All Screen articles in 25 September 2003 – Page 3
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Franchise takes international rights to Hollywood North
Elie Samaha's LA-based Franchise Pictures has acquiredinternational rights in all media to Hollywood North, Peter O'Brian's comedy that recentlypremiered at Toronto.The film centres on the trials and tribulations of making a filmin Canada and stars Alan Bates, Matthew Modine, Deborah Kara Unger, JenniferTilly, John Neville, Fabrizio Filippo and Joe Cobden.John ...
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Polish industry stunned by festival upset
The 28th edition of the Polish Film Festival (Sept 16-20), held in the Baltic resort of Gdynia, turned into the most controversial event since the days when Polish filmmakers battled communist bureaucrats in the 1980's. Only this time the battle was artistic rather than political. In a decision that ...
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Online DVD rental market hots up in UK
Two ambitious online DVD rental services have launched into the UK within a week of each other - both looking to tap into the booming DVD market.Screenselect.co.uk is backed by the founder of Amazon UK, while the directors of rival service Videoisland.com include Simon Franks, chief executive of distributor Redbus.Both ...
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Spanish veterans launch co-production consultancy
Aiming to fill a niche for Spanish and other producers increasingly hard-pressed to finance feature films in their own markets, two veteran players have formed Madrid-based co-production negotiation outfit Cinearch.Co-founders Maria Jose Poblador and Carlos Batres officially presented the company, which has been operating for several months, on Sept 22 ...
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Spanish veterans launch co-production consultancy
Aiming to fill a niche for Spanish and other producers increasingly hard-pressed to finance feature films in their own markets, two veteran players have formed Madrid-based co-production negotiation outfit Cinearch.Co-founders Maria Jose Poblador and Carlos Batres officially presented the company, which has been operating for several months, on Sept 22 ...
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Swiss comedy smashes local records
Mike Eschmann's teenage comedy Ready, Steady, Charlie! (Achtung, Fertig, Charlie!) has taken over $731,000 CHF 1m, making it the all-time biggest opener for a Swiss feature film in Switzerland.The film relegated Pirates Of The Caribbean and American Pie 3 to second and third places in the Swiss box office ...
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Russia 'an untapped opportunity for cinema industry'
Russia is set to become the sixth highest grossing cinema market in Europe with five years, according to a new research report. Dodona Research's Cinemagoing Russia says that by 2007, box office is forecast to rise to US$400 million in response to the much-awaited modernisation of the Russian cinema sector."With ...
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Copenhagen Children's festival unveils line-up
Copenhagen International Children's Film Festival - Buster (Sep 29 -Oct 5), has launched its first programme in collaboration with New Nordic Children's Film. This has led to by far strongest programme in the festival's three year history, which includes features, shorts, documentaries and animated films screened for free for young ...
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Austrian directors threaten to boycott Diagonale festival
Internationally renowned Austrian filmmakers Michael Haneke (Time Of The Wolf), Ulrich Seidl (Dog Days), Barbara Albert (Boese Zellen) and Ruth Beckermann (Homemade) have added their voices to the Austrian film community's growing chorus of disapproval about the planned re-positioning of next year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema in Graz.Last ...
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Emerging, Digiscreen screen Jackson Hole finalists around US
The Wyoming-based Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival is teamingup with New York based Emerging Pictures and Montreal's Digiscreen to show aselection of films nominated as finalists in this year's festival competition,which runs from Sept 22-27.The programmes, which are free, will be screened in participatingdigital venues in California, North Carolina, Nebraska ...
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Dolby buys US anti-piracy technology company Cinea
As the Hollywood studiosstep up their war on piracy and the causes of piracy, Dolby Laboratories hasjoined the fray with the acquisition of Cinea, a Virginia-basedcontent-protection and anti-piracy technology company.Cinea will operate as awholly owned subsidiary of Dolby while its staff and offices will remain inVirginia.Cinea chief executiveofficer and founder ...
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French animator takes Cartoon D'Or prize
French filmmaker Sandra Desmazieres' first animated film Sans Queue Ni Tete won this year's Cartoon D'Or, which includes Euros 15,000 from the European Union's MEDIA Programme in pre-production aid to begin work on a feature film or TV series project.Desmazieres' six-minute painting on paper film about a woman's nonsensical and ...
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Intermedia's Alexander begins shooting in Morocco
Principal photography hasbegun in Marrakesh, Morocco, on Oliver Stone's Alexander The Great project for Intermedia, which Warner Bros willrelease in the US in November 2004.Colin Farrell stars in thelead role as the all-conquering ancient leader, and the film also starsAngelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Val Kilmer, Rosario Dawson, Jared Leto andJonathan ...
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Contentfilm, Alec Baldwin team up for Swimmer remake
Ed Pressman and John Schmidt's New York-based production anddistribution outfit ContentFilm is to remake the 1968 drama The Swimmer in conjunction with Alec Baldwin's ElDorado Pictures and Vincent Farrell's Iron Films.Baldwin will star in the project, reprising Burt Lancaster's roleas an errant suburbanite who returns home one day by swimming ...
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Irish producers step up campaign to save Section 481
Industry body Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) has warned that many of the country's film graduates face unemployment or will have to emigrate to find work should the Irish government proceed with the abolition of the Section 481 tax incentive in December 2004.As part of its campaign to sway Government thinking ...
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Pie 3 opens top in Netherlands, Norway for Universal
Universal's AmericanPie: The Wedding scored two stronginternational number one bows at the weekend and, with 38 markets to go, iscomfortably on course to pass $100m.The comedy sequel raised itsrunning total to $71.1m following a $759,000 haul from 92 venues in TheNetherlands and $461,000 from 39 in Norway, which was Universal's ...
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Sundance Channel closes 13-picture deal with Palm
The Sundance Channel has acquired US television rights to 13 filmsfrom Palm Pictures, including Claude Chabrol's drama The Flower Of Evil, Dagur Kar's acclaimed Icelandicdrama Noi The Albino and Mark Moorman's music documentary Tom Dowd And The Languageof Music.Thegroup of films includes Palm's entire 2003 slate as well as several ...
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Mill Valley unveils fest programme, 11 world premieres
Eleven world premieres, 14US premieres and tributes to Lili Taylor, Peter Coyote and Denys Arcand areamong the highlights of the 26th Mill Valley Film Festival, which runs in MarinCounty, California, from Oct 2-12.Featured among the worldpremieres are Brigitte Brault's harrowing examination of life under theTaliban in Afghanistan Unveiled,David Hickson's South ...
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US/Czech Republic short Most takes top prize at Palm Springs
Bobby Garabedian's US/Czech Republic drama Most, a poignant tale of a railbridge tenderand his son, won the best of festival award as the 2003 Palm Springs InternationalFestival of Short Films closed on Sept 22.Andrij Parekh's Ukraine/US sibling drama Dead Roosters won the Future Film-maker Award, whileMimi Gan's Pearl Harbour story ...