All Screen articles in 22 May 2003 – Page 3
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McTiernan to direct $45m Murder In Canton
John McTiernan is attached to direct a $45m action adventure Murder In Canton, based on the Judge Dee mystery novel, which Samuel and Victor Hadida's Davis Films and Peter Loehr's Ming Productions will co-produce with backing from TF1. French production house D+ Productions, headed by Francoise DeDeu, will also produce. ...
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McTiernan to direct $45m Murder In Canton
John McTiernan is attached to direct a $45m action adventure Murder In Canton, based on the Judge Dee mystery novel, which Samuel and Victor Hadida's Davis Films and Peter Loehr's Ming Productions will co-produce with backing from TF1. French production house D+ Productions, headed by Francoise DeDeu, will also produce. ...
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Five world premieres at SF Lesbian & Gay Film Fest
Jennifer Kroot's Orwellian tale Sirens Of The 23rd Century and Jeffrey Schwarz's documentary People Like Us: Making Philadelphia, are among five world premieres at the upcoming 27th San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. With notable emphasis on queer youth and AIDS, the festival will screen 77 films ...
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Scott-Thomas steals Lupin role
Kristin Scott-Thomas will co-star with Romain Duris in Arsene Lupin, a big-budget story of 19th century adventure, romance and burglary.The film to be directed by Jean-Paul Salome is an adaptation of La Comtesse De Cagliostro, the first of the celebrated Lupin novels by Maurice Leblanc. The screenplay is by Salome ...
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Schenz promoted to senior VP at Intermedia
Greg Schenz has been promoted to senior vice president of business and legal affairs for Intermedia, Jon Gumpert, vice-chairman and head of motion picture operations, announced.Continuing to report to Gumpert, Schenz will expand his role in negotiating deals with above-the-line talent and in financing and co-production transactions.In addition, he will ...
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Locarno unveils jazzy innovations
The top trio from the Locarno festival - artistic director Irene Bignardi, president Marco Solari and selector Teresa Cavani - were on hand yesterday to introduce the innovations of this year's festival. The Leopard of Honour will be presented to UK director Ken Loach, while this year's tribute to a ...
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Rai takes Heart Elsewhere
Rai Trade, the film sales arm of Italian state broadcast-production and distribution group Rai, has had a successful time this year at Cannes.It has signed a string of sales on competition film The Heart Elsewhere (Il Cuore Al Trove) which is directed by celebrated auteur Pupi Avati, who nowadays doubles ...
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Elephant stomps up sales
HBO Films London has done a pile of deals for its two festival films Elephant and American Splendor. Tokyo Theatres bought Elephant for Japan, Bim took it for Italy, Frenetic for Switzerland, Vertigo for Spain, Cineart for Benelux, Atalanta for Portugal, Noah for Israel and Audiovisual for Greece. Sundance winner ...
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Strayed (Les Egares)
Dir: Andre Techine. France. 2003. 95minsTender and tasteful, Strayed (Les Egares) takes a conventional approach to what will seem familiar material to most international audiences. Set amid sun-dappled vistas of rural France, it captures the conflicting emotions and underlying tensions of a lyrical interlude stolen from the chaos of wartime ...
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Strayed (Les Egares)
Dir: Andre Techine. France. 2003. 95minsTender and tasteful, Strayed (Les Egares) takes a conventional approach to what will seem familiar material to most international audiences. Set amid sun-dappled vistas of rural France, it captures the conflicting emotions and underlying tensions of a lyrical interlude stolen from the chaos of wartime ...
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Doug Chiang prepares his Robota
Top visual effects supplier Doug Chiang is putting together Robota, a robot-action adventure which will mix live action and 3D animation. Already backed by French animation house Sparx, Chaing wants to structure the $50m picture as a Euro-US co-venture and is seeking studio-level finance or co-production. Sparx co-chiefs Jean-Christophe Bernard ...
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Chen Kaige named guest director at IFP LA film festival
Chen Kaige, the acclaimed Chinese director of Together and Farewell My Concubine, will be guest director at the 2003 IFP Los Angeles Film Festival, executive director Dawn Hudson has announced. The 9th annual event runs from Jun 11-21.Kaige's duties will see him host a two-day film-maker retreat, programme a sidebar ...
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That Day (Ce Jour-La)
Dir: Raoul Ruiz. France-Switzerland. 2003. 105minsLong-term followers of the maverick Raoul Ruiz - or indeed, viewers who discovered him through his unlikely 2001 box-office hit Time Regained - are used to expecting the unexpected. But the Swiss-set That Day (Ce Jour-La) is unpredictable largely for being uncharacteristically predictable, even mechanical. ...
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Bavaria busy with award winners
Bavaria Film International has closed remaining territories on foreign-language Oscar-winner Nowhere In Africa selling to Korea's With Cinema, Finland's Kamras and Portugal's Ecofilmes. Final deals were done on last year's Cannes prize-winner The Man Without A Past, selling Korean rights, also to With Cinema. Korean drama Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter...Spring ...
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Samy Boy Entertainment appoints Kevin Riley as CFO
Former New Regency director of operations Kevin Riley has joined Los Angeles-based financing and production company Samy Boy Entertainment as chief financial officer.In his new role, Riley will oversee daily operations of the company's film division and supervise the development and production departments.Prior to joining the company, Riley held senior ...
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Argentina appoints envoys
Argentina's Film Institute INCAA has appointed four international representatives to act as "antenna" for the nation's cinema. They include journalist Carlos Hugo Aztarain in Spain, Mar del Plata director Miguel Pereira in the UK, film professor Pablo Perel in Israel and producer Matias Doorn in the US. Two more representatives ...
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Overseas plunges into Dungeons again
Overseas Filmgroup has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Dungeons And Dragons: The Sequel to be produced by Zinc Entertainment, a division of Joel Silver's Silver Pictures, and Marching Band Productions in association with Sweetpea Entertainment. Warner Home Video is handling video rights in the US and certain territories. Marching Band ...
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Haut Et Court adds Cantet-connected pair
Haut Et Court, the French production company behind competition film Tiresia and anticipated Un Certain Regard picture Who Killed Bambi, has cast Swimming Pool-star Charlotte Rampling in the new psychological drama by hot shot Laurent Cantet. The film, Heading South (Vers Le Sud) is an adaptation of the novel of ...
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Top Spanish talent in LaZona
New Spanish production company LaZona Films, launched in January, has unveiled its first slate of films featuring some of the talent behind the biggest Spanish box office hits of recent years.With Or Without Love is to be written and directed by David Serrano, who scripted Spain's top grossing film last ...
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Top Spanish talent in LaZona
New Spanish production company LaZona Films, launched in January, has unveiled its first slate of films featuring some of the talent behind the biggest Spanish box office hits of recent years.With Or Without Love is to be written and directed by David Serrano, who scripted Spain's top grossing film last ...