All Screen articles in 28 November 2002 – Page 4

  • News

    Bond lives another day with killer $47m opening

    2002-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Reports of the demise of James Bond have been greatly exaggerated of late and the superspy struck back over the weekend as MGM's Die Another Day opened top of the table with a record-breaking $47m haul, according to studio estimates.The 20th Bond may have divided the critics but there was ...

  • News

    Hong Kong project market set for revival

    2002-11-22T04:05:00Z

    The Hong Kong Asia Film Finance Forum (HAF) is set to make a return in 2003 after a two year hiatus. The new event will combine the project market of the first HAF with the industry screenings of last year's hastily organised Hong Kong Asia Screenings (HAS). Held at the ...

  • News

    Roadshow snaps up Oz rights to Perfect film

    2002-11-22T04:05:00Z

    Roadshow Films has acquired all Australian and New Zealand rights to the unfinished homegrown drama One Perfect Day, about a young musical prodigy torn from the pursuit of his classical music career after his sister dies from a drug overdose at a dance party. One Perfect Day is a rare ...

  • News

    UK government moves to tighten co-production rules

    2002-11-22T04:05:00Z

    The Great Goose Caper, a Chevy Chase family film currently shooting in Canada, is not the UK government's ideal co-production. Certainly, its UK spend of 26% of its budget is within existing co-production requirements. But co-productions with such a minimal UK involvement have triggered a dramatic overhaul of UK production ...

  • News

    Remakes take centre stage at Pusan

    2002-11-22T04:05:00Z

    The surge in the number Asian films being remade for western audiences was highlighted at this year's PPP projects market in Pusan. After announcing the sale of remake rights on Korean hit Marrying The Mafia last month, Korean major Cinema Service opened up unreleased Break Out for remake treatment after ...

  • News

    Smile snaps up Sinatra pic for Scandinavia

    2002-11-22T04:00:00Z

    Copenhagen-based Smile Entertainment has acquired the Scandinavian rights to Paul Goldman's The Night We Called It A Day, which started shooting in Australia earlier this month for Scala Productions and Ocean Pictures. The deal was negotiated between Smile's Timo T. Lahtinen and Scala's Nik Powell as an early pre-buy. International ...

  • Reviews

    Adaptation

    2002-11-22T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Spike Jonze. US. 2002. 114mins "The best script I've ever read" is a line oft spoken, by star Meryl Streep among many others, of Adaptation, the eagerly awaited reunion of writer Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze after 1999's Being John Malkovich turned American movies on their head. The ...