All Screen articles in 11 February 2000
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Signs And Wonders
Dir: Jonathan Nossiter. Germany. 1999. 108 mins.Prod co: MK2 in association with Arthaus Filmverleih. Int'l sales: MK2. Prod: Marin Karmitz. Scr: Jonathan Nossiter, James Lasdun. DoP: Yorgos Arvanitis. Mus: Adrian Utley. Main cast: Stellan Karsgard, Charlotte Rampling, Deborah Kara Unger, Dimitri Katalifos.Films about marital infidelity are plentiful enough to render ...
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KCMedien, CineArtists board Stone's Beyond Borders
German film fund KC Medien and Munich-based film finance packager CineArtists are backing Oliver Stone's next feature Beyond Borders, which will be partly shot on location in Europe. The film, about medical organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres, is the third project to receive backing from KC Medien following its change of ...
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Fortissimo expands slate with Wong's Mood For Love
Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up sales duties on seven new pictures including Cannes competition hopeful In The Mood For Love, directed by Wong Kar Wai.The Dutch-Hong Kong sales house opened its new slate for business at the European Film Market in Berlin this week, and plans to take the ...
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Schroeder unveils plans for Franco-German academy
German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder announced the creation of a German-French film academy today at the Berlin film festival.While the chancellor disclosed neither the budget nor the location of the proposed institution, he said it would address the cultural and economic needs of the industry.At a conference attended by French culture ...
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Bening named ShoWest Female Star Of The Year
Annette Bening has been named ShoWest Female Star Of The Year, rounding out the roster of awards at this year's ShoWest 2000 Awards Night on March 9 in Las Vegas.Bening, one of this year's Best Actress Oscar front-runners for American Beauty, has already won the award for funniest actress in ...
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Artisan invests in education with Baby Einstein
Artisan Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to a collection of developmental video products for children ages 0-4 from The Baby Einstein Company. Simultaneously, Artisan took a minority interest in the company and has signalled its intention to grow the brand into a household name a la Barney or ...
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Levinsohn promoted to head Fox pay-TV
Peter Levinsohn has been promoted to executive vice president, worldwide pay-TV and pay-per-view, for 20th Century Fox. Levinsohn has been senior vice president, international pay television and pay-per-view, since Sept 1997 and will now be responsible for the distribution of Fox's feature film and television programming to all worldwide pay-TV ...
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French director Vadim dies
French director Roger Vadim died today after a long struggle with cancer. He was 72.Vadim is perhaps best known for launching Brigitte Bardot's career in the 1956 And God Created Woman. His credits also include the 1968 sci-fi picture Barbarella - starring his wife at the time, Jane Fonda - ...
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Vodafone, Mannesmann deal rewrites media rules
With the Vodafone Airtouch merger with Mannesmann overtaking AOL's previous record-breaking takeover of Time Warner, investment bankers are rubbing their hands with glee. Media moguls and sector analysts, however, are looking for synergies between the two monster communications combines.While yesterday's $179bn (Euro181bn) Vodafone takeover of Mannesmann, is on the surface ...
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Bombo acquires Panorama title Shadow Boxers
Bombo Sports & Entertainment has picked up world sales rights to feature-length documentary Shadow Boxers, which is screening in the Panorama section of the Berlin film festival.The picture takes an insider's approach to the murky world of women's boxing, following world champion Lucia Rijker. It was voted best first feature ...
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Beau Travail
Dir: Claire Denis. France. 1998. 90 mins.Prod cos: Pathe Television, La Sept-Arte, SM Films. Int'l sales: Mercure Distribution. Prod: Jerome Minet. Scr: Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau. DoP: Agnes Godard. Ed: Nelly Quettier. Mus: Eran Tzur. Main cast: Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Gregoire Colin, Marta Tafesse Kassa. A strangely impressionistic portrait ...
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New Year's Day
Dir: Suri Krishnamma. UK. 1999. 101mins.Prod co: Alchymie. Int'l sales: The Sales Co. Prods: Steven Cleary, Simon Channing-Williams. Co-prods: Charles Steel, Marianne Slot, Vibeke Windelov. Exec prods: Beau Rogers, David Forrest. Scr: Ralph Brown. DoP: John De Borman. Prod des: Eve Stewart. Ed: Adam Ross. Mus: Julian Nott. Main cast: ...
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SKA gears up for period drama, soccer film
Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughn's SKA Films, the UK production company behind Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and the upcoming Snatch, is readying at least two other projects to shoot this year.Newcomer Simon Cooke is to direct a $12m-15m period film in the UK this autumn. SKA expects to ...
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Village beefs up London office in exec reshuffle
Following Village Cinemas International's revelation that it is launching a chain of own brand cinemas in the UK, the company has announced several management changes, including the relocation of two Australian executives to its London office.George Livery has been promoted from managing director of Village Cinemas Australia to general manager ...
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Kaurismaki seeks finance to complete Lenin biopic
Producer Igor Maiboroda and Finnish film-maker Aki Kaurismaki are seeking co-producers to complete Lenin biopic, Belief, Hope And Blood, which started shooting 18 months ago in Finland.Several scenes from the film were shot at Kaurismaki's Sputnik Studios in Finland during summer 1998 using actor Igor Muzhzhukhin as the young Lenin. ...
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Le Studio to run with Tykwer's Princess
French production and distribution giant Le Studio Canal Plus has picked up international sales rights to The Princess And The Warrior (Der Krieger Und Die Kaiserin), the latest project from Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer. Princess, produced by Stefan Arndt's X-Filme Creative Pool, is completed and due for ...
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AFC revamp takes shape with Warner
French production and distribution giant Le Studio Canal Plus has picked up international sales rights to The Princess And The Warrior (Der Krieger Und Die Kaiserin), the latest proejct from Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer. Princess, produced by Stefan Arndt's X-Filme Creative Pool, is completed and due for ...
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Wenders changes tune with German rockumentary
Wim Wenders, whose latest film The Million Dollar Hotel opened this year's Berlin Film Festival on Wednesday night (Feb 9), has acquired a taste for music documentaries after his success with Buena Vista Social Club. Wenders has confirmed that his next project will be a feature-length documentary about German 'rock ...
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Canada to get uncut American Psycho
Canadian audiences will be able to see the original 'NC-17' version of American Psycho when Vancouver-based distributor Lions Gate Films releases it across the country on April 14.After the US' Motion Picture Association issued an 'NC-17' rating, director Mary Harron re-edited the controversial film in order to receive a more ...
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Mother shows legs at Spanish box office
Domestic productions have been maintaining a healthy presence at the Spanish box office in recent weeks, spurred on by both Spain's Oscars equivalent, the Goya Awards which took place on January 29, and the growing popularity among cinema-goers of a new generation of young actors.Director Pedro Almodovar's international hit All ...