All Screen articles in 7 March 2003 – Page 4
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DreamWorks considering Cinar acquisition
DreamWorks SKG is one of several companies pondering the purchase of troubled Canadian animation house Cinar Corp, according to a report in Toronto's Globe and Mail newspaper. Citing unnamed sources, the report says the studio is in league with California-based investment firm Triyar Capital and Michael Hirsh, the former CEO ...
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Sweden's BUFF festival celebrates 20th anniversary
Sweden's BUFF, one of Europe's major children's film festivals, is to celebrate its 20th anniversary on March 11-16. The festival, which takes place in Malmo in the south of Sweden, plays an important role as a platform for children's films in the Nordic region. In 2002 the festival had 12,000 ...
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Producers and directors toast Chicago
First-time director Rob Marshall was the surprise winner of the Director's Guild of America (DGA) feature film directing award on Saturday night for his musical Chicago. The DGA honour is regarded by awards watchers as a key indicator of Academy Award success: since 1949 only five winners have not gone ...
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Celestial Pictures launches travelling Chinese film festival in US
Hong Kong'sCelestial Pictures has launched a traveling US film festival of Chinese martialarts films which kicked off in Los Angeles on Friday and will travel throughuniversities and cinemas in 20 cities the country.The seriestitled Heroic Grace: The Chinese Martial Arts Film features ten classic ShawBrothers films produced between 1966 and ...
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Goodbye, Lenin tops German box office for third week running
Warner Bros-distributed pictures Goodbye Lenin and Two Weeks Notice held on to first and second place respectively in the German charts at the weekend, claiming an impressive 65% market share. Goodbye Lenin, an X-Verleih presentation of an X-Film Creative Pool Production that Warner Bros is distributing in the territory, added ...
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Fireworks scores AFM deals on Coronado
Fireworks Pictures closed a host of international sales on its effects-driven action film Coronado at AFM including deals with Manga in Spain, Scanbox in Scandinavia, Europa in Brazil and RCV in Benelux. The film was written and produced by Volker Engel and Marc Weigert, partners in the production company Uncharted ...
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Echo Lake, Esparza/Katz team to remake 50s classic
Film-maker David Riker (LaCiudad) is to direct a remake of the1953 film Salt Of The Earth, theoriginal release of which was blocked during the McCarthy era, for Echo LakeProductions and Esparza/Katz Productions.The film will be produced byDoug Mankoff of Echo Lake along with Moctesuma Esparza and Robert Katz ofEsparza/Katz Productions ...
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Brian Rosen to head Australia's Film Finance Corp.
It is believed that the Federal Cabinet today approved the appointment of producer Brian Rosen as chief executive of Australia's biggest film investor, the Film Finance Corporation (FFC). He will return to Australia from Los Angeles to take up the highly influential job.For the last decade Rosen has developed projects ...
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Splendid's Without Apparent Motive is apparently off
Splendid Pictures' $38m thriller Without Apparent Motive is not going ahead, certainly in its latest incarnation with director Bille August and stars Richard Gere and Julianne Moore. All three have left the project. The film, which was scheduled to start production in the next few weeks, had secured both Gere ...
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Venice star Nadia Zandegiacomo dies, age 35
Nadia Zandegiacomo of the Venice Film Festival died last week at the age of 35, having succumbed to the cancer that kept her away from the 2002 festival - the first time in ten years that she had not given her invaluable all to the event.Zandegiacomo served as a producers’ ...
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Cradle 2 The Grave hip hops to the top
Warner Bros' action thriller Cradle 2 The Grave opened in first place over the weekend on $17.1m, according to studio estimates released today (Mar 2). The martial arts-hip-hop picture was the only major bow of the weekend as the studios pace themselves in the run-up to the Academy Awards on ...
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