All Screen articles in 25 August 2000
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The Cell tops chart, Spike Lee docu dazzles at 2
New Line Cinema's only release of the summer - serial killer thriller The Cell - took the top spot at the North American box office over the weekend with an estimated $17.2m on 2,411 screens for a strong screen average of $7,134. The very adult movie, in which a psychologist ...
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Hollywood wins case against DVD hacking website
Hollywood's eight movie studios won a significant court battle at the end of last week in its effort to protect DVDs from being copied onto computers.The studios via their advocate organisation The Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) successfully sued website publisher Eric Corley who had made available online software ...
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Dimension greenlights Scary Movie II for 2001
The tagline was "No Mercy. No Shame. No Sequel." but Dimension Films, the genre production and releasing arm of Miramax Films, will break that promise and start production on Scary Movie II later this year. The first film has grossed close to $150m at the domestic box office and will ...
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Seven wins access to Telstra network
Australia's Federal Court has dismissed appeals from telecommunications giant Telstra and pay-TV provider Foxtel against a decision to give Seven Network access to Telstra's broadband cable network.Seven was first granted access earlier this year (Screendaily, March 29) and now looks to have secured it, providing the aggrieved parties don't take ...
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New sales co Buskin to focus on Italian fare
Former advertising executive Antonio Guadalupi has launched a Rome-based international sales outfit, Buskin Films, which is dedicated to handling titles from emerging local directors. The new company, which plans to officially launch at this year's MIFED, has already acquired four films: Giochi Di Equilibrio, directed by Amadeo Fago, Egidio ...
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Cinar founders Charest and Weinberg fight back
Cinar co-founders Micheline Charest and Ronald Weinberg have rejected the company's decision to fire them from their managerial posts and also its request that they relinquish their seats on the board of directors.The husband-and-wife team, who have kept a low profile since March when allegations of tax fraud and unauthorised ...
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German state of Hessen to launch production fund
The German state of Hessen is planning to launch a $7m (DM15m) fund to support commercial film and television production in the region from next year. Herbert Hirschler, state secretary in the Economic Ministry, stressed that Hessen would "want to be an equal partner in the risk and success of ...
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Channel 4 boards Southern Star's Secret Life
The UK's Channel 4 has boarded Australian production outfit Southern Star Entertainment's The Secret Life Of Us, marking its first pre-production commitment to a long-running Australian series. Australia's Network Ten and pay-TV entity Optus Television are also partners in the 22-hour $5.3m (A$9m) series. Southern Star describes it as "a ...
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Hungary's Bacso to take on diva's life story
Hungarian director Peter Bacso is developing a biopic of Hungarian diva Katalin Karady, with the working title This Great Love I Was Given For You, for local production outfit Megafilm. Set during World War II in Budapest and the Ukraine, the film will revolve around singer-actress Karady, her lover and ...
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Haugesund unveils strong Nordic line-up
The Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund claims to have its strongest ever line-up of Nordic features this year, including two Norwegian titles: Stein Leikanger's Odd Little Man and Hans Petter Moland's Aberdeen, a co-production with the UK.Road movie Aberdeen, starring Stellan Skarsgaard, Ian Hart and Lena Headey, screened at ...
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One Life Stand
Dir: May Miles Thomas. UK. 2000. 115mins.Prod co: Elemental Films. Int'l sales: Elemental Films (+44 141 332 0375). Prod: Karen M.Smyth. Exec prod: Owen Thomas. Scr/DoP/Ed: May Miles Thomas. Prod des: Ewen Duncan. Mus: Bobby Henry. Main cast: Maureen Carr, John Kielty, Gary Lewis, Alyson Orr, Archie Lal.Having secured attention ...
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Portugal's SIC inks five-year pact with Globo
Portuguese broadcaster SIC has closed a five-year deal with Brazilian media giant Globo which gives the two groups mutually exclusive rights to the other's product. As part of the deal, the two companies also plan to start co-producing feature films, made-for-TV movies and fiction series.The first co-production in development is ...
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Carlton sells film package to China's CCTV
The UK's Carlton International has sold a package of 15 films to Chinese broadcaster CCTV6. Titles include both classic and contemporary fare and range from Boys From Brazil, Sophie's Choice and Great Expectations from Carlton's ITC library to Often Running and Night To Remember from its Rank collection and Fire ...
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MPAA slams NC-17 rating on Artisan's Requiem
Darren Aronofsky's Requiem For A Dream, a bold portrait of drug addiction which made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this year, has run into censorship trouble in the US where it is being released by Artisan Entertainment.The Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) yesterday gave the film ...
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Norway's Detector set for internet preview
Norwegian distributor Sandrew Metronome plans to pre-screen local production Detector, directed by Pal Jackman, on the internet this Thursday, the day before its theatrical release on Friday (August 25).Norwegian daily Dagbladet is running a competition on its web-site (www.dagbladet.no) which will enable 150 winners to stream the entire movie."Film is ...
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ProSieben shareholders approve SAT1 merger
German broadcaster ProSieben said today (August 22) that its two main shareholders - KirchMedia and retailer ReWe - have approved its merger with fellow broadcaster SAT1.KirchMedia has a 58.4% share in ProSieben while ReWe holds the remaining 41.6%. SAT1's shareholders - including KirchMedia and publisher Axel Springer - will vote ...
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New UK talent shines at Edinburgh
A crop of new UK-based film-makers are emerging at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival as a string of low-budget pictures earned high praise.The find of the festival so far is Paul Pawlikowski's Last Resort, a $600,000 (£400,000) made-for-BBC TV film that world premieres at Edinburgh ahead of a Venice ...
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Goteborg fest launches fund for Bosnian producers
The Goteborg Film Festival is playing a hand in rebuilding Bosnia-Herzegovina's film industry with the creation of the CineBosnia Film Fund, launched at this week's Sarajevo Film Festival (August 18-27).Unveiled by Goteborg director Gunnar Bergdahl and festival producer Magnus Telander, the fund will award $10,000 each year towards the pre-production, ...
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UCI launches new brand of cinema in the UK
United Cinemas International (UCI) today unveiled its "next generation" brand strategy to differentiate its cinemas from other exhibitors in the highly competitive UK market. "thefilmworks" concept, created through a three-way partnership with UCI, advertising agency BDHTBWA and architects RTKL, will be rolled out first at the group's 20 screen Printworks ...
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Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club
Dir: Rachel Samuels. US-Ireland. 1999. 91 mins.Prod co: Concorde New Horizons Corp. Int'l sales: Concorde New Horizons Corp. Exec prod: Roger Corman. Prods: Rachel Samuels, John Brad. Scr: Lev L. Shapiro. DoP: Chris Manley. Ed: Bernadette Kelley. Mus: Adrian Johnston. Main cast: Jonathan Pryce, David Morrissey, Catherine Siggins, Paul Bettany, ...