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All Screen articles in 23 October 2001 – Page 2
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Spain chooses three foreign Oscar contenders
Penelope Cruz-starrer No News From God (Sin Noticias De Dios), erotic melodrama Sex And Lucia (Lucia Y El Sexo) and period drama Juana La Loca are the Spanish Cinema Academy's three semi-finalists to compete for the country's nomination to the foreign language category of the Oscars.In accordance with the Spanish ...
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Egmont takes Scandi rights to Skagerrak
Nordic major Egmont has taken Scandinavian rights to Soren Kragh-Jacobsen's Skagerrak, the veteran director's second English-language film after 1997's The Island On Bird Street.Set in the UK, Skagerrak will star Iben Hjejle (pictured), who also appeared in Kragh-Jacobsen's crowd pleasing Dogme-title, Mifune. The romantic-comedy-drama, budgeted at up to $5.5m, follows ...
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Why Can't I Be Audrey Hepburn gets Myriad money
Myriad Pictures has committed to fully finance romantic comedy Why Can't I Be Audrey Hepburn, which is set to star Jennifer Love Hewitt.Hewitt, who herself played Hepburn in a recent ABC miniseries, will be directed by Ryan Murphy, the writer and producer of hit US TV show Popular. She plays ...
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Beyond to sell 3 Blind Mice for international
Beyond Films has signed up to handle international sales on 3 Blind Mice, starring Edward Furlong and Sharleen Spiteri, the lead singer of rock group Texas.The cyber thriller is slated to begin shooting in the UK during January 2002, with France's Mathias Ledoux directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with ...
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Global starts pre-sales on Six Bullets From Now
Peter Elson's Global Cinema Group is launching pre-sales on Ridley Scott-produced action film Six Bullets From Now, one of three titles the US sales outfit is handling for Los Angeles production operation Miracle Entertainment.Stephen Kay, whose credits include The Last Time I Committed Suicide and Get Carter, is directing the ...
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Cineart/Cinelibre restructures ownership
Belgium's leading independent distributor, Cineart/Cinelibre, has restructured its ownership, with Eliane Du Bois buying outright control after a 25 year partnership with Thierry Abel.Du Bois took over Abel's share of the business when the duo decided to separate their interests and concentrate respectively on distribution and exhibition. Cineart, the operation's ...
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Recession watch - Part VI
In the sixth, and final, part of Screen International's analysis on the effect on the industry of the Sept 11 attacks on the US, the threat of recession on the corporate finance sector is assessed.Abstracted from Screen InternationalCorporate finance activitiesShare prices have wobbled hugely since the Sept 11 atrocities - ...
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Phillips, Vennis launch Moviehouse sales company
Former J&M Entertainment head of sales Gary Phillips has partnered with Mark Vennis, formerly a director of film financiers Mansfield Associates, to launch UK-based independent sales company Moviehouse Entertainment. The partners aim to handle five or six UK and US theatrical projects per year. The company is backed by private ...
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Fortissimo gets international rights on Springtime
Fortissimo Film Sales, the Dutch-Hong Kong-based world sales group, has picked up international rights to the high-profile remake of Chinese classic Springtime In A Small Town.The new film (pictured), a story of lust unleashed on a respectable bourgeois family following the arrival of a mysterious visitor, is now being filmed ...
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King, DiCaprio and Scorsese re-team for Alexander
Two years exactly since triggering a buying frenzy in London with Gangs Of New York, Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) is to team with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese again on the ultimate indie epic - the story of Alexander The Great.King has bought the script Alexander in a ...
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Dinner Rush
Dir Bob Giraldi. US 2001. 94 mins.There is a lot of fun to be had in Bob Giraldi's Dinner Rush, an unpretentious, quintessentially New York independent film that recalls the kind of offbeat, low-budget pictures made in the 1970s and early 1980s, before independent cinema became a forceful movement or ...
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My Voyage To Italy (Il Mio Viaggio In Italia)
Dir Martin Scorsese. Italy-US 1999. 246 min.No history book about Italian cinema (and there have been several quite good ones) can accomplish what Martin Scorsese does in this four-hour documentary. For My Voyage To Italy brings the extraordinarily rich tradition of this national cinema to life by placing it in ...
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Spain's Huelva fest announces line-up
Spain's Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva (Nov 17-24) has announced the 12 titles which will compete for its top Golden and Silver Columbus awards in this year's 27th edition.Huelva has the difficult task of seeking films which haven't yet premiered in Spain just two months after the San Sebastian International ...
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ottfilm announces further distribution deal
Following the sealing of a distribution co-operation with the German office of UIP at the end of August, new theatrical distributor ottfilm has reached a further agreement with the Munich-based Filmwelt Verleih Agentur.Filmwelt, which also handles films on an agency basis for TiMe Medienvertrieb, Advanced Filmverleih and zoomfilm.de, will be ...
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Film Council to host UK's new MEDIA Desk
London is to be host to the UK's new MEDIA Desk, the system of national outposts run by the European Commission's Media Plus support programme.The MEDIA Desk is to be hosted by the Film Council, which will inject up to Euros150,000. It goes live immediately, headed by Agnieszka Moody. ...
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Warsaw fest attracts record audiences
Despite losing its backing from the Polish Ministry for Cinematography, this year's 17th annual Warsaw International Film Festival, (October 4-15) screened 126 films from 37 countries, drawing a record audience of 61,000 - making it the biggest edition so far. The international non-competitive festival awarded its audience poll prize to ...
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Justice joins Invicta Capital
Producer Matthew Justice has been appointed as consultant to Invicta Capital, the recently-launched film investor and tax advisor.Justice, whose credits include Stephen Norrington pictures Blade and The Last Minute, is expected to bring UK qualifying projects to Invicta's Invicta Filmworks offshoot. Partially-based in Los Angeles, Justice may also become involved ...
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The Phantom Menace takes latest DVD crown
Twentieth Century Fox has claimed a new record for first day sales of a DVD with the release of Star Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace. The picture racked up $17m on Tuesday Oct 16 Oct, through traditional retail outlets. Buena Vista Home Entertainment the previous week sold $20m-$25m of ...
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Sacker and Savay-Ross form CUE
Neil Sacker and Julie Savay-Ross have teamed up to form Creative Union Entertainment (CUE), a new LA-based international sales and financing outfit which kicks off with Wesley Snipes-starrer When The Ride Is Ruff.Sacker, a former executive vice president, business and legal affairs at Miramax Films and senior counsel at Warner ...
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Beatrix Wesle joins Menemsha Entertainment
Beatrix Wesle, well-known on the European market circuit from stints at Advanced Medien and Tobis Filmkunst, has joined Neil Friedman's Menemsha Entertainment as senior vice president of international sales.Based in Munich, Wesle will co-ordinate European financing and sales for Menemsha, which has built a reputation as a leading seller of ...
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