All Screen articles in 23 March 2001 – Page 4
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Buskin gets Dynamic as part of new drive
One of Italy's fastest-growing sales companies, Buskin Film, has sold a five-film package to Panama's Dynamic Group including Peter Del Monte's Against The Wind, which screened recently at the Berlin Film Festival.Buskin, which specializes in Italian auteur cinema, also sold to Dynamic the four films that launched the company at ...
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Ripoli prepares English Utopia for Alquimia
Director Maria Ripoll is preparing an English-language psychological thriller for new production company Alquimia Cinema.The film, Utopia, is being prepped for a summer shoot. The script was written by Curro Royo and Juan Vicente Pozuelo (The Art Of Dying). Madrid-based Mate Productions has already boarded the project, and Alquimia head ...
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Anders' Sun by-passes US theatres for Showtime
Allison Anders' emotionally-wrenching film about theconsequences of rape, Things Behind The Sun,will receive its first commercial outing later this year as a premiere on theShowtime pay-TV network despite winning widespread critical plaudits at thisyear's Sundance Film Festival.Unable to attract decent enough advances from domestictheatrical distributors, the film's investors appear to ...
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Exit Wounds tops US box office, Enemy opens big
Two new entries performed well at the North American box office but for the second consecutive weekend, the market was down on the same period last year, this time by about 8%.Warner Bros and Village Roadshow Pictures opened their latest co-production, the Joel Silver-produced actioner Exit Wounds in 2,830 theatres ...
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Danish Film Institute banks on serious comedies
The Danish film industry is currentlychurning out comedies with a touch of seriousness, and with Lone Scherfig'sserious dogme comedy Italian For Beginners taking a Silver-Bear inBerlin, other producers are hoping to follow suit. Among the new (romantic) comedy projectsare veteran Gert Fredholm's One Hand Clapping from Zentropa and HellaJoof's feature ...
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Guadalajara film festival
After AmoresPerros comes De La Calle. Thestory of a gang of street children, akin in style and subject to last year'slocal box-office sensation and international festival favourite, emerged as oneof the two buzz titles at the 16th Guadalajara Film Festival inMexico (Mar 9-16).Markingthe debut of Mexican film-maker Gerardo Tort, the ...
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Reviews
Blame It On Voltaire
Dir: Abdellatif Kechiche. France.130mins.Honoured as the best first film atlast year's Venice Film Festival, Blame It On Voltaire is a flawed butaffecting account of an illegal immigrant's adventures in Paris. Though localfilms by and about North Africans (notably Algerians) have long been part ofthe French film scene, first-time writer-director Kechiche ...
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Solomon restates TEAM's losses, takes equity stake
Michael J. Solomon, the company doctor attempting to resuscitate TEAM Communications, has taken an equity stake in the stricken US-German film and TV group and restated the losses incurred under the recently departed management.The moves come at the end of a week in which no less than seven law firms ...
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