All Screen articles in 30 March 2003 – Page 3

  • News

    Tribeca Film Festival unveils international lineup for second event

    2003-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The theme of culturalexploration is writ large over this year's second Tribeca Film Festival, whichfeatures 11 world premieres and three competition strands in its second editionrunning May 3-11.Announcing the line-up today(Mar 25), founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal and executive directorPeter Scarlet said the feature-length competitive sections included 41 ...

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    Fanfan La Tulipe to open this year's Cannes Film Festival

    2003-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The Cannes Film Festivalhas set Fanfan La Tulipeas the opening film for this year's event. The film is a remake ofChristian-Jaque's 1952 swashbuckler.Directed by Gerard Krawczykwho has enjoyed immense success with the last two Taxi films, Fanfan stars Vincent Perez and PenelopeCruz. The film will be released in France on ...

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    Oscar winners get box-office boost

    2003-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Following their Oscar wins, at least three films are to be re-released internationally: Spirited Away goes out on 800 screens in the US; The Pianist goes out on 60 screens in Italy and Nowhere In Africa gets a 100-screen re-release in Germany.In Italy, The Pianist, which was first released in ...

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    Beta sells Manitou's Shoe to Japan

    2003-03-26T00:00:00Z

    German film and TV sales player Beta Film used MIP-TV to complete another deal on its hit comedy Manitou's Shoe (Der Schuh Des Manitou). The film was sold in an all rights deal to SPO for Japan.'We tend not to sell our films in package deals and instead handle and ...

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    Altavista/NuVision scales down production, distribution

    2003-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Hard times and a string of box office disappointments has led topMexican production house Altavista Films (producer of Amores Perros) and sister regional distributioncompany NuVision to streamline operations. CEO Monica Lozano who reports toFederico Gonzalez Compean, the head of their parent company Estudio MexicoFilms, is now in charge of both ...

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    TV-Loonland goes for Pettson & Findus hat-trick

    2003-03-25T04:05:00Z

    TV-Loonland, the German TV outfit that controls UK theatrical distributor Metrodome, is ramping up production of the third film in its successful Pettson & Findus children's franchise.The animated film, which goes into production in the next three months, is set to be directed by Torbjorn Janssen, who has co-written the ...

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    Shanghai Media and Entertainment Group sets out its stall

    2003-03-25T04:05:00Z

    The changing face of Chinese media is one that looks increasingly familiar to Western eyes. But it will be some time before it is one that is fully open to outside investors.That was the message yesterday from Li Ruigang, the youthful president and CEO of the newly amalgamated Shanghai Media ...

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    Western productions head to the east

    2003-03-25T04:05:00Z

    With fully-booked studios in Prague, Cold Mountain in Romania, and Hungary and Russia making steps to woo foreign investment, Eastern Europe is becoming an increasingly desirable location.Foreign filmmaking in Prague is going strong, despite fears of a post-boom hangover following the heady days of 2001, when three US studio shoots ...

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    Warner deal helps TPS' share of kids market

    2003-03-25T04:05:00Z

    TPS, the French satellite broadcaster controlled by TF1, yesterday launched three new children's channels.TPS spokesman, Guillaume de Posch said that it had planned to launch two channels under its own steam, but that the recent output deal with Warner Bros. (see Screendaily) permitted it to launch a third, effectively allowing ...

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    UK's per-screen revenue points to cinema growth potential

    2003-03-25T04:05:00Z

    UK revenue per screen is the best in the world but there is still room for admissions growth.Speaking at the UK Cinemas Conference in London last week, leading industry consultant Simon Rumbold dismissed claims that the exhibition market in the UK was over-screened and on the verge of a meltdown. ...

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    Foreign-language Oscar contenders could be the biggest winners

    2003-03-25T04:05:00Z

    Recognition for this year's best foreign-language Oscar contenders will help increase market share for indigenous films and boost government support for local industries. That, at least, was the hope expressed by makers of three of the nominated foreign-language films at a packed public symposium in Los Angeles on the eve ...

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    Austrian, Slovenian industries get together at Diagonale fest

    2003-03-25T04:05:00Z

    Austrian filmmakers will meet their counterparts from neighbouring Slovenia for the first time, at an industry get-together on March 28 during the Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema, which started yesterday.While representatives from the Austrian Film Instiute (OFI), Slovenian Film Fund and broadcasters ORF and RTV-Slovenija will discuss the ...

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    Asian Pictures Int'l announces first Bollywood projects

    2003-03-25T04:05:00Z

    London-based Asian Pictures International has announced its first Bollywood productions.Producer Sevy Ali told Screendaily.com, "the trend in Bollywood is to make international quality co-productions and we are already working with Troika Productions of Mumbai for our first two films". The first film, titled White Noise is to be directed by ...

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    The Quiet American wins at Valenciennes

    2003-03-25T04:05:00Z

    France's Valenciennes Action and Adventure Film Festival handed its top prize to Phillip Noyce's The Quiet American on Sunday night. Noyce, who has been enjoying critical praise for his efforts on last year's Rabbit Proof Fence and The Quiet American, also took the best director statue for the film based ...

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    Global ticket prices keeping ahead of inflation

    2003-03-25T04:05:00Z

    Ticket prices are rising faster than inflation in most of the major cinema markets around the world - with the notable exception of Japan.Japan still has the most expensive tickets in the world, with an average price of Euros 9.48 ($10.47). However, prices have been either stagnant or falling for ...

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    MIP-TV celebrates muted 40th anniversary

    2003-03-25T04:05:00Z

    MIP-TV, the television programmes market, celebrated its 40th anniversary yesterday with Champagne and a towering cake in front of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. But inside the Palais and the new Riviera complex the market was wearing a very gap-toothed smile. Corridor traffic was down on previous events and ...

  • Reviews

    Yossi And Jagger

    2003-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Dir Eytan Fox. Israel. 64mins.Just a sketch, but highly perceptive and remarkably sensitive one at that, this compact gay love story, set in a remote Israeli military outpost on the Lebanese border, has already gone down a storm at home. Produced for cable television, shot in DV and first unveiled ...

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    DVD market overtaking VHS

    2003-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Representing more than 50% of total European video sales, 2002's European DVD sales are estimated to be 20% ahead of 2001 at some Euros 11bn, according to the International Video Federation.In addition, the number of DVD players doubled last year, going from 13.5 million in 2001 to approximately 28 million ...

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    Dans Ma Peau gets into the US via Wellspring

    2003-03-25T00:00:00Z

    New York-based independentWellspring has acquired US rights to Dans Ma Peau, the controversial directorial debut of Marina deVan which world premiered at last year's San Sebastian Film Festival.De Van, who co-wrote 8Women and Under The Sand with Francois Ozon and starred in his films Sitcom and See The Sea, also ...

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    Just Married celebrates at the top over a slow weekend

    2003-03-25T00:00:00Z

    A lacklustre weekend at the UK box office saw new release Just Married take over the top spot from two week leader and fellow romantic comedy Maid In Manhattan.The top 15 titles in the UK and Ireland tallied just $7.8m (£5m) between them, a 16% drop on last weekend, which ...