All Screen articles in 7 November 2002 – Page 6
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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 ...
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Eagle and Elysee first buyers for Summit's Blackout
Eagle Pictures in Italy and Les Films de L'Elysee in Benelux are the first major independents to buy territories on Summit Entertainment's thriller Blackout starring Ashley Judd, Samuel L Jackson and Andy Garcia.Directed by Phil Kaufman (The Right Stuff, Rising Sun), the film is produced by Kopelson Entertainment and Intertainment ...
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Eagle and Elysee first buyers for Summit's Blackout
Eagle Pictures in Italy and Les Films de L'Elysee in Benelux are the first major independents to buy territories on Summit Entertainment's thriller Blackout starring Ashley Judd, Samuel L Jackson and Andy Garcia.Directed by Phil Kaufman (The Right Stuff, Rising Sun), the film is produced by Kopelson Entertainment and Intertainment ...
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Boorman taps Jackson, Binoche for Country Of The Skulls
John Boorman is to direct Samuel L Jackson and Juliette Binoche in South African-set drama Country Of My Skull. UK-based sales company The Works is representing the production worldwide, with shooting scheduled for February.Jackson plays an angry American journalist and Binoche is a troubled young Afrikaaner who encounter a sinister ...
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Boorman taps Jackson, Binoche for Country Of The Skulls
John Boorman is to direct Samuel L Jackson and Juliette Binoche in South African-set drama Country Of My Skull. UK-based sales company The Works is representing the production worldwide, with shooting scheduled for February.Jackson plays an angry American journalist and Binoche is a troubled young Afrikaaner who encounter a sinister ...
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Bim has snapped up Italian rights to Haneke's Wolfszeit
Rome arthouse distributor Bim has snapped up Italian distribution rights to Michael Haneke's Wolfszeit, which stars Isabelle Huppert, Patrice Chereau and Beatrice Dalle.Translated literally as Time Of The Wolf, Wolfszeit is now in post-production and involves Haneke's "regular" Austrian production company Wega-Film in co-production with France's Les Films du Losange ...
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Bim has snapped up Italian rights to Haneke's Wolfszeit
Rome arthouse distributor Bim has snapped up Italian distribution rights to Michael Haneke's Wolfszeit, which stars Isabelle Huppert, Patrice Chereau and Beatrice Dalle.Translated literally as Time Of The Wolf, Wolfszeit is now in post-production and involves Haneke's "regular" Austrian production company Wega-Film in co-production with France's Les Films du Losange ...
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Kim Ki-duk title springs to Bavaria
Sales outfit Bavaria Film International has a growing number of reasons to be positive as it expands its slate of non-German titles.It kicked off MIFED with two strong sessions at Saturday's Milan Screenings, where it showed Peter Bay's Swedish comedy The Man Who Couldn't Say No and Boran, the debut ...
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Cecchi Gori arrest fuels monopoly fears in Italy
The arrest of former Italian movie mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori throws one big question into sharp relief: what will happen to his film interests if ' as is looking increasingly inevitable - his once-formidable empire disintegrates' To many, the answer could rock the landscape of the Italian film industry ' ...
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Cecchi Gori arrest fuels monopoly fears in Italy
The arrest of former Italian movie mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori throws one big question into sharp relief: what will happen to his film interests if - as is looking increasingly inevitable - his once-formidable empire disintegrates' To many, the answer could rock the landscape of the Italian film industry - ...
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Argentinian entrepreneur launches Madrid film empire
Armed with seed capital of $20m-$25m, Madrid-based Argentine entrepreneur Pablo Larguia is launching a new vertically integrated entertainment empire, Innova Networks.The former founder and chief executive of Human Resources software technology company Bumeran.com has immediate ambitions to build multiplexes across Spain. To launch in January 2003, Innova Networks's intended scope ...
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Stone, Everett defect to Arclight
Gary Hamilton and Victor Syrmis' newly-launched Arclight Films has boarded A Different Loyalty, starring Sharon Stone and Rupert Everett.Everett plays British super spy Kim Philby, who defected to Moscow in 1963, and Stone plays his wife. Directed by Marek Kanievska, who also directed Everett in Another Country, another film set ...
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Blue Star widens Anglo-Italian financing net
As the Italian film industry continues to struggle to make commercially viable pictures that can travel outside its own borders, local producers have started to recognise the benefits of joining forces with European - and, in particular, UK allies.A pioneering model has been set by a reciprocal financing arrangement that ...
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Blue Star widens Anglo-Italian financing net
As the Italian film industry continues to struggle to make commercially viable pictures that can travel outside its own borders, local producers have started to recognise the benefits of joining forces with European - and, in particular, UK allies.A pioneering model has been set by a reciprocal financing arrangement that ...
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Blue Star widens Anglo-Italian financing net
As the Italian film industry continues to struggle to make commercially viable pictures that can travel outside its own borders, local producers have started to recognise the benefits of joining forces with European - and, in particular, UK allies.A pioneering model has been set by a reciprocal financing arrangement that ...
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European distributors form six way buying alliance
Six European distributors have teamed up to form a buying alliance, that is the re-working of a similar deal announced this time last year. The companies involved include pure distributors Switzerland's Frenetic, Spain's Alta Films and Cinelibre-Cineart and producer-distributors Haut Et Court from France, Fu Works-A-Films from The Netherlands and ...
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European distributors form six way buying alliance
Six European distributors have teamed up to form a buying alliance, that is the re-working of a similar deal announced this time last year. The companies involved include pure distributors Switzerland's Frenetic, Spain's Alta Films and Cinelibre-Cineart and producer-distributors Haut Et Court from France, Fu Works-A-Films from The Netherlands and ...
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Hard Word finds its new Alibi in Beyond
Sydney-based Beyond Films will begin selling the Australian crime thrillerThe Hard Word at MIFED, replacing London-based Alibi Films as its international sales agent.Alibi originally signed on to represent the film internationally in mid-2000, over a year before shooting began, largely because of the interest of its then sales chief Hilary ...
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XXX thrills Italy, battles 28 Days Later in UK
XXX is expected to pass the international $100m mark by the end of the week after a $12.4m weekend haul that gives the Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) action thriller a $96m running total. The picture opened in Italy with $2m from 330 screens, comparing favourably to previous openings ...
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Spider-Man VHS & DVD sales spin $190m record revenues
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is celebrating today after scoring the biggest ever video and DVD release of all time over the weekend with Spider-Man. The release broke first day sales records on Friday with seven million units (combined VHS and DVD) sold and more than 11 million units are estimated ...