All Screen articles in 25 August 2000
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Sagar to launch India's first pay-per-view portal
Ramanand Sagar's Sagar Entertainment plans to launch India's first pay-per-view broadband entertainment portal within the next two months. The company, which is investing $3m in the project, is in the process of acquiring bandwidth spread across Europe, US and South-East Asia, in order to provide high-quality streaming to global audiences. ...
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Weber takes top post at Bavaria Media
Michael Weber has been named managing director of Bavaria Film's rights handling division Bavaria Media. He was formerly head of the company's international sales arm, Bavaria Film International.During his tenure at the sales arm, Weber handled product such as Joseph Vilsmaier's Comedian Harmonists and Volker Schloendorff's Rita's Legends. He also ...
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Boll set to quit TaunusFilm International
Uwe Boll will leave his post as managing director of German production outfit TaunusFilm's international arm - TaunusFilm International - on September 1 to concentrate on his directing career. He will continue to serve as a consultant, while TaunusFilm CEO Wolfgang Grass will oversee the subsidiary.Boll, who used accumulated vacation ...
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Lucky Red snaps up Venice entry Phantom
Italy's Lucky Red has picked up rights on Venice competition entry The Phantom (O Fantasma), from Portugal's Rosa Filmes.According to Phantom producer Amandio Coroado, the feature is slotted for a 10-copy release in Italy on September 8, coinciding with the film's festival screening. Phantom will be released in Portugal on ...
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South Africa's Sasani doubles earnings
South African production outfits have been struggling recently but at least one of the country's facilities companies appears to be thriving. Johannesburg and Cape Town-based Sasani Communications has reported that earnings almost doubled from $3.2m (R22.1m) to $6.2m (R42.8m) for the year to June 30. Revenues increased 8.4% to $46m ...
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Kinowelt strikes content deal with Germany's Onyx
Ever-expanding Kinowelt is understood to have struck a film sales deal with German music channel Onyx Television. The move could transform the sleepy station which rates third behind the reviving MTV Deutschland and home-grown music channel Viva, which recently floated on the Neuer Markt."Kinowelt is the ideal partner for us," ...
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IN THE HOT SEAT - VLADIMIR GUSINSKY
Media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky has survived the Russian government's sustained assault on his media empire, which encompasses film, TV and press, and even made political capital out of this recent arrest and imprisonment. But has President Vladimir Putin succeeded in reining in one of his most vocal opponents' Anna Franklin ...
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Splendid acquires majority stake in Enteractive
Germany's Splendid Medien has acquired an 85% stake in newly-launched multimedia company Enteractive which specialises in developing content for DVD and internet distribution. The company was founded by Hans Henseleit who holds the remaining 15%. He previously worked for DVD mastering company K-Kontor. "Exploitation of content via DVD and internet ...
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The Original Kings Of Comedy
Dir: Spike Lee. US. 2000. 115 mins.Prod cos: MTV Films, Latham Entertainment, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. US dist: Paramount Pictures. Int'l distributin: UIP. Prods: Walter Latham, David Gale, Spike Lee. Exec prod: Van Toffler. Co-prod: Butch Robinson. DoP: Malik Sayeed. Ed: Barry Alexander Brown. Exec music prod: ...
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Me You Them opens well on home ground
As expected, Richard Lenormand has been appointed chairman and CEO of StudioCanal to replace Vincent Grimond who has resigned following his appointment as senior executive vice president, operations and finance, at Universal Studios Group. The board of directors at StudioCanal unanimously appointed Lenormand. The 38 year-old was most recently senior ...
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Channel Nine bags second slot on Doordarshan
Kerry Packer's Channel Nine has won a second primetime slot on state broadcaster Doordarshan's Metro channel, from 21.00 to 22.00, to add to its existing slot between 19.00 and 21.00.The Australian broadcaster paid about $14m for the extra hour. It will have to meet programming restrictions specified by Doordarshan which ...
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Baldwin, Gallagher land Protection roles
Stephen Baldwin and Peter Gallagher are to star in Protection, a mob thriller being produced by Alliance Atlantis' genre division Le Monde Entertainment. The film, which is scheduled to start principal photography in Montreal on Oct 2 this year, will be directed by John Flynn whose credits include Rolling Thunder ...
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Gannon to head development at Pathe
Matthew Gannon, most recently director of production/development at Fox Searchlight in Los Angeles, is joining UK National Lottery studio franchise Pathe Pictures as head of development.The move comes after Susanna Wyatt, former head of production for HAL Miramax, joined the franchise as head of physical production earlier this month. While ...
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Gaumont joins loyalty card bandwagon
Sundance's Geoff Gilmore is held accountable every year - not just for which films are chosen or dismissed, but for the state of US independent cinema itself. Now he's rumoured to be about the leave to join one of the majors. Is he selling out' Colin Brown reports.From the moment ...
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Low budgets high on Edinburgh agenda
While the UK wrestles with how to channel National Lottery cash into bigger budget commercial pictures, a trio of low-budget titles stole the limelight at a high-profile "state of the nation" panel discussion at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.With panel chair and FilmFour chief Paul Webster inviting comments from the ...
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Foreign cash finds its way to Mosaic
More foreign money came flooding into Hollywood this week as Canada's Capital Communications CDPQ, a subsidiary of Montreal-based fund management giant Caisse de depot et placement de Quebec, announced that it will make a "major strategic investment" in Mosaic Media Group. Mosaic is the new name for the merged entities ...
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Morena, Cuatro Cabezas strike co-production deal
Spanish production house Morena Films has signed a TV co-production accord with Argentinean outfit Cuatro Cabezas which will likely grow to include feature films.The agreement originally spans two interview-format shows already popularised on broadcaster Telefe in Argentina and now adapted for the Spanish market. The weekly shows will premiere on ...
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San Sebastian unveils New Directors' line-up
Six Spaniards and only one American are among the 19, mostly European directors competing for the Euros150,000 New Directors' prize at this year's San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30), the festival announced today.Three of the films will also compete in the Official Section. They are:Spaniard Salvador Garcia Ruiz's The ...
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Hotaru
Dir: Naomi Kawase. Japan. 164mins.Prod co: Dentsu, Imagica, Suncent CinemaWorks, Tokyo Theatre. Int'l sales: Wild Bunch (Le Studio Canal Plus), tel: (33) 1 4443 9800. Prod: Takenori Sento. Scr: Kawase. DoP: Masami Inamoto. Lighting: Atsuko Suzuki. Prod des: Kyoko Heya. Mus: Kawase, Naoko Matsuoka. Main cast: Yuko Nakamura, Toshiya Nagasawa, ...
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The Luzhin Defence
Dir: Marleen Gorris. UK. 2000. 110mins.Prod cos: Renaissance, ICE3. Co-prods: Lantia, Magic Media. US dist: Sony Picture Classics. UK dist: Entertainment Film Distribs. Int'l sales: Renaissance Films, tel: (44) 20 7287 5190. Exec prod: Jody Patton. Prods: Caroline Wood, Stephen Evans, Louis Becker, Philippe Guez. Scr: Peter Berry, based on ...