All Screen articles in 4 September 2000
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Fine Line, Overseas buy Before Night Falls
Fine Line Features has bought North American rights and Overseas FilmGroup has taken international rights to Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls, which screened to great acclaim at the Venice Film Festival this weekend. The company, which competed with Sony Pictures Classics for the film, paid just north of $1m for ...
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Kieft, Mediaport set to open first Cinestar 'plex
German exhibitor Kieft & Kieft Filmtheater will open its first multiplex through the Cinestar joint venture, created with Italy's Mediaport and property developer Dora, in Udine, Italy on September 14. Kieft and Mediaport, which is part-owned by state-backed Italian producer-distributor Istituto Luce, launched the joint venture, which aims to build ...
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Venice: Unimpressed under the umbrellas
The violent, shocking or merely technically advanced have become such staples of top festival line-ups that it has become difficult to impress jaded critics and only slightly less cynical audiences.So it is that Venice has awaited with bated breath a selection of films by top names of today - and ...
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Warner Bros acquires French rights to La Verite
Warner Bros France has picked up French-speaking rights to highly-anticipated local comedy La Verite Si Je Mens 2 - La Grande Distribution, the sequel to the 1997 hit title, through its French offshoot PECF (Production et Edition Cinematographique Francaise).La Verite Si Je Mens - directed by Thomas Gilou and produced ...
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Kirch-backed regional channel refused licence
In an unprecedented move, German media authority Landesanstalt fur Rundfunk Nordrhein-Westfalen (LfR) has refused a licence to proposed German cable channel TV.NRW 1.LfR spokesperson Peter Widlock said the authority was concerned about the channel's budget, which was cut from $23-46m (DM50-100m) to $11.5m (DM25m) one day before its decision. Another ...
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Branagh joins Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence
Kenneth Branagh has been cast as AO Neville - the controversial chief protector of aborigines in Western Australia in the 1930s - in Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence.The film, which starts shooting on September 18, is about the courageous escape of three Aboriginal girls after they are forcibly removed from their ...
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Dr. T And The Women
Dir: Robert Altman. US. 2000. 120 mins.Prod co: Sandcastle 5. Int'l sales: Initial Entertainment Group (1) 310 315 1722. Prod: Robert Altman, James McLindon. Scr: Anne Rapp. DoP: Jan Kiesser. Prod des: Stephen Altman. Editor: Geraldine Peroni. Music: Lyle Lovett. Main cast: Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, ...
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Quills
Dir: Philip Kaufman. US. 2000. 120 mins.Prod cos: Industry Entertainment. US dist: Fox Searchlight. Int'l dist: 20th Century Fox. Prods: Nick Wechsler, Peter Kaufman, Julia Chasman. Scr: Doug Wright, from his own play. DoP: Roger Stoffers. Prod des: Martin Childs. Ed: Peter Boyle. Mus: Stephen Warbeck. Main cast: Geoffrey Rush, ...
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UIP and EFA expand short film co-operation
The European Film Academy (EFA) and international distributor United International Pictures (UIP) are to extend their co-operation in supporting short films.Having last year sponsored the EFA Short Film Award, the Prix UIP at Venice - which went to Italian director Enrico Verra for Benvenuto In San Salvario - UIP now ...
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Media Most benefits from Ostankino tragedy
The tragic fire at Moscow's Ostankino Television tower that claimed four lives last week and wiped out nearly all broadcasting in the city has proved a windfall for Media Most Group's satellite service NTV Plus.The Media Most Group, which has been beset by financial problems over the past year, reported ...
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Indian state mulls tax exemption for multiplexes
The government of the Indian state of Maharashtra is considering a proposal to grant tax exemption to proposed multiplex projects in order to encourage investment in the region’s cinema sector.Maharashtra currently has about 1,300 cinema halls but few are equipped with high-tech projection and sound systems. Modi Entertainment, Zee Telefilms ...
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B4U launches entertainment channel in India
International Hindi movie channel B4U launched a free-to-air entertainment channel - B4U Digital Entertainment Channel - in India on September 3. The company, jointly owned by UK-based Kishore Lulla of Eros Entertainment, Laxmi Mittal of the Ispat Group and Indian film producer and distributor Bharat Shah, also plans to launch ...
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Key chief mimics Factory with artists' collective
Kermit Smith, head of Italian distributor Key Films, is creating an artists' collective, called Happy Together, which plans to promote, produce and distribute independent Italian films."I would like it be a creative forum similar to Andy Warhol's Factory in the 1970s," Smith said, referring to the US artist's famed gathering ...
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Merger talks between Ifilm, Pop.com fizzle out
On-line film company iFilm.com and long-delayed entertainment web-site Pop.com have reportedly ended their merger talks which were first revealed last week."As you know, we have been in discussions with Pop.com. These discussions have ended and have not resulted in a transaction," said Ifilm CEO Kevin Wendle in an internal e-mail ...
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Bring It On continues at the top of US box office
The Labor Day weekend was another disapppointing one at the North American box office. Estimated figures for the whole four days (Fri-Mon) saw a drop of some 13.5% on the same weekend last year when The Sixth Sense was still atop the charts. It is indicative of the miserable August ...
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Regent International names Gene George president
Gene George has been named president of Regent International, the international division of LA-based independent producer/distributor/exhibitor Regent Entertainment. George, a veteran on the international scene who was most recently president of NewStar Worldwide and before that executive vice president of Arista Films, will oversee all international sales and distribution operations ...
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Sony Classics buys domestic rights to Pollock
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) is understood to have bought US rights to Pollock, the directoral debut of Ed Harris which played in Cinema of the Present this week at the Venice Film Festival and will also play at next week's Toronto Film Festival.Alliance Atlantis Pictures International last week acquired all ...
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Korean screen quota campaign hits Venice
Having two years ago shaved their heads in protest, Korean activists belonging to the Coalition for Cultural Diversity In Moving Images (CDMI) are now seeking more pragmatic means of combating Hollywood domination of their local film industry. CDMI general director Gi-Hwan Yang used the Venice film festival as a high ...
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Venice to introduce TV festival
Venice will hold its first International Television Festival in March 2002, an event that will be helmed by former Munich festival chief Marlene Sternbaum and Veneziafiere president Gabriele Zanetto.The new television festival will be officially unveiled on September 8 at the Venice film festival (Aug 30- Sept 9) by Venice ...
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S.O.S. strikes twice at Norwegian Amandas
Thomas Robsahm's second Italian-language feature S.O.S. took home the Amanda Award for best Norwegian film at this year's Haugesund festival. Kjersti Holmen won best actress for both S.O.S and Sofie's World.Robsahm, who has been working for national broadcaster NRK since 1992, also wrote and produced the film for his own ...