All Screen articles in 20 April 2001

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  • Reviews

    Yamakasi

    2001-04-20T20:19:00Z

    Benny Crick in ParisDirs: Ariel Zeitoun, Julien Seri. France. 2001. 90mins.With his Taxi and Taxi 2 notched among the all-time French commercial blockbusters, Luc Besson (in his capacity as producer-writer but not director) appears to have struck a new vein of box office gold. Yamakasi has tapped into the same ...

  • News

    Egmont signs output deal with Zentropa and Nimbus

    2001-04-20T18:09:00Z

    Nordic major Egmont Entertainment has struck an output deal with Denmark's two most progressive production outfits, Zentropa and Nimbus Film, securing all theatrical and video distribution rights in Denmark. "We are very proud to be working with Zentropa and Nimbus Film," said Kenneth D Plummer, managing director of Egmont Entertainment, ...

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    Sony buys broadcast rights for Yashraj library

    2001-04-20T16:44:00Z

    Sony Entertainment Television has acquired five-year multiple broadcast rights for Yashraj Film's library for around $3.5m.The rights will be restricted to the Asian region and include Mohabbatein, Dil To Pagal Hai and Darr. Sony TV will start a three-month movie festival of Yashraj Film's movies beginning this August with Dilwale ...

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    Crocodile Dundee in LA in Australia

    2001-04-20T16:20:00Z

    Crocodile Dundee In LA, the third film in Australia's most successful franchise ever, was the most popular film over the Easter weekend grossing A$2.25m ($1.13m) from 234 screens from its opening Thursday April 12 to Monday April 16. In its favour were two public holidays, but these were offset by ...

  • News

    Commercial channel RTL urged to board German fund

    2001-04-20T16:08:00Z

    Michael Schmid-Ospach, successor to Dieter Kosslick as executive director of German regional funding board, Filmstiftung NRW, has called on leading commercial broadcaster RTL to join public TV stations WDR and ZDF as shareholders in the funding body.Speaking this week ahead of officially taking up his post on May 1, Schmid-Ospach ...

  • News

    Woo's Windtalkers snapped up for France and Italy

    2001-04-20T15:44:00Z

    President Films, the film sales division of France Television Distribution, and Italy's RAI Cinema have pre-bought all French and Italian rights (including pay-TV) to MGM's Windtalkers. The film is directed by John Woo and stars Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater and is currently in post-production.Windtalkers carries a $120m price tag, ...

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    Africa, Middle East offer cinema growth potential

    2001-04-20T14:59:00Z

    Beleaguered cinema exhibitors, increasingly concerned about the growth potential in overcrowded Western markets, could benefit by expanding into the world's nascent cinema markets such as Africa and the Middle East. Cinemagoing Africa Middle East, a new report from film industry analysts Dodona Research, predicts that while screen count in many ...

  • News

    Firelight Films to debut with Lifelines

    2001-04-20T14:23:00Z

    Carmen Menegazzi, former head of Columbia TriStar's UK theatrical arm, has partnered on local drama Lifelines with UK media operation Zenith Entertainment for the first project from her production outfit Firelight Films.Menegazzi and Zenith have struck a co-development deal on the £3m project, which is being written by Bridget Lawless. ...

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    Critics' Week selection takes to the road

    2001-04-20T11:20:00Z

    The Critics' Week, which earlier this week unveiled its line-up of films by first and second time directors, is to reach a public beyond Cannes by going on tour. The 2001 selection will replay at the Cinematheque Corse in Porto-Vecchio (Corsica) on May 23, 24, 25 and 26 and Cinema ...

  • Reviews

    Joe Dirt

    2001-04-20T10:02:00Z

    Dir: Dennie Gordon. US. 2001. 86mins.Saturday Night Live alumnus David Spade who, despite many tries, has failed to front a hit movie (unlike fellow SNL-ers Adam Sandler and Mike Myers), makes another stab at a crossover with this comedy vehicle, co-written with Black Sheep and Tommy Boy collaborator Fred Wolf. ...

  • News

    Cannes US Pavilion brings over three top chefs

    2001-04-20T06:35:00Z

    Bon Appetit Magazine has signed on as the official food and entertaining magazine of The American Pavilion at Cannes this year as well as taking the title of exclusive sponsor of the Pavilion's Culinary programme.Bon Appetit will showcase the talents of three attending chefs at the Pavilion - Mari Batali, ...

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    Cannes technology mart fills available floor space

    2001-04-20T06:35:00Z

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    Cannes technology mart fills available floor space

    2001-04-20T06:34:00Z

    MITIC - the showcase for new entertainment technologies which takes place in Cannes at the same time as the festival and market - has declared that all exhibition floor space at the event has been booked.Located in the Palais des Festivals, MITIC (the Marche International desTechniques et de l'Innovation du ...

  • News

    Cutting Edge takes over int'l sales of Pollock

    2001-04-20T06:31:00Z

    David Glasser's Cutting Edge Entertainment has taken up international sales rights on Ed Harris' Oscar-winner Pollock after the original sales agent Alliance Atlantis Pictures International returned the film to its producers."The producers and I had a disagreement on the post-Oscar direction the international sales effort should take," explained Alliance Atlantis ...

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    Thinking outside the Fox: Slaviero quits Oz branch

    2001-04-19T16:31:00Z

    Robert Slaviero, Australian managing director of Twentieth Century Fox Film Distributors, created a shock wave when he officially resigned on Tuesday (Apr 17). Slaviero said it was an amicable separation and he is doing everything possible to create a smooth transition up to his departure on July 6.It is very ...

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    Nouvelle Vague meets New Vanguard on Croisette

    2001-04-19T13:15:00Z

    This year's Cannes Film Festival presents an intriguing clash between enfant terribles of world cinema past and present, as old guard auteurs take on a bevy of recent Croisette favourites plus a smattering of unknown quantities and the first ever Hollywood animation in competition.The Official Selection, as ever an annual ...

  • News

    Cannes Competition and Un Certain Regard lists

    2001-04-19T12:11:00Z

    2001 CANNES COMPETITION:Opening film (in competition): Moulin Rouge Baz Luhrmann (Dist: 20th Fox)Desert Moon Shinji Aoyama (Int'l sales: Celluloid Dreams)Mulholland Drive David Lynch (Int'l sales: StudioCanal)The Man Who Wasn't There Joel Coen (Int'l Sales: Good Machine)Shrek Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson (Dist: DreamWorks SKG)L'Eloge ...

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    This week's Screen International

    2001-04-19T11:07:00Z

    In this week's Screen InternationalNewsHow Viacom's decision not to sell Blockbuster represents a strong vote of confidence in the home video market - despite, or because, of the impact of DVD. How DreamWorks' extension of its distribution deal with Universal Studios surprised everyone - especially Warner Bros.Focus: Taboo breaker"A hustler ...

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    Karlovy Vary unveils initial film selections

    2001-04-19T01:08:00Z

    Czech title Angel Exit, directed by Vladimir Michalek, will screen in competition at this summer's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the event has revealed. Luminaries expected to travel to the historic spa town include celebrated director Emir Kusturica, who is to screen his music documentary Super 8 Stories. The festival, ...

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    Hong Kong legends light up Filmko's debut slate

    2001-04-18T20:06:00Z

    New films by leading Asian directors Tsui Hark, Ann Hui and Stanley Kwan top a debut slate unveiled by Hong Kong-based production newcomer Filmko Pictures. The company, which is headed by Alex Wong and directors Derek Yee and Jacob Cheung, was set up last August with the aim of expanding ...