All Screen articles in 24 December 2000
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Broadcast Critics name Crowe, Roberts best of 2000
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA), the largest film critics group in North America, has announced its winners for the sixth annual Critics' Choice Awards to be presented on Jan 22 in Los Angeles.Only one award remains undecided - Best picture for which the BFCA has put forward 11 nominations; ...
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Constantin bonds with IFG for multiple films
Germany's production outfit Constantin Film has closed a multi-picture agreement with LA-based completion bond company International Film Guarantors (IFG) under which IFG will be Constantin's principal completion guarantor. The first film to be overseen by IFG's Los Angeles office is the comedy Slap Her, She's French which began shooting in ...
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ShowBIZ Data restages Sundance Interactive Lounge
Business-to-business entertainment website ShowBIZ Data Inc is to stage its Interactive Lounge concept at the Sundance Film Festival in January for a second year running. The lounge, based at Harry-O's on Main Street, will host online and offline services for the independent film-making community including distribution, production, marketing and educationActivities ...
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Sarah Radclyffe pacts with Miramax
UK producer Sarah Radclyffe has struck a three-year first-look deal with Miramax Films to make family features.Radclyffe will make films with her producing partner Courtney Pledger under her newly-launched banner Jigsaw Films. The co-founder of Working Title Films, whose recent credits include FilmFour's UK comedy There's Only One Jimmy Grimble, ...
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Mexico's Titan brings Frankenstein back to life
The horror genre is about to be revisited in Mexico with upcoming production Viva Frankenstein!, the latest feature from Sex Shame And Tears (Sexo, Pudor Y Lagrimas) co-producer Titan Producciones.The project is to be directed by Daniel Gruener whose credits include All Of Them Witches (Sobrenatural), a psychological thriller that ...
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AWARDS COUNTDOWN
BEST ACTRESS/BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESSIt's been a rich year for actresses, but Julia Roberts is the only dead cert for a best actress nomination. Meanwhile, in the supporting actress category, the British are sure to make their now traditional appearance. Mike Goodridge reports.She was Oscar-nominated for her second starring role and ...
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Living Blood wins Italy's St Vincent prize
Edoardo Winspeare's Living Blood (Sangue Vivo) has taken the top award, the Grolla d'Oro, at the prestigious St Vincent Prize, which is designed to promote Italian cinema abroad. Living Blood, a tale of two brothers set in southern Italy against a backdrop of crime and music, was recently selected for ...
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Denmark's TV2 launches development fund
Danish broadcaster TV2/Denmark, which has become one of the biggest supporters of feature films in Denmark, is to provide the industry with an additional $0.72m (DKr6m) in development funding.The public service station is obliged by law to provide an annual minimum of $2.4m (DKr20m) for local feature production, and will ...
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Media[netCom] to launch second VoD trial
Blair Witch Project, Ghost Dog and John Carpenter's Vampires are among an initial 200 features that will be offered by Germany's media[netCom] during its second set of video-own-demand (VoD) trials at the end of January. The trials will initially be launched in 25 test households in the Hamburg suburb of ...
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UK admissions on track to reach 26-year high
Cinema attendance in the UK is expected to reach 143 million admissions this year - the highest number since 1974. These record figures have been predicted by the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA) despite a drop in attendance during November. Average weekly admissions dropped 30% last month compared to the same ...
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Canadian circuits under competition scrutiny
Canada's two principal exhibitors, Famous Players and Cineplex Odeon, are under investigation by the country's Competition Bureau for possible collusion. The two chains are the dominant players in Canada, with more than 1,600 of the nation's 2,400 screens. Both are controlled by US-based parent operations: Famous Players is a unit ...
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Palace Films makes Deadly investment
Highlighting the shortage of sales agents in Australia, local distributor Palace Films has put up an international distribution guarantee for Aussie rules football drama Deadly, Unna', despite the fact that Beyond Films is handling sales on the film.The move is a first for Palace whose owner-managing director Antonio Zeccola will ...
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BKN International plans US, Japanese expansion
German children's animation producer and distributor BKN International (BKNI) is in final talks to acquire an animation studio in the US by the end of this year as part of its ambitious strategy of international expansion.Speaking at this week's shareholders' meeting, CEO Nadia Nardonnet said that in addition to the ...
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Franchise to file suit against Intertainment today
Franchise Pictures has announced that it will file suit against Intertainment Licensing GmbH, Intertainment AG and Barrie Baeres in Los Angeles County Superior Court this morning. Details of the suit will be revealed during the morning.According to Franchise, the LA-based independent production company headed by Elie Samaha, Franchise had previously ...
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Crouching Tiger beats Traffic for Toronto critics
On the eve of taking the Golden Globe Awards nod for best foreign language picture, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was named best film of the year by the Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA).The picture's closest rival was Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, for which Soderbergh was named best director. Although Traffic came ...
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EC greenlights Universal, NTL pay-TV film service
The European Commission has approved plans for The Studio Channel, a UK pay-TV joint venture between cable giant NTL and Universal Studios Networks.The greenlight came after the Commission's analysis showed that the creation of the library film service will neither create nor reinforce a dominant position in any market. The ...
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Kinowelt attacks RTL, Kirch buying tactics
Germany's Kinowelt Medien has slammed local broadcasters RTL and the Kirch Group for supposedly having an understanding akin to a "gentlemen's agreement" after passing on films from Kinowelt's $300m Warner Bros package.According to local newspaper Financial Times Deutschland, Kinowelt co-president Michael Koelmel said that the two groups of TV channels ...
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Gladiator, Traffic lead nods for Golden Globes
Ridley Scott's Gladiator and Steven Soderbergh's Traffic landed five nominations each as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced its nods for the 58th annual Golden Globes.Paramount's re-release of Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys seems to have paid dividends: the film received four nominations including a best actor nod for Michael Douglas. ...
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StudioCanal, RAI confirm Italian partnership
France's StudioCanal has finalised the long sought after Italian link in its European theatrical distribution chain, unveiling a partnership with RAI Cinema, the start-up film arm of public broadcaster RAI.The two partners will hold equal shares in the company, which is expected to complete StudioCanal's international distribution network. The operation ...