All Screen articles in 14 July 2001
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Local films boost Euro box office bumper year
Screen Daily's analysis of international box office results for the first half of 2001 reveals that all major European territories are enjoying an unexpectedly robust year so far. Even more encouraging is the revelation that, in almost all markets surveyed, it has been local films that have fuelled the upward ...
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Film Council hands development sums to UK six-pack
The Film Council's development fund has announced slate development deals with six UK production companies, worth $1.767m (£1.262m) from its annual coffers of $7m (£5m).Long term deals have been struck with Fragile Films, Archer Street Tiger Lily, Kuhn & Co, Autonomous, Dragon Pictures and The Jim Henson Company.A separate slate ...
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Four films break Australian drought
Australian government agency: the Film Finance Corporation (FFC) has approved investment in features for the first time since March, when funds for the 2000/2001 year ran dry.First is Craig Lahiff's Black And White starring Robert Carlyle, based on the true story of injustice done to an Aboriginal man. A rare ...
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South Africa's film industry looks forward
The South African film industry seems to produce more conferences than films; several have been held over the past few years, including a symposium with the EU on plans to boost the local film industry. But filmmakers themselves are still suffering from the 'begging bowl' syndrome when it comes to ...
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France's TF1 sees revenues rise
Leading French terrestrial broadcaster TF1 has announced a nine per-cent increase in its revenues for the first half of 2001, largely due to the consolidation of cable and satellite channels Eurosport International, TV Sport and Series Club and production company Telema.TF1 revenues rose to Euros 1.3bn (against Euros 1.2bn for ...
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Branson's entertainment locations to show content
Richard Branson's Virgin Group is investing $4.2m in a joint venture with Toronto-based leisure centre operator MagiCorp to create two location-based entertainment facilities - one in Manchester, one in Toronto - featuring digital content delivered over cinema-sized screens and personal table-top monitors. Dubbed Lucid, the joint venture's concept seeks to ...
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High Heels And Low Lifes
Dir: Mel Smith. UK. 2001. 86 mins. The film's title implies a commercially canny mix of grrrl power and gangsters, but Mel Smith's first directorial outing since Bean (1997) is unlikely to replicate its success, or that of writer Kim Fuller's last film, SpiceWorld (1996). Here, males will be turned ...
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Alex Massis to represent
CineSales Inc, the worldwide sales representative for the "Something Weird" library of films, has retained Alex Massis and his New York-based Film Source Co as consultants on the sales of the films. The collection includes 13 pictures from cult director Herschell Gordon Lewis including Blood Feast (1963), Two Thousand Maniacs ...
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Anschutz-backed Crusader hires Immerman, Morton
Crusader Entertainment, the recently formed LA-based production outfit backed by Philip Anschutz's Anschutz Corporation and run by Howard Baldwin, has made two key appointments. Entertainment attorney William J Immerman has been named executive vice president, while former Phoenix Pictures executive Nick Morton has been named vice president of development.Immerman joins ...
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Sony buys Alliance Atlantis' State for Screen Gems
Sony Pictures' mid-level releasing division Screen Gems has acquired US rights to Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Production's action comedy The 51st State starring Samuel L Jackson and Robert Carlyle. Screen Gems plans to release the film in 2002.Directed by Ronny Yu, The 51st State was financed by Alliance Atlantis with ...
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China takes major steps in consolidation march
China this weekconfirmed a major step in its programme of building media conglomerates andalso unveiled the country's first approved video-on-demand (VoD) service.Xu Guangchun, minister at the State Administration of RadioFilm & Television (SARFT), unveiled the details of a three-way merger thatwould combine the giant China Central TV (CCTV) with both ...
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Bully
Dir: Larry Clark. US. 2001. 110 mins.In his third feature, Bully, legendary photographer-turned-director LarryClark continues to explore the same issues he had tackled in his controversialdebut, Kids, a cause celebre that led Miramax to briefly create a new divisionjust for its release. As written by Zachary Long and Roger Pullis, ...
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Trust snaps up record-breaking Elling
Zentropa's sales outfit Trust Film Sales has picked up international sales rights to the most popular Norwegian film in recent history, Peter Naess' comedy Elling. Produced by new outfit Maipo TV & Film and producer Dag Alveberg, the $1.6m (NKR15m) film has been distributed by United International Pictures' local branch, ...
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Injustice goes ahead, despite threats
Audience members last night (11 July) took over a London screening of the feature length documentary Injustice after legal threats prompted staff at the venue, the Conway Hall, to try and abort the screening.London-based documentary production company Migrant Media had hired London's Conway Hall and installed a video projector and ...
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The Last Days Of Pompeii - for the ninth time
More than forty years after it was last seen on the big screen, Italian producer Leo Pescarolo is developing a big-budget English-language remake of the legendary movie The Last Days of Pompei, making it the ninth time the sword-and-sandal spectacular returns to the silver screen."The model for this kind of ...
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Nicoll quits top Sogepaq post
Veteran Spanish film executive Margaret Nicoll announced that she is quitting her position as general manager of Sogecable rights arm Sogepaq, but not necessarily step away from the conglom where she has spent the last 12 years of her professional career.Nicoll says a "future relationship" is a possibility that she ...
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Giffoni festival reveals impressive line-up
Italy's Giffoni Film Festival, one of the premier festivals dedicated to youth-oriented cinema and the only one whose jury is composed of international school children, has unveiled its full line-up which includes Nick Castle's Delivering Milo, John Hay's There's Only One Jimmy Grimble and Iranian filmmaker Ali Shah-Hatami's Shrapnels In ...
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Two Canadian distributors up for sale
Canada's independent film distribution business is in a state of flux as two companies -- TVA International (TVAI) and Blackwatch Communications -- seek buyers for their distribution operations.Montreal-based TVAI has confirmed it is looking for a buyer for its film and television distribution arm. TVAI has output deals with Fox ...
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BerlinBeta launches digital fiction award
BerlinBeta's film festival - from August 29 - to September 5 - is to become the first event of its kind in Europe to offer a Digital Fiction Award, in conjunction with Das Werk, for the best digitally produced feature. The event will also feature a sidebar with the latest ...
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Betting on box office could affect your wealth
Every cinemagoer has an opinion about how a film will perform at the box office. We've seen the trailers, read the reviews, been lambasted by immense marketing campaigns and bought a burger chain tie-in meal. Now Joe-cinemagoing-public has a chance to put his money where his mouth is and try ...