All Screen articles in 28 February 2003 – Page 2
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Constantin, Impact option Driver game for movie
Video game publisher Infogrames has optioned the featurefilm and television rights to its Drivergame franchise to German independent production and distribution companyConstantin Film. Constantin's subsidiary UK-based Impact Pictures -run by Jeremy Bolt and Paul Anderson - plans to take the project intoproduction this year with Paul W S Anderson (Resident ...
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ShoWest focuses on China
Two seminars on the growing film industry in China and theworldwide piracy problem are expected to be major draws at the upcoming ShoWest2003. China: A View From All Perspectives will take place on March 3 - the convention's InternationalDay - when Yang Buting, CEO and chairman of the China Film ...
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Halle Berry named honorary chair at Spirit Awards
Halle Berry, who won lastyear's best actress Oscar for Monster's Ball, will serve as the honorary chair for the 2003 IFPIndependent Spirit Awards. 'Halle Berry has been incredibly generous toindependent film with her talent and with her support,' Dawn Hudson,executive director of IFP/Los Angeles, said in a statement.Berry also won ...
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Ground-Zero closes three AFM deals
Ground-ZeroEntertainment, the North American distributor of martial arts videos andhip-hop-influenced titles, has closed three deals at this year's AmericanFilm Market, the company's founder and CEO Anthony Perez announced. Thecompany has signed a domestic distribution deal with James Bond III'surban production company Solid Rock for six titles. A limited theatricalrelease is ...
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Distant Horizon options Echoes Of Love From Heaven Above
Distant Horizon,Anant Singh's London, Los Angeles and South Africa-based entertainmentgroup whose production credits include Sarafina and Cry The Beloved Country, has optioned feature film rights toMickey Nivelli's acclaimed biography, Echoes Of Love From HeavensAbove. Based on the truelove story of Lotte Sommers, a young German Jew at the time of ...
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Party Monster
Dir: Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato. US. 2003. 98mins.Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, the documentary film-makers behind The Eyes Of Tammy Faye and prosperous production outfit World Of Wonder, made a film in 1998 called Party Monster, about the notorious club promoter Michael Alig who created the Club Kid scene ...
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Yes Nurse, No Nurse! (Ja Zuster, Nee Zuster)
Dir: Pieter Kramer. The Netherlands. 2002. 100mins.Busby Berkeley comes to Amsterdam in all-singing, all-dancing Dutch-language musical Yes Nurse, No Nurse!. Relentless innocence and Mary-Poppins optimism may bore the more cynical before the end, but it contains enough visual style and sheer kookiness to carry the majority through to the inevitable ...
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Gods And Generals
Dir. Ronald F. Maxwell. US. 2003. 216mins. If it were only two hours long, Gods And Generals would be a trial. But there then follows a further 100 minutes to prolong an experience as dull as it is earnest. Ronald Maxwell, who adapted and directed the well-regarded Gettysburg, is in ...
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New financing and production company to launch in Italy
A group of international private investors backed by a private UK bank has created a new financing and production company, named Company of Arts.The new Rome-based outfit, which will officially launch in May, already has two projects in the pipeline: Defenceless, a Euros 20m English-language feature film, set in the ...
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Russian company seeks investors for major cinema chain
A start-up Russian company is seeking investors for a multiplex cinema circuit that it claims will control 30% of a market that could be worth $1bn within eight years.According to local media reports, Alexander Timofeyev, co-founder of Investkinoproyekt, which owns one Russian cinema, said he and his partner Vladimir Murov ...
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Spain to host Cartoon Master workshop
Galicia in Spain will play host to a three-day Cartoon Master workshop dedicated to technological developments in the animation industry May 15-17.It is one of three upcoming workshops organised by Cartoon, the European Association of Animated Film, including Cartoon Creativity (April 24-26) in Erfurt, Germany and Cartoon Finance (June 20-21) ...
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Inheritance inherits Danish box-office crown
Per Fly's highly anticipated new film, Inheritance (Arven), was very well received by both critics and audiences on its opening weekend in Denmark, which was the biggest for a local film this year. With 41,000 admissions and $319,430 (DKK 2.2m) from 60 prints local distributor Nordisk Film's high expectations were ...
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Hollywood to make live-action feature of Japanese comic book
Twilight Entertainment has signed a deal to make a live-action feature of Japanese animation Lupin The Third .with Japan's TMS Entertainment who created animation features and TV series of the story and Kazuhiko Kato the writer of the original comic book. Hollywood producer, Gerald Molen (Schindler's List, Jurassic Park: The ...
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Ordesky moves to senior production post at New Line
Mark Ordesky, the presidentof Fine Line Features and the production executive who oversaw New Line'sLord Of The Rings trilogy, hastaken a major step up in the New Line hierarchy being named executive vicepresident and chief operating officer of New Line Productions. He will reportdirectly to Toby Emmerich who is president ...
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Miramax music president Spendlove renews contract
Randy Spendlove,Miramax's president of motion picture music, has re-signed with thecompany and will continue heading up the music department, Miramax co-chairmenBob and Harvey Weinstein announced today (Feb 25). Spendlove will remain inMiramax's Los Angeles office and will report directly to the Weinsteins.Directors of music Joe Rangel and Rachel Levy will ...
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Senator International closes multiple deals on XX/XY
Senator International hascompleted multiple sales on its romance drama XX/XY which played in dramatic competition at the SundanceFilm Festival last year. Optimum Releasing has bought UK rights, Lola Films hasbought Spain, Mediafilm SPA has bought Italian and Belga Films has boughtBenelux. IFC Films has domestic distribution on the film which ...
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Cinema Park wins Foodfight! for Russia, buys three more
Cinema Park, Russia's newestfilm company formed by Russian financial and metals conglomerate InterRosGroup, Nikita Mikhalkov's production company TRITE and Andrei Konchalovsky'sDVD distributor Movie Stream, closed its first major acquisitions at AFM led bySeven Arts Signature International's $60m animated feature Foodfight! being produced by Larry Kassanoff's ThresholdEntertainment.The vertically integratedCinema Park, which ...
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ContentFilm acquires The King with Garcia Bernal
Contentfilm has acquiredworldwide rights to The King, anew project by Monster's Ballscreenwriter Milo Addica which he co-wrote with James Marsh. Marsh will directthe film which will star Gael Garcia Bernal, the Mexican actor who will make ithis next film after Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education.The King will be produced by Addica ...
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8 Mile opens big in Korea for Universal/UIP
Universal's drama 8Mile grossed $2.9m from 1,469theatres in 25 markets over the weekend, raising its international runningtotal to $77.7m with 12 markets still to open. The picture had a strong Koreanbow with $524,000 from 75 screens, and took $18,000 from nine screens on itsopening day in Slovenia, marking Universal's fourth ...
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