All Screen articles in 19 January 2001
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Lions Gate acquires InDigEnt's debut slate
Lions Gate Entertainment has acquired all domestic rights to the five-film initial slate of InDigEnt, the digital video film initiative headed by Gary Winich, John Sloss and IFC Entertainment. The deal includes Campbell Scott's Final, Ethan Hawke's Chelsea Walls, Bruce Wagner's Women In Film, Richard Linklater's Tape and Rodrigo Garcia's ...
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America, Krokodile score at Bavarian Film Awards
Vanessa Jopp's Forget America, produced by Herbert Rimbach's Avista Film, and Jobst Oetzmann's Die Einsamkeit Der Krokodile, from Constantin subsidiary Olga Film, shared the top $242,000 (DM500,000) Producers Prize at this year's Bavarian Film Awards.However, Oliver Hirschbiegel's psychological thriller Das Experiment, which is being released by Senator Film on March ...
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Davis, Connolly join cast of Man Who Sued God
Judy Davis and Billy Connolly will star alongside Colin Friels, Wendy Hughes, John Howard and Billie Brown in Australian romantic comedy The Man Who Sued God, which begins its nine-week shoot on January 29.The Sydney-based Davis is more often seen in Hollywood films than Australian ones, her last being Children ...
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Splendid forms joint venture with Warner Music
Germany's Splendid Medien has extended its existing collaboration with Warner Music by launching a joint venture company, based in Hamburg, to sell and distribute DVDs and videos in the German-speaking region. Warner Music will hold 51% of the new company, Warner Vision Vertriebs, with Splendid holding the remaining 49%. Alexander ...
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Belgian film to receive tax shelter boost
Belgium's federal government will unveil plans next week for a tax shelter aimed at attracting private investors to participate in the production of feature films, documentaries and TV series. A press conference, during which Belgium's minister of finance Didier Reynders will outline the tax scheme, is scheduled for January 23. ...
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European parliament to examine film policy
Belgian MEP Luckas Vander Taelen has been assigned to draw up a parliamentary report looking at the European Union's policy towards film, as part of a broader debate on Europe's future audiovisual policy. "Europe's policy towards film has so far been far from ambitious," said Vander Taelen. "Media Plus receives ...
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Sexy Beast
Screening at Sundance (Premieres). Dir: Jonathan Glazer. UK. 2000. 84 mins.A much-anticipated debut from hot UK commercial and video director Jonathan Glazer, Sexy Beast at least lives up to its title. The acrobatic visuals and pumped-up soundtrack are certainly alluring, but the story is a two-act mongrel, a heist film ...
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Record start for Finnish Rose
Finnish production Rose Of The Rascal (Rentun Ruusu) has become the highest grossing indigenous opener in Finland. The drama, which opened on January 12, grossed $382,496 (FIM2,256,725) on 38 screens on the first weekend and achieved admissions of 50,738.Rose tells the story of Irwin Goodman, Finland's most famous pop and ...
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Strand to re-release Kiss Of The Spiderwoman in US
US independent distributor Strand Releasing is to re-release Hector Babenco's classic 1985 independent film Kiss Of The Spiderwoman in the domestic market together with Independent Cinema Restoration Archive.The film, for which William Hurt won an Academy Award for Best Actor, was produced by David Weisman and written by Leonard Schrader ...
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Adam Schlesinger leaves Doumanian to join ErgoArts
Adam Schlesinger, formerly director of development at Jean Doumanian Productions, has joined ErgoArts Inc as vice president of business affairs and production, a newly created post at the New York-based production outfit.Formed in 1999 to conduct the feature film activities of Rigas Entertainment, ErgoArts is headed by Ellen Rigas Venetis ...
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Matt Brodlie promoted to senior vp at Miramax
Matt Brodlie has been promoted to senior vice president of acquisitions at Miramax Films, with continuing responsibility for covering the US independent scene as well as Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Brodlie, who was formerly vice president of acquisitions, attends the major film festivals around the world scouting films and ...
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Miramax to offer Guinevere download
Miramax Films has unveiled that Guinevere will be the first feature available for downloading through its 12-picture internet pay-per-view deal with web-based entertainment provider SightSound.com (ScreenDaily April 19, 2000).The 1999 title, starring Sarah Polley and Stephen Rea, can be downloaded from Jan 22 for a fee of $3.49 for a ...
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Malkovich to star in Lelouch's next project
John Malkovich has joined the cast of Claude Lelouch's next film, And Now Ladies And Gentlemen (aka T For Thriller), which will also mark the big-screen debut of French singer Patricia Kass.Malkovich - who has lately been seen in several French productions, including Manuel de Oliviera's La Lettre, Raoul Ruiz's ...
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Palace Films picks up a Silent Partner
Australian distributor Palace Films has acquired all local rights to the low-budget recently-completed Australian slice-of-life comedy Silent Partner. Director-producer Alkinos Tsilimidos is in negotiations with an unnamed international sales agent interested in taking international rights. Daniel Keene adapted the script from his own play about a pair of 40-something down-on-their-luck ...
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Quiero strikes output deals with Warner, Disney
Quiero Television, Spain's first and Europe's second-ever DTT platform, has closed two non-exclusive PPV deals with Warner and Disney.Both deals begin 2001 and last five years through 2005. Among the titles included are Warner's Analyze This, Three Kings and Deep Blue Sea, and Disney's Runaway Bride, End Of Days and ...
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Italian watchdog rules against TMC takeover
Italy's Communications Authority has vetoed the takeover of Cecchi Gori-owned broadcaster Telemontecarlo (TMC) by publishing giant Seat Pagine Gialle and Telecom Italia.Seat, which recently merged with Telecom Italia's internet division Tin.it, agreed last August to buy 75% of TMC from the Cecchi Gori group for L750bn ($350m), with an option ...
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Bavaria Media sets up Italian production outpost
Bavaria Media, the international production and rights arm of Germany's Bavaria Film, has established a new operation in Rome to spearhead European co-productions and increase the visibility of Italian product abroad.The Rome outfit, which represents the mini-major's first venture outside a German-speaking territory, will aim to develop and co-produce four ...
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IN THE HOT SEAT - GEOFF GILMORE
Sundance's director of film programming Geoff Gilmore is held accountable every year - not just for which films are chosen or dismissed, but for the state of US independent cinema itself. Now he's rumoured to be about the leave to join one of the majors. Is he selling out' Colin ...
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Star to launch Hindi PPV service in the UK
News Corp's Asian satellite platform Star TV, which this week launched two channels in the UK, is months away from setting up a British pay-per-view (PPV) service for Hindi movies.Peter Mukerjea, chief executive of News Television (India), told Screen International that the Hindi film services would be operational "within a ...
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Alquimia pacts with Via Digital; unveils slate
Spanish digital satellite platform Via Digital has signed an exclusive, three-year PPV rights deal with Madrid production-distribution start-up Alquimia Cinema, to add to its accords with other local companies such as Lauren Films, Manga Films, Planeta 2010, Alta Films, Lolafilms and Filmax. Signed by Via Digital director of programming and ...