All Screen articles in 3 June 2003 – Page 3
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Canadian cinema to enjoy worldwide roadshow
The Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG) is expanding its Film Circuit initiative beyond Canada, backing events in Europe, Egypt and Mexico and three events in the US. Launched in 1992, the Film Circuit is an alternative distribution system for Canadian and international independent films in over 120 communities across ...
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Local box office hits starve Norway of film funds
The local success of two children's films has caused unforeseen problems for the Norwegian Film Fund, which administers the annual $28m in state subsidy for film in Norway.Olsenbanden jr has so far recorded 350,000 admissions, while Summer Of Wolves has been seen by 210,000 Norwegians. In addition, the local low-budget ...
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Bavaria Film closes multiple Cannes sales
Bavaria Film International (BFI) has sold the FIPRESCI Award-winning Spanish film Las Horas De Dia to France's ARP and the UK's ICA among a raft of deals concluded by the German sales agent in Cannes.ICA also picked up Argentinian director Santiago Loza's Extrano which won a Tiger Award at ...
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French indie banks on next generation festival auteurs
Independent French production label Aeternam Films unveiled a raft of art-house pictures produced by some of the world's edgiest talents.The company, headed by Francesca Feder, will co-produce The Moon Also Rises, the next picture by Lin Cheng-Sheng, whose Robinson's Crusoe appeared in Cannes competition last week. The drama focuses on ...
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Sandrew Metronome grabs Arcand's Barbarians
Nordic major Sandrew Metronome, which had an all new acquisition team in Cannes, grabbed Denys Arcand's double award-winning Les Invasions Barbares along with four other films at the festival. Sandrew Metronome already holds rights to the animated crowd-pleaser Belleville Rendez-Vous, which screened in the official selection outside competition, as well ...
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Imax, CAA extend project hunting agreement
Imax Corp. said it is extending its March 2002 agreement with CAA. The large-format leader retained the talent agency to assist in securing major studio pictures for re-engineering as large-format product and attracting A-list talent to appear in Imax original productions. The company says CAA was integral in landing Star ...
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Nicolas Roeg to shoot Adina
Legendary British film-maker Nicolas Roeg is attached to direct Adina, a philosophical horror exploring society's obsession with youth, sex and beauty. Producers are Andy Denemark and Bernadette Elliott for New York-based Burnt Danish Productions. Scheduled for production later this year, the film is written by Bernadette Elliott and Michael Lupetin. ...
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Buyers rush to acquire Grudge sequel
The Grudge 2, the sequel to Japanese hit horror The Grudge (Juon), was sold to France, Germany, Spain, Hong Kong, Korea and Thailand at Cannes this year, while over 18 other countries, including the US, are in negotiations. The Grudge was sold to over 30 territories, including the US where ...
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Spitfire addicted to Korean thriller remake
Guy East and NigelSinclair's Spitfire Pictures and Roy Lee and Doug Davison's VertigoEntertainment are teaming up to produce Addicted, a remake of KM Culture's Korean thriller Jungadok.Michael Petroni, whosecredits include Queen Of The Damned and The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, will adapt the screenplay from the original.Addicted is a ...
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Paillard says Cannes Market a success, 7% increase in participants
Jerome Paillard,executive director of the Cannes Market, reported a 7% increase of overallparticipants at this year's event with 7,880 compared to 7,368 in 2002.Notableincreases came from Spain, which accounted for a 26% rise in participants, theUK (21%), Germany and France (both 12%).Paillard saidthe number of overall buyers fell by 6% ...
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Bowling rolls past $50m worldwide gross
AllianceAtlantis Communications' Oscar winning documentary Bowling ForColumbine has passed$50m at the worldwide box office.MichaelMoore's controversial anti-gun diatribe has grossed more than $21m in theNorth American market, where it was distributed by United Artists, it ranks asone of the most successful documentaries of all time.Internationallythe records have tumbled. After Alliance Atlantis ...
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Fortissimo picks Zhang's Sunflower
Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up international rights to Sunflower, the next picture from Chinese director Zhang Yang, which Peter Loehr is producing through his Los Angeles and Beijing-based production company Ming Productions. China's Asian Union Film and Singapore's Raintree Pictures are co-financing the $1.9m film which is currently being ...
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Finding Nemo
Dir: Andrew Stanton. US. 2003. 100mins.Pixar Animation Studios has made some of the best American features during the last decade in the two Toy Story films and Monsters Inc; Finding Nemo, which is released in the US on May 30, the first time a Pixar feature has been released in ...
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Purple Butterfly
Dir: Lou Ye. China. 2003. 126minsAfter the Cannes Competition screening of Purple Butterfly, the long-awaited third film from Chinese director Lou Ye, some of the best critical minds of our generation - plus the present reviewer - stood outside the Salle Bunuel, arguing about the plot. Everyone had a slightly ...
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Montreal festival deprived of 'A-list' status
The Montreal World Film Festival (MWFF) has lost its prestigious Category 1 (colloquially referred to as "A-list") accreditation from the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF). The Paris-based body is effectively punishing MWFF director Serge Losique for changing the dates of the 2003 event without consultation. Montreal's new dates ...
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Mr Ibrahim goes to Japan
Powerful French sales and production operation ARP Selection sold Japanese rights on Mr Ibrahim to Gaga Communications. The film (aka Les Fleurs Du Koran, aka Momo) by French director Francois Dupeyron, stars Omar Sharif as an elderly Arab grocer who develops an enduring friendship with a 12 year-old Jewish boy."Gaga ...
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Mar del Plata retains its 'A' grade festival status
Argentina's leading Mar del Plata International Film Festival will retain its A grade festival status next year, the International Federation of Film Producers' Associations (FIAPF) agreed at a general assembly meeting in Cannes.The festival's status was challenged following the inclusion in competition at its latest edition (March 6-15) of local ...
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Kitchen Stories sells like hot cakes
Bent Hamer's kitchen-sink drama Kitchen Stories (Salmer Fra Kokkenet), which was one of the hits of the Cannes Directors' Fortnight section, has proved as popular with buyers as it has with critics and the public. Handled by France's Celluloid Dreams it was sold to SPO Inc (Japan), Cinelibre-Cineart (Benelux), Lady ...
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Paradiso enjoys buying spree
Paradiso Entertainment bought all Benelux rights to After The Sunset and Rush Hour 3. From the UK's Portman Entertainment it bought Intermission. From Odyssey Entertainment it picked up The Libertine. From Pandora it concluded a three picture deal including Casa De Los Babys, A Home At The End Of The ...
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Buyers battle for Battle Royale II
Japan's Toei sold Battle Royale II, the follow-up to the controversial 2000 dystopian thriller, to eight European territories at Cannes. In addition to sales to the three Scandinavian countries, the three Benelux countries and Iceland, Toei concluded deals for the UK, Germany, Russia, Hong Kong and Thailand. "All we had ...