All Screen articles in 9 October 2002 – Page 3
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To Be And To Have (Etre Et Avoir)
Dir: Nicolas Philibert. France. 2002. 104mins.A film to play truant for, To Be And To Have is a warm, serene look at primary education in the French heartlands. This is the latest feature from leading French documentary filmmaker Nicolas Philibert, and it is a measure of his growing reputation that ...
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Sundance Channel buys doc package, announces weekly DOCday
In a move that will cast doubt over the launch of its mooted documentary channel, Sundance Channel announced on Monday the creation of a weekly documentary night planned for March 2003. The so-called DOCday will premiere on Monday March 3 and continue every Monday thereafter from noon to midnight with ...
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International Emmy nominations announced
Denmark, Slovak Republic and South Africa picked up their first ever nominations as the 2002 International Emmy Awards contenders were announced on Monday by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Aside from the traditional seven categories of arts programming, children and young people, documentary, drama series, TV movies/mini-series, ...
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Colombia's 19th film festival of Bogota kicks off
Colombia's 19th Festival De Cine de Bogota kicks off today (October 8) with a strong selection of recent films from Latin America and other parts of the world. This year showcases Chilean cinema with such acclaimed titles as Negocio Redondo directed by Ricardo Carrasco (pictured), Times Up by Cecilia Barriga, ...
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BVI's Signs crosses $100m international mark
Signs passed the $100m mark with plenty to spare over the weekend for Buena Vista International (BVI), while Lilo & Stitch scored a provisional third highest all-time industry opening for a traditionally animated picture in the UK. It was another strong performance from M Night Shyamalan's supernatural thriller Signs, which ...
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NBC ponders $1.2bn purchase of Bravo network
US broadcastinggiant NBC is said to be pondering the takeover of Bravo, the arts andentertainment cable network that was a pioneer in showing US independent andsubtitled foreign films on American television.According to areport in the Wall Street Journal, NBC is seeking to swap its 21% stake in Bravo'scontrolling company Rainbow ...
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Pauline & Paulette team re-unite for Jam
The team behind last year's hit Belgian film Pauline & Paulette are to reunite for director Lieven Debrauwer's next feature project Jam (Konfituur) about the family intrigues following a couple's separation on their 50th wedding anniversary.Dutch producer Emjay Rechsteiner of Staccato Films will again serve as co-producer for Dominique Janne's ...
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Spanish studio to launch new genre label
Spanish mini-studio Filmax is prepping the launch of new genre label Fantastic Family to create feature films targeted at the entire family. The new label will complement the company's existing Fantastic Factory, for fantasy and horror pictures, and Fantastic Discovery, for new directors. Producer-director Brian Yuzna, co-founder with Filmax president ...
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Minority Report sweeps Europe, top in five territories
Fox's Minority Report continued a powerful international box office run with five number one openings across Europe, including a best ever bow for star Tom Cruise in Spain. The sci-fi thriller grossed $3.2m (Euros 3.3m) on 370 screens in Spain, where it overtook Cruise's previous best performers Mission: Impossible 2 ...
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Dutch entry for foreign-language Oscar selected
The feature Zus & Zo, directed by Paula van der Oest, has been chosen as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the Oscars.The film is loosely based on the play Three Women by Checkov and depicts the relationship between three sisters and their younger ...
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Danish quartet launches Fine & Mellow
The team behind the Danish box-office success Shake It All About has set up a new production outfit, Fine & Mellow, to handle the future projects from talents Hella Joof, Jannik Johansen and Line Knutzon. "We basically wanted to be our own bosses," says Thomas Gammeltoft, who produced Joof's Shake ...
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Decision on new German Minister for Culture imminent
Surprise top contender as Germany's new State Minister for Culture - former regional Culture Senator Christina Weiss (pictured), is to meet Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder today, Monday October 7.German press reports at the weekend revealed that Weiss - who is not a member of any political party - had already ...
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CTFDI continues to collect with Stuart, XXX
Stuart Little 2 continued its steady international march over the weekend, amassing another $2.7m for Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) to give a healthy $73.2m cumulative total.Currently showing on 2,270 screens, the family sequel is expected to reach $90m and has an outside chance of passing $100m. In its ...
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Chicago opens with Evelyn, closes with Frida
Bruce Beresford's Evelyn will open the 38th Chicago InternationalFilm Festival which will screen 95 films from 35 countries in its 15 days fromOct 4-18..Star and producer of Evelyn Pierce Brosnan will attend the screening and receive the Gold Hugo onstage beforehand. Julie Taymor's Frida will close the festival on Oct ...
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Hong Kong's Celestial signs distribution deal with Intercontinental
Hong Kong's Celestial Pictures has signed a distribution deal with Intercontinental Film Distributors for the video release of its 760-title Shaw Brothers library in Hong Kong and Macau. Celestial is spending about $14.7m (HK$115m) on restoring and digitally re-mastering the library which contains classics such as The One-Armed Swordsman and ...
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China buys into Bollywood
The Indian Film Exporters association has announced the sale of 104 films to a Chinese delegation in New Delhi on a visit to the 33rd International Film Festival of India. The 104 films, including all the films made under the Yashraj Films banner, Karan Johar's Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Gham and ...
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Marlo Thomas options BBC thriller for US remake
Famed US actress/producerMarlo Thomas and her New York-based production outfit Open Road Productions haveoptioned the US remake rights from the BBC to two-part TV thriller Deceit. Thomas will star and produce the remake which willbe broadcast in the US on popular women's network Lifetime Television.Based on a novel by ClaireFrancis, ...
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Minoes scores with two Golden Calf awards
With two Golden Calves - for best film and best actress for Carice van Houten, Vincent Bal's Minoes, based on a classic children's book, was the big winner at the 22nd Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht. During the closing ceremony on Friday night, director George Sluizer (The Vanishing) received a ...
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American World picks up Chopin, Anarchist Cookbook
Mark L Lester'sAmerican World Pictures (AWP) has acquired worldwide distribution rights toPolish biopic Chopin: Desire For Love and international rights to US ensemble The Anarchist Cookbook. The films will be screened for buyers at MIFED forthe first time.Chopin: Desire For Love stars Danuta Stenka and Piotr Adamczyk and featuresclassical performers ...