All Screen articles in 22 May 2003 – Page 3
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Reviews
The Hours Of The Day (Las Horas Del Dia)
Dir: Jaime Rosales. Spain. 2003. 110mins.Spanish film-maker Jaime Rosales' The Hours Of The Day (Las Horas Del Dia) marks a confident debut feature, and one which should have no trouble finding a niche on the festival circuit - as its acceptance in Directors' Fortnight at Cannes testifies. It may also ...
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Film Council, BBC, NFB team for $2.6m feature doc fund
The UK's Film Council and the BBC have partnered with Canada's National Film Board (NFB) to create a $2.6m (Euros 2.1m) fund dedicated to the production of feature-length documentaries for theatrical release. The World Documentary Fund (WDF), unveiled in Cannes, will finance three to four feature documentaries over a period ...
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Ange does saintly business for Focus
Focus Features has closed its first deals on Saint Ange, the supernatural thriller starring Virginie Ledoyen which is being shot in English-language and French-language versions. Icon has bought the film for the UK, Vertigo for Spain, Scanbox for Scandinavia and Gussi for Spanish-speaking Latin America. In addition Focus, which will ...
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Ange does saintly business for Focus
Focus Features has closed its first deals on Saint Ange, the supernatural thriller starring Virginie Ledoyen which is being shot in English-language and French-language versions. Icon has bought the film for the UK, Vertigo for Spain, Scanbox for Scandinavia and Gussi for Spanish-speaking Latin America. In addition Focus, which will ...
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AV launches horror genre label
AV Pictures, the sales outfit launched by ex-Victor Film Company chief Vic Bateman and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels co-financier Angad Paul, has launched genre label Erebus with three productions set to shoot back-to-back from October.Erebus is a three-way joint venture between AV, Vaughn Mullady's production facility TwoPlusOne and ...
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AV launches horror genre label
AV Pictures, the sales outfit launched by ex-Victor Film Company chief Vic Bateman and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels co-financier Angad Paul, has launched genre label Erebus with three productions set to shoot back-to-back from October.Erebus is a three-way joint venture between AV, Vaughn Mullady's production facility TwoPlusOne and ...
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Miramax does the business
Miramax Films swiftly completed its international sales goals this market, closing a big deal with Gaga Communications in Japan for Shall We Dance, Duplex and Tadpole and with Asmik Ace for Spy Kids 3D and Blue Car, and re-teaming with Svensk Filmindustri in Sandinavia for the first time in a ...
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Miramax does the business
Miramax Films swiftly completed its international sales goals this market, closing a big deal with Gaga Communications in Japan for Shall We Dance, Duplex and Tadpole and with Asmik Ace for Spy Kids 3D and Blue Car, and re-teaming with Svensk Filmindustri in Sandinavia for the first time in a ...
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Delhi calls for Calendar Girls' Cole
Nigel Cole is to direct a film based on the Indian call centre phenomenon, which has seen a slew of UK corporations opening customer service operations in Delhi, and then training Indian workers to talk to callers about British weather, cricket and soaps. The film, which has a working title ...
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Delhi calls for Calendar Girls' Cole
Nigel Cole is to direct a film based on the Indian call centre phenomenon, which has seen a slew of UK corporations opening customer service operations in Delhi, and then training Indian workers to talk to callers about British weather, cricket and soaps. The film, which has a working title ...
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China may 'punish' Cannes duo
China's film censors are reportedly threatening to punish the makers of two films which are screening in Un Certain Regard - Yu Lik-Wai's All Tomorrow Parties and Wang Xiaoshuai's Drifters. Zhou Jiandong, director of the China Film Bureau, said that both films had violated regulations according to a report from ...
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China may 'punish' Cannes duo
China's film censors are reportedly threatening to punish the makers of two films which are screening in Un Certain Regard - Yu Lik-Wai's All Tomorrow Parties and Wang Xiaoshuai's Drifters. Zhou Jiandong, director of the China Film Bureau, said that both films had violated regulations according to a report from ...
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Fox creates US DVD label for Fortune Star
Fortune Star, the production and distribution arm of Asian regional broadcaster Star TV, has signed a distribution deal with sister company Fox Home Entertainment for release of its classic martial arts library titles in the US.According to Fortune Star general manager Peter Poon, Fox will launch the first batch of ...
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Spain's Filmax sees the light with Darkness
Spain's Filmax has closed remaining territories on Jaume Balaguero's Darkness and closed the first sales on the director's highly-anticipated follow-up, Fragile. Darkness has sold to Germany (Splendid Film) and remaining territories in Latin America including Mexico (Videocine Quality Films), Brazil-Colombia-Peru-Bolivia-Ecuador (Consorcio Europa) and Argentina-Paraguay-Uruguay-Chile (CDI Films). Other territories sold include ...
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Italy's Eagle swoops on its first Korean title
Korean mini-studio Mirovision has successfully sold its horror hit Phone, directed by Ahn Byung-ki, to Italy's Eagle Pictures. The film is the first ever Korean title for the Italian distributor. The film had previously been sold to Jumbo Films for Thailand, Metropolitan Filmexport for France, Metro Tartan for the UK, ...
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Italy's Eagle swoops on its first Korean title
Korean mini-studio Mirovision has successfully sold its horror hit Phone, directed by Ahn Byung-ki, to Italy's Eagle Pictures. The film is the first ever Korean title for the Italian distributor. The film had previously been sold to Jumbo Films for Thailand, Metropolitan Filmexport for France, Metro Tartan for the UK, ...
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Italy's Eagle swoops on its first Korean title
Korean mini-studio Mirovision has successfully sold its horror hit Phone, directed by Ahn Byung-ki, to Italy's Eagle Pictures. The film is the first ever Korean title for the Italian distributor. The film had previously been sold to Jumbo Films for Thailand, Metropolitan Filmexport for France, Metro Tartan for the UK, ...
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Spice Factory finds Lost partner in US
US-based Alchemedia Entertainment and the UK's Spice Factory have partnered on supernatural horror movie Lost.The title is the latest Spice Factory project to be pumped through Darclight Films, the genre label of worldwide sales agent Arclight Films. Produced by Billy Dietrich, Jason Piette, Michael Cowan and Maxime Remillard, the picture ...
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Spice Factory finds Lost partner in US
US-based Alchemedia Entertainment and the UK's Spice Factory have partnered on supernatural horror movie Lost.The title is the latest Spice Factory project to be pumped through Darclight Films, the genre label of worldwide sales agent Arclight Films. Produced by Billy Dietrich, Jason Piette, Michael Cowan and Maxime Remillard, the picture ...
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Spice Factory finds Lost partner in US
US-based Alchemedia Entertainment and the UK's Spice Factory have partnered on supernatural horror movie Lost.The title is the latest Spice Factory project to be pumped through Darclight Films, the genre label of worldwide sales agent Arclight Films. Produced by Billy Dietrich, Jason Piette, Michael Cowan and Maxime Remillard, the picture ...