All Screen articles in 9 October 2003 – Page 3
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Bad Boys II has explosive UK launch
Columbia TriStar's explosive blockbuster Bad Boys II crashed onto UK screens last weekend to hijack the top spot with an impressive $5.3m (£3.2m) from 383 sites. This included $700,338 (£420,203) of previews from 350 sites on Thursday Oct 2.The sequel, which re-teams stars Martin Lawrence and Will Smith with director ...
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Lansbury gets BAFTA/LA Lifetime award
Angela Lansbury will receive BAFTA/LA's Britannia Awardfor Lifetime Achievement in film and television at the 12th Annual BritanniaAwards in Los Angeles on Nov 8.Lansbury, who earned three Academy Award nominations for roles in TheManchurian Candidate, ThePicture Of Dorian Grayand Gaslight,received BAFTA's Silver Mask for Lifetime Achievement in 1992 and a ...
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Lansbury gets BAFTA/LA Lifetime award
Angela Lansbury will receive BAFTA/LA's Britannia Awardfor Lifetime Achievement in film and television at the 12th Annual BritanniaAwards in Los Angeles on Nov 8.Lansbury, who earned three Academy Award nominations for roles in TheManchurian Candidate, ThePicture Of Dorian Grayand Gaslight,received BAFTA's Silver Mask for Lifetime Achievement in 1992 and a ...
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NORTH AMERICA
Alliance Atlantis' much-hyped local Canadian release Foolproof did not live up to the box office expectations generated by its title. Backed by a C$2m P&A campaign and released through the company's Odeon Films subsidiary on nearly 200 screens across Canada, the light-hearted caper movie earned a paltry $230,312 for a ...
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Arcand's Decline is born again
In the wake of its highlysuccessful sequel, The Barbarian Invasions, the original 1986 film The Decline Of The AmericanEmpire has suddenly been given a new leaseon life in the marketplace. Both films were directed by Quebec auteur DenysArcand.The Decline Of The AmericanEmpire, nominated for foreign-languageOscar in 1997 has just been ...
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$43bn NBC Universal is born
Vivendi Universal today (Sept 8) announced it had signed a definitive agreement with General Electric to merge its US entertainment interests (VUE) with GE's NBC. As expected, the new company will be called NBC Universal and will be 80% owned by GE with 20% held by the shareholders of VUE.In ...
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UK proves perfect platform for Finding Nemo
In an exclusive digital presentation at just two cinemas in the UK, Buena Vista International's (BVI) Finding Nemo has platformed to stunning figures in the territory.The Pixar Animation Studios' title, which is already the highest grossing animated film of all time in North America, launched at London's Odeon Leicester Square ...
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Rio festival strikes populist note
The Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival has taken on a more populist stance this year, expanding its reach to open air theatres (Lonas Culturales) in the impoverished suburban areas and even in the city's famous hilltop slums, known as favelas.Among the festival highlights was a Mickey Mouse tribute held ...
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MTM, Key Entertainment partner on Riot rights
As part of an ongoing internationalisation of its activities, the Oscar-winning German production outfit MTM Medien & Television München (Nowhere In Africa) has joined forces with the Los Angeles-based Key Entertainment to acquire the film rights to Indian writer Shashi Tharoor 's best-selling novel Riot: A Love Story.The tragic love ...
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Stone, Farrell push on in fierce Morocco desert
Oliver Stone and Colin Farrell made an appearance at the MarrakechInternational Film Festival today (Oct 6) to talk up Stone's Fidel Castrodocumentary Comandanteand his $150m historical epic Alexander, which has now entered the third week of production at asite 35km south of Marrakech.The pair were on ebullient form at a ...
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Russia names Return as Oscar contender
As expected, the Venice Film Festival's recent Golden Lion winner The Return, directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev, has been selected as the Russian entry for the upcoming Oscars. The film, produced by Moscow based Ren Films, won worldwide critical acclaim in Venice and is considered a hot contender for a slot ...
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CJ's Yoon moves over to Kang Je Gyu Films
One of Korea's best known sales agents Mark Yoon has joined Kang Je Gyu Films, the production and sales boutique that is currently making the $13m war picture National Flag (Tae Guk Gi).Yoon becomes head of international business at Kang Je Gyu, having for the last several years been vice ...
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Lombardo says ciao to Miramax Italia
Miramax'stop executive in Italy, Fabrizio Lombardo, will now switch to a "bigger-picturerole" for the company, serving as a personal European investment advisor toco-chairmen Bob and Harvey Weinstein. Lombardo'snew role means that London-based senior vice president of production GinaGardini will now become Miramax's primary executive liaising with the Italianfilm and television ...
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Serious films win Copenhagen children's fest prizes
Two children's films with serious topics took top honours at the Copenhagen International Children's Film Festival BUSTER, which wrapped this weekend for the first time in collaboration with the industry event New Nordic Children's Film.Dominique Standaert's Belgian Hop about illegal refugees in Europe was chosen as the best feature by ...
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Cronenberg takes Canadian Directors Guild prize
David Cronenberg won the best direction prize for Spider at the Directors Guild of Canada awards in Toronto on Saturday. The UK-Canada co-production also won the DGC's Team Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Feature Film, a prize which reflects the job categories represented by the guild, including assistant director, ...
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Scandal erupts at South Korean box office
South Korean feature Untold Scandal has become the first local film ever to draw one million viewers in its opening weekend. Released on October 2, the film has attracted 1.13 million admissions ($6m) nationwide in its first four days. An adaptation of French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses which sets ...
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Feature producers to benefit from Enterprise Australia
Several feature film producers are among the 16 selected to participate in the inaugural Enterprise Australia, the Australian version of the workshop which UK management consultants Olsberg SPI have already conducted in Europe. It is aimed at equipping Australian producers with the business skills to make their companies globally competitive ...
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Bollywood megastar arises from bankruptcy
Indian superstar Amitabh Bachchan is to relaunch the operations of his film production company Amitabh Bachchan Corp Ltd. on Oct 11 in Mumbai. The company, which was declared bankrupt in 1999, will now be known as AB Corp and will launch a new Hindi film, directed by Indian filmmaker Raj ...
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Arclight engrossed by Chan's New Police Story
Arclight Films has picked up international sales rights to the new Jackie Chan vehicle which currently goes under the working title of New Police Story.The film is produced by JCE, a new company formed by Jackie Chan and his regular business and investment partners Willie Chan (no relation) and Solon ...
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Pieces Of April stirs Mill Valley emotions
Peter Hedges' emotional on-stage interview after the Oct 4 screening of his dysfunctional family drama Pieces Of April provided one of the early highlights of the 26th Mill Valley Film Festival, which in its first weekend offered a heady mix of passion and personality that confirmed its status as a ...