All Screen articles in 29 August 2003 – Page 7
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Telluride unveils lineup for this weekend's festival
Sofia Coppola's Tokyo-based drama Lost In Translation, Oscar-winning British film-maker KevinMacDonald's true-life mountaineering drama Touching The Void and Billy Ray's Shattered Glass, based on the life of the disgracedformer journalist Stephen Glass, are among the line-up of North Americanpremieres to screen at the 30th Telluride Film Festival, which runs from ...
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Stars come out to play at Venice
Johnny Depp yesterday did what so many visiting stars at the Venice festival simply don't do - he worked the crowds.Getting maximum value from Venice's short catwalk, he signed autographs, waved and accepted kisses from adoring female fans. He was in town for Once Upon A time In Mexico, Robert ...
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Stars come out to play at festival
Johnny Depp yesterday did what so many visiting stars at the Venice festival simply don't do - he worked the crowds.Getting maximum value from Venice's short catwalk, he signed autographs, waved and accepted kisses from adoring female fans. He was in town for Once Upon A time In Mexico, Robert ...
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Son Of The Bride director launches own company
Argentinian director Juan Jose Campanella whose Son Of The Bride (El Hijo De La Novia) garnered a Best Foreign Oscar nomination last year, has launched a new film and television production company. Called 100 Bares, the company's first project is a mini series about the cross migration of people between ...
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Woods confirmed as Irish Film Board chief
The Irish Film Board has confirmed the appointment of Mark Woods as its new CEO, as predicted on ScreenDaily.com (July 25). According to a statement from the agency, Woods will take up the position at the beginning of October, succeeding Rod Stoneman who departs today after ten years at the ...
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Berney teams up with P&F in New York to form new outfit
Publicity veteran JeanneBerney, most recently executive vice president at Rogers & Cowan, isteaming up with P&F Communications to form P&F Communications/TheBerney Group, a PR, promotions and marketing agency headquartered in New YorkCity.The one-stop full-serviceagency is now run by Berney with P&F's Barbara Pflughaupt and Raymond LForsythe who co-founded promotions business ...
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Joggers Park director dies just ahead of film's release
Anant Balani, the director of Hindi film Joggers Park, died of a cardiac arrest in Mumbai on Aug 28 - 17 days ahead of the film's release. Balani made his directorial debut with Gawahi (1989). His latest films Joggers' Park and Mumbai Matinee are to be released in September. He ...
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EU acts to protect national film support schemes
Europe's film many national subsidy and support schemes for local film-making this week were given new protection following a joint initiative by the European Union's Culture and Monopolies Commissions. Speaking at the Venice film festival on 29 Aug, culture and education commissioner Viviane Reding said that she and anti-monopolies chief ...
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EU acts to protect national film aid schemes
Europe's film many national subsidy and support schemes for local film-making this week were given new protection following a joint initiative by the European Union's Culture and Monopolies Commissions. Speaking at the Venice film festival on 29 Aug, culture and education commissioner Viviane Reding said that she and anti-monopolies chief ...
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HONG KONG Production Listings - August 29 2003
HONG KONG - August 29 PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE EYE II(Applause Pictures) Budget: US$4m. Int'l sales: Fortissimo Film Sales. Genre: Horror. Prods: Peter Ho Sun Chan, Lawrence Cheng. Dirs: Danny and Oxide Pang. Scr: Jojo Hui. Shooting in Hong Kong and Thailand from September 2003. Release date: Spring 2004.Contact: Fortissimo Film Sales (852) ...
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Jeepers Creepers 2
Dir: Victor Salva. US. 2003. 106 mins.Writer-director Victor Salva's sequel to his modest summer 2001 horror hit Jeepers Creepers is as efficiently jolting as the original but not as refreshingly spare or classically creepy. Opening wide in the US (through MGM) and UK (through Pathe) this weekend in the middle ...
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ARGENTINA - box office 29/08/2003
Buena Vista International continues to dominate the top three spots in Argentina's box office ratings this week. With kids back in school after the winter break, animated Disney juggernaut Finding Nemo has been displaced by Vin Diesel vehicle A Man Apart, a new release from local indie, ...
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Schuster teams with Ster-Kinekor for Shucks
Leon Schuster, South Africa's highest grossing local star, has signed a deal with leading South African distributor/exhibitor Ster-Kinekor for his latest outing Oh, Shucks, I'm Gatvol. The exclusive theatrical/non-theatrical and broadcast deal marks a return for Schuster to Ster-Kinekor, the local distributor who was responsible for a number of his ...
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Den Hamer named as Rotterdam festival director
Sandraden Hamer (pictured) is to succeed Simon Field as the sole director of the InternationalFilmfestival of Rotterdam (IFFR). den Hamer has been co-director with Field forthe last three years, and the two will be jointly responsible for the nextfestival (Jan 21-Feb 1, 2004) before she takes charge on March 1.DenHamer ...
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San Sebastian to showcase controversial docs
Spanish director Julio Medem (Sex And Lucia) will present his new documentary about life in Basque country as one of five charged "special screenings" lined up for the Zabaltegi section of the 51st Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27).La Pelota Vasca, La Piel Contra La Piedra mixes hours of ...
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Russia bankrolls Moscow Heat
Russian body builder and actor Alexander Nevsky begins shooting a landmark production in Moscow this week.His new film, Moscow Heat, marks the first time a Russian production, backed by Russian money, has hired a predominantly American cast and crew and brought them to Moscow to make a film.Nevsky who has ...
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Taiwan producer targets Golden Horse awards
Taiwan's Central Motion Picture Corporation (CMPC) is wrapping up three films at a total budget of $6.6m (NT$225m)In recent years Taiwan's film output has dwindled dramatically to around 10 films a year, compared to around 80 films a year in Hong Kong.The three films from CMPC are Alex Yang's Taipei ...
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Amenabar's Out To Sea gets ship shape
The cast and crew for Out To Sea (Mar Adentro), Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar's much-anticipated follow-up to international hit The Others, is taking shape prior to its October shoot in Spain.The film stars Javier Bardem in a tale based on the real life story of a paralysed man's struggle for ...
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SWITZERLAND
Devdas received a strong opening in the German-speaking region of Switzerland last weekend (Aug 21-24) playing at just four screens for an average of just under $4,900 per screen. This was only bettered over the weekend by wide-released blockbuster Pirates Of The Caribbean. Devdas was released in the French-speaking region ...