All Screen articles in 4 February 2003 – Page 2
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Sichler steps into StudioCanal as Lenormand finally goes...
Frederic Sichler will take over as CEO of StudioCanal, European the film production and distribution division of Vivendi Universal, it was announced on Friday. He starts on Monday (Feb 3).The announcement follows weeks of speculation about a replacement for exiting president Richard Lenormand. Since late December, Lenormand has been rumoured ...
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Canal Plus bosses removed in latest executive cull
Following speculation last week, Canal Plus Group president Xavier Couture has reportedly been replaced at the head of the company by Bertrand Meheut. According to the reputable Le Monde newspaper, Couture was fired on Friday afternoon by Vivendi Universal chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou. His successor, Meheut, was previously managing director of ...
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Mondays In The Sun basks in Goya Awards
There was one clear victor in the battle for the top prizes at Spain's 17th annual Goya Awards ceremony held Saturday night in Madrid: Fernando Leon's Mondays In The Sun. Mondays (Los Lunes Al Sol) triumphed with five top awards including best film and director, new actor for Jose Angel ...
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Box office, admissions fall in Japan, despite increase in screens
Japanese admissions and box office fell slightly in 2002, despite a rise in the number of screens, according to figures compiled by the Motion Pictures Producers Association of Japan. Without a mega-hit like Spirited Away -- which broke all Japanese box office records in 2001, admissions dipped 1.5% year-on-year to ...
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Gangs takes top spot for Columbia TriStar in Mexico and Colombia
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) scored atable topping double whammy over the weekend with number one bows for GangsOf New York inMexico and Colombia. In Mexico the picture grossed an estimated $1.1m from 350prints - more than double the number two picture - while the smallerColombian market yielded $120,000 ...
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StudioCanal sales chief Weisbein flies to Senator International
Pierre Weisbein, the formerhead of sales at StudioCanal, has quit the diminishing French film operationand joined LA-based Senator International as executive vice president,international sales and distribution. Weisbein starts with Senator today.The Frenchman, who is basedin LA, will play a key role in evaluating projects for Senator's production andacquisition slate while ...
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Maxine Leonard gets evp marketing job at Myriad
Publicityveteran Maxine Leonard has joined Myriad Pictures to head up its marketing andPR operations in Los Angeles. As executive vice president, marketing andpublicity, Leonard will oversee the company's communication strategy in allareas as well as handle the international marketing and publicity campaigns forthe company's production and acquisitions. She reports to ...
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Reviews
Noi The Albino (Noi Albinoi)
Dir: Dagur Kari. Ice-Ger-UK-Den. 2003. 95mins.Noi The Albino, the debut feature of young Icelandic director Dagur Kari, is one of those films that seem absolutely of their own place and yet curiously cosmopolitan. With its characteristically Nordic comic melancholia and strikingly photographed scenery, it could not have been made anywhere ...
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Noi The Albino sweeps Goteborg
Icelandic newcomer Dagur Kari's Noi The Albino dominated the awards at the Göteborg film festival in Sweden.The closing ceremony for Sweden's 26th film festival in Göteborg was Icelandic newcomer Dagur Kari's night, when his feature debut Noi The Albino (Noi Albinoi) took top honours including the Nordic Film Award, ...
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The Recruit tops box office with $16.5m haul
Three new releases claimed the top three spots over the weekendwith Buena Vista/Spyglass' spy thriller The Recruit leading the pack with a $16.5mnumber one bow. In second was New Line's horror sequel Final Destination 2 on $16.2m while the bronze medal wentto DreamWorks' motorbike action-drama Biker Boyz on $10.1m. In ...
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Odeon Cinemas looks likely as Cinven cashes in
Odeon Cinemas, the UK's largest exhibition group, could soon change hands again, with private investment group, Cinven said to be readying a sale.According to reports in Sunday newspaper Business, Cinven is seeking $720m (£450m) for the operation. Odeon operates over 1,000 screens in some 160 sites and lost $11m (£7m) ...
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Three films share Tiger Awards at Rotterdam
Three films shared Tiger Awards at the 32nd International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands on Friday.Winning the three equal VPRO Tiger Awards were Santiago Loza's Extrano from Argentina, Park Chan-Ok's Jealousy Is My Middle Name (Jiltoo-Neun Na-E Him) from South Korea and Larisa Sadilova's With Love. Lilya (S Ljubov' ...
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NonStop takes international sales on The Slaughter Rule
Film sales agent NonStop Sales has acquired the rights to handle international sales for highly acclaimed The Slaughter Rule, which also marks the first non-Nordic film NonStop Sales will distribute. With international market launch at the European Film Market 2003 in Berlin, The Slaughter Rule, directed by twin brothers Alex ...
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Trust takes international sales on Home
Trust Film Sales has picked up international sales on Theo van Gogh's new feature project Home Is Where The Heart Is which was presented at the Cinemart co-production market at the Rotterdam International Film Festival this week.Budgeted at Euros 2.2m, the digitally shot psychogical thriller will be produced by Els ...
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Norway funds two new features from Maipo
The Norwegian Film Fund has greenlighted two new projects from Maipo Film, the outfit behind the local box office phenomenon Elling.Bent, Frank & Susie is based on The Jealous Hairdresser a short story by Norway's number one best-selling author Lars Saabye Christensen. Annette Sjursen's directing debut tells the story of ...
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HanWay promotes Ayesta to manager, int'l sales
HanWay, Jeremy Thomas and Thierry Wase-Bailey's sales company, has promoted Ana Ayesta to the newly-created position of manager, international sales.Ayesta will handle sales to Scandinavia, Switzerland and South Africa and have overall responsibility for South East Asia excluding to Korea. Reporting to Wase-Bailey, she already handles Spain, Latin America, Portugal, ...
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Berlinale awash with Talent
Festival directors know only too well that luck as well as judgement determines the strength or weakness of their competition programmes. The state of world cinema may vary enormously year by year - Cannes head Gilles Jacob has even admitted in the past that his programme has merely been the ...
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Berlinale awash with Talent
Festival directors know only too well that luck as well as judgement determines the strength or weakness of their competition programmes. The state of world cinema may vary enormously year by year - Cannes head Gilles Jacob has even admitted in the past that his programme has merely been the ...
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Russia spawns rival awards events
Russia's new Academy of Film Art founded by director Nikita Mikhalkov has rolled out the first ever edition of its new awards for cinema excellence the Golden Eagles. But the awards which are being touted as Russia's answer to the Oscars have sparked a major controversy as they are competing ...
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Pathe plays Hopscotch with the Australians
Australian distributor Hopscotch has teamed up with London-based production, distribution and sales outfit Pathe to co-develop Australian films. Those that get made are likely to be distributed by Hopscotch in Australia, and by Pathe in the UK and France. Pathe will also handle international sales."Everyone sits around and talks about ...