All Screen articles in 4 September 2002 – Page 3
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Spanish regulator raises concerns over pay-TV merger
The merger of pay-TV platforms Via Digital and Canal Satelite Digital (CSD) could result in a "monopoly on rights to feature films" according to an investigation by Spain's industry regulator.A Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) report states among its conclusions that the 'two platforms already have a very clear dominant position ...
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Latin American films compete for San Sebastian prize
Thirteen Latin American films will compete for the Made in Spanish award at next month's 50th anniversary edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 19-28).Among the films competing for the prize, which has tripled in value to Euros 18,000 after its introduction last year, are:Bolivar Soy Yo, Jorge ...
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IT International Theatres reports first-half loss for 2002
Half year results for multinational exhibition group IT International Theatres were hit by weak results in its home Israeli market and the strengthening of the US dollar against the currencies of its developing Central European operations.While revenues increased a fraction to $33.8m (compared with $32.8m), the first half showed losses ...
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Working Title's WT2 begins to shoot The Calcium Kid
Working Title Films' low budget division WT2 is set to start principal photography on The Calcium Kid, starring Orlando Bloom, who plays Legolas in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.The off-beat comedy is a mockumentary about a young milkman who is also amateur boxer and ends up fighting the world ...
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Telluride world premieres Schrader, Clark, Reggio movies
The TellurideFilm Festival, one of the worlds most secretive festivals whichdoesnt announce its lineup until the event itself begins, kicked off its29th festival today (Friday) in the Colorado mountain-top resort andwill screen four world premieres in its four-day schedule including new filmsfrom Paul Schrader and Larry Clark.The festival,run by Bill ...
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Star Line, Parallel, Planet team for Aranda's Carmen
Madrid-based producer Star Line has signed up the UK's Parallel Pictures and Italy's Planet Pictures to co-produce the long-planned ambitious new feature film version of Carmen.The Euros 7m-plus film, from director Vicente Aranda (Juana La Loca), will begin principal photography in Andalusia on September 16 with actors Paz Vega (Sex ...
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Montreal to get yet another major film studio
Montreal is set to be home to another major film studio development, a $25.6m (C$40m) full-service facility backed by Los Angeles-based WonderWorks Entertainment Group, Avondale Pictures and Quebec architectural firm Smith & Koenka. The new 210,000 sq. ft. studio, to be called WonderWorks Montreal will be situated on a 4-million ...
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The Magdalene Sisters
Dir: Peter Mullan. UK-Ireland. 2002. 118minsShocking true events are transformed into a powerful and moving human drama in The Magdalene Sisters. The second feature from writer-director Peter Mullan, the film is an angry cry from the heart rendered all the more effective by its restraint and burning sense of injustice ...
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Vivendi sells off Vizzavi - is Hollywood studio next'
The possibility of a sale of Universal appeared to grow more real this week as Vivendi Universal confirmed a series of meetings between new chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou and senior US management.Vivendi Universal has so far maintained that the US studio does not figure in the disposal plans, which call for ...
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Frida
Dir: Julie Taymor. USA. 2002. 121mins.First the bad news: Julie Taymor's cinematic life of painter Frida Kahlo, which US-based Mexican actress Salma Hayek fought for most of a decade to bring to the screen, is not the masterpiece some had anticipated. The good news, at least for distributor Miramax, is ...
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Frida
Dir: Julie Taymor. USA. 2002. 121mins.First the bad news: Julie Taymor's cinematic life of painter Frida Kahlo, which US-based Mexican actress Salma Hayek fought for most of a decade to bring to the screen, is not the masterpiece some had anticipated. The good news, at least for distributor Miramax, is ...
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Lilja 4-Ever
Dir: Lukas Moodysson. Sweden. 2002. 109 mins.After a promising debut with Show Me Love (known in some territories as Fucking Amal), Swedish wunderkind Lukas Moodysson entered the major league with his last film, Together, a study of a dysfunctional 1970s commune that combined wry humour with emotional torture. Moodysson seemed ...
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Lilja 4-Ever
Dir: Lukas Moodysson. Sweden. 2002. 109 mins.After a promising debut with Show Me Love (known in some territories as Fucking Amal), Swedish wunderkind Lukas Moodysson entered the major league with his last film, Together, a study of a dysfunctional 1970s commune that combined wry humour with emotional torture. Moodysson seemed ...
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K-19 forces Intermedia into new profits slump
Intermedia has issued its second profit warning this year following disappointing US box office results for K-19: The Widowmaker, the Harrison Ford picture on which the company raised its direct distribution risk.In January the company announced that it would miss its 2001 forecast, a profit warning that clouded its tie-up ...
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Vancouver film festival launches screenwriting prize
The 21st Vancouver International Film Festival is to introduce a new local screenwriter's cash award.The $7,700 Citytv Western Canada Screenwriters Award will be presented annually to a film from western Canada, with this year's winner, selected by the Canadian Images jury, to be announced at the Closing Gala Awards Ceremony ...
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The Illustrated Family Doctor gets the greenlight
Acclaimed commercials, short film and documentary director Kriv Stenders has finally got his dark and irreverent debut feature The Illustrated Family Doctor over the financing line. He wrote the script in conjunction with David Snell, author of the novel on which it is based.The commitment of UK-based sales agent ...
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The Illustrated Family Doctor gets the greenlight
Acclaimed commercials, short film and documentary director Kriv Stenders has finally got his dark and irreverent debut feature The Illustrated Family Doctor over the financing line. He wrote the script in conjunction with David Snell, author of the novel on which it is based.The commitment of UK-based sales agent ...
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UK's Home Entertainment Corp. reports increased profits
Home Entertainment Corporation, the UK company that operates the Choices Video retail chain, reported half year pre-tax profits up 9% at $8.24m (£5.37m) on turnover that increased 24% to $158m (£103m).The company, which floated on the AIM tier of the UK stockmarket last October, said that the transition from VHS ...
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Japan's Sony Pictures turns cinemagoers into film bookers
Japan's Sony Pictures is to overturn the established practice of film programming by inviting audiences to chose which movies to screen - and at which venues, as well as at what times.Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) will launch a new service offering special screenings of Sony films, based on Internet polls. ...
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Kuhn & Co.'s UK debut production begins shoot
Wondrous Oblivion, former PolyGram chief Michael Kuhn's debut UK production through his Soho production company Kuhn & Co, has started shooting with a cast including Delroy Lindo, Emily Woof and newcomer Sam Smith as the star.Smith, whose credits include BBC TV's Oliver, plays eleven-year-old David Wiseman, a Jewish boy in ...