All Screen articles in 21 November 2002 – Page 3
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Deals overflow for Cinema Service's Volcano High
Cinema Service has scored a series of notable deals on its sold sci-fi, action-comedy Volcano High. The film, which features a young man banned from using his incredible fighting powers who is banished to a high school with an impossibly bad disciplinary record, was sold to Distant Horizon for North ...
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Bowling For Columbine strikes note in UK as BO record falls
The second Harry Potter film was not the only new release breaking records in the UK over the weekend. Proving that there is a strong market for alternatives to studio blockbusters, Momentum Pictures' Bowling For Columbine launched on just 28 screens for a stellar $249,444 (£157,898).The opening gave Michael Moore's ...
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Columbia backs film spin-off of BBC's Stella Street
Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group is backing a film spin-off of the BBC television series Stella Street, which parodies celebrity existence and pokes fun at the likes of Michael Caine, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman.Directed by Peter Richardson, Stella Street stars Phil Cornwell and John Sessions in multiple ...
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Jeans walks away with audience award at Luenen
German actress Nicolette Krebitz's (The Tunnel) feature directorial debut Jeans won this year's 'Luedia' Audience Award at Kinofest Luenen's annual celebration of German cinema.Apart from a specially created bronze statue, the award includes a slot in the 'Berlin And Beyond' festival in San Francisco's Castro Cinema in January 2003, financing ...
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Asian films take top prizes at Thessaloniki
Women directors and themes of family relations, censorship, racial and social intolerance dominated in the 43rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival which wrapped today. Asian films stood out in the competition section, which was restricted to first or second films.Hidenori Sugimori's Woman Of Water (Mizu No Onna) from Japan ...
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Shoujyo, City Of God win top prizes at AFI FEST
FernandoMereilles' Brazilian crime epic City Of God continued its run of festival success bywinning the audience award for best international feature film at AFI FEST inLos Angeles which ended on Sunday night with a screening of PedroAlmodovar's Talk To Her.Other audienceaward winners were Tasha Oldham's The Smith Family which won ...
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Harry Potter international tally soars to $59.5m
Actual international boxoffice figures for Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets have proved to be even better than the estimates,with an opening weekend total of $59.5m from 7.1m admissions on 4,265 screens. ' In the UK the picture set four newindustry records, beating the marks set by the original ...
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43rd Thessaloniki film festival fetes Asian films
Women directors and themes of family relations, censorship, racial and social intolerance dominated in the 43rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival which wrapped today. Asian films stood out in the competition section, which was restricted to first or second films.Hidenori Sugimori's Woman Of Water (Mizu No Onna) from Japan ...
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IM Internationalmedia to cut staff by more than 30%
Following last week's announcement of pre-tax losses of $36.1m in the first nine months of 2002, production and finance group IM Internationalmedia has unveiled an extensive cost reduction programme to reduce expenses by Euros 28.7m and predicted that revenues for 2003 would be between Euros 330m-350m, well above this year's ...
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Kamchatka
Dir: Marcelo Pineyro. Argentina-Spain, 2002. 104m.Argentina's selection for the foreign-language Oscar, Kamchatka has good worldwide potential for arthouse and foreign-language theatres thanks to hot lead actor Ricardo Darin (Nine Queens, The Son Of The Bride) and universal themes of family, childhood, love and loss. A heartfelt, intelligent and well-intentioned film ...
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Madame Sata enchants Huelva
Karim Ainouz's Madame Sata scooped three of the top awards at the 28th Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival, The 1930-set biopic of a Rio streetfighter and drag artist won best film, best actor for Lazaro Ramos and best cinematography for Walter Carvalho. Madame Sata was produced by Walter Salles' VideoFilmes ...
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The Mill cuts its film division out of the picture
In a further sign of the difficult times facing the UK film industry, Oscar winning special effects company, The Mill, is pulling out of feature film. The London based company is blaming the move on the volatile nature of the industry and a desire to concentrate on its advertising activities.A ...
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Bac Majestic to quit exhibition as revenues collapse
Bac Majectic is to pull out of the exhibition sector anc concentrate exclusively on film distribution.The company said that following finacnial difficulties in its exhibition operations it has taken the decision to progressively withdraw from the sector. The stockmarket-traded group last year sold its collection of parisian screens but held ...
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Australia's Hopscotch signs for first local film
Fledgling Australian distributor Hopscotch has picked up Australian and New Zealand rights for its first local film. Peaches got a greenlight from the Film Finance Corporation (FFC) this week and is to be directed by Craig Monahan from a script by television writer Sue Smith. "Craig Monahan should have ...
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The Touch adds sales, hits US delivery delay
Big-budget Hong Kong action-adventure, The Touch has wrapped up a number of additional sales, but has hit a snag with delivery of the final version to Miramax for the US.In the days since Mifed, Sabrina Chen, sales chief at the film's principal backer Han Entertainment, has inked key distribution deals ...
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Japan picks Out Oscar nominee
Japan has selected Hideyuki Hirayama's Out as its nominee for the foreign language film category at next year's Academy Awards. A female orientated black comedy, Out was selected from a shortlist of ten films by the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan.Based on a recently published novel by best-selling mystery ...
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Van Helsing locates to Prague for winter shoot
Stephen Sommers' Van Helsing has entered pre-production in Prague, with principle photography on the monster thriller set to start in the Czech capital in January.Universal's latest creature feature, following Sommers directed blockbusters The Mummy, The Mummy Returns and The Scorpion King, is the first large US production to land in ...
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Fine Line signs on for The Recipe
Fine Line Features has acquired the script The Recipe by Ruth Graham which will be produced by Janette Day and Ruth Graham. The story of an aspiring chef who is bequeathed her grandmother's infmaous aphrodisiac recipe and then travels to Italy to seek out its origins.The deal was negotiated by ...
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Junkersdorf launches tax fund to finance four pictures
Eberhard Junkersdorf, who called earlier this year for the introduction in Germany of tax-driven incentives similar to those in the UK, Ireland, Canada or Luxembourg, has launched his own media fund - Neue Bioskop Film - to finance four international feature productions in 2002 and 2003.German individuals can invest a ...
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Mannheim jury in favour of The Devils
French director Christopher Ruggia's drama The Devils (Les Diables) was named Best Film by the international jury at this year's Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival.Announcing its decision, the jury of Danish actress Trine Dyrholm, French sales agent Margarita Seguy (F For Film), Korean sales agent Karen Moon (CJ Entertainment), Finnish Film ...