All Screen articles in 22 May 2003 – Page 4
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More foresight than luck for Lucky Red
Italy's Lucky Red is once again proving its foresight thanks to a string of Cannes acquisitions and co-production deals.Headed by Andrea Occhipinti, Lucky Red has boarded Comme Une Image, the new film from bittersweet comedy duo Agnes Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri It features a number of unlikely characters united by ...
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More foresight than luck for Lucky Red
Italy's Lucky Red is once again proving its foresight thanks to a string of Cannes acquisitions and co-production deals.Headed by Andrea Occhipinti, Lucky Red has boarded Comme Une Image, the new film from bittersweet comedy duo Agnes Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri It features a number of unlikely characters united by ...
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iDreams sets sights on global markets
iDreams, the film production-distribution house floated by stock broker Sripal Morakhia and responsible for the Indian release of Bend It Like Beckham, is going global. As the company relocates its HQ to London, iDreams now hopes to generate 80% of its revenues from international markets. Sripal Morakhia, chairman of iDreams ...
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iDreams sets sights on global markets
iDreams, the film production-distribution house floated by stock broker Sripal Morakhia and responsible for the Indian release of Bend It Like Beckham, is going global. As the company relocates its HQ to London, iDreams now hopes to generate 80% of its revenues from international markets. Sripal Morakhia, chairman of iDreams ...
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Montage, Korea's Tube go hunting with Van Helsing
Montage Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based company with strong Korean connections has become one of the two indie players to get a piece of Universal Pictures' mega-budget, monster hunter adventure Van Helsing, starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale.Tube Entertainment will next year handle the Korean release of the picture, having been ...
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UK's Metrodome is high on Life
UK distributor Metrodome has acquired all rights to Isabel Coixet's Berlin title My Life Without Me and video rights to Kenneth Bowser's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, which played in Cannes' Official Selection.My Life Without Me stars Sarah Polley and Mark Ruffalo in the story of a young woman who determines ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...