All Screen articles in 5 December 2002 – Page 3
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Submissions from 54 countries named eligible for foreign Oscar
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has posted its list of submissions for the Foreign Language Film Award category after eligibility concerns forced committee members to delay publication by one week. While the 54-strong list - a record number of submissions that beats last year's mark by three ...
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Signature Theatres' Harris named 2003 ShoWester
Philip Harris III, the founder of Signature Theatres and current vice chair of the finance committee at the National Association Of Theatre Owners (NATO), is to be named ShoWester of the Year at next year's ShoWest convention in Las Vegas running March 3 to 6."Phil Harris has quickly emerged as ...
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Sundance unveils 'challenging' 2003 selections
Sundance Film Festivalprogramming director Geoffrey Gilmore promised next year's influentialevent would feature "among the most provocative and challenging films wehave ever seen at the festival" even in the face of all the commercial hardships that independent filmmakers are currently confrontingUnveiling the Dramatic andDocumentary Competitions, as well as the films that ...
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CineMart unveils 2003 projects
The CineMart project market (Jan 26-30) held under the umbrella of the Rotterdam film festival, unveiled what its organisers claimed is one of its strongest ever line-ups. "We had a terribly difficult time making the final selection," said Ido Abram, Cinemart chief. "That was because we had more projects thatn ...
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The world is wild about Harry: 11.2 million admissions over the weekend
The records continued to tumble for Warner Bros as Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets passed $200m in international ticket sales over the weekend, amassing an estimated $56.8m from 11.2 million admissions on 8,201 screens in 32 territories. The sequel has an estimated $208m international and $408m worldwide total ...
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Spain to introduce measures to protect local market
The Spanish Film Institute (ICAA) plans to prohibit distributors from giving theatrical premieres to any non-EU film which has not previously premiered in its home country. This measure, intended to filter out mostly US made-for-TV and video product, could go into effect within the next month, according to ICAA director ...
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Germany's Senator reports massive net loss
Senator Entertaiment has posted a net loss of Euros 59.5m for the first nine months of 2002 - a massive reversal compared with last year's Euros6.9m net profit The company also announced the reduction of its management board by one member as part of its cost-cutting and restructuring programme.The ...
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Germany named Europe's fastest-growing DVD market
Germany is set to become the fastest growing DVD market in Europe, according to new data collected by the national DVD trade body.In the light of the current DVD boom, DVD-Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DVD-AG) has had to revise its forecast of the number of DVD players in German households at the end ...
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Dublin to get new international film festival
With the slogan 'DIFF - it's different' the formation of Ireland's new Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) has been announced. The first edition is set to take place from March 6 to 13 2003 at the Screen and Savoy cinemas in Dublin. According to festival Director Michael Dwyer the DIFF ...
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UK shooting costs come under fire
UK support body the Film Council is aiming to slash production costs under a code of practice for films budgeted at $3.1m - $6.2m (£2m-£4m). Producers body PACT and crews union BECTU are already negotiating an agreement based on the code, which, coupled with other proposals in the Council's report, ...
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Lanzarote wraps busiest-ever film screenings event
The Spanish Film Screenings of Lanzarote closed its busiest-ever, fourth annual edition on Saturday night after three full days attended by almost 90 buyers from around the world. Spanish participants said the invitation of Latin American buyers was the most significant new addition to the event this year, with fourteen ...
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Deathwatch
Dir: Michael J Bassett. UK. 2002. 95 mins.The old maxim that war is hell gets dusted down yet again for Deathwatch, a horror film set in the trenches of World War I which will attract attention as Jamie Bell's first role since his applauded and awarded performance in Billy Elliott ...
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Eight Crazy Nights
Dir: Seth Kearsley. US 2002. 71 minutesAdam Sandler has been extending his acting range recently but Eight Crazy Nights, an animated film in which he voices most of the key characters, is not likely to be confused with Punch Drunk Love. Comedies are always a tough sell abroad and Sandler ...
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Cannes discoveries head Delluc shortlist
Shortlisted for the Prix Louis Delluc are three Cannes films L'Adversaire, La Chatte A Deux Tetes and documentary Etre Et Avoir. But there is no place for France's Oscar hopeful 8 Femmes.A jury of critics and film personalities announced their candidates for this year's Louis Delluc prize late last week. ...
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Harry and 007 clean up over Thanksgiving
Several tried but ultimatelyno newcomer could topple the might of Harry Potter And The Chamber OfSecrets and Die Another Day, which combined for a one-two ranking over thethree-day portion of a solid Thanksgiving Weekend and switched positions overthe full five-day holiday. According to studio estimates released today, ChamberOf Secrets took ...
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Potter and 007 clean up at Thanksgiving box office
Several tried but ultimately no newcomer could topple the might of Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets and Die Another Day, which combined for a one-two ranking over the three-day portion of a solid Thanksgiving Weekend and switched positions over the full five-day holiday. According to studio estimates released ...
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Koelmels miss Kinowelt payment deadline, but get extension
The Koelmel brothers' bid to take over their former company is set to drag on for yet another week after they missed the November 27 deadline for the transfer of the Euros 32m purchase price.On November 22, insolvency administrator Wolfgang Ott said that "if the confirmation by the Sparkasse Leipzig ...
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Fantasporto film festival unveils competition titles
Spike Jonze's Adaptation and Plots With A View by Nick Hurran are to be the opening and closing films of Portugal's Oporto film festivalThe 23rd edition of Fantasporto will be held between February 21 and March, 1 and will include a homage to Stephen King film adaptations and to ...
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Cinema City complex opens in Israel, despite troubles
A new state-of-the-art 21-screen multiplex, Cinema City, opens on the outskirts of Tel Aviv today, while plans are revealed for what could be the world's largest cinema, a 34-screen megaplex in Lisbon.Cinema City, which is the largest complex in the Middle East, boasts Sony's SDDS sound system in every ...
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