All Screen articles in 4 February 2000
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Village Roadshow extends Warner co-financing pact
Australia's Village Roadshow Pictures Entertainment (VRPE) and Warner Bros have expanded their two year-old co-financing and co-production agreement which called for 20 pictures between 1998 and 2002, by adding 20 more films over the next five years (2000-2005). The deal extension means that VRPE will have invested more than $1 ...
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Sony takes domestic rights to Kitano's Brother
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Takeshi Kitano's gangster picture Brother for distribution in the US and Canada, producer Jeremy Thomas has confirmed.The $10m production is seen as the cult Japanese auteur's potentially most commercial outing to date and marks his first film to be shot in America. The story, which ...
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Sky Box Office, FilmFour move to digital platform
Satellite broadcaster BSkyB's Sky Box Office pay-per-view movie service and UK broadcaster Channel 4's subscription service FilmFour are going digital.Sky Box Office and the FilmFour service will move exclusively to Sky's digital satellite platform in April. In a statement, the companies cited 'the rapid rate of digital take-up by former ...
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Clooney, Wenders in frame for Golden Cameras
Actor George Clooney and German director Wim Wenders are among the names who will be honoured at the 25th Golden Camera Awards (Feb 8), on the eve of the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 9-20).Wenders' film The Million Dollar Hotel is opening the 50th Berlin Film Festival, and also featuring in ...
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Salvadoran cinemas ignore Stigmata ban
Cinema chains in El Salvador have ignored a government order forbidding them to screen supernatural thriller Stigmata, arguing that the ban violated their freedom of expression.The Salvadoran Public Entertainment Directorate had previously approved the film for audiences over 18, but decided to ban its exhibition after it became a local ...
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Primedia restructure separates content, delivery
South African media group Primedia has announced the completion of a major 18-month restructuring programme that included the creation of two new divisions to separate content and delivery.Ferdi Gazendam, a former director of South African television hire company Teljoy, will head Primedia's newly created Media division, which includes the Ster-Kinekor ...
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Animation rules the school during Brazilian summer
The local children's film Xuxa Wiggles (Xuxa Requebra) is stealing the show at the Brazilian box office despite intense competition from big-budget animations Toy Story 2 and Pokemon (pictured). Xuxa, known as 'Queen Of The Littlies', opened six weeks ago in time for the Christmas and school summer holidays ...
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Deutsche Telekom, Kirch plan Internet alliance
Deutsche Telekom and the KirchGroup are planning an alliance for cable television and the Internet, according to a report in Sueddeutsche Zeitung. The newspaper stated that Deutsche Telekom was considering an investment of more than DM500m ($253m) for a 51% majority stake in Kirch's research and software subsidiary Beta Research, ...
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Leconte lines up two more for Pathe with Cineb
Prolific French film-maker Patrice Leconte - who has been shooting films back to back lately - is currently working on two new and still untitled projects. Both are still at script stage - one with The Hairdresser's Husband screenwriter Claude Klotz and the other by La Fille Sur Le Pont's ...
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Onda increases capital; rebrands as Quiero
Shareholders for fledgling Spanish digital terrestrial television network Onda Digital last night approved an extraordinary increase in share capital worth pts11,000m ($68.75m) and the contracting of an external auditing for fiscal year 1999. In addition, the network has announced it will change its name to Quiero Television SA.Only the second ...
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Christmas Carol, High Times join MBP slate
Hot German finance house MBP has revealed further projects on its extensive development slate, being financed in a two-step process that involves an initial private placement followed by an IPO (Screendaily Feb 3).The aggressive financier is set to be German co-producer on Bruce Beresford's $7.6m (A$12m) Boswell, which has Richard ...
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Online Film Fest premieres Figgis' DV feature
Mike Figgis' experimental Time Code, the first digital video production to be fully financed and released by a Hollywood studio, will have its world premiere at the Yahoo! Internet Life Online Film Festival on March 22 in Los Angeles.A dark comedy thriller about Hollywood filmmaking, Time Code was backed by ...
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Pasolini's The Closer You Get opens US Comedy Fest
The Closer You Get, the eagerly anticipated Irish comedy produced by Full Monty producer Uberto Pasolini, will have its world premiere next Wednesday (Feb 9) as the opening night film of the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado.The festival, which is sponsored by Cinemax, the sister pay-movie channel to ...
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Nora premiere to open Dublin Film Festival
This year's Dublin Film Festival (April 6-16) will open with the world premiere of Nora, directed by Pat Murphy, about the early relationship between Nora Barnacle and novelist James Joyce.The screening will take place at UGC's city centre Virgin Cinema and the lead cast of Ewan McGregor, Susan Lynch and ...
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Universal Video restructures following UPI closure
The UK arm of Universal Pictures Video (UPV) has restructured its management team as a result of the closure of theatrical operation United Pictures International (UPI).Eddie Cunningham, previously UPV managing director, will become chairman of UPV, reporting directly to Peter Smith, president of Universal Pictures International. Cunningham replaces David Kosse, ...
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Waking The Dead
Dir: Keith Gordon. USA. 1999. 105 mins.Prod Co: Egg Pictures. Int'l sales: Universal. US dist: USA Films. Prods: Keith Gordon, Stuart Kleinman, Linda Reisman. Exec prod: Jodie Foster. Scr: Robert Dillon from the novel by Scott Spencer. DoP: Tom Richmond. Prod des: Zoe Sakellaropoulo. Ed: Jeff Wishengrad. Mus: tomandandy. Main ...
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Bloody Angels - 1732 Hotten Marerittet Har Et Post
Dir: Karin Julsrud. Norway. 1999. 100 mins.Prod Co: Norske Film. US dist: USA Films. Prod: Tom Remlov. Co-prod: Finn Gjerdrum. Scr: Kjetil Indegaard. DoP: Philip Ogaard. Prod des: Billy Johanson. Ed: Sophie Hesselberg. Mus: Kjetil Bjerkestrand, Magne Furuholmen. Main cast: Reidar Sorenson, Gaute Skjegstad, Trond Hovik, Laila Goody, Stig Henrik ...
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Kinowelt, IAC join expanding Berlin Film Market
Several established sales agents have confirmed their participation in the European Film Market (EFM) - to take place during the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 9-20) - for the first time this year.Among companies setting out stalls for the first time at Berlin are the UK's IAC Films and Television, Iran's ...
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Koepp wins top prize at Gerardmer Fantasy Fest
Stir of Echoes, the second film from director David Koepp following The Trigger Effect, has won the Grand Jury Prize at the 7th Gerardmer Fantasy Film Festival (Jan 26-30).The public prize went to Spanish film The Nameless (Los Sin Nombre), directed by Jaume Balaguero.Michael York chaired the jury, replacing William ...
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Hollywood to host second South African Exchange
Top Hollywood film executives will meet face-to-face with South African film and television professionals during a five-day production conference to take place in Los Angeles from February 28. Organised under the US/South Africa Exchange umbrella by Johannesburg-based film promotion company Timbull Rorich Neville (TRN), the talks are designed to build ...