All Screen articles in 28 July 2000
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PHE funds Criminal theatrical outing
Video operation Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE) is funding the UK theatrical release of local thriller The Criminal in a drive to bolster its slate with acquisitions in local markets, PHE confirmed.PHE will cover p&a costs for a November release on at least 50 prints for the Palm Pictures and Storm ...
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UIP holds back Flintstones in UGC pass row
In an unprecedented move, the UK office of United International Pictures (UIP) has pulled its new release of The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas from all UGC's UK and Irish cinemas. The last minute decision was taken because both companies are still arguing over rental terms in regard to tickets ...
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Angels Of The Universe (Englar Alheimsins)
Dir: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson. Ice-Nor-Swe-Ger-Den. 2000. 95mins.Prod co: Icelandic Film Corp with the support of the Icelandic Film Fund. Co-prods: Filmhuset (Norway), Peter Rommel Film Productions, SDF, Arte and ORD German, SVT Sweden, Zentropa Productions Copenhagen. Int'l sales: Trust Film Sales, tel: (45) 3686 8788. Prod: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson. Scr: ...
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Prix Italia to feature Altman retrospective
The 52nd Prix Italia television and radio awards, sponsored by state broadcaster RAI, will feature a retrospective of director Robert Altman's television work and the screening of two freshly restored Fellini films - Clown (1970) and Prova D'Orchestra (1978).RAI president Roberto Zaccaria said 48 television stations and 75 radio programmes ...
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Belmont joins Haas in WT2's Long Time Dead
Lara Belmont from Tim Roth's The War Zone has joined Mars Attacks!' Lukas Haas in the ensemble cast of WT2's British Scream picture, Long Time Dead, the company announced this week.Other young actors and actresses in the cast of the urban horror flick are Alec Newman, Joe Absolom, James Hillier, ...
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Benigni lines up Pinocchio as next project
Roberto Benigni, the Oscar-winning actor-director of Life Is Beautiful, has announced that his next project will be a live-action version of Pinocchio. His actress wife, Nicoletta Braschi, who starred opposite him in Life Is Beautiful, is also expected to star in the new film.Benigni, who said he had wanted to ...
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Venice follows Cannes with Euro, Asian line-up
Robert Altman's Dr T And The Women and Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls are the only US titles in competition at the 57th edition of the Venice Film Festival, which, like this year's Cannes, is dominated by European and Asian titles.Asian titles among the 19 competition entrants include Hong Kong ...
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CanWest bags Endemol's TV distribution arm
Toronto-based CanWest Entertainment will pay more than $100m for the international television distribution assets of Endemol Entertainment, the Dutch media company recently purchased by Spain's Telefonica. The deal includes the Endemol subsidiary's 600-hour programme library and distribution pacts with Alliance Atlantis, Hearst Entertainment, Lions Gate Films and Trimark Pictures. CanWest, ...
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Granada pays $2.65bn for United's ITV assets
Granada Media has agreed to pay $2.65bn (£1.75bn) for the ITV interests of rival United News & Media.Granada will pick up the Meridian, Anglia and HTV regional UK channels in the deal, but is expected to sell off HTV. The move, which means Granada becomes the dominant commercial broadcaster in ...
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Kinowelt bags video rights to StudioCanal titles
German media group Kinowelt has reportedly acquired the video and DVD rights to 240 films from France's StudioCanal.The deal is understood to cover European rights outside French-speaking countries. In the UK the pictures are expected to go through Momentum Pictures, Kinowelt's joint venture with Canada's Alliance Atlantis. Kinowelt is expected ...
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InternetStudios hires three for film sales subsid
LA-based industry website InternetStudios has made three more appointments to its subsidiary OnlineFilmSales, an online digital marketplace for sales of film and television rights.Michael Bremer has joined the company as vice president of sales and marketing responsible for attracting sales companies to present their projects on the site and enlisting ...
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LA ent'ment lawyers Rosen & Anderson merge firms
Two LA-based entertainment lawyers have merged their practices to create what they call "an entertainment convergence media incubator law firm". Entertainment attorney Phillip L Rosen and Joseph B Anderson, a specialist attorney in Internet and entertainment, have created one entity - Rosen & Anderson - which aims to service both ...
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UIP expands role with international alliances
United International Pictures (UIP) is forging a series of distribution deals with independent companies in key European territories, apparently bolstering its position as a business in its own right rather than just the international outlet of its US studio parents.The international distribution venture of Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures and MGM ...
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IN THE HOT SEAT - JUAN VILLALONGA
The following profile is taken from the weekly print version of Screen International. Also in this week's Screen:NEWS:Long-shot hits survive indie box office slumpDespite the success of Paramount Classic's Sunshine and The Shooting Gallery's Croupier, indie films are having as hard a time of it as studio product at the ...
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Hausfater quits Disney for Intermedia
Jere Hausfater, one of the most well-known studio buyers on the international film circuit, has ended his near 13 year run at The Walt Disney Co and found a new home at independent giant Intermedia. Hausfater has joined Intermedia, which in May floated on the German stock market with an ...
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German half-year box office up 13%
German cinema attendance rose 12% to 74.7 million admissions in the first half of 2000 according to the German Federal Film Board, the FFA, compared to 66.7 million during the first half of 1999.At the same time, a rise in average ticket prices in Germany from $5.10 (DM10.58) last year ...
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Gladiator roars past $200m internationally
UIP's Gladiator has clocked up $200m internationally as of Monday 24 July, bringing its worldwide total to $380m. This tally makes it a strong contender for a place in the top five chart of worldwide hits this year after Toy Story 2 and Mission: Impossible 2 which will also take ...
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Locarno reshuffles duties after president's death
The International Locarno Film Festival is to share the duties of late president Giuseppe Buffi amongst its committee of directors until the end of the festival, which starts on August 2. Buffi died after suffering a heart attack last week. After holding an emergency meeting following his death, Locarno announced ...
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UK's Yes taps Cox, Young to head Asian operations
UK video-on-demand (VoD) pioneer Yes Television has appointed Randall Cox and Greg Young to head up its Asian operations after securing one of five pay-TV licences for Hong Kong that were handed out by the local government last month (Screendaily, July 5). Cox has been named president of Yes ...
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Production report: Canadian films jostle for space
Overbooked sound stages and streets blocked with production vehicles are a common sight during the summer in Canada, as US productions take advantage of the favourable exchange rate. Films currently supplying overtime for Canadian crews include Warner Bros' See Spot Run, starring David Arquette, the Warner Bros/Universal Pictures' joint venture ...