All Screen articles in 3 June 2001
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MTV Awards: Sean Patrick Thomas, Zhang Ziyi shine
Prizes were widely shared out at the MTV Movie Awards this weekend. Mission: Impossible 2, Charlie's Angels and Sean Patrick Thomas in Save The Last Dance each won two awards. Heavyweight, Gladiator came away with only one, the top prize as best film.The ceremony which took place at the Shrine ...
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Stockmarket mulls Kinowelt insider dealing probe
The German securities regulator said on Friday it would decide next week whether to start a formal insider trading probe into film rights dealer Kinowelt Medien ."Our analysis has been positive. We have noted peculiarities in advance of the publication of Ad-Hoc-News", Sabine Reimer, a spokeswoman for the regulator, said. ...
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German tax funds give Paramount another $1.12bn
Paramount Pictures is tapping into another two private German film funds to raise $1.25bn for more of its feature line-up. Germany's giant Deutsche Bank has finally jumped on the private film fund bandwagon with its own product called "Motion Picture Production GmbH & Co. Erste KG" (MPP). It has been ...
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Intertainment results pounded by Franchise row
Business at Neuer Markt-listed German rights trader Intertainment has been practically put on hold as a result of its bitter legal wrangle with Elie Samaha's Franchise Pictures.Announcing first quarter results for this year, Intertainment chief Ruediger "Barry" Baeres reported that his company had posted sales of only Euros4.88m - compared ...
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Visible Secret spooks HK railway, scares up big BO
Hong Kong major Media Asia has been forced to cut a key scene from its new film Visible Secret. But the company looks like ending up with the last laugh.In a last minute move suburban rail operator MTR asked Media Asia to cut a scene in which a character dressed ...
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Start-up Nighlight options Angel Of Zin
Start-up UK production venture Nightlight Pictures has optioned the film rights to Clifford Irving's novel about a murder investigation in a WW2 concentration camp, The Angel Of Zin.Set in 1943 in Berlin and occupied Poland, the murder mystery tells the story an SS Captain named Paul Bach who is sent ...
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UK's Momentum picks up No Man's Land, Strangers
Momentum Pictures, Alliance Atlantis' UK distribution-production arm, has acquired all UK rights to Danis Tanovic's Cannes competition film, No Man's Land.In a separate move Momentum announced that it had acquired all UK rights to The Business Of Strangers, a drama about corporate power games that is sold by Beyond Films ...
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Ireland drops 'Censor' and changes certificates
Coinciding with the release today of Pearl Harbor, Irish Film Censor Sheamus Smith has issued two new audience classifications for films released in Ireland - PG12 and PG15. Pearl Harbor is the first film to be certified PG12, suitable for an audience of twelve years and older, and for those ...
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Human Nature
Directed by Michel Gondry. US-France. 96 mins."Civilization and Its Discontents," Freud's well-known treatise about the eternal conflict between biology and sociology, could have served as the subtitle for the droll, often clever Human Nature, Charlie Kaufman's follow-up script to his celebrated Oscar-nominated film, Being John Malkovich. As staged by ...
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DreamWorks announces theatrical Shrek sequel
DreamWorks SKG has announced a theatrical sequel to Shrek, its blockbusting animated movie which has already grossed in excess of $110m after just two weeks on release in North America.Writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, who penned the film, have been hired to write the sequel, it was announced in ...
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AMC says it will close 249 more US screens in 2001
Publicly traded US exhibitor AMC Entertainment is to close 249 screens this year in addition to the 66 it has already said it will close. The closures come the day after AMC reported a $63.6m net loss for the fourth quarter ending March 29 on revenue of some $290m.Losses in ...
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Hedwig to open Outfest, All Over The Guy to close
Hedwig And The Angry Inch, the New Line Cinema-backed rock opera musical which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, will open this year's Los Angeles Gay And Lesbian Film Festival aka Outfest on July 12.The film, which also screened at the Berlin Film Festival, will be released in the US ...
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New Line ties up Burger King for Lord Of The Rings
New Line Cinema has signed a massive promotional agreement with Burger King to support the Dec 19 worldwide openings of The Fellowship Of The Ring, the first in its keenly awaited Lord Of The Rings trilogy.The deal is the single largest promotional arrangement New Line has ever reached with a ...
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PCG exits Loews Cineplex bailout as closures mount
One of three buyers involved in the $850m Loews Cineplex Entertainment distress sale is backing out but the remaining two partners say the bailout plan will go ahead regardless for the exhibition giant.Pacific Capital Group revealed on Thursday that it has decided to withdraw from the bankruptcy reorganization plan proposed ...
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Filmax closes more Cannes slate deals
Spanish mini-studio Filmax has announced a string of deals that it closed at Cannes, including three films to Japan's Gaga and a package of titles to all Latin American pay-TV platform LAPTV. Two titles included in both deals were Carlos Saura's forthcoming Bunuel And King Salomon's Table (Bunuel Y La ...
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Shaw Bros expands Movie City studio plans
Plans for a new film studio complex in Hong Kong have taken an expansive turn.Mona Fong, managing director of Shaw Brothers, which owns 35% of the planned "Movie City," will increase from 300,000 sq ft to 450,000 sq ft with a grant for extra land expected to come from the ...
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T Joy opens second e-cinema complex in Japan
T Joy, a member of the Toei Group, is to open its second all digital multiplex cinema next month in Niigata, northern Japan.The eight-screen complex with a 1,600 seat capacity has cost $6.7m (Y800m) and will open on July 13 in. The company opened its first multiplex of this type, ...
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Mummy still overseas king, but pretenders in sight
The Mummy Returns dominated the international box office for a second week running, claiming the top position in yet another major territory, France.The action comedy secured with 756,465 admissions (equivalent to $4.5m) in the market. The film, which is distributed in most territories by United International Pictures (UIP) now reigns ...
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Brotherhood Of The Wolf opens Fantasy Filmfest
Christophe Gans' Brotherhood Of The Wolf (Le Pacte Des Loups) will open this year's Fantasy Filmfest.The peripatetic event begins its tour of Germany in Munich on 18 July and then travels to Stuttgart (25 July - 1 August), Cologne and Frankfurt (1 - 8 August) and Hamburg and Berlin (8 ...
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Ridley Scott heads Tout Ecran short film jury
Ridley Scott will head the jury for an internet shorts competition being launched for the first time this year by Switzerland's Cinema Tout Ecran Film and Television Festival, the event has announced.The Geneva event, which runs October 22-28, will dedicate its annual showcase of TV work from leading film-makers to ...