All Screen articles in 9 October 2003 – Page 2
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Tartan swoops on ten pictures at Pusan
Tartan Films of the UK has had a busy time at the Pusan festival and PPP market, picking-up ten pictures from Korean and Hong Kong sellers.Heading the slate in terms of art-house prestige is probably 2046, Wong Kar-Wai's long awaited treatise on post-handover Hong Kong life. The company enjoyed great ...
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Gaumont pins hopes on future film output
French major Gaumont is pinning its hopes on a string of forthcoming films to improve its bottom line - after revealing that it had lost millions of Euros on its latest film at the French box office.On Monday, the company unveiled a net loss of Euros 2.6m in the first ...
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Maturing Pusan experiences growing pains
As South Korea's Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) passes its midpoint, the overall impression is of an event that is rapidly maturing, but still experiencing a few growing pains. Signs of the festival's burgeoning status in the Asian film industry abound. It secured a major international premiere for its opening ...
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Piracy dominates debates at Marrakech
Although the company is set to complete its deal to sell its US entertainment assets to NBC in the next few days, some things are still business as usual at Vivendi Universal. The company sponsored a special round table at the Marrakech Film Festival on Monday October 6 to ...
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Madden to mentor on Proof for Directing Change
Women in Film and Television (WFTV) and United International Pictures (UIP) have named Tammy Riley-Smith as the second director to benefit from the UK scheme Directing Change.Launched in May 2003, Directing Change gives women directors the opportunity to work alongside an experienced and internationally recognised feature film director during a ...
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Bugs! swarms over UK Imax theatres
Bugs!, the first large format 3D feature to have had significant UK financing, opened across the country in six Imax theatres last weekend for a strong $29,914 take in its first three days on release.The Film Consortium, jointly responsible with SK Films and UKFTV for marketing the film in the ...
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Vietnamese Buffalo rolls with Euro financing
Filming on Buffalo Boy, a Vietnamese coming of age drama gets underway next week after having secured a raft of European financing.The film is the ultimate product of the growing system of project and co-production markets. Buffalo Boy was presented at Korea's PPP and New York's Independent Feature Project last ...
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Budapest's Titantic fest kicks off with Otar
The eleventh edition of Hungary's premiere film festival, the Titanic Film Festival Budapest kicks off October 8 with a screening of director Julie Bertuccelli's Cannes favorite Since Otar Left. The festival will screen fewer films this time than in previous years - a total of 41 productions - with a ...
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Garai boards O'Donnell's Inside I'm Dancing
Hot young UK actress Romola Garai has joined the cast of Damien O'Donnell's Inside I'm Dancing which will film in Ireland for eight weeks from October 20. Garai (I Capture the Castle) has just finished shooting Vanity Fair with Mira Nair and will be seen early next year in the ...
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Oz industry launches Asian focused trade body
A group of executives from the Australian industry have formed a new trade association to lobby their government for legislative support of their efforts to work within Asia.The establishment of the Australian Asia-Pacific Co-Production Association was announced yesterday at South Korea's Pusan International Film Festival by a group including Roger ...
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Armenia names Vodka Lemon for Oscars
Venice prizewinner Vodka Lemon has been selected as Armenia's entry for the foreign language Oscar category.The film is directed by Hiner Saleem, an Iraqui-Kurd, and is a co-production from French production company Dulcine Films along with Franco-German channel Arte, Canal Plus, Sintra Films, Amka Films, France's CNC and Eurimages.International sale ...
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Verve takes UK rights to Edinburgh winner Afterlife
Verve Films have acquired UK theatrical rights to Gabriel Films' Afterlife, the winner of the Standard Life Audience Award at the 2003 Edinburgh International Film Festival. Written by Andrea Gibb and directed by Alison Peebles, the low-budget digital feature is the first title created under the New Found Films scheme ...
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SPAIN
Among the slew of Spanish films set for release this month, Vicente Aranda's Carmen was one of the most anticipated and, accordingly, one of the most promoted. The sexy, $11.5m drama starring Paz Vega and Leonardo Sbaraglia opened strong in second position with Euros 1.14m off 180 copies, replacing Football ...
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Untold Scandal
Dir. E J-Yong. Korea 2003. 120 mins.E j-Yong's new film is the best proof that a good story will strike roots wherever it is planted and, once lit from the right angle, will bear fruit. Last weekend Untold Scandal enjoyed the biggest opening ever in Korean history (over $5m in ...
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Les Sentiments
Dir: Noemi Lvovsky. France. 2003. 95mins.French director Noemie Lvovsky came to notice with two small autobiographical features set at different stages in the life of four girls. The second, Life Doesn't Scare Me (La Vie Ne Me Fait Pas Peur, 1999) earned Lvovsky a slew of festival prizes, including a ...
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HUNGARY
It was a sad weekend for new releases at the Hungarian box office. Sean Connery and His League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen clearly didn't prove winners standing against the American Pie wedding party. On an impressive thirty copies the adventure didn't even make 33,000 in admissions.Director Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men also ...
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Movielink hoards Italian titles for Internet viewing
Broadband video-on-demand service Movielink has acquired Internetrights to a selection of Italian films from Intramovies, the internationaldistributor that represents rights to several major Italian film libraries.The first 25 subtitled films are expected to be ready for downloadin November and include and Marco Tullio Giordana's crime drama I CentoPassi, Francesco Nuti'scomedy ...
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DENMARK
As Pirates Of The Caribbean sailed back into the top spot past last week's chart topper The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which dropped a massive 42% - the new release of Aage Rais Nordentoft's well received youth film 2 Moves One Pass carved a solid if unremarkable 17,020 admissions on ...
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Bertolucci ready to plunge into Hell And Paradise
Bernardo Bertolucci, whose erotic Venice Film Festival title TheDreamers is to be releasedin Italy this weekend, looks set to finally start shooting his long-awaitedpicture about 16th century Italian composer Gesualdo da Venosa.Although he first announced plans to make a movie aboutGesualdo way back in 1997, the Oscar-winning director said he ...