.Co-produced by Sogepaq sister company Sogecine, Mortadelo & Filemon passed the Euros 20m mark at the box office this weekend, bringing it a step closer to overtaking ...
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Norway greenlights Olsen Gang Jr sequel
With the first film still on theatrical release, The Norwegian Film Fund has already greenlighted the Nordisk sequel to family film The Olsen Gang Jr, which has attracted over 300,000 admissions since it opened on February 7th. The season's most successful local film is the children's version of Norway's best ...
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Distributors jockey for position as Korean majors merge
Faced with the merger of South Korea's two biggest film companies, mid-sized distributors are jockeying for position in a rapidly changing market.With market prospects undermined by the recent bursting of an investment bubble, four mid-sized players - Showbox, Korea Pictures, Aura Entertainment and Big Blue Film - have the best ...
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New Wim Wenders film gets German regional film fund cash
Wim Wenders' next feature Don't Come Knockin' has received the highest amount - Euros 500,000 - from Hamburg's regional film fund FilmFoerderung Hamburg (FFH) in its latest round of a total Euros 2m in funding.With a screenplay by Sam Shepard and starring Shephard and Jessica Lange, Don't Come Knockin' will ...
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France receives two Cartoon Movie tributes
France's domination of the European animation sector was recognised at the end of this year's Cartoon Movie market when two of its Cartoon Movie Tributes went to animation producers from France.Didier Brunner, whose company Les Armateurs has produced such films as Kirikou Et La Sorciere, Belleville Rendez-vous and The Boy ...
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UIP to release Spanish feature The Weakness Of The Bolshevik
UIP has confirmed local distribution plans for Spanish feature film, The Weakness Of The Bolshevik (La Flaqueza Del Bolchevique) (working title), currently in post-production.UIP will release the film in Spain next September 26 on around 100 prints and is expected to invest approximately Euros 300,000 for p&a. Producer Jose Antonio ...