All Screen articles in 7 November 2002 – Page 8
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Ewan McGregor quits Natural Nylon
Ewan McGregor has left Natural Nylon, the UK production company founded by the cream of the country's acting talent in a bid to create a British United Artists.News of the UK star's departure comes only weeks after the production company lost founder member and producer Damon Bryant, who left to ...
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Moviehouse Entertainment takes Long Lunch
Moviehouse Entertainment, the one-year-old UK sales company, has picked up worldwide rights to Australian action-comedy The Long Lunch.The low-budget caper is directed by commercials director Antony Redman, who was named as one of the world's hottest new directors by London advertising magazine Campaign. Starring Jeanette Cronin, Ian Bliss and Vince ...
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Moviehouse Entertainment takes Long Lunch
Moviehouse Entertainment, the one-year-old UK sales company, has picked up worldwide rights to Australian action-comedy The Long Lunch.The low-budget caper is directed by commercials director Antony Redman, who was named as one of the world's hottest new directors by London advertising magazine Campaign. Starring Jeanette Cronin, Ian Bliss and Vince ...
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Imax, Regal sign five screen deal, settle Edwards suit
Toronto-based Imax Corp. has signed an agreement with US exhibitor Regal Entertainment Group to install giant screen systems at Regal's recently-acquired subsidiary circuits, four in its Edwards Theatres facilities and one in an United Artists facility. The deal gives Imax certain exclusivity rights as Regal's large-format provider - the company's ...
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Hong Kong submits English-language film for best foreign-language Oscar
Hong Kong has presented the Academy Awards with an interesting test case, by submitting Peter Pau's The Touch as its official entry for the best foreign-language Oscar, despite the fact the film is predominantly English-language.The body responsible for the nomination process - the Federation of Motion Film Producers of Hong ...
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Rezo Films to produce Rohmer's Triple Agent
French distribution outfit Rezo Films is to produce Eric Rohmer's next film, Triple Agent. The Euros 4m film, which teams Rezo with Rohmer's own production outfit, C.E.R, will also mark the distribution outfit's first foray into the foreign sales sector.Rezo Film used to focus on the distribution (and sometimes the ...
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Rezo Films to produce Rohmer's Triple Agent
French distribution outfit Rezo Films is to produce Eric Rohmer's next film, Triple Agent. The Euros 4m film, which teams Rezo with Rohmer's own production outfit, C.E.R, will also mark the distribution outfit's first foray into the foreign sales sector.Rezo Film used to focus on the distribution (and sometimes the ...
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Mason in the frame to head Channel 4's new film unit
Graeme Mason, Universal Pictures' former president of acquisitions, has emerged as a candidate to head Channel 4's new film unit if he and the channel agree on a structure for the operation.Mason has until now been seen as an unlikely candidate to head Channel 4's scaled-back film unit, which was ...
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Hukkle
Dir: Gyorgy Palfi.. Hungary. 2002. 75mins.An authentic one-off - think Microcosmos meets Twin Peaks - Hukkle starts out as a serene, naturalistic portrait of rural life. But it slowly morphs into something much more sinister, as apparently disconnected scenes gel into a murder investigation whose key events unfold in the ...
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The Sea (Hafid)
Dir: Baltasar Kormakur. Iceland/France/Norway. 2002. 109minsThe wicked sense of humour that helped make his sprightly debut feature, Reykjavik 101, an off-the-wall delight is all but submerged in Baltasar Kormakur's follow-up, which offers an even bleaker portrait of Icelandic desperation and dysfunction. As a roiling family psychodrama, The Sea brings to ...
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Sundance unveils new grant for science themed films
The Sundance Institute has announced a new grant and a $20,000 prize from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation to develop and reward films that explore science and technology. Each year a selected project from the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program will receive support from development to pre-production with year-round resources. ...
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Poland's Sobocinski to receive top cinematography prize
The veteran cinematographer Witold Sobocinski is to receive the American Society Of Cinematographer's (ASC) International Achievement Award for his outstanding contribution to international cinema. Sobocinski, who was born in Poland in 1929 and has made more than 30 features mostly seen in Poland and Eastern Europe, is the first recipient ...
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MGM takes over own Canadian video distribution
MGM Home Entertainment Group is to assume all Canadian self-distribution responsibilities for video and DVD, taking over from Warner Home Video, president and chief operating officer David Bishop announced yesterday. The extension of operations will begin in April 2003 and will be headed up in Toronto by Martin Wragg, the ...
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The Tracker wins Australian critics prize
The Tracker has won best film prize at Australia's Film Critics Circle awards. Julie Ryan accepted the award, saying that Rolf de Heer, her co-producer on the film, was not just an inspiration to her but to the whole film community.Rolf de Heer had already been on stage to collect ...
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Media Asia's Mifed slate gets boost from Tong, Chan
Hong Kong's Media Asia has unveiled three new projects, to start shooting in the first half of next year, and confirmed that Stanley Tong will direct its big-budget Jackie Chan action vehicle, Titanium Rain. Tong previously directed Chan in his first three stateside hits - Supercop, Rumble In The Bronx ...
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Stanley Tong, Gordon Chan join Media Asia slate
Hong Kong's Media Asia has unveiled three new projects, to start shooting in the first half of next year, and confirmed that Stanley Tong will direct its big-budget Jackie Chan action vehicle, Titanium Rain. Tong previously directed Chan in his first three stateside hits - Supercop, Rumble In The Bronx ...
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Vienna to subsidise key arthouse cinemas
The city of Vienna has agreed to subsidise the operation of two historic art house cinemas that were threatened with closure after they ran into financial difficulties. The Vienna International Film Festival has been asked to take over the running of the 736 seat central Vienna Gartenbau cinema, while ...
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Spain mourns death of veteran director Juan Antonio Bardem
Spain awoke Thursday morning to the news that veteran director and scriptwriter Juan Antonio Bardem had died on Wednesday in Madrid at the age of 80.After getting his start as co-scripter on Luis Garcia Berlanga's Welcome Mr Marshall (Bienvenido Mr Marshall), celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year, he directed such ...
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Latin American scripts win through at MPA Development Workshop
Screenplays from Mexico, Chile and Uruguay beat 16 other contenders at the Feature Film Project Development Workshop and Competition 2002 organized by the Motion Pictures Association (MPA) in Miami. The winning scripts were Enemigos Intimos (Intimate Enemies) by Ana Carolina Rivera Gonzalez (Mexico), El Bano Del Papa (Daddy's Bath) ...
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First Look takes My Kingdom to North America
Specialist US distributor First Look Pictures has picked up My Kingdom, a modernistic re-telling of the King Lear story, that was the last leading role for acting legend Richard Harris who died last week.The picture, bought from sister company Overseas Filmgroup, will be given a US release on Dec 6, ...