All Screen articles in 22 May 2003 – Page 6
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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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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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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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Japanese Story sold to US
Fortissimo Film Sales has sold North American rights to Un Certain Regard title Japanese Story to Samuel Goldwyn Films following a packed final market screening. The deal was negotiated on behalf of Fortissimo by Cinetic Media's John Sloss with Goldwyn's Meyer Gottlieb in Los Angeles and Tom Quinn and Peter ...
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Mumbai meets Macbeth
South African powerhouse Distant Horizon has picked up world sales rights to Fair Is Foul, an Indian version of Shakespearean classic Macbeth.The film, which is targeting a launch at the Toronto festival, is directed by Vishal Bharadwaj and stars Irfan Khan (star of The Warrior), screen goddess Tabu (pictured) and ...
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Mumbai meets Macbeth
South African powerhouse Distant Horizon has picked up world sales rights to Fair Is Foul, an Indian version of Shakespearean classic Macbeth.The film, which is targeting a launch at the Toronto festival, is directed by Vishal Bharadwaj and stars Irfan Khan (star of The Warrior), screen goddess Tabu (pictured) and ...
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Who Killed Bambi' (Qui A Tue Bambi')
Dir: Gilles Marchand. France. 2003. 126minsStrip away the veneer of sophisticated film technique and the delusions of artistic merit and Who Killed Bambi' is just another crude scary movie. Best known as the co-writer of the Hitchcockian delight Harry, A Friend Who Is Happy To Help, Gilles Marchand displays an ...
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Lions Gate snaps up Von Trier's Dogville
LionsGate Films has bought all North American rights to Lars Von Trier's criticallyacclaimed drama Dogville, starring Oscar winner Nicole Kidman.TomOrtenberg, president of Lions Gate Films Releasing, Peter Block, president of home entertainment, acquisitionsand new media, and Jason Constantine, vice president of acquisitions,negotiated the deal on behalf of Lions Gate.AnnakarinStrom, chief ...
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Elephant
Dir: Gus Van Sant. US. 2003. 81minsIn recent years Gus Van Sant's erratic career has had all the hallmarks ofan amnesiac desperately seeking clues to his true identity. He has assumedthe ill-fitting personalities of Hitchcock imitator (Psycho) and Dogme-styleexperimenter (Gerry) and even appeared to try cloning himself with a GoodWill ...
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Highlight reports increased revenue and profits
Swiss media concern Highlight Communications has posted a 16% increase in consolidated revenues for the first quarter of 2003 in spite of difficult market conditions.The group, which is currently looking to acquire majority control of Germany's Constantin Film where it has a 41.4% interest, reported revenues of $32.7m (CHF 42.3m) ...
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Gallo apologises for 'disastrous' Brown Bunny
A chastened Vincent Gallo apologised yesterday to financiers and audiences for his film The Brown Bunny, which had a disastrous reception at Cannes."I accept what the critics say," said the movie's outspoken writer-producer-director-editor-cameraman. "If no-one wants to see it, they're right - it's a disaster of a film ...
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Spain's Filmax boards UGC's Daltons
Spanish mini-studio Filmax has boarded UGC's mega-production The Daltons, signing on as co-producer and picking up distribution rights in both Spain and Latin America.The $26m live-action comedy, whose characters are adapted from the hugely successful Lucky Luke comic book series, is to be directed by Philippe Haim and shoot in ...
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Cannes: only the strong survive
While there's no question that the international sales business was still reeling from the downturn in European TV, Cannes this year proved that theatrical movies were still capable of drawing solid prices from most territories. "There were fewer viable, real movies, but people who are making real theatrical movies are ...
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Cannes goes from feast to famine
You win some, you lose some. Last year, Cannes was basking in an abundance of riches that ranged from Palme d'Or winner The Pianist to dazzling documentary Bowling For Columbine and red hot discovery City Of God. This year, the collective Competition choices were considered the worst in living memory ...
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Trudie Styler frustrated at Sweatbox delay
Trudie Styler faces a battle with Walt Disney to secure a release for The Sweatbox, the critically acclaimed documentary on the making of a Walt Disney feature animation which she co-directed and co-produced with John-Paul Davidson.Styler was expecting a release through BVI but parent Disney has yet to commit to ...
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Prague's Stillking plans English-language Moscow hostage feature
Acclaimed Czech commercials director Ivan Zacharias has signed onto an original English-language feature about last year's Moscow hostage crisis titled Russian Theatre, Prague's Stillking Films has announced.It is the first foray into original production announced by Stillking, a leading Prague production services company. The firm has slated the filming of ...
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Greenaway saddles up with erotic horsemen
Peter Greenaway, the experimental British director whose Tulse Luper Suitcases screens in competition tomorrow, has set 55 Men On Horseback as his next film. The long-gestating project is described by his producing partner Kees Kasander as "a very commercial, lighter piece". The Euros 6m-Euros 7m picture draws on 18th Century ...