All Screen articles in 7 November 2003 – Page 5
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Australia's Ocean splits in two
After three and a half years together as partners, Jonathan Shteinman and Emile Sherman are dissolving their Sydney-based sales agency and distribution/production outfit Ocean Pictures. Both of them are now setting up their own seperate distribution/production entities.The first film under the Sherman Pictures banner is likely to be theatre director ...
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UIP's Intolerable Cruelty held on to the top spot in its second weekend and BVI's Kill Bill Volume 1, which has been on screens for three weekends, clawed its way back up to second position. That meant displacing Roadshow's Freddy vs Jason, which actually dropped two places to fourth position ...
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Berlinale lines up New Hollywood 1967-1976 retrospective
The Berlinale has lined up a Retrospective called "New Hollywood 1967 - 1976. Trouble in Wonderland" for its 2004 edition. The Retrospective will screen 66 films: from Arthur Penn's gangster ballad Bonnie and Clyde (1967) to Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) and Robert Kramer's study of a generation Milestones (1976).D. ...
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Moviehouse takes on ivans xtc sales
London-based sales company Moviehouse Entertainment has picked up international rights to ivans xtc, the edgy tale of a fast-rising Hollywood agent from Candyman director Bernard Rose.Moviehouse will launch the film at MIFED, where it will also screen recently completed Blind Flight following its world premiere at the London Film Festival. ...
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Paramount renews German fund ties
US studio Paramount Pictures is once again set to tap into German private equity to bankroll its films.German fund specialist Alcas has launched the MMDP Munich Movie Development & Production fund - which is expected to raise at least Euros 75m - to back two Paramount films.Alcas has worked with ...
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here! gets US rights to Fortissimo's Yes Nurse, No Nurse!
here! Films hasacquired North American rights to Peter Kramer's Dutch musical comedy Yes,Nurse No Nurse!Executive vice president of distribution and acquisitionsMark Reinhart acquired the rights from Fortissimo Films.Based on a Dutch1960s television show, the story centres on a group of eccentric residents atan Amsterdam rest home and the miserly landlord ...
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International rights to Prey go to Dream
LosAngeles-based production and international sales company Dream Entertainmenthas acquired all international rights to Alex Steyermark's directorial debut PreyFor Rock N Roll and willpremiere the drama at MIFED.Nadine de Barros, Dream's vice president of sales andacquisitions, negotiated the rights deal with Cinetic Media's Matt Littinrepresenting the film's producers Donovan Mannato, Gina ...
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International rights to Prey go to Dream Entertainment
LosAngeles-based production and international sales company Dream Entertainmenthas acquired all international rights to Alex Steyermark's directorial debut PreyFor Rock N Roll and willpremiere the drama at MIFED.Nadine de Barros, Dream's vice president of sales andacquisitions, negotiated the rights deal with Cinetic Media's Matt Littinrepresenting the film's producers Donovan Mannato, Gina ...
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France, Germany mull closer co-operation
Closer co-operation between Germany and France in the fields of film financing, production and distribution will be on the agenda of the first German-French Film Rendezvous to be held in France's Lyons from November 3-4.Among key players from the two countries set to speak in a series of roundtable discussions ...
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Oz cinemagoing habits revealed by new research
New research indicates that 70% of all Australians aged 18 years and over, or about 12.8m people, go to the cinema at least once a year. Over a half (56%) go more than five times and almost a quarter (23%) go more than 10 times.The research is part of a ...
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here! gets domestic rights to Dutch camp classic Yes Nurse, No Nurse!
here! Films hasacquired North American rights to Peter Kramer's Dutch musical comedy Yes,Nurse No Nurse!Executive vice president of distribution and acquisitionsMark Reinhart acquired the rights from Fortissimo Films.Based on a Dutch1960s television show, the story centres on a group of eccentric residents atan Amsterdam rest home and the miserly landlord ...
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Boll buys film rights to Dungeon Siege game
Germanproduction company Boll KG has acquired theatrical and related merchandiserights to the fantasy video game Dungeon Siege from Gas Powered Games.Executiveproducer and director Uwe Boll expects to begin filming toward the end of 2004and said the budget will be in the $50m range. Dan Sales' Interactive FilmSales International owns foreign ...
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Disney signs Brother Bear film-makers to their next film
The threefilm-makers behind Buena Vista's animated feature Brother Bear, which grossed $18.5m at the weekend(Oct 31-Nov 2), have signed a deal to make their next feature for Walt DisneyFeature Animation.Directors AaronBlaise and Robert Walker and producer Chuck Williams will reprise their roleson an unspecified project for the studio. All three ...
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UK film industry exports slip back
UK film product's net surplus fell 23% last year to £187m, according to new figures from the Office of National Statistics.Exports fell from £700 million in 2001 to £657 million, while imports rose slightly from £456 million in 2001 to £470 million.But the figures still left the film industry with ...
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Arclight takes on hot ensemble pic for MIFED
Sydney- andLA-based Arclight Films has acquired international rights to ensemble crimedrama Crash featuringHeath Ledger, Brendan Fraser, Eva Mendes, DonCheadle, Forest Whitaker and Thandie Newton.The film isbeing produced by Cathy Schulman and Bob Yari's Bull's Eye Entertainment andfinanced by Yari's Stratus Film Company. Shooting is set to start on Dec 9 ...
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Arclight takes on hot ensemble pic from Bull's Eye
Sydney- andLA-based Arclight Films has acquired international rights to ensemble crimedrama Crash featuringHeath Ledger, Brendan Fraser, Eva Mendes, DonCheadle, Forest Whitaker and Thandie Newton.The film isbeing produced by Cathy Schulman and Bob Yari's Bull's Eye Entertainment andfinanced by Yari's Stratus Film Company. Shooting is set to start on Dec 9 ...
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Moviehouse takes on ivans xtc sales ahead of Mifed
London-based sales company Moviehouse Entertainment has picked up international rights to ivans xtc, the edgy tale of a fast-rising Hollywood agent from Candyman director Bernard Rose.Moviehouse will launch the film at MIFED, where it will also screen recently completed Blind Flight following its world premiere at the London Film Festival. ...
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Beatty, De Laurentiis, Cameron get honours at 2003 PGA Awards
Warren Beatty will receive the Milestone Award, Dino De Laurentiisthe David O Selznick Achievement Award Theatrical Motion Pictures and JamesCameron the Vanguard Award at the upcoming 15th Annual Producers Guild ofAmerica (PGA) Awards in Los Angeles on Jan 15 2004.Previous recipients of the Milestone Award - the PGA's mostprestigious honour ...
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Bad Boys 2 steals another $6m for CTFDI over weekend
Bad Boys 2 grossed $6m over the weekend to raiseits international running total to $109.8m.The actionsequel, which was released by Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International(CTFDI), added $1.9m from 646 screens in its third weekend in France, dropping33% for $10.1m and second place.In Germany inits fourth weekend it added $1.2m from ...
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Skagerrak
Dir: Soren Kragh-Jacobsen. Denmark-UK. 2003. 104minsA modern fairytale about friendship, second chances and the unpredictable nature of happiness, Skagerrak is an unwieldy romantic charmer from writer-director Soren Kragh-Jacobsen. Lacking the focus and obvious commercial appeal of Berlin prize-winner Mifune, his English-language debut is the kind of slow burner that worms ...