All Screen articles in 4 May 2001 – Page 3

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    Universal enters new Era in Hong Kong

    2001-04-30T15:30:00Z

    Era Home Entertainment has struck an exclusive deal with Universal Pictures to handle all the studio's home video distribution in Hong Kong.The two year agreement strengthens Era's position as the largest video distributor of foreign movies in Hong Kong, with a market share of one third in the territory. The ...

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    Screen contacts @ Cannes 2001

    2001-04-30T15:09:00Z

    OFFICE - CANNESHOTEL CARLTONGalerie du CarltonLa Croisette06400 CannesFRANCEAdvertisingEditorial(: 04 93 99 81 44(: 04 93 99 81 34(: 04 93 99 81 45(: 04 93 99 81 35(: 04 93 99 81 46(: 04 93 99 81 36Fx: 04 93 99 81 40(: 04 93 99 81 37 Fx: ...

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    Critics Week line-up

    2001-04-30T12:59:00Z

    Critics Week Competitive sections line-upFeature filmsUnder The Moonlight (Zir - E Nour-E Mah) Dir: Reza Mir-Karimi (Iran) (Int; Sales: Farabi Cinema Foundation)La Femme Qui Boit Dir: Bernard Emond (Canada) (Int'l sales: Lions Gate)Le Pornographe Dir: Bertrand Bonello (France) (Int'l sales: Mercure)Unloved Dir: Kunitoshi Manda (Japan) (Producer: ...

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    Un Certain Regard line-up

    2001-04-30T12:58:00Z

    UN CERTAIN REGARDOpening film: R' Xmas Abel Ferrara (Int'l sales: Wild Bunch)The Chimp (Maimal) Aktan Abdykalykov (Int'l sales: Wild Bunch)La Libertad Lisandro Alonso (Int'l sales: TVOR)Domani Francesca Archibugi (Int'l sales: IntraMovies)Ganhar A Vida Joao Canigo (Int'l sales: Gemini Films)No Such Thing Hal Hartley (Int'l sales: ...

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    Directors Fortnight line-up

    2001-04-30T12:57:00Z

    2001 Directors Fortnight Feature FilmsSlogans Gjergj Xhuvani (Albania/France) (Int'l sales: Celluloid Dreams)Pauline & Paulette Lieven Debrauwer (Belgium) (Int'l sales: TF1 International)The Orphan Of Anyang Wang Chao (China) Big Bad Love Arliss Howard (US) Chelsea Walls Ethan Hawke (US) (Int'l sales: Cinetic)The Deep End ...

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    Directors and Critics comment

    2001-04-30T12:56:00Z

    Directors' Fortnight, Critics' Week Comment: Experimentation and discovery to the foreDirectors' FortnightMarie-Pierre Macia in her second year as chief selector of the Directors' Fortnight (La Quinzaine Des Realisateurs) has picked an eclectic mixture with very few well-known directors. The biggest names are Amos Kollek, in Cannes last year with Fast ...

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    Competition and special screenings line-up

    2001-04-30T12:54:00Z

    2001 CANNES COMPETITIONFeature FilmsOpening film (in competition): Moulin Rouge Baz Luhrmann (Dist: 20th Fox)Desert Moon Shinji Aoyama (Int'l sales: Celluloid Dreams)Mulholland Drive David Lynch (Int'l sales: StudioCanal)The Man Who Wasn't There Joel Cohen (Int'l sales: Good Machine International)Shrek Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson (Dist: DreamWorks SKG)L'Eloge De ...

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    Cannes Market Comment

    2001-04-30T12:53:00Z

    Blurring the line between art and commerceIt was exactly forty years ago that the Cannes Film Festival finallyrecognised that cinematic art could not exist in an economic vacuum bydeciding to formalise a trading venue for buying and selling filmdistribution rights across the world.The Marche or Cannes Market, as this rather ...

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    Crouching Tiger takes eight at HK Film Awards

    2001-04-30T06:37:00Z

    Hong Kong was in the mood for action as Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was the big winner at Sunday night's 20th Hong Kong Film Awards with eight statues, including best film and best director.Wong Kar-wai's 1960s love story In The Mood For Love took five awards, nabbing ...

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    Kaaterskill, Jessica Stein win at LA Film Fest

    2001-04-30T06:17:00Z

    Kaaterskill Falls and Kissing Jessica Stein were the two key prizewinners at yesterdays awards ceremony closing this year's revamped Independent Feature Project/West Los Angeles Film Festival. The event, which kicked off with the world premiere of Ed Burns' Sidewalks Of New York on Friday April 20, screened 51 feature films ...

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    Seattle Film Fest to world premiere

    2001-04-30T06:15:00Z

    21 feature films will receive their world premieres at this year's Seattle International Film Festival including the controversial O recently sold by Miramax Films to Lions Gate Films because of its scenes of shooting in schools. Also unspooling in Seattle will be new films from Alan Rudolph (Investigating Sex), Terry ...

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    CTS creates global home entertainment mktg group

    2001-04-30T06:04:00Z

    Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (CTHE) has created a worldwide marketing group under president Benjamin S Feingold reinforcing the global nature of the business and reflecting Sony Pictures' unified domestic and international theatrical organisation under Jeff Blake.Three senior executives have been promoted within CTHE. Robin Russell, formerly executive vice president, has ...

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    Neighbor's Dog, Made In France win Avignon/NY Fest

    2001-04-30T05:59:00Z

    How To Kill Your Neighbour's Dog starring Kenneth Branagh and Robin Wright Penn was named Best American Feature and Zakia and Ahmed Boucheala's Made In France was Best French Feature at the seventh annual Avignon/New York Film Festival last week.11 new French and seven new US features were screened at ...

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    Weinstein considers directing Warsaw ghetto epic

    2001-04-30T05:03:00Z

    Harvey Weinstein,co-chairman of Miramax Films, says he is now considering himself as the director for Mila 18, an ambitious screen adaptation of Leon Uris' novel about the ghetto uprising in WWII Warsaw in which a small group of Jews held off Nazi forces for 42 days using only handmade weapons.Even ...

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    Driven drives lacklustre US box office with $13.1m

    2001-04-29T21:53:00Z

    Franchise Pictures' bang-em-up car-racing actioner Driven opened at the number one spot in the North American box office last weekend with an okay $13.1m from 2,905 sites. Directed by Renny Harlin and starring and written by Sylvester Stallone, the movie was poorly received by critics and its opening hardly looks ...