All Screen articles in 26 May 2000
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Bulgaria set to join EU's Media Programme
The European Commission today gave the green light for Bulgaria to become the first Eastern European country to join the European Union (EU)'s MEDIA Programme, which provides financial support for film distribution, development and training. Although Bulgaria is not a member of the 15-nation EU, participation in EU programmes is ...
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Miller signs up for Dimension's Dracula
Jonny Lee Miller has signed to star in Dimension Films' Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000, joining Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Esposito and singer Vitamin C in the latest re-telling of the Bram Stoker classic.Miller, who previously starred in Miramax Films' Mansfield Park and Trainspotting, plays Simon Shephard, a London antiques dealer ...
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Loews gets rolling with Technicolor
Exhibition giant Loews Cineplex has agreed to carry some $60m of rolling stock advertisements supplied by Technicolor in its 1,800 US screens starting from July. Loews president and CEO Lawrence Ruisi said: "This agreement represents the next step in our strategy to generate ancillary revenues in our business. On-screen advertising ...
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Senator falls in love with Vinterberg
Germany's Senator Film has boarded Thomas Vinterberg's $10m English-language debut, It's All About Love, as German co-producer. The UK's FilmFour and Italy's Key Films are also co-producing the project, set to shoot in New York next spring.While Senator and Key are taking rights for their respective territories, FilmFour is handling ...
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Paramount Classics chooses Equinox for Quebec
Paramount Classics has signed a theatrical distribution output deal with Equinox Entertainment, which sees the Montreal-based producer-distributor releasing all its pictures in Quebec in French and English. Paramount Canada releases Classics pictures in the rest of Canada. The first picture in the Paramount Classics deal, Sofia Coppola's Virgin Suicides, will ...
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Hong Kong launches support for screenwriters
Hong Kong's government is backing a HK4.8m ($0.6m) scheme which will enable local screenwriters to write scripts on spec. The Hong Kong Screenwriters Guild has secured the funds from the government's Film Development Fund and hopes to launch the initiative, dubbed the "Assistance Scheme for Scriptwriters", on June 8. ...
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Taboo (Gohatto)
Dir: Nagisa Oshima. Japan. 2000. 100 mins.Prod cos: Shochiku. Co-prods: Kadokawa Shoten, Imagica, BS Asahi, Eisei Gekijo, BAC, Le Studio Canal Plus, Recorded Picture Company. Int'l Sales: Le Studio Canal Plus (00 33 1 44 43 98 00). Exec prods: Oshima Productions, Eiko Oshima, Shigehiro Nakagawa, Kazuo Shimizu. Scr: Oshima, ...
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Bread And Roses
Dir: Ken Loach. UK. 2000. 110 mins.Prod Co: Parallax. Int'l sales: The Sales Company. Prod: Rebecca O'Brien. Exec prod: Ulrich Felsberg. Scr: Paul Laverty. DoP: Barry Ackroyd. Prod des: Martin Johnson. Ed: Jonathan Morris. Mus: George Fenton. Main cast: Pilar Padilla, Elpidia Carrillo, Adrien Brody, George Lopez, Alonso Chavez.The locale ...
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Les Destinees Sentimentales
Dir: Olivier Assayas. France. 2000. 180 mins.Prod Co: Arena Films. Int'l Sales: Pathe International. Prod: Bruno Pesery. Scr: Olivier Assayas, Jacques Fieschi based on the novel by Jacques Chardon. DoP: Eric Gautier. Prod des: Katia Wyszkop. Ed: Luc Barnier. Mus: Guillaume Lekeu. Main cast: Emmanuelle Beart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert, ...
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US vote opens doors to China
Last November's agreement to further open China to the US entertainment industry is set to come into force after this week's vote in Congress to normalise trade relations between the two countries. The normalisation bill was passed in the House of Representatives on Wednesday (May 24), and is likely to ...
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Carlton extends Internet pact to Epsilon trio
The UK's Carlton Communications may seek to develop corporate links with continental Europe's top broadcasters, having this week enlarged its Internet deal with TF1 to include the Epsilon trio of companies.Often criticised for not having an active European strategy, Carlton this week hinted that it sees Germany's Kirch, Italy's Mediaset ...
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Bim eats Kollek's Fast Food, Loach's Bread
Valerio De Paolis' independent distribution company Bim has acquired Italian rights to a raft of Cannes competition titles including Ken Loach's Bread And Roses, from UK-based sales outfit The Sales Co.Other competition titles acquired by Bim are Amos Kollek's Fast Food Fast Women, from Celluloid Dreams; Austrian director Michael Haneke's ...
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Irish Film Board, AtomFilms pair up for shorts
The Irish Film Board and AtomFilms are set to unveil a joint initiative - "Irish Flash" - for the production and distribution of short films on the Internet. The move is the first step taken by the board since it made a policy decision late last year to direct some ...
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High Point, Film Company expand team
The UK's High Point & The Film Company Group has appointed Chris Bluett to the position of film sales executicve. Bluett, who was previously a senior researcher for Celador Productions' Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, has been working with the the group's sales team for the past year.The group ...
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NEWS IN BRIEF
SCHEIDER SIGNS UP FOR GOOD WARROME: Roy Scheider has been chosen to replace Harvey Keitel (who in turn replaced Sam Shepard) in the $6m, ten-years-in-the-making The Good War (entitled Texas in Italy), which is being produced by Alessandro Verdecchi of Orango Films. Italian hearthrob Raoul Bova has also dropped out ...
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Kippur
Dir: Amos Gitai. Israel. 2000. 123 minsProd Co: MP Productions (Fr), Agav Hafakot, Studio Canal Plus, Arte France Cinema, R & C Produzioni (It). Int'l Sales: President Films, (+33 1 4562 8222). Prod: Michael Propper, Amos Gitai. Scr: Amos Gitai, Marie-Jose Sanselme. DoP: Renato Berta. Prod des: Miguel Markin. ...
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Putin cuts lifeline to Russian film
Russian president Vladimir Putin has decided to axe Goskino, the government body responsible for supporting the film industry, provoking a wave of protest from local filmmakers. Protesters claim that unless the decision is reversed it will signal the death of the struggling Russian film industry which is heavily dependent ...
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Carlton Media reports 12% interim profit increase
Carlton Communications has reported that profits for its media division, Carlton Media, were up 12% to $149m (£101m) in the six months to March 31, on turnover of $751m (£508m) up 13% from the corresponding period the previous year.Film and video/DVD duplication unit Technicolor, currently up for sale with a ...
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Norway launches summer box office assault
The Norwegian film industry has joined forces on a project called Summer Cinema (Sommerkino) to boost cinema admissions during the summer months when long daylight hours keep audiences out of theatres.An initiative of trade organisation Film & Kino, the project is backed by all Norwegian distributors, as well as 96 ...
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Telecinco strikes 10-pic deal with Singer
Spanish broadcaster Telecinco has sealed a 10-picture pact with US independent producer Joseph Singer, marking its first foray into all-rights acquisitions. Nicolas Cage-starrer One To One will be the first title to emerge from the deal.The pact mirrors a similar move by Telecinco rival Antena 3 which picked up all ...