All Screen articles in 25 February 2000
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Artisan seeks to raise $140m from Nasdaq IPO
Artisan Entertainment has announced that its seeking to raise $140m from its upcoming initial public offering and has applied to trade its shares on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol "RTSN". Merrill Lynch & Co., Bear Stearns & Co and ING Barings have been engaged as Artisan's IPO underwriters.According to ...
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US, German titles take top honours at Berlin
Magnolia, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, was awarded the Golden Bear at the 50th Berlin International Film Festival on Sunday night (Feb 20), a choice that proved popular among critics and audiences alike. US films also picked up Silver Bears for best actor and director, but for the second year ...
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Venus outshines Joan at Cesars
With eight nominations each, Luc Besson's The Messenger: The Story Of Joan Of Arc and Patrice Leconte's The Girl On The Bridge (La Fille Sur Le Pont) may have been the hottest contenders for the Cesar awards - France's equivalent of the Academy Awards - but it was a smaller ...
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IEG to finance historical epic Smoke And Mirrors
Initial Entertainment Group (IEG), which last week bought international rights to high profile Harrison Ford-starrer Traffic, has unveiled another acquisition - the rights to historical adventure Smoke And Mirrors, one of the most famous never-produced scripts in Hollywood in recent years. IEG will fully finance the film and handle worldwide ...
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First Look Pictures acquires The Opportunists
First Look Pictures has acquired North American theatrical and TV rights to Sundance American Spectrum entry The Opportunists from the film's producers Prosperity Pictures and New Beginnings Media. First Look's parent company Overseas FilmGroup was the international sales agent on the film which stars Christopher Walken and Cyndi Lauper.As reported ...
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Odeon, ABC merge to form UK's largest circuit
The Rank Group has confirmed the sale of Odeon Cinemas to private equity financier Cinven, which plans to combine the circuit with its own ABC Cinemas to create the UK's largest cinema chain.Cinven paid $450m (£280m) for Rank's 75 cinemas following several weeks of speculation. Odeon chief Richard Segal has ...
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Whole Nine Yards, Hanging Up tie for top place
It was a healthy Presidents Day weekend at the North American box office with the three-day Friday-to-Sunday figures (final four-day figures will emerge on Tuesday) proclaiming $15m apiece for both SPE's Hanging Up and Warner Bros' The Whole Nine Yards (pictured).Meanwhile Paramount/Nickelodeon Movies' Snow Day showed legs with a second ...
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Quebec gears up for co-production conference
Quebec-based international financing and co-production conference CONTACT has selected 20 feature film projects for this year's event (March 3-6).The initiative, organized by the Societe de Development des Enterprises Culturelles du Quebec (SODEC) with the involvement of Brussels-based Linking Market Forces (LMF), is open to French and English-language projects with co-production ...
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Globe buys Human Voices for Australia, New Zealand
Despite withdrawing from international acquisitions, The Globe Film Co has signed on to handle Australian and New Zealand distribution on Til Human Voices Wake Us, one of two features which have just secured investment from the Australian Film Finance Corporation (FFC). Director-writer Michael Petroni has sold several scripts to Hollywood ...
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India's GV, Asian Online form webcasting venture
Madras-based production outfit GV Films is linking up with UK internet portal Asian Online to create a joint venture focusing on internet broadcasting and related ventures.A memorandum of understanding was signed in London between GV chairman and managing director G. Venkateswaran and Asian Online on February 18. The board of ...
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Home Game (Heimspiel)
Dir: Pepe Danquart. Germany. 1999. 95 mins.Prod co: Quinte Film, Arte, Goethe Institut. Int'l sales: Amberlon Pictures. German distribution: Senator Film. Prod: Mirjam Quinte. Scr: Pepe Danquart. DoP: Michael Hammon. Ed: Mona Brauer. Mus: Walter W. Cikan, Eddi Siblik. Before embarking on his rousing documentary about an East Berlin ice-hockey ...
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UK's Carlton Cinema channel set for cable launch
UK digital terrestrial channel Carlton Cinema is launching on cable on March 1 in a move that will increase its subscriber base by 1.5 million viewers. The 24-hour film channel, owned by UK media group Carlton Communications, has concluded agreements with UK cable operators Cable and Wireless, NTL, Telewest and ...
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Visionview taps Berliner Bank's Robbins
Veteran UK film and television financier Jim Reeve has ramped up his financing outfit Visionview with the appointment of Steve Robbins.Robbins joins Reeve's outfit from Berliner Bank where he has spent the last seven years, most recently as the bank's head of media finance.The duo will work side by side ...
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Italy's Eagle appoints Sodano, plans buying spree
Italian distributor Eagle Pictures plans to make several big-budget acquisitions at this year's AFM following an investment boost from private equity financier B&S and the appointment of former SACIS chief Giampaolo Sodano as president. B&S Private Equity Group has taken a 20% stake in Eagle which is gearing up to ...
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Bellens appointed new chief of CLT-Ufa
Luxembourg-based broadcaster CLT-Ufa has named Didier Bellens chief executive officer and Ewald Walgenbach chief operating officer. Bellens takes over from joint chief executives Remy Sautter and Rolf Schmidt-Holtz who were appointed to represent CLT and Ufa when the two companies merged three years ago. The appointments will take effect on ...
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Toy Story 2, Beach and Beauty show legs
The triumvirate at the top of the record-breaking UK chart last weekend maintained eye-popping screen averages for the three days Feb 18-20. Despite Toy Story 2's unprecedented $12.4m (£7.8m) gross last weekend, the computer-generated animation fell just 16% this weekend, with a 3-day gross of $10.4m (£6.5m). This ...
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Initial teams with Jodie Foster on Altar Boys
In its third major acquisition of the week, Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) has boarded The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys, a project developed by Jodie Foster's Egg Pictures, which Foster will co-produce and take a supporting role in - as a one-legged nun.IEG will fully finance the $15m-$20m film which ...
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Suzhou racks up sales at quiet Berlin market
Philippe Bober's Berlin-based The Coproduction Office could claim the accolade of "buzz title" at last week's European Film Market (EFM) for Chinese director Lou Ye's Suzhou (pictured) which has sold to 12 territories and is expected to clean up the rest of the key territories at this week's AFM.With 14 ...
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Toshiba moots link-up with AOL-Time Warner
In a bid to boost its low profile in the Internet business, Toshiba has announced plans to enter into talks with AOL-Time Warner about the distribution of content in Japan."We have long had a strong relationship with Time Warner. Since the merger with AOL they have been emphasising their Internet ...
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Giffoni children's fest gets cash boost
The Giffoni Film Festival has had a $1m budget increase (70% from public organisations, 30% from private sponsors) for this year's event which runs from July 15-22.Sharon Stone and Oliver Stone and expected to be among the guests at the event which celebrates its 30th birthday this year. The festival, ...