All Screen articles in 7 April 2003 – Page 4
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Plans unveiled for Scottish facilities centre
Scottish producer Gillian Berrie of Sigma Films has revealed plans to develop Film City Glasgow in the city's Govan Town Hall. Backed by Scottish Enterprise Glasgow, Glasgow City Council and the European Regional Development Fund, the £3m project was inspired by Zentropa's facilities in Denmark - Film City Copenhagen. A ...
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Celluloid Dreams takes world rights on Facing Windows
Paris-based sales house Celluloid Dreams has picked up worldwide rights to Ferzan Ozpetek's Facing Windows. The film, produced by Tilde Corsi and Gianii Romoli's R&C Produzioni, is currently at number two at the Italian box office with more than 1 million tickets sold for a take of Euros 6.4m.Facing Windows ...
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BVI recruits four top slots for CIA thriller
Buena Vista International scored a strong weekend for its CIA thriller The Recruit over the weekend with number one openings recorded in four European territories. The UK, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands all awarded the film, which stars Al Pacino and Colin Farrell, with a lead position.The UK and Ireland ...
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Madragoa Filmes awarded Portugese production support
Paulo Branco's Lisbon-based production company Madragoa Filmes has received two of the three latest feature film subsidies granted by the Portuguese Film Institute ICAM.The ICAM (Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimedia) announced the three winners of the newest bid for direct financial support to fiction feature films out of 13 ...
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Australia's Film Finance Corp backs Deck Dogz, Scarlett
Writer/director Steve Pasvolsky's short film Inja failed to win an Oscar in the live action category for which it was nominated, but yesterday he got a very significant consolation prize: the Film Finance Corporation (FFC) agreed to invest in his debut feature Deck Dogz. Pay-TV outfit The Movie Network is ...
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Forsyth, Beaufoy to help finesse four Aurora projects
A second film from Soft Fruit creative team Christina Andreef and Helen Bowden, and yet another from one of the country's most experienced producers, Matt Carroll, are two of the four projects chosen for the second intensive Aurora script development workshop.Bill Forsyth, who wrote and directed Scottish film Local Hero, ...
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Prawer Jhabvala to get screenwriting honour at Nantucket
The Oscarwinning screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is to receive NBC'sScreenwriter Tribute at the eighth annual Nantucket Film Festival (NFF), whichruns from Jun 19-22.Jhabvala wonbest adapted screenplay Oscars for A Room With A View in 1987 and Howards End in 1993. She was nominated for TheRemains Of The Day in1994.Jhabvala'snext project ...
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Chouchou continues to dominate French box office
In its secondweek in France the comedy Chouchou, which is being distributed by Warner Bros, held on to top spot,grossing an estimated $4m (Euros 3.8m) for a $10.2m (Euros 9.6m) running total.In Paris and the suburbs the picture recorded 127,500admissions on 46 screens, while nationwide the figures were 650,000 admissionson ...
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Exhibition vet Bill Doeren joins Kodak Imaging
Exhibitionveteran William B Doeren has been named vice president of the KodakEntertainment Imaging division and general manager of Kodak Digital Cinemagroup.He replacesRobert J Mayson, who is moving into a full-time role as vice president andgeneral manager of Image Origination Products in the same Kodak division.In a statementEric G Rodli, president ...
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Malaysia bans Ghobadi's Marooned In Iraq
The Malaysian censorshipboard, Censorship Film Malaysia, has banned the local release of Marooned InIraq, Bahman Ghobadi'sacclaimed drama which details the impact of Saddam Hussein's devastatingchemical attacks on the Iraqi Kurds.A personal film retitledfrom Cannes 2002 where it played in Un Certain Regard as Songs From MyHomeland, Marooned In Iraq follows ...
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Wellspring hires Rob Williams in acquisitions dept
Wellspring has appointed RobWilliams as manager of acquisitions. Williams arrives from Dreamworks'New York office and will report to the newly appointed head of acquisitions,Marie Therese Guirgis; his responsibilities include acquiring films and programmingfor Wellspring's theatrical, home video and worldwide sales businessunits.'Rob's experience inboth studio and arthouse film distribution will serve ...
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Fox's Daredevil scores $6.6m over weekend
The acrobaticantics of Daredevilwere too much for the competition over the weekend as Fox's actionpicture scored a string of number one openings, grossing $6.6m on 3,661international screens for a $45.9m running total.Among thehighlights was the United Arab Emirates, where the picture grossed $254,000 on23 screens for Fox's second highest opening ...
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Oscars push up Chicago international business by 25%
Fresh from itshaul of six Academy Awards, including one for best picture, Chicago's international box office leapt25% over the weekend according to Miramax International.The Broadwaymusical adaptation grossed an estimated $7m in markets over the weekend toraise its international running total to approximately $80m.Combined withthe picture's $144.5m US gross, which is ...
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Former Catch 23 president Barber joins UTA
Jeremy Barber,the former president of Catch 23 Entertainment, has joined United Talent Agencyas an agent in the motion picture department.Barber, awell-known face on the international festival circuit, will focus onrepresenting film-makers as well as packaging and financing in the independentfilm area. He will work with Howard Cohen, head of UTA's ...
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Ned takes $1.5m in Australian opening weekend for Universal
Ned Kelly followed up its powerful opening day(Screendaily Mar 28) with a $1.5m opening weekend.Buoyed by anintense publicity campaign featuring Heath Ledger and most of the cast, theUniversal Pictures/Endymion Films production opened in 252 theatres and went onto claim a 30% market share over the weekend.It was the thirdhighest opening ...
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The Suit (Shik)
Dir: Bakhtiar Khudoinazarov. Russ-Ger-It-Fr. 2003. 95 mins.The latest outing by director Bakhtiar Khudoinazarov is, essentially, about three country lads fooling about, telling unlikely stories and occasionally becoming maudlin or lovestruck. Charming in its own small way, it is unlikely to have the impact of 1999's Luna Papa on the international ...
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European competition watchdog to rule on Stream/Telepiu merger
The competition watchdog of the European Commission (EC) is tomorrow expected to announce that the merger of Italian pay-TV companies Telpiu and Stream can go ahead.The deal was sealed five months ago with the News Corp-controlled Stream buying Telepiu from Vivendi Universal's Canal Plus unit for Euros 900m. The deal ...
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CIA thriller recruits UK core audience
Buena Vista International's CIA thriller The Recruit expanded from one to 381 sites in its second weekend on release in the UK and swept straight to the top of the chart with $1.4m (£920,472).The wide opening of The Recruit kept other new hopefuls, including day-and-date launch The Core, off the ...
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Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum postponed
The organisers of the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) have confirmed that the event has been postponed until further notice due to the outbreak of a deadly virus in Hong Kong. More than 450 industry professionals from 20 countries had registered to attend the projects and co-production market ...
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BVITV appoints Alison Homewood
Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) has appointed Alison Homewood as vice president of sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa, it was announced by Tom Toumazis, vice president and managing director, BVITV. Homewood will report directly into Toumazis and joins BVITV from BBC Worldwide where she was deputy managing director ...