All Screen articles in 20 January 2000
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Belgian industry to hold UK showcase
Belgium's sometime divided film communities are teaming up in an effort to win over the British public and UK distributors. They are taking over London's Curzon Soho cinema to hold a week-long (Mar 30-Apr 5) showcase of modern Belgian films under the banner United Tastes Of Belgium. The event is ...
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BAFTA, British Council team up for US screenings
BAFTA LA and the British Council have teamed up to present a series of screenings of new British films in Los Angeles. The series entitled New Blood From Britain is intended to enable BAFTA LA members to see films which they might want to nominate for the Alexander Korda Award ...
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FilmFour racks up quarter of a million subscribers
FilmFour, the pay-TV film channel owned UK broadcaster Channel 4, signed up 250,000 subscribers by the end of December last year, the channel announced this week.FilmFour, which had a projected target of 150,000 subscribers, now aims to secure 400,000 subscribers by the end of this year. The one year-old operation ...
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Screen siren dies
Sexpot screen goddess Hedy Lamarr died yesterday aged 86. Frequently billed as "the world's most beautiful woman," she made a career of provocative roles and starred in hits including Samson & Delilah, Tortilla Flat and White Cargo. Although she had all but retreated from the screen by the 1960s her ...
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British Screen to be folded into Film Council
Ending months of speculation, the UK government's film super body The Film Council is set to absorb pivotal funding outfit British Screen Finance.British Screen chief Simon Perry confirmed that the operation's shareholders - United Artists Screen Entertainment, Channel 4 and Granada - have agreed to hand over the operation to ...
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Cinven clinches Odeon deal
Private equity financier Cinven is understood to have sealed its previously reported (Screen International, Jan 21) deal to acquire Odeon Cinemas from UK leisure company Rank Group for £325m ($534m), according to industry sources.The deal is likely to spawn one of Europe's largest cinema circuits if the Cinven-funded Associated British ...
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But I'm A Cheerleader
Dir: Jamie Babbit. US. 1999. 90 mins. Prod cos: Ignite Entertainment, The Kushner-Locke Company. Int'l sales: Franchise Pictures, tel (1) 323 822 0730. Exec prods: Michael Burns, Marc Butan. Prods: Andrea Sperling, Leanna Creel. Scr: Brian Wayne Peterson. DoP: Jules La Barthe. Prod des: Rachel Kamerman. Ed: Cecily Rhett. Music: ...
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Leconte, Besson top Cesar nominations
Patrice Leconte's La Fille Sur Le Pont and Luc Besson's The Messenger: The Story Of Joan Of Arc are joint favourites in the nominations for this year's Cesars - the French equivalent of the Academy Awards.Leconte's black-and-white romantic drama has racked up eight nods, including best movie, best director, best ...
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Berlin line-up takes shape
Berlin International Film Festival chief Moritz de Hadeln appears to be rapidly firming up the Official Competition section for the festival's fiftieth anniversary edition (Feb 9-20).While de Hadeln will as usual not confirm Golden Bear contenders until close to the event - this year, Feb 1 - titles likely to ...
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Soccer pic producers take BSkyB to court
UK film making duo Mary McGuckian and John Lynch are applying for a court injunction to prevent satellite broadcaster BSkyB from carrying the film Best on one of its movie channels.Best, starring Lynch as Irish footballing hero George Best, is due to air on satellite before it has secured a ...
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Canal Plus snaps up Tobis
Canal Plus is taking a controlling stake in Germany's Tobis in order to create the German portion of its proposed pan-European studio; Le Studio Canal Plus Deutschland.The French pay-TV giant is already a 20% shareholder in German distributor Tobis but will increase its holding to around 66%. Tobis's existing shareholders ...
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Netherlands gets new sales outfit
TheRotterdam Film Festival will be the stage for the launch of The Netherlandsnewest sales company, SND Films.The companywas originally founded in 1994 with the name Sydney Neter Distribution as aseller of shorts, classical music programming and documentaries, but is nowmaking a move into theatrical features. Aware of the tough conditions ...
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Soft Fruit
Dir: Christina Andreef. Australia. 1999. 100 mins.Prod cos: Soft Fruit Pty Ltd. Domestic dis (Australia) Fox Searchlight. Int'l Sales: United Artists Films, tel (44) 171 333 8877. Exec prod: Jane Campion. Prod: Helen Bowden. Scr: Andreef. Dop: Laszlo Baranyai. Prod des: Sarah Stollman. Ed: Jane Moran. Music: Antony Partos. ...
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Bond reaches $300m worldwide
The World Is Not Enough has already scooped $300m worldwide and now lies just $40m away from becoming the most successful Bond film ever at the global box office. Just two months after its debut in Singapore and Malaysia - a day before its release in the US - Bond ...
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Sundance 2000: slim pickings for US distributors
Thebuying mania that has become one of the signatures of the Sundance FilmFestival is likely to be focused on just a small handful of festival titlesthis year, say those who have caught an early glimpse of this year's line-up.Normallythe presence of at least four well-financed indie distributors - Artisan, USA,Lions ...
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Romance not welcome in Australia
Australian distributor Potential Films has lodged an appealagainst a decision by the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC)to ban French film Romance. Inaddition the film's director Catherine Breillat has written to the to theOFLC's Review Board to protest the decision.The film was banned because of the explicitness of its ...
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Helkon acquires share in Newmarket
Germany's Helkon Media has acquired ashare in US film financing company Newmarket Capital Group, which has beeninvolved in the financing of more than 60 projects including Cruel Intentions, American Pie and Mike Leigh's TopsyTurvy. The deal secures Helkon an importantstrategic positioning in the international media arena. Helkon is establishinga German ...
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Columbia adds to co-producing credits in Brazil
Columbia TriStar Brazil has boarded Brazilian production Me, You, Them (Eu, Tu, Eles) as co-producer and distributor.The film, the second project from director Andrucha Waddington, is co-produced by Brazilian production outfit Conspiracao Filmes.Columbia will contribute real920,000 ($494,000) towards the film's post-production and P&A. The investment will be made via tax ...
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Vivendi mulls Babelsberg sale
French utilities and media giant Vivendi is considering a complete or partial withdrawal from running the Babelsberg Film Studios which it successfully bid for in 1992 under its previous name CGE. Studio spokesman Juergen Bergfried told local newspaper Berliner Morgenpost that the French owners are: "looking for new partners for ...
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Granada restructures production
The UK's Granada Media, which encompasses feature production arm Granada Film under Granada Media Productions, has restructured its senior production management.Andrea Wonfor, previously joint managing director of Granada Media Productions, becomes executive chair of Granada Media Productions and Granada Media International and Media Products, which will be managed as separate ...