All Screen articles in 7 November 2002 – Page 2
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Buena Vista Int'l enjoys the weekend
Signs grossed $6.3m over the weekend for Buena Vista International (BVI) to bring its international running total to $162m. The supernatural thriller produced BVI's biggest ever opening in Greece, where it scored $650,000 from 53 screens and was roughly 60% higher than the opening for director M Night Shyamalan's previous ...
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Star Wars: Episode II gets IMAX boost
Fox's Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones reaped the rewards of a limited IMAX roll-out in North America over the weekend, grossing $1.4m from 58 screens for a $24,746 per-screen average. Fox president of domestic distribution Bruce Snyder said in a statement that he was thrilled with ...
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Pac Man eats up big screen via Crystal Sky and Gaga
Pac Man is coming to the big screen courtesy of Steven Paul's Crystal Sky which is teaming with Gaga Communications and the game's developer Namco to make live-action fantasy Pac Man: The Movie.The movie follows a previous agreement between Crystal Sky, Gaga and Namco to co-finance a movie based on ...
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Gaga picks up Bellucci
Japan's Gaga has acquired local distribution rights to Unruly, yet another new film starring real-life hot couple Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel.Sold by Rome-based outfit Surf Film, Unruly sees Cassel play the role of a man who returns to Marseilles, after a stint in jail, only to find that life ...
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Mirovision brims with top Asian talents
Korea's Mirovision is enjoying a renaissance as an internationally-minded sales and production group, having spent much of the last year focussing on building its local distribution activities and its first theatre.After last year backing Cannes Directors' Fortnight film Cry Woman, which was the first Korean-Chinese-French co-production, international production is again ...
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Bornedal writes Just Another Love Story
Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal is putting the final touches on a new feature script, Just Another Love Story, set to go before the cameras in spring-summer 2003. The thriller sees an ordinary family man, who gets a chance to change his identity in a split second and does - only ...
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Myriad weaves again with Tapestry
Myriad Pictures has optioned Nina Coleman's script I'll Be You for Jennifer Gibgot of Tapestry Films who will produce the film. I'll Be You is a romantic comedy about a top-ranking female executive who trades places with her wildly social assistant and embarks on a quest to find love. Myriad ...
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German cinema admissions fall 8% in third quarter
German cinema admissions have fallen 8% year-on-year in the first three quarters of 2002, but industry observers expect the new Harry Potter, James Bond and The Lord Of The Rings to effect a turnaround in the fourth quarter.According to figures released by the Berlin-based German Federal Film Board (FFA) ...
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Alcas launches Euros 93.4m German film fund for Hallmark Entertainment
While debate is currently raging in Germany about ways of keeping more private film fund equity at home, fund initiator Alcas has launched a Euros 93.4m fund to produce a raft of international film and TV projects for Hallmark Entertainment.Private German individuals are being invited to invest a minimum of ...
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Spanish broadcaster TVE to invest Euros 25m in film rights
Responding to local producers' calls for broadcasters to make public their investment in Spanish films, public broadcaster Television Espanola (TVE) announced that it expects to pump as much as Euros 25m into free-to-air film rights in 2002.TVE provided a list of 40 feature films, 15 documentaries and one animated film ...
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Female lead cast for Dirty Dancing 2
Romola Garai has signed as the female lead in Artisan Entertainment and Miramax Films' Havana Nights: Dirty Dancing 2. Garai, whose credits include Nicholas Nickleby and the BBC's I Capture The Castle, will star opposite Diego Luna. Directed by Guy Ferland and produced by Lawrence Bender, the story is set ...
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NBC buys Bravo for $1.25 billion
US television network NBC has acquired US cable channel Bravo for $1.25bn in stock and cash, ending months of speculation. The arts and entertainment cable network, a pioneer in programming US independent and subtitled foreign films on American television, will deliver its new owner an affluent urban audience of some ...
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I Spy
Dir: Betty Thomas. US. 2002. 96 mins.At the end of a year of box office disappointment, Eddie Murphy could certainly do with the kind of boost promised by a big screen version of a popular TV show and a teaming with an up-and-coming younger star. Sporadically effective action comedy I ...
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Partnerships are Keys to Italian films
Charlotte Rampling is set to heighten the buzz surrounding Oscar nominated director Gianni Amelio's already widely-anticipated new picture, The Keys To The House (Le Chiavi di Casa), after agreeing to star in the picture alongside local actor Kim Rossi Stuart. But, just as important as the cast, is the fact ...
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Odeon Film switches from Neuer Markt
Odeon Film, co-producer of Gregor Jordan's Buffalo Soldiers, has received the greenlight from the German Stock Exchange to switch his company listing from the Neuer Markt and start trading on the Regulated Market (Geregelter Markt) from December 2.An official statement explained the move 'as a reaction to the present situation ...
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Miramax shakes up its Euro gang
Ending months of speculation, Miramax Films has confirmed a major shake-up of the London-based team responsible for implementing its production and acquisitions activities across Europe.New York-based development chief Colin Vaines will head the London-based operation as executive vice-president of European production and development. Former UK-based chief Allon Reich is joining ...
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Herwitz reps Romania's Oscar entry
Andrew Herwitz, the former Miramax executive who has set up his own New York-based producer's rep The Film Sales Company, has signed on to represent North and Latin America on Philanthropy, the Romanian submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award this year.Written and directed by Nae Caranfil and ...
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Serial killer on the loose for Dream
Dream Entertainment has concluded a slew of deals on David Jacobson's crime drama Dahmer, the true story of the controversial serial killer which has grossed more than $6m in the US.Dream co-founder Ehud Bleiberg sold the film to Les Films de L'Elysee for France and all French-speaking territories including Belgium, ...
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Focus knows how to deal
Focus Features co-president David Linde has unveiled major territory deals on How To Deal, the latest production from Ted Field and Scott Kroopf's Radar, a coming-of-age romance starring Mandy Moore. Roadshow Film Distributors has taken the film for Australia and Paradiso for Benelux alongside Radar partners Lauren Film in Spain, ...
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MIFED hit by crime spree
Burglars struck in Pavilion 8 at MIFED over the weekend, stealing laptop computers, wallets and a Palm Pilot from at least two companies. The losses will be covered by the market's insurance policy, says the MIFED organisation.As misfortune would have it, however, the robberies occurred just days before members of ...