All Screen articles in 30 October 2000

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  • News

    Fortissimo capitalises on Asian cinema boom

    2000-10-30T18:46:00Z

    Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up a trio of new films from Thailand and China, the hottest producing countries in Asia. And a string of top sales shows that buyers are now lapping up the Asian resurgence.First addition is Fata La Jone, a romantic comedy from Thailand, by Film Bangkok, ...

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    Malick, Mandoki turn to Constantin

    2000-10-30T18:36:00Z

    New projects from Terence Malick and Luis Mandoki are being developed by Constantin Film, the production arm of Bernd Eichinger's Neue Constantin, through its joint venture with Propaganda Films. In addition the German outfit has purchased two books in the UK through its joint venture with Impact Pictures.Malick - who ...

  • News

    Film Consortium gets greenlight to continue

    2000-10-30T18:31:00Z

    UK National Lottery franchise The Film Consortium has secured lottery funding for another three years after it cleared a mid-term review by film super body the Film Council.Although some Council board members were highly critical of the consortium, the Council said that it accepted that the operation had performed below ...

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    Pandora, Warner show literary bent

    2000-10-30T18:23:00Z

    Pandora Pictures, the new Los Angeles incarnation of what was formerly Paris-based Pandora Cinema, has unveiled the first two films to come through its co-financing arrangement with Warner Bros. Both are literary adaptations that represent a significant step up in budgets for the company.The White Oleander, a $17m female ensemble ...

  • Reviews

    Lucky Numbers

    2000-10-30T18:14:00Z

    Dir: Nora Ephron. US. 2000. 105 mins. Prod co: Paramount Pictures, Mad Chance, Alphaville. US dist: Paramount. Int'l dist: UIP. Int'l sales (Europe and Africa): StudioCanal. Prods: Andrew Lazar, Jonathan D Krane, Sean Daniel, Nora Ephron. Exec prod: G Mac Brown. Scr: Adam Resnick. DoP: John Lindley. Prod des: ...

  • News

    Capitol adds two more from Zoetrope

    2000-10-30T17:51:00Z

    Capitol Films has added another two American Zoetrope titles to its sales slate from its output deal with VCL - Jennifer Lopez will star as Mexican icon Frida Khalo in an untitled biopic, while Robert Duvall will direct Assassination Tango.The UK-based operation also announced that Jeremy Davies, Gerard Depardieu, Billy ...

  • News

    Microsoft in talks for Sky Global stake

    2000-10-30T17:36:00Z

    Microsoft is in talks to take a small minority stake in Rupert Murdoch's global satellite platform Sky Global Networks, according to The Wall Street Journal.The deal would make Microsoft the second high-profile investor in Sky Global following John Malone's Liberty Media which signed up for a 4.76% stake last month ...

  • News

    LONDON & MIFED DEALS

    2000-10-30T14:03:00Z

    Pathe International's The Hole has emerged as one of the briskest selling UK titles of the market, where it was taken by Spain's Sogepaq, Germany's Tobis, Scandinavia's Sandrews and Italy's Nexo (buying outside its New Line output deal for the first time). Francois Ivernel, head of Pathe's UK operation Pathe ...

  • News

    Adriana Chiesa embarks on Indian Dream

    2000-10-30T12:56:00Z

    Italy's Adriana Chiesa Enterprises has acquired worldwide sales rights to Francesco Ranieri Martinotti's Branchie - An Indian Dream, starring local rock idol Gianluca Grignani.Based on Niccolo Ammaniti's novel, Branchie is a surreal tale about a young man who escapes to Delhi to build the city's biggest aquarium and undergoes spiritual ...

  • News

    Scanbox unveils slate despite takeover

    2000-10-30T12:50:00Z

    Sales operation, Scanbox International continues to demonstrate rude health despite the troubles of its parent Denmark's Scanbox Entertainment, once the largest independent distributor in the Nordic region and now in the process of being sold to Germany's VCL Film + Medien after suffering through three years of losses.Restructuring notwithstanding, the ...

  • News

    Hanway buyers go at it like rabbits

    2000-10-30T12:46:00Z

    UK-based sales outfit HanWay has sold Rabbit Proof Fence, its Phillip Noyce-directed, Australian-set period story featuring Kenneth Branagh, to a brace of European markets including France and Germany.Bac took the picture in France, while Odeon boarded for Germany. Sales completed in the run-up to London included Sandrews Metronome for Scandinavia. ...

  • News

    Gaga takes Gaudi Afternoon for Japan

    2000-10-30T12:42:00Z

    Japanese distributor Gaga Media has bought local rights to Gaudi Afternoon from Lolafilms UK, in a deal struck at the London market screenings last week.The Susan Seidelman directed film had previously been sold to Kinowelt for Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia, Switzerland and Vietnam; to Lolafilms for Spain; Smile for Scandinavia; ...

  • News

    Rex Media rides high with Larson

    2000-10-30T12:35:00Z

    Rex Media, which enjoys a multipicture relationship with Ray Stark's Rastar, is close to sealing a similar co-financing and sales arrangement with veteran TV producer Glen A Larson.The first picture to fall under the agreement will be a film version of long-running series Knightrider with original star David Hasselhof committed ...

  • News

    Kevin Williams Associates does the Mexican wave

    2000-10-30T12:33:00Z

    Spain's KWA has partnered with Mexico's Videocine and Warner Bros to represent titles from their joint production venture, Coyoacan Films, starting with local box office sensation The Second Night (La Segunda Noche).The romantic comedy grossed $5.2m in Mexico at a time when several other local productions have also been taking ...

  • News

    Amuse, CMC join Miramax client roster

    2000-10-30T11:06:00Z

    After a frantic week in London, Miramax International had closed most of its territorial package deals by the first day of play at MIFED. Two new clients - Japanese heavyweight Amuse Pictures and Taiwan's CMC - were among the regular buyers snatching the latest six-pack from worldwide distribution chief Rick ...

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    De Angelis makes Magnificent film move

    2000-10-30T11:00:00Z

    Alfonso Arau's $16m remake of The Magnificent Ambersons, a project which began life as a mini-series when it went into production this year, has now been transformed into a full-fledged feature film as part of a push into the theatrical business by its European backer, The De Angelis Group.Former RKO ...

  • News

    Nippon Herald takes Intermedia trio for Japan

    2000-10-29T16:54:00Z

    Nippon Herald Films has clinched a three picture deal with Intermedia that covers the Harrison Ford-starrer K:19 The Widowmaker, K:Pax starring Kevin Spacey and The Wedding Planner with Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey.The deal marks the first multi-picture sale for Intermedia since it unveiled its star-studded slate just ahead of ...

  • News

    Gordon's $30m Tree takes root at MGM, Winchester

    2000-10-29T16:27:00Z

    Chuck Gordon's Daybreak Productions has finally set up the first picture to fall under his independent financing structure now that MGM has committed to taking domestic rights to The Tree, a $30m comedy featuring hot rising star Johnny Knoxville.Winchester Films - which set up the international distribution structure for Gordon ...

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    Paramount Classics guns for Schroeder's Assassins

    2000-10-29T16:15:00Z

    StudioCanal has sold Barbet Schroeder's Our Lady Of The Assassins to Paramount Classics for the US. Paramount has also taken rights for Colombia, the country where the hard-hitting gay-themed film that takes place within a culture where human life is dirt cheap was secretly filmed. In addition, StudioCanal has struck ...

  • News

    Eddie Izzard plays Charlie Chaplin for Bogdanovich

    2000-10-29T16:09:00Z

    Ramping up its production activities, Lions Gate Films is to back The Cat's Meow, a drama set against the golden age of Hollywood that intriguingly casts Kirsten Dunst as Marion Davies and Eddie Izzard as Charlie Chaplin under the direction of maverick cinephile director Peter Bogdanovich.Lions Gate, which last week ...