All Screen articles in 28 April 2002 – Page 2
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Brazil softens foreign pay-TV tax regulations
Brazil's Senate approved yesterday a more palatable version of new rules imposing taxes on foreign pay TV programmers, following a congressional nod last week. However, the original proposed regulations on new taxes and fees on film studios remain unchanged.Studios face an 11 percent tax on remittances and ...
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New support award for German cinema planned for Munich Filmfest
Leading German bank HypoVereinsbank has been joined by Bavaria Film and public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk for an expanded version of its Director's Support Award which is presented during the next Munich Filmfest at the beginning of July.Now in its 14th year, the Euros 40,000 prize for directors is to be ...
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Farrugia appointed chairman of Canal Plus SA
Dominique Farrugia (pictured) has been appointed chairman of Canal Plus SA, the principal French channel within the Canal Plus and Vivendi Universal empire. His appointment, which is subject to approval by Canal Plus shareholders at a meeting tomorrow (Friday, April 26), sees him replace Pierre Lescure at the channel. Lescure ...
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Italy's antitrust body set to approve Stream/Telepiu sale
Italy's Antitrust Authority is set to greenlight the deal which will see Rupert Murdoch's News Corp sell Italian pay-TV platform Stream to Vivendi Universal, if Vivendi's Telepiu complies with new conditions regarding its ownership of pay-TV rights to Hollywood movies.According to unconfirmed reports, the Italian watchdog will demand that when ...
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Cannes Critics Week selection announced
"More accessible," "less cerebral," are the watchwords used by chief selector Claire Clouzot to describe the line-up for the Critics' Week section at Cannes.The section will open with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's Spanish thriller Intacto, in which every character is the pawn of another. It premiered at Sundance and has already ...
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Ice Age heats up international box office
20th Century Fox saw its computer-animated hit, Ice Age, pass the $100m mark in international box office at the weekend. With a total international gross of $104.3m, Ice Age is only the second film release on the international circuit this year to pass the watershed. The first was A Beautiful ...
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Saddam's Bombmaker is first acquisition for BBC Films' LA arm
BBC Films has optioned Saddam's Bombmaker, the autobiography of Khidhir Hamza, the former head of Iraq's nuclear weapons program who defected to the US in 1995. The project is the first acquisition made by BBC Films' new Los Angeles office run by Peter Kalmbach, who will oversee development and production ...
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Germany's NRW film body awards Euros 9m backing
New features by Amos Kollek, Max Faerberboeck, Lone Scherfig and Peter Lichtefeld are among the projects granted over Euros 9m backing by Filmstiftung NRW in its latest round of funding. The highest sum - Euros 1.022m - was awarded to Bosko Biati Film's Spanish-German co-production of Lichtefeld's Playa Del Futuro, ...
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Controversial Italian G8 documentary to screen at Cannes
New controversy is scheduled in Italy around the documentary Bella Ciao, about the riots at last year's G8 meeting in Genoa, which will screen in Cannes' Critics Week. The film, which was co-directed by the outgoing head of RAI 2, Carlo Freccero (under alias), was repeatedly rejected for broadcast by ...
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Annual amfAR AIDS research gala set for May 23 in Cannes
Cannes jury president David Lynch and jury member Sharon Stone will join other celebrities including Elizabeth Taylor, Elton John, Iman and Harvey Weinstein at the annual amfAR AIDS research gala. The event will take place on Thursday May 23 at the Moulin de Mougins restaurant and be sponsored by Motorola. ...
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Biggie & Tupac
Dir: Nick Broomfield. UK. 2001. 107mins. The ostensible subject of Nick Broomfield's first feature since Kurt & Courtney, his controversial 1998 film about the suicide of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, is the unresolved murders of rap stars Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. Its actual subject is much the same as ...
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Senator International takes international rights to Sundance film XX/XY
Senator International, the LA sales arm of Germany's Senator Entertainment, has acquired international rights to XX/XY, the romantic drama written and directed by Austin Chick which played in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. IFC Films has domestic distribution rights on the film which stars Mark Ruffalo, Maya Stange and ...
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Palm/Manga sign domestic video deal with WEA
The home entertainment division of Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures, which releases films from both Palm and Palm-owned Japanese animation label Manga Entertainment, has struck a domestic distribution deal with WEA Home Video to replace a previous arrangement with RYKO Distribution.The Palm/Manga catalogue consists of over 300 titles including live action ...
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New York Lesbian & Gay Fest opens with CHO, closes with Lan Yu
The 14th annual New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival will open with Margaret Cho's latest performance film The Notorious C.H.O. from Wellspring Media and close with Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu from Strand Releasing.The event, which takes place June 6-16, also hands out annual film-maker awards decided by the audience ...
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Kaurismaki sheds past, switches sales to Bavaria Film
Germany's Bavaria Film International has picked up international sales rights to Aki Kaurismaki's new film The Man Without A Past (Mies Vailla Menneisyytta), which will appear in a Cannes competition slot.The Man Without A Past (pictured) is produced by the director's company Sputnik and co-produced with Kaurismaki regulars, Germany's ...
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Italian film industry wins credit bonanza from Euro bank
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has made its biggest investment into European film production by granting a Euros 100m credit line to the Italian film and theatre industry.The investment, which comes under the Audiovisual Innovation 2000 Initiative (i2i), will be managed by the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL)'s film and ...
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Peter Hoffman launches new sales arm under David Lamping
Peter Hoffman, chairman of Seven Arts Pictures, has launched an international sales division Seven Arts International and hired veteran David Lamping as president. Lamping will head into Cannes with a broad slate of films including the next pictures from Bronwen Hughes (Forces Of Nature), Paul McGuigan (Gangster No 1, ...
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Alfonso Cuaron is guest director for LA Film Fest
Alfonso Cuaron, currently enjoying a major US specialized hit with Y Tu Mama Tambien, will serve as guest director for the 2002 IFP Los Angeles Film Festival which this year has moved to June (dates are June 20-29), started an international section and scored a host of new sponsorship deals. ...
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Lightning strikes with first acquisition: American Gun
Lightning Entertainment, the new LA boutique sales outfit run by Richard Guardian, has made its first acquisition, buying worldwide rights to the completed feature American Gun starring James Coburn, Virginia Madsen and Barbara Bain.Written and directed by Alan Jacobs, who last directed Nina Takes A Lover, and produced by Brent ...
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Japan's Toho posts record profit of $78.5m
Toho, Japan's largest film distributor and exhibitor, has posted a record-breaking net profit of $78.5m (Y10.29 billion) for the fiscal year 2002, ended February 28, an increase of 16.2% over 2001. The impressive profit surge is largely thanks to the unprecedented local success of Spirited Away, Hayao Miuyazaki's animated feature ...
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