All Screen articles in 1 March 2000
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Gov't set to intervene in French producers' battle
The French government looks set to intervene in a stalemate between pay-TV outfit Television Par Satellite (TPS) and industry bodies BLIC, BLOC and ARP about the relationship between the pay-TV sector and French producers.TPS is under pressure to sign an agreement with the three organisations which would govern its investment ...
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Blair Witch video sales propel Alliance to profit
Alliance Atlantis Communications boosted its third quarter earnings by 123% thanks in part to brisk video sales of The Blair Witch Project and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Net earnings for the third quarter ended December 31 were C$14.3m (US$9.9m) compared to last year's C$5.3m. That trend is ...
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Germany's Primacom plans digital launch
Germany's third-largest cable operator Primacom is launching a digital pay-TV platform in May. The yet-to-be-named service will offer more than 80 channels, pay-per-view, internet and other services. Primacom currently serves almost 1.4 million households, mainly in the former East Germany, and claims just under 1 million active subscribers. The digital ...
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Backroads
Dir: Shirley Cheechoo. US. 1999. 82 mins.Prod Co: Girl From The Backroads. Prods: Shirley Cheechoo, Phyllis Ellis, Christine K Walker. Exec prods: Henri Kessler, Ezra Swerdlow, David Pipers, Steve Gottlieb. Scr: Shirley Cheechoo. DoP: Jonathan Brown. Ed: Lee Percy. Main cast: Renae Morriseau, Sheila Tousey, Shirley Cheechoo, Greta Cheechoo, Maximilian ...
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American Beauty leads the pack in BAFTA nods
Once again, American Beauty has proved its modern classic status by leading the race for this year's British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTAs) which take place on April 9.Following its eight Academy Award nominations, the Dreamworks production received 14 BAFTA nominations in all the major categories, including best ...
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AFM: Primary's Kingdom includes Foster, Wang
Gabriela Bacher's Primary Pictures, which this week announced its British gangster movie My Kingdom to star Richard Harris, has teamed up with a host of international talent on its development slate including Wayne Wang and Jodie Foster.Bacher, formerly the LA-based senior vice president of production at Constantin Film, is co-producing ...
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AFM: Alliance retrenches from finance lending
Alliance Atlantis Corp (AAC) has downscaled its Equicap structured financing division as part of a overall strategy to concentrate on its core film and TV production and distribution businesses. In a release, AAC chief financial officer W. Judson Martin described the move as a transition "from active to passive participation" ...
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Trimark pays $1.65m for What's Cooking'
Trimark Pictures has paid $1.65m for domestic rights to What's Cooking', the latest picture from Gurinder Chadha which opened this year's Sundance Film Festival.The movie - a portmanteau piece looking at four LA households from different ethnic backgrounds as they make preparations for the traditionally festive dinner - was a ...
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Ripley performs but Wog Boy claims top spot
The Talented Mr Ripley gave a strong performance in its opening four days to February 27, taking A$1,850,546 from 190 screens. However, it was not good enough to beat homegrown comedy The Wog Boy, which claimed the top spot by earning about A$180,000 more from 198 screens. "I know Ripley ...
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Hungary's Magic develops WWII drama with Medien
Magic Media, one of Hungary's largest production companies, is hooking up with Germany's Medien & Television Munchen to co-produce an adaptation of Imre Kertesz' best-selling novel Sorstalansag - Lost Fate.Janos Szasz is set to direct the project - about the fate of Budapest's Jewish population during the Second World War ...
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UGC to invest $300m in European cinema expansion
France's UGC Cinemas, the new owner of Virgin's UK cinema circuit, has pledged $300m to expand its cinema network across Europe.The French exhibition giant, which spent $343m (£215m) to acquire Virgin's 36 UK sites last October, plans to invest more than $80m (£50m) to build eight new UK cinemas - ...
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French film suffers decline in foreign investment
Foreign investment in French production decreased by an alarming 34% in 1999, according to figures released by French cultural body CNC (Centre National de la Cinematographie). The dip can mostly be attributed to government legislation, introduced last April, which restricts local support to French films that have budgets which are ...
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Intertainment signs $22m deal with Spain's Manga
Germany's Intertainment has signed a $22.4m multi-picture deal with Spanish distributor Manga Films. Under the terms of the deal, Manga takes Spanish first-run, free-TV rights to several Franchise pictures that Intertainment has co-financed or acquired through its output deal with the company, including Art of War, starring Wesley Snipes, the ...
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UK financier relaunches as Future Film Group
UK tax-based film investment company Factor 8 Films has re-launched as the Future Film Group, which expects to generate $40m (£25m) in risk money to invest in British features.The $40m is in addition to the benefits Factor 8 raises through its tax funds over the next two years, according to ...
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AFM: Summit, Seven, Creek strike Benelux deals
Seven Arts International, Summit Entertainment and Morgan Creek International have each concluded separate package deals with distributors for the Benelux. Seven Arts' deal with Les Films L'Elysee includes Rules Of Engagement starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L Jackson and Morton Orwell to which Sylvester Stallone is attached.Seven Arts International's ...
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AFM: IAC, Optimum walk with Lions in UK
UK-based sales and financing house IAC Films and Will Clarke's UK distributor Optimum Releasing are partnering on a UK release of IAC's To Walk With Lions.The two companies will give the picture a nationwide release in May with support from several promotional partners and charities. The film, the continuation of ...
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RAICinema to launch at Cannes with $250m budget
RAICinema, the recently-formed film unit of Italian state broadcaster RAI, is set to officially launch at this year's Cannes film festival, complete with an annual budget of $250m (L500bn), some of which will be channelled into studio acquisitions.The new outfit will be involved in production, distribution and international sales, with ...
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AFM: Korea stumps up for Stallone, Costner
Korea is back, at least for the kind of star-driven pictures which Franchise Pictures has been touting at the AFM.Korea Pictures/Mirae Asset stumped up seven figure sums - each - for Korean rights to Sylvester Stallone-starrer Champs, and 3000 Miles To Graceland with Kevin Costner and Kurt Russell.Korea Pictures/Mirae Asset ...
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AFM: Roissy-Celluloid slate gets animated
Newly formed French sales house Roissy Films-Celluloid Dreams is poised to become one of Europe's biggest players on the animation scene having added two animated features to its slate - The General And Bonapart and Three Old Ladies (Les Triplettes De Belleville).The General And Bonapart, a new children's animated feature ...
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AFM: Winchester signs first UK producer pact
In the week that Winchester unveiled a string of Hollywood partnerships, the UK entertainment outfit has bolstered its British production presence with a long-term deal with Mark Thomas, producer of Up 'N' Under and Rancid Aluminium.Winchester will look to Thomas to source and produce commercially-oriented, $5m-$7m projects with strong marketing ...