All Screen articles in 13 August 2000
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Alec Guinness dies aged 86
Academy award winning UK actor Sir Alec Guinness has died after a 60-year career ranging from Shakespeare to Star Wars.The 86 year old actor died late on Saturday after reportedly being rushed to hospital by ambulance on Thursday. He had been suffering from ill health for several years.Guinness, who picked ...
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Peru's Pantaleon triumphs at Gramado
Peruvian film Captain Pantoja And The Special Service (Pantaleon Y Las Visitadoras), directed by Francisco Lombardi, was the clear winner at the 28th Film Festival of Gramado in Brazil, picking up awards for best film, director, actor and screenplay.The film was also awarded best editor and won the critics' award ...
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Napier exits Soho Images for Digital Film Lab
Gary Napier has quit as managing director of post-production house Soho Images to take up the post of chief executive officer at the start-up London arm of Danish post company Digital Film Lab.Napier announced his departure after 18 months at Soho Images. He was previously senior vice president of news ...
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Australia's Chopper tops local box office
Australian title Chopper has grossed an impressive $0.7m (A$1.2m) from 132 screens in its opening four days in its home territory, giving Australia its third resounding local hit this year. The Palace release, which grossed an additional $176,000 (A$300,000) in previews, is also Australia's second number one domestic title this ...
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Chopper
Dir: Andrew Dominik. Australia. 2000. 94 mins. Prod cos: Pariah Films. Int'l sales: Beyond Films, tel (612) 9281 1266. Exec prods: Al Clark, Martin Fabinyi. Prod: Michele Bennett. Co-prod: Michael Gudinski. DoPs: Geoffrey Hall, Kevin Hayward. Prod des: Patrick Reardon. Ed: Ken Sallows. Original music: Mick Harvey. Main cast: Eric ...
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Telefonica to buy GMG stake in UK outfit
Spanish telecommunications group Telefonica is close to taking over London-based TV production operation GMG Endemol by buying a 50% stake from the UK's Guardian Media Group, according to reports.The sale would come after Telefonica last month completed the £3bn acquisition of Dutch-based Endemol, securing Endemol's 50% stake in the UK ...
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United to offload remaining television assets
United News & Media is focusing on its core market information business as it disposes of its TV interests, chief executive Lord Hollick has announced.Hollick aims to eliminate the group's debt after an agreement last month to sell its ITV assets to rival Granada Media for £1.75bn. The move will ...
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La Comunidad to open San Sebastian
Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia's fifth film, La Comunidad, will open this year's San Sebastian International Film Festival (September 21-30), outgoing festival director Diego Galan has confirmed.The choice is unusual as San Sebastian does not traditionally open with a Spanish title, particularly a genre title such as La Comunidad. ...
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Senator, Mark Canton seal five-year joint venture
Yet another German company is putting its public money behind a Hollywood producer. Hanno Huth's Senator Entertainment has entered into a five-year joint venture agreement with Mark Canton's The Canton Company to develop and fully fund an average of four to six major movies a year.Canton will continue to be ...
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Sutherland joins MGM in senior international role
Ian Sutherland, who was previously senior vice president, international marketing, at United International Pictures (UIP) in London, has joined MGM Distribution Co as senior vice president - international theatrical distribution and marketing to be based in Los Angeles.Sutherland, who worked with MGM when it was a partner in ...
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Redbus, Warner strike video pact
UK distributor Redbus Film Distribution has struck a video and DVD deal with Warner Home Video, which gives the company sole rights to distribute and market up to 25 titles a year until 2003. The deal kicks off with Academy Award-winning documentary One Day In September.Other films to go through ...
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Art Films grabs Gramado winner Pantaleon
Brazil's Art Films has beaten off several other distributors to acquire local theatrical rights to Gramado festival winner Captain Pantoja And The Special Service (Pantaleon Y Las Visitadoras), a Peruvian title directed by Francisco Lombardi.The company acquired the film jointly with local video distributor Europa Video. According to Art Films ...
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Gone In Sixty Seconds speeds to top of UK chart
Gone In Sixty Seconds sped to the top of the UK box office over the weekend with an opening three-day gross of $2.4m (£1.6m) from 394 sites, excluding previews of $230,000. This gave the Jerry Bruckheimer-Touchstone Pictures co-production a site average of $6,600 (£4,353), a stable opening considering the mixed ...
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The Romanovs - The Imperial Family
Dir: Gleb Panfilov. Russia. 2000. 150 mins.Prod co: Vera Film Studio. Int'l sales: Vera Film Studio, tel: (7) 095 229 0744. Prod: Vladimir Bychkov. Scr: Gleb Panfilov. DoP: Mikhail Agranovich. Ed: Enzo Meniconi. Music: Vadim Bibergan. Art dirs: Anatoly Panfilov, Alexander Boim. Costume des: Svetlana Titova. Main cast: Alexander Galibin, ...
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B4U plans private placement ahead of Indian launch
B4U Multimedia International, which owns Hindi film channel Bollywood For You (B4U), is planning a private placement of equity with non-resident Indians (NRI) and overseas corporate bodies (OCBs) ahead of its proposed $120m float and Indian launch.The company, which operates movie channels in the US and UK, is aiming to ...
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NTL, MSDW buy France Telecom's Noos stake
UK cable operator NTL is partnering with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Private Equity (MSDW) to acquire France Telecom's 49.9% stake in Suez Lyonnaise-controlled French cable operation Noos, for a reported Euros1.35bn.The deal - which will see NTL and MSDW owning 27% and 22.9% of the cable operator respectively - values ...
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Canal Plus, Vivendi report revenue increases
Canal Plus' film and television production and distribution division StudioCanal has reported an 11% increase in first-half revenues to Euros144m, mostly due to increased library sales and its consolidation of German film distributor Tobis.The company, which recently sold European DVD rights (excluding France) to 240 titles to Germany's Kinowelt, said ...
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My Mother Frank wins audience vote at Brisbane
Australian writer-director Mark Lamprell's debut film My Mother Frank was voted best film by audiences at the 9th Brisbane International Film Festival (July 26-August 6).Other favourite features at the event were Nabbie's Love (Japan) in second place followed by Under The Sun (Sweden), Better Than Sex (Australia), Gigantic (Germany), Titus ...
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Montreal lines up Sade for competition
Benoit Jacquot's Sade, starring Daniel Auteuil, Claude Chabrol's Nightcap and Pupi Avati's Midsummer Night Dance are among the competition titles at the 24th Montreal World Film Festival (August 25-September 4). In addition, David Mamet's State And Main will make its world premiere at the event out of competition.Also featuring in ...
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Imax owners plan assault on Oslo cinema market
Investment company Norway Cinema Group (NCG) - which operates Oslo's Imax theatre - is challenging the local authorities' dominance of the Oslo exhibition market with plans for a 10-screen multiplex scheduled to open in 2003.The complex, which represents an investment of $10m-$12m, will be built in Oslo's affluent seaside neighbourhood ...