All Screen articles in 25 September 2003
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Vatican cardinal backs Gibson's Passion
A top Vatican cardinal has praised Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion as "a triumph of art" and has rejected fears it could spark a wave of anti-Semitism. Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, head of the Vatican department in charge of priests, who saw an unfinished version of the film, told ...
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The Green Butchers
Dir. Anders Thomas Jensen. Denmark. 2002. 100mins.The Green Butchers could launch a new sub-genre of black comedy: the flesh-coloured comedy. A laugh-out-loud farce bristling with cruelty, the film invites viewers into the loathsome world of two memorable losers, a pair of newly-minted butchers who stumble upon success by selling human ...
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Chill Out (Descongelate)
Dirs: Dunia Ayaso & Felix Sabroso. Spain. 2003.It is easy to see how writer-director team Ayaso and Sabroso's new film might attract the Almodovar brothers as co-producers through their El Deseo outfit. The black humour, camp and kitschy urban aesthetic hark back to early Almodovar gems like What Have I ...
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The Fighting Temptations
Dir: Jonathan Lynn. US. 2003. 116 mins.Pop diva Beyonce Knowles and an all-star gospel/R&B soundtrack are the main attractions of The Fighting Temptations, a pleasant but formulaic ensemble comedy from MTV Films that teams the singer with Cuba Gooding Jr and British ex-pat director Jonathan Lynn. With Beyonce's recent solo ...
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T3 prepares to go out with bang in Italy
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines gets its final international release this upcoming weekend when it opens in Italy on Sept 19 on a massive 500 screens.A $6.7m opening gross from 723 prints for The Matrix Reloaded and $2.3m from 300 screens for X2 gives a flavour of the kind ...
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Gans readies big budget Silent Hill adaptation
Following a two-year hiatus since directing blockbuster Brotherhood Of The Wolf, Christophe Gans will step back behind the camera to direct an adaptation of Japanese video game series Silent Hill.The film will be produced by Samuel Hadida's Davis Films and continues a trend towards big screen video game adaptations for ...
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AFI FEST unveils high profile world premieres
The North American premiere of Nigel Cole's UK hit CalendarGirls and world premiere of PattyJenkins' serial killer drama Monster bookend the upcoming 17th AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival,which runs from Nov 6-16.Two other worldpremieres take pride of place as centerpiece galas in the form of VadimPerelman's drama House Of ...
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Ben Ammar beefs up post-production business
Producer entrepreneur Tarak Ben Ammar has just upped the stakes for his Quinta Communications group by adding troubled French post-production house Duran-Duboi to his list of acquisitions. The Tunisian-born businessman last year purchased post labs LTC and Ex-Machina in order to create the leader in French sound facilities. The embattled ...
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Brazilian dramas win Miravista backing
Miravista, the pan Latino joint co production venture between The Walt Disney Company Latin America and Telefonica Spain's Admira, has boarded two new Brazilian projects, according to Miravista manager Fernando Lagier.Its first project, now shooting , is Underground Games (Jogo Subteraneo), based on the novel by Argentinian writer Julio Cortazar. ...
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Bell lands the lead role in Vinterberg's Wendy
17year-old British star Jamie Bell has landed the plum lead part in ThomasVinterberg's highly anticipated Dear Wendy which is based on a script by Lars Von Trier.JoiningBell in the cast of the thriller, which starts shooting on Sept 26 inCopenhagen, are US actors Chris Owen, Mark Webber and Michael Angarano ...
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US exhibitor looks to cash in on Russian multiplex boom
Russia's largest multiplex opened this week (17 Sept) with a special gala screening of The Italian Job attended by its stars Mark Wahlberg and Charlize Theron as well as National Amusements top exec Shari Redstone. The new 11 screen, 7500 square metre KinoStar De Lux cinema seats 3100 people and ...
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Lenin! eyes landmark box office haul
Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! - which was named as Germany's contender for the Oscar foreign language section this week - continues to prove an international box office sensation as it nears the $50m international cumulative mark.The X Filme Creative Pool production, for which Bavaria Film International handles worldwide sales, ...
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Dutch call for creation of National Film Institute
The establishment of a National Film Institute would go a long way to solving many of the problems of identity and organisation that currently bedevil the Dutch film industry. That at least is the conclusion of the Council For Culture, the Dutch government's highest ranking advisory committee on culture.The Council ...
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Denis nears wrap on worldwide L'Intrus shoot
Director Claire Denis is close to wrapping a two month shoot on her next film, L'Intrus. The film is co-produced by Franco-German channel Arte, which will air the film on its network prior to a theatrical release - as happened with Patrice Chereau's Son Frere earlier this year.Ognon Picture is ...
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T3 takes Italy by storm, with $2.6m on 601 prints
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines completed its remarkable run of openingnumber one in every international territory at the weekend as it debuted top inItaly, its final market, on $2.6m on 601 prints.A combined $3.8m weekend grossbrings the film's running total to $267.2m, which comprises mostly ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International ...
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Film20 readies second half of Euro Expansion Conference
Following the extension of the German film20 producer pressure group's membership to the Association of Austrian Film Producers (aafp), the two bodies have prepared two conferences: in Vienna and Berlin, to focus on the economic potential of the film industry following the European Union's enlargement eastwards.The Vienna event between September ...
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COLOMBIA Production Listings - Sept 22 2003
COLOMBIA - Sep 22 2003PRE-PRODUCTIONA LAND WITHOUT WISHES (UNA TIERRA SIN DESEOS)(Jorge Echeverri Films) Co-prod: Dago Garcia. Budget: $170,000. Backers: Ministry of Culture TBA. Drama. A disenchanted man seeks refuge in the love of his daughter. Exec prod: Jorge Echeverri. Prod: Diana Camargo. Dir/scr/ed: Jorge Echeverri. DoP: Oscar Bernal. Prod ...
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Coppola's Lost translates into Athens prize
Sofia Coppola's second directorial outing, Lost In Translation, was named best film at the 9th Athens International Film Festival-Opening Nights which wrapped on Sept 21 with the out of competition gala presentation of Stephen Norrington's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The festival kicked off on Sept 12 with the presentation ...
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Basque politics loom large over San Sebastian opening
Charlize Theron, MarkWahlberg, Isabelle Huppert and Harvey Keitel provided the star wattage for theopening weekend of the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival butit was a controversial Basque documentary and a strike by workers at thefestival's traditional social hub, the Hotel Maria Cristina, that dominatedconversations here. By Sunday evening, JulioMedem's La ...
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Basque politics loom large over San Sebastian opening
Charlize Theron, MarkWahlberg, Isabelle Huppert and Harvey Keitel provided the star wattage for theopening weekend of the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival butit was a controversial Basque documentary and a strike by workers at thefestival's traditional social hub, the Hotel Maria Cristina, that dominatedconversations here. By Sunday evening, JulioMedem's La ...