All Screen articles in 25 February 2000
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Korea's CJ unveils production drive
Encouraged by economic recovery in the region, DreamWorks backer CJ Entertainment is stepping up production in its native Korea to 10-12 pictures a year. The company has produced only 10 pictures to date."We stepped back from production during the economic crisis, but the time is now right to increase our ...
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Nora
Dir: Pat Murphy. Ire-UK-It-Ger. 2000. 106mins.Prod cos: A Natural Nylon Prod. Volta/Metropolitan Films, Gam Film, Road Movies. Int'l Sales: IAC Films. Exec Prod: Guy Collins. Prods: Bradley Adams, Damon Bryant, Tracey Seaward. Co-Prods: Ewan McGregor, James Flynn, Ulrich Felsberg, Gerhardo Pagliei. Scr: Murphy, Gerard Stembridge based on the biography by ...
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Hippolyt
Dir: Barna Kabay, Katalin Petenyi. Hungary. 1999. 92 mins.Prod co: Europe 2000. Supported by RTL Klub. Int'l sales: Europe 2000. Prod: Barna Kabay. Scr: Gabor Nogradi, Robert Koltai. DoP: Tibor Mathe. Ed: Mari Miklos. Music: Gabor Berkes. Main cast: Karoly Eperjes, Robert Koltai, Judit Pogany, Kata Husazrik, Attila Arpa, Sandor ...
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The Captain's Daughter (Russkij Bunt)
Dir: Alexander Proshkin. Russia-France. 2000. 130 mins.Prod co: NTV-Profit, Roissy Films, Production Le Pont, Canal Plus, Goskino, Globus Studios of Orenburg. Int'l sales: Roissy Films-Celluloid Dreams (33) 1 53 53 50 50. Exec Prod: Vialy Koshman. Prod: Igor Tolstunov, Mikhail Zilberman. Scr: Galina Arbuzova, Stanislav Govorukhin, Vladimir Zheleznikov, based on ...
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AFM: Kinowelt snaps up Lolafilms trio
German mini-conglomerate Kinowelt International has bought all German-speaking rights to three films from Spain's Lolafilms - That Girl From Rio, The Dancer Upstairs and Gaudi Afternoon.All three films are being produced by Lolafilms' UK-based production outfit. Comedy Gaudi Afternoon, which stars Juliette Lewis and Judy Davis, is currently shooting in ...
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AFM: Eastwood to be feted by Venice festival
Clint Eastwood will be awarded a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at this year's Venice Film Festival (Aug 30-Sept 9).The award, to be presented on the festival's opening night, will be followed by the European premiere of Space Cowboys, Eastwood's latest directorial effort.Venice president Paolo Baretta and festival director Alberto ...
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AFM: Alliance Atlantis has head in Clouds
Alliance Atlantis Communications (AAC) is to finance White Clouds, the Italian-set kidnapping drama that was the last completed feature film screenplay from the late British dramatist Dennis Potter.Adapted from on the novel Cara Massimina, by Italy-based British expat author Tim Parks, the story involves the abduction of a girl by ...
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Renaissance, Clear Blue Sky strike three-year pact
UK producer Renaissance Films has teamed up with Paul Allen's Clear Blue Sky Productions in a three-year co-financing and co-producing deal.Renaissance will handle international sales on at least five films to be produced under the agreement which will see the partners share investment and profits. The first project under the ...
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AFM: Armstrong, Blanchett in talks for Charlotte
Gillian Armstong is in advanced talks to direct FilmFour's adaptation of Sebastian Faulks' best-selling novel, Charlotte Gray.John Madden was previously expected to direct the high-profile project but he is now attached to Working Title Films' Captain Corelli's Mandolin. As previously reported, Cate Blanchett, the Australian actress who starred in Armstrong's ...
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Working Title taps Cruz for Captain Corelli
Spanish actress Penelope Cruz has signed to star opposite Nicolas Cage in John Madden's Captain Corelli's Mandolin for Working Title Films. Eric Fellner and Kevin Loader are producing the film which is being backed by Universal Pictures and Canal Plus. Miramax has UK and Australian rights. Production is scheduled to ...
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Kidman, Norton lift UGC's $32m Veil
Gillian Armstrong's long-gestating adaptation of Somerset Maugham's The Painted Veil has re-surfaced as a $32m project on the sales slate of France's UGC International, with actors Nicole Kidman and Edward Norton the targeted leads.Maugham's turn-of-the-century tale is set in China and follows an adulterous doctor's wife who redeems herself during ...
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Toshiba joint venture cranks up first production
Towani Corp, a joint venture between Toshiba, Warner Bros and Nippon Television Network, has started production on its first feature film, action fantasy Sakuya, which has Tomoo Haraguchi directing.Haraguchi is one of Japan's leading make-up artists and special effects supervisors with credits including the horror hit Ring and the Gamera ...
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Spain gets greenlight for super studio
Spain looks set to gain its biggest ever studio complex after the backers behind the proposed 'Audiovisual City' greenlit the project this week.The complex, newly dubbed "The City of Light" (La Ciudad de la Luz)', is being supported by the Valencia regional government and as-yet-unnamed partners from the 'Spanish and ...
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Zellweger to play Bridget Jones for Working Title
Renee Zellweger has been cast as thirtysomething singleton Bridget Jones in Working Title's adaptation of Helen Fielding's best-selling novel Bridget Jones' Diary.Sharon Mcguire is directing the film from a script by Fielding, Richard Curtis and Andrew Davies. Producers are Jonathan Cavendish and Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.Zellweger, ...
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AtomFilms teams up with Forefront
Seattle-based Internet distributor AtomFilms has boosted its catalogue through a partnership with off-line short film distributor Forefront Films.Forefront's library of short films will be added to AtomFilms own catalogue which has recently been expanded through a deal with the UK's Aardman Animation and with South Africa's Primedia Pictures to acquire ...
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Germany's RTV buys Australian Energee
German animation production-distribution entity Ravensburger Film & TV (RTV) has purchased a 69% stake in one of Australia's most significant animation companies, Energee Entertainment, in a move that will spur production activity at the company's new studios opened late last year in Sydney. RTV paid $24.6m (DM48m) in shares and ...
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AFM: Breillat's Fat Girl sexes up FPI slate
Flach Pyramide International (FPI) is once again at a film market selling sex. After the hugely controversial Romance, FPI is at the AFM handling Catherine Breillat's next picture, Fat Girl, an explosive examination of female sexuality set on the slopes of Mount Etna.The picture, which examines the troubled relationship of ...
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Little Vilma: The Last Diary
Dir: Marta Meszaros. Hungary. 1999. 115mins.Prod co: Dialogue Studios. Supported by: Eurimages, Mafilm, Duna TV. Int'l sales: Dialogue Studios. Prods: Csaba Bereczki, Karoly Makk. DoP: Nykia Jancso. Ed: Grzesuik Cezary. Main cast: Jan Nowicki, Barbara Hegyi, Kitty Keri, Lukas Nowiczki, Cleo Ladanyi, Lili Monori.Critics and cinephiles have long-awaited the last ...
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UK's Warriors, Kid scoop Nymphs at Monte Carlo
UK productions dominated the mini-series category of the 40th Monte Carlo Television Festival (Feb 17-23) with the BBC's Warriors walking away with the top award and Channel Four's Kid In The Corner scooping three of the four remaining prizes.Peter Kosminky's Warriors - which focuses on a group of British UN ...
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AFM: HBO Asia signs five-picture deal with J&M
HBO Asia has licensed five pictures from London-based production and sales outfit J&M Entertainment, including House On Haunted Hill which was distributed in the US by HBO sister company Warner Bros.The other movies in the deal are The Guilty and History Is Made At Night, both starring Bill Pullman, Bruno, ...