All Screen articles in 22 May 2003 – Page 2
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Lion's Gate enjoys Freshman year
Lions Gate Films International has sold all key territories to its new titles The Final Cut starring Robin Williams and The Prince And The Freshman with Julia Stiles, the latter of which will be handled by Paramount Pictures.Co-presidents Nick Meyer and Sergei Yershov said that they had sold futuristic thriller ...
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Lion's Gate enjoys Freshman year
Lions Gate Films International has sold all key territories to its new titles The Final Cut starring Robin Williams and The Prince And The Freshman with Julia Stiles, the latter of which will be handled by Paramount Pictures.Co-presidents Nick Meyer and Sergei Yershov said that they had sold futuristic thriller ...
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Universal to deliver Twins
Universal Pictures International has picked up UK, Australian, German, Italian and Scandinavian rights to Hong Kong director Dante Lam's vampire thriller Twins Effect. The film is being handled by Arclight Films. The deal was brokered by Wayne Borg, Peter Smith and Phil Rudge for Universal and managing director Gary Hamilton ...
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Universal to deliver Twins
Universal Pictures International has picked up UK, Australian, German, Italian and Scandinavian rights to Hong Kong director Dante Lam's vampire thriller Twins Effect. The film is being handled by Arclight Films. The deal was brokered by Wayne Borg, Peter Smith and Phil Rudge for Universal and managing director Gary Hamilton ...
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UGC rides into Davies' Sunset
UGC Films UK has pre-bought UK theatrical rights to Terence Davies' upcoming adaptation of Scottish novel Sunset Song.Producers Bob Last and Ginnie Atkinson are also in final negotiations with Janine Gold and Natalie Brenner's Element X for the project to join that sales company's debut international slate. Visionview, the UK ...
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UGC rides into Davies' Sunset
UGC Films UK has pre-bought UK theatrical rights to Terence Davies' upcoming adaptation of Scottish novel Sunset Song.Producers Bob Last and Ginnie Atkinson are also in final negotiations with Janine Gold and Natalie Brenner's Element X for the project to join that sales company's debut international slate. Visionview, the UK ...
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UGC rides into Davies' Sunset
UGC Films UK has pre-bought UK theatrical rights to Terence Davies' upcoming adaptation of Scottish novel Sunset Song.Producers Bob Last and Ginnie Atkinson are also in final negotiations with Janine Gold and Natalie Brenner's Element X for the project to join that sales company's debut international slate. Visionview, the UK ...
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Larry Clark to shoot A Good Way To Die
Larry Clark is involved in two new projects, one as director and another as executive producer.As a director, Larry Clark has signed on to direct A Good Way To Die, the chronicle of a cross-country odyssey of two young men and the woman they both love based on the novel ...
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Larry Clark to shoot A Good Way To Die
Larry Clark is involved in two new projects, one as director and another as executive producer.As a director, Larry Clark has signed on to direct A Good Way To Die, the chronicle of a cross-country odyssey of two young men and the woman they both love based on the novel ...
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Buyers go to White Castle
Senator International has completed multiple sales on its slate of new pictures.Among buyers for Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle were Village Roadshow in Australia, Aurum in Spain, Europa in Latin America, Egmont in Scandinavia and RCV in Benelux.For Gold Circle's White Noise starring Michael Keaton, Senator sold to ...
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Buyers go to White Castle
Senator International has completed multiple sales on its slate of new pictures.Among buyers for Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle were Village Roadshow in Australia, Aurum in Spain, Europa in Latin America, Egmont in Scandinavia and RCV in Benelux.For Gold Circle's White Noise starring Michael Keaton, Senator sold to ...
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Vincent Gallo defends his Bunny
Although The Brown Bunny left critics cold - it is currently the worst-rated competition film ever to be judged by Screen International's critics' jury, behind both Johnny Depp's The Brave and Mathieu Kassovitz' Assassins - producer-director-actor-writer-editor-camera operator Vincent Gallo lifted the press out of mid-festival doldrums yesterday with a rousing ...
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Vincent Gallo defends his Bunny
Although The Brown Bunny left critics cold - it is currently the worst-rated competition film ever to be judged by Screen International's critics' jury, behind both Johnny Depp's The Brave and Mathieu Kassovitz' Assassins - producer-director-actor-writer-editor-camera operator Vincent Gallo lifted the press out of mid-festival doldrums yesterday with a rousing ...
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Cannes breaks out the Bolly
With Cannes shaping up as the market where the international industry finally comes together with Bollywood, negotiations were reaching fever pitch on Pride And Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical. A bidding war had erupted for Australian/NZ rights by yesterday afternoon - Miramax, which already has North and South American rights, is ...
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Cannes breaks out the Bolly
With Cannes shaping up as the market where the international industry finally comes together with Bollywood, negotiations were reaching fever pitch on Pride And Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical. A bidding war had erupted for Australian/NZ rights by yesterday afternoon - Miramax, which already has North and South American rights, is ...
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Norway's BV boasts its best Cannes
Norwegian sales outfit BV International has made a number of pre-sales at the Cannes market making it their best ever according to head Bjorg Veland. Director Simon Marshall's quirky thriller Mister Silvester has been sold to Italy, Greece and Turkey to Minerva Pictures and Benelux and Scandinavia to FEG. Gary ...
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Norway's BV boasts its best Cannes
Norwegian sales outfit BV International has made a number of pre-sales at the Cannes market making it their best ever according to head Bjorg Veland. Director Simon Marshall's quirky thriller Mister Silvester has been sold to Italy, Greece and Turkey to Minerva Pictures and Benelux and Scandinavia to FEG. Gary ...
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Alliance Atlantis plans Foolproof Canadian release
Alliance Atlantis plans to release its fully-financed caper picture Foolproof on 225 screens on Oct. 3, the widest-ever release for an English-Canadian film. The company distributed current record-holder Men With Brooms, which was released on 207 screens in 2002, backed by a P&A spend of more than C$1mDescribing the Foolproof ...
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Bronfman bids again for Universal
In the latest back-to-the-beginning twist in the Vivendi Universal saga, the Bronfman family which previously owned Universal Pictures through its Seagram drinks conglomerate, has announced its intention to bid for Vivendi's US assets. Edgar Bronfman Jr informed Vivendi chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou that he and his father are assembling a group ...
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Africa Cinemas launched to promote local industry
The lamentable state of the film industry in Africa is set to be addressed through the launch of a new organisation, Africa Cinemas, which will be bankrolled by a number of European organisations.Africa Cinemas aims to promote the distribution and exhibition of African films across the continent and support the ...