All Screen articles in 4 February 2003 – Page 5
-
News
Columbia TriStar ends nine-year old Nordisk deal
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment has ended its nine-year pact with Scandinavian media giant Egmont's subsidiary Nordisk Film.Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment has made a new deal to distribute home entertainment in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden with Universal Pictures Japan which also includes a number of other territories, including the Nordic ...
-
News
Market leader prepares to sell Norwegian cinema circuit
Oslo City Council has started negotiations with both foreign and local bidders interested in acquiring 66% of its stake in the municipally-owned Oslo Cinemas. After 77 years as a public service, the sale of Norway's largest exhibitor Oslo Cinemas, which controls 25% of the country's cinema market, is being closely ...
-
News
Mexican Sex blockbuster gets Brazilian treatment
Principal photography of the Brazilian version of Mexican blockbuster Sex, Shame And Tears (Sexo, Pudor Y Lagrimas) kicks off February 1st in Rio de Janeiro The movie boasts a stellar cast led by Murilo Benicio whose credits include Sandra Werneck's Possible Loves and Fina Torres' Woman On Top opposite ...
-
News
Mini-studio planned for Barcelona
Six Catalan media firms have merged to create a single holding company with plans to forge a new mini-studio in Barcelona.The partners are further understood to be negotiating an agreement with a major European group which could facilitate international distribution of the as-yet unnamed holding's content.Distribution is the least-developed business ...
-
News
Peter O'Toole gets honorary Oscar
Peter O'Toole will receive an honorary Oscar at the75th Academy Awards on Mar 23. The veteran actor, who has been nominated seventimes for a statuette, was chosen by the board of governors of the Academy OfMotion Picture Arts And Sciences in recognition of his 'exceptionaldistinction in the making of motion ...
-
News
Fox opens Hero at top spot in Thailand, Malaysia
Zhang Yimou'sChinese epic Herocontinued its powerful run in the Asian markets over the weekend, openingnumber one for Fox International in Thailand and Malaysia. In Thailand thepicture grossed $479,000 from 107 screens, while Malaysia yielded $192,000 from48. The 10-day cumulative score for the two markets plus Taiwan and Singaporenow stands at ...
-
News
Miele, Dudley-Smith promoted at Warner Bros Int'l TV
In a raft ofpromotions at Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD), RonaldW Miele has become executive vice president of business affairs, operations andgeneral counsel and Malcolm Dudley-Smith moves up to executive vice presidentof sales and business development. In addition, Renee I Wolf becomes seniorvice president of business affairs and deputy ...
-
News
BAFTA/LA moves tea party to Golden Globe weekend
BAFTA/LA, which hosted its9th Annual Tea Party on Jan 18, has positioned the influential event as ayearly fixture to take place on the Saturday before the Golden Globes.Executives at the UK film and television body's LA affiliate were buoyedby the turn-out at the recent party in Los Angeles, which attracted ...
-
News
US Editors Award nominations include Hours, Chicago
This season's awardsfavourites Chicago, The Hours and Gangs Of New York have all been nominated in the 2003 American CinemaEditors (ACE) Eddie Awards, the third oldest Hollywood awards after the Oscarsand the Golden Globes. The winners will beannounced at ACE's 53rd annual gala in Beverly Hills on Feb 23. ...
-
News
Italy's Piero Tosi gets inaugural Costume Designers award
The veteran costume designerPiero Tosi, who has been nominated five times for an Oscar, will receive theinaugural President's Award at the fifth annual Costume Designers Guild(CDG) Awards in Los Angeles on Mar 16. Tosi started out at the age of 22 onLuchino Visconti's Bellissimaand his creations have graced such classic ...
-
News
Ammer takes control of international marketing at Sony
Geoffrey Ammer has beennamed president of worldwide marketing for the Columbia TriStar Motion PictureGroup with responsibility for the studio's marketing, publicity andpromotional divisions. He will continue to report to Sony Pictures Entertainment(SPE) vice chairman Jeff Blake, who made the announcement today (Jan 27). Aveteran marketing executive, Ammer joined the company ...
-
News
255 market premieres scheduled for AFM next month
The 23rd annualAmerican Film Market (Feb 19 to 26) will screen 402 pictures next month, whentitles such as Portman Films' comedy The Actors, starring Michael Caine and MirandaRichardson, and Overseas Film Group's fantasy Blizzard, starring Brenda Blethyn, ChristopherPlummer and Whoopi Goldberg, will be among the 255 scheduled market premieres.This year ...
-
News
Harry Potter 2 is number three of all time
With anestimated international gross of $568.2m, Harry Potter And The Chamber OfSecrets has overtaken JurassicPark as the thirdhighest grossing international release of all time. The family sequel took$7.1m over the weekend and just over one million admissions from 4,000 screensin 53 territories, according to studio estimates. The new total puts ...
-
News
The War Is Over triumphs at FIPA
Italy's RAI TV series The War Is Over (La Guerra E Finita) won five golden awards and one special mention, to wind up as the main victor at this year's FIPA (Festival International de Productions Audiovisuelles) in Biarritz, France. Other winners includde German drama Mein Vater by Andreas Kleinert, Israeli ...
-
News
Nine Matrix short films kick off with Osiris
The Final Flight Of The Osiris, Warner Bros and Village RoadshowPictures' first in a series of nine short films envisioned by The Matrix directors Larry and Andy Wachowski, willaccompany the worldwide theatrical release of Warner Bros' supernatural thrillerDreamcatcher on Mar21. Like its counterparts in the nine-film set dubbed The Animatrix, ...
-
Reviews
Fear X
Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn. Denmark-UK. 2002. 91mins.Abandoning the mean streets of the Copenhagen underworld to make his first American-set feature film, Nicolas Winding Refn has crafted an intensely eerie psycho-drama that plays unnerving mind-games with the audience right through to its ambiguous and rather abrupt end. Evoking at times David ...
-
News
Schmidt points to flying start for Entertainment
Having narrowly missed out on being the top performing UK distributor of 2002 to 20th Century Fox, Entertainment Film Distributors is off to a flying start in 2003.The company still holds two top five positions with The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers - placed third this week with ...
-
News
Holocaust producer receives death threats
Veteran producer Artur 'Atze' Brauner has received death threats ahead of the special screening of his Holocaust drama Babij Yar at this year's Berlinale.84-year-old Brauner revealed that he had received anonymous telephone calls and letters in the past few weeks threatening that he would not live to see the film's ...
-
News
Ingenious taps Perry for co-productions
Simon Perry, the former head of semi-private finance house British Screen Finance, has been appointed director of co-productions at major UK tax financier Ingenious Media.Perry told Screen International: "My role will not just be about feeding the sale and leaseback operations, but more involve bringing and managing projects that can ...
-
News
Brown extends tenure at SPAA
Geoff Brown has been signed to a long-term contact as executive director of the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA). He took on the job about 10 months ago when predecessor Joanne Yates departed after less than six months, but he has been associated with the organisation for much longer ...