All Screen articles in 18 February 2000
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Inaugural Mexican fest mines for Pan-American gems
Pan-American films are to be at the heart of a new festival in Zacatecas, only Mexico's second festival of international standing.In what is seen as a development year, the first Zacatecas International Film Festival will be held in October (20-25) in a former silver mining town in the centre of ...
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Scream 3 keeps The Beach off top spot
Miramax/Dimension Films' Scream 3 remained at the top of the US box office with a $16.4m gross over the three-day weekend at a phenomenal 3,467 theatres. That represents a steep drop of 58% from its first weekend opening, although Scream 2 suffered a similar drop-off in its second weekend and ...
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Redbus boosts slate with Buena Vista, UK titles
UK distributor Redbus Film Distribution has acquired a slate of high-profile titles including Buena Vista International's Play It To The Bone, starring Antonio Banderas and Woody Harrelson, and Gun Shy, with Liam Neeson and Sandra Bullock.The titles are to be joined by a third as-yet-undisclosed Buena Vista film, which is ...
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Former Danish festival chief hooks up with Trust
Berlin jury member Lissy Bellaiche, who headed up the Danish Film Institute's festival department for 19 years until last autumn, is moving to Trust Films Sales, the international sales outfit controlled by Danish production company Zentropa.In her new role, Bellaiche will aim to ensure that Trust's growing slate of Danish ...
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German admissions break records as revenues fall
Cinema admissions in Germany reached a new record last year, climbing from 148.9m to 149m, according to statistics from Berlin-based German Federal Film Board (FFA). However, at the same time, box office revenues fell by 1.2% from $807m (DM1.6bn) to $797m (DM1.58bn) because of a drop in the average ticket ...
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Wachs set to exit Babelsberg post
Studio Babelsberg chairman Friedrich-Carl Wachs has shocked the German film industry by announcing that he plans to quit his position at the end of the month.Speaking at a hastily-convened press conference at the Berlin Film Festival, Thierry Potok, managing director of Babelsberg owner Vivendi's German property and services division, said ...
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Tsatsiki, Mum And The Policeman
Dir: Ella Lemhagen. Sweden. 1999. 91 mins.Prod Co: Felicia Film with Film I Vast, Norsk Film AS. Int'l Sales: Nordisk Film. Prod: Anne Ingvar. Scr: Ulf Stark. DoP: Anders Bohman. Ed: Bernhard Winkler. Music: Popsicle. Main cast: Samuel Haus, Alexandra Rapaport, Jacob Ericksson, George Nakas.Already creating substantial buzz in Berlin, ...
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Le Studio unveils Schroeder's shrouded Virgen
A Cannes competition hopeful by Barbet Schroeder and two European pictures with $20m-$30m budgets are among half a dozen new additions to the Berlin and AFM sales slate of French production powerhouse Le Studio Canal Plus.Set in Medellin, Colombia, Schroeder's picture La Virgen De Los Sicarios has been cloaked in ...
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Toy Story 2 propels UK to all-time high
Toy Story 2 not only shattered UK box office records over the weekend but also broke the boundary of the animation genre. The Walt Disney/Pixar computer-generated animation scooped an unprecedented £7.8m ($12.4m) in the UK over three days (Fri 11-Sun 13), becoming the country's all-time highest weekend gross. This surpasses ...
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Rudge to head Universal Video, continental Europe
Universal Pictures International Video (UPIV) has appointed Phil Rudge to the post of vice president of Continental Europe.Rudge, formerly managing director of Universal Pictures Video UK (Rental Division), will report to UPIV president Peter Smith. Based in London, he will manage all local sales and marketing operations across Spain, France, ...
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Zentropa to handle world on controversial Plum
Denmark's Zentropa is sealing its reputation for handling controversial fare by acquiring world rights, excluding North America, to Don's Plum, a four-year-old film that has never been released due to a legal battle between one of it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and independent producer David Stutman.DiCaprio's agent attempted to block release ...
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Milan to launch feature film festival in September
Milan's four-year-old short film festival, Cortometraggio, is to be expanded into an international feature film festival from this September.The MilanoFilmFestival (Sept 11-17) is to run two competitions, one dedicated to full-length films and one to shorts. The event aims to showcase overseas films that have not found distribution in Italy.The ...
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House to produce Armstrong comedy, Broken Hill
Australian producer Lynda House has unveiled a slate of new projects including a comedy-drama to be directed by Gillian Armstrong and a $7.5m (A$12m) futuristic fairy-tale The Broken Hill, which has a pack of wild dogs as one of the cast members.Gillian Armstrong, who credits include Little Women and Oscar ...
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Tsatsiki racks up sales in Berlin
Nordisk Film has sold Swedish film Tsatsiki, Mum And The Policeman to Cinemien Film & Video Distribution for Benelux and Best Film Distribution for Poland.The film, which dominated the recent Swedish Film Awards, winning prizes for best film, director, script and cinematography, has been a hot item on the Berlin ...
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Disney pulls plug on Canadian animation studios
So much for Canada stealing all that production work from Hollywood: The Walt Disney Co has now confirmed that it is closing its animation facilities in Vancouver and Toronto four years after opening them, laying off more than 200 staff and dealing a significant blow to Canadian animation.Canadian sources on ...
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Jersey woos Franchise with Caveman's Valentine
The increasingly prolific Franchise Pictures has teamed up with Jersey Films to co-produce and co-finance Caveman's Valentine, a psychological thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson which started shooting in Los Angeles this week.Universal Pictures has all rights to the film in North America, and Franchise will be selling it at next ...
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Andalusia signs up for EC Mediterranean programme
The cultural council of Spain's Andalusian regional government has signed an agreement with the European Commission's General Direction of Exterior Relations to join the Euro-Mediterranean Audiovisual Development Program, dubbed the MEDEA program.With a budget of $4.9m (euro5m) to be spread out over three years, MEDEA aims to support the development ...
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CineMedia strikes co-prod deal with UK's Own2Feet
Following its entry into licence trading last month (Screendaily, Jan 26), expansionist German post-production entity CineMedia Film is becoming involved in international co-production through a strategic partnership with UK producer Own2Feet Productions.Under the terms of the deal, struck between Own2Feet and CineMedia production subsidiary TaunusFilm-Produktion, the two partners will each ...
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Where A Good Man Goes
Dir: Johnnie To. Hong Kong-China. 1999. 86 mins.Prod co: Milky Way Image. Int'l sales: Milky Way Image. Prods: Johnnie To, Wai Ka-fai. Scr: Yau Nai-Hoi. DoP: Cheng Sui Keung. Ed: Chan Chi Wai. Main cast: Lau Ching-wan, Ruby Wong.A delightfully off-beat crime comedy, unusually set in Macao, Where A Good ...
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Cecchi Gori steps down from running family empire
In a surprise move, Vittorio Cecchi Gori has stepped down from day-to-day running of the Italian film and television company his father set up in the 1940s. The move marks the end of family management of the company, which Vittorio Cecchi Gori took over when his father Mario died in ...