All Screen articles in 14 June 2002
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Mixed results for UK international TV sales
Providing a pertinent barometer on the state of the international television sales market, the British Television Distributors' Association has announced its export statistics for 2001. Sales of British television programmes to the US and Canada rose by 19.2% and 31.5% respectively, compared to 2000, accounting for $199m and $22m. Sales ...
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Edinburgh's new director reveals first festival titles
Gary Winick's Sundance prize-winner Tadpole, Roger Michell's Summer box-office hit Changing Lanes with Ben Affleck and Samuel L Jackson and Mike Leigh's much admired Cannes contender All Or Nothing are among the first titles confirmed for this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival. Leigh is expected to attend what will ...
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Heidi delayed by KirchGroup fallout
German media giant KirchGroup's bankruptcy has brought work on animated feature film Heidi to a standstill and may threaten the future of animation specialist TV Loonlands' Budapest facility after payments from group subsidiary TaurusProduktion, the film's co-producer failed to materialise.Animation specialist TV-Loonland, the film's other co-producer was forced to lay ...
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Spanish government issues 'Cinema Law'
The Spanish government has issued its 'Cinema Law' which, among other measures, requires broadcaster-affiliated producers to finance a minimum 75% of their feature films as co-productions. It also set up a national watchdog to oversee fair practice in all sectors of the film industry.The measure will affect top producers in ...
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Canal Plus, Telenor settle long-running dispute
Canal Plus Group and Telenor have finally settled their dispute and will now proceed with the deal that sees Nordic pay-TV platform Canal Digital sold to the Norwegian telecoms group.The definitive agreement signed last week (June 14) sees Canal Plus sell its 50% stake to its partner Telenor for a ...
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New Marseilles studio to supply booming location demand
In response to the soaring number of locations shoots in the region, the city of Marseilles is building a brand new film and television studio, thirty years after the closure of its last complex. The southern city has seen a 146% leap in the production shoots over the last five ...
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Local titles dominate Spain's Huesca festival awards
Spanish films dominated the prizes in both the international and Iberoamerican short film competitions of Spain's 30th annual Huesca Film Festival (June 6 to 15). Spanish-Andorran co-production Upside Down by Guillen Morales took home the top Danzante de Oro award in the official international short film competition, while the ...
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Film distribution arm launched by Germany's BMG/Universum
European broadcaster RTL Group's video subsidiary BMG Video/Universum Film has launched a theatrical arm Universum Film to act as a link in the distribution cooperation deal announced last year between RTL and Constantin Film (Screendaily, 10 September 2001).Universum Film, which will be headed by the video distribution company's chief executive ...
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Re-vamped Taormina announces line-up and special awards
Mike Leigh, Hugh Grant, Ennio Morricone and Isabelle Huppert will be among the recipients of the "Diamond Awards for Cinematic Excellence" at this year's Taormina Film Festival, which runs July 6th - July 13th. Titles screening at the non-competitive event, which include non-English-language films for the first time in three ...
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German Film Awards go to Nowhere In Africa
Caroline Link's Nowhere In Africa (Nirgendwo In Afrika), swept the board at the German Film Awards this weekend, winning in all of its nominated categories, including Lolas for best film and director.Nowhere In Africa, the most successful German film so far this year with over 1.1m admissions, recently secured US ...
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MediaPro continues Spanish expansion activity
Recent Spanish entrant into feature film production, media conglomerate MediaPro looks set to continue its expansion with the $57m (Euros 60m) buy-out of rival Avanzit Media, the media subsidiary of Spanish technology giant Avanzit.MediaPro declined to comment on press reports that it is considering a $57m (Euros 60m) offer for ...
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Phantom Four, StudioCanal team on Goyer's Mucho Mojo
StudioCanal is to co-finance and handle international sales on Mucho Mojo, a comic thriller to be directed by David S Goyer, who made his directorial debut with ZigZag and has script credits including Blade, Blade 2, Crow: City Of Angels, Ghost Rider and Dark City. The film is a co-production ...
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Satin Rouge, Mon-rak Transistor win top prizes at Seattle Film Festival
Raja Amari's Satin Rouge (Tunisia/France) won the New Director's Showcase Award, Penek Ratanaruang's Mon-rak Transistor (Thailand) won the Asian Tradewinds Award and John Feldman's Who The Hell Is Bobby Roos' won the New American Cinema Award at the 28th Seattle International Film Festival which ended its 25 day-run yesterday. The ...
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Showtime gets US premiere of Miramax production Daddy And Them
Miramax Films' long-awaited comedy Daddy And Them will not have a theatrical release in the US following a deal with Showtime to premiere the film on pay-TV. The movie is the third to be directed by Billy Bob Thornton after Sling Blade and All The Pretty Horses and features a ...
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Signpost teams with Matthew Lillard for romantic comedy
Stewart Till's Signpost Films has teamed with Scooby-Doo star Matthew Lillard and Mosaic Media Group to develop a romantic comedy with writer Shana Leslie Stern, the former assistant to director Gary Fleder who makes her first screenwriting sale with the project.As yet untitled, the script revolves around two people, one ...
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Scooby-Doo attracts more than just the pesky kids
The live action adventures of a dog and his chums bit a large chunk out of this weekend's box office as Scooby-Doo opened top of the charts for Warner Brothers on $56.4m, according to industry estimates. Adapted from the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon series of the Seventies, the movie version features ...
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Samuel Goldwyn confirms US acquisition of I Capture The Castle
Samuel Goldwyn Films has confirmed its acquisition of Distant Horizon's I Capture The Castle, Tim Fywell's film of Dodie Smith's classic novel which premiered in the market at Cannes recently. There Samuel Goldwyn beat out other interested buyers such as Paramount Classics and THINKFilm to take North American rights.Executive produced ...
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Moscow Festival welcomes back Russian films
Three Russian titles feature in this year's Moscow International Film Festival competition line-up, after last year's total lack of any local films in competition at all. The Festival, which runs June 21-30, this week unveiled its competition programme of sixteen feature films including, Alexander Rogozhkin's Cuckoo, Roman Pregunov's Solitude Of ...
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PiFan festival unveils fantastic line-up
Gurinder Chadha's hit movie Bend It Like Beckham has been chosen as the opening film of the 6th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan), which runs from July 11-20 in South Korea. One Korea's top film events, PiFan will feature 170 films from 38 countries under the theme "Romance, ...