All Screen articles in 7 April 2002 – Page 2
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Cinerenta offspring forges own path in LA
Michael Ohoven, scionof the family behind Germany's long-established Cinerenta productionfund, is striking out on his own as a Los Angeles-based producer. His InfinityInternational Entertainment will now start entertaining production ties withother European film funds while at the same time retaining its umbilical links to Cinerenta.Ohoven (pictured here) says he isrelocating ...
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E.T. phones in just $6.6m from 26 markets
At a time when Hollywood is supposedly embracing re-releases, UIP's 20th anniversary edition of Steven Spielberg's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial took just $6.6 million from 26 international territories over the Easter weekend.The 1982 hit played to most success in Mexico, where it claimed $1.4 million in four days, and the UK, ...
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Italian filmmaking veteran Tonino Cervi dies
Tonino Cervi, the Italian director, screenwriter and producer of films by Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Bernardo Bertolucci, has died in Siena of a heart attack aged 72.Cervi, who was born in Rome, produced one of Bertolucci's first features, 1962's Grim Reaper (La Commare Secca) and gained widespread recognition for ...
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President abduction story opens South Korean fest
Berlin competition film KT, a Japanese-Korean co-production about the 1973 political abduction of current South Korean president Kim Dae Jung, will open South Korea's Jeonju International Film Festival, the event announced this week.Special retrospectives at the festival, which runs from April 26 to May 2, will highlight the work of ...
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San Francisco festival lines up star guests
Actress Mira Sorvino, director Arturo Ripstein and LucasFilm's Rick McCallum are amongst the guests at the upcoming San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs April 18 to May 2.Sorvino is on promotional duty for The Triumph Of Love, while Ripstein is in town with The Ruination Of Men. McCallum will ...
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Hong Kong Asia Screenings gather momentum
The inaugural Hong Kong Asia Screenings appeared to cement its status as a permanent fixture this week with an endorsement from influential local industry body the MPIA.The support should mean that the screenings get backing from the Hong Kong production majors in addition to the Hong Kong Arts Development Council ...
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Clockstoppers
Dir: Jonathan Frakes. US. 2002. 94 mins. Nickelodeon Movies' Clockstoppers is the kind of calculatedly wholesome youth entertainment that seems more likely to appeal to protective parents than to a target audience of older kids and tweens. Thanks to Nickelodeon owner Viacom's aggressive company-wide marketing campaign, this effects-laden sci-fi adventure ...
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Major studios team to standardise digital cinema
The seven Hollywood studioshave clubbed together to develop technical standards for digital cinematechnology. The companies - Disney, MGM, Paramount, Sony, 20thCentury Fox, Universal and Warner Bros - are creating an entity to ensurethat competing digital exhibition formats are "open, compatible andinter-operable" and weigh up strategies for deploying digital exhibitionsystems in ...
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IN-Motion faces Neuer Markt termination
The German Stock Exchange has warned it plans to terminate trading on the Neuer Markt of shares in the IN-Motion Group, parent of Kirk D'Amico and Philip von Alvensleben's Myriad Pictures, within weeks.The company was informed over the weekend that the Exchange planned to terminate trading in the company's shares ...
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UK release of France's Pornographer is
UK distributor Metro Tartan plans to place a card at the front of controversial French film The Pornographer stating that it has been "butchered" after UK certification body the BBFC demanded an 11-second cut.The BBFC objected to what it called "an unsimulated porn sequence in which a women is seen ...
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Death To Smoochy
Dir: Danny DeVito. US. 2002. 109 mins. A dark, subversive comedy enthusiastically realised by some big-name Hollywood talents - most notably Robin Williams, for whom it is the first of three big-screen comeback projects - Death To Smoochy takes an amusing premise and flogs it well beyond the point of ...
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Korea's Cat takes care of international business
Take Care Of My Cat, screening this week in the Hong Kong International Film Festival, is to make the leap into Europe after it emerged that Swedish-based Willmar Andersson Film has picked up all Nordic rights.Andersson, a well-known intermediary between the Nordic countries and Far Eastern film-makers, has secured a ...
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Asia Screenings open with Golden Network pick-up
The first ever Hong Kong Asia Screenings, an industry companion piece to the Hong Kong Film Festival, kicked off this weekend with expanding world sales outfit Golden Network unveiling its latest pick-up, Girls' Friends.The film, about the friendship amongst five teen friends, joins a clutch of Thai titles on the ...
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Japan's theme parks ride recession rollercoaster
Japan's Disney and Universal Studios theme parks have enjoyed banner years despite a long recession which has plunged several local sites into receivership.Visitors to Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea totalled 22.05 million, for a year-on gain of 27%, according to recently released figures. Although the newly opened DisneySea park accounted for ...
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SAG downplays international impact of Global Rule
The US Screen Actors Guild(SAG) says its controversial Global Rule One will only apply to that small cadre of internationalactors primarily living in the US, and not those many foreign SAG card-holders who have worked on US films but remain overseas residents.International producers,particularly those in the UK, were in uproar ...
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Miller, Oliveira find US homes for latest films
Two Europeanfilms have found US theatrical distribution through New York-based art-housespecialists, with Wellspring Media acquiring all domestic rights to Claude Miller's BettyFisher et Autres Histoires and Milestone Film & Video picking up Manoel de Oliveira's Vou Para Casa (I'm Going Home).Wellspring, the filmand video outfit that was formerly under the ...
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Pichirallo quits Searchlight for evp role at USA
Joe Pichirallo, one of theoriginal executives who founded Fox Searchlight Pictures in 1994, has left thecompany to join USA Films as executive vice president of production.Reporting to president ofproduction Glenn Williamson, Pichirallo will be responsible for bringing inprojects and supervising them through production; he will be based in thecompany's LA ...
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Ice Age speeds to $56m international gross
20th CenturyFox's Ice Age continued itsbox office rampage around the world, racking up $56.15m to date - some$27.35m in the last seven days. The film opened in South Africa over theweekend, breaking the record for the highest animated opening ever with$248,289 from 71 screens and registering the third highest opening ...
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Lumumba hits at South African box-office
Lumumba, the true story of assassinated African leader Patrice Lumumba, is smashing South African art-house records.The Ster-Kinekor Picturesand Film Resource Unit film has racked up more than $14,700 (R167,000) fromjust two prints. Directed by Raoul Peck, it beat the second week tally of Buena Vista Social Club, although itopened slightly ...
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Billy Wilder 1906-2002
With the death last week of Billy Wilder at the age of 95,the world lost one its greatest ever film-makers, a brilliant screenwriter andendlessly innovative director who created some of Hollywood's finestfilms.The director of Sunset Boulevard (1950),The Lost Weekend (1945), DoubleIndemnity (1944), Some Like ItHot (1959) and The Apartment (1960) ...
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