All Screen articles in 5 December 2003 – Page 3
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Gibson's Passion finds a home in Catholic Italy
Mel Gibson's controversial new film, The Passion Of Christ, has found a distributor in Catholic Italy, with powerful Rome distributor Eagle Pictures acquiring all local rights to the picture.Eagle is believed to have seen The Passion on the eve of the Venice film festival at a private screening that was ...
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Millimages casts eye over embattled Bac
French animation and documentary producer Millimages has confirmed that is holding ongoing discussions with Jean Labadie's Bac Majestic to invest in the company.Several other outfits have been floated as possible buyers for the embattled company including Jacques Ouaniche of Noe Productions and sales outfit Exception (see ScreenDaily.com, Nov 19)The news ...
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Almodovar eyes Cannes launch for Bad Education
Almost a year after his best original script Oscar coup for Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella), Spanish maestro Pedro Almodovar is putting the finishing touches on his next film, Bad Education (La Mala Educacion), and considering a premiere at the Cannes Film Festival."We are open to the possibility of ...
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NEW ZEALAND
UIP's Love Actually lived up to the promise shown in the previous weekend's previews and easily secured the top spot with a gross of NZ$415,176 from 51 screens. Despite the screen count being second only to The Matrix Revolutions in number, the film's screen average of NZ$8,141 was miles ahead ...
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Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior
Dir. Parchya Pinkaew. Thailand, 2003. 105 min.Hollywood producers would do well to note the names on the credits before they embark on their next multi-million dollar action franchise. Just as Hong Kong's Yuen Wo Ping brought a different kind of kinetic energy to The Matrix series (as well as ...
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The Last Samurai
Dir: Edward Zwick. US. 2003. 154minsTom Cruise rides into the East in Warner Bros' stirring, beautifully mounted dramatic release, directed by Ed Zwick (Glory, Legends Of The Fall), refreshingly set in 1870s Japan. Though its plot and structure, as well as it characters, sometimes perilously skirt cliche, the end result ...
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The Last Train (Poslednyi Poezd)
Dir. Alexei German Jr. Russia, 2003. 82 mins.Alexei German Jr.'s debut rounds up an impressive year of achievements for young Russian cinema. Winner of both Best Picture and International Film Critics' Awards at Thessaloniki, this fearsome, uncompromising humanistic anti-war statement is a choice item that shows German to be a ...
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ITALY
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre opened at number one at the Italian box office, grossing a solid $1.4m for local powerhouse Eagle Pictures, scoring a strong screen average of $4,828.Another Hollywood movie, police action thriller S.W.A.T. also opened on a high, grossing $956,570 for Columbia Tristar from 245 screens. New opener ...
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China decentralises film censorship process
In a further sign that China is speeding up reform of its film industry, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has announced that its film censorship process has been decentralised. Under new rules, which came into effect December 1, filmmakers no longer need apply to the Beijing-based ...
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Balseros, Revolution win top honours at IDA Awards
Carlos Bosch and Josep MDomenech's account of Cuban castaways in Balseros and Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain's first-handchronicle of the 2002 Venezuelan coup in The Revolution Will Not BeTelevised have shared top featurecompetition honours in the International Documentary Association's 19th annualIDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards.Both titles were presentedby HBO/Cinemax Documentary ...
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AUSTRALIA
Columbia TriStar's S.W.A.T has topped the Australian chart on its opening weekend with a A$2,741,337 gross from 246 screens. It managed to more than double the ticket sales of UIP's School Of Rock, and pushed the comedy down into second position for what was its second weekend on release. Putting ...
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Kinowelt sales arm picks up Mondlandung
Kinowelt's world sales arm Filmverlag der Autoren has picked up international distribution rights for film school graduate Till Endemann's debut feature Mondlandung, which received its world premiere at the International Hof Film Days at the end of October.Produced by the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy with V-Max Media, Mondlandung (Moon Landing) follows ...
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Italian senate approves controversial TV reform bill
The Italian Senate has approved a controversial bill for the reform of Italy's TV system, which is set to consolidate Silvio Berlusconi's sprawling media empire.The Gasparri Law was approved in a 155-126 vote despite fierce opposition from the centre-left coalition and some opposition from within Berlusconi's own centre-right party.It must ...
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Albanian capital hosts inaugural International festival
Albania's capital city, Tirana, is currently hosting the first ever edition of the Tirana International Film Festival (Dec 1-7), with a short film competition in fiction, documentary, animation and experimental categories. The festival was initiated by its two directors, Agron Domi and Ilir Butka, and it is organised under the ...
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Beazoglou joins business and legal affairs at Warner Independent
In the latest executive appointment to the fledglingspecialty division Warner Independent Pictures (WIP), Despina Beazoglou hasjoined as vice president of business and legal affairs.Effectiveimmediately, Beazoglou will report to executive vice president of businessaffairs and operations Andrew Kramer and will be involved in handling thebusiness and legal affairs for WIP and ...
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Irish relief as Section 481 wins extension
Irish Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy confirmed in his Budget Speech today (Nov 3) that the film Section 481 tax incentive will be extended to the end of 2008 and that the cap on total investment in any one film will be increased from Euros 10.48m to Euros15m from 2005. The ...
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A world of premieres at Sundance 2004
The Sundance Film Festivalunveiled the remaining sections for its 2004 event (Jan 15 to 25) thisafternoon (see full list below) including the high profile world premieres ofnew films by Walter Salles, Brad Anderson, Marc Evans, Katja Von Garnier, ErnestDickerson and Vondie Curtis-Hall.Meanwhile the World Cinemasection reads like a checklist of ...
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A world of premieres at Sundance
The Sundance Film Festivalunveiled the remaining sections for its 2004 event (Jan 15 to 25) thisafternoon (see full list below) including the high profile world premieres ofnew films by Walter Salles, Brad Anderson, Marc Evans, Katja Von Garnier, ErnestDickerson and Vondie Curtis-Hall.Meanwhile the World Cinemasection reads like a checklist of ...
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A world of premieres at Sundance 2004
The Sundance Film Festivalunveiled the remaining sections for its 2004 event (Jan 15 to 25) thisafternoon (see full list below) including the high profile world premieres ofnew films by Walter Salles, Brad Anderson, Marc Evans, Katja Von Garnier, ErnestDickerson and Vondie Curtis-Hall.Meanwhile the World Cinemasection reads like a checklist of ...
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Russian Train rides off with Thessaloniki prizes
Russian feature The Last Train (Posledniy Poezd) by Alexei German, Jr swept the floor at the 44th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Nov 21-30).The son of the celebrated director of Twenty Days Without War and My Friend Ivan Lapschitz, German's film tells the story of a German military doctor stranded in ...