All Screen articles in 5 January 2001
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AOL, Time Warner merger faces regulatory delay
AOL and Time Warner stocks slipped over the holiday period as investors tried to limit tax losses and the two would-be partners were left waiting for approval for their mega-merger from US regulators.The Federal Communications Commission, the final regulatory hurdle to creating the world's biggest entertainment concern, failed to give ...
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UIP acquires Spanish Big Brother feature
International distribution giant UIP has picked up Spanish theatrical rights to The Big Martian (El Gran Marciano), a hoax digital feature starring the (unwitting) cast of the Spanish version of Big Brother.UIP acquired the rights from start-up production outfit Zebra Produccciones, which shot Martian almost entirely without the knowledge of ...
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Dogme, Jan Troell bookend Gothenburg festival
Dogme film When The Nights Get Longer will open Scandinavia's largest film event, the Gothenburg International Film Festival, while Jan Troell's As White As Snow closes proceedings as a world premiere.When The Nights is a tragicomedy about the hidden conflicts at a family's Christmas reunion in a mountain cabin. The ...
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Splendid balks at acquiring further IEG shares
Germany's Splendid Medien has decided not to exercise an option to acquire further shares in its US production subsidiary IEG.Taking up the option on 2% of IEG's stock would have made the German concern majority shareholder with a 51% stake. In an adhoc statement to Frankfurt's Neuer Markt, Splendid said ...
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Sales surge for Sony's game console-cum-DVD player
Sony's game console-cum-DVD player PlayStation 2 has weathered a bumpy start to rack up domestic shipments of four million by the end of 2000, company sources have revealed.Worldwide sales of the console are expected to pass the 11 million mark by the end of March, one year after its debut. ...
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Planeta takes Triumph, Legend Of Zu
Planeta 2010, the acquisitive media division of Spanish publishing giant Planeta, has picked up all local rights on The Triumph Of Love and The Legend Of Zu.Triumph, a romantic comedy starring Mira Sorvino and Ben Kingsley, is currently shooting in Tuscany under director Clair Peploe. Peploe co-wrote the script with ...
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Arthur Miller teams with Amos Gitai
Celebrated American playwright Arthur Miller and Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai are collaborating on an adaptation of Miller's story, Homely Girl.Along with co-writing the script, Miller is to appear in the picture, titled Plain Jane, alongside Samantha Morton, Danny Huston and Thomas Jane. Originally set in New York, Gitai and Miller ...
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Suzhou River wins Tokyo's first FILMeX festival
The first Tokyo FILMeX festival, launched as an art-house alternative to the more mainstream Tokyo International Film Festival, awarded its grand prize to Lou Ye's Suzhou River.Film-makers who lent their support to the festival included jury chairman Arturo Ripstein and jury members Bela Tarr and Jafar Panahi. A special ...
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Japan's Star, Sky to merge
A powerhouse film broadcaster is set to emerge in Japan following the merger of Star Channel, Japan's largest all-movie cable and satellite service, and Sony and News Corp's Sky Movies.The merged company will retain the name Star Channel and source films from six Hollywood majors. The service will have a ...
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2000 domestic box office breaks all-time record
The North American box office reached a record $7.45bn in 2000, up 2% from last year's $7.31bn, according to early estimates from box office data organisation ACNielsen EDI which is scheduled to reveal its final figures tomorrow.The record had looked unlikely earlier in the year after a disappointing summer (down ...
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Cast Away tops $109m after only 11 days
Tom Hanks and Mel Gibson demonstrated their huge star power over the Christmas and New Year holiday weekends, notching up megahits in the form of Cast Away and What Women Want respectively. Accompanied by excellent reviews from most North American critics, Cast Away opened with a powerhouse $39.9m opening over ...
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Artisan, Marvel cast Ray Park as Iron Fist
Artisan Entertainment has signed Ray Park, who played Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace and Toad in X-Men, to play Iron Fist in its screen version of the Marvel Comics character. John Turman, whose credits include Buck Rogers In The 25th Century and The Incredible ...
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Claire Danes signs to Vinterberg's sci-fi romance
Claire Danes has been cast in Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's English-language fantastical romance, It's All About Love. Danes is to play the world famous ice skater Elena in the story about two lovers and their attempts to save their floundering relationship in a near-future world on the brink of spiritual ...
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Industry figures get British New Year Honours
Film industry figures receiving recognition in the British New Year Honours List include veteran actors Tom Courtenay, who receives a knighthood, and Paul Scofield, best known for his Shakespearean work, who becomes a Companion Of Honour.Producer William Kenwright, whose credits include Don't Go Breaking My Heart, receives a CBE, while ...
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French films slide to less than 30% market share
French cinema's national pride took a dent last year as local films' box office share dipped under the symbolic 30% mark.The fall from 1999's market share of 32.4% came despite a buoyant market. The French box-office rang up 163m tickets, the highest cinema attendance in ten years with the exception ...
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German shares slashed, Intertainment battered
German film stocks continued to fall despite stockmarket bouyancy over the recent holiday period as four companies lost at least a quarter of their value in the three weeks after December 15.Intertainment was hardest hit, being stripped of almost two-thirds of its value as it waged a public war with ...
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World-wide line-up set for Berlin's Panorama
Films from Sweden, Germany, the UK, Thailand, Korea, Argentina and Switzerland are among the first titles understood to have been selected for the Panorama section of February's Berlin International Film Festival.Family Secrets, a drama directed by Kjell-Ake Andersson, is expected to represent Sweden in the section. Ab Svensk Filmindustri is ...
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BVI tops 2000 international league with $1.307bn
Buena Vista International (BVI) grossed $1.307bn in 2000, marking it out as the top performing international distribution company of the year. Buena Vista was also the number one performing distributor in North America with a total of $1.1bn for the year.It is the sixth consecutive year that BVI has crossed ...
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Robino joins MGM as s'r vp, worldwide promotions
Mary Goss Robino has been named senior vice president, worldwide promotions, at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) after ten years at New Line Cinema. Reporting to Gerry Rich, president of worldwide theatrical marketing for MGM, she will be responsible for developing creative marketing and promotional partnerships and tie-ins related to all the company's ...
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Sundance adds Campers, Stranger to fest lineup
The Sundance Film Festival has announced two surprise screenings which will be added to the 2001 lineup - Daniel Waters' Happy Campers and Cheryl Dunye's Stranger Inside.Happy Campers, financed and distributed worldwide by New Line Cinema, is the directorial debut of Waters. It stars Brad Renfro, Dominique Swain, James King, ...