All Screen articles in 4 July 2003 – Page 3
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Korean multiplex breaks single-day ticket sales record
A 16-screen multiplex run by South Korea's Megabox Cineplex has broken a local one-day admissions record, with the venue selling a total of 31,372 tickets on Saturday June 28. Believing this to also be a new world record, the company intends to submit a formal application to the Guinness ...
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Spain's BocaBoca to double feature output
Spanish producer BocaBoca is planning to more than double its recent feature film output with an ambitious 2003-2004 slate and a new five-year production plan. Whereas in the last two years the company has produced just two films - well-received thriller Nos Miran, still going strong on the genre festival ...
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Birch Tree Meadow wins Munich's Bernhard Wicki prize
Marceline Loridan-Ivens has been awarded the Euros 25,000 "Bernhard Wicki Film Prize - The Bridge 2003" for her exploration of her own and Germany's past in La Petite Prairie Aux Bouleaux (A Birch Tree Meadow) at a gala ceremony during this week's Munich Film Festival. The film's lead actress Anouk ...
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Canada's Cineplex moves booking role to Los Angeles
Canadian distribution and exhibition veteran Tony Cianciotta is leaving Cineplex Odeon Canada (COC), where he held the position senior vp of film, the top booking job at Canada's second-largest exhibitor. One of the most respected players in the North American industry, Cianciotta told Screen International that the company had offered ...
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Andie MacDowell signs on for The Last Sign
Despite the disappointing results of her last European effort, 2002's Ginostra, Andie MacDowell has once again hooked up with a French producer.Claude Carrere, whose credits include cult hit Nid De Guepes and recent release Corps A Corps, will produce MacDowell in The Last Sign. Director Douglas Law began shooting early ...
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French actors' strike threatens festivals
Following May's nationwide disruptions in France, which saw strikes paralyse everything from schools to trains to the postal service, the French protest bandwagon is rolling again this month with actors and technicians now at the forefront.Industry workers are protesting a proposed cut in unemployment benefits that would see them move ...
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Indian director joins with US producer for Chess mystery Move 5
Mumbai-based Hindi Film Director Vidhu Vinod Chopra and his company Vinod Chopra Productions have entered into an agreement with Los Angeles-based Bobby Newmyer and Jeff Silver of Outlaw Productions to produce a Hollywood English-language film, Move 5.Move 5 is about two men playing a game of chess, in which one ...
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T3's first day gross of $16.5m sends Intermedia shares soaring
Having climbed 19% lastweek, Intermedia shares had rocketed a further 18% by press time yesterday asopening figures for Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines came in. The film, which grossed $4m on Tuesdaynight previews, took $12.5m on its first full day on release yesterday throughWarner Bros, bringing its first day ...
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Eila
Dir. Jarmo Lampela. Finland. 2003. 94minsA neatly packaged but pretty slender melodrama combining social consciousness and parental guilt, Jarmo Lampela's new picture would have been more comfortable in a family TV slot than in the competition of a film festival. Though it attempts to echo the dry, deadpan approach of ...
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De Jong sails Kameleon to Dutch success
Director Steven de Jong's new film, The Skippers Of The Kameleon (De Schippers Van De Kameleon) swept into Dutch cinemas last weekend with a $414,743 (Euros 362,900) opening gross.The Dutch-language film, released by Independent Film with Bridge Entertainment, sold 84,000 tickets in its first five days, setting an opening weekend ...
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GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZ Prod Lists - July 4 2003
AUSTRIA/GERMANY & SWITZERLAND - July 4AUSTRIAPRE-PRODUCTIONIM JAHR DES PFERDES (Wildart Film) Backers: Filmfonds Wien, BKA, Land Upper Austria. Documentary. Story of the Asian community in Vienna and the Khmer in Helsinki and Cambodia. Prod: Vincent Lucassen. Dir/scr: Ebba Sinzinger. DoP: Wolfgang Thaler. Ed: Karina Ressler. Shooting from summer 2003 in ...
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Highsmith's White On White starts UK shoot
Shooting started in the UK this week on White On White, the latest outing of Patricia Highsmith's anti-hero Ripley, produced and backed by German fund Cinerenta. Lakeshore Entertainment is handling international distribution.Based on Highsmith's novel Ripley Underground, the protagonist Tom Blessing - AKA Ripley - will be played by Barry ...
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Wiedemann to head new Danish talent development fund
Editor turned scriptwriter turned film commissioner, Vinca Wiedemann, has been appointed artistic director of the new $3.9m Talent Development Fund at the Danish Film Institute (DFI). The new fund has been established by public broadcasters DR, TV2/Danmark and the Film Institute as part of the four-year media agreement. Its starts ...
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Vienna International Film Festival courts controversy
The seeds for a potentially controversial Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale, October 17-29) have been sown with the inclusion of two special programmes - one dedicated to US actor-director Vincent Gallo and the second to Austrian filmmaking as a riposte to Austria's Secretary of State for the Arts Franz Morak.The ...
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Spanish digital merger concluded
Spain's Sogecable and Via Digital have completed the merger of their pay TV platforms, joined in new unit Digital+, with Wednesday's integration of Telefonica-backed Via Digital into Grupo Prisa and Groupe Canal+ -backed Sogecable. Digital+, the merged offspring of Canal Satelite Digital (CSD) and Via Digital, will be launched at ...
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Hochbetrieb wins FFA Short Tiger award
Hochbetrieb by Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FBW) student Andreas Krein has won this year's Euros 25,000 Short Tiger award sponsored by the German Federal Film Board (FFA) for students at German film schools.The other five nominees - including two fellow FBW students, Sven Martin (Ritterschlag) and Anna Matysik (Post Card), Oliver Held ...
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France increases production aid to encourage export
The French national cinema centre (CNC) has announced the establishment of a new form of aid to filmmakers based on export potential.L'IFCIC, the institute for film and cultural industry financing, which acts as a guarantor for loans made to filmmakers - most notably behind film finance structure Coficine - will ...
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South Africa to host second '3 Continents' film festival
South Africa will host the second 3 Continents Film Festival this September, showcasing recent documentary and feature-length films from Latin America, Africa and Asia that explore human rights issues. The 3 Continents Film Festival is an initiative of Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), Southern African Communications for Development (SACOD) and ...
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Internationalmedia stock gets boost from T3 expectations
Shares in IM Internationalmedia, Intermedia's corporate parent, rose 19% this week ahead of the US release yesterday of the company's high stakes behemoth, Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines.Shares in the US-German film operation were at Euros 1.61 at press time late yesterday afternoon, 1.23% down from Tuesday's close of ...
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Rywin teams with Atlantic Alliance for Holocaust drama
AtlanticAlliance Pictures, a recently formed joint venture between two US producers anda third in the UK, has teamed up with Lew Rywin and his Heritage Films inPoland to produce its first feature Love Is A Survivor.Heritagecollaborated with both Steven Spielberg on Schindler's List and with Roman Polanski on ThePianist, although ...
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