All Screen articles in 7 November 2003 – Page 6
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The Matrix Revolutions
Dir: Andy & Larry Wachowski. US. 2003.After their failed attempt to craft a compelling mythology out of The Matrix with The Matrix Reloaded, the brothers Wachowski resort to a straight action formula in their series finale Revolutions. And as a spectacular action movie, there are few films that could rival ...
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South Korean production update
For the latest South Korean production details - see International Production ListingsThe South Korean production sector's push towards dramas and romantic comedies appears to be intensifying, following the box-office failure of big-budget genre pictures in recent years. This trend peaked in September with the box-office crash of Natural ...
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DENMARK
Kill Bill Vol.1 stayed on top for another week despite its 34% drop from its opening weekend, and it kept newcomer Oliver Ussing's low-budget romantic comedy Rule Nr.1 from the top spot. The new local film didn't quite perform as distributor Sandrew Metronome had hoped based on their high 52 ...
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Osama, Crimson Gold take top Valladolid honours
Siddiq Barmak's Afghan tragedy Osama and Iranian Jafar Panahi's Crimson Gold (Talaye Sorgh) shared the top Golden Spike award at the 48th annual edition of the Valladolid International Film Week (Oct 24-Nov 1).Bent Hamer's Norway's foreign-language Oscar contender Kitchen Stories went home with the Silver Spike prize and best photography, ...
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Lolafilms names international sales chiefs
Spanish production, distribution and sales house Lolafilms has named Tania Pinto Da Cunha and Eva Sklar its new co-directors of international sales.Sklar has been with Lolafilms for eight years, most recently as head of press. Pinto Da Cunha comes to Lola from London's HanWay, the sales arm of Jeremy Thomas' ...
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France Boutique
Dir: Tonie Marshall, France. 2003, 95 min.After beauty parlours comes tele-marketing programmes. Tonie Marshall pursues the comic vision of French consumer society she deployed with wit and zest in her 1999 breakthrough hit, Venus Beauty Institute. But France Boutique, an inside look at a French tele-marketing and those who produce ...
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Lolafilms names new sales chiefs ahead of Mifed
Spanish production, distribution and sales house Lolafilms has named Tania Pinto Da Cunha and Eva Sklar its new co-directors of international sales.Sklar has been with Lolafilms for eight years, most recently as head of press. Pinto Da Cunha comes to Lola from London's HanWay, the sales arm of Jeremy Thomas' ...
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SOUTH KOREA Production Listings - November 3 2003
SOUTH KOREA - November 3PRE-PRODUCTIONCHEONG-YEON(Cineline II) Backer/Dist: Korea Pictures. Drama about Korea's first female aviator, who lived in the 1920s. Prod: Seok Myung-hong. Dir: Yoon Jong-chan. Scr: Lee In-hwa, Yoon Jong-chan. Main cast: Jang Jin-young, Kim Ju-hyuk. Shooting in China, Korea, and U.S.A from ...
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Scary Movie 3 takes crown for second weekend
Dimension's ScaryMovie 3 used theHalloween weekend to shore up some more good business as it added an estimated$21.1m in its second weekend to raise its running total to $78.6m.The horror spoofwas too much for the competition, although Buena Vista's Brother Bear came close on $18.5m after expandingfrom two to 3,030 ...
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Pressure piles up on Korean quota system
South Korea's embattled Screen Quota System is facing its gravest challenge to date after president Roh Moo-hyun and other members of the executive branch have spoken out in favour of weakening the system.In a meeting with reporters on October 30, the Chief Presidential Secretary for National Policy spoke of finding ...
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Internationalmedia posts record revenues
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines has helped Internationalmedia (IM) - parent company of Intermedia - generate third quarter revenues of between Euros 151-156m - a quarterly record for the company. The quarterly sales largely resulted from minimum guarantees for Terminator 3, which has already topped $427m at the worldwide ...
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The Works strikes Japanese deal for Loach's Kiss
UK-based sales concern The Works has pre-sold Ken's Loach Ae Fond Kiss to Cine Qua Non in Japan.Loach, who last month traveled to Japan to receive national honour the Praemium Imperiale, is currently in post on the £3m film.The production, the third in Loach's Glasgow trilogy after Sweet Sixteen and ...
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The Works strikes Japanese deal for Loach's Kiss
UK-based sales concern The Works has pre-sold Ken's Loach Ae Fond Kiss to Cine Qua Non in Japan.Loach, who last month traveled to Japan to receive national honour the Praemium Imperiale, is currently in post on the £3m film.The production, the third in Loach's Glasgow trilogy after Sweet Sixteen and ...
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Horror films look for Halloween box office bump
Several distributors are launching horror titles in major territories this weekend to coincide with Halloween.The UK and Ireland will see the Director's Cut reissue of Ridley Scott's Alien go head to head with New Line's remake of Tobe Hooper's 1974 cult favourite The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.The UK is the first ...
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India Rising to big budget challenge
Ketan Mehta's The Rising starts production in Mumbai next week, with Britain's Prince Charles lined up to snap the clapperboard to mark the start of principal photography. Prince Charles is currently on a nine-day visit to India.Costing $20m, The Rising is set to be the most expensive film ever to ...
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Beta Cinema takes on sales for X-Filme trio
Ahead of this year's MIFED film market, Germany's Beta Cinema has picked up the international rights to three films from Berlin production powerhouse X-Filme creative pool.The films are: Hendrik Handloegten's Learning To Lie (Liegen Lernen), Achim von Borries' Love In Thoughts (Was Nuetzt Die Liebe In Gedanken) and Mennan Yapo's ...
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Beta Cinema takes Mifed sales duties for X-Filme trio
Ahead of this year's MIFED film market, Germany's Beta Cinema has picked up the international rights to three films from Berlin production powerhouse X-Filme creative pool.The films are: Hendrik Handloegten's Learning To Lie (Liegen Lernen), Achim von Borries' Love In Thoughts (Was Nuetzt Die Liebe In Gedanken) and Mennan Yapo's ...
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US showcase of Italian cinema opens with Avati, closes with Cervi
The 13th N.I.C.E. FestivalUSA will open in San Francisco on Nov 16 with a screening of Pupi Avati's Enchanted and closes on Nov 23 with the late Tonino Cervi's Antonia'sRecipes. The Italian cinema showcasewas organised in association with the Italian Institute of Culture and RAIInternational, among others, and takes place ...
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Infernal Affairs leads Golden Horse race
Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Infernal Affairs leads the race for this year's Golden Horse Awards - Taiwan's equivalent of the Oscars - with 12 nominations, while another Hong Kong cop thriller, Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai's PTU, is hot on its heels with 11 nods. Both films picked up ...
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Animation veteran Hirsh buys Cinar in $144m deal
Canadian animation veteranMichael Hirsh is buying Cinar, the troubled Montreal-based animation house. TheUS$144m sale puts Hirsh, co-founder and former CEO of Toronto-based Nelvana Limited,back in the centre of the Canadian animation scene he helped establish. Backed by a Canadian equitycapital fund, TD Capital Canadian Private Equity Partners, Hirsh and partnerToper ...