All Screen articles in 1 March 2002
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Michael Kuhn co's first picture rolls in Rome
Shooting has started inRome's Cinecitta Studios on 20th Century Fox's Sin Eater, the first project to go into production throughformer PolyGram Filmed Entertainment chief Michael Kuhn's new productionoutfit.Directed by Brian Helgeland(A Knight's Tale), Sin Eater is the story of a mysterious character who exorcisesthe sins of dead people and stars ...
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Franchise wins 1st court battle with Intertainment
Franchise Pictures has won acourt victory against Germany's Intertainment Licensing GmbH, asubsidiary of the publicly traded Intertainment AG. The two companies have beenembroiled in legal battle for over a year now regarding the terms of an outputdeal Franchise had sealed with Intertainment in 2000.Yesterday's judgmentsees Intertainment liable for $6.5m for ...
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Massis does multi-picture deals in Italy, Israel
Alex Massis' NewYork-based marketing and sales outfit The Film Source has closed multi-picturedeals with Dall'Angelo Pictures in Italy, Israel Cable Programming (ICP)in Israel and Pengloss in Switzerland.The video/DVD and TV dealsclosed at NATPE and the Berlin Film Market consisted of four classic Mario Bavahorror films (Lisa & The Devil, Baron ...
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ContentFilm teams with Furst, WMA on digital pics
Ed Pressman and JohnSchmidt's New York-based production outfit ContentFilm has formed atwo-year strategic alliance with LA-based producer Sean Furst and his FurstFilms. And in an unusual angle to the deal, Rena Ronson and Cassian Elwes ofWilliam Morris Agency division WMA Independent will provide "strategicsupport" by sharing its resources with the ...
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ShoWesters to view footage of digital Star Wars II
Exhibitors at nextweek's ShoWest convention will get a world-first glimpse of footage fromGeorge Lucas' Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones as part of a presentation by its producer RickMcCallum on shooting digitally with the Sony 24P camera.The convention'sOpening Night Dinner will be hosted next Tuesday (March 5) ...
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Guadalajara fest to go ahead with new director
Mexico's premiere film event, the Guadalajara Mexican Film Showcase, kicks off next week despite the resignation of its newly-appointed director Enrique Ortiga, who never even got a chance to manage the event once.Deputy director Kenya Marquez Alkadef stepped in to replace Ortiga, who left amidst claims that he had neglected ...
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Millimages buys 51% of Toons 'N' Takes
Leading French animation house Millimages has acquired a 51% majority stake in Hamburg-based studio Toons 'N' Takes.The move is seen as part of an intensification of their existing working collaboration on animation series for television.Millimages, which has been listed on France's Nouveau Marche d'Euronext since June 2001, opened a US ...
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Telefonica reports decline in net profits
Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica reported a drop in net profit for 2001, down 15.9% to Euros 2.1bn from Euros 2.5bn in 2000. The company estimates the devaluation of the Argentine peso impacted its results by as much as Euros 369m.Telefonica media filial Admira posted Euros 347.3m in net losses, a ...
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House Of The Dead to go live action in May
After Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, and most recently Tekken (Screen Daily Feb 21), attention has now turned to Sega's best-selling video game, House Of The Dead for a live-action feature production. The Euros 12m project is set to crank up in May in Vancouver under the direction of ...
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Howard's Mind gets beautiful reception
After taking home two BAFTA awards last weekend and boasting eight Academy Award nominations, not to mention the amount of press Russell Crowe alone seems to generate, it is no surprise that A Beautiful Mind has enjoyed a host of strong international releases this week. However, the Ron Howard film, ...
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The Diaries Of Vaslav Nijinsky
Dir: Paul Cox. Australia. 2002. 95 mins.One of prolific Paul Cox's most admired movies is his 1987 'docudrama' Vincent, a portrait of Van Gogh told by flowing imagery and close inspection of the paintings in situ, accompanied by voice over excerpts (read by John Hurt) from Vincent's letters to his ...
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Spain's Morena Films announces three new titles
Spanish film and TV producer Morena Films has unveiled three new feature films for its 2002 slate, following its co-production of the Oliver Stone Cuba documentary Looking For Fidel.Alvaro Fernandez Armero, director of local box office smash The Art Of Dying (El Arte De Morir), has signed on to an ...
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Endemol to buy German film production companies
Dutch media giant Endemol Entertainment plans to expand its role as a producer for cinema and television in Germany with the purchase of a number of film production companies. In an interview with the business daily Handelsblatt, Endemol Deutschland general manager Werner Schwaderlapp revealed that negotiations are already underway for ...
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Disney gets Spirited Away for North America
Walt Disney Co. has acquired North American rights to Hayao Miyazaki's smash animated hit Spirited Away, which has broken all box office records in Japan. Disney also bought rights to the film for Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and France in previously concluded deals. Meanwhile, sales agent Wild Bunch is handling ...
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Doug Wick named ShoWest producer of the year
Douglas Wick, the producerof Columbia Pictures' summer release Stuart Little 2, has been named 2002 producer of the year byexhibitors' convention ShoWest. Wick will receive the award at theconvention's gala awards banquet in Las Vegas on March 7.Wick's credits includeRidley Scott's Gladiatorfor which he won an Oscar for Best Picture, ...
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AFM buyer numbers down but screenings, sellers up
The American Film Market(AFM) closed yesterday and organizing body AFMA announced the closingattendance figures as down 6% from 7,127 in 2001 to 6,714 in 2002. Registeredbuyers were down at 1,327 from 1,447 in the previous year, although the numberof non-US registered buyers was down only 2% from 2001.The number of ...
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Miramax to go Full Frontal this August
Miramax Films has moved theUS release date of Steven Soderbergh's low budget ensemble piece FullFrontal from its scheduled March 8to August 2 which not only coincides exactly with the 1989 release date ofSoderbergh's first film sex, lies, & videotape but also opens the film up to a possible worldpremiere in ...
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MEDIA! AG anticipates declining fortunes
German production services provider MEDIA! AG anticipates a negative result in the 2001/2002 financial year and sales target of Euros 30m, although it could reach a positive annual result in the next financial year (2002/2003). Reporting on the first half of the current financial year to December 31, 2001, the ...
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Beart, and Ardant to co-star in Nathalie Ribout
Emmanuelle Beart and Fanny Ardant, currently together on the French screens in Francois Ozon's musical whodunit 8 Femmes, are to co-star in Nathalie Ribout, the next film by Anne Fontaine.Currently at script stage, Nathalie Ribout will go before the cameras in 2003, produced by Les Films Alain Sarde, in which ...
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TV doldrums dampen AFM sales business
Some 46 years ago, a budding rights-trader pursued the German television rights to Federico Fellini's La Strada, borrowing 25,000 Deutschmarks from his wife in order to complete the acquisition and kick-start what would much later become one of Europe's pivotal media empires. Today, the $6bn debt albatross that now hangs ...