All Screen articles in 18 September 2000
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Spain's Planeta steps up rights buying with Sins
Raising the stakes in the competitive Spanish rights acquisitions market, start-up Planeta 2010 has acquired all Spanish rights to Sins Of The Father, starring Andy Garcia.Sins, currently shooting in Canada, marks the first major North American product to be picked up by Planeta, the media division of publishing giant Grupo ...
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WMA's Steve Kenis unveils own UK talent agency
Steve Kenis, former managing director at William Morris Agency (WMA) in London, has launched UK-based talent agency Steve Kenis & Co to represent clients including Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris, Bruce Beresford and Rowan Atkinson.Kenis, who left WMA in May when it closed theatrical activities in London, has recently cut deals ...
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Arctic Circle wins Athens and local distribution
Julio Medem's The Lovers Of The Arctic Circle (Los Amantes Del Circulo Polar) secured the main prize at the Athens International Film Festival - and local distribution through Greek distributor Rosebud in a deal cut at the festival.The prize, awarded by festival audiences, came complete with a $6,000 purse to ...
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DVD sales drive Italian video sector growth
Italy's home video market grew 3% last year, buoyed by the blossoming DVD sector and an upswing in news-stand videocassette prices and rentals.The home-video market posted a turnover of approximately $575m in 1999, according to Univideo, Italy's home entertainment association. DVD sales soared, with a 450 % increase in ...
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Mediaset to acquire Kirch stake
Italian broadcaster Mediaset has announced that it will acquire a 2.48 % stake in its German partner, Kirch Media, underscoring both companies' aim to cement their film buying and production alliance, Epsilon.Additionally, Mediaset's board of directors approved a plan to increase the group's share in Spain's Telecinco by 5% to ...
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Canada's Corus to buy Nelvana for $374m
Corus Entertainment, one of Canada's leading media concerns, is to buy Canadian children's entertainment house Nelvana for $374m, the two companies announced on Monday.Boards at both companies have approved the acquisition, which was expected. Nelvana shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange climbed to record levels this week."Nelvana's focus - children's ...
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Robert De Niro set for tribute at San Sebastian
Robert De Niro has confirmed his acceptance of the second Donostia Award for career achievement at this month's San Sebastian International Film Festival.De Niro will be presented with the award on September 29th by Spanish actor Javier Bardem. De Niro also stars alongside Gerard Depardieu in Bernardo Bertolucci's Novecento, which ...
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Maybe Baby opens Dinard British cinema festival
Ben Elton's Maybe Baby opens the Dinard Festival Of British Film, which runs October 5-8.In the competition section, Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels' follow-up Snatch will square up to another much-anticipated, low-budget UK crowd-pleaser - Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot. Also up for the Hitchcock d'Or at the ...
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Merci Pour Le Chocolat (Nightcap)
Dir: Claude Chabrol. France-Switzerland. 2000. 100 mins. Prod co: MK2 Productions, Cab Productions in association with France 2 Cinema, Le Studio Canal +. Int'l Sales: MK2 Diffusion. Prod: Marin Karmitz. Scr: Caroline Eliacheff, Claude Chabrol based on the novel The Chocolate Cobweb by Charlotte Armstrong. DoP: Renato Berta. Prod des: ...
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waydowntown, Crouching Tiger top Toronto prizes
Gary Burns' waydowntown, a comedy about a group of young people who make a bet about who can last the longest without going outside, won the Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film at this year's Toronto International Film Festival which finished on Saturday. A domestic distribution deal for the ...
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Lions Gate buys worldwide rights on comedy Vulgar
Reflecting its ambitious expansion plan among North American independents, Lions Gate Films announced its second acquisition at the Toronto Film Festival on Friday, taking worldwide rights on Vulgar, the comedy starring and executive produced by Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier, the talents behind Dogma, Chasing Amy and Clerks, and directed ...
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Almost Famous shines at Olympics-struck box office
The North American box office reached a stunning low over the weekend as the Olympic Games TV coverage began. The weekend grosses were down 33% from the same period last year and represent the lowest since Sept 11-13, 1998.Only DreamWorks SKG's Almost Famous - which is co-financed by Columbia TriStar ...
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Nelvana takeover, merger on cards
Animation house Nelvana hasconfirmed it is in talks "to investigate the possibility of a businesscombination".The company's shares hit a record high on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Thursday, climbing to $41.25, up $3.45. Trading volume reached approximately 350,000 shares.While Nelvana did not name the other party in the negotiations, rumours ...
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Blair Witch kicks off Jugendfilm re-release drive
German distributorJugendfilm is to handle all re-releases of parent company Kinowelt, starting with another outing for The Blair Witch Project ahead of rivaldistributor Highlight's premiere of Blair Witch Project 2: Book of Shadows.The re-release of the horror phenomenon will open on October 19 on more than 150 prints three weeks ...
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Baise-Moi, Dios head Gijon competition selection
Spaniard Pablo Llorca's La Espalda De Dios and controversial French film Baise-Moi will competeat Spain's International Film Festival of Gijon.Known as the Spanish Sundance, the festival has also announced a sidebar dedicated to new Scottish cinema, which is co-sponsored by the British Council and Scottish Screen. Thestrand features films such ...
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Valladolid opens with Dancer, unveils competition
Lars von Trier's Palme d'Or winner Dancer In The Dark will inaugurate this year's 45th annual Valladolid International Film Week.Dancer will screen out of competition in the popular festival's Official Section. Von Trier's Breaking The Waves opened Valladolid in 1996.Among the films in competition are L'Amour, L'Argent, L'Amour from Germany, ...
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Gaylord Films, Warner Bros sign co-financing pact
Nashville-based Gaylord Entertainment Company, which last year bought Paris-based Pandora Cinema, has created a new company Gaylord Films and entered into a co-financing and production deal with Warner Bros Pictures which could result in as many as ten films over the next four years.Headed by veteran producer Hunt Lowry, Gaylord ...
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Locarno appoints Solari as president
The Locarno International Film Festival has appointed Marco Solari to succeed Giuseppe Buffi as president of the festival.Solari, an executive at the Swiss publishing house Ringier AG, will officially take over from the festival's committee of directors who had shared the president's duties after Buffi's sudden death on the eve ...
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Tokyo festival bolsters Asian cinema selection
Only days after actor-director Takeshi Kitano launched a rival festival of Asian and indie cinema, the region's leading film event the Tokyo International Film Festival is upping its focus on local films.The festival, which runs October 28 to November 5, will showcase 16 films from Hong Kong in a focus ...
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Ex-Aurum chief Ramos lines-up slate for new outfit
A romantic comedy from the hip Spanish directing duo Alfonso Albacete and David Menkes is set to be the first project to go through a new production company launched by former Aurum Producciones chief Francisco Ramos.Albacete and Menkes, whose credits include Atomica and Mas Que Amor, Frenesi, are to shoot ...