All Screen articles in 4 May 2001
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Intertainment opens Window to life after Franchise
Intertainment, the rights trader which is locked in an ugly litigation tussle with Franchise Pictures, has set A Window To Atlantis as the first project to flow from its deal with Hollywood veteran Arnold Kopelson.The German group said on Friday (May 4) that it is now actively looking for new ...
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UK's Optimum adds Grosso's Peaches
Optimum Releasing has acquired UK theatrical rights to Peaches, a Stone Ridge Entertainment production written and directed by Nick Grosso.The acquisition follows Optimum's acquisition this week of three titles: comedy thriller Ginger Snaps; French-language film Le Secret and Suri Krishnamma's coming-of-age drama New Year's Day (Screendaily.com, May 2).Peaches is billed ...
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ONrequest signs pay-per-view deal with Buena Vista
Digital pay-per-view service ONrequest has signed a film licensing agreement with Buena Vista International Television.The deal gives ONrequest - a joint venture between ONdigital and SDN - digital terrestrial television pay per view rights to a package of films including Scream 3, The Cider House Rules, High Fidelity, Gone In ...
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Film Co adds pair to Cannes starting line-up
On the eve of Cannes, UK sales outfit The Film Company has added titles from Rob Green and John Luessenhop to its slate.Green's The Bunker stars Jason Flemyng, Jack Davenport and Christopher Fairbank and is a drama about trapped German soldiers during WWII. It is produced by Daniel Figuero for ...
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Aurum owner Asensio dies
Francisco Matosas has been named president of publishing and media giant Grupo Zeta following the April death of Zeta founder and chief Antonio Asensio.Asensio's son, Antonio Asensio Mosbah, will take over Matosas' position as vice president of the Group. Asensio, 53, passed away in Madrid on April 20.Zeta publishes a ...
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Germany's e-m-s adds East European rights
German DVD company e-m-s new media has acquired East European rights to 73 feature films as another step in the internationalisation of its activities.The package covers all stages of the rights chain from theatrical release through TV to home entertainment. The package of mainly US titles, which was acquired by ...
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Early Chabrol to be celebrated by Jove
The 16th annual Cinema Jove International Film Festival (June 16-23) will dedicate a retrospective to the early films of French director Claude Chabrol.The retrospective, set to cover the director's films from the late 1950s and early 1960s, is dubbed "The young' Chabrol." It follows last year's debut of a section ...
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Strike talks move into third post deadline meeting
Hollywood writers and producers today (4 May) began another day of negotiating, amid persistent rumours that a deal may not be far off. The negotiations have already stretched two full days past the official expiry date of the writer's previous contract with producers. Reports say that the situation still remains ...
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Doing the Cannes-Cannes
Everything from Moulin Rouge to the British philistines appear in this week's edition of Screen International (May 4-10), the leading authority on the international film business:ON THE GRAPEVINECANNES BUZZ Screen correspondents search from Pusan to Buenos Aires for the films that are tipped to be favourites in the art-houses around ...
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Producers to be feted by EFP at Cannes
Fu Works' San Fu Maltha, X-Filme creative pool's Maria Koepf and Renegade Films' Ildiko Kemeny are among 17 up-and-coming producers from 16 European countries who have been selected by members of the pan-European promotional initiative European Film Promotion (EFP) for "Producers On The Move" at the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival ...
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Atkinson to become Scottish scout for Ecosse
Ginnie Atkinson is to join Ecosse Films as a consultant producer with aremit to establish an active Scottish presence for the London-basedproduction company. Working from Edinburgh, she will serve as a talentscout for the company."Basically, I am their 'Man in Havana', " she said. "They want apresence in Scotland ...
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Fortissimo strike early sales for Taiwanese pair
Indie distribution powerhouse Fortissimo yesterday scored a trio of sales on each of its two Cannes competition films from Taiwan, Millennium Mambo and What Time Is it There'Hou Hsiao-hsien's Mambo was sold to Les Films de l'Elysees for Benelux, Prooptiki for Creece and to Classic Films for Italy, the latter ...
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France's ARP first to sign up for Chelsea Walls
Ethan Hawke's Chelsea Walls, a star-studded digital video production that receives its world premiere in the Directors' Fortnight section of this year's Cannes Film Festival this year, has been acquired for France by ARP Selection. It is the first territory to be sold on the film outside North America where ...
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Vinterberg completes All About Love financing
Months of controversy ended early this week Thomas Vinterberg's It's All About Love completed its financing. The Danish Film Institute (DFI) reversed an earlier decision and decided to back it with $600,000 (DKR5m) and Nordic Film & TV Fund raised its support by $110,000 (NKR1m) completing the $10.2m (DKR85m) budget. ...
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Universal Studios launches short films initiative
Three British film critics were today (May 3)given a taste of their own medicine. Kim Newman, Nick Bradshaw and Jessica Mellor were each given a producer, a film crew and just 24 hours to come up with a short film lasting not more than 100 seconds.The stunt marked the launch ...
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Hart Sharp pacts with UK's FilmFour
UK film giant FilmFour and New York-based production outfit Hart Sharp Entertainment have formed a co-production alliance to produce a slate of specialised US features, expanding FilmFour's US production ambitions and cementing the international reputation of Hart Sharp whose credits includeBoys Don't Cry and You Can Count On Me.Under the ...
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Writers and producers talks into second extra day
Hollywood writers and producers continued talking throughout Wednesday (2 May), amid a news blackout from both negotiating teams.The Writer's Guild of America's contract with producers had been due to expire at 12.01am on 2 May Los Angeles Time (8.01am GMT). The continuation of the talks follows a marathon 17 hour ...
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Boyle unveils $15m sci-fi picture for DNA
Director Danny Boyle is to re-team with Alex Garland, writer of the cult book which spawned The Beach, for British sci-fi film 28 Days Later.Boyle is to start shooting in August on the $15m project for DNA Films, the UK National Lottery franchise which his regular producer Andrew Macdonald heads ...
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UK actors next to threaten strike
UK performers union Equity has given six months notice on its cinema film agreement with UK the Producers Alliance for Cinema & Television (PACT), in a move which could lead to a UK actors' strike. Like the potential US actors strike, the dispute centres on residual payments to actors. Equity ...
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Venice festival launches second competition
In a ground-breaking restructuring of the oldest international film event, Venice film festival chief Alberto Barbera has announced that he will establish two official competition sections at the next edition of the festival. The two Lion awards will carry equal weight."The new structure is an attempt for the festival to ...