All Screen articles in 27 August 2002
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Kirch film and TV assets could find different buyers
Film investors around the world are hoping to be given the same kind of opportunity as is being dangled in front of TV groups.The KirchMedia group, which is currently in insolvency administration, this week said that it would consider selling off the ProsiebenSAT1 group separately from its other media assets.This ...
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Meistrich sets up Film Movement, specialised distribution by subscriber
Larry Meistrich, founder ofthe defunct New York production-distribution outfit Shooting Gallery, hasformed a new US distribution outfit called Film Movement chiefly aimed atfestival-winning independents that cannot meet rising marketing costs. FilmMovement will offer film-makers a range of platforms on which to showcasetheatrical-quality, first-run films via a subscription service. Beginning inDecember ...
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Denmark's SF Film in Good Company
As reported by Screendaily.com in May, Denmark's leading theatrical distributor, SF Film has launched a new local distribution arm - The Good Company, in order to strengthen its ties with Danish film producers. Susanne Teilmann, former head of programming at Danish broadcaster TV3, has been appointed as film executive, to ...
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The Guru levitates to the top of UK chart
Working Title and UIP scored yet another hit at the weekend as comedy The Guru claimed $2.3m (£1.5m) to take the UK number one slot away from three-week leader Men In Black II.Directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer (Madeline) and starring Jimi Mistry alongside Hollywood stars Heather Graham and Marisa ...
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Columbia TriStar takes XXX out in Asia, Yugoslavia
Columbia TriStarFilm Distributors International (CTFDI) launched the first internationalroll-outs of Revolution Studios' XXX over the weekend, scoring modest success in several smallerAsian territories and landing the seventh all-time highest opening inYugoslavia. The Vin Diesel action picture grossed $380,000 in The Philippineson 50 screens; $400,000 including previews from 38 screens in ...
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Miller named MD Walt Disney Television Int'l (Asia Pacific)
Doug Miller has been appointed managing director, Walt Disney Television International (Asia Pacific), having been senior vice president and general sales manager of Buena Vista International Television for Europe, Middle East and Africa.Miller will be responsible for all television activities throughout the Asia Pacific region, including Australia, China and India ...
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Palm buys worldwide DVD rights to doc American Mullet
Palm Pictures has acquiredworldwide DVD rights to Jennifer Arnold's American Mullet. The film explores the history and evolution of theMullet haircut, which is distinguished by a short front and long back. Theproject started out as The Mullet Chronicles, a web-based series that premiered at the SundanceOnline Festival, and eventually became ...
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DreamWorks refinances, accelerates animated output schedule
DreamWorks has announced a$1.5bn refinancing package that will enable it to double its animated featureoutput to two or three pictures a year by 2004 and increase by around 30% itsannual live action slate to 10-12 titles by 2005. The deal, unveiled on Friday,comprises a $1bn securitisation and a $500m revolving ...
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Herwitz sells Last Party 2000 to ID in France
Andrew Herwitz's NewYork-based producers rep outfit The Film Sales Company has closed a sale ofdocumentary Last Party 2000 to IDDistribution in France, just a week before the film screens in the Panoramasidebar of the Deauville Festival Of American Film.The film, directed byDonovan Leitch and Rebecca Chaiklin and produced by Stanley ...
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Scooby-Doo heads for $100m in international territories
Scooby-Doo is poised to break the $100m barrier at theinternational box office for Warner Bros after steady weekend takings across 38territories raised its cumulative score to $99m last weekend. The pictureopened at number one this weekend in Sweden, where it took an estimated$235,000 from 100 screens. Overall the live action ...
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TLA Releasing takes three for US including Food Of Love, KM 0 from Spain
TLA Releasing, the oneyear-old Philadelphia-based US distributor specialising in independent, foreignand gay/lesbian-themed films, has picked up rights to three new pictures- Ventura Pons' Spanish drama Food Of Love, Steve Guttenberg's directorial debut PSYour Cat Is Dead! and Yolanda GarciaSerrano and Juan Luis Iborra's Spanish comedy KM. 0. Food Of Love, ...
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The Good Thief to open San Sebastian competition
Neil Jordan's The Good Thief will open the official competition section of this year's 50th anniversary edition of Spain's San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 19-28).Thief, which will also screen at next month's Toronto International Film Festival, competes for San Sebastian's top Golden and Silver Shell awards alongside seventeen other ...
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UK's Ealing Studios to revive St Trinian's comedies
Ealing Studios, the historic UK film studio at the centre of a £50 million redevelopment plan, is reviving the classic British comedies of St Trinian's.Producer and Ealing co-owner Barnaby Thompson confirmed that Rupert Everett may play the dual roles originally played by Alastair Sim in 1954's The Belles Of St ...
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Edinburgh: Out Of Control wins best British film award
Dominic Savage's Out Of Control received the Michael Powell Award for Best British Film at the 56th Edinburgh International Film Festival which closed on Sunday with the British premiere of Christopher Nolan's thriller Insomnia. Savage's improvised drama, that tells of a teenage boy whose life is made a living hell ...
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China Star consolidates ahead of rights issue
Hong Kong producer-distributor China Star is planning a rights issue to raise around $12m (HK$95m), of which $9.6m (HK$75m) will be pumped into production.However the company is undergoing a capital reorganisation prior to the rights issue due to a collapse in its share price which has slumped from 26 HK ...
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Signs returns to the top after four weekends
Disney's Signs returned to top spot over the weekend with a $14.3m haul that brings its total after four weekends to $173.m, according to studio estimates released today. The renewed surge by M Night Shyamalan's supernatural thriller spooked Columbia's XXX into second place on $13.7m and a $106.7m cumulative score ...
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Edinburgh: UK creative talent back on song
What a difference a year makes. Last year at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, there was much talk of a British section that was considered lightweight and lacking in quality. Inevitably, it was seen as a reflection on the whole industry.This year, Morvern Callar, All Or Nothing, Heartlands and My ...
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Asian films dominate Sitges sidebar
Asian films form the bulk of titles screening in the animated features sidebar Anima't at the forthcoming Sitges International Film Festival of Catalunya (Oct 3-13).Anima't will also feature more than fifty short films in competition and an homage to Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, whose multiple award-winning Spirited Away (Sen To ...
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Antonio Banderas firmly in Tarantula's web
Antonio Banderas reiterated his interest Thursday in taking a starring role in futuristic film noir Tarantula for director Pedro Almodovar.Speaking at a press conference in Madrid for Imagining Argentina, the film he is currently shooting in Spain and Argentina, Banderas said he had Tarantula scheduled for 2004 in his busy ...
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Iran acts on domestic film crisis
The dire predicament of Iran's domestic film production and exhibition industry was highlighted this week when deputy minister of culture Hassan Pezeshk revealed a dramatic fall in domestic box-office which has reached such lows that Iranian citizens spent an average of just 40-minutes last year at the cinema.At a meeting ...