All Screen articles in 4 September 2002 – Page 2

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    Ken Park scores with Venice buyers

    2002-09-03T04:05:00Z

    Ahead of tomorrow (Wednesday)'s debut screening in the Upstream sectionof the Venice festival, inflammatory teen drama Ken Park is settingbuyers alight.Norway's Oro Film has pickedup all Scandinavian rights, while VideoVision bought it for South Africa, Eco Filmes for Portugal, Audiovisual forGreece and Mongkol for Thailand. International rights are handled by ...

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    BV International to work magic on Box

    2002-09-03T04:05:00Z

    Norway's BV International has picked up world sales rights to RidhaBehi's drama The Magic Box (La Boite Magique), which appears out of competition in Venice and is one of the fewto have won consistently widespread praise on the Lido.Magic Box is avoyage of self discovery by a film-director commissioned to ...

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    BV International to work magic on Box

    2002-09-03T04:05:00Z

    Norway's BV International has picked up world sales rights to RidhaBehi's drama The Magic Box (La Boite Magique), which appears out of competition in Venice and is one of the fewto have won consistently widespread praise on the Lido.Magic Box is avoyage of self discovery by a film-director commissioned to ...

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    Film Office expands roles becomes Hachette Filipacchi Films

    2002-09-03T04:05:00Z

    Film Office, a subsidiary of Frenchmedia and publishing giant Hachette Filipacchi, which has been increasinglyboarding foreign feature film projects at an early stage in order to build upits library of theatrical rights, is now to develop its own titles.Theveteran French home video company, which has been a pioneer of all-rightsacquisitions ...

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    Korean films surprise again but studio titles hold their own at BO

    2002-09-03T04:05:00Z

    Thesummer season has produced some unexpected heavyweights at the South Koreanbox-office. Following a year in whichlocal titles My Sassy Girl ($24m) and Kick The Moon ($21)dominated theatres, the strongest performer has been Steven Spielberg's MinorityReport, remaining atop thebox-office for five weeks after its July 26 release and earning over $17m. ...

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    Not much to get buzzed up about in Venice

    2002-09-03T04:05:00Z

    If a festival is only as good as the films it screens,Venice has cause to be more than a little worried. It's day five on the Lido,and so far only the mosquitoes, out in record numbers this year, have beenconsistently successful in getting under the skin.Thestart was respectable enough. Frida, ...

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    Phenomenal Greek Wedding is now number two

    2002-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Disney's Signs held off IFC Films's sprightly My Big Fat GreekWedding to retain top spot with anestimated $16.5m haul over Labour Day weekend as the summer season officiallycame to a close. M Night Shyamalan's crop circle chronicle averaged $4,805 from3,437 theatres and has a cumulative total after five weeks of ...

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    Hong Kong exhibitors slash ticket prices

    2002-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Hong Kong cinemas are slashing ticket prices for the second time this year after a disappointing summer in which box office takings slumped by 36%The Hong Kong Theatres Association announced that 51 of HongKong's 60 cinemas will cut admission prices to $3.20 (HK$25) every Tuesday and Wednesday for the next ...

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    Columbia TriStar rolls out with XXX, dominates Europe with MIIB

    2002-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International (CTFDI) embarked on its second wave of internationalroll-outs for XXX over theweekend, scoring $1.2m in total with openings in Taiwan, Estonia and CentralAmerica. The Vin Diesel action movie grossed $388,000 from 18 screens inTaipei, faring slightly better than studio stablemate Vertical Limit managed in that territory ...

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    Mueller goes Downtown with RAI

    2002-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Former Locarno festival boss, Marco Mueller has signed a ground-breaking deal between a new outfit heis launching, Downtown Pictures, and Rome's Rai Cinema. The deal, which was announced by Mueller, Rai Cinema CEO Giancarlo Leone and president GiulianoMontaldo, is a 2-year first look, non-exclusive production agreement which willsee the Rome ...

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    Mueller goes Downtown with RAI

    2002-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Former Locarno festival boss, Marco Mueller has signed a ground-breaking deal between a new outfit heis launching, Downtown Pictures, and Rome's Rai Cinema. The deal, which was announced by Mueller, Rai Cinema CEO Giancarlo Leone and president GiulianoMontaldo, is a 2-year first look, non-exclusive production agreement which willsee the Rome ...

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    Trust enjoys Lilja sales success, buys Wilderness

    2002-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Trust Film Sales,the world sales offshoot of Denmark's Zentropa Entertainment has had a busystart to Venice, acquiring David Mackenzie's The Last Wilderness andstriking a number of sales deals on Venice competition picture Lilja 4-Ever.Trust bought Wilderness, adebut feature by noted British shorts director Mackenzie, after its outing atlast month's Edinburgh ...

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    Trust enjoys Lilja sales success, buys Wilderness

    2002-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Trust Film Sales,the world sales offshoot of Denmark's Zentropa Entertainment has had a busystart to Venice, acquiring David Mackenzie's The Last Wilderness andstriking a number of sales deals on Venice competition picture Lilja 4-Ever.Trust bought Wilderness, adebut feature by noted British shorts director Mackenzie, after its outing atlast month's Edinburgh ...

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    RAI Cinema unwraps powerhouse autumn slate

    2002-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Jeremy Irons hasjoined the cast of Mathilde, a thriller set during the Bosnian War whichis one of a host of new titles on Rome mini-major Rai Cinema's upcomingproduction slate. The Euros7m film,which marks the feature debut of Yugoslav-born director Nina Mimica, seesJeremy Irons play the part of a British army ...

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    RAI Cinema unwraps powerhouse autumn slate

    2002-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Jeremy Irons hasjoined the cast of Mathilde, a thriller set during the Bosnian War whichis one of a host of new titles on Rome mini-major Rai Cinema's upcomingproduction slate. The Euros7m film,which marks the feature debut of Yugoslav-born director Nina Mimica, seesJeremy Irons play the part of a British army ...

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    Venice sales: Bim, Distribution 01 active for Italy

    2002-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Italy's BimDistribuzione has picked up all Italian rights to Blue Moon, Austriandirector Andrea Maria Dusi's feature debut which follows the odyssey of threecharacters from Vienna to the Black Sea port of Odessa. BlueMoon, which received its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival lastmonth, has been sold by First Hand ...

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    Venice sales: Bim, Distribution 01 active for Italy

    2002-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Italy's BimDistribuzione has picked up all Italian rights to Blue Moon, Austriandirector Andrea Maria Dusi's feature debut which follows the odyssey of threecharacters from Vienna to the Black Sea port of Odessa. BlueMoon, which received its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival lastmonth, has been sold by First Hand ...

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    Deltamac is newest distributor to enter Hong Kong market

    2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Hong Kong's increasingly competitive distribution sector has a new player Deltamac (HK) Ltd, which will handle the Hong Kong theatrical release of The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers in January next year.The decade-old video distributor, owned by Taiwanese disc manufacturer CMC Magnetics Corp, has quietly put together a ...

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    UK Film Council invests in four new local projects

    2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

    The UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund has announced four new investments, including new projects from Under The Skin director Carine Adler and One Day In September producer John Battsek.Carine Adler will write and direct Finding Out, a love story set in a small English seaside town about a lonely ...