All Screen articles in 4 August 2003 – Page 4
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Warner Bros strikes Russian TV output deal
Warner Brothers International Television Distribution has concluded a landmark deal with three Russian television networks which have agreed to the joint purchase of a package of the studio's top films. The deal was concluded by Russian channels NTV, CTC and Russia (RTR) who will take turns airing the package which ...
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Stuttgart regional body awards film funding
New films by Didi Danquart, Michael Hofmann and Simon Aeby are among the projects supported with a total of Euros 3.1m by the Stuttgart-based regional body MFG Baden-Wurttemberg in its latest round of funding.Euros 500,000 production support was granted for Sophieee!!! filmmaker Hofmann's "impossible love story" Eden, which will be ...
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Cowgirl lines-up Jewish circus artiste co-production
Mark Schlichter and Nicole Kellerhals' Berlin-based production outfit Cowgirl Pictures has acquired the film rights to the journalist Ingeborg Prior's book Der Clown Und Die Zirkusreiterin for Schlichter to direct in summer 2004.Currently under the working title of Circus Girl (Das Leichte Maedchen), the Euros 6m project is being structured ...
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Cinecitta lines up Soderbergh, Anderson shoots
Rome's Cinecitta studios are continuing to attract a slew of Hollywood productions, the latest of which are Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic, and Steven Soderbergh Ocean's Twelve.The Royal Tenenbaums director Wes Anderson's new project, The Life Acquatic, is a comedy adventure that centres around an oceanographer, who was inspired by ...
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Venice's last-minute Lido line-up
Venice has unveiled its competition line-up for the festival's 60th edition (Aug 27-Sep 6), including widely anticipated films from Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Michael Winterbottom, Takeshi Kitano, Christopher Hampton and Bruno Dumont - although most of the hotly awaited US titles will screen out of competition"It was a particularly difficult year," ...
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Danny Deckchair
Dir: Jeff Balsmeyer. Australia. 2003. 100mins.Welsh actor Rhys Ifans created the abiding comic movie image of 1999 as Spike in Roger Michell's Notting Hill: the shaggy, skinny flatmate-from-Hell merrily posed in his underpants for photographers outside Hugh Grant's London pad. Unpredictably Ifans emerges here as a glamorously handsome Australian ...
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Copenhagen fest completes jury
The first edition of the Copenhagen International Film Festival (Aug 13-20) has filled the remaining two seats of its five man jury, who will be presided over by Theo Angelopoulos. Joining Denmark's Bille August and Sweden's Jan Troell are German writer-director Jutta Brückner and Belgian actress-turned filmmaker Marion Hänsel. Together ...
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Full competition line-up
Venezia 60 - In CompetitionBuongiorno, Notte dir Marco Bellocchio,Segreti Di Stato, dir Paolo Benvenuti,Le Cerf-Volant, dir Randa Chahal Sabbag, Raja, dir Jacques Doillon,Twentynine Palms, dir Bruno Dumont,Alila, dir Amos Gitai, 21 Grams, dir Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Imagining Argentina, dir Christopher Hampton, A Good Lawyer's Wife (Baram-Nan Gajok), dir Im Sangsoo, ...
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Venice: full competition line-up
Venezia 60 - In CompetitionBuongiorno, Notte dir Marco Bellocchio,Segreti Di Stato, dir Paolo Benvenuti,Le Cerf-Volant, dir Randa Chahal Sabbag, Raja, dir Jacques Doillon,Twentynine Palms, dir Bruno Dumont,Alila, dir Amos Gitai, 21 Grams, dir Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Imagining Argentina, dir Christopher Hampton, A Good Lawyer's Wife (Baram-Nan Gajok), dir Im Sangsoo, ...
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Campion's Cut to premiere at Toronto
Jane Campion's In The Cut will makes its world premiere at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival along with North American premieres of Michael Winterbottom's Code 46 and Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men. The latter two films are premiering at Venice. Toronto will present all three films at Gala screenings.In The ...
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Toronto mega-studio plans are back on track
Toronto's on-again, off-again bid to build astate-of-the-art purpose-built studio on its disused port area is back on track.Three months after the last Portlands deal fell apart,the city's corporate proxy, Toronto Economic Development Corp. (TEDCO), hasannounced a new Request for Expressions of Interest (RFI) toward theconstruction of a facility up to ...
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Austrian Film Institute backs five co-productions
Five international co-productions are among the projects awarded over Euros 2m in production support from the Austrian Film Institute (OFI) in its latest round of funding.Production backing was allocated to Jessica Hausner's thriller Hotel, to be co-produced by Coop99 Filmproduktion with Germany's Essential Filmproduktion; Wolfram Paulus's coming of age tale ...
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Girl band musical storms Argentinian box office
A musical starring local all-girl band Bandana has become this year's box office sensation in Argentina. Bandana: Vivir Intentando has attracted 778,000 admissions, posting a per screen average of 30,000. Co producers Patagonik Film Group and RGB Productions are hoping to reach the one million mark in a few weeks. ...
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American Wedding
Dir: Jesse Dylan. US. 2003. 96mins.The enthusiastic raunchiness of its gags aside, the third instalment of the American Pie franchise feels like the return of a favourite TV sitcom: the characters are enjoyably familiar and while the set up has changed a little the comedy still has energy to spare. ...
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UK's Optimum acquires Thousand Months, Since Otar Left
Optimum Releasing have acquired UK rights to A Thousand Months and Since Otar Left from Fortissimo and Celluloid Dreams respectively. Faouzi Bensaidi's A Thousand Months, selected for Un Certain Regard at this year's Cannes Film Festival, tells the story of Amina and her son Mehdi who live in the heart ...
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Veronica Guerin gains ground in Ireland
Joel Schumacher's Veronica Guerin has crossed the Euros 2m mark in Ireland for distributor Buena Vista International.Ireland marks the first phase of BVI's international roll out for the film, which goes on to launch in the UK this weekend. Helped by poor weather, Veronica Guerin took an extraordinary Euros 99,000 ...
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Erland Josephson gets tribute programme at Montreal
Veteran Swedishactor Erland Josephson will be the subject of a tribute at the 2003 MontrealWorld Film Festival. The 80-year-old star of stage and screen, best known forhis long collaboration with compatriot Ingmar Bergman, will be presented withthe Special Prize of the Americas for career achievement. A selection ofhis films will ...
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Hong Kong indies enjoy share surge
The Hong Kong stock market is anticipating boom times for local companies following the signing of the recent free-trade agreement between the once freewheeling territory and mainland China.Shares of several Hong Kong film companies have climbed since the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) was unveiled at the beginning of the ...
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Mueller unveils debut Downtown slate
Marco Mueller's new production company, Downtown Pictures, has unveiled a slate of 12 pictures, including the directorial debut of Italian actress Chiara Caselli and the first European movie by Hong Kong filmmaker Kirk Wong.Downtown's first completed film is Turkish-Cypriot picture Fango (Mud) by Dervish Zaim. A satire about nationalism in ...
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Hamori teams with Brightlight for five films
AndrasHamori's LA-based H2O Motion Pictures is teaming with Vancouver-basedBrightlight Pictures in a $50m, five-picture international coproduction slateto be filmed over the next three years. The slateincludes a starring role for Samuel L. Jackson and long-gestating project WhiteClouds, the lastscreenplay of late British dramatist Dennis Potter, which moved from the BBC ...