All Screen articles in 26 May 2002 – Page 4
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France's CineTem busy acquiring for new film channels
CineTem, the six film channels being launched by French group AB, will be up and running on Canal Plus' digital platform CanalSatellite and some cable networks from September 7.Laurent Zameczkowski, who heads the group of channels, has been busy buying library titles for over a year, signing up package deals ...
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Spider
Dir. David Cronenberg, Can-UK. 2002. Screened in CompetitionDavid Cronenberg has described Spider as "pure". This is something of an understatement. An uncompromising portrait of mental disturbance, Spider makes Cronenberg's previous Competition entry Crash seem commercial; whereas the 1996 film promised attractions such as cars and sex, Spider has nothing to ...
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Spider
Dir. David Cronenberg, Can-UK. 2002. Screened in CompetitionDavid Cronenberg has described Spider as "pure". This is something of an understatement. An uncompromising portrait of mental disturbance, Spider makes Cronenberg's previous Competition entry Crash seem commercial; whereas the 1996 film promised attractions such as cars and sex, Spider has nothing to ...
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Sweet Sixteen
Director: Ken Loach. UK. 2002. 106mins. Screened in Competition.Continuing the rich collaboration between director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty, Sweet Sixteen puts a very human face on the plight of the socially disadvantaged in modern Britain. The heartrending tragedy of a Scottish teenager struggling for his small share of ...
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Shaolin Soccer scores in South Korea
Hong Kong director Stephen Chow's Shaolin Soccer has scored big in South Korea, grossing $1.2m nationwide in its first three days to secure the number two spot at the box-office behind Spider-Man. Distributed jointly by Cinema Service and Film Bank, the film's release was timed to take advantage ...
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Morvern Callar
Dir: Lynne Ramsay. UK. 2002. 97mins. Screened in Director's FortnightA mesmerising journey through the hidden depths of a woman's soul, Morvern Callar confirms writer-director Lynne Ramsay as one of the most audacious and uncompromising British filmmakers of her generation. Poetic, stunningly beautifully and untainted by crass commercial concerns, it is ...
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Focus outlines its global strategy
Focus - the new Universal-owned company merging Good Machine International and USA Films - is starting to outline its modus operandi, pledging a commitment to original-language films and representing a new source of studio movies to independent buyers.Talking to Screen International yesterday, Focus co-chiefs David Linde and James Schamus said ...
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Tristan And Isolde involved in double shooting
Start-up production company Octagon Films will co-produce a version of Tristan And Isolde with Ridley Scott's Scott Free, to be directed by Kevin Reynolds - while at the same time Intermedia and Metropolitan Filmexport have teamed to finance and sell their own Tristan & Iseult, to which Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata) ...
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Donaldson Polakoff looks to capitalise on Shimkent Hotel
Paris-based producing duo Gil Donaldson and Carol Polakoff are moving quickly to capitalise on the anticipated success of their Directors' Fortnight film Shimkent Hotel.The film, which screens in the ACID section of the Fortnight, is the directorial debut of bad-boy artist and former jockey Charles de Meaux.Boasting a clutch of ...
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Cannes gets first glimpse of Gangs Of New York
After months of media attention over the fights that supposedly went into the making of Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York, the film's key figures settled their score with the press at yesterday's footage screening. "This is real art, unlike half the shit in this goddam Hollywood" declared executive producer ...
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Capitol duets with Medusa on Callas Forever
Capitol Films has partnered with Medusa Film to handle Franco Zeffirelli's Callas Forever, starring Fanny Ardant as the opera legend.UK-based Capitol is representing the film worldwide excluding Italy, France and Spain. The film, which also stars Jeremy Irons and Joan Plowright, takes a fictionalised looks at Callas' final days.Capitol has ...
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Luque enrolled as head of Film Business School
Former director of creative affairs at Lolafilms UK, Nadine Luque has been appointed new director of the Film Business School, part of the MEDIA Programme-backed pan-European training initiative the Media Business School (MBS).Luque's initial one-year contract with MBS will span two intensive four-day sessions of the Film Business School, a ...
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Golan teams up for Blood Games, Return From India
Avi Lerner and Danny Dimbort of Nu Image are re-teaming with their old friend and Dimbort's old boss Menahem Golan, acquiring worldwide rights to Golan's romantic picture The Return From India featuring Israeli stars Aki Avni, Riki Gal and Assi Dayan.The completed film which Golan co-wrote, produced and directed was ...
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Dougray Scott becomes Hero partner
Actor Dougray Scott has partnered in Hero Films, the UK production company of producer Anne Batz and director Mike Barker, with whom Scott recently helped save the troubled production of To Kill A King.The company's first production will be The Bum's Rush, a $2.8 million black comedy set in the ...
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Bavaria takes over from Christa Saredi
Bavaria Film International has taken over sales duties from World Sales Christa Saredi on a trio of Michael Haneke films and a library that also includes pictures by Hal Hartley, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Assi Dayan and Bakhtiyar Khudojnazarov.The move sees Bavaria complete the take-over of the WSCS catalogue that was ...
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Babelsberg to co-fund and house Myriad's Borgia
Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures, the holding company for Vivendi Deutschland's media activities, has cut a deal with Myriad Pictures to house, co-finance and co-produce Neil Jordan's Borgia and the Ed Pressman production The Tenth Victim. Babelsberg CEO Gabriela Bacher has accessed state guarantees from the state of Brandenberg with which ...
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Svensk Filmindustrie to set up Danish specialist arm
Nordic major Svensk Filmindustrie's Danish branch SF-Film is to launch a new division in a bid to take a greater share of the booming local market."We will set up a branch focusing exclusively on the marketing and distribution of Danish films," said Michael Fleischer, who has been the managing director ...
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Arclight, Spice Factory launch UK slate
Horror adaptation Possession, modern-day Count of Monte Cristo story Lazarus Ash and thriller Perfect People head the slate of $10m - $25m productions in a partnership between Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films, the UK's Spice Factory and best-selling horror novelist Peter James.The announcement follows last month's unveiling of plans for ambitious ...
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HBO announces international theatrical sales push
UK distributor Momentum Pictures has picked up UK theatrical, TV and home video rights to HBO Films' My House In Umbria, a drama based on the William Trevor novel starring Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall and Ronnie Barker and directed by Richard Loncraine. The sale, closed by Momentum with HBO's worldwide ...
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Fox Searchlight selects Beckham for North & South America
The Works has confirmed that Fox Searchlight Pictures has acquired North and South American rights UK hit Bend It Like Beckham.Fox Searchlight president Peter Rice and The Works chief executive Aline Perry said Fox Searchlight will handle North America and Twentieth Century Fox South America. Fox is understood to have ...