All Screen articles in 5 December 2003 – Page 2
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Norwegian Film Fund backs nine production outfits
The Norwegian Film Fund has pumped $1.6m (NOK11m) into nine local production companies to back their slates or to help develop their outfits. In the latter category Stavanger-based Sydvest Film and Oslo-based Fenris Film AS both recieved interest free loans of $75,000 a year for thee years, while Trondheim-based Klapp ...
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Carl Schenkel dies suddenly in Los Angeles
Swiss-born writer-director Carl Schenkel has died suddenly in Los Angeles at the age of 55 from heart failure.He made his feature debut with Cold As Ice (Kalt Wie Eis) set in the new wave music scene in 1981 and then became one of the hottest properties in the German film ...
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Ducard named vp at MGM Home Entertainment
Malik Ducard hasbeen promoted to vice president of worldwide business development andacquisitions at MGM Home Entertainment.In his new roleDucard will spearhead the division's global acquisition projects, targetingdomestic and international features and domestic family-oriented programmingwith particular emphasis on the direct-to-video market.He will alsooversee library valuation and acquisition efforts as well as ...
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Cannibalism feature set to challenge German tastes
Maverick German filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has announced plans for a film about cannibalism.The move comes in the same week that the trial of a man accused of killing, dissecting and eating another man opened in Germany, causing a sensation in the German media.Von Praunheim - whose credits include It's ...
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Tribeca Film Festival buys New York movie house
Tribeca Film Festival co-founders Robert De Niro, JaneRosenthal and Craig Hatkoff have acquired rep theatre The Screening Room in NewYork, which they will use to enhance services at the festival and De Niro'snearby Tribeca Film Institute and hire out for commercial purposes.The partnersacquired a long lease renewable through to 2023 ...
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Chadha lifts curtain on Beckham musical
Having borrowed from Bollywood's all-singing, all-dancing spectaculars with her hugely-anticipated Jane Austen adaptation Bride And Prejudice, Gurinder Chadha has got the taste for musicals.The UK writer-director-producer has re-teamed with LA-based producer Deepak Nayar on a stage musical of Bend It Like Beckham, her hit comedy about a UK-Indian girl who ...
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Ward Anderson move prompts Dublin speculation
There is considerable speculation in the Irish industry about the direction of the family owned Ward Anderson Group, the country's largest exhibitor.Last Friday, the staff associated with the Ward family's side of the business moved out of Ward Anderson Group headquarters, Filmhouse, on Dublin's Abbey Street.On Monday morning, the Ward ...
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IDT close to acquisition of DVD/video company Anchor Bay
US-based animation and live-action producer-distributorIDT Entertainment is on the verge of acquiring the home video outfit Anchor BayEntertainment Group from Handleman Company after signing a definitiveagreement.Under the termsof the deal, which is expected to close by mid-December, IDT Entertainment willgain an international video and DVD distribution foothold through Anchor Bay'sdirect-to-consumer ...
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CineMart unveils 'beautiful' 2004 line-up
Projects by Catherine Breillat, Kim Ki-Duk and Dagur Kari are among the highlights of larger-than-ever CineMart co-production market (Jan 25-29, 2004).The market, which is organised in association with the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) (Jan 21-31, 2004), will showcase some 47 projects in various stages of development that are seeking ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
As 2003 comes to an end, the domination of local product is starting to weaken, except for the current absolute favourite Small World, which remained in second position in its eighth weekend. Despite a 45% decline, the road comedy has now grossed a total of $422,083. Two releases by Tuck, ...
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Loving Glances
Dir. Srdan Karanovic. UK/Serbia, 2003. 97mins.Film-maker Srdan Karanovic, a star of the golden age in Yugoslav cinema, makes a well-deserved comeback with this gentle, surreal romance. Absent from the screen for too long, he has left so much unsaid in the 12 years he has been absent that it almost ...
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FINLAND
Last week's previews week swept all competition from the top of the Finnish chart, as Finding Nemo and Master And Commander pushed Love Actually down 28% to third. However, no other films were released over the weekend, which was 40% lower than last year. Little else changed at the chart, ...
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In The City (En La Ciudad)
Dir. Cesc Gay. Spain, 2003. 110mins.Pleasant, handsome, urbane but quite vacuous, Cesc Gay's second feature film resembles, to a certain extent, the choral dramas of French director Claude Sautet, minus the dynamics and the depth. Revising the thirtysomething formula of American television into an European version shot entirely in Barcelona, ...
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Vodafone casts eye over Vivendi Universal
UK mobile phone company Vodafone has expressed an interest in buying Vivendi Universal. Vodafone chief executive Arun Sarin said that he would not rule out buying the whole of the French media group in order to get his hands on SFR, France's second largest mobile operator, which Vodafone owns jointly ...
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Mystic River wins National Board of Review
The first blood in this highlycontentious awards season has gone to Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, which was named today best film by the usuallyidiosyncratic National Board of Review (NBR).Sean Penn was named best actorfor his performances in both Mystic River, released by Warner Bros, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's 21 Grams, ...
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Judge in screener ban suit will announce decision on Friday
The New York federal judge presiding over the case brought by acoalition of independent film-makers to overturn the MPAA screener ban isexpected to deliver a ruling on Friday (Dec 3).US district judge Mukasey adjourned court yesterday (3) followinga day of testimony and legal argument, saying he would return on Friday ...
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Sheridan's In America leads Indie Spirit nods
Fox Searchlight's InAmerica dominated the 2004 IFPIndependent Spirit Awards nominations with six nominations in the US indieworld's equivalent of the Oscars.Jim Sheridan's film wasfollowed by HBO Films/Fine Line Features' American Splendor (this year's Grand Jury Prize winner at Sundance) andSamuel Goldwyn Films/ Fireworks' Raising Victor Vargas with five nominations each.All ...
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Jenin Jenin doc banned again in Israel
Mukhammad Bakkri's controversial documentary Jenin Jenin, about the Israeli military incursion into the Jenin refugee camp, has once again been banned in Israel.The Supreme Court had ruled on Nov.11 against a decision by the Censorship Board to outlaw the film and cleared it for screenings - but it has now ...
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Disney crosses $3bn barrier in 2003
Poweredby the phenomenal success of Pixar's Finding Nemo and the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced The Pirates OfThe Caribbean, the Buena Vista FilmDistribution Group (BVFDG) has made history by becoming the first studio topass $3bn at the global box office in a single year.BVFDG comprises the domestic operation controlled byBuena Vista Pictures Distribution ...
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Cinema Service extends Evil Lake deals
Korean major, Cinema Service has completed a slew of post-Mifed deals toplined by its big-budget martial arts-fantasy romance Legend Of The Evil Lake.Legend, a period tale of royalty and revenge directed by Lee Gwang-Hoon, was licensed to EMS for Germany, Soyuz Films for Russia and the former CIS, Three Line ...