All Screen articles in 25 September 2000
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Civilian in talks to up stake in The Sales Co
Civilian Content, owner of UK National Lottery studio franchise The Film Consortium, is continuing talks about raising its stake in international sales outfit The Sales Co, despite last week's resignation of highly-regarded Sales Co chief executive Alison Thompson.While Thompson's departure to join Pathe's London arm will no doubt lower the ...
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FilmFour seals package deal with Spain's Alta
FilmFour International, the sales arm of the UK's FilmFour, has closed an all-rights package deal with Spain's Alta Films, the division's first with a Spanish company.Titles in the deal include Alan Taylor's The Emperor's New Clothes, which is currently shooting in Malta and Italy; Werner Herzog's Invincible, starring Tim Roth; ...
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FilmFour launches money back stunt for Dancer
In a highly unusual move, FilmFour Distributors is offering UK audiences for Dancer In The Dark their money back if they are unsatisfied. Cinema-goers will be given a full refund if they walk out of the film in its first 30 minutes.The move is the latest step in FilmFour's "see ...
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Men Of Honor
Dir: George Tillman Jr. US. 2000. 120mins.Prod Co: Fox 2000 Pictures. Int'l Sales: 20th Century Fox. Prods: Robert Teitel, Bill Badalato. Exec Prods: Bill Cosby, Stanley Robertson. Scr: Scott Marshall Smith. DoP: Anthony B Richmond. Prod des: Leslie Dilley. Ed: John Carter. Mus: Mark Isham. Main cast: Robert De Niro, ...
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Beautiful
Dir: Sally Field. US. 2000. 112 mins.Prod co: Beautiful Productions. Int'l Sales: Cathy Morgan International (310) 979 9100. Prods: John Bertolli, B.J. Rack. Exec prods: Richard Vane, Kate Driver, Wendy Japhet, Barry London, Brent Baum, Steve Sabler, Marty Fink, David Forrest, Beau Rogers. Co-prods: Mark Morgan, Jon Bernstein, Jade Ramsey. ...
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Harris to head UK production at CTIT
Columbia TriStar International Television (CTIT) in the UK has named production and programming executive Ann Harris to the post of vice president, production.Harris will be responsible for developing and producing original programming by working closely with the UK independent production community. The former managing director for Delta Ventures/Circle Communications has ...
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EC extends deadline on Vivendi-Seagram probe
The European Commission (EC) has extended its deadline for examining the proposed Vivendi-Canal Plus takeover of Seagram. "They've offered us concessions and so we've extended the deadline (to rule) from October 2 to October 13," said EC spokeswoman Amelia Torres.The proposed creation of the $40bn Vivendi Universal group has already ...
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Legends 2, new Exorcist storm US box office
Although the North American box office was some 21.6% down on the same week last year, at least it picked up on last weekend by about 15% as a result of two new horror movies on the market. Or rather, one new horror movie and one very old horror movie ...
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Gilliam, Scott support genre shorts competition
Terry Gilliam and Ridley Scott have lent their support to a new competition for short films, backed by the Sci-Fi Channel and the First Film Foundation.Sci-Fi Shorts said it is "the first genre-dedicated short film competition to guarantee theatrical distribution". It has teamed up with exhibition chain UCI to ensure ...
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Germany's VCL buys Denmark's Scanbox
Datty Ruth's Munich-based media company VCL Film and Medien has acquired 100% of Danish distributor Scanbox Entertainment.The cost of the acquisition, around $2.5m, will be mostly paid in VCL stock, which was valued at $17 per share for the purpose of this deal. Although the deal is subject to the ...
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San Sebastian festival opens on poignant note
The 48th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival got off to a halting start on Thursday night with the cancellation of the traditional party as a protest against the latest assassination by Basque terrorist group ETA.But the opening film of the festival's Official Section, the much-anticipated Common Wealth ...
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Bailiffs move in on Russian media group Media Most
Bailiffs moved on Friday to freeze the shares of Media Most Group, Russia's sole independent media empire, after talks between the troubled group and its major creditor, the state-controlled gas concern Gazprom, broke down.The move came after a court order was granted to Gazprom's media arm, Gazprom-Media, which is trying ...
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Olympic fever impacts Australia's box office
One week into the Olympics and most Australian cinemas are reporting revenues down by 25-50%, with games venue Sydney being the worst affected. Unseasonably fine spring weather is further exaggerating the fall in business, particularly as it's helping to draw non-sport lovers out of doors.Although the Olympic site is 14 ...
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Sky starts shooting three films over next month
Sky Pictures, the feature production arm of satellite broadcaster BSkyB, is readying three features to start shooting over the next month, kicking off with Gypsy Woman.The film, scheduled to crank up on September 25, stars The Talented Mr Ripley's Jack Davenport and Neve Mackintosh, whose credits include the recent BBC2 ...
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Lola appoints Wagner as marketing director
Ludwig Wagner has been appointed the marketing director for Spanish producer Lolafilms. Based out of the London office, Wagner will direct the marketing and publicity of all of Lola's films, both Spanish and English-language. He will also assist Lola UK head of sales Nicole Mackey. Wagner is a former independent ...
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Sexy Beast
Hollywood Partners (HP), the Munich-based private film fund, has committed to co-financing and co-producing Walter Hill's Undisputed, starring Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames and Peter Falk, in return for all foreign rights and certain income rights in the US and Canada.The film, which began shooting at a maximum security prison just ...
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The Weight Of Water
Dir: Kathryn Bigelow. US-Fr. 2000. 110 mins.Prod cos: Manifest Film Co, Palomar Pictures, Miracle Pictures. Int'l sales: Le Studio Canal Plus (33) 1 44 43 98 00. Exec prods: Lisa Henson, Steven-Charles Jaffe. Prods: Janet Yang, Joni Sighvatsson, A Kitman Ho. Scr: Alice Arlen, Chris Kyle, from the novel by ...
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Possible Worlds
Dir: Robert Lepage. Canada. 2000. 93 min. Prod co: The East Side Film Company, In Extremis Images. Int'l sales: Alliance Atlantis International, tel: (1) 310 899 8000. Prod: Sandra Cunningham, Bruno Jobin. Scr: John Mighton, from his play. DoP: Jonathan Freeman. Ed: Susan Shipton. Prod des: Francois Seguin. Main cast: ...
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Miramax opens up Italy with Eagle Pictures pact
Miramax International appears to have found a new Italian outlet for at least some of its higher profile titles, selling three films to fast-growing Eagle Pictures.The Italian production and distribution company is understood to have picked up John Frankenheimer's Reindeer Games; Chocolat, directed by Lasse Hallstrom and starring Juliette Binoche ...
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Kinowelt confirms submission for $200m loan
Germany's Kinowelt has confirmed that it has submitted plans for a $200m loan to the Frankfurt stock exchange.Kinowelt's head of finances Eduard Unzeitig said the loan would be used to reduce current commitments to banks and in the long run would help optimise company financing. A report in German newspaper ...