All Screen articles in 29 June 2001
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Woody Allen eyes Cannes for Hollywood Endings
Woody Allen has completed post-production on his 34th film Hollywood Endings -- co-financed by DreamWorks SKG and Germany's VCL -- and told international press this weekend that he thinks it is his funniest film in years. He added that he is hoping that it will be presented at the Cannes ...
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Columbia buys new territories on Senator thriller
Joe Drake's Senator International has concluded a second multiple-territory deal with Columbia Pictures on Luis Mandoki's action thriller 24 Hours starring Charlize Theron, Kevin Bacon, Courtney Love and Stuart Townsend.Columbia had already struck a deal for North America, Spain, Latin America, Benelux, Asia (excluding Japan), Greece, Portugal, Middle East and ...
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Christine Vachon gets Outfest 2001 Award
New York-based independent producer Christine Vachon will receive the 2001 Outfest Achievement Award at this year's Outfest, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, next month.Vachon, a pioneer in gay cinema and a partner in Killer Films, has credits including this year's opening night film at Outfest Hedwig And ...
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MGM warns lower revenues for year 2001
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) has warned that its second quarter results for the year as well as its full fiscal year 2001 results will be lower than anticipated "as a result of two theatrical releases which did not meet the company's expectations."Revenues for the second quarter ending June 30, 2001, are expected ...
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Amy Koster promoted at Paramount
Amy Koster has been promoted to executive director of creative advertising for the motion picture group of Paramount Pictures, continuing to report to Lucia Ludovico, executive vice president of creative advertising and print. In her new position, Koster will work on the development and implementation of creative print advertising and ...
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Shooting Gallery postpones Fall Film Series
Financially troubled US independent producer/distributor The Shooting Gallery will not release any films through its pioneering film series until 2002. The company has confirmed that the fall series which would release six new titles into 17 major US markets through its partnership with exhibitor Loews Cineplex Entertainment and sponsorship partners ...
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The Fast And The Furious takes massive $41m
Universal Pictures continued a spectacular summer at the box office over the weekend with a massive $41m take for its high-speed racing car actioner The Fast And The Furious (pictured left). Playing at 2,628 sites, the film, which is directed by Rob Cohen (Daylight, Dragonheart), cost only $38m to produce ...
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Franchise re-sells overseas rights to five titles
Franchise Pictures says it regained various international distribution rights to five features -- Angel Eyes, Get Carter, The Pledge, 3000 Miles To Graceland and Viva Las Nowhere -- after Germany's Intertainment Licensing failed to make the required payments on those films.In a statement released onSunday, Franchise claimed it had ...
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German film prize goes to The State I Am In
Christian Petzold's The State I Am In received the top honour of a golden Lola - as the prize is now known - at the 52nd German Film Awards ceremony in Berlin. The award carries a premium of up to $440,000 (DM1m) to be invested in a future project.Oliver Hirschbiegel's ...
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UK film minister launches fund for English regions
Newly-appointed UK film minister Kim Howells will launch a $8.4m (£6m) National Lottery fund for regional investment in England later this month.Howells, who took over from Janet Anderson as minister for tourism, film and broadcasting after this month's UK general election, will unveil the fund in Cambridge on Wednesday June ...
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Alibrandi producer takes ABC role
Robyn Kershaw, the producer of last year's award-winning film Looking For Alibrandi, will take up the role of head of drama at Australian national broadcaster ABC from July 2. Changes to ABC staffing, programming and operations have been the source of some controversy over the past year, with managing director ...
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AOL Time Warner, Toshiba unite for digital push
AOL Time Warner and Japanese electronics giant Toshiba are to team up to develop and push digital cinema distribution. Business daily Asahi Shimbun quoted Richard Parsons, co-chief operating officer of AOL Time Warner, as saying that they plan to distribute Warner Bros pictures worldwide via satellite using Toshiba technology. Parsons ...
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Spain's Jove festival honours young directors
Spain's youth-oriented International Cinema Jove Film Festival closed its 16th edition this weekend with top awards going to Iranian feature film Sanam and Danish short 2 Juledag.The festival, which takes place in the Mediterranean coastal town of Valencia, awarded the Valencian Moon prize and $16,500 (PTS3 million) to director Rafa ...
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MEDIA programme gets new admin body for funding
D&S Media Services is to handle applications for MEDIA programme development and training support after winning the contract to run the Technical Assistance Office (TAO) from Brussels.D&S co-founder John Dick will oversee main operations from Brussels. The TAO will continue to have an office for television distribution support located in ...
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Germany's Splendid to buy back 10% of stock
Shareholders of Splendid Medien, the German rights trader-producer behind Traffic and The Gangs Of New York, have given the company's board of management the green light for a stock repurchase programme of 890,000 shares.The repurchase, amounting to 10% of Splendid's capital stock, is seen as part of Splendid's strategy of ...
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Divided We Fall wins UIP prize at Sydney festival
Czech Director Jan Hrebejk's Divided We Fall was voted the inaugural winner of the UIP-sponsored Prix UIP for best European film at the Sydney Film Festival.The prize, awarded in the contemporary world cinema section, carries a cash prize of $12,930 (Euros15,000) for producers Ondrej Trojan and Pavel Borovan.Audiences also voted ...
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Meyer quits Studio Hamburg's Letterbox
German producer Henrik Meyer is to step down as one of the managing directors of Studio Hamburg's production arm Letterbox Filmproduktion from July 1. Meyer will have an exclusive deal with the outfit as a freelance producer for feature films and TV movies, focusing on developing screenplays with US writers ...
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Russia rejects limits to foreign media ownership
The Russian parliament has rejected a new draft law that would have limited foreign ownership of Russian media. The move means Russian media legislation will continue to be amongst the most liberal in the world in terms of foreign ownership, with overseas entities holding controlling stakes in more than 300 ...
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English-language Seagull finds Spanish director
Spanish director Enrique Gabriel (Fading Memories) has signed on to direct ambitious English-language project The Seagull.The project, billed as a "Mediterranean adaptation" of the classic Chekhov play, is in development at Barcelona-based start-up TSP. World rights excluding Spain have pre-sold to LA-based Independent Artists (IA) as part of a five-year ...
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Bollywood blockbusters slug it out in India
Two controversial Bollywood period films have been breaking Indian box-office records, despite playing at the same time.Land Tax (Lagaan) and Mutiny - A Love Story (Gadar-Ek Prem Katha) have been playing to full houses since both films opened 10 days ago. Box office for Lagaan is expected to increase as ...