All Screen articles in 27 August 2002 – Page 2
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DreamWorks threatens legal action over web domain name
Hollywood entertainment studio DreamWorks is threatening an India internet design firm with the legal action for registering the domain name webdreamworks.com.DreamWorks is understood to have instructed lawyers to give the Indian firm - which touts itself as a "full-service design and development company" - just fifteen days to surrender the ...
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Heartlands
Director: Damien O'Donnell. UK. 2002. 98minsAnswering the question of how you follow an international success like East Is East (1999), director Damien O'Donnell's second feature Heartlands is a slow-burning delight that will steal audience hearts just as effectively as his broader, more obviously crowd-pleasing debut. A gentle road movie filled ...
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Redford/Mirren thriller takes Dutch producer to new level
Dutch producer Pieter Jan Brugge is to take his career to a new level when he makes his directorial debut with the thriller The Clearing. According to Dutch sources, the story of a rich businessman kidnapped by a former employee will star Robert Redford and the UK's Helen Mirren as ...
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Phantom Menace dominates DVD awards in Los Angeles
Star Wars:Episode I - The Phantom Menace picked up four awards at yesterday's 5th Annual DVD Awards in LosAngeles, dominating a ceremony that saw honours go to old and new titles alike.TwentiethCentury Fox Home Entertainment's Episode I won the Viewers' Choice, Best Menu Design and BestAuthoring awards as well as ...
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Punch Drunk Love to platform straight after New York fest
Paul ThomasAnderson's Punch Drunk Love will be platform released on October 11 in New York, Los Angelesand Toronto and expand on October 18, Revolution Studios announced today. The romantic comedy, which won Anderson the Director'sAward at the Cannes Film Festival this year, will make its North American debutat the Toronto ...
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Eschbach gets top sales job at TF1 International
Didier Sapaut, TF1 International's chief executive has announced the appointment of Nicolas Eschbach as senior vice president, replacing Perrine Teze as top salesman at the French broadcast giant's film sales unit. Eschbach was previously senior sales executive at TF1 International, but since 2000 has been based in New York as ...
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Red Light Runners shelves plans to raise UK tax vehicle funds
Red Light Runners, the crime thriller that recently made headlines when it announced a cast including Michael Madsen and Minnie Driver, is understood to have shelved plans to raise its budget through UK tax financing vehicle the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS).The film, which is understood to have sent at least ...
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Han Entertainment's The Touch shows eastern promise
Despite stiff competition from Spider-Man, Han Entertainment's The Touch is continuing to perform strongly in China, where it has grossed $2.7m (RMB22m) after 18 days (August 1-18) from 162 screens. However, the action adventure, which was released day and date in four Asian territories to outsmart mainland pirates, will need ...
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San Sebastian unveils director's award line-up
Spain's San Sebastian International Film Festival has unveiled the 20 titles that will compete for the New Director's Award at this year's 50th anniversary edition (Sept 19-28).The award, sponsored by telecoms provider Jazztel, comes with a purse of Euros 150,000, touted by San Sebastian organizers as the highest prize of ...
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German pay-TV network attracts 20 takeover suitors
Investment bank Morgan Stanley has sent out preliminary sales brochures on Premiere to over 20 as-yet-unnamed parties in a bid to secure take-over bids for the ailing German pay-TV platform.The groups, understood to include financial, venture capital and other media concerns, have between 2-3 weeks to submit provisional offers for ...
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Lantana
Ray Lawrence's critically-acclaimed second feature, Lantana, continued to take Europe by storm at the weekend opening on a platform 16 prints in the UK this week with a resounding $142,409 (£92,566) for distributor Winchester.Scoring a massive per site average of $8,900 the Australian title, which features an ensemble cast including ...
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Moonstone to handle Kaige's Together for worldwide sales
MoonstoneEntertainment announced today that it will start representing Chen Kaige's Together for worldwide sales ahead of its galaworld premiere at next month's Toronto International Film Festival. The latestfeature from Kaige, whose previous credits include the Miramax-released Farewell,My Concubine - willshowcase under the festival's Masters Series banner on September 10 and ...
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Effects gurus launch Uncharted Territory production outfit
The Academy Award-winning special effects team of Volker Engel (Independence Day) and Marc Weigert today announced the formation of their new production company, Uncharted Territory. Based in Los Angeles, the duo plan to make story-driven motion pictures with cost-effective blockbuster effects. Uncharted Territory's first feature, the action adventure Coronado,recently wrapped ...
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Out Of Control
Director: Dominic Savage. UK. 2002. 90 minsAn angry, nihilistic drama told with gut-renching conviction, Out Of Control confirms writer-director Dominic Savage as the standard bearer for the raw, social realist traditions established and refined by Ken Loach and the late Alan Clarke. A largely improvised story intended for transmission on ...
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New York festival line-up draws heavily on Cannes favourites
The full line-up has beenannounced for the prestigious New York Film Festival, whose 40thedition will kick off on Sept 27 with the North American premiere of AlexanderPayne's About Schmidt, for whichactor Jack Nicholson is already drawing considerable Oscar buzz, and close onOct 13th with Talk To Her, the latest film ...
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IFC shuts down micro-budget production arm
IFCEntertainment announced that its low-budget Los Angeles-based production armNext Wave Films is to immediately cease operations as a separate divisionwithin the company. The closureprompted a warning from outgoing Next Wave president Peter Broderick, who saidthere was a "crisis" in independent film distribution that wasstopping most independents from reaching their target ...
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My Little Eye director, producer plan 'musical verite'
After receiving a strong positive reaction for their horror title My Little Eye at an audience screening at the 56th Edinburgh Film Festival, director Marc Evans and producer Jon Finn (Billy Elliot) revealed that their next project will be world's apart from the one they are promoting in Scotland. The ...
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Scorsese, Lynch, Coppola head for Morocco
A jaw-dropping pageant of international stars is set to take the desert air at the forthcoming Marrakech International Film Festival (Sept 18-22) in Morocco.David Lynch, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Catherine Deneuve, Edward Yang, Constantin Costa Gavras, Monica Bellucci, Patrice Leconte, Elodie Bouchez and Irene Jacob are scheduled as guests ...
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AOL takes back full ownership of Warner Bros, HBO
AOL Time Warner has taken full control of Time Warner Entertainment (TWE), the business that owns Warner Bros. studios and cable channels HBO, Court TV and Comedy Central, with a $9bn acquisition of the telecommunication giant AT&T's 27% stake.The deal ends two years of negotiations between AOLTW and AT&T over ...
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Universal Studios faces merger with Malone's cable networks ahead of possible IPO
John Malone's Liberty Media has reportedly begun exploratory talks with Vivendi Universal with a view to merging some of his cable TV interests with the US entertainment businesses of the beleagured French conglomerate. The combined operation, which would bring Universal Studios, Focus Films and USA Networks under the same roof ...
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