All Screen articles in 21 November 2000
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Intermedia in talks to board Salles' Virgin
In what is turning out to be a busy week for the London, LA and Munich-based company, indie powerhouse Intermedia is finalising a deal to board Walter Salles' $20m-$30m period drama The Assumption Of The Virgin, which is set to star Oscar-winner Juliette Binoche.The project is expected to be the ...
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Dutch drama All Stars shines at Int'l Emmys
Dutch TV series All Stars was the surprise winner in the drama category at this year's International Emmys in New York on Monday night (Nov 20), beating hotly tipped UK mini-series Warriors, which has already clinched several major awards so far this year.All Stars, a spin-off of Jean van de ...
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Gladiator to be re-released on Imax screens
DreamWorks Pictures and Universal Pictures will be re-releasing Gladiator on North American Imax screens on November 22, as promotional support for the release of the film in the DVD sell-through and VHS rental windows. The 35mm prints will be screened in Imax venues in LA, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, San ...
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Ontario upholds ban on Baise-moi
Censors in the Canadian province of Ontario have upheld a ban on the theatrical release of French title Baise-moi, directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi.According to the film's Canadian distributor, Quebec-based Remstar Distribution, which planned to open the film in Canada's three main markets, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, ...
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Prop & Berta to open Copenhagen children's fest
Per Fly's animated feature Prop & Berta has been named as the opening film at the first Copenhagen International Children's Film Festival, which runs November 27 - December 2. The Danish film, which is receiving its world premiere at the event, is also entered for the international competition along with ...
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Kinowelt enters Bulgaria with Duga, Solaris
Germany's Kinowelt is continuing to build up its Eastern European presence by setting up two distribution outfits in Bulgaria, one in partnership with local theatrical distributor Duga Entertainment and the other with video company Solaris.The German mini-major has taken a 51% stake in Kinowelt Bulgaria, a joint venture with Solaris ...
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The 6th Day
Dir: Roger Spottiswoode. US. 2000. 124 mins.Prod co: Phoenix Pictures. US dist: Columbia Pictures. Int'l dist: Columbia TriStar. Exec prods: Daniel Petrie Jr, David Coatsworth. Prods: Mike Medavoy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jon Davison. Scr: Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley. DoP: Pierre Mignot. Prod des: James Bissell, John Willett. Eds: Mark Conte, Dominique ...
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What Lies Beneath won't lie down
Spookily, 20th Century Fox's What Lies Beneath resurfaced at the top of the UK box office chart for the second time in its five-week run this weekend, clawing back the lead it lost last weekend to another Fox release, Bedazzled. The Harrison Ford-Michelle Pfeiffer picture took $1,156,243 (£811,997) from 365 ...
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Intermedia turns on Box for TV entry
Indie film giant Intermedia is launching into TV with the acquisition of a 24.9% stake in Box TV, the start-up production house run by former Channel 4 executive Gub Neal.Intermedia will provide Box with working capital and development funds and has an option to increase its shareholding. The sales, financing ...
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Splendid signs distribution deal with Fox
German video distributor and licence trader Splendid Medien has struck a distribution deal with 20th Century Fox which will market Splendid's burgeoning slate in the German theatrical and pay-TV sectors for the next two years.The widely anticipated deal (Screen International, Oct 17), which also covers Austria and German-speaking Switzerland, includes ...
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46 films set to vie for Foreign-language Oscar
A record 46 countries have submitted films to the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for consideration for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar to be presented during the Academy Award ceremony on March 25.The Academy unveiled the full list which exceeds the previous record of 45 set in ...
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IFC gets North American rights to McKay's Our Song
IFC Films, the US distributor recently formed by the New York-based Independent Film Channel (IFC), has acquired all North American distribution rights to Jim McKay's Our Song - a film produced by IFC's production arm IFC Productions.IFC Films, run by senior vice president of marketing and distribution Bob Berney, is ...
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Pathos
Dir: Jayaraaj. India. 2000. 77mins.Prod co/Int'l sales: Harvest Films, (tel: 0091 44 600034). Prod: Jayaraaj. Scr: Madambu. DoP: M.J.Radhakrishan. Ed: Sreekar Prasad. Music: Sunny Stephen. Leading players: Vavchan, Eliyamma, Biju Menon.Emigrants from the underdeveloped world invariably try to send money home to their less fortunate families. That is specially true ...
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Caine to star in Beresford's Boswell
Michael Caine has boarded 18th century legal drama Boswell For The Defence, which Bruce Beresford is to direct from a script by Patrick Edgeworth. The $13m project is being set up by German fund MBP, Australian-based sales house Beyond Films and the UK's Scala Productions. Set in 18th century London, ...
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Omega, Latin partners to launch virtual market
Japanese production outfit Omega Pictures is teaming up with three Latin American media companies to launch an on-line film sales outfit, based in Puerto Rico, where they have been lured by significant tax and funding initiatives.Omega will take a 40% stake in the joint venture, entitled Intermedia Contenido, with the ...
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Jetzt Oder Nie bags Luenen audience award
Lars Buechel's Jetzt Oder Nie won the audience award at this year's Kinofest Luenen (November 16-19). The comedy, about three elderly ladies who decide to rob a bank in order to finance a cruise, received DM10,000 in cash from sponsors and DM5,000 in subtitling costs from the German Federal Film ...
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Media Most, Gazprom sign new debt relief deal
Russia's embattled Media Most group has finally signed a debt relief settlement with its major creditor, the state-controlled gas giant Gazprom. The agreement is essentially the same as the one reached a week earlier, which was scotched at the eleventh hour when Gazprom Media chief Alfred Kokh withdrew his offer ...
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Jupiter Telecom postpones Mothers listing
Japan's largest cable operator, Jupiter Telecommunications, has postponed its scheduled December 8 initial public offering (IPO) on the Mothers market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.Company management decided that, given the beatings that IPOs have recently taken on Mothers, it would be difficult to raise funds at their asking price. Jupiter ...
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Ali Zaoua scores at Stockholm and Mannheim
Morocco's Foreign-language Oscar entry, Ali Zaoua, was awarded the Bronze Horse for best film at the 11th Stockholm International Film Festival which wrapped Sunday. Directed by Nabil Ayouch, the film is about a street urchin and his orphan friends, and was acted by real-life street kids in Casablanca.The festival's other ...
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Into The Arms Of Strangers
Dir: Mark Jonathan Harris. US. 2000. 122 mins.Prod co: Sabine Films, with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Domestic dist: Warner Bros. Prod: Deborah Oppenheimer. Scr: Harris. DoP: Don Lenzer. Ed: Kate Amend. Music: Lee Holdridge. Narrator: Judi Dench.Into the Arms Of Strangers tells the remarkable story of the ...