All Screen articles in 28 November 2002 – Page 2
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Treasure Planet
Dir: John Musker & Ron Clements. US. 2002. 95 mins. Walt Disney Feature Animation follow up the delightful Lilo & Stitch with a more conventional holiday programmer in Treasure Planet, an entertaining, but perfunctory animated adventure which will come third on kids' wishlists after live-action family movies Harry Potter And ...
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Out
Dir: Hideyuki Hirayama. Japan. 2002. 119 mins.Every once in a while a Japanese movie comes along that translates well across borders, whether as an original or a remake. Hideo Nakata's Ringu was one, Hideyuki Hirayama's Out, a black comedy about three women who chop up bodies for cash, is another, ...
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Roger Michell's Mother adds clutch of int'l sales
The UK's Renaissance Films has concluded pre-sales for Roger Michell's recently wrapped film The Mother. Deals were closed with Concorde for Germany, Atalanta for Portugal, Odeon for Greece, Shani Films for Israel and A Film/Cinelibre for Benelux. Sony Pictures Classics picked up the film for North America during the ...
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Karel Reisz dies, aged 76
Karel Reisz, director of Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, the major box-office success of British New Wave cinema in the early 60s, has died in London aged 76.The Czech-born filmmaker had been ill for six months with a blood disorder. He leaves a wife, Betsy Blair, and three sons.Reisz became ...
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I'm Taraneh, 15
Dir: Rassul Sadr-Ameli. Iran. 2002. 110 mins. A young single mother's struggle for survival is the theme of a compelling story that's both universally recognisable and packed with revealing detail unique to contemporary Iran. The country's official candidate for the Foreign Language Oscar and a critical and popular hit there, ...
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Kongrod takes over at Sandrew Metronome
Morten Kongrod (43) has been appointed CEO and president of Sandrew Metronome AB, Sweden, and head of the Nordic Sandrew Metronome Group. Kongrod will take over on March 1, 2003 from Klas Olofsson (60), who is retiring. Olofsson has been head of Sandrew Metronome since 1998. Kongrod is currently senior ...
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Menemsha picks up international on Kamchatka
Neil Friedman'sLA-based sales and distribution outfit Menemsha Entertainment has acquiredinternational rights to Kamchatka,Marcelo Pineyro's latest film which is representing Argentina in theforeign language film category of the Academy Awards.Friedman picked up the filmfrom Argentina's Patagonik Film Group, for which Friedman had alreadysold Son Of The Bride, lastyear's Argentinian submission and ...
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Miramax swoops on MDP's The I Inside
Miramax Filmshas acquired all distribution rights for North America, Italy and Australia/NewZealand to MDP Worldwide's psychological thriller The I Inside. The film will be released in NorthAmerica under the Dimension Films label.Starring RyanPhillippe, Sarah Polley and Stephen Rea and directed by Roland Suso Richter,the picture centres on an amnesiac's journey ...
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Eager guests limber up for Cuban festival
An impressive array of international guests is set to attend the 24th Havana Film Festival of New Latin American Cinema (Dec 3-13) which opens with Mexican Foreign Oscar contender El Crimen Del Padre Amaro.Festival director Ivan Giroud promises a celebrity-studded event with confirmed guests led by Marisa Tomei, Julie Taymor, ...
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German distributors call for cinema owner flexibility
German distributors are planning to start talks with cinema owners about introducing more flexible programming and price structures.The move comes amid distributor concern that exhibitor programming and pricing patterns are deterring potential cinema-goers from visiting local theatres. The distributors worry that the exhibitor's habit of increasing prices at the weekend ...
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Buyers gear up for Lanzarote's Spanish Film Screenings
The fourth annual Spanish Film Screenings of Lanzarote (Nov 28-30) kicks off in Spain's Canary Islands this week with 92 buyers attending from around the world to screen 37 of the latest Spanish feature films.With a budget of close to Euros530,000 - almost Euros50,000 more than last year's edition - ...
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Two more low budget features get underway in Ireland
A further two low budget features started shooting in Dublin last week, bringing to seven the total of low budget films shot or shooting in Ireland so far this year. The two latest additions to the low budget reanimation of Ireland's production sector are Fatface Films' Halo Effect and Zanzibar ...
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Germany's Telepool boards Santa Claus feature
German licence trader Telepool has picked up German rights to the live-action family entertainment film The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus which is set to begin shooting next year. Based on a novel by The Wizard Of Oz writer L Frank Baum, the story tells how Young Claus ...
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Lucas to be honoured by the National Board Of Review
The National Board of Review (NBR) is to present GeorgeLucas with a special award in honour of his 'visionary cinematicachievements', the film body announced today (Nov 25).The presentation will take place at the annual awards galaon Jan 14, 2003, at Tavern on the Green in New York. A full list ...
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Late Night Shopping bags BAFTA Scotland award
Ideal World's critically acclaimed Late Night Shopping was named best feature Film at the 2002 BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards held in Glasgow on Sunday night. The quirky tale of fraught friendships starring Luke de Woolfson, James Lance and Heike Makatsch also won best director for Saul Metzstein and the ...
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Adam Bialow promoted in international dept at Lions Gate
Adam Bialow has been promoted to vice president ofinternational business and legal affairs at Lions Gate Entertainment in a movethat highlights the distribution and production company's expandingworldview. Bialow will beresponsible for business and legal affairs for Lions Gate's internationaltheatrical, home video and television arms and will continue to report to ...
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Alliance Atlantis film activities boost second quarter
Toronto-basedAlliance Atlantis announced strong second quarter results for its distributionarm, the Motion Picture Group (MPG), which delivered nearly half of thequarter's $160m (C$252m) in revenue for the period ending Sept. 20. TheMPG's $76.2m revenue was up more than 50% from the same time last year.The numbers were driven by domestic ...
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Academy Pictures picks up Locarno winner The Longing
Ludwigsburg-based Academy Pictures has picked up Iain Dilthey's The Longing (Das Verlangen) which was the surprise winner of the Golden Leopard at this year's Locarno International Film Festival in the summer.Academy's managing director Stefan Paul told screendaily.com that he expects Dilthey's sombre drama to screen in the Berlinale's Perspectives German ...
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Chamber Of Secrets conjures up another $58.7m
Harry Potter And TheChamber Of Secrets raised itsinternational cumulative score to $128m after 10 days with a mighty $58.7m haulover the weekend, according to studio estimates released today. The secondinstalment in the Potter franchise recorded 8.632m admissions from 5,249screens in 20 territories and established another set of records along the ...
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XXX continues its run, with $2m over weekend
The action picture XXX, which is being distributed internationally byColumbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), added another $2mover the weekend to raise its international cumulative score to $122.5m. TheVin Diesel starrer held well in Belgium and Holland in spite of bows by HarryPotter And The Chamber Of Secrets inboth territories ...
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