All Screen articles in 9 October 2003 – Page 5
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NETHERLANDS
It was family fare versus slasher horror at The Netherlands box office last weekend as BVI's Freaky Friday squared off against RCV's Freddy Vs Jason.Both big hits in North America each film was able to claim a victory with Friday finishing ahead of Freddy but the horror film performing far ...
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ITALY
A highly visible marketing campaign for Italian film My Brother-In-Law (Mio Cognato) is paying off for 01 Distribution, as the picture grossed $241,984 from just 89 screens on its opening weekend, earning a strong $2,719 per screen. Directed by Alessandro Piva, My Brother-In-Law is set in the southern town of ...
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Rhinoceros Eyes
Dir/scr. Aaron Woodley. US. 2003. 92 min.Rich in atmosphere, Rhinoceros Eyes is an impressive directorial debut on many levels. The film, which premiered at Toronto, won the festival's Discovery prize for developing filmmakers as selected by the press corps. But Woodley, who is also debuting as a screenwriter, doesn't have ...
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Stars express Marrakech support
The Marrakech International Film Festival (Oct 3-8) will likely move to November in 2004 to occupy a less crowded space on the international film calendar, and to avoid a clash with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.The festival, presided over this year by French actress Nathalie Baye, launched its third ...
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Eco's medieval epic joins desert crusade
Thomas Schuehly, the producer of Oliver Stone's Alexander, is planning to return to Morocco withhis next project, an adaptation of Umberto Eco's medieval historical novel Baudolino that he hopes to shoot in 2005.Schuehly, who was also executive produced the screen adaptation ofEco's The Name Of The Rose, is trying to ...
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Brazil introduces film investment schemes
The fledgling government of Brazil's President Luis Inacio'Lula' da Silva is poised to announce a new subsidy grant of $9.2m (Reals 25m)towards film production.This is welcome news for a film community that has suffered fromrecent cutbacks in film investment from the public sector. State-owned companies such as BR, BNDES and ...
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Fox Searchlight launches In America strategy after screener ban
In the first practical response to the MPAA ban on screener tapes,Fox Searchlight is trying to get exposure for its Nov 26 opener In America directed by Jim Sheridan by hostingweekly paid screenings in the LA area starting Oct 9.The film, which was warmly received at Toronto 2002 and Sundance2003, ...
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Pie 3 opens top in Italy, New Zealand for Universal
Universal's American Pie: The Wedding opened number one in Italy on anestimated $2m from 337 sites through UIP at the weekend, grossing 40% more thanthe prequel's equivalent bow in 2001.The third instalment in the comedy franchise also opened top inNew Zealand, grossing $332,000 from 47, which was 23% ahead of ...
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UK Production Listings - October 6 2003
UNITED KINGDOM - October 6PRE-PRODUCTIONBRONTE (Random Harvest Pictures) Budget: $12m. Period drama. The moors above Yorkshire are harsh and life is severe for the Bronte family. Follows the lives of the famous writing family. Exec prods: Tim Smith, Melvyn Singer. Prods: Alistair Maclean-Clark, Basil Stephens. Dir: Marleen Gorris. Scr: Angela ...
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School Of Rock rocks for Paramount with $20.2m
Paramount's comedy School Of Rock shook the charts at the weekend, openingnumber one on an estimated $20.2m.The film, which stars Jack Black as a struggling guitarist whouses a stint as a substitute teacher to spread his love of heavy metal music,enjoyed sensational reviews and averaged $7,728 from 2,614 sites.It was ...
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Pusan gets surprise North Korean sidebar
Ina late addition to its line-up South Korea's Pusan International Film Festival(PIFF) is to show a selection of seven films from North Korea. The move isbelieved to be the first time that films from the isolationist northern statehave been officially screened in public in the South.PIFFchief Kim Dong Ho said ...
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Taiwan readies first teenage gay comedy
Reflecting the new commercial sensibility amongst Taiwan's young filmmakers, production starts October 7 on a film that it described as Taiwan's first ever teenage gay comedy. Formula 17, produced by start-up production company Three Dots Entertainment, is a light-hearted fable about a gay 17-year-old boy who moves to Taipei for ...
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Celestial parent to float on Malaysian stock exchange
Astro All Asia Networks, the Malaysian pay-TV operator that owns Hong Kong film studio Celestial Pictures, is to float on the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange later this month. The flotation, handled by Goldman Sachs and Malaysian investment bank CIMB, is expected to raise up to $552m (M$2.1bn) of fresh cash. ...
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Blind Shaft falls victim to Chinese pressure
The International Film Festival of India (Oct 9-19) has pulled Li Yang's Blind Shaft from its line-up after the Chinese government expressed its objection to the film. The Hong Kong-German co-production has already played widely at festivals around the world, starting with its premiere at this year's Berlin Film Festival ...
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Searchlight pacts with Wong Kar-Wai's Block 2
Fox Searchlight Pictures has signed a three-picture deal withaward-winning Hong Kong director-writer-producer Wong Kar Wai and his productionoutfit Block 2 Films.Under the terms of the deal, Block 2 and Searchlight willco-finance and co-distribute a minimum of three English-language films thatWong and Block 2 will produce. Wong will select the directors ...
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Turn Left, Turn Right opens top in Taiwan for Warner
Warner Bros Pictures iscelebrating the success of its first ever Chinese-language film Turn Left,Turn Right which opened at the topof the Taiwanese box office over the weekend bringing its total to date of$3.2m.The studio issued a pressrelease to trumpet its $0.637m opening on 79 screens in Taiwan. In Taipei, thefilm ...
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Patel upped at Paramount International TV
Mina Patel has been promotedto senior vice president of sales strategy and operations for ParamountInternational Television, where she will continue to report to Joe Lucas,executive vice president of sales and marketing.Patel, who was formerly vicepresident, sales planning and administration, will now oversee thedivision's sales planning and administration, becoming more strategicallyinvolved ...
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Top Spanish post-production houses unveil merger
Two Barcelona-based heavyweights, En Efecto and MEDIApro, have announced the merger of their post-production interests.The formerly Das Werk-owned En Efecto, now controlled by one-time Admira president and Antena 3 CEO Juan Jose Nieto, houses audio and digital post-production companies Videoefecto, Madpix, Audioclip and Lisbon-based Bikini Pos Producao de Filmes.Production, facilities ...
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Relaunched Kinowelt unveils first foray into production
For the first time since its relaunch at the beginning of this year, Kinowelt has announced that it will be making its first foray into production by co-producing an adaptation of Wladimir Kaminer's bestselling cult novel Russendisko next year (ScreenDaily.com, April 2003).The film, which will be produced by Christoph Meyer-Wiel ...
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German fund moves into international TV financing
Munich-based fund specialist LHI Leasing is set to move into financing international TV series with the placement of LHI Filmproduktionsfonds KALEDO later this month.With a projected volume of over Euros 100m, the leasing-type TV production fund intends to back future episodes of the US series Law & Order, Law & ...