All Screen articles in 3 June 2003 – Page 3
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Bruce Almighty
Dir: Tom Shadyac. US. 2003. 102minsThe triumvirate of actor Jim Carrey, director Tom Shadyac and screenwriter Steve Oedekerk struck box office gold with their first film together, 1994's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Ever since they have worked together in various combinations (for example Shadyac and Carrey with Liar, Liar). Finally ...
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Spain's Sogepaq announces 'best Cannes in years'
Calling Cannes its "best market in years," Spanish sales house Sogepaq announced a slew of deals, including local hits Mondays In The Sun and Mortadelo & Filemon - The Big Adventure.Fernando Leon's award-winning Mondays was sold to Winchester Entertainment for the UK and Ireland. The film, Spain's official nomination to ...
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MGM, Rogers sign VOD pact
MGM Home Entertainment and Rogers Cable have signed an agreement that will see some of the studio's pictures on the Canadian cable company's VOD service. Rogers says it's the first Canadian company to sign a VOD content agreement with a Hollywood major. Rogers and competitors Calgary-based Shaw Cable and Carleton-based ...
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Ozon's Swimming Pool has a splashy start
Two of this year's high-profile Cannes competitors, Francois Ozon's Swimming Pool and Lars Von Trier's Dogville, may have come away lacking awards but both have shown they don't lack audiences as they launched in multiple French-speaking territories last weekend.Swimming Pool dived into second place in France where the thriller sold ...
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Spain's youth-themed Jove fest attracts contenders from 30 countries
Eight features and 70 short films from more than 30 countries will face off in the two parallel competition sections of next month's 18th annual Cinema Jove Film Festival (June 14-21).The feature titles chosen from 47 entries to this youth-oriented festival in Valencia, Spain all mark their premieres in Spain. ...
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Osama is first title for five-strong buying alliance
Osama, the first Afghan film to be made since the fall of the Taliban, was jointly acquired by five European distributors which last year formed a loose buying alliance.The currently unnamed company is owned by Lucky Red of Italy, Frenetic Films of Switzerland, Haut Et Court of France, Cineart of ...
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Euro film bodies lobby Commission for more ambitious vision
European film councils this week called on the European Commission to adopt a more ambitious vision for the European film industry and to include it in the new EU constitution currently being considered by member states.At a meeting of European culture ministers in Greece, the 16 state-funded film councils (see ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...