All Screen articles in 25 April 2003 – Page 2

  • News

    Wolfe Video to invest in US theatrical distribution

    2003-04-25T04:00:00Z

    Wolfe Video, theUS distributor dedicated to gay and lesbian videos, is embarking on a newstrategy of marketing support to independent theatrical distributors whosetitles it will eventually release on video.Making theannouncement today (Apr 24) company president Maria Lynn Wolfe said she waslaunching the initiative with a marketing outreach campaign in support ...

  • News

    STARZ! takes three TV premieres including DNA's Final Curtain

    2003-04-25T04:00:00Z

    Three movies -DNA's British comedy The Final Curtain, Nu-Image/Millenium Films' romantic comedy AllI Want aka Try 17 and StudioCanal's Gaughin biopic ParadiseFound - will go straight topay-TV on the US through Starz Encore Group's STARZ! Cinema multiplexchannel.In The FinalCurtain, which premiereson STARZ! Cinema in June, Peter O'Toole plays a leading ...

  • News

    Focus, Eskwad team up for French thriller Saint Ange

    2003-04-25T04:00:00Z

    Focus Features andStudioCanal subsidiary Eskwad have teamed up to finance the thriller SaintAnge, Focus co-presidents DavidLinde and James Schamus announced today (Apr 24).Principal photography is setto begin imminently in France, where the film will be shot simultaneously inEnglish-language and French-language versions.Focus has worldwide rightsto the film excluding France and other ...

  • News

    Two Towers scales $910m worldwide box office

    2003-04-25T04:00:00Z

    New LineCinema's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers has become the fifth highest grossingworldwide film of all time with a cumulative box office to date of $910m.Making the announcementtoday (Apr 24) Rolf Mittweg, the company's president and chief operatingofficer of worldwide distribution and marketing, hailed the achievement as ...

  • News

    Bailey, Barbato named recipients of Frameline Award 2003

    2003-04-25T04:00:00Z

    Frameline,presenter of the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival(SFILGFF), today (Apr 24) announced that this year's Frameline Award willgo to Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, the director-producers of numerousgay-themed TV and film projects through their World of Wonder Productions.The award willbe presented at the 27th SFILGFF on Jun ...

  • News

    MGM announces reduced losses for first quarter of 2003

    2003-04-25T04:00:00Z

    MGM today (Apr 24) announcedreduced losses for the first quarter of 2003, driven chiefly by the successfultheatrical release of Agent Cody Banks, improved performance in the home entertainment division and the launchof MGM-branded channels in Europe.First quarter 2003 losseswere $55.8m or 22 cents per share compared to a net loss ...

  • Reviews

    A Mighty Wind

    2003-04-25T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Christopher Guest. US. 2003. 92mins.Like the two earlier pictures which writer/director/actor Christopher Guest co-wrote with Eugene Levy - 2000's Best In Show and 1996's Waiting for Guffman - A Mighty Wind is a film with a premise but no plot. The concepts themselves - a folk music reunion, the ...

  • News

    Directors' Fortnight champions 'less equal' films

    2003-04-25T00:00:00Z

    Directors' Fortnight, under the new stewardship of Francois Da Silva, has unveiled a greatly expanded line-up for this year's Cannes Film Festival. Usually featuring some 15 films, this year's Directors' Fortnight showcases 25 films from 19 countries, while a further 9 countries are represented in the concurrent shorts competition. (See ...

  • News

    Fortnight champions 'less equal' films

    2003-04-25T00:00:00Z

    Directors' Fortnight, under the new stewardship of Francois Da Silva, has unveiled a greatly expanded line-up for this year's Cannes Film Festival. Usually featuring some 15 films, this year's Directors' Fortnight showcases 25 films from 19 countries, while a further 9 countries are represented in the concurrent shorts competition. (See ...

  • News

    Wild Bunch takes selected territories for Today And Tomorrow

    2003-04-25T00:00:00Z

    France's Wild Bunch has picked up international sales rights outside Spain and four Latin American territories on new Argentinean title Today And Tomorrow (Hoy Y Manana), set to premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.Spanish rights will remain in the hands of Madrid-based sales and production house Bulbeck & Mas, ...

  • News

    Teri Kane leaves Miramax after nine years, sets up PR firm

    2003-04-25T00:00:00Z

    Teri Kane,Miramax senior vice president of publicity, is leaving the company to set upher own firm, Teri Kane Public Relations.During hernine-years at Miramax, Kane has overseen individual publicity campaigns onnumerous acclaimed films, including Academy Award winners Shakespeare inLove and The EnglishPatient.'Teri hasmade great contributions to Miramax during her long tenure ...

  • Reviews

    Ghosts Of The Abyss

    2003-04-25T00:00:00Z

    Dir: James Cameron. US. 2003. 59mins.For his first film since 1997's Titanic, Oscar-winning director James Cameron has chosen to return to the vessel that made him king of the world, this time with the large format 3-D cameras of Imax. It probably sounded like a money-spinner when this film was ...

  • News

    Protests hit theatrical releases in India

    2003-04-24T04:05:00Z

    The dispute surrounding the waiting time between a film's theatrical release and its TV screening in India has led all Bollywood producers to stop releasing any films from this week onwards. The first films to be affected by the dispute are Ishk Vishk and Pran Jaaye Par Shaan Na Jaaye, ...

  • News

    EM.TV sells stake in Constantin Film to Highlight Communications

    2003-04-24T04:05:00Z

    Germany's EM.TV has sold its stake in production company Constantin Film to Highlight Communications for Euros 7.5m.Swiss media concern Highlight Communications will increase its stake in Constantin Film's ordinary capital from 25% to 41.4% after signing a purchase agreement with EM.TV & Merchandising for 2,083,333 Constantin shares at a price ...

  • News

    Freedom To Speak project extends to Tribeca and Cannes

    2003-04-24T04:05:00Z

    The Freedom To Speak (f2s) forum, which gave filmmakers an opportunity to express their views during February's Berlinale, is also to be created at the forthcoming Tribeca (May 3-11) and Cannes (May 14-25) film festivals. "Our goal is to bridge the gap of communication between France, Germany and the US ...

  • News

    Cannes lines up series of tributes

    2003-04-24T04:05:00Z

    Two icons of French cinema passed away this year: director Maurice Pialat and producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier. In tribute, on Saturday May 17, the Cannes Film Festival will be showing 1987 Palme d'Or winner, Sous Le Soleil De Satan, the fruit of their collaboration.Then, on Sunday May 18, a ...

  • News

    UK Film Council's development fund backs range of genres

    2003-04-24T04:05:00Z

    Onegin director Martha Fiennes is to tackle terrorist-themed psychological thriller Revolving Door after securing development support from UK funding body the Film Council.The project, awarded £63,000 in National Lottery support, is set during a terrorist alert and follows a British intelligence operative and a high-class escort girl as they try ...

  • News

    CNC Associates appointed to The Bridge Of San Luis Rey

    2003-04-24T04:05:00Z

    CNC Associates has been appointed by production company Pembridge Pictures to supervise worldwide marketing, media relations and publicity on the forthcoming adaptation of Thornton Wilder's novel - The Bridge Of San Luis Rey.Written and directed by Mary McGuckian, The Bridge Of San Luis Rey stars F Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates, ...

  • News

    Transylvania film fest announces competition line-up

    2003-04-24T04:05:00Z

    The Transylvania International Film Festival has announced its program for its second edition to take place May 23-31 in Cluj. Over sixty features will be screened in three venues, out of which thirteen will be in competition for the Transylvania Trophy and the $4,000 prize. The competition is limited to ...

  • News

    Adriana Chiesa Enterprises picks up slew of new titles

    2003-04-24T04:05:00Z

    Rome sales agent Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE) has picked up worldwide rights to several new films, including Berlin title Little More than A Year Ago - Diary of a Male Porn Star.The Italian drama, which explores the last year in the life of a famous gay porn star, Riki Kandinsky, ...