All Screen articles in 28 November 2002 – Page 3
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Bond and Potter generate $22.5m weekend between them from 66% of the nation's screens
The entry of James Bond title Die Another Day and the continued might of Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets at the UK box office this weekend caused a massive downturn in the fortunes of most other current releases.Die Another Day, the first Bond handled by 20th Century Fox ...
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StudioCanal picks up von Trotta's Women
StudioCanal has taken on international sales for Margarethe von Trotta's new feature The Women Of Rosenstrasse which continues shooting at the Babelsberg Studios until the end of this week before moving to Munich The Euros 6.5m co-production between Studio Hamburg Letterbox Filmproduktion, Tele Muenchen, the Netherlands' Get Reel, and ...
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Jealousy, Passion share top honours at Pusan
South Korea's Park Chan-ok's (pictured, right) debut Jealousy Is My Middle Name and Indian director K.N.T. Sastry's (pictured, left) The Rite' A Passion shared the top prize in the Pusan International Film Festival's New Currents competition for first and second-time Asian directors.A Special Mention was awarded to Park Jin-pyo's Too ...
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Imovision, Teleimage team to form Telescope
Brazilian independent distributor Imovision has teamed up with local post production outfit Teleimage to create a new distribution, exhibition and production entity, Telescope. The new company has earmarked $4m in seed capital to kickstart its various activities, half of which will be allotted to building an exhibition circuit. The circuit ...
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European Pitch Point jury named
German distributor Stephan Hutter of Prokino, No Man's Land producer Cedomir Kolar, Dogville co-producer Els Vandevorst from the Netherlands' Isabella Films, UK producer and European Film Academy (EFA) chairman Nik Powell, and Eurimages secretary general Renate Roginas will serve on the international jury of next year's European Pitch Point to ...
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PLANET & stern documentary prize winner gets on the road
Production has begun in Berlin on Axel Brandt and Irina Roerig's documentary Russenbus - Fremde Brueder which has been selected as the first winner of the PLANET & stern Documentary Prize launched at the Vision Day during this year's Berlinale (Screen Daily Feb 2002).Brandt and Roerig's portrait of the coach ...
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Irreversible wins Stockholm Bronze Horse
Gaspar Noe's Irreversible won the Bronze Horse for best film 2002 at the 13th Stockholm International Film Festival on Saturday in Sweden. The jury, composed of Kristoffer Leandoer, Alexandra Rapaport, Ilkka Matila, Lucy Walker and Dogge Doggelito, cited the film as "groundbreaking cinema that manages to revitalise film narration in ...
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Koelmel Bros' Kinowelt bid in jeopardy
The saga of the Koelmel brothers' bid to take over the core activities of their insolvent Kinowelt Medien empire has taken yet another, dramatic twist.Insolvency administrator Wolfgang Ott has issued the Sparkasse Leipzig with an ultimatum to transfer the purchase price of Euros 32m by November 27 at the ...
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BFI endorses Carnages at Regus London film festival
The British Film Institute's Sutherland Trophy went to French film Carnages by Delphine Gleize as this year's London Film Festival wound to a close.Other awards saw the FIPRESCI prize going to The Angel On The Right and the Satyajit Ray Award go to Rachida. Thespian X, by Gerald McMorrow, won ...
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KirchMedia back on the map with Buena Vista deal
KirchMedia has signed a multi-year deal with Buena Vista International Television (BVI-TV) for the German free-TV rights to 20-30 feature films a year from Touchstone, Walt Disney Pictures and Miramax as well as a selection of TV movies and series from ABC/Touchstone and Walt Disney.The agreement includes such feature films ...
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Fremaux makes fact-finding trip to Australia
Thierry Fremaux is currently on his first ever visit to Australia - and the first by a Cannes Film Festival artistic director - but instead of selecting films, he is spending his time learning about Australian cinema. "I am totally ignorant about Australian cinema, which is why I wanted to ...
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Danish animation gets French world premiere
Danish animator Jannik Hastrup will give his new feature-length animated film, The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Bear (Drengen Der Ville Gore Det Umulige), its world premiere in France and Benelux on Dec18 as L'enfant Qui Voulait Etre Un Ours. French distributor Gebeka will release it on 100 screens ...
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Gebirtig
Dirs: Lukas Stepanik, Robert Schindel. Austria 2002. 115minsAdapted from Robert Schindel's own successful novel of the same name, this Austrian candidate for the 2002 foreign Oscars delivers one of the more intelligent, caustic and lucid films made on the country's share in Nazi guilt, an issue that has been repeatedly ...
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Callas Forever to open Palm Springs festival
Franco Zeffirelli's Callas Forever will receive its North American premiere when it opens the 14th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival on Jan 9, 2003. The director, a longtime friend of the legendary opera singer, and lead actors Fanny Ardant and Jeremy Irons are expected to attend. The picture takes ...
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Potter sets new Japanese box office record
Launched on a record 858 screens on November 23, Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets has become the highest-grossing opener of all-time in Japan, taking $16.7m from 862,958 admissionsThe previous record holder was Star Wars: Episode II - Attacks Of The Clones, with an opening gross of $13m. Third ...
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Bond opens to record figures internationally
Die Another Day stormed the international charts over the weekend, grossing $25m from five territories for 20th Century Fox.Not only did the film claim the top spot in each market where it opened, it also claimed the biggest Bond opening in every territory in the process.The first Bond film handled ...
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Wild Bees (Divoke Vcely)
Dir: Bohdan Slama. Czech Republic. 2001. 94minsThis good-natured countryside romp has already secured a place in a number of film festivals, from Rotterdam onwards. While there is no denying its unspoilt natural flavour and its light, insouciant charm, it is also difficult to ignore its lack of a real story, ...
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Miami Film Festival under Guillemet opens with Other Side Of The Bed
Hit Spanish comedy musical The Other Side Of The Bed (El Otro Lado De La Cama) will open the 20th annual Miami International Film Festival on Feb 21 to Mar 2 next year. The festival, which is the first to be programmed by former Sundance Film Festival co-director Nicole Guillemet. ...
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Anonymous Content, Strong/Morrone merge
LA management and production company Anonymous Content is to merge with talent management outfit Strong/Morrone Entertainment effective Jan 1, 2003, the two companies announced on Friday. Beverly Strong and Jeff Morrone along with managers Maani Golesorkhi, Nils Larsen and staff will transfer their base of operations into Anonymous Content's headquarters ...
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Devdas dominates the first annual RACE awards in India
India's Oscar submission Devdas has won eight awards in the first annual RACE (Rajkamal Academy Of Cinematic Excellence) National Awards, which will be presented at a ceremony in Mumbai, India, on Dec 21, 2002.RACE was established in Oct 2002 by Kiran Shantaram to develop the Indian film industry; as well ...
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