All Screen articles in 28 October 2003 – Page 5
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Top East Euro producers to pitch projects at Cottbus
Fourteen projects will be pitched to potential production partners during this year's two-day Connecting Cottbus co-development forum between November 4-5.They include new feature films from: Slovenia's Emotionfilm, producer of Damjan Kozole Spare Parts; the Czech Republic's Negativ, producer of Petr Zelenka's Year Of The Dog; and Slovakia's ALEF Film&Media Group, ...
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Lenin! crosses UK box office landmark
Good Bye, Lenin!, has passed the £1m mark at the UK box office, making it only the seventh European subtitled film in the last ten years to achieve such success, the UK Film Council has revealed. The film's UK release - by UGC Films UK - was supported by the ...
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Weinstein, Bachchan in Mumbai meeting
Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein made a short private visit to Mumbai to meet Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan last week. The details of meeting are not immediately known, although it comes in the same month that Bachchan relaunched his production company AB Corp on 11th October 2003.Weinstein also visited the shoot ...
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Focus to sell Europe on Zhang's latest martial arts epic
Focus Features will handleinternational sales in mainland Europe excluding the UK for Zhang Yimou'sin-production martial arts spectacle, House Of Flying Daggers.Sales on Yimou's firstproject since the action epic Herowill begin at MIFED next month. Producer Bill Kong will collaborate with Focusfor the third time following Heroand Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.The ...
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Diggs takes lead role in Armada's Drum
Taye Diggs, whose creditsinclude Chicago, Basic and BrownSugar, has joined the cast of ArmadaPictures' true-life Apartheid drama Drum, which begins principal photography on Nov 7 inSouth Africa.Set in the 1950s, the storycentres on a magazine writer who risks his life exposing the South Africanregime and sparks a popular protest movement.UTA, ...
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Wellspring acquires worldwide rights to Stoked
US-based distributorWellspring has acquired all worldwide rights excluding the US, Canada and theCaribbean Basin to Helen Stickler's acclaimed documentary Stoked: The RiseAnd Fall Of Gator.The film charts thetumultuous career of 1980s skateboarding legend Mark 'Gator'Rogowski, whose rise from local hero to international superstar ended ininfamy.The deal was negotiated by Sticklerand ...
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Irish talent throws weight behind Section 481 campaign
Irish directors and screenwriters have weighed in behind Screen Producers Ireland's (SPI) campaign for the retention of Ireland's Section 481 tax break beyond its December 2004 termination date. Expressing their concern about the expiration of the tax incentive at a Dublin press briefing on Oct 22 were director Neil Jordan, ...
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Love Actually
Dir: Richard Curtis. UK. 2003. 129 minsLike a latter-day Frank Capra, Richard Curtis believes in the innate decency of the ordinary individual. His films salute the power of love and the possibility of harmony in a world riven with division. His vision may not be dark or cutting-edge but it ...
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Euro film industry savages screener compromise
Brussels-based lobby group, the European Film Companies Alliance (EFCA) has torn into the Oscars' screening tapes ban, describing it as a "blow to cultural diversity", "evidence of arrogance" and a threat to the Oscars themselves.EFCA, which represents many of the most muscular European film companies, including Svensk Filmindustri, CLT-Ufa, Intermedia, ...
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UIP rolls out Coen's Cruelty in key territories
Universal's black comedy Intolerable Cruelty goes out in its second wave of international releases this upcoming weekend with medium-sized bows in four major territories.The Coen Brothers film opens through UIP in Australia on 200 prints on Oct 23, Germany on 350 on Oct 23, Spain on 239 on Oct 24 ...
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Israel hosts major Amos Gitai retrospective
The first full scale retrospective programme of Amos Gitai's work in his own country was launched at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque this week with the national premiere of his latest feature film, Alila. An emotional Gitai thanked the local film industry players who congratulated him on stage. For many years, ...
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Alila
Dir. Amos Gitai. Israel-France. 2003.A collage of several plots (alila in Hebrew means plot) combine to deliver a composite picture of the country, as it is today in Gitai's new film. Originally headed for Cannes but finally emerging in Venice, Alila is one of his least overtly militant and one ...
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BAFTA launches broadside against screener ban
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has issued a strongly worded statement condemning the MPAA's decision to send out screener tapes to AMPAS members only.The statement says the move is potentially "catastrophic" for the BAFTA film awards and its members. It adds that the ruling is "discriminatory", ...
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Outrage from HFPA, SAG at MPAA's secret deal with Academy
The Hollywood Foreign PressAssociation (HFPA) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) have strongly condemnedyesterday's (23) exclusive screeners ban U-turn between the MPAA and AMPAS.Under the terms of thebehind-closed-doors deal, a one-year experiment will see VHS tapes go out onlyto those Academy members who sign an agreement pledging to safeguard theirtapes ...
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European Film Academy unveils documentary contenders
The European Film Academy has announced the nominations in its Documentary 2003 - Prix Arte category. The winner will be presented at the European Film Awards Ceremony on Saturday, December 6 in Berlin.The documentary jury consists of: Alfredo Knuchel, documentary filmmaker, festival programme advisor & journalist, Switzerland; Ben Lewis, producer/director, ...
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