All Screen articles in 20 January 2000
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Industry boards next project from Bui
Tony Bui, whose debut feature Three Seasons won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at last year's Sundance Film Festival, has signed with LA-based Industry Entertainment to make his next film, The World I Made For Her. Based on the novel by Thomas Moran, the film is a ...
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Lions Gate picks up wrestling doc
Lions Gate Films has acquired North American theatrical distribution rights to the wrestling documentary Beyond The Mat directed by Barry W Blaustein. The film, which has been selected as one of the 12 semifinalists in the Best Documentary Academy Award Feature category, follows some of the wrestling world's most popular ...
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Israel sets date for TV franchise race
The tender round for Israel's proposed third free-to-air television channel will start no later than July according to Israeli communications minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer.Ben Eliezer, who is pushing legislation through the Israeli parliament in order to meet the deadline, has hinted that he'd prefer to award the franchise to a ...
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Golden Globes spin for Beauty
DreamWorks SKG's American Beauty heads the list of nominations for the Golden Globes with a total of six nods.The Sam Mendes-directed comedy Beauty beat both Michael Mann's The Insider and Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr Ripley by just one nomination. All three are in the hunt for the best picture ...
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On-line game playing profits ready to rocket
On-line game-playing, powered by ever faster networking technologies and a coming wave of titles based on popular entertainment properties culled from film and television, will soar to a $5bn annual business within four years across just the US and Western Europe.The figure, which would equate to almost a quarter of ...
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LenLinas, Nighthawks pact with Megaview
German private film fund LenLinas and fledgling theatrical distributor Nighthawks Pictures have sealed a video distribution deal with Hanover-based video wholesaler Megaview Entertainment Cooperation (MEC).The pact covers six English-language features produced by LenLinas and CH Media over the next three years and include LenLinas' $3.9m (DM 7.4m) Island In The ...
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Enlightenment shines at Bavarian Film Awards
The producers of Doris Doerrie comedy Enlightenment Guaranteed and Peter Schamoni's documentary Majestat Brauchen Sonne shared the DM500,000 ($260,000) producer prize at the Bavarian Film Awards (Jan 17).Rolf Schuebel's Gloomy Sunday came away with honours for best direction and best cinematography while Romuald Karmakar and Bodo Kirchoff received the best ...
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Australia confirms a dozen years of ticket growth
As expected, Australian exhibitors broke through the A$700m barrier in 1999 giving the territory an extraordinary twelfth consecutive year of box office growth. An estimated 88 million tickets were sold at an average ticket price of A$7.93 -- Australia's 19 million people have access to 1,740 screens. The final gross ...
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Telefonica moves closer to global ambition
Spain's Telefonica stepped up its attempts to become a global player by unveiling that it plans to buy out four Latin American affiliates late last week.The Spanish giant is offering a premium of 40% over the average market price during the last five trading days to buy the remaining shares ...
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UK production on the rise
UK film production soared in 1999 with 114 films shot by local outfits or with a British partner in the UK or abroad, compared to just 78 the previous year.The number of wholly-UK funded films rose to 58 from 42 in 1998 and includes Sundance competitors New Year's Day (Imagine ...
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Case Study
For the past decade or more, media pundits have become entranced with the image of an interactive television enabling couch potatoes to order up a movie and a pizza from a menu of screen offerings.So it seems only appropriate then that the man most responsible for making that Jetsonian vision ...
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RFD to gain from UPI exodus
The bulk of top flight theatrical distribution executives at Universal Pictures International, including distribution head Chris Bailey, are expected to move en masse to ambitious UK distributor Redbus Film Distribution (RFD).Additionally, the company is understood to be finalising high-profile acquisitions including David Mamet's State And Main following its high-profile pick ...
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German exhibition duo mull alliance
The German exhibition landscape is set to undergo radical and far-reaching changes if Germany's two biggest cinema operators - CinemaxX and UFA - decide to embark on a proposed strategic alliance after conducting "a speedy analysis" of their individual operations.The two companies, who between them run over 670 screens at ...
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Berlin confirms Forum titles
Films confirmed for the International Forum of Young Cinema at this year's Berlin Film Festival (Feb 9-20) include James Benning's Californian-set El Valley Centro, Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann's Ein Fluechtiger Zug Nach Dem Orient, Yuji Nakae's Nabbe No Koi (Nabbie's Love), German documentary filmmaker Ebbo Demant's journey through deserts on ...
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Scanbox inks UIP distribution deal
Following months of speculation United International Pictures (UIP) has confirmed that it will handle all theatrical distribution of Scanbox Entertainment films in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. The deal, effective from Jan15, was prompted by Scanbox's desire to cut down its activities. Scanbox CEO Jorgen Kristiansen said: "the distribution know-how ...
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Obituary
Alain Poire, one of France's leading producers, died this weekend at his home near Paris. Aged 82, he died of cancer.His death was marked by plaudits from every level. And no less a figure than President Jacques Chirac declared: "France is losing one of the pillars of its cinema and ...
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Butterfly's Tongue
Dir: Jose Luis Cuerda. Spain. 1998-99. 95mins. Prod co: Sogetel, Las Producciones Del Escorpion. Domestic dist (Sp): Warner Sogefilms. Int'l sales: Good Machine International, tel: (1) 212 343 9230. Exec prods: Fernando Bovaira, Jose Luis Cuerda. Scr: Rafael Azcona based on three stories by Manuel Rivas. DoP: Javier Salmones. Prod ...
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Channel X moves into film
UK TV production house Channel X has appointed Stacy Herbert as head of script development as the company readies a debut feature slate including the first film from comedians Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. Herbert, formerly a script consultant for UK-based sales, financing and production house Capitol Films, will work ...
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New Films expands Miramax deal
New Films International is expanding its distribution pact with Miramax International following its move into exhibition in Turkey where it holds a 50% stake in five-theatre Istanbul outfit New Art International.New York-based New Films will distribute 89 Miramax titles across the Eastern European market, with all rights, including theatrical, TV, ...
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Grosvenor boards Winterbottom's Kingdom
Canadian-UK financier Grosvenor Park is backing Michael Winterbottom’s $15m Kingdom Come, the company’s largest-scale UK-originated feature since launching a London office two years ago.Grosvenor chief Don Starr said that Grosvenor will arrange 25% of the project’s budget through sale and leaseback financing in the UK and Canadian tax credits.Grosvenor will ...