All Screen articles in 8 April 2002 – Page 4
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Scorsese to head Cannes Short & Cinefondation jury
Martin Scorsese will preside over the Short Film and Cinefondation jury during the upcoming Festival de Cannes (15-26 May), the festival announced today (Apr 9).Scorsese, who has been honorary president of the Cinefondation since it was formed four years ago, has been a vigorous supporter of youth development programmes. Last ...
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Buyers back Gangs move to Dec 2002
International buyers ofMartin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York are all supporting the shift of the film to a Christmas US release dateand many are expected to go day-and-date with the US, according to InitialEntertainment Group (IEG) president Graham King who majority financed the filmto the tune of $67m."Itnever really warranted ...
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Duchovny stars in Myriad/Zoetrope's My Dark Places
David Duchovny has taken thelead role in Robert Greenwald's upcoming film of James Elroy'sautobiographical novel My Dark Places which is being produced by Francis Ford Coppola's AmericanZoetrope and financed by Myriad Pictures.The film, originally set upby Myriad and then taken over by Zoetrope under the two companies' jointventure to produce ...
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Ford, Spielberg to present Lucas BAFTA/LA honour
Harrison Ford and StevenSpielberg will both serve as presenters at this Friday's 11thannual Britannia Awards held by the British Academy Of Film & TelevisionArts/Los Angeles (BAFTA/LA) in Los Angeles.They will honour GeorgeLucas, who will receive the BAFTA/LA Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for excellencein film at the event. Both Ford and ...
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Ulrich Thomsen to star in Fly's Arven for Zentropa
One of the most well-known Danish actors working abroad, Ulrich Thomsen, has returned to home turf to play the lead in Arven (literal translation The Inheritance), the eagerly awaited new film from writer-director Per Fly.Fly swept the national film awards last year with his strong social-realist drama The Bench. The ...
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Abril appointed new Via Digital head
Luis Abril was named president of Spanish digital satellite TV operation Via Digital, by parent company Admira.Abril is also president of Admira, the multimedia arm of telecoms giant Telefonica, which he took over from Juan Jose Nieto in January.The appointment is the latest in a series of top level executive ...
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Microsoft readies new films on the net offensive
Software giant Microsoft has set its sights on the movie and TV distribution business, backed by an enhanced version of its Windows Media Player that will allow feature films to be delivered via the internet. The software behemoth made the announcement at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in ...
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Xilam buys into French animated pic Kaena
French animation production house Xilam has acquired the rights to fully computer-animated feature film Kaena -- co-financed and handled worldwide by StudioCanal -- following the bankrupcy of the original producer, Chaman Production.StudioCanal has already widely sold the Euros12m title -- which is scheduled to be completed by year-end -- ...
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Monrak Transistor first confirmation for Quinzaine
Monrak Transistor, the third film by Thai new wave director Pen-ek Ratanaruang is the first film to have been officially confirmed to screen in the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine Des Realisateurs) section at Cannes.The film, a genre-defying odyssey of self-discovery is a contemporary tale of a young man from rural ...
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Signpost in tax deal with Atlantic Screen Capital
Stewart Till's Signpost Films has unveiled an exclusive deal with Andrew Somper's Atlantic Screen Capital to structure tax and European financing.Somper was previously managing director and chief operating officer of tax-based financier Grosvenor Park Media and head of the media finance group at law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner."This whole financial ...
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Refinanced Senator favours one Joe over another
German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment's deal with Joe Roth's Revolution Studios is likely to be revised as part of a wide-ranging review of its financial and production strategies. Joe Drake's Senator International sales arm is likely to be expanded.The news emerged as Senator signed a three-year Euros230m syndicated loan agreement with ...
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Kirch declares insolvency, seeks
German media giant KirchMedia this morning (Monday April 8) filed for insolvency following the failure of weeks of refinancing talks. While the company itself has yet to comment, North Rhine-Westphalia Premier Wolfgang Clement said that KirchMedia had made a court filing for insolvency. The company will now be managed by ...
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Singing Horse strikes right note with China Star
Singing Horse Productions, a company owned by director Joe Ma Wai Ho International Pacific Artists head Thomas Leong and producer Ivy Kong, has struck a deal to produce three pictures for Hong Kong powerhouse China Star Entertainment.All three will be directed by Ma, who has notched up a string of ...
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Indian Int'l awards rain down on Lagaan
Epic historical drama Lagaan was the big winner at the third annual InternationalIndian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards at a glitzy ceremony held in Malaysia onSaturday night. Ashutosh Kovariker's film, which was nominated for a foreignlanguage film Oscar recently, won ten trophies including best film, bestdirector and best actor (Aamir Khan) ...
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High Crimes shut out by Panic Room
Thriller queen Ashley Juddcouldn't beat out Jodie Foster to the top spot at the North American boxoffice over the weekend, as Panic Room reigned for the second weekend in a row with an estimated $18.5m take.Judd's latest High Crimesin which she is reteamed with Kiss The Girls co-star Morgan Freeman ...
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Reviews
Food Of Love
Dir: Ventura Pons. Sp-Ger. 2002. 112mins.An absorbing tale of obsessive love, featuring nice visual exploitation by Catalan director Ventura Pons of his native Barcelona, make Food Of Love enjoyable to watch. Some audiences may be put off by Pons' theatrical style, and occasionally find some of the dialogue and ...
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