All Screen articles in 28 November 2003 – Page 4
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Jones appointed senior programmer at IFP LA Film Festival
Doug Jones has been appointed senior programmer at the IFP Los Angeles Film Festival which this year runs from June 17 to June 26. He will work year-round with the festival's programming director Rachel Rosen.The festival, formerly the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, was taken over by IFP/Los Angeles in ...
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Busy new year ahead for Oz production
For full current production listings click hereThere are just four films in production in Australia for the next three months, The Human Touch, some of which has already been shot in France, The Oyster Farmer, Ten Canoes and the Kennedy Miller animation Happy Feet. There may be an unknown ...
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Revolutions takes fast declining $21.5m over third weekend for Warner
The Matrix Revolutions slowed down in its international run over its third weekend in theatres, taking an estimated $21.5m in 94 territories for a cumulative total to date of $230.2m.It appears that the film will stop considerably short of the $454m international total scored by its predecessor Reloaded.In Japan, the ...
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AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND Prod Lists - Nov 25 2003
AUSTRALIA - November 25PRE-PRODUCTIONIRRESISTIBLE(Irresistible Films, Kennedy Mellor, Spice Factory, Movision Entertainment) Backers: Film Finance Corporation Australia, Movision. Int'l sales: Arclight. Dist: Palace (Aust/NZ), Momentum (UK), Blue Star (Italy). Psychological thriller. Sophie Hartley is convinced she is being stalked. She becomes increasingly certain that her husband's beautiful co-worker, Mara, wants her ...
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D-Cinema set to drive doc theatrical boom
A group of European distributors is banding together to give documentaries wider theatrical play through use of digital exhibition technology. The initiative, European DocuZone (EDZ), will link distributors, institutions and some 175 screens in eight countries to create a digital network capable of giving documentary films simultaneous releases across the ...
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South Korean quota system wins temporary reprieve
South Korea's filmmakers have secured a temporary respite in their efforts to maintain the nation's Screen Quota system. In a press conference on November 21, members of the South Korean film industry announced the results of a three-hour meeting with Korean president Roh Moo-hyun concerning the quota issue. ...
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Working Title Dancing with trio in production
With East Is East director Damien O'Donnell starting up principal photography on Inside I'm Dancing in Dublin, Working Title Films has no less than three features in production at once.Inside I'm Dancing, an Elling-esque tale of two young disabled men outwitting the system which stars Romola Garai, James McAvoy and ...
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Australia's FFC unveils studio model financing plan
Australian funding body the Film Finance Corporation (FFC) is to adopt a studio model when funding local films as part of a radical overhaul of its investment procedures.Chief executive Brian Rosen said that the FFC will choose films to fund and will then work alongside filmmakers to secure marketplace interest. ...
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Lescure returns with AnnaRose production outfit
Former Canal Plus chairman Pierre Lescure has announced the launch of a new film production and distribution company as well as a London-based capital development outfit.According to reports in the French media, his production outfit is called AnnaRose and is named after his young daughter. Two film projects are being ...
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'Original' Diagonale squares up against 'official' Diagonale
The supporters of Austria's 'original Diagonale' have unveiled their plans for a four-day event in Graz between March 3-7, 2004 while the 'official' Diagonale O4 under the management of Tillmann Fuchs and Miroljub Vuckovic seems to be on the verge of imploding."The 'original Diagonale' will take place because it has ...
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Australian Film Commission slams AFMA
The Australian Film Commission has slammed the American Film Marketing Association (AFMA) for its lack of support in the free trade agreement currently being negotiated with the U.S."If they actually represented the interests of independent producers around the world as they claim, they would be supporting Australian producers, not the ...
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NEW ZEALAND
Roadshow's The Matrix Revolutions comfortably beat the competition to retain the top spot in its third weekend on release, showing more resilience than in some other markets. UIP's Love Actually put in a strong performance to secure second place, despite only being on previews. It grossed NZ$212,718 from 45 screens ...
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McKellar cranks up Childstar
Principal photography is underway in Toronto for Don McKellar's second film, Childstar through Toronto-based Rhombus Media. Written by McKellar and Michael Goldbach, the comedy features an ensemble cast including McKellar, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mark Rendall Dave Foley, Gil Bellows, Brendan Fehr, Kristin Adams, Peter Paige, Noam Jenkins, Alan Thicke, Eric ...
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Dr Seuss' The Cat In The Hat
Dir: Bo Welch. US. 2003. 82 mins. Taken on its own terms, the $100m-plus live-action screen version of Dr Seuss' signature children's book is a no more than typically gaudy and aggressive Hollywood comedy that appears to have been production designed for kids but written largely for adults. US reviewers, ...
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Barbara Windsor wins Women in Film and TV lifetime award
Barbara Windsor is to be awarded the Working Title Films Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2003 Five Women in Film and Television Awards (WFTV).The annual awards ceremony celebrates the achievements of women in all aspects of the British film and television industry and will be held on the Dec 5 ...
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Italians protest against Rai 'censorship'
Italian composer Nicola Piovani and Nobel winning playwright Dario Fo were among more than 15,000 people who attended a live show at the weekend to protest against censorship at Italian state broadcaster RAI.The show was conducted by local comic Sabina Guzzanti, whose satirical TV programme was closed down by Italian ...
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Love Actually storms UK box office
Richard Curtis' directorial debut Love Actually took the UK by storm this weekend, opening at number one and grossing a massive $11.34m (£6.7m) from 477 locations.Screening on approximately 775 prints, the weekend takings - which included previews of $1.7m (£1m) - scored the biggest ever opening for UK distributor UIP.Love ...
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Website plans to boost Taiwan films abroad
Taiwan's Government Information Office (GIO) is gearing up for a re-launch of its website Taiwancinema.com as the definitive guide to the local film industry in a bid to further promote Taiwan-made films in the international market.The re-launch is scheduled on 7 January 2004, by which the Chinese-language website will be ...
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Japanese studio abandons move plans
Game maker Namco has abandoned its plan to move the studio of film subsidiary Nikkatsu from its current location in a Tokyo suburb to a new site in Yokohama. The plan, announced by Namco president Masaya Nakamura in July 2001, called for the construction of a new studio on a ...