All Screen articles in 27 February 2004 – Page 3
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AFM: deals in brief
Bavaria FilmsBerlin Golden Bear-winner, Head On was sold to Golem for Spain, Alpha for Argentina, With Cinema for Korea, Blitz for Croatia and Cinecolumbia for Columbia. Veit Helmer's Gate To Heaven was sold to Videovision for South Africa..ArclightBeautiful Boxer was sold to Tartan films for the UK and Silver Hawk ...
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AFM: Cineclick Asia strikes Old Boy, Samaritan Girl deals
Korean sales house Cineclick Asia has sold Park Chan-Wook's Cannes-tipped thriller Old Boy and Kim Ki-Duk's Berlin competition film Samaritan Girl to Film House for Mexico.Old Boy was also sold to Gutek for Poland, while Samaritan was also sold to Golden Scene for Hong Kong.Despite previous press reports, Cineclick is ...
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AFM: Media Luna sells Russian comedy to US
Germany's Media Luna has wrapped a US deal for its Russian romantic comedy You I Love, which premiered in the Panorama section of last month's Berlin festival.Theatrical and video rights to the film, which was produced and directed by Olga Stolpovskaya and Dmitry Troitsky, were sold to Douglas Witkins' Picture ...
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Eurimages bankrolls eleven features with Euros 3.3m
New features by Pan Nalin (Valley Of Flowers), Radu Mihaileanu (Va, Vis Et Deviens) , Diane Bertrand (Der Ringfinger) and Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now) are among 11 European co-productions which received over Euros 3.3m support from the Strasbourg-based Eurimages in its latest round of funding.The largest amount - Euro 600,000 ...
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Full list of Oscar winners 2003
Best picture The Lord OfThe Rings: The Return Of The KingBarrie M Osborne, Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh (producers)Best director Peter Jackson TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of The KingBest actor Sean Penn MysticRiverBest actress Charlize TheronMonsterBest supporting actor TimRobbins Mystic RiverBestsupporting actress Renee Zellweger Cold MountainBest original screenplaySofia ...
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Gibson's Passion play opens top on $117.5m five-day weekend
Newmarket's number oneopener The Passion Of The Christ intervened divinely in the course ofthe US box office this week, scoring a sensational five-day $117.5m estimatedgross by the close of Sunday.Mel Gibson's gritty accountof the final 12 hours of Christ's life scored the second biggest five-day (andtherefore Wednesday) opening of all ...
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King of the world: 11 out of 11 Oscar sweep for Rings
In an extraordinary cleansweep, New Line Cinema's The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King won 11 Academy Awards last night out of its 11nominations - matching the all-time record set by Ben-Hur in 1959 and Titanic in 1997.The film, which ironicallyis the second highest grossing film in ...
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HONG KONG Production Listings - March 1 2004
HONG KONG March 1 2004PRE-PRODUCTIONABNORMAL BEAUTY(Magic Head Film Production) Backers: Universe Entertainment. Int'l sales: Universe Films Distribution. Thriller. Twin brothers taste the soul of love and the meaning of life after accidentally exchanging their identities. Exec prod: Daneil Lam. Prod: Oxide Pang. Dir: Oxide Pang. Cast: Gillian Chung, Joey Yung. ...
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Kick 'n' Rush (2 Ryk Og 1 Aflevering)
Dir: Aage Rais-Nordentoft. Denmark. 2004. 95mins.Mixing football with the problems of adolescence has become something of a sub-genre in recent years. Purely Belter and Bend It Like Beckham opened the scoring for England; now the Scandinavians have begun to lob their own teen soccer tales into the area, with United, ...
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Lost In Translation in healthy Spirits
FocusFeatures' Lost In Translation emerged as the key winner at the IFP Independent Spirit Awardson Saturday, winning awards for best feature, best director, best male lead forBill Murray and best original screenplay.A jubilant SofiaCoppola accepted three of those awards.Oscar favouriteCharlize Theron took home the female lead prize for Monster and ...
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Mirovision explores Antarctic
Korean indieproduction and sales house Mirovision has put together a varied slate for2004-5, headed by a big-budget mountaineering chiller that will shot at PeterJackson's facilities in New Zealand.Described as TheShining meets VerticalLimit, Antarctic Journalfeatures an expedition to the polar ice-cap that comes across the ghostlyremains of previous explorers.The film is ...
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AFM: Fortissimo backs rising art-house stars
Fortissimo Films hasgreenlit investments in upcoming productions by rising art-house directorsPierre Paul Renders and Pen-Ek Ratanaruang.Belgium's Renders,who previously made Venice 2001 film Thomas In Love, is to direct Mr Average, a French-language satirical romantic comedy thatshoots later this year.The producers are innegotiation with a major French star for the role ...
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AFM: Sales veterans bash US filmmaking costs
Echoing many of the samegrievances that emerged from last year's AFMA financing conferences, apanel of sales veterans at this year's AFM bemoaned the high-risk natureof film funding and warned that production costs in the US need to drop sharplyif the industry is to thrive on diversity.Nu Image/Millennium Filmsco-chairman Avi Lerner ...
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AFM: Latido enjoys Two Tough sellers
New Spanish-basedsales house Latido has closed deals on its Berlin competition title YourNext Life (La Vida Que Te Espera) andwhat has proved to be surprise sales hit at AFM, Two Tough Guys (Dos TiposMuy Duros).La Vida was sold to Seville for Canada, Polyfilm forAustria, Denubius for the Czech Republic, TVR ...
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AFM: Strange Crime pays for Vision International
French seller VisionInternational has struck a number of deals on Strange Crime.The Roberto Andopicture was licensed to Gussi for Mexico, Soyuz for Russia, Victory forBenelux, Kinema Space for Korea, Camro for Scandinavia, PCV for Greece andEcuador, Bolivia and Peru to Venus.Vision sold LidiaBobrova's Baboussiato Starlight for Sweden, TVR for Romania, ...
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AFM: Pickering spearheads EBG sales
Veteran sales agentPamela Pickering has joined Entertainment Business Group (EBG) as managingdirector, international sales.EBG, based inCamarillo, north of Los Angeles, has recently set about making large-scale $20mto $80m studio-released movies in alliance with Story Island Entertainment andCanyonlight Entertainment.Pickering, who mostrecently was president of international sales and distribution for InitialEntertainment Group ...
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AFM: Eurocine picks up Czech Poets
French sales houseEurocine has picked up Czech picture The Poets Never Lose Hope, a comedy about middle age.Directed by DusanKlein, the film is the fifth in a series of bittersweet titles and stars PavelKriz, Michaela Badinkova, David Matasek. It is produced by Bio Illusion andPluto Film & Video.
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AFM: TF1 picks up Penn and Bardem's Face
TF1 International has picked up The Last Face, a romantic drama starring Oscar-nominee Sean Penn,Javier Bardem and Robin Wright Penn.The $20m film is to be directed by Erin Dignam, director of Loved, which also featured both the Penns, and Denial (aka Loon).It is being produced by Michael Humphrey.The story features ...
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Highpoint adds Advanced Warriors
UK sales house High Films& TV has picked up Advanced Warriors, a DVD movie directed by AndrewDymond of Bristol-based Lightworx Media.Inspired by the novels ofIan Livingstone, the picture adopts the tree format where every decision-makingopportunity is accompanied by a menu of options with different outcomes.Audiences are required to participate and ...
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Catholics called on to denounce Gibson's Passion
Following a viewing on Monday of Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ, the Chief Rabbi of Ireland, Dr Yaakov Pearlman, has asked the majority Catholic Church to denounce the film as anti-Semitic.He is reported in the Irish press today as urging the Catholic Church to clarify its official position, ...