All Screen articles in 28 April 2000
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Randy Greenberg joins refinanced AlwaysI.com
AlwaysI.com - an online full-length film distribution platform for independent film-makers - has closed a $5m round of financing, relocated from Cincinatti to San Francisco and hired former MGM international theatrical marketing executive Randy Greenberg as new head of marketing.Former Inktomi executive Anthony Soohoo has also joined the company as ...
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Michael Silberman to run new US distributor IDP
Michael Silberman has been named COO and president of distribution and marketing at IDP - Independent Distribution Partners - the newly formed North American distribution joint venture between CanWest Entertainment, Samuel Goldwyn Films and Stratosphere Releasing.Silberman was previously senior vice president of distribution at October Films where he was responsible ...
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MGM extends Showtime domestic pay-TV deal to 2008
US pay TV operation Showtime Networks has extended a deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) for current and future theatrical output, certain library titles and a commitment to co-produce three new television series.The new deal, which builds on an existing arrangement between the two companies, will run through Dec 31, 2008. Showtime ...
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Committed
Dir: Lisa Krueger. US. 2000. 98 mins.Prod co: Miramax Films. US dist: Miramax Films. Int'l sales: Miramax International (1) 212 219 4100. Prods: Dean Silvers, Marlen Hecht. Exec prods: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Jonathan Gordon, Amy Slotnick. Scr: Lisa Krueger. DoP: Tom Krueger. Prod des: Sharon Lomofsky. Ed: Curtis Clayton, ...
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Talos The Mummy
Dir: Russell Mulcahy. US. 1999. 119 mins.Prod cos: Muraglia/Sladek Productions, The Carousel Picture Co, Seventh Voyage, KNB EFX Group, Imperial Entertainment Group. US dist: Dimension Films. Int'l sales: Buena Vista Film Sales (+ 1 818 238 1081). Exec prods: Tom Reeve, Romain Schroeder. Prods: Daniel Sladek, Silvio Muraglia, Jeffrey White. ...
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Kinowelt, BAC talk distribution partnership
Germany's Kinowelt Medien is in talks with French distributor BAC Films about joining Kinowelt's proposed international distribution network.Kinowelt, which could feed its partners with films from its recently struck deal with US producer Gale Anne Hurd, is also in talks with potential partners in Italy and Spain, where Lolafilms is ...
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Fire And Sword's Jerzy Hoffman readies Quo Vadis
Jerzy Hoffman, the director of last year's runaway Polish hit With Fire And Sword, is to start shooting next month on the country's biggest production to date, the $12m Quo Vadis.The project, based on the Nobel Prize-winning book by Henryk Sienkiewicz, is scheduled to go into production on May 8. ...
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New Zealand's First Sun makes film push with Lies
New Zealand production outfit First Sun has unveiled its debut feature development slate which includes an adaptation of Michelanne Forster's play Castle Of Lies.The play, set in the 1890s, revolves around the true story of charismatic politician William Larnach who blew his brains out in the New Zealand Parliament, an ...
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Tasca asks competition council to rule on UGC card
In her first decision as France's culture minister, Catherine Tasca has asked the country's competition authorities to rule on the controversial issue of cinema chain UGC's "Illimite" card, which gives unlimited access to UGC screens for FFr98 a month.UGC's new promotional effort has been opposed by independent exhibitors, who ...
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Dubinet to head IAC America
UK-based sales and financing house IAC Holdings has launched US division IAC America under sales veteran Ann Dubinet.Dubinet joins as president of the Los Angeles-based operation, as well taking a seat on the board at IAC. She will continue working for Alchemy Entertainment, her 50-50 partnership with producer Martin Bregman. ...
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Actor Grant to direct for Blackjack
Hilary Heath's recently formed London-based production outfit Blackjack is to produce Wah Wah, directed by UK actor Richard E Grant.The project, currently in advanced development, is the autobiographical story of growing up in the 60s in South Africa. Blackjack, which is one of the production companies backed by UK media ...
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Vigo prize split between Saint-Cyr, Ancienne
For the first time since its creation in 1951, the Jean Vigo prize has been awarded ex-aequo to two features - Patricia Mazuy's Saint-Cyr, and Orso Miret's first feature effort De L'Histoire Ancienne. The two titles will premiere in two Cannes sidebars next month - Saint-Cyr in Un Certain Regard ...
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Redbus takes theatrical on Intertainment package
UK distributor Redbus Film Distribution has picked up all rights to a 15-strong package of star-laden pictures from Germany's Intertainment ahead of its float in the second quarter this year.The films, which are in addition to a sixty-plus package of titles from Intertainment for Video-On-Demand (Screen Daily April 7), include ...
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Sogepaq counts Ephron's Numbers for Spain
Spanish rights and acquisitions house Sogepaq has picked up all rights for Spain on forthcoming Nora Ephron film Numbers, produced by Paramount and set to star John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow, Tim Roth and Bill Pullman.The pick-up was made through the joint acquisitions venture which Sogepaq launched last October with Canal ...
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Urbanchillers.com to finance short films
Dir: Tony Barbieri. US. 2000. 109 mins.Prod cos: Lumiere International. Worldwide sales: Lumiere Films (+1 323 650 6773), UGC International (+33 1 40 29 89 00). Exec prods: Claude Leger, Luciano Lisi, Wendy Cary, Mickey Cottrell. Prod: Lila Cazes. Scr: Tony Barbieri. DoP: Matthew Irving. Prod des: Victor R Syperek. ...
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Kevin And Perry goes large at UK cinemas
The opening three day gross of Kevin And Perry Go Large has given Icon Film Distribution its first box office hit and number one film in the UK. The comedy teenage duo took $3.2m (£2m) over the Easter weekend (April 21-23). Playing on 336 screens, the British adaptation of ...
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New Legend Media capitalised as Euro buying power
A new multi-territory German-backed buyer has emerged in New Legend Media AG, a privately held production and distribution outfit founded from the merger of Munich-based ACC Entertainment and LA-based Legend Entertainment.Two German venture capital companies - Hamburg-based GBK Beteiligungen and Munich-based CEA - have joined the consortium of private investors ...
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Murdoch buys 34% of Germany's TM3 channel
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is buying a 34% stake in German TV-channel TM3 from Germany's Tele-Muenchen Group for $168m, taking over the operation 100%.Despite repeated denials that he was considering the move, Tele-Muenchen managing director Herbert Kloiber is reportedly selling his stake after repeated attempts to find an audience for ...
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Twelve Nights
Dir: Aubrey Lam. HK. 2000. 100 mins.Prod cos: Golden Harvest Film Productions, Golden Harvest Pictures China Ltd. Int sales: Golden Harvest (+852 2352 8222). Exec prod: Stephen Chu. Scr: Aubrey Lam. DoP: Deng Cheng Siu Keung. Cast: Cecilia Cheung, Eason Chan, Stephen Fung, Candy Lo, Cheung Sum Yuet. Twelve Nights ...
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Preferisco Il Rumore Del Mare
Dir: Mimmo Calopresti. Italy-France. 2000. 90 mins.Prod cos: Biancafilm, Mikado. Co-prod: RAI, Arcapix (Fr). Domestic dist: Mikado. Int'l sales: Celluloid Dreams (+33 1 49 70 03 70). Prods: Donatella Botti, Roberto Cicutto, Luigi Musini. Dir: Mimmo Calopresti. Scr: Calopresti, Francesco Bruni. DoP: Luca Bigazzi. Prod des: Alessandra Marrazzo. Ed: Massimo ...