All Screen articles in 28 October 2003
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Copenhagen fest names new programming chief
The Copenhagen International Film Festival, which had its first run earlier this autumn, has appointed 35-year-old Lone Korslund as its new head of programming. She replaces Michael Soeby, who decided to leave for personal reasons after putting together the first programme. Korslund has worked as a manager at a number ...
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Brazil makes history as local films dominate box office
In a historical first, Brazil's box office saw three local films among the top four last weekend. Topping the charts was TV sitcom spin off The Normals (Os Normais) about a married couple and their misadventures. In the feature film, two couples hold simultaneous weddings and end up switching partners ...
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Sports marketeer bankrolls Korean car racing feature
Sports marketing firm Hyundai Sports International (HSI) has signalled its entry into the Korean film industry with G.T., a feature about racecar driving that will be targeted heavily at the international market.Short for "Grand Touring", G.T. features a high budget by local standards at $4.4m and is described as "a ...
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Brown Bunny bites back with Vienna victory
After attracting widespread disdain from international critics on its world premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny has now picked up the FIPRESCI Prize at this year's Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival in a re-edited version. Festival director Hans Hurch said the FIPRESCI jury's ...
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Australia's Animal Logic gears up for CGI Feet
Visual effects veteran Hael Kobayashi has relocated from LA to Sydney in the new role of digital artists manager at Australian effects house Animal Logic.Animal Logic is gearing up for production to start next year on director George Miller's Happy Feet, the first CGI animated feature to be produced in ...
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Japan acts to boost its international film profile
Encouraged by recent Hollywood interest in Japanese films such as The Ring and Spirited Away, the Japanese government is looking to further raise the profile of local films abroad.Japan's External Trade Organization (Jetro) plans to assist four Japanese film companies setting up sales booths at next year's AFM, as well ...
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SWITZERLAND
Several French-region launches caught attention in Switzerland last weekend. It was little surprise that these were led by French language action comedy Tais-Toi which, with $148,085 (SFR 193,695) taken from 16 screens over the four-day weekend, was the number one film in the French-speaking region. Tais-Toi is released in the ...
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ICELAND
Though the top of the Icelandic chart remained unchanged with Kill Bill Vol.1 and Intolerable Cruelty dominating, the new release of The Rundown caught up to third with a slightly better screen average on its 3 prints.However, two other new films disappointed, Thierry Schiel's Tristan And Isolde and Kevin Costner's ...
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Sweden set to roll out Ingmar Bergman database
The Swedish Film Institute has received Euros 438,000 from the Bank of Sweden to establish an "Ingmar Bergman Interface" - an international, English-language data base and website for research into the life and art of Ingmar Bergman.Ase Kleveland, managing director of the Swedish Film Institute and chairman of the board ...
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Esposito's Coeur wins German distribution backing
Arsenal Filmverleih has been awarded the Euros 20,000 MFG/Unifrance Distribution Prize at Tuebingen's French Film Days for Marc Esposito's Le Coeur Des Hommes for release in Germany next March.In addition, a Special Mention went to Lucas Belvaux's film trilogy of Apres La Vie, Cavale and Un Couple Epatant which will ...
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ARGENTINA
Mexican-Argentinian co production Nicotina opened poorly at number 17 despite favourable reviews and the presence of Argentinian talent before and behind the camera. Seabiscuit's success in the US has not registered here where it opened number eight. Oscar contender Valentin saw a mere 7% drop after seven weeks in release. ...
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Lennox contributes song to The Return Of The King
The soundtrack to the upcoming The Lord Of The Rings: TheReturn Of The King willbe released through Reprise/WMG Soundtracks on Nov 25, featuring a new score byOscar-winner Howard Shore and a track from Annie Lennox.Lennox's contribution is thesong "Into The West", while other names lending their talents include thelegendary Irish ...
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Huelva names competition contenders
The 29th annual Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva, Spain (Nov 8-15) has unveiled the full line-up of films for this year's first edition under new director Porfirio Enriquez.The festival, which also hosts a growing three-day Co-Production Forum (Nov 9-11), has become a key meeting point for Spanish, Portuguese and Latin ...
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UTA's Cohen, d'Arbeloff team to launch new US indie distributor
Howard Cohen is leaving UTA and will team up with Lovely & Amazing producer Eric d'Arbeloff to launchRoadside Attractions, a new US independent distribution company that willinitially focus on acquisitions.Roadside Attractions will join Samuel Goldwyn Films as a partnerin the US distribution joint venture Independent Distribution Partners (IDP)and will pick ...
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Stamp joins cast of Franchise's Fish
Terence Stamp has joined the cast of Dead Fish, which is currently shooting in London.Directed by Charley Stadler, the black comedy thriller also stars Gary Oldman as a ruthless hitman and Robert Carlyle as a heartless debt collector. Stamp will play the eponymous Fish.Elena Anaya (Sex & Lucia), Andrew ...
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Rival festival emerges to challenge Austria's Diagonale
Austrian filmmakers including Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl and Barbara Albert have thrown their weight behind plans to hold a three-day alternative festival event ahead of next year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema (March 13-21, 2004) in Graz.The move to launch a new festival is a response to Secretary of ...
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German festivals attack NRW spending cuts
Over a dozen film festivals and workshops in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have joined forces to attack the NRW regional government for proposed spending cuts which would see its budget for film cultural activities slashed by around 50% by 2005.The protesting festivals include the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Cologne's Feminale, ...
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Amsterdam unveils main competition line-up
The International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam (Nov 20-30) has said that, from this year's edition, it will only accept documentaries that premiere at the festival into its main competition.The news came as festival director Ally Derks yesterday (Oct 28) unveiled an international line-up of 21 instead of the usual 20 ...
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Disney's Alamo quits the Oscar race, moves to April 2004
Buena Vista has pulled its historical epic The Alamo out of awards contention this season andswitched the release date from Dec 25 to April 2004 after director John LeeHancock requested more time for completion."Too often in Hollywood thesedays, release dates are set before a film has even completed shooting and ...
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Disney's Alamo quits the Oscar race, moves to April 2004
Buena Vista has pulled its historical epic The Alamo out of awards contention this season andswitched the release date from Dec 25 to April 2004 after director John LeeHancock requested more time for completion.'Too often in Hollywood thesedays, release dates are set before a film has even completed shooting and ...