All Screen articles in 25 February 2003 – Page 2
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Palm teams with Jonze, Gondry and Cunningham for DVD specials
Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures is teaming up with acclaimeddirectors Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham on a series of DVDsfeaturing a collection of music videos, shorts and commercials hand-picked bythe film-makers, along with storyboards, alternate versions and unseen shortfilms. Releases from the three directors will be out in August, ...
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Kaye Cooper-Mead named president of IS FIlm Distribution
Kaye Cooper-Mead has been named president of IS Film Distribution,the international sales and marketing joint venture launched recently byIntermedia and Summit Entertainment. Cooper-Mead will supervise day-to-daymanagement of contracts as well as the delivery, marketing and theatricaladministration divisions of the joint venture. She will report to IS'soperating committee members, Bahman Naraghi, ...
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Franchise to finance Zeta-Jones-produced comedy
Elie Samaha's FranchisePictures has gone into business with Oscar-nominated superstar CatherineZeta-Jones, agreeing to fully finance her first film as a producer, the rugbycomedy Coming Out in which shewill play a Welsh hairdresser. Alan Cumming is negotiatingto star with Zeta-Jones in the film which was written by Sara Sugarman (VeryAnnie Mary, ...
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Goodbye Lenin soars in Germany for Warner Bros
Warner Bros Pictures International's local language picture Goodbye,Lenin rose by aremarkable 47% in its second week in Germany to claim top spot with anestimated $3.6m (Euros 3.4m) from 328 prints. Wolfgang Becker'sfall-of-the-wall comedy-drama has grossed an estimated $7.3m (Euros 6.8m). Two Weeks Notice continued its strong international run, taking $13.4m ...
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Wellspring boards Dumont's latest as co-producer
Wellspring Media has boarded Bruno Dumont's upcoming drama 29Palms as co-producer,with production due to wrap in time for a screening in Cannes this year. Thestory centres on a young pair of photographers who are scouting for locationsin the Joshua Tree National Park when their lives are changed forever by ashocking ...
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Kelley Nichols takes new Latin America distribution job at Warner Bros
KelleyNichols has been named vice president, distribution & marketing, LatinAmerica, at Warner Bros Pictures. The postion is newly created by the studio"due to the increasing complexities and importance of the Latin Americantheatrical marketplace."Basedin Burbank, Nichols will be responsible for distribution strategies, cash flowforecasts, box office tracking, print delivery and working ...
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Warner acquires Small Voices for the Philippines
Warner Bros Pictures hasacquired theatrical and home video rights in the Philippines to the Philippinefilm Mga Munting Tinig (SmallVoices), the country's submission for the foreign language film Academy Award and winner of the AudienceFavorite Award at the recent Palm Springs International Film Festival. Theannouncement was made today by Francis Soliven, ...
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BVI opens Jungle Book 2 in Benelux, Chicago in Italy
Buena Vista International (BVI) opened The Jungle Book 2 in second place in Belgium over the weekendon $460,000 from 69 screens, roughly the same as previous bows for Atlantis and Ice Age. In Holland the animated sequel took$235,000 from 113 screens, about the same as the bow for Lilo and ...
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Off The Map
Dir: Campbell Scott. US. 2003. 108mins.World premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last month, Off The Map feels like a magical realist novel: it is sweet, languorous and full of small, poignant pleasures. But Off The Map does not quite make it as a film. Whereas it might have worked ...
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UK film industry focuses on training
UK support body the Film Council and training body Skillset are to launch a major initiative to improve film skills and training in the UK, seen as key to improving the British film industry's worldwide standing.Stewart Till, deputy chairman of the Film Council and Skillset, and CEO/chairman of UIP, this ...
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Distant Lights (Lichter)
Dir: Hans-Christian Schmid. Germany. 2003. 106mins.The winner of the FIPRESCI prize at this year's Berlin Film Festival, Lichter plays like a German Short Cuts. If Altman's cinematic short story collection was given unity by its origin in Raymond Carver's dark fables of the disempowered American male, then Distant Lights - ...
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Italy mourns the King of Commedia
Legendary Italian actor Alberto Sordi, a figurehead of the Commedia all'Italiana, has died in Rome at the age of 82.With his instantly recognisable thick Roman accent and deep voice, Sordi began his 60-year acting career at the age of 16.He was a symbol of national pride for several generations of ...
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Toho takes over Virgin Cinemas Japan
Major Japanese distributor and exhibitor Toho announced on Tuesday a deal with Virgin Cinemas Japan to acquire its chain of multiplex cinemas. The $83m (Y10bn) deal will take effect by the end of March.Launched in September 1997, Virgin Cinemas Japan now operates eight multiplexes with 81 screens in suburban areas, ...
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The Ring remake lords it over the UK box office
The UK/Ireland box office chart saw a new champion over the weekend as UIP's The Ring made a strong debut with $3.5m (£2.2m) from 396 sites - including previews of $478,046 (£300,213) from 311 locations.The horror title, the only new entry to make the top 15 this weekend, showed by ...
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The Ring packs them in across Europe
Horror remake The Ring enjoyed a host of powerful openings across Europe last weekend grossing over $14m from the 21 international territories currently playing it.Launching in seven new territories The Ring took top chart positions in the UK, Iceland and the Netherlands. It also scored the highest screen averages of ...
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German Film Academy launches international exchange programme
German Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg, whose graduates Chris Stenner, Heidi Wittlinger, Georg Gruber and Arvid Uibel have been nominated for an Academy Award with their animated short Das Rad, has launched an international student exchange programme.The new venture is aimed primarily at students attending foreign film schools and universities and wishing ...
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Japan pushes Lord Of The Rings to the brink of $500m outside the US
In its first three days on release in Japan, The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers grossed $9.66m (Y1.13bn) from 800,000 admissions. This represents a 25% improvement over the opening of The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring.The success brings the second installment of Peter Jackson's ...
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Fortissimo Eyes up horror sequel
Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up world sales rights to The Eye II, the sequel to Danny and Oxide Pang's stylish horror hit The Eye."We are thrilled at the level of interest from buyers. In many cases we have had bids even before the first film has been released in ...
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Devdas scoops Indian Oscars
Film Producer Bharat Shah's $10m Devdas may not have won an Oscar nomination but it did win 11 Indian Oscars at the 48th Filmfare awards. The awards included best film, director (Sanjay Leela Bhansali), actor (Shah Rukh Khan), actress (Aishwarya Rai) and best actress in a supporting role (Madhuri Dixit). ...
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More Canadian tax bacon for producers
Hot on the heels of a hike in the federal production labour-based tax credit, the Canadian province of British Columbia has sweetened its own tax credit lure. The British Columbia Production Services Tax Credit (PSTC), which offers an 11% rebate on eligible labour costs in the province, will now include ...