All Screen articles in 22 June 2001
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Cinar goes straight, agrees final restitution
Cinar Corp., the troubled Canadian production company, has taken a further step in its return to legitimacy. Beset by scandals involving fraudulent credits and missing millions, the Montreal-based company has agreed to pay more than $1.7m in restitution to Telefilm Canada in order that its productions may once again qualify ...
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Karlovy Vary fills final gaps in festival line-up
The Karlovy Vary Film Festival has announced the full line-up of 17 films competing in the Czech festival's main competition, including five world premieres.The five films debuting at the festival, which opens in the Czech spa town July 5, are Firefly Dreams, a Japanese film directed by John Williams; Hi, ...
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Norway appoints outsider to head up new Film Fund
The Norwegian Ministry of Culture has taken the local film community by surprise with its decision to appoint Stein Slyngstad, an economist with next to no experience of working in the industry, as director of the new Norwegian Film Fund, which comes into being on July 1.The 40-year-old economist has ...
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Midaq Alley to kick off Mexico's local DVD market
Jorge Fons' multi award-winning Midaq Alley (El Callejon De Los Milagros), starring Salma Hayek, and Ernesto Gomez Cruz, will be the first Mexican film to be released domestically on DVD when it hits the shops on July 15. The release is being handled by Alameda Films, director Arturo Ripstein's family-run ...
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Kerry Packer pulls plug on Indian TV joint venture
The HFCL-Kerry Packer joint venture (HFCL Nine Broadcasting India) has announced that it is shutting its television business in India and that the company's programmes on the government-owned DD-Metro channel will be taken off the air from September 10. This follows a decision by the company not to bid for ...
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Liberty ties up German cable for Euros 5.5bn
Liberty Media Group has reached agreement with Germany's Deutsche Telekom (DT) to acquire its last remaining six cable television operations - covering 10m connected households - for a reported Euros5.5bn. In addition to 100% of the DT cable companies, Liberty will take over DT's service companies Deutsche Telekom Kabel-Services and ...
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Mumbai-based film production company Numero Uno and leading Indian film distribution company Shringar Films, have tied up with New York-based Rossellini Associates to distribute low-budget foreign films in India.The company aims initially to attract a small, specialised audience. Numero Uno is owned by Indian film producer Sanjay Khan. Rossellini Associates ...
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UK's Downtown secures extra time to pay back debts
Troubled UK distributor Downtown Pictures has won a stay of execution by securing a Creditors Voluntary Agreement (CVA), according to the company's financial head, Simon Clement-Davies.The distributor secured 93% approval from its creditors, who agreed that Downtown's debts would be paid back over a period of time. Clement-Davies declined to ...
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Creative Light buys international rights to Summer
LA-based sales company Creative Light Worldwide has picked up international rights to Wet Hot American Summer, the summer camp comedy which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year. USA Films has domestic rights and will release the film in New York on July 27.The film stars Janeane Garofalo, David ...
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$17m Hero to bring together top Asian talent
Of all the film projects floated at last week's Shanghai International Film Festival, the most mouthwatering had to be Zhang Yimou's $17m Hero, a 'wuxia'-inspired historical adventure that is set to bring together many of Asia's top talents, both in front and behind the camera when shooting starts as early ...
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Bob Levin named MGM distribution & marketing chief
Bob Levin, the former head of marketing at both Sony Pictures and The Walt Disney Co, has been named president, worldwide theatrical marketing and distribution, at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Distribution Co, uniting into a single job the posts currently held by Larry Gleason, head of worldwide distribution, and Gerry Rich, head ...
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Canadians embracing satellite as cable subs slip
Canadians are embracing satellite delivery of television services, with the sector growing by more than 500% over the past five years, according to figures released by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). There are just under 1m customers with satellite dishes or multipoint distribution systems, up from just over ...
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UIP leads international summer race
UIP's Shrek and Bridget Jones's Diary have entered the summer races in the international markets against early leaders, fellow UIP release The Mummy Returns and BVI's Pearl Harbor, although these two behemoths still hold many of the major territories.Shrek, the DreamWorks-produced animated hit, which became the first film to cross ...
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European exhibition sector heads for firm ground
The western European exhibition sector may at last be starting to reach an even keel, according to a new report by film industry analyst Dodona Research. While screen growth in the region is set to slow to a trickle over the next four years, cinema admissions will continue to rise ...
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Telefonica weathers stock market buffeting
Spanish giant Telefonica looks set to emerge from a rocky week on the stock exchange with solid new plans for future media and telecoms growth in Latin America and Spain.Mirroring telecoms companies' performances across Europe, shares in Telefonica dipped dramatically over the last week in response to concerns that its ...
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The Fast And The Furious
Dir: Rob Cohen. US. 2001. 108 mins.From the first frame to the last, Rob Cohen's The Fast And The Furious is a B- movie, elevated by A-level stunt work and roaring cars that test the limit, but dragged down to C-level characterisation with a formulaic plot and schematic hero, anti-hero ...
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Schneider quits as Disney studio chairman
Peter Schneider has stepped down as chairman of Walt Disney Studios less than one week after Atlantis:The Lost Empire suffered the lowestsummer opening box office gross in the US of any Disney cartoon feature since GreatMouse Detective, which came out justa year after he first joined the studio's animation division ...
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Thomas Garry joins Lew Horwitz Organization
Thomas Garry has been named vice president and entertainment banker at LA-based independent film lending outfit The Lewis Horwitz Organization. Garry, formerly with Union Bank Of California and Sumitomo Bank, joins after arranging financing at Union Bank for films including Three Kings, End Of Days, The Hurricane, Nurse Betty, Thirteen ...
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Dir: Steven Spielberg.US. 2001. 144 minAlways captivating towatch, and often emotionally touching, Steven Spielberg's A.I.: ArtificialIntelligence is one of hismost ambitious, intelligent, and problematic films, and not only due to itsvaliant effort to blend two disparate cinematic sensibilities. Easily thissummer's most eagerly awaited movie, A.I. qualifies as a media ...
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Indie Get Over It takes on studio heavyweights
Although still led by seasonal behemoths Pearl Harbor and The Mummy Returns the UK box office is coming under attack from strong releases from independent distributors such as Momentum's Get Over It. Taking advantage of audiences looking for an alternative to the summer blockbusters, both major and independent distributors are ...