All Screen articles in 16 June 2000
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Buena Vista makes record DVD shipment with Tarzan
Buena Vista Home Entertainment has shipped 150,000 DVDs of Tarzan to Japanese stores - a company record for an initial DVD shipment in Japan and the second highest number industry-wide since Warner Home Entertainment released The Matrix on DVD in March.In co-operation with the Fuji TV network, Buena Vista is ...
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Harrelson, Huston set to attend Karlovy Vary
Woody Harrelson, Anjelica Huston and, subject to shooting schedules, Johnny Depp are amongst the stars expected to attend next month's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the festival has announced.Harrelson, a guest at the festival last year, is to present the Canadian documentary Grass, which he narrated and co-produced, while Huston ...
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Time Warner strikes alliance with CETV
Time Warner has broken into the potentially lucrative Chinese-language programming market through a ground-breaking strategic alliance with Hong Kong-based broadcaster China Entertainment Television (CETV).Time Warner-owned Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) Asia Pacific will provide the channel with selected programming and also work closely with CETV founder Robert Chua to produce original ...
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Relative Values
Dir: Eric Styles. UK. 2000. 89 mins.Prod Co: Overseas Filmroup/Midsummer Films. UK dist: Momentum Pictures. Int'l sales: Overseas Filmgroup. Prod: Chris Milburn. Assoc prods/scr: Paul Rattigan and Michael Walker from the play by Noel Coward. DoP: Jimmy Dibling. Prod des: Humphrey Jaeger. Eds: Caroline Limmer, Ian Seymour. Mus: John Derney. ...
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Spanish broadcasters team up for Fiction Factory
Four heavyweight Spanish television platforms - pay outlets Via Digital and Quiero TV and free-to-air broadcasters Antena 3 and Telecinco - are joining forces to create thematic channel The Fiction Factory (FDF) dedicated to Spanish and US fiction series.FDF will launch on both Quiero and Via Digital beginning next month ...
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Cuba Feliz
Prod co: ADR Productions. Co-prod: Le Studio Canal Plus. Domestic dist: Pyramide. Int'l sales: Le Studio Canal Plus (+33 1 4443 9839). Prod: Alain Rozanes, Pascal Verroust, Jacques Debs. Scr: Pascal Letellier, Karim Dridi. DoP: Karim Dridi. Editor: Lise Beaulieu. Main cast/Music: Miguel del Morales, Candido Fabre, Mirta Gonzales, Alejandro ...
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Gitai chooses Miller adaptation for next project
Israeli film-maker Amos Gitai - whose latest film, Kippur, was in competition at Cannes this year - will next direct an adaptation of Arthur Miller's novel Plain Girl: A Life.The project marks a departure for Gitai who usually focuses on Israeli history and social issues. Kippur is set in the ...
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DreamWorks, Polyvideo reportedly in on-line pact
DreamWorks has signed an exclusive agreement with Milan-based Polyvideo to sell its home video and DVD titles on-line, according to Italian press reports.The deal is expected to be the first in a series of alliances that DreamWorks plans to establish in Europe to sell its product on-line. In the US, ...
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Pinefilm taps Sorby to head up acquisitions
Australian distributor Pinefilm Entertainment has appointed Nicole Sorby as head of acquisitions replacing Peter Downer who left the company last week following a breakdown in relations with owner and managing director Sean Rothsey.Rothsey was formerly a financial backer of The Globe Film Co, when Downer was one of three partners ...
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Star Wars, staff cuts boost Kinematografer profits
Norwegian exhibitor Oslo Kinematografer, owned by Oslo City Council, has posted a pre-tax profit of $696,000 (NKr6m) on turnover of $21.5m (NKr185m) for the 12 months to December 1999.The result is significant improvement for the company which for the last two years has reported profits close to zero. Head of ...
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Fox, Cinram seal North American video pact
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Toronto-based videocassette and DVD manufacturer, Cinram International, have entered into a multi-year agreement under which Cinram will produce and distribute Fox's VHS tapes in the US and Canada. Previously the company distributed Fox product in Canada only. Given the ten-fold increase presented by the ...
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Football set to feature at British Short Film fest
Football, starring Helena Bonham Carter, will be a timely highlight at the upcoming British Short Film Festival.The film is directed by Gaby Dellal, whose credits include a segment of Sky Pictures' Tube Tales and Granada Films' upcoming feature Single Girls Diary. Dellal's short film Toy Boys won the prize for ...
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Canal Plus-Pathe continue talks for UK pact
France's StudioCanal appears to be forging ahead with talks to create a pan-European distribution network - a releasing apparatus that would effectively run alongside United International Pictures (UIP) should Canal Plus and its parent Vivendi succeed in their planned takeover of UIP partner Universal.According to well-placed sources, StudioCanal expects to ...
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Vivendi Universal merger deal only days away
It looks as if Vivendi chairman Jean-Marie Messier will be saying 'Bonjour Hollywood' within just a matter of days after both he and his prospective second-in-command Edgar Bronfman Jr separately confirmed that their hot-and-heavy negotiations to take over Seagram are all but wrapped up. The resulting Paris-based media and communications ...
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Qualcomm, Technicolor form joint digital venture
Digital media technology company Qualcomm and Carlton Communications-owned Technicolor Digital Cinema are teaming up to provide an open standard distribution system for digital cinema. The joint venture, to be called Technicolor Digital Cinema LLC, marks another major step forward to finding a useable method to deliver digital films worldwide - ...
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When The Sky Falls
Dir: John MacKenzie. UK-Ireland. 2000. 107 mins.Prod cos: Irish Screen, Sky Pictures, Irish Film Board, Redeemable Features. Int'l Sales: Icon Entertainment International. UK dist: 20th Century Fox. Prods: Nigel Warren-Green, Michael Wearing. Exec prods: Kevin Menton, Peter Newman, Mary Louise Queally. Scr: Michael Sheridan, Ronan Gallagher and Colum McCann. DoP: ...
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Allouache secures backing from Hubert Bals Fund
Salut Cousin! director Merzak Allouache is amongst a host of film-makers from developing counties to secure funding from the International Film Festival Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund.Allouache was awarded support for L'Autre Monde, which explores the social and political situation in Algeria through a young woman's search for her fiance.Other projects ...
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TV2 Danmark appoints Price to film, drama role
Danish national broadcaster TV2 Danmark has appointed 33-year-old Adam Price as head of drama production starting 2001. The role has been expanded to encompass all fiction production including investments in features.Price has worked as a freelance writer in a wide range of genres and media for 14 years and has ...
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Toei celebrates anniversary with Genji adaptation
As part of its 50th birthday celebrations, Japanese major Toei is set to produce a Y1bn ($9.3m) adaptation of The Tale Of Genji, a classic of world literature written by Murasaki Shikibu.The script, by Akira Hayakawa, does not focus on the novel, but the writer, a courtier who began to ...
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Edinburgh unveils gala screenings
Franchise Pictures' Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her, which boasts a cast including Holly Hunter, Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz and Calista Flockhart, will screen in the gala section of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (August 13-27). The festival has also confirmed Simon Cellan Jones' Cannes Directors' Fortnight ...