All Screen articles in 9 October 2002 – Page 4
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Belgian filmmaker Delvaux dies aged 76
Veteran Belgian filmmaker Andre Delvaux died suddenly of a heart attack on Friday during a conference in Valencia, Spain. Spanish news sources report that Delvaux suffered a heart attack following a presentation given at the World Arts Gathering 2002 (Encuentro Mundial de las Artes 2002) in Valencia. The organisation said ...
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Soldier Of Orange 2 dispute settled out of court
Producer Rob Houwer has finally resolved the legal battle surrounding the remake of Soldier Of Orange 2, the sequel to Paul Verhoeven's 1979 war drama. The film was supposed to have been shot this summer, but a conflict about the completion bond between Houwer and the financing company Arteco, ...
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US DVD rental revenues top $2bn in 2002
DVD rental revenues havealready surpassed $2bn in 2002, according to figures announced by the VideoSoftward Dealers Association (VSDA), eating into the home video rental marketwhich has so far amassed $4.12bn this year. 'DVDscontinue to contribute significantly to the video rental market and showunprecedented growth in an otherwise sluggish economy,' said ...
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Pinocchio
Dir: Roberto Benigni. Italy. 2002. 108mins.Pinocchio is Roberto Benigni's reward - from himself, Medusa and Miramax - for the success of La Vita E Bella. No small reward: its Euros40m budget makes this the most expensive Italian film ever, and its 860-screen release on 11 October is the biggest ever ...
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Vive La Difference at Dinard
The contrast between French and UK film-making has been highlighted via a short film experiment screened at the 13th Festival Of British Film in Dinard.The joint programme for making short films, known as The Short Channel/Manche Courte, was launched by the two nation's public support bodies, the UK's Film Council ...
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Quirky kidnap comedy is Rio's surprise discovery
TheRio International Film Festival scored an unlikely hit on Saturday with DurvalRecords (DurvalDiscos), ajet-black Brazilian comedy from a first-timer on a shoestring budget that stolethe show so far for many delegates.Directedby TV writer and film critic Anna Muylaert, the quirky film is inauspiciouslyset in a Sao Paulo record shop, where ...
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Germany's third-largest cinema chain files for insolvency
UFA-Theater GmbH und Co. KG, Germany's third-largest cinema chain with 234 screens, has filed for insolvency.According to a press statement, UFA was been forced to take this step because of 'the national drastic fall in admissions in the past months and the concomitant worsening of the liquidity situation.' The ...
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Production starts on The Sons Of Buena Vista
Production started today (Mon, 7 Oct) on The Sons Of Buena Vista, a sequel to Wim Wenders'Cuban musical extravaganza Buena Vista Social Club, which was one of the most successful documentary features of all time.The new film is directed by Karl German, Wenders' regular assistant director and co-executive ...
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Bloody Sunday wins over Dinard jury
Paul Greengrass's Bloody Sunday added to its tally of festival prizes over the weekend, winning the top award - the Hitchcock D'Or - at the Dinard British Film Festival (3-6 October).The Northern Ireland set drama has already received various international awards including the Golden Bear at Berlin and the Audience ...
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Foreign films take top Danish children's awards
At the 3rd Copenhagen International Children's Film Festival - BUSTER - which ended this weekend, Achero Manas' Spanish The Pellet (El Bola) and Nabil Ayouch's French-Maroccan Ali Zaoua took top honours. The festival's children's jury, made up of eight 12-13 year-olds awarded the 'best BUSTER film' prize of $6,600 (DKR50,000) ...
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No recovery in sight for German TV advertising
Spending on TV advertising in Germany is forecast to decline by 8.2% this year, according to a study commissioned from market research institute Prognos AG by the ProSiebenSat.1 Group.Before publication of the study, the Group had anticipated that the maximum contraction would be 5%, but, based on Prognos' findings, ...
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Red Dragon breaks Oct opening record with $37.5m
Universal's Hannibal Lecter horror thriller Red Dragon scored the highest ever October opening over the weekend as it scorched to the top of the charts with a redoubtable $37.5m, according to estimates released today (Sunday). Although this was considerably less than the $58m opening for MGM's Hannibal in February 2001 ...
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One For The Road starts to roll
One For The Road, the UK's Film Council and FilmFour Lab-backed feature debut of writer-director Chris Cooke, has started production on location in Nottingham. A black comedy set on a rehabilitation course for drink drivers, the DV-shot film received£240,000 from the Film Council's New Cinema Fund, and is also backed ...
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Tom Quinn gets vp stripes at Samuel Goldwyn Films
Tom Quinn has been promotedto vice president, acquisitions, for Samuel Goldwyn Films. In his new role, hewill continue to oversee the acquisitions department at the company; his mostrecent acquisitions are Raising Victor Vargas, Peter Sollett's Cannes hit which was renamedfrom Long Way Home, CarlosCarrera's Mexican smash The Crime Of Father ...
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Swedish Film Institute greenlights three new features
Three Swedish feature films have been greenlighted after receiving funding from the Swedish Film Institute (SFI).Children's film Misa Mi is by first-time director Linus Torell. The story, about a 10-year-old girl whose mother is dead, takes place in the forests of the north of Sweden. The film will be produced ...
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Studio threeway Peter Pan starts shooting in Australia
The big budget live actionfilm version of Peter Pan, forwhich Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures and Revolution Studios teamed in anunusual three-way studio co-venture, has begun principal photography inQueensland, Australia under local director PJ Hogan (Muriel's Wedding,My Best Friend's Wedding).Jeremy Sumpter, who playedone of Bill Paxton's sons in Frailty, is playing ...
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Spanish arthouse distributors form industry association
Four of Spain's leading arthouse distributors have formed the Independent Film Distributors' Association (ADICINE) to provide a lobby for their interests in the exhibition of European films in Spain.Alta Films, Wanda Vision, Golem Distribucion and Vertigo Films are responsible for some 80% of European films exhibited ...
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Meheut appointment signals Canal Plus floatation
Canal Plus Group, the Vivendi Universal off-shoot spanning its French television interests and StudioCanal, moved a step closer towards a separate stockmarket flotation with the appointment of Bertrand Meheut.Meheut, a former chemical industry colleague of Vivendi Universal chief Jean-Rene Fourtou, was appointed president and chief operating officer of Canal Plus ...
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The Pianist strikes a chord at the box office
Last weekend saw both a host of new European openings and a return to the top in Poland for this year's Cannes' Palme D'Or winner The Pianist. The Roman Polanski film launched in France and Belgium on Sept 25 and Switzerland on Sept 26 to strong scores.In France the film ...
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Aro Tolbukhin: In The Mind Of A Killer
Dirs: Agusti Villaronga, Lydia Zimmermann, Isaac P Racine. Sp-Mex. 2002. 96mins.Aro Tolbukhin: In The Mind Of A Killer is a profoundly spooky, startlingly original contribution to the cinema's enduring fascination with serial murderers. This intricate, multi-layered false documentary based on a notorious real-life case is by no stretch of the ...