All Screen articles in 7 April 2003 – Page 3
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Cendres Et Cachotteries wins grand prize at Paris fest
The 18th Paris Film Festival closed Tuesday night with Cendres Et Cachotteries (pictured) by Alice Nellis taking home the Grand Prize. Madame Brouette from Senegalese director Moussa Sene Absa earned two awards, the special jury prize and the best actor statue for Aboubacar Sadikh Ba.American actress Maggie Gyllenhaal won the ...
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UK Film Council takes over BFI exhibition function
The British Film Institute's exhibition department is to be closed and its functions taken over by the UK's Film Council.According to local reports from the BBC, the BFI is to close its programming unit, which supplies support to regional film theatres for the screening of arthouse product.According to the BBC, ...
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Italian producer seals landmark international co-production deals
Veteran Italian producer Leo Pescarolo has sealed two landmark multi-million dollar international co-production deals with China and Canada.Fred Wang of Hong Kong's Salon Media Films has taken a 50% stake in the $18m English-language fantasy tale She, which Pescarolo developed through his Rome-based development outfit Imago Film.Salon Media Films, ...
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Spanish scriptwriting consultancy to launch in May
Four Spanish partners are preparing a May launch for their new consulting company abc guionistas (abc scriptwriters) which will offer a range of services related to film and television scripts.If successful, the company could help streamline practices in Spain for scriptwriters and those who hire them. "Agents for scriptwriters are ...
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CETV granted extra broadcast rights in China
CETV, the Chinese-language entertainment channel majority-owned by AOL Time-Warner, has been granted additional broadcast rights in mainland China.In a statement AOL Time-Warner said that the channel will be allowed to broadcast via cable networks in the cities of Guangzhou and Shenzen. Since October 2001 it has been allowed to broadcast ...
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Screwball comedy scores Spain's fifth biggest opening
Actor-turned-director Jesus Bonilla struck gold this weekend with star-studded comedy Moscow Gold (El Oro De Moscu), recording the fifth top opening weekend ever for a Spanish film.The success follows on the heels of Mortadelo & Filemon - The Big Adventure, which continues its record streak with a cumulative Euros 21.6m ...
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Strand takes North American rights to A Thousand Peace Clouds
Santa Monica-based Strand Releasing has snapped up North American rights to award-winning Mexican gay drama A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle The Sky (Mil Nubes De Paz Cercan El Cielo) by Julian Hernandez. Hernandez, who also wrote the screenplay, recently took home the Best Director and Best Sound awards for his ...
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Israel's Channel 10 on the brink of bankruptcy
The future of Israel's newest television broadcaster, Channel 10, hangs in the balance as controlling shareholder Yossi Maiman gives the station one week to avoid bankruptcy.Maiman, who holds 51% of Channel 10's interests, has recently been injecting some $8m a month into the operation to keep it afloat. Last weekend, ...
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THINKFilm buys domestic rights to Brazilian documentary
THINKFilm haspicked up North American rights to Jose Padilha's award-winningdocumentary, Bus 174.A theatrical release in New York has been scheduled for Oct 8.Since its worldpremiere at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival last autumn Bus 174 has drawn considerable attention afterfestival selections at Sundance, Rotterdam and Miami.It was named best ...
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Momentum, Bac lead charge for The Statement
Summit Entertainment hasconcluded a host of sales deals on Norman Jewison's The Statement which started principal photography on Monday inParis and Marseilles. Momentum Pictures acquiredUK rights, Bac Films took France, Gussi bought the film for Latin America,Filmax for Spain, Nordisk for Scandinavia, Columbia TriStar for Australia,Video Vision for South Africa, ...
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Downtown New York to get new film and arts centre
IFP/New York andFilm/Video Arts (F/VA) have received a $100,000 grant to conduct a feasibilitystudy for a media arts centre in Lower Manhattan.The award ispart of a federal $1m emergency aid package set up to help rebuild New Yorkafter 9/11.The announcementwas made today (Apr 1) by Empire State Development's (ESD) chairmanCharles ...
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Toronto Film Festival announces 'Festival Centre' complex
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival Group (TIFFG) today (Tues) launched its new initiative to createFestival Centre, a film complex in Toronto located on the corner of King andJohn Streets which will consist of a five-storey podium building and aresidential condominium development.Announced withmuch fanfare, the new facility will be housed on property ...
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Koch to distribute Passport Video catalogue in North America
US independent music andhome entertainment distributor Koch Entertainment Distribution is stepping upits DVD operation with the announcement that it has signed an exclusive deal todistribute Passport Video's entire catalogue in the US and Canada.Passport Video'slibrary comprises mostly documentaries and entertainment specials and includesnew releases and reissues of the five-DVD Collectors ...
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View From The Top
Dir: Bruno Barreto. US. 2003. 87mins.Not the absolute disaster many had anticipated, this long-delayed star-studded comedy should overcome its numerous artistic failings and produce some decent numbers on theatrical release around the world. Certainly its $7m opening from 2,508 sites in North America was nothing to be ashamed of, and ...
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Murdoch gets greenlight for Italian job
The European Commission (EC) watchdog has approved the long-awaited merger of Italian pay-TV companies Telepiu and Stream, paving the way for Rupert Murdoch's single pay-TV platform, Sky Italia.The antitrust authority's thumbs-up comes after an arduous two-and-a-half year battle led by News Corp's own Italian pay-TV company, Stream, and Vivendi Universal's ...
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Salamina Soldiers (Soldados De Salamina)
Dir: David Trueba. Spain. 2003.112 mins.Based on a best-selling novel, Salamina Soldiers (Soldados De Salamina) makes the Spanish Civil War unusually accessible by weaving it into a contemporary tale less concerned with local politics and more with humanity at large. This graceful third feature film from writer-director David Trueba, seems ...
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Alliance Atlantis renews pact with Miramax till 2006
Toronto-based AllianceAtlantis and has renewed its long-standing sub-distribution pact with MiramaxFilms. The all-rights, all-media deal encompasses all Miramax and Dimensionproduct through December 2006.Since AAC's precursorAlliance Communications first signed the deal in 1994, the arrangement hasproven lucrative to the Canadian company, which enjoys an overwhelmingmarketshare amongst indigenous distributors and more than ...
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Mango Yellow wins top prize in Toulouse
Brazilian Claudio Assis picked up the grand prize at the 15th annual Latin American Film Screenings of Toulouse, France (March 21-30) for his film Mango Yellow (Amarelo Manga).The prize comes with Euros 3,000 for the film's subtitling and distribution in France. Yellow, which is sold internationally by Brazil's Grupo Novo, ...
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UK's Metrodome picks up The Hard Word, Spellbound
Fresh from the UK theatrical success of Donnie Darko, indie distributor Metrodome has picked up The Hard Word from Beyond Films and Academy Award-nominated documentary Spellbound.Metrodome is planning a late-summer release for Hard Word, a story of three fraternal bank robbers which stars Guy Pearce and Rachel Griffiths. The film ...
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Encuentros Iberoamerican market feels the effects of war
As expected, the war in Iraq had an impact on Encuentros, the first Iberoamerican market (March 21-25) held during Mexico's Guadalajara Film Festival. However, despite several last minute cancellations, the market reported 180 attendees. With a shoestring budget of $120,000, Encuentros had to overcome several problems. Gripes ranged from scarce ...