All Screen articles in 20 April 2000
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Lolafilms UK pacts with Endeavor for four films
Lolafilms UK, the UK production and international sales arm of Spanish production powerhouse Lolafilms, has enlisted LA talent agency Endeavor to represent North American sales on four of its upcoming pictures.The deal, which was reached between Lolafilms president of sales Nicole Mackey and Endeavor's independent financing and international specialist Sergio ...
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San Francisco Film Fest unveils 190-film lineup
The San Francisco International Film Festival, which opens next Thursday (April 20) with Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, has unveiled its lineup of 190 feature and short films that will be showcased over a two week period. The closing night film on May 4 is Michael Almerayda's Hamlet.Among the highlights ...
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Ice T, Slater, Arquette in all-star Graceland cast
A strong supporting cast has been enlisted to star in Franchise Pictures' 3000 Miles To Graceland which is currently shooting in Vancouver. Arguably the most high profile film of the many put into production so far by Franchise, the action thriller toplines Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell and Courtney Cox Arquette.Joining ...
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28 Days comes in second to Rules at US Box Office
Paramount's high testosterone military drama Rules Of Engagement (pictured) topped the US box office for the second week in a row over the weekend with a $10.9m take on 3,190 screens, bringing its 10-day total to $30.6m. The film, sold in foreign territories by Seven Arts International, echoes the success ...
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DNA lines up two with Coogan, O'Toole
Duncan Kenworthy and Andrew Macdonald's National Lottery franchise DNA Films is moving ahead on two projects - The Parole Officer, marking the feature debut of UK comedian Steve Coogan, and The Final Curtain, in which Peter O'Toole and Aidan Gillen play warring media celebrities.In its final round of lottery funding ...
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Kevin & Perry Go Large
Dir: Ed Bye. UK. 2000. 83 mins.Prod Co: Tiger Aspect Productions. Int'l sales: Icon Entertainment International. Prods: Peter Bennett-Jones, Jolyon Symonds, Harry Enfield. Exec prods: Bruce Davey, Ralph Kamp, Barnaby Thompson. Scr: Harry Enfield, David Cummings. DoP: Alan Almond. Prod des: Tom Brown. Ed: Mark Wybourn. Mus: Various. Main ...
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Ordinary Heroes triumphs at Hong Kong Film Awards
Ann Hui's Ordinary Heroes, a drama about a love triangle and political activism, was the surprise winner of the best film prize at the annual Hong Kong Film Awards.The biggest tally of prizes, however, went to Media Asia's action movie Purple Storm, which in a repeat of its performance at ...
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Hungary's Meszaros lines up Marie Curie biopic
Marta Meszaros, one of Hungary's best known female directors, is developing a biopic of Polish-born French scientist Marie Curie, to be produced by Polish production outfit Akson Studio. The project follows Curie's final years when, made ill by her own discovery, radium, she returns to her homeland to say goodbye ...
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BBC leads race for BAFTA television awards
The BBC dominated the drama categories in the nominations for this year's British Academy Television Awards, garnering 11 out of 20 nods.BBC1's Wives & Daughters was the most heavily nominated BBC drama production, picking up nods for best actress (Francesca Annis), best actor (Michael Gambon) and best drama serial.ITV's Lost ...
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Granada set to buy Border television assets
The UK's ITV television network faces further consolidation following news that UK radio broadcaster Capital Radio will sell Border Group's television assets to Granada Group if its proposed takeover of the company is successful.Granada has agreed to pay $80.2m (£50.5m) for Border's TV assets. Capital will retain Border's radio stations. ...
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Spain's Filmax acquires post-production lab
Barcelona mini-studio Filmax has added another feather to its cap with the 60% buy-out of post-production laboratory Filmtel. The move follows Filmax's entrance last month into the post-production sector with the launch of animation effects house Bren Entertainment. Filmtel was a founding partner in Bren and will maintain its 30% ...
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Sogecable joins private broadcasters' union
Grupo Prisa subsidiary Sogecable, which houses pay-TV outlet Canal Plus and digital satellite platform Canal Satelite Digital, has announced that it will join free TV stations Antena 3 and TeleCinco in the Union of Associated Commercial Broadcasters (UTECA).The move comes at a time when the Spanish television market is set ...
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Golden Network makes first foray into production
Hong Kong-based international sales agent Golden Network is making its first move into production with a three-picture slate which it will co-finance with Korea's NeGa Corporation.The slate includes Japanese picture Fatal End (working title), to be directed by Hibeo Nakata, while local star Fruit Chan is set to direct Public ...
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China Star adds talent to Hundred Years venture
China Star Entertainment has fleshed out its ambitious One Hundred Years Of Film production project, through which it plans to invest $150m a year in Asian production in a bid to woo local audiences back to Hong Kong films.The company - which announced at the AFM that it would produce ...
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Pokemon grabs pole position at UK box office
Pokemon: The First Movie jumped into the UK box office chart at number one with an opening three day gross of $3.5m (£2.2m). Playing at 481 sites, this gave the Japanese animation a considerable site average of $7,257 (£4,574) and the film wiped the floor with fellow opening animation The ...
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Amritraj & Hoberman unveil Hyde Park's debut slate
Ashok Amritraj and David Hoberman's Hyde Park Entertainment has unveiled its debut slate of pictures set up at its two alternate partner studios MGM and The Walt Disney Co, with one film placed with Sony Pictures' mid-budget range division Screen Gems. Among the stars already set for the pictures are ...
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Ed Russell retires from Columbia
Ed Russell has announced that he will retire as executive vice president of worldwide publicity, promotions and field publicity at Columbia Pictures when his contract expires this year. He joined the studio in 1986 as vice president of publicity and his career in studio publicity spans nearly 30 years."After nearly ...
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TF1 acquires controlling stake in Telema
In an unexpected switch of allegiance, leading French production house Telema has broken its alliance with Le Studio Canal Plus in favour of free TV broadcaster TF1, which has acquired a controlling 49% stake in the company.Telema has produced a string of French hit comedies such as La Vie Est ...
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Pyramide, Arc Light team up for Chinese collection
France's Pyramide group plans to co-produce a collection of six films by some of the hottest young directors in the greater China market, with Peggy Chiao's Taiwan-based Arc Light Films.The six films - two each by directors from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong - are all contemporary tales but ...
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Cruz, Abril attached to Diaz Yanes' second feature
Penelope Cruz and Victoria Abril are reportedly attached to star as a bad angel and a good angel in the highly anticipated second feature from Spanish director Agustin Diaz Yanes, No News From God (Sin Noticias De Dios).The film is a co-production between Edmundo Gil of Flamenco Films, Eduardo Campoy ...