All Screen articles in 18 February 2001
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CiineMedia quits rights trading after one year
German media group CineMedia Film is set to quit rights trading and licensing just one year after its launch into the market.The Munich-based company made its surprise withdrawal after admitting that figures for the last financial year revealed that sales forecasts for it rights trading and licensing activities would fall ...
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Arenaplex launches digital cinema production
Arenaplex,LLC, a new company established to provide non-feature film programming fordigital cinemas, revealed plans on 16 February, to produce and distributeoriginal content for the future generation of digitally-equipped multiplexes. The company, comprising founder and CEO Ivan Chea, who lefthis position as SVP, Europe, Middle East and Africa at Warner Bros.International ...
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Chereau's explicit Intimacy wins Berlin top prize
The Berlin Film Festival has awarded its top prize, theGolden Bear, to Patrice Chereau's sexually explicit Intimacy based on one of Hanif Kureishi'ssemi-autobiographical short stories. One of the film's courageous leads,Kerry Fox, also took home the Silver Bear for best actress.Living up to the pre-festival promise from jury president(and ousted ...
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Disco Pigs
Screened at Berlin(Panorama). Dir: Kirsten Sheridan. Ireland-UK. 2001. 94mins.First films invested with passion are not rare, but those supported by the skill to go with it are few and far between. Disco Pigs, Kirsten Sheridan's debut feature from Ireland, has moments which herald the emergence of a real film-maker of ...
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MME acquires majority stake in Neue Impuls
Hamburg-based TV production house MME: Me, Myself and Eye Entertainment has acquired a majority stake in Neue Impuls Film Produktionsgesellschaft (NIF) in a move to expand its portfolio to include film and television fiction production.NIF, whose credits include the Danish-German-Italian co-production of Lars Hesselholdt's family film Katja's Adventure and, most ...
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EMTV chairman quits
Troubled German media group, EM.TV lost its second high-ranking executive on Friday after its supervisory board chairman Nikolaus Becker tendered his resignation following the deal between EM.TV and the KirchGroup on February14.Rumours had been circulating for weeks about the possibility of Becker resigning from the beleaguered company and the allegedly ...
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Universal unspools webcast deals
Universal Studios has signed a deal with broadband network Intertainer to deliver its films in pay-per-view (PPV) and video-on-demand (VoD) format. It is believed to be close to a similar deal with Blockbuster and Enron.The long-term deal will see Universal provide Intertainer with all its new releases and some film ...
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Founders quit as AlloCine expands online ticketing
Jean-David Blanc and Patrick Holzman, the two founders of film ticketing business AlloCine, quit Vivendi Universal subsidiary CanalNumedia on Thursday.CanalNumedia also increased its stake in AlloCine from 75% to 100%, but did not disclose the value of the deal.Blanc and Holzmann will serve out their notice periods with CanalNumedia, but ...
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Edwards accepts Anschutz, Oaktree recapitalisation
Edwards Theatres Circuit has agreed to a recapitalisation plan that will see Phillip Anschutz's Anschutz Corp and distressed debt investor Oaktree Capital Management assume a significant percentage of its equity, so that the ailing circuit can emerge from bankruptcy protection. Terms of the proposed transaction were not disclosed.In past months, ...
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Mark Litwak resigns as chairman of Reelplay.com
Entertainment attorney and producers rep Mark Litwak has resigned as chairman of Reelplay.com, an internet virtual marketplace for buying and selling film rights.The resignation comes after a series of lay-offs last week at Reelplay which was launched in Oct 1999 as a showcase for film trailers, promotion reels, synopses, stills, ...
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Original cast returns for Stuart Little 2 in March
Columbia Pictures has set the cast for Stuart Little 2, the sequel to its monster smash from 1999 which grossed $140m in North America and $160m in international territories.The film will start production in March under director Rob Minkoff with original cast members Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie and Jonathan Lipnicki ...
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Mark Litwak resigns as chairman of Reelplay.com
Entertainment attorney and producers rep Mark Litwak has resigned as chairman of Reelplay.com, an internet virtual marketplace for buying and selling film rights.The resignation comes after a series of lay-offs last week at Reelplay which was launched in Oct 1999 as a showcase of film trailers, promotion reels, synopses, stills, ...
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London critics fete John Malkovich, Billy Elliot
Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich was named film of the year at the 21st London Film Critics' Circle awards last night, held at London's Savoy Hotel. The film also bagged prizes in the director and screenwriter of the year categories, for Jonze and Charlie Kaufman respectively. Christopher Nolan, meanwhile, picked ...
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Miramax signs development deal with The Onion
Miramax Films has signed a first look agreement to develop scripts and features with The Onion, an online-offline publisher of satirical news which was formed in 1988 in Madison, Wisconsion, and has quickly become a cult source of satire amongst college audiences with a weekly readership of 1 million viewers. ...
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Warner Bros launches Harry Potter website today
Warner Bros will launch the official Harry Potter website www.harrypotter.com (www.harrypotter.co.uk in the UK) today (Feb 16) in anticipation of the release of the film Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone in December.The site is planned as a community forum for Harry Potter fans across the world and is inviting ...
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13 French films screen at March Rendezvous in NYC
The annual New York festival of new French films Rendez-vous with French Cinema will take place March 9-18 with 13 new films in the lineup. Screening at the Walter Reade Theatre, the festival will be attended by among others Daniel Auteuil, Isabelle Huppert, Chantal Akerman, Xavier Beauvois, Jean Becker and ...
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Summit lines up Insomnia, Servicing Sara for AFM
Summit Entertainment has picked up two major studio projects for international distribution at AFM - Insomnia, a remake of the Norwegian thriller which Al Pacino is circling for director Christopher Nolan, is to be distributed domestically by Warner Bros, while Servicing Sara, a comedy starring Matthew Perry and Elizabeth Hurley, ...
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UK prepares to devour Hannibal
UIP is looking forward to this weekend's UK opening of Hannibal after seeing record takings from its Valentine Day's preview on Wednesday night. The sequel to 1991's The Silence Of The Lambs took an massive $1,129,313 (£708,355) from the 358 sites participating in the preview screening. The figure is the ...
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Danny Boyle to speak at UK's Production Show
Danny Boyle, whose credits include Trainspotting and The Beach and who is now editing two digital films for BBC2, will be discussing his career at the Production Show Movie Day on March 14 at London's Olympia.The Q&A session, which will be chaired by Screen's editor-in-chief Colin Brown, will kick off ...
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Germany launches new distributor cash awards
Up to $28,000 (DM600,000) is being made available by Germany's new state minister for culture, Julian Nida-Ruemelin, to support "culturally outstanding achievements in the sphere of film distribution" in the form of three annual distributor awards starting this coming autumn. Each award will include up to $94,000 (DM200,000) to be ...