All Screen articles in 12 December 2000
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Vivendi, Seagram shareholders rubberstamp merger
A cheering crowd of 10,000 Vivendi shareholders, gathered beneath the pyramid at the Louvre museum in Paris, approved the company's three-way merger with Universal Studios owner Seagram and Canal Plus by a massive 95%. Seagram's shareholders had previously voted the merger by a 90.4% majority. Canal Plus' shareholders are meeting ...
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Sundance Premieres, World Cinema complete line-up
The Sundance Film Festival followed the announcement yesterday of its dramatic and documentary competition and American Spectrum sections with the high-profile Premiere and World Cinema sections today, as well as Frontier and Midnight Screenings.Opening the festival on Jan 18 is My First Mister, the feature directorial debut of award-winning actress ...
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Web deals for Mary Pickford, early Russian cinema
article27, a worldwide online entertainment syndicator, has acquired global streaming rights to five silent feature films starring Mary Pickford and North American streaming rights to a group of early Russian films from New York-based Milestone Film & Video. The Pickford films are Amarillo Of Clothes-Line Alley, Daddy Long-Legs, My Best ...
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AFMA promotes Gagnon, expands collections unit
Janet M Gagnon has been promoted to the position of vice president, collections & European policy for AFMA Collections, a division of the American Film Marketing Association that has now been expanded to non-AFMA members.AFMA Collections was launched in 1994 and provides members with a service to collect and administer ...
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OFT launches new probe into BSkyB
BSkyB, the UK's largest pay-TV broadcaster, faces a competition inquiry launched this week by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).The probe, expected to take six months, is to focus on BSkyB's supply of wholesale pay-TV to its rivals - known as bundling. If found guilty, the broadcaster could be fined ...
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UPC's Chello abandons merger with Excite
Broadband internet supplier Chello, owned by Dutch cable giant UPC, has called off its plans to merge with the international arm of similar US group Excite@Home.The move raises questions about future funding for Chello, which had been scheduled to float before UPC decided on the merger with Excite instead. UPC ...
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ABC journalists protest against Shier
Some of Australia's most respected current affairs journalists and commentators declared war this week on Jonathan Shier, who took up the post of managing director of Australian public broadcaster, the ABC, in March. Maxine McKew, Kerry O'Brien and Robin Williams were among eight senior employees of the ABC who made ...
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Flickering Lights puts Grinch in the shade
Danish films are coming out in force this autumn, fighting for a share of the local audience. Barely a week goes by without a new local film premiering, giving US fare a run for its money as never before. Flickering Lights, the feature directing debut from talented screenwriter Anders Thomas ...
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Apollo Media boards Kershner's Cecilia
German financier Apollo Media is backing five high-profile US projects via its fourth film fund, including Irvin Kershner's $15m historical romantic drama Cecilia, which is set to star Virginia Ledoyen and Jeremy Irons.Buena Vista has worldwide rights to the film about an affair between the composer Puccini and a young ...
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Exports drive Canadian film and video sales
It's not happening on a Hollywood scale but just as in Tinseltown the international market is driving Canada's film and video industry. For the first time, international sales accounted for more than half of sales of Canadian content production, according to surveys by Statistics Canada for the years 1997-98 and ...
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EM.TV fall from grace typifies Neuer Markt agonies
At a Wednesday morning price of Euros8.30, EM.TV & Merchandising's shares are so far below their peak as to be almost unrecognisable. They are 93% below their 2000 peak of Euros119.5.But EM.TV's demise represents more than the fall from grace of one overly ambitious firm. The company was one of ...
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FFC warns film-makers of funding shortage
The Australian Film Finance Corporation (FFC) has warned film-makers that it will only support projects with high levels of finance from other sources over the next six months.The funding body will also insist on attractive recoupment and other terms. This is because a large number of producers successfully sought finance ...
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Miracle scores at Copenhagen children's fest
Danish box office hit Miracle, directed by newcomer Natasha Arthy, was the winner of the BUSTER Grand Prix at the first BUSTER - Copenhagen International Children's Film Festival (November 27 - December 2).The award was voted for by a jury comprising Danish director Svend Johansen, Dutch distributor Dick de Jonge ...
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Sea That Thinks takes top prize at Dutch doc fest
Dutch film-maker Gert de Graaf picked up the main prize at the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (Nov 21-29), for The Sea That Thinks. The film is the dramatised tale of a screenwriter trying to unravel his own plot. The Special Jury Award went to David Shapiro and Laurie Gwen Shapiro ...
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Cattleya in line for major cash boost
Italian production outfit Cattleya is set to receive two major tranches of investment from one of Italy's leading financial groups, San Paolo IMI Private Equity, and multimedia giant De Agostini.The company said it would use the cash injection to ramp up production to about eight or 10 features a year. ...
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Snapper options McNally's Perfect Ganesh
New York-based production outfit Snapper Films has acquired the film rights to Terrence McNally's award-winning play A Perfect Ganesh.Headed by director-turned producer Juha Wuolijoki, Snapper hopes to get the film into production in the early autumn, 2001, and is currently putting together the financing. Snapper last year produced Tony Bui's ...
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Vivendi Universal may divert Canal films to UIP
Vivendi Universal appears to be seriously considering channelling some StudioCanal-backed films though UIP, the international distribution venture it co-owns with Paramount Pictures.The title-by-title arrangement could extend to both European and US films bankrolled by Vivendi Universal's StudioCanal. UIP could even release certain films in markets where StudioCanal already has distribution ...
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Quills named best film by National Board of Review
Philip Kaufman's Quills was named Best Film of 2000 by the National Board Of Review Of Motion Pictures, kicking off an unpredictable awards season with its first surprise. The Marquis de Sade drama written by Doug Wright from his own play received mixed reviews from critics but has been performing ...
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Julian Senior to leave Warner Bros after 30 years
Julian Senior, the well-known head of European Regional Advertising and Publicity at Warner Bros Pictures, is to leave the company at the end of the year after 30 years at the company."We will certainly miss him and his contribution to our company and our films," said Richard Fox, executive vice ...
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Worldwide marketing chief Bob Levin quits Sony
Robert Levin, the president of worldwide marketing for Sony Pictures Entertainment, has resigned his post and will leave the company immediately. He joined the studio in 1996 and was responsible for all worldwide marketing activities for the company's theatrical releases and its consumer products organisation."I am quite proud of what ...