Focus on Europe at Cinema Expo
2002 This event, held this year for the sixth time at Cinema Expo International 2002, was promoted in collaboration with The Hollywood Reporter, with the patronage of European Film Promotion and the support of Heineken. THE MEDIA SALLES SEMINAR Focus on Europe at CEI 2002
was opened by the annual seminar from MEDIA Salles: On 26 June at 2.00 pm, RAI, room H, the Seminar on cinema
statistics was held. This was organised by the Foundation for Research
and Statistics of NFC, with the participation of MEDIA Salles.
MEDIA SALLES SCREENINGS At the heart of Focus on Europe, whose objective is the promotion of European films, was the screening of the film that by 23 June was already a box-office hit in the UK with over 17m euro: Bend it like Beckham by Gurinder Chadha. Following its success in the UK, the film has been showing in more than 30 territories from July 2002: Australia, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania & Estonia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, South America, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, North America. In order to offer an overview of European films particularly suited to international circulation, the screening was preceded by a series of trailers including: God's Bankers (I banchieri di Dio - Il caso Calvi), Italy 2001, by Giuseppe Ferrara; 8 Women (8 Femmes), France 2002, by François Ozon; Respiro (Grazia's Island), Italy 2002, by Emanuele Crialese; Bloody Sunday, UK/Ireland 2002, by Paul Greengrass. MEDIA SALLES STAND On the MEDIA Salles stand booths #119-120, thanks to the co-operation of European film institutes and sales agents, visitors to CEI 2002 found ample documentation:
MEDIA Salles was provided with catalogues, fliers, newsletters, posters, videotapes, trailer reels, CD-Roms by IRISH FILM BOARD (Ireland), INSTITUTO DE CINE / ICAA (Spain), NORWEGIAN FILM INSTITUTE (Norway), CATALAN FILMS & TV (Spain), HOLLAND FILM (The Netherlands), ANICA (Italy), ITALIA CINEMA (Italy), FLANDERS IMAGE (Belgium), SWISS FILM (Switzerland), SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE (Sweden), UNIFRANCE (France), MINERVA GROUP (Italy), CELLULOID DREAMS (France), FANDANGO (Italy), A - Film Distribution (The Netherlands), PORTMAN FILM & TELEVISION (UK), BETA CINEMA (Germany). |
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Room A - Amsterdam RAI, 24 June at 10.30 am Focus on Europe - MEDIA Salles Seminar 2001 ADMISSIONS WERE UP. A panorama on cinema-going in Europe in 2001 2001 was a particularly successful year for the increase
recorded in admissions: in particular Germany registered an increase of
16.6%, France of 12%, Norway of 7.7%. Data recorded in countries like
Poland (+32.3%) and the Czech Republic (+18.9%) show a growth also in
Eastern Europe. Hosted by: Chairperson: Elisabetta Brunella - Secretary General MEDIA
Salles Speakers: Joachim Ph. Wolff - Vice President MEDIA Salles Pawel Wachnik - General Manager Operations
Poland - Ster Century Tom Remlov - Producer Norsk Film AS
Big Screen Showings of European Films
Wednesday 26 June 2002 @ 10am SHOOTING FOR GOAL! WITH EUROPEAN MOVIES
Screening Programme
Trailers
Big Screen Presentation Of The Hit Movie From The UK Bend it like Beckham
With the collaboration of: The Hollywood Reporter and the patronage of
European Film Promotion and the support of __________________________________________________________________________
Bend it like Beckham A comedy about bending the rules to reach your goal, Bend It Like Beckham explores the world of women's football, from kick-abouts in the park to freekicks in the Final. Set in Hounslow, West London and Hamburg, the film follows two 18-year-olds with their hearts set on a future in professional soccer. Heart-stopping talent doesn't seem to be enough when your parents want you to hang up your football boots, find a nice boyfriend and learn to cook the perfect chapatti.
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Director: Year: Country: Script: Production companies: |
Gurinder Chadha 2002 UK, D Paul Mayeda Berges, Guljit Bindra BSkyB [uk], Bend It Films [uk], British Screen [uk], Film Council [uk], Filmförderung Hamburg [de], Helkon Media AG [de], Road Movies Filmproduktion [de], Roc Media [de], Works and Future Film, Financing [uk] |
Following a meeting between MEDIA Salles, The Hollywood Reporter and efp (European Film Promotion), organised in Cannes during the Film Festival, BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM was selected on the merit of its box-office success in the UK and because it proved to be a film with potential for international circulation and therefore suitable for screening to an international audience of exhibitors during Cinema Expo International. The foreign sales agent and the film's Dutch distributor were thus contacted in order to obtain a copy of the film to show during Focus on Europe. The film was a great success in Amsterdam with over 1,000 spectators.
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8 Women (8 Femmes) An isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France. A family is gathered for the holiday season … But there will be no celebration - their beloved patriarch has been murdered! The killer can only be one of the eight women closest to the man of the house. Was it his powerful wife? His spinster sister-in-law? His miserly mother-in-law? Maybe the insolent chambermaid or the loyal housekeeper? Or could it possibly have been one of his two pretty young daughters? A surprise visit from the victim's glamorous sister turns the investigation into a day of hysterics, rivalries and even musical interludes. Comic situations are spiced with dark family secrets. Seduction dances with betrayal. The mystery of the female psyche is revealed. Eight women. All of them suspects. Each has a motive. Each has a secret. Eight women. Beautiful, tempestuous, intelligent, sensual and dangerous … One of them is guilty. Which one is it?
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Director: Year: 2002 Country: Cast: Script: Production companies: |
François Ozon 2002 France Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen, Danielle Darrieux, Ludivine Sagnier, Firmine Richard François Ozon BIM [it] ; Centre National de la Cinématographie [fr] ; Fidélité Productions [fr] ; France 2 Cinéma [fr]; Gimages 5 [fr] ; Le Studio Canal+ [fr] ; Mars Films [fr] |
Releases |
Territory | Company | Release Date |
Portugal |
ATALANTA FILMES |
11/10/02 |
Belgium |
ABC DISTRIBUTION |
13/02/2002 |
Spain |
ALTA CLASSICS SL |
08/11/02 |
Italy |
BIM |
25/10/02 |
Holland |
CINEMIEN |
18 April 2002 |
Taiwan |
CMPC |
End 2002 |
Australia-New Zealand |
DENDY FILMS |
26/12/02 |
Switzerland |
FILMCOOPERATIVE |
13/02/2002 |
Japan |
GAGA |
End 2002 |
Iceland |
GOOD TIIMES |
March 2003 |
Brazil |
IMOVISION |
12/07/02 |
Middle East |
ITALIA FILM |
25/04/02 |
Canada |
LES FILMS SEVILLE PICTURES |
20/09/02 |
France |
MARS FILMS |
6/02/2002 |
Serbia |
METRO FILM |
12/04/02 |
Austria |
POLYFILM |
13/09/02 |
Greece |
ROSEBUD |
05/04/02 |
USA |
USA FILMS |
20/09/02 |
CIS |
INTERCINEMA ART AGENCY |
27/06/02 |
Israel |
SHOVAL FILMS PRODUCTION |
24-31/10/2002 |
Mexico |
GEMINIS FILM |
TBA |
Hungary |
BUDAPEST FILM |
02/05/02 |
Argentina-Chili-Par.Uru. |
MARIO FERABOLI |
08/08/02 |
Germany |
CONSTANTIN FILM |
11/07/02 |
British Isles |
UGC FILMS UK |
15/11/02 |
Finland |
FUTURE FILM OY |
27/09/02 |
Sweden |
TRIANGEL FILM |
20/12/02 |
Denmark |
CAMERA FILM |
End 2002 |
Norway |
ORO FILM |
23/08/02 |
Latin America exclu.Mexico |
SAT AMERICA |
TBA |
Hong Kong |
GOLDEN SCENE |
17/10/02 |
Lithuania, Estonia,Latvia |
ARTDO KINO |
30/08/02 |
Poland |
GUTEK FILM |
18/10/02 |
Czech & Slovak Republics |
SPI |
November 2002 |
South Korea |
KEOWON |
End 2002 |
Malaysia |
GOLDEN SCREEN CINEMAS |
TBA |
South Africa |
STER KINEKOR |
TBA |
Slovenia - Croatia |
LJUBJANSKI KINOTECA |
28/11/02 |
Turkey |
CHANTIER FILMS |
11/10/02 |
Colombia - Ecuador |
CINEPLEX |
15/11/02 |
Venezuela |
CINES UNIDOS |
18/12/02 |
Peru Bolivia |
VENUS FILMS |
TBA |
Singapore |
FESTIVE FILMS |
28/09/02 |
Romania |
MEDIA PRO PICTURES |
02/08/02 |
Gabon - Congo - Tchad |
AIDA FILM |
10/06/02 |
Uruguay |
MARIO FERABOLI |
October 2002 |
Chili-Paraguay |
MARIO FERABOLI |
End 2002 |
IRELAND |
ECLIPSE PICTURES |
22/11/02 |
French Speaking Canada |
LES FILMS SEVILLE PICTURES |
03/09/02 |
English Speaking Canada |
LES FILMS SEVILLE PICTURES |
27/09/02 |
UK |
UGC FILMS UK |
29/11/02 |
Bulgaria |
BIG BANG |
20/11/02 |
Bloody Sunday Derry, 30 January 1972. MP Ivan Cooper (James Nesbitt) prepares to lead
an anti-internment march by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association
through the city's Catholic 'Bogside'. Major General Ford of the British
Army (Tim Pigott-Smith) reminds journalists that such marches are illegal.
Brigadier MacLellan (Nicholas Farrell) prepares an operation to apprehend
suspected 'hooligans' on the march, spearheaded by paratroopers under
Colonel Wilford (Simon Mann). Teenager Gerry Donaghy (Declan Duddy), previously
arrested for rioting, assures his loved ones that he will avoid trouble.
Cooper seeks assurance from the Provisional IRA that they will not initiate
violence.
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Director: Paul Greengrass Year: 2001 Country: UK, Ireland Cast: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard McSorley, Cathy Kiera Clarke Script: Paul Greengrass Production companies: Bórd Scannán na hÉireann [ie]; Granada Television [uk]; Portman Entertainment Group [uk] |
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The film was released in three territories in June 2002: UK - Winchester/Feature Film Company (January 2002) Distributors to release the film later in the year 2002 were as follows: North America - Paramount Classics Film Data supplied by Portman film
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Respiro (Grazia's Island) (see, in attachment, the press book made available by Fandango srl and distributed before the big screening) Lampedusa today. Pasquale, 13 years old, is a little hunter, leader of
a pack of youngsters who spend their time hunting birds with a slingshot
in the arid, dusty countryside around Lampedusa and contend for the hunting
territory with rival bands. Pasquale has only one boss, his father Pietro. A generous, violent man,
loved and feared. He is the male model, imitated and worshipped. It's San Bartolo's feast night and the island children compete in building tall stacks of wood at the edge of the sea. These will then be lit by the adults in honour of the Saint who they ask to burn the past in order to start a more purified life. The flames reflect in the calm sea, illuminating Grazia's face as she emerges as if by miracle.
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Year: Country: Cast:
Production companies: |
2001 Italy Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casisa, Veronica D'Agostino, Filippo Pupillo, Emma Loffredo, Elio Germano Emanuele Crialese Fandango [it]; Les Films des Tournelles [fr] ; Medusa Produzione [it]; Roissy Films [fr]; Rouse Films [fr]; TPS Cinéma [fr]; Telepiù [it] |
Territories where the movie was sold by end of June 2002 Germany and Austria - PROKINO FILMVERLEIH Data supplied by Roissy Film |
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God's Bankers (I banchieri
di Dio- Il caso Calvi), Italia 2001 The crash of the Banco Ambrosiano, the P2 Massonic Lodge and Grand Master Licio Gelli, Bishop Marcinkus, the Italian secret service, Camorra etc. etc. all the ingredients of the Calvi murder. |
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Director: Year: Country: Cast:
Production companies: |
Giuseppe Ferrara 2002 Italy Omero Antonutti, Pamela Villoresi, Giancarlo Giannini, Alessandro Gassman, Rutger Hauer Armenia Balducci, Giuseppe Ferrara Sistina Cinematografica, Metropolis Film, supported by Dipartimento dello Spettacolo |
Territory | Release date | Distribution Company |
Italy | 8 March 2002 | Columbia Tristar Film Italia |
Spain | T.B.C. | Golden MEDIA T.B.C. |
Japan | 2003 |
______________________________________________________________________________________ Conclusions Before the event, MEDIA Salles sent out 5,000 invitations and press releases about Focus on Europe at Cinema Expo International 2002 to professionals, representatives of institutions and journalists working in the cinema industry. Ads were also prepared to be published in the "Film Journal International" and in the "Cinema Expo International Program Journal". MEDIA Salles also prepared a flex Display Banner for Focus on Europe and a new poster for the European Cinema Yearbook that were displayed at the stand, during the seminar and at the buffet - reception.
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![]() At MEDIA Salles Stand: flex display on Focus on Europe |
About 300 participants attended the MEDIA Salles panel. Each one received
a copy of the European Cinema Yearbook together with MEDIA Salles Newsletters
and documentation prepared for the seminar. At the buffet-reception following the seminar co-sponsored by Heineken there were about 900 people. BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM together with the 4 trailers were screened on 26 June. Literature about the movies was distributed to people entering the cinema. Our European Film of the Year was BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM by Gurinder Chadha and we had a packed screening of nearly 1000. As a result of this screening, exhibitors across Europe were telling us they will be booking this film onto more screens than (if they hadn't viewed it prior to making this judgement) they would have without the preview. Additionally, the movie was sold to German TV within one hour of the end of the screening! This was the second time that European film trailers were screened at Cinema Expo International and it was a great success: the audience truly appreciated the program. These big screenings of trailers represent a step forward for MEDIA Salles. MEDIA Salles selected the movie and trailers together with The Hollywood Reporter and European Film promotion, focusing on European movies successful in their country of origin and with distribution rights already sold for at least two other European territories. World sales agents kindly supplied MEDIA Salles with information on release dates and territories where the movies would be distributed. Before the screening, Hella R.G.H. Schoonveld, Heineken's International
Sponsorship Manager, introduced Heineken as a sponsor of the Cinema Expo
International and spoke about the importance of promoting European films.
Later, Mike Vickers, MEDIA Salles' treasurer, thanked all those who had
worked alongside MEDIA Salles: The Hollywood Reporter, European Film Promotion.
He presented the movies about to be shown to the audience. Claudia Landsberger
- President of European Film Promotion - also talked about the importance
of promoting European movies.
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![]() After the screening of BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM: Hella R.G.H. Schoonveld - Heineken, Mike Vickers - MEDIA Salles, Paul Johnson - The Hollywood Reporter, Claudia Landsberger - European Film Promotion |