All Screen articles in 9 October 2002 – Page 2
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Koelmel's Kinowelt takeover plans threatened
Michael and Rainer Koelmel's takeover of the core assets of their Kinowelt empire has been thrown into question, according to the German weekly news magazine Focus.In its latest edition, Focus reported that Leipzig's City Savings Bank has still not granted the Koelmel brothers a Euros 32m credit for their ...
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Menemsha gets rights to Same Love, Same Rain
Neil Friedman'sLA-based sales and distribution outfit Menemsha Entertainment has picked upworldwide rights outside of Argentina and Spain to Same Love, Same Rain (El Mismo Amor, La Misma Illuvia), an Argentinian drama from the sameteam behind the enormously successful Son Of The Bride which won an Oscar nomination last yearfor Best ...
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Jeunet to direct Very Long Engagement for Warner
Warner Bros is extending its commitment to producing films in France with the agreement to make Amelie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's next picture, A Very Long Engagement.The French-language period picture is based on a best-selling novel by Sebastien Japrisot about a woman's search for the truth behind her fiancee's mysterious disappearance.The ...
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Corporate development vp Isaac Palmer promoted at Viacom
Isaac Palmer has beenpromoted to senior vice president, corporate development, at ViacomEntertainment Group from vice president, corporate development. Palmer is a keyfigure at Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures in finding financing partners onmovies, and structuring, negotiating and administering the transactions.He also serves on the boardof director of international theatrical exhibitor UCI, Canadian ...
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Germany's Constantin Film signs deal with Freestyle Pictures
Germany's Constantin Film has signed a multi-year production, finance and distribution deal with US producer Adam Platnick's Freestyle Pictures Freestyle will produce films for Constantin as well as participate with Constantin in financing and distributing films to the international marketplace.Commenting on the deal concluded with Constantin Film's subsidiary Constantin Film ...
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Three Japanese titles to compete at Tokyo film festival
The full lineup of the 15th edition of the Tokyo international film festival, (Oct 26 to Nov 4) includes three Japanese titles out of a total 15 competition films. The three Japanese films, which will compete for the $83,000 (Y10m) Grand Prix and the $16,000 (Y2m) Jury Prize, are ...
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New faces of Swedish cinema head for New York
A week-long programme of Swedish films has been organised by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York to run between November 1 - 7. The programme, called The New Faces of Swedish Cinema, includes seven feature films and a number of short films. The aim of the event, ...
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Take Care Of My Cat scoops Feminale prize
Korean director Jeong Jae-Eun's Take Care Of My Cat has won this year's Euros2,500 Feature Debut Prize at the Feminale international women's film festival in Cologne.Take Care Of My Cat, a huge hit in its home country, follows five young girls as they make their first steps from school into ...
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Wellspring buys US rights to Claire Denis' Friday Night
US independent distributorWellspring Media has acquired domestic rights to Friday Night (Vendredi Soir), the latest film from Claire Denis, with plans to release ittheatrically in spring 2003. The movie, which had its world premiere screeningat Venice last month, also played at Toronto and screens Friday night this weekat the New ...
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Super RTL takes three from Buena Vista Int'l Television
Buena Vista International Television has licensed three animated features to Super RTL - Movietoons, in a deal which shows that business is still being done in the troubled German TV sector.The features - The Tigger Movie, Recess and Doug's First Movie - fit into Super RTL's Disney Playhouse pre-school strategy, ...
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GMM Pictures boosts profile in burgeoning Thai film industry
GMM Pictures, the new film arm of Thai multimedia giant GMM Grammy, is emerging as a major player in the rapidly-expanding Thai film industry with its first feature set to open on 100 screens this weekend and another four pictures in various stages of production.The outfit's debut film, Mekong Full ...
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Bangkok film festival postponed, second event launched
The organisers of the Bangkok International Film Festival (BIFF) - English-language newspaper, The Nation, and the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) - have decided to postpone the event from November until January next year.Meanwhile, a second event is being organised by the festival's former director, Brian Bennett, and is set ...
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Danish award-winner lands first lead role
Danish actress Susanne Juhasz who won the prestigious Bodil Award as best supporting actress for her film debut One Hand Clapping, has landed her first leading role in newcomer Oliver Kanafani's feature directing debut Sten, Saks, Papir (working title). It is a comedy-drama about the relationship between two very different ...
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New state minister for culture appointed in Germany
Hamburg's former culture senator Christina Weiss has been appointed by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder as the new State Minister for Culture to succeed Julian Nida-Ruemelin who announced last week that he is to return to his professorship in philosophy at the University of Goettingen.Speaking at a press conference with Foreign Minister ...
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Rare Birds soars at first annual Directors Guild of Canada awards
Sturla Gunnarrsson's Rare Birds took four prizes as the Directors Guild of Canada launched its first annual awards in Toronto. The film, a Newfoundland-set comedy starring William Hurt, received the prizes for Outstanding Achievement in a Feature Film and Outstanding Achievement in Direction as well as picture editing and production ...
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Koelmel investor group announces Kinowelt contract
Responding to speculation in the German press, the investor group led by Michael and Rainer Koelmel has announced that contracts were signed on October 2 for the brothers to take over the core assets of the Kinowelt Medien Group.According to a statement, Leipzig-based Neue Spielfilm Vertriebs- und Marketing GmbH - ...
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Carlton America readies Giuliani biopic
Carlton America, the Los Angeles-based TV arm of Carlton International, is to produce a feature-length TV biopic about former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani for US cable channel USA Networks.Rudy's Wars stars James Woods and will tell the story of the rise, fall and resurrection of Giuliani, ...
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Lilo stitches top slot, but My Little Eye sparkles
A wealth of new releases launched in the UK at the weekend, with five of the six films debuting in the territory's top 10.The adult-skewed films were led by Momentum Pictures' low budget horror title, My Little Eye. The film, which garnered a strong positive critical reception, grossed a good ...
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Red Dragon
Dir: Brett Ratner. US. 2002. 124 mins. The creepy appeal of 'Hannibal the Cannibal' Lecter is efficiently exploited once again in Red Dragon, an unadventurous yet slickly chilling successor to The Silence Of The Lambs and Hannibal whose commercial success was probably assured the day Anthony Hopkins signed on to ...
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Van Damme strikes two picture deal with London outfit
London-based production outfit Lucky 7 has signed a two-picture deal with Belgian action star Jean-Claude Van Damme which will see the actor direct his first film since The Quest in 1996.Lucky 7 Productions was set up last year by Florida's Bauer Martinez Studios in conjunction with UK producer Alan Latham. ...