All Screen articles in 21 November 2003 – Page 2
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Raggy Boy producer leaps into Wide Blue Yonder
Formal pre-production will start in a week's time on Titian Red Pictures' Wide Blue Yonder according to producer Kevin Byron Murphy. The company's second film after Song for a Raggy Boy, Wide Blue Yonder is written by UK playwright Hugh Janes and will be directed by Robert W. Young. Filming ...
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Germany funds new projects from award winning directors
New projects by Christian Petzold and Iain Dilthey are the among new features awarded a total of Euros 1.48m by State Minister for Culture and Media Christina Weiss in her ministry's latest round of film funding.Petzold, who received the top German Film Award for The State I Am In two ...
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My Architect breaks theatrical record
Growing evidence of the theatrical viability of documentary films came this week with the US performance of My Architect. The film by Nathaniel Kahn was released last Friday and broke the house record at the Film Forum cinema in New York, ...
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Binger to announce Dutch doc training course
The Maurits Binger Film Institute will next Friday (Nov 28) unveil details of its new training course for documentary film-makers.The charitable foundation, which finances film development and partners with leading festivals in The Netherlands, is adding to its script development and director coaching courses by launching a 'long-running international training ...
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Japanese Story sweeps AFI awards
Japanese Story walked away with practically all the honours at the 45th AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards tonight (Nov 21), including best film. It is the third major Australian prize for Japanese Story in less than a month: on Nov 12 it won at the IF Awards and on Oct ...
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CineAsia wraps on positive note for local language pics
The resurgence of local-language product across the Asia Pacific region was a recurring theme at this year's CineAsia convention for distributors and exhibitors which wrapped on Thursday (Nov 20) in Bangkok.At a seminar on the last day of the market, the increasing volume and quality of local-language films was credited ...
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Fox takes Thai rights to local drama Beautiful Boxer
Twentieth Century Fox has picked up Thai distribution rights to local action drama Beautiful Boxer produced by GMM Pictures - the film arm of Thai entertainment giant GMM Grammy.Directed by Singapore's Ekachai Uekrongtham, the film tells the real-life story of Parinya Charoenphol, affectionately nicknamed Nong Toom in Thailand, a kickboxer ...
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Scanbox, Paradox strike co-production deal
Nordic distributor Scanbox Entertainment, which has emerged in a strong position after a major restructure in 2001, has through its Norwegian arm signed a co-production agreement on six feature films with the prolific production outfit Paradox Spillefilm AS. The deal will see the companies select, develop, produce and market the ...
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Cold&Dark start for Cornwall studio
Shooting started this week on Cold&Dark, a supernatural horror film about police vigilantism starring Luke Goss and directed by Andrew Goth (Everybody Loves Sunshine).The film, which is the first to use the newly opened South West Film Studios in Cornwall, tells the story of Detective Sergeant John Dark, a good ...
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Fresh blow for Graz's Diagonale festival
The future of Graz's Diagonale festival under the new management of Miroljub Vuckovic and Tillmann Fuchs has been dealt another blow with the news that Graz's city council has decided to also provide funding for the rival event being planned by the filmmaking community (ScreenDaily.com, 29 Oct).According to the Austrian ...
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MIFED 2003: market deals round-up
The Agronomist (Wild Bunch)UK (Optimum), Italy (Bim)Arahan (Cinema Service)Thailand (Nontanund)Black Dahlia (Signature)Japan (Toho-Towa)Blizzard (First Look)US (Private Planet Releasing)Bright Young Things (Icon)Netherlands (RCV)Capturing The Friedmans (Fortissimo)Spain (Karma)The Card Player (Adriana Chiesa)Japan (Gaga) UK (Arrow)Coffee And Cigarettes (Fortissimo)UK (Tartan); Benelux (A-Film)Cold Mountain (Miramax)Netherlands (RCV)Cowboys And Angels (Media Luna)Hong Kong/Taiwan (I-Movie)Crash (Arclight)Japan (Movie-Eye ...
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SWEDEN
Though Finding Nemo swam safely into the top spot on its massive 181 prints and a strong screen average of $9.879 Matrix Revolutions clung to second place despite falling off 51%. The local box-office hits Evil and The Third Wave continued their successful runs, but for the first time in ...
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FRANCE
Although it remains in the number one spot, the final Matrix instalment is certainly not The One. The shine fell off the film in its second week out with the largest fall-off seen in any major market of 69%. With last week's release schedule virtually barren, distributors who tried to ...
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Dennis Rice returns to Disney, Trotta promoted to senior vp
Marketing veteran DennisRice has re-joined Buena Vista Pictures Marketing (BVPM) as senior vicepresident, publicity, while Heidi Trotta has been promoted to senior vicepresident, communications, for Walt Disney Studios.Rice, who will reportdirectly to Oren Aviv, president of BVPM Marketing, will oversee all areas ofpublicity on a national and field level for ...
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4th Floor (Planta Cuarta)
Dir: Antonio Mercero. 100 mins. Spain (2003).4th Floor (Planta Cuarta) didn't create much of a buzz in Spain while it was in production, nor even after winning a special mention for its young cast at the Spanish Film Festival of Malaga last May. So it was all the more ...
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11 animated films make the shortlist for Oscar
Eleven films have been namedeligible for the 2003 Best Animated Feature Film Academy Award by the AcademyOf Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Per the rules of the category, thatmeans that a maximum of three films can be nominated.They are The Jungle Book2, Piglet's Big Movie and BrotherBear from Walt Disney ...
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Singapore strides ahead with digital cinema roll-out
Singapore exhibitor Eng Wah Organization is collaborating with Barco and two government agencies to install 20 2K digital projectors - a move that pushes the tiny city-state of Singapore to the forefront of digital cinema technology.The roll-out is backed by Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) - a government body which ...
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Williams named vp, media, at Warner International
Vanessa Williamshas been named vice president, media, Warner Bros Pictures International. Inher new position, Williams will report to Fiona Watts, senior vice president,marketing.Williams willdevelop and oversee the implementation of media planning for approximately 30annual theatrical releases in 65 international territories. Among heradditional duties are supervising and approving media budgets, evaluating ...
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Spanish directors join forces for oil spill disaster film
Following in the tradition of recent festival favorites like 11'09'01 or Ten Minutes Older, Spain is about to embark on its own collaborative feature film about the massive oil spill last year off the northwest coast of Galicia.Tentatively titled Nunca Mais (Never Again), the activist slogan which arose in response ...
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Mission promotes Meyer to development chief
Mission Pictures has promoted Sophie Meyer to head of development in the UK.Previously development executive at the company, Meyer oversaw the development of Danny Boyle's Millions and comedy spoof Gladiatress. She is responsible for the development of a number of projects on Mission's slate, including a film written and to ...