All Screen articles in 7 November 2001
View all stories from this month.
-
News
Italy ponders shortlist of three Oscar candidates
Italy's unofficial shortlist for its foreign Oscar candidate features Nanni Moretti's The Son's Room, Gabriele Muccino's The Last Kiss and Ferzan Ozpetek's Ignorant Fairies.All three movies swept the David di Donatello local awards in April, and are among the highest-grossing Italian films of the year.Widely tipped as the favourite, Moretti ...
-
News
Japan, Uruguay select Oscar nominations
The Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eirin) has selected Isao Yukisada's Go (pictured) as Japan's nominee for the Foreign Film Academy Award, out of a short list of twelve candidates. The film, Yukisada's third feature, tells the story of a Korean youth's coming of age - and his struggle ...
-
News
Benigni's Pinocchio delayed until next Christmas
Roberto Benigni's hugely anticipated next picture, Pinocchio, will not be released in Italy until Christmas 2002, a spokesman for the Cecchi Gori Group confirmed on Wednesday (Nov 7).The film had originally been set for release later this year, which would have placed it somewhere between the two blockbuster heavyweights Harry ...
-
News
Rocket Pictures unveils fresh slate of titles
David Furnish and Elton John's Rocket Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Walt Disney Co. for another five years and unveiled a fresh line-up of films.The company has also negotiated an increased development fund from Disney at a time when, according to Furnish, 97% of the studio's overhead deals ...
-
Reviews
Saturday (Sabado)
Dir: Juan Villegas. Argentina. 2001. 72mins. A brisk deadpan comedy about urban alienation and foundering relationships, Saturday generated mildly positive critical word-of-mouth in Venice earlier this year, where it played in the Cinema Of The Present section. Too lightweight and insufficiently original to make much impact in commercial terms, its ...
-
News
Shrek sells $110m in three-day home video frenzy
Shrek, the year's highest grossing film, has opened another avenue of riches for DreamWorks and its home video distribution partner Universal Studios. The film sold 7 million VHS and DVD units and generated $110m in three days, the best opening weekend since Walt Disney's home video release of The Lion ...
-
News
Danish films continue market-beating home runs
In a year that will no doubt go down as the most profitable ever for Danish films in their home market, new films continue to impress at the box-office, with Friday's release of Niels Arden Oplev's black comedy Fukssvansen taking the top spot from Rush Hour 2 with 25,788 admissions ...
-
News
Hong Kong's TVB to broadcast in China
Sir Run Run Shaw's Hong Kong-based broadcast group Television Broadcasts (TVB) has become the third group to gain official permission to broadcast in China.In a deal slightly different to those recently hatched by AOL Time Warner and Phoenix satellite Television, which is part-owned by News Corp, TVB will set ...
-
News
United Airlines wins entertainment award
United Airlines, which lost two planes in the September 11 attacks, has won an award for best in-flight entertainment. The prize, handed out by the World Airline Entertainment Association, was decided by a panel of media industry figures, including Bruce Johanson of Natpe, David Fraser of Granada Media, Carol Sinclair ...
-
News
Kirch/ProSieben agrees management board
Agreement has been reached internally within the KirchGroup on the executives who will sit on the management board of the new company created from the merger of ProSiebenSAT.1 Media AG and KirchMedia by mid 2002, according to the business news service vwd.While Dieter Hahn is already designated as the ...
-
News
Carlton closes Thai, South Korean sales
The UK's Carlton International has closed a string of video and DVD sales in South Korea and Thailand ahead of this month's Pusan market.In South Korea, Ally Entertainment has licensed 19 classic Rank and ITC catalogue titles from Carlton's Film Collection, including Steve Kloves' The Fabulous Baker Boys and Gus ...
-
News
Mexican arthouse will help independent films
In an attempt to boost the profile of smaller films in Mexico, a new arthouse screen has opened at the Alliance Francaise in the capital. Touted as the first of its kind, Cine Francia will screen a variety of indie films giving special exposure to French and Mexican product. ...
-
News
Mannheim reveals debut directors' competition
Danish director Ake Sandgren's Truly Human (Et Rigtigt Menneske) is the opening film at the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg (November 8-17 2001) which will be celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with a number of special events looking back over the past five decades with such filmmakers as Volker Schloendorff, ...
-
News
Fortissimo closes deals on a range of titles
Fortissimo Film Sales enjoyed a busy Mifed having struck deals on its foreign-language Oscar hopeful La Spagnola and a range of other titles.An Australian comedy directed by Steve Jacobs, La Spagnola was sold to Araba Films for Spain, Mongkol Cinema for Thailand, Quality Films for Mexico, Gil ...
-
News
Ex-EM.TV bosses to be prosecuted in Germany
Munich's public prosecutor's office is tabling charges against the former CEO Thomas Haffa and CFO Florian Haffa of one-time shareholders' darling EM.TV & Merchandising's on suspicion of them purposely concealing the true state of the company's shares. (Screendaily Dec 17, 2000)Senior public prosecutor Manfred Wick told the dpa news agency ...
-
News
TV-Loonland takes 29.9% stake in Metrodome
UK DVD and video distributor Metrodome Group is set to boost its international, presence in the home entertainment sector following plans by Germany's TV-Loonland to acquire a 29.9% stake.Subject to receiving approval at an extraordinary general meeting on November 29, TV-Loonland will buy 4,184,250 new shares from Metrodome at a ...
-
News
Oscar race joined by Colombia's Assassins
Colombia's Film Office has selected Barbet Schroeder's controversial Our Lady Of The Assassins (La Virgen De Los Sicaros) for submission as best foreign language film at next year's Academy Awards.In his first foreign language production in sixteen years, Schroeder's film illustrates the demise of Medellin, a once magnificent city, now ...
-
News
Kidman back on top with an Others film
Antipodean actress Nicole Kidman reclaimed the crown at the UK box office this week, four weeks after her musical hit Moulin Rouge relinquished the top spot to American Pie 2, as The Others knocked the comedy sequel from its perch following a three week reign.The chiller scored an impressive take ...
-
Reviews
The Mystic Masseur
Dir: Ismail Merchant. UK. 2001. 117mins.The Mystic Masseur plays to the proven strengths of the Merchant-Ivory team: like much of their previous work, it depicts the contrast and clash of cultures in an exotic arena, backed by a literary pedigree, in this case VS Naipaul's first novel. A significant advance ...
-
News
EFA Watch: stars flock to Berlin award ceremony
Stars newly confirmed to attend the European Film Awards in Berlin on December 1 include Germany's Maria Schrader whose latest film is Rosenstrasse; Maria Bonnevie (Sweden, I Am Dina, Dragonfly [aka Oyenstikker]); Joely Richardson (UK, The Affair Of The Necklace); Fabrizio Gifuni (Italy, L'Amore Probabilmente); Paul Rhys (UK, ...