All Screen articles in 5 December 2002 – Page 2
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Hero under the hammer
In an unusual move, Chinese video rights to Zhang Yimou's widely-anticipated martial arts epic Hero were sold at an auction last week in Beijing, where they fetched a record-breaking $2.15m (RMB17.8m).Around 18 companies paid a deposit of $36,000 (RMB300,000) to join the bidding, which started at $965,000 (RMB8m). The film ...
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James Bond: international hit man
Fox International's Die Another Day continued its record-breaking worldwide march over the weekend with a phenomenal $31.6m haul from 19 markets. After 13 days on release the twentieth James Bond instalment has grossed a powerful $65.4m internationally and $100.6m in the US for a $165.9m worldwide tally. In Germany it ...
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Vivendi to choose between entertainment and telecoms
Vivendi Universal chief executive Jean-Rene Fourtou yesterday announced that he had approval from the corporation's board for a Euros 4bn bid to take over mobile phones group Cegetel. He also revealed that he is not committed to the group staying in the entertainment business.Vivendi Universal currently owns entertainment properties including ...
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Sundance announces 2003 Premieres, World Cinema titles
Sundance 2003'sstar-studded festival programme will officially open in Salt Lake City on Jan16th with Levity, thedirectorial debut of Hollywood screenwriter Ed Solomon that headlines Billy BobThornton as a released murderer on the road to redemption. The festival endsten days later.Other highlights in thePremiere section, which was announced yesterday alongside the ...
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Fox takes $31.6m over weekend from 19 countries with Die Another Day
Fox International's Die Another Day continued its record-breaking worldwide march over the weekend with a phenomenal $31.6m haul from 19 markets. After 13 days on release the twentieth James Bond instalment has grossed a powerful $65.4m internationally and $100.6m in the US for a $165.9m worldwide tally. In Germany it ...
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Two short film festivals wrap in Romania
The end of November saw two important international short film festivals take place in Romania. The town of Tirgu Mures hosted the tenth edition of the Alter-Native International Short Film Festival between November 20 and 24. The festival screened fifty-seven productions in competition as well as a selection of popular ...
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Kirch manager Kogel to step down
Ahead of the sale of the insolvent KirchMedia to German publishing empire Heinrich Bauer Verlag by mid-December, managing director Fred Kogel announced at the weekend that he will leave the company at the end of the year.Speaking to the news agency AP, Kogel explained that 'after I have completed the ...
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Denmark's Zentropa returns to quality porn
Denmark's mavericks at Zentropa are about to revive their ambitions of making quality porn for women. The new $135,000 (DKK1m) film, All About Anna will, however, be produced through Innocent Pictures, which replaced Zentropa's Puzzy Power label in 2001. Now headed by CEO Claus Sorensen and creative producer Nicolas Barbano, ...
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Karlovy Vary festival shows interest in buying hotel venue
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is reportedly interested in buying the Czech festival's main venue, the Western Bohemian spa town's communist-era Hotel Thermal.Built in the 1970s as a retreat for Party elites, the imposing socialist edifice has hosted the festival's administrative centre, along with the largest film screenings, for ...
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Svensk Filmindustri gets first look on Early Bird output
Nordic media major Svensk Filmindustri has signed a first look deal with the Danish-Swedish production outfit Early Bird Films. Svensk Filmindustri will have first look on distribution and possible co-production opportunities on every new Early Bird project aimed at the Nordic market. Early Bird Films operates out of Copenhagen and ...
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Sinisa Dragin wins top prize at Belgrade
Bertrand Tavernier's Safe Conduct (Laissez-Passer) closed the ninth Belgrade International Festival of Auteur Films on Saturday night. The Rotterdam Tiger Award winner, Romanian Sinisa Dragin's Everyday God Kisses Us On The Mouth (In Fiecare Zi Dumnezeu Ne Saruta Pe Gura) won the main award, the 'Aleksandar Sasa Petrovic' plaque. The ...
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German Culture Minister hands out industry awards
Two Munich-based distributors Prokino Filmverleih and Movienet Film and Berlin distribution outfit Piffl Medien have each received the 2002 Distributor Award worth Euros 100,000.The awards were presented to the three companies at a special ceremony on last week by Germany's new State Minister of Culture Christina Weiss in recognition of ...
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Central Asian films to be focus of Trieste festival
Films from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan will be showcased at this year's Trieste Film Festival - Alpe Adria Cinema (January 16-23, 2003) which has become an important meeting place for cinema from Central and Eastern Europe since its launch in 1988.The festival's 'Cinema of the Silk Road' showcase is part ...
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UPI to launch video distribution arm in Mexico
Universal Pictures International (UPI), the London-based international video distribution arm of Universal Pictures, has announced its plans to launch a wholly-owned video distribution operation in Mexico. Universal Pictures Mexico will launch on 1st January 2003, following the expiration of the current four-year joint venture distribution deal with Paramount, ...
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CGI-heavy fantasy Sumuru wraps in South Africa
Production has just wrapped on Sumuru, a fantasy boasting the highest use of CGI ever for a feature produced in South Africa, which has been shooting for the past six weeks in and around Johannesburg. The film is produced by Brigid Olen and Marlow De Mardt of DO Productions, Harry ...
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UK set for close-run race for 2002 distributor crown
The UK box office looks set for a thrilling end-of-year race to establish the biggest-grossing distributor of 2002.And while it is still too early to predict with any certainty, there is a real possibility that Entertainment Film Distributors could become the first independent distributor ever to finish on top of ...
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Deepa Mehta named CineAsia director of the year
Indo-Canadian filmmakerDeepa Mehta will be named 'Director of the Year' at this year'sCineAsia exhibition convention. The presentation will made at the event'sopening night December 3 to be followed by a screening of her latest film, Bollywood/Hollywood, a comedic amalgam of Bollywood romance andHollywood musical.Set in Toronto, the filmfeatures Bollywood ...
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SPE notches up the biggest studio gross record
Sony PicturesEntertainment (SPE) has broken the industry's all-time record forworldwide box office receipts in a calendar year with $2.75bn in sales, thestudio said today (Dec 2). The performance beats the previous mark of $2.68bnset by 20th Century Fox in 1998, when that studio distributed Titanic internationally.In a statementissued today SPE ...
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Foreign Language Oscar submissions
National submissions for Best Foreign Language OscarClick on the underlined titles to read the Screen International reviewAfghanistan FireDancer- Jawed WasselAlgeria Rachida - Yamina Bachir-Chouikh Argentina Kamchatka - Marcelo PineyroAustria Gebirtig (Gebuertig)- Lukas Stepanik and Robert SchindelBangladesh The Clay Bird (Matir Moina) - Tareque MasudBelgium The Son (Le Fils) - Jean-Pierre ...
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Bond regains control of the UK box office
Die Another Day, 20th Century Fox's James Bond film, triumphed at the UK box office this weekend dropping off just 22% from its launch weekend and stealing the top spot from Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets. The Bond title claimed $8.3m (£5.4m) from 431 sites over ...
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