All Screen articles in 7 November 2003 – Page 3
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Aardman embarks on lengthy Curse shoot
The UK's Aardman Animation (Chicken Run) has started production on its latest clay-animation feature project, The Curse Of The Wererabbit.Rumoured to cost $50m, the Dreamworks SKG financed feature will take 18 months to shoot and is set for a September 2005 release. 180 people are currently working on the film ...
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SPAIN
Fresh from its best director and public's prize wins at the Montreal Film Festival, new Spanish release Planta 4a took in Euros 541,643 on its opening weekend from just 100 prints through Buena Vista International. The receipts represent a screen average of Euros 5,416 - the second highest of the ...
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ITALY
Venice Golden Lion winner The Return opened with a bang at the Italian box office, where it earned $161,313 from just 30 screens. Particularly impressively, newcomer Andrei Zvygatinsev's study of rebellion against parental authority - which is Russia's Oscar candidate - scored a massive screen average of $5,002 for Andrea ...
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FAME takes over Miracle Productions
Film and Music Entertainment, Inc is to acquire Miracle Productions, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Miracle Entertainment, Inc. The acquisition is valued at $4,000,000 and includes script options, rights to production fees, U.S. and foreign distribution rights on various films in development, as well as other assets. Miracle will ...
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Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World
Dir: Peter Weir. US. 2003. 129 mins. One of the season's biggest productions is also one of its most intimate. For all the effort and expense that went into recreating an English battleship in the Napoleonic Wars, Peter Weir's thrilling film of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin characters plays out mostly in ...
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Camel to open Munich Film School Festival
Munich Television & Film School students Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni's critically feted documentary The Story Of The Weeping Camel will open the International Festival of the Film Schools in Munich (Nov 27-30).The festival is returning to its traditional November dates after being held as a parallel event of June's ...
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The Return Of Cagliostro
Dir: Daniele Cipri and Franco Maresco. Italy. 2003. 100 mins.The films of Sicilian directing duo Daniele Cipri and Franco Maresco are an acquired taste. If you find physical deformities, speech defects and farting priests funny, you'll love them. The present reviewer was therefore doubled up in fits of laughter through ...
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More US critics protest MPAA screener ban
The Chicago Film CriticsAssociation have joined their Los Angeles counterparts is suspending theirend-of-year critics awards in protest over the decision by the Motion PictureAssociation of American to prevent screener tapes from being seen at home by anyoneexcept Oscar voters.A statement from the Chicagocritics explained that their association was "disturbed by ...
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Gijon festival unveils 200 film line-up
Spain's indie-oriented Gijon International Film Festival (Nov 20-28) has unveiled the line-up for its upcoming 41st edition, featuring some of the year's top festival prize-winners and talked-about international titles.More than 200 films will air over nine days at the popular event, which has seen a 50% increase in public attendance ...
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TV chief quits Germany's ProSiebenSat.1
Dr. Ludwig Bauer, ProSiebenSat.1 Media's board member with responsibility for television, has left the company "due to differing views on the future strategic direction of the company".Bauer, who had worked at the ProSiebenSat.1 Group since 1992 in various posts including head of programmes and managing director at Kabel 1, was ...
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Fortune Star takes on Leaving Me sales
Hong Kong-based Fortune Star has picked up the first third-party feature on which it will handle international sales.The micro-studio, which is attached to News Corp's Star TV division, is to kick off sales at Mifed on China-set romantic drama Leaving Me Loving You (formerly Big City Trivia). The film, which ...
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Fortune Star opens doors with Leaving Me pickup
Hong Kong-based Fortune Star has picked up the first third-party feature on which it will handle international sales.The micro-studio, which is attached to News Corp's Star TV division, is to kick off sales at Mifed on China-set romantic drama Leaving Me Loving You (formerly Big City Trivia). The film, which ...
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Dirty Pretty Things dominates BIFA prizes
Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things was the big winner at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) this evening (Nov 4, 2003).The unconventional drama about illegal immigrants working in the UK hotel trade was named as best film, earned Frears the best director prize and gave leading man Chiwetel Ejiofor another ...
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Summit reteams with Polanski on Oliver Twist
Summit Entertainment has picked up international rights to RomanPolanski's next film, Oliver Twist, a faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic which has a budgetin the $60m range.Meanwhile Summit has picked up selected key territories to sell onArtisan/Miramax co-production Havana Nights, the Dirty Dancing sequel, which was originally to behandled in ...
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Summit boards Polanski's Oliver Twist
Summit Entertainment has picked up international rights to RomanPolanski's next film, Oliver Twist, a faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic which has a budgetin the $60m range.Meanwhile Summit has picked up selected key territories to sell onArtisan/Miramax co-production Havana Nights, the Dirty Dancing sequel, which was originally to behandled in ...
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Shoreline sells Mexican Real Time to France
Shoreline Entertainment has sold Fabrizio Prada's Mexican drama Real Time to France's Pretty Pictures, which plansto release the film theatrically in early 2004.One of 25 titlesShoreline will be taking to MIFED, Real Time was shot in one continuous take andtells the story of five thieves whose greed drives them to ...
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Paris looks to lure film shoots
A new film commission has been created in the north of Paris, with the aim of luring productions to the area. The Pole Nord-Parisien has brought together 8 municipalities which will participate in the new organisation in order to attract producers to shoot in what is a particularly urban zone. ...
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Thunderbirds creator goes for extra UK tax funding
Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson is raising a second wave funding of UK tax-driven financing for a new series of his cult TV series Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons.Anderson previously raised £8m through the Enterprise Investment Scheme to start production on the £20m series, becoming the fastest and biggest ever example ...
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MGM, Cogeco Cable sign Canadian VOD deal
MGM Home Entertainment andCarleton, Ontario-based Cogeco Cable have signed a video-on-demand supplyagreement that will see MGM library titles carried by Canada's fourth-largestcable provider. The non-exclusive agreementwill include new product including Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, Agent Cody Banks and Jeepers Creepers 2 along with past hits such as ...