All Screen articles in 7 March 2003 – Page 3

  • News

    Intacto takes top honours at Fantasporto

    2003-03-04T04:05:00Z

    Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's Intacto (pictured) picked up best film and best screenplay prizes in the Fantasy Section of the 23rd Oporto International Film Festival (Feb 21 - Mar 1), better known as Fantasporto.The UK's Danny Boyle went home with the best director prize for 28 Days Later, with Germany's Robert ...

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    Myriad attracted by Murders

    2003-03-04T04:05:00Z

    Myriad has picked up all worldwide sales rights to the low-budget film You Can't Stop The Murders, which is being released in Australia on March 13 by BVI and Miramax. The comedy is Anthony Mir's directorial debut and he also appears in the film alongside his long-term stand-up comedy collaborators ...

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    Denmark's Steen wins best actress & supporting actress awards - again

    2003-03-04T04:05:00Z

    Danish actress Paprika Steen made awards history on Sunday by winning both best actress and best supporting actress prizes at the Danish film critics' Bodil Awards - having done exactly the same at last month's Danish academy awards, the Roberts.Steen (pictured) and director Susanne Bier took centre stage at Sunday ...

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    German film fund awards more than $5m to new projects

    2003-03-04T04:05:00Z

    New features by Dennis Gansel, Sherry Hormann, Ben Verbong and three graduation films by students of Munich's Academy for Television & Film (HFF) are among the film projects receiving over Euros 5m from Bavaria's regional film fund FFF Bayern.Olga Film's production of Dennis Gansel's historical drama Napola about the ...

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    Gaga takes Japanese rights to Winterbottom's Code 46

    2003-03-04T04:05:00Z

    Gaga Communications has acquired Japanese rights to Michael Winterbottom's sci-fi Code 46, which is currently in production starring Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton.The deal was sealed with UK-based sales agent The Works at last week's AFM, where Winterbottom's previous film, Berlin winner In This World, was one of the market's ...

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    IMAX launches new system for use in multiplexes

    2003-03-04T00:00:00Z

    IMAX Corporation today (Mar 3) announced a deal with US cinema chain Jack Loeks Theatres to install its first large-format theatre system specifically designed for use in multiplex theatres. The move is a departure from the traditional IMAX format, which required construction of a new theatre. Under the new IMAX ...

  • News

    Jackass grosses out in the UK

    2003-03-04T00:00:00Z

    It may feature a man having his nipple bitten by a baby crocodile but Jackass: The Movie's constitution did not prove strong enough to unseat The Ring at the UK box office last week.But Jackass, which entered the chart at number two, still made a remarkable assault on UK cinemas ...

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    Macquarie and Nine launch second production fund

    2003-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Australia's Nine Network and Macquarie Bank have launched a new production investment fund with the aim of raising at least $12.3m - after the partnership's inaugural fund last year raised $13.3m out of a hoped-for $35m. The Nine Network and Macquarie Bank today (March 4) lodged a prospectus with the ...

  • Reviews

    Comandante

    2003-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Oliver Stone. US. 2003. 99mins.For his first documentary, filmmaker Oliver Stone has chosen, in typically Stone fashion, a controversial subject: Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Commandante provides a fascinating look at the man behind the iconic beard and cigar. But the subject is the only controversial thing about the film. ...

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    China 'ready' for foreign-owned multiplexes

    2003-03-04T00:00:00Z

    China's top film executivesays Beijing may soon allow foreign exhibitors to take a majority stake in itstheatre chains and is also actively considering relaxing the country's intricaterules regarding international co-productions.Yang Buting, chief executiveofficer of sprawling entertainment conglomerate China Film Group, told theShoWest convention in Las Vegas yesterday that the Chinese ...

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    France's TPS signs multi-year deal with BVI television

    2003-03-04T00:00:00Z

    One week after Canal Plus struck an exclusive pay-TV deal with Disney for five animated features, rival French satellite platform TPS has signed a multi-year agreement with Buena Vista International Television for live-action films from Touchstone Pictures.The deal is for first window pay-TV and will include major current and upcoming ...

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    BBC Worldwide to co-produce feature documentary with Germany's Greenlight

    2003-03-04T00:00:00Z

    BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, is working on a theatrical version of its acclaimed natural history documentary series The Blue Planet. BBC Worldwide has signed a co-production agreement with German production and international distribution company Greenlight Media to fund the feature length documentary.Greenlight Media will co-ordinate all ...

  • Reviews

    Neither For, Nor Against (Quite The Contrary (Ni Pour, Ni Contre (Bien Au Contraire)

    2003-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Cedric Klapisch. Fr. 2002. 112minsAfter the success of Europudding, the Barcelona-set youth comedy which was the fourth biggest French film at home last year (where it took $16.6m), Cedric Klapisch had a tough act to follow. He does so with Neither For, Nor Against, another ensmeble piece, but ...

  • Reviews

    Angst (Der Alte Affe Angst)

    2003-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Dir. Oskar Roehler. Germany. 2002. 91mins.Too much navel-gazing and too little perspective will make Oskar Roehler's formulaic psycho-drama a hard sell, at home as well as abroad. Unlike his earlier, award-winning Nowhere To Go, which put the tragedy of a disillusioned woman writer in a larger socio-political context, the demise ...

  • News

    German actor Horst Buchholz dies, aged 68

    2003-03-04T00:00:00Z

    The German film industry is mourning the passing of actor Horst Buchholz at the age of 68.After appearing at Berlin's Schiller Theatre, Buchholz was discovered by director Julien Duvivier who gave him his first film role in Marianne De Ma Jeunesse in 1955. In the same year, he appeared in ...

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    High-profile speakers lined up for 2nd Inside Pictures training course

    2003-03-03T06:00:00Z

    Four Weddings And A Funeral writer Richard Curtis, Notting Hill producer Duncan Kenworthy and Working Title Films co-chair Tim Bevan are amongst the speakers lined up for the second edition of Inside Pictures, the training scheme set up by former PolyGram Filmed Entertainment chief Michael Kuhn.The scheme, which has secured ...

  • News

    The end of the road for Wim Wenders & Road Movies'

    2003-03-03T04:05:00Z

    The final chapter in the history of Road Movies may have been written with the news of the firing of Wim Wenders as managing director from the company he founded with partners in 1976 to make such classics as Paris, Texas, Wings Of Desire and Buena Vista Social Club.A second ...

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    Sex, History and Hinglish - Bollywood's new genres

    2003-03-03T04:05:00Z

    The failure of several big-budget Indian films last year, both at home and abroad, has forced Indian filmmakers to experiment with new themes. A three-hour, big-budget Hindi movie of boy-meets-girl theme, with top stars, lavish sets, spectacular scenes set in New Zealand and Switzerland and extravagant song-and-dance numbers, costs about ...

  • News

    THINKFilm buys Scherfig's Berlin hit Wilbur

    2003-03-03T04:05:00Z

    THINKFilm has acquired all North American rights to Lone Scherfig's darkly humorous drama Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself. The film, which is her English-language debut, is Scherfig's next film after Italian For Beginners, which was a critical and commercial hit around the world including the US. Trust Film Sales handled ...

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    New animation companies launched in Germany, Spain

    2003-03-03T04:05:00Z

    MTM Medien & Television Muenchen, which has been nominated in the Foreign Language Film Academy Award category for Caroline Link's Nowhere In Africa is branching out into animation production.This follows plans by MTM and the animation production house Papa Loewe Filmproduktion to work together on the development of animation films.The ...