All Screen articles in 21 October 2003 – Page 2
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Asian films take top prizes at Norway's Bergen fest
The fourth edition of Norway's Bergen International Film Festival, which wrapped on Wednesday (Oct 22), saw Asian cinema secure the top honours.Yang Li's Chinese Blind Shaft took the main prize, while Sangsoo Im's South Korean A Good Lawyer's Wife won the critics' award. Sixteen films screened in competition.The main prize ...
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DPS teams with Germany's BAF on 3-D animated Happily
Digital Production Studios (DPS), the New Jersey-based 3Danimation subsidiary of IDT Media, has signed a services agreement with Germanproduction company BAF Berlin Animation Film.Under the terms of the deal DPS will act as the single sourceanimation company for Happily N'Ever After, a 3-D animated revisiting of classic Brothers Grimm fairytales.Work ...
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Italian industry rages at Sky's film tactics
Italian producers are up in arms after discovering that Rupert Murdoch's Sky Italia will invest far less on Italian film than the Euros 50m previously thought. It has emerged that Italy's only pay-tv platform aims to spend a total of Euros 50m on all acquisitions from Italian distributors - including ...
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US non-profit Global outlines international film series
The Global FilmInitiative, the US-based charitable foundation dedicated to the promotion ofcross-cultural understanding through cinema, is less than one month away fromlaunching its inaugural annual film showcase.Entitled GlobalLens: New Cinema from the Developing World, the programme will run at New York's GramercyTheatre from Nov 13-30 before embarking on a nationwide ...
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Spain's merged pay-TV platform reveals first figures
In the first figures released from Spain's new digital satellite pay TV platform Digital Plus since its July 21 merger, the platform boasted 50,000 new subscribers in September alone.Digital Plus's current total of 1.8m subscribers includes the dissolution of 30,000 overlapped subscriptions from merged platforms Canal Satelite Digital (CSD) and ...
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Redbus develops horror film Fever
Redbus Pictures has stepped up its commitment to horror films, following the huge success it has had distributing Cabin Fever in the UK.Redbus has greenlit new horror production The 9th Passenger and has taken a co-producer credit on Madhouse with Lakeshore Entertainment.Budgeted at $10m, The 9th Passenger is set for ...
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Vanco winds down US indie Cowboy
Six years afterJohn Vanco and Noah Cowan launched the New York-based independent distributorCowboy Pictures, Vanco is to close the company down. The closure comes despitethe arrival of Lot 47 CEO Greg Williams to join Vanco as partner in Cowboy inMay this year. Cowan had already left to pursue other interests ...
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UGC Cinemas expands UK circuit
As part of its expansion strategy, European cinema operator UGC Cinemas has announced a number of initiatives including the acquisition of the Warner Village Cinema in Nottingham as well as plans to invest £20m in its existing UGC Cinema in Ealing, West London.UGC plans to add an additional two screens ...
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Warner Independent teams with Cherry Road
WarnerIndependent Pictures, the specialty arm of Warner Bros which launched in August2003, has secured a development and co-production fund with Cherry Road Films.Under the dealthe two companies will jointly develop projects - mostly from books, plays orpre-existing screenplays - with writers, directors and other producers.Cherry Road willalso have the opportunity ...
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Crowe, Bullock, Hoffman to present at BAFTA/LA's big night
Alan Cummingwill host BAFTA/LA's 12th Annual Britannia Awards in Los Angeles on Nov8.Presenters atthe upcoming awards show include Billy Connolly, Dustin Hoffman, Russell Crowe,Robin Williams, Jane Seymour, Robert Wagner and Sandra Bullock.As previouslyreported here, Hugh Grant will receive the annual Stanley Kubrick BritanniaAward for excellence in film and director Peter ...
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April, Architect win audience awards at Chicago
Peter Hedges'comedy-drama Pieces Of April tookhome the Audience Choice Award gold plaque and Nathaniel Kahn's MyArchitect claimed silver at the 39thChicago International Film Festival, which ran from Oct 2-16.Hedges' acclaimed filmstars Katie Holmes as an independent young woman who reconnects with herdysfunctional family over the traditional American Thanksgiving dinner.Patricia Clarkson, ...
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Jeunet's Engagement set for French approval
Following months of uncertainty, Jean Pierre Jeunet's latest effort, A Very Long Engagement, looks set to receive its stamp of approval from France's national cinema centre (CNC).In an interview with French daily Les Echos published Tuesday, CNC director David Kessler said he was prepared to sign off on the film ...
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Makhmalbaf's Afternoon wins India fest prize
Samira Makhmalbaf's At Five In The Afternoon has won The Golden Peacock for the Best Film in the Asian competition section of the International Film Festival of India.The film has previously won the Special Jury Award at Cannes. Makhmalbaf, who was not present to receive her prize, donated her cash ...
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Sandra Bullock sets Fortis, Miss Congeniality 2 at Warner
Sandra Bullockwill produce and reprise her lead role as an undercover special agent in thefollow-up to Miss Congeniality, which will be produced by Castle Rock, Village Roadshow Picturesand Bullock's Fortis Films and released through Warner Bros.In addition Fortis Films has extended its deal with WarnerBros by two years and expanded ...
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Osama
Dir: Siddiq Barmak. Afghanistan, Japan, Ireland. 2003. 82 mins.The striking title is not the only virtue of this harrowing slice of cinema, which is the first feature film shot in Afghanistan by an Afghan director since the fall of the Taliban. In a hundred years of cinema-producing history, Afghanistan has ...
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The Story Of Marie And Julien
Dir. Jacques Rivette. France 2003. 150 min.For dyed-in-the-wool cinephiles it is not up for debate every new Rivette film has to be seen, at least once, preferably more - and The Story Of Marie And Julien is no exception. But less committed audiences will find the French master's latest offering, ...
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HUNGARY
Although released on an impressing 32 copies Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 1 failed to make a huge impact at the Hungarian box office. Although opening in the top spot, it took less in admissions than Bad Boys II on its second weekend, although it out-grossed the cop comedy in ...
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DENMARK
School holidays boosted SF Film's massive 105 print rollout of the new Danish children's film Moegunger (Brats), which didn't quite perform to expectations last weekend. During the week and over this weekend the film saw an impressive 221.5% increase to reach 232,154 admissions in its first 10 days. This ...
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Rothman tells HFPA that the MPAA has made no decisions
Tom Rothman, the co-chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment, yesterday denied that the MPAA has reached any conclusion on the screener ban which has divided Hollywood.Addressing the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) before a screening of his studio’s big Oscar hope Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World, Rothman ...
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Cork names short film prize winners
The Cork Film Festival saw the The Jameson Award for best Irish short film go to director Simon Fitzmaurice for Full Circle. The debut director's film was cited by the jury for 'its ability to tell a story with tenderness and humour, managing to create an entire world through very ...