All Screen articles in 7 November 2002 – Page 5
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Eros International reclaims sales on Devdas
First-time MIFED exhibitor Eros International will be offering distributors the chance to buy Devdas, the Indian foreign-language Oscar contender, that was previously represented by Focus Features.'The transaction is done at last,' said Eros chief executive Kishore Lulla, who produced the film and has been negotiating to retrieve the sales rights ...
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Euro delegation heads for New Zealand
A nine-person delegation of European producers is heading for New Zealand this month with the aim of developing co-productions. More may join them.The delegation is being financed through Investment New Zealand and is one of several new government-funded initiatives aimed at strengthening the country's screen industries on the back of ...
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Splendid lifts Veil on Stratus debut film
Splendid Pictures has signed on to represent international sales on The Painted Veil, the first film from Stratus Film Co, the independent production outfit unveiled recently by Hollywood super-producer Mark Gordon, former Miramax LA president Mark Gill and financier Bob Yari. Edward Norton and Naomi Watts are to star in ...
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Splendid lifts Veil on Stratus debut film
Splendid Pictures has signed on to represent international sales on The Painted Veil, the first film from Stratus Film Co, the independent production outfit unveiled recently by Hollywood super-producer Mark Gordon, former Miramax LA president Mark Gill and financier Bob Yari. Edward Norton and Naomi Watts are to star in ...
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Indian studio strikes US first-look deal with Lions Gate
A multi-picture deal with Lions Gate Entertainment is first evidence of the ambitions of India's Ramoji Studios to become a world scale player.The multi-year, first-look arrangement with Lions Gate enables Ramoji to offer US distribution to a number of films that shoot at its Hyderabad facilities, or are co-produced with ...
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Real Thing joins Irish low-budget craze
A six-week location shoot will begin today in Limerick city on The Real Thing, a 1.5m Euro feature that marks the fifth low-budget feature to go into production in Ireland this year.Being made as an Irish/German/UK co-production by Wide Eye Films in association with Peter Stockhaus Filmproduktion, Grosvenor Park Productions ...
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RAI sees new life in Pinocchio classic
Riding on the current wave of excitement over Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio, Rome sales company Rai Trade has bought international rights to Luigi Comencini's critically-acclaimed 1972 version of the Italian classic - and the newly-relaunched picture has already proved a fast seller.Rai Trade bought all international rights to the restored ...
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CJ steps up production, sales drive
With no less than seven new pictures on its MIFED slate, Korean giant CJ Entertainment is dramatically stepping up production volume.The stock-market traded film subsidiary of the Cheil Jedang chaebol, or conglomerate, CJ Entertainment is planning to produce as many as 15-18 films a year.'Korean films have large and growing ...
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CJ steps up production, sales drive
With no less than seven new pictures on its MIFED slate, Korean giant CJ Entertainment is dramatically stepping up production volume.The stock-market traded film subsidiary of the Cheil Jedang chaebol, or conglomerate, CJ Entertainment is planning to produce as many as 15-18 films a year.'Korean films have large and growing ...
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Constantin latest to dive into Celluloid's Swimming Pool
Constantin Film of Germany has become the latest high profile buyer to sign on for Celluloid Dreams' Swimming Pool.The film by 8 Femmes director Francois Ozon, which is currently in post production, is a Chabrolian thriller starring Charlotte Rampling as a disillusioned British publisher who travels to France and is ...
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Constantin latest to dive into Celluloid's Swimming Pool
Constantin Film of Germany has become the latest high profile buyer to sign on for Celluloid Dreams' Swimming Pool.The film by 8 Femmes director Francois Ozon, which is currently in post production, is a Chabrolian thriller starring Charlotte Rampling as a disillusioned British publisher who travels to France and is ...
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Crabe Dans La Tete joins Oscar race for Canada
Andre Turpin's Un Crabe Dans La Tete has been selected as Canada's entry for the Best Foreign Language film at next year's Academy Awards.Produced by Montreal-based Qu4tre par Quatre Films, the film premiered last year at the Toronto International Film Festival and also screened at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival ...
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Miramax goes BVI route in Germany
Miramax Films' newly-promoted chief operating officer Rick Sands (pictured) has confirmed that Miramax Films will no longer be selling its films to independents in Germany, but will instead set up its own marketing operation and partner with sister company Buena Vista International (BVI) to handle physical distribution. Miramax already has ...
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Miramax goes BVI route in Germany
Miramax Films' newly-promoted chief operating officer Rick Sands (pictured) has confirmed that Miramax Films will no longer be selling its films to independents in Germany, but will instead set up its own marketing operation and partner with sister company Buena Vista International (BVI) to handle physical distribution. Miramax already has ...
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BV Int'l has busy start with Minotaur and Thunderstruck
Norwegian sales outfit BV International has had a busy start to the market and even struck one deal while it was unpacking its boxes on Saturday.It sold Minotaur, its Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Derek Jacobi teen horror, to New World for Thailand. On the eve of the market it also sold ...
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BV Int'l has busy start with Minotaur and Thunderstruck
Norwegian sales outfit BV International has had a busy start to the market and even struck one deal while it was unpacking its boxes on Saturday.It sold Minotaur, its Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Derek Jacobi teen horror, to New World for Thailand. On the eve of the market it also sold ...
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Buskin starts production on Carpi's Intermittenze Del Cuore
Buskin Film starts production this week on veteran Italian arthouse director Fabio Carpi's Le Intermittenze Del Cuore ; marking the young Rome sales outfit's second foray into high-profile Italian feature film production.Carpi's Euros 4m semi-autobiographical picture revolves around the memories of a man who is preparing a film about Marcel ...
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Buskin starts production on Carpi's Intermittenze Del Cuore
Buskin Film starts production this week on veteran Italian arthouse director Fabio Carpi's Le Intermittenze Del Cuore ; marking the young Rome sales outfit's second foray into high-profile Italian feature film production.Carpi's Euros 4m semi-autobiographical picture revolves around the memories of a man who is preparing a film about Marcel ...
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Dutch tax credit system grinds to bureaucratic halt
Bureaucracy may have killed off The Netherlands' attractions for foreign producers and potential film investors alike.The famously lucrative tax credit system which allowed production investors to shelter their income and avoid capital taxes was put on temporary hold this July when the tax authorities decided to review the system yet ...
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Mikado boards new Panahi, Sokurov projects
Italy's Mikado, fresh from a hefty cash boost by new multimedia shareholder De Agostini, continues to raise its international profile by boarding as a co-producer two new films from world-renown filmmakers: Aleksander Sokurov's Father And Son and Jafar Panahi's Gold, which was co-written with another festival favourite, Abbas Kiarostami. Both ...