All Screen articles in 24 December 2002 – Page 2

  • News

    ContentFilm takes world rights on low budget Oz pair

    2002-12-20T04:05:00Z

    Ed Pressman and John Schmidt's ContentFilm has put up a substantial advance against world rights for the first two low-budget digifeatures being developed by new filmmakers under producers Andrew Mason and Lizzie Bryant of Sydney-based City Productions.Local support has come from the Ten Network via a television presale and, in ...

  • News

    Premiere secures new owner and Hollywood films

    2002-12-20T04:00:00Z

    German pay TV platform Premiere has signed film package deals with another two Hollywood studios - Paramount Pictures and Columbia - securing programming directly from seven of the eight majors from 2003. At the same time Premiere has become the first part of Leo Kirch's collapsed media empire to close ...

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    Film tracking set to become easier with ID plan

    2002-12-20T04:00:00Z

    Films are set to get an unique identification number - which will function in similar fashion to ISO numbers for books and music - allowing easier tracking and better anti-piracy protection.The International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN) has been launched by a consortium of producers' and authors' associations in conjunction with ...

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    France's Xilam lines up 3-D Stupid Invaders

    2002-12-20T04:00:00Z

    Xilam Animation is moving forward on a 3-D feature version of Stupid Invaders, a film company founder Marc du Pontavice calls "a Shrek-like family" entertainment. The ambitious project is budgeted at Euros18m and will start production in June of 2003. Du Pontavice, an animation guru who left Gaumont four years ...

  • Reviews

    Nicholas Nickleby

    2002-12-20T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Douglas McGrath. US. 2002. 130mins.Having captured the spirit of Jane Austen with his 1996 debut Emma, American writer-director Douglas McGrath now delivers a warm and engaging, though necessarily breezy version of Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby that features an enticing, mainly British ensemble cast. The cast has already won the ...

  • Reviews

    Star Trek: Nemesis

    2002-12-20T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Stuart Baird. US. 2002. 117mins. After four years in space dock, Paramount's Star Trek franchise is back with a solidly entertaining 10th big-screen instalment, whose disappointing US debut nevertheless casts doubt over the future of the 23-year-old movie series. An opening weekend gross of $18.8m from 2,711 US sites ...

  • News

    LOTR sequel Towers over first in smash worldwide bow

    2002-12-20T00:00:00Z

    New Line Cinema's The Lord Of The Rings: The TwoTowers has fully lived up to itsblockbuster expectations, reeling in $41.7m worldwide on its firstday on release. The figure represents a staggering 45% leap above thefirst episode's $29m one-day opening gross last year. Debuting in the US and 13 international territories ...

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    Berlinale announces first Panorama titles

    2002-12-20T00:00:00Z

    The Panorama section at the forthcoming Berlinale will be welcoming back several filmmakers who have had films screened in past editions.Returning directors include: Israel's Eytan Fox, the UK's Richard Kwietniowski, Hong Kong's Peter Chan, Spain's Isabel Coixet and Japan's Hideo Nakata, whose chilling thriller Dark Water opened the 2002 Panorama.After ...

  • News

    Ice Age cracks $200m overseas

    2002-12-20T00:00:00Z

    Fox International's Ice Age has passed $200m in international box office ticketsales, the distributor said yesterday. The hit animation was released in the US last spring, eventually generating $174.8m at thedomestic box office, a figure that has been complemented by impressive totalselsewhere. In Germany, Ice Age opened on March 21 ...

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    Berlin Talent Campus attracts more than 2,000 applications

    2002-12-20T00:00:00Z

    Over 2,000 young filmmakers from 70 countries have applied to take part in the Berlin International Film Festival's first Berlinale Talent Campus which will be held from February 10-14.The Talent Campus, which is being organised by Master School Drehbuch Berlin in co-operation with Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg, the UK's Film Council and ...