All Screen articles in 28 April 2002 – Page 3
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Lord Of The Rings sinks Titanic in Denmark
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring became the biggest grossing film of all time in Denmark over the weekend, dethroning four-year leader Titanic.Still playing well in the Scandinavian territory Rings took $17,639 (DKr 147,533) over the three-day weekend (April 19-21), bringing its total gross to $11.01m ...
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NuVision launches distribution division in Argentina
Latin American regional distributor NuVision has launched its own distribution arm in Argentina. It will continue its sub-distribution deal with local partners In the rest of the region. According to NuVision director Pedro Rodriguez, NuVision parent company, giant live entertainment conglomerate CIE, owns radio stations in Argentina which will provide ...
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Messier faces the heat at Vivendi Universal shareholder meeting
Yesterday evening, Vivendi Universal chairman, Jean-Marie Messier stepped up to the stage before a sweltering and packed house at Paris's Zenith theatre to face a 5,000-strong audience of the annual shareholder's meeting and deliver the performance of his life.Defending himself following weeks of bad publicity, questionable decision making and a ...
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Ken Loach, Rebecca O'Brien launch new production company
UK director Ken Loach and producer Rebecca O'Brien, whose Sweet Sixteen was confirmed for Cannes competition on Wednesday, are splitting from long-standing UK film co-operative Parallax Pictures to launch a new production company, Sixteen Films.Parallax Pictures is being dissolved next month, ending a partnership that has been prominent in UK ...
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Cannes: A tale of two committees
Cannes' selectors this year have opted for absolute simplicity: main competition is the home of the established names of the art-house, while Un Certain Regard gives room for experimentation, new directors and little seen schools of film-making.Rather than follow the example of Venice last year and launch two largely indistinguishable ...
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Bernal turns revolutionary for Motorcycle Diaries
Rising Mexican star Gael Garcia Bernal is to play Che Guevara in Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries.The white hot star of Y Tu Mama Tambien and Amores Perros will spend two months in Argentina this summer preparing for the production, which is being co-financed by the UK's FilmFour and Germany's ...
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Cannes 2002: all the films in Official Selection
2002 CANNES COMPETITION, UN CERTAIN REGARD, SHORTS AND SPECIAL SCREENINGSCannes official selection listOpening film - out of competitionHollywood Ending Dir: Woody Allen (US)Closing film - out of competitionAnd Now Ladies And Gentlemen' Dir: Claude Lelouch (Fr)CompetitionPunch Drunk Love Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson (US)The Hour ...
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Casomai
Dir: Alessandro D'Alatri. Italy. 2002. 116mins.Alessandro D'Alatri is back with a stylish romantic comedy which draws more than any of his previous outings on his other job - directing TV commercials. Set in contemporary Milan, Casomai will appeal to the generation it depicts: urban professional thirtysomethings, caught between work, the ...
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Tony Manne to leave Columbia TriStar, set up NY consultancy
Tony Manne, the international distribution veteran who has worked at Columbia Pictures for 30 years, is leaving his post as executive vice president of international marketing and distribution for Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) and setting up his own distribution and marketing consultancy. Manne will move from Los Angeles ...
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Wellspring gets worldwide rights to Margaret Cho concert film
Wellspring Media, the specialized US distribution outfit which is now independent of former owner Winstar Communications, has acquired worldwide rights to Margaret Cho's stand-up movie Notorious C.H.O. (pictured). The film is a 90-minute film of Cho's July 4, 2001, Seattle concert, part of her 37-city North American tour which went ...
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Myriad's D'Amico resigns from IN-motion board
Kirk D'Amico has resigned from the executive board of directors of IN-motion AG, the German media outfit which bought out his Myriad Pictures in July 2000. D'Amico, who took up his post on the board in 2001, will continue to be president of Myriad which is an international sales company ...
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Woody Allen names new film Anything Else, Capitol Films to sell
Anything Else will likely be the title of the next Woody Allen film which the prolific director is planning to start shooting on June 3 in New York City. Starring Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Glenn Close and Danny De Vito, the film is a more serious comedy than his more ...
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Kragh-Jacobsen starts filming on English-language Skagerrak
Denmark's Iben Hjejle and New Zealand's Martin Henderson top the international casting line-up for veteran Soren Kragh-Jacobsen's Skagerrak, the highly anticipated English-language follow-up to his Berlin Silver Bear-winning Mifune Produced by Denmark's Nimbus Film by Lars Bredo Rahbek and Bo Ehrhardt, Skagerrak started shooting Monday April 22 on location in ...
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Sweden's Strix unveils controversial Solidarity TV show
Formats, the formulae under which game, reality and quiz shows are sold for adaptation in different countries, have been big business for the last few years. But at concept stage it is sometimes difficult to tell one from another - hence a high degree of unlicensed copying. But there will ...
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The Water Giant re-locates from Canada to New Zealand
Eight weeks of principal photography has just begun at Lake Wakatipu near Queenstown in New Zealand on the $20m family adventure The Water Giant, formerly called Ogopogo. The original plan was to shoot on Canada's Lake Okanagan, but it was too developed to offer the wilderness backdrop required. A relocation ...
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Germany's third largest exhibitor faces bankruptcy
Germany's third biggest cinema chain, Ufa Theater, with 240 screens at 42 sites, is threatened with insolvency after its bank declined to provide further financing following two years of restructuring.Ufa spokesman Uwe Kattwinkel confirmed a report in the German weekly Der Spiegel that the chain needed an additional Euros 3m ...
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Germany's TiMe distribution scales back staff, moves HQ
The difficulties facing the German independent distribution sector has forced Wolfram Tichy's TiMe Group to re-locate its theatrical distribution and licensing arm TiMe Medienvertriebs GmbH from Munich to the group's headquarters in Potsdam.Commenting on the decision, which saw the laying off of distribution head Rudy Tjio and five other staff, ...
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Australia's Palace boards De Heer's Project
Palace Films has picked up all Australasian rights to Rolf de Heer's tenth feature Alexandra's Project and, in what is the largest ever financial commitment to an Australian film by the long-standing distributor, has also signed on as a major investor. Palace founder and manager director Antonio Zeccola will get ...
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Hong Kong's Lark flies with new distribution arm
Lark International Holdings (LIH), which owns Hong Kong exhibitors UA Cinemas and Cityplaza Cinemas, has launched a distribution arm, Lark Films Distribution (LFD).Headed by former Edko Films executive Karen Wong, LFD plans to acquire 8-10 films a year with a focus on quality US product. The company has already attended ...
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Moretti appeals to Italy's president over Berlusconi's threat
Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti has appealed to Italy's president to intervene after premier Silvio Berlusconi charged that three top RAI personalities should be fired because their use of state-run television has been "criminal.""You are the custodian of the constitution, therefore the guarantor of the freedom of each one of ...
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