All Screen articles in 6 August 2000
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Fox Searchlight buys Al Pacino's Chinese Coffee
Fox Searchlight Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Al Pacino's second directorial effort Chinese Coffee which stars Pacino, Jerry Orbach, Susan Floyd and Ellen McElduff. The company also had worldwide rights to Pacino's Looking For Richard - a semi-documentary study of Shakespeare's Richard III - which grossed $1.4m in 1996/7.The ...
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Hollow Man - a clear smash at US box office
As expected, Columbia Pictures' adult sci-fi thriller Hollow Man topped the box office chart in North America over the weekend - probably one of the most competitive of the summer so far. Directed by Paul Verhoeven, the R-rated film took an estimated $26.8m, which if the figure holds, would mark ...
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Jerome Le Grand gets vp stripes at BVI and BVHEI
Jerome Le Grand has been promoted from executive director of finance and planning for Buena Vista International (BVI) to the newly created position of vice president, finance and planning, for BVI and Buena Vista Home Entertainment International (BVHEI).Reporting directly to Mark Zoradi, president of BVI and BVHEI, and Lawrence Kaplan, ...
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Artisan buys Hegedus/Pennebaker doc Startup.com
Artisan Entertainment has acquired Startup.com, the new documentary from veteran film-makers Chris Hegedus (The War Room, Moon Over Broadway) and DA Pennebaker (The War Room, Don't Look Back, Monterey Pop) in collaboration with first-timer Jehane Nouhaim. The film follows the development, growth and triumphs of an internet startup - govWorks.com, ...
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Merchant Ivory boards Babenco's Independent People
Merchant Ivory Productions (MIP) has joined with Iceland's Pegasus Pictures to co-produce an adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning novel Independent People which Hector Babenco will direct from a script by long-time MIP collaborator Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.Icelandic producer Snorri Thorisson beat off stiff competition, both local and international, to option rights to ...
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Oz distribs choose weapons for exhibitor show
UIP has chosen to screen Billy Elliot for the hundreds of exhibitors who have booked to go to the annual Australian International Movie Convention, scheduled for August 8-12 in Queensland. Columbia TriStar will be showing off Hollow Man and 20th Century Fox has chosen What Lies Beneath. The two films ...
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Sharman to take Murdoch role at BSkyB
Mark Sharman is to effectively replace Elisabeth Murdoch at UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB as director of broadcasting and production.BSkyB confirmed that the head of broadcasting operations would take the post, giving him ultimate responsibility for all production including features. James Baker will oversee features arm Sky Pictures, which Will Turner ...
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Fox to launch Norwegian distribution arm
20th Century Fox is continuing its expansion in Scandinavia with the launch of a Norwegian distribution arm, at the same time ending a long-term output agreement with local independent distributor KF.The move follows Fox's launch of a joint distribution venture with Scandinavian distributor SF in Finland earlier this year (Screendaily, ...
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Klein boards Argentine debut
Nicholas Klein, who co-wrote and produced Wim Wenders' The Million Dollar Hotel and The End Of Violence, is set to co-produce the feature debut of Argentine film-maker Alejandro Chomski. Chomski, who lived in Los Angeles for four years, has directed nine shorts, three of which were acquired by internet movie ...
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Media Most denies sale to gas giant Gazprom
Russia's Media Most has denied reports that it is in talks to sell out to key shareholder, state-owned gas monopoly Gazprom.Local media has speculated that Russian president Vladimir Putin is putting pressure on the company to sell Gazprom a bigger stake, in lieu of unpaid debt, following the government's decision ...
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Montreal's Telescene faces cash crunch
Montreal-based film and television producer Telescene Film Group is running out of cash credit and may be unable to finance its autumn television production slate. The company has been seeking a backer - it says it needs $24m to meet its obligations - so far without luck. Now, having exhausted ...
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Australia's Ten in talks for New Zealand buy
Australia's Ten Network is reportedly in talks with Canadian parent company CanWest Global Communications about buying CanWest's two New Zealand television stations TV3 and TV4, and its NZ radio assets.The deal looks increasingly likely because it would help CanWest reduce debt following its recent purchase of the publishing assets of ...
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Star to launch classic movies channel in India
Star TV plans to launch a classic Hindi film channel, Star Gold, in India on August 15.The News Corp-owned broadcaster has reportedly acquired a library of around 500 Hindi films for the launch which kicks off with Indian classic Mugul E Azam, described as a Hindi Gone With The Wind. ...
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Cubbyhouse clocks up sales; adds Leonard to cast
Beyond Films has sold Murray Fahey's Australian thriller Cubbyhouse, which goes into production on August 7, to a raft of Asian distributors including Mongkol Cinema in Thailand and Global Film Distributors in India.The film has also gone to Speeding Video Distribution in Malaysia, Sunny Films in Singapore and World Television ...
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Space Cowboys
Dir: Clint Eastwood. US. 2000. 129 mins.Prod co: Malpaso, Mad Chance Productions, Warner Bros, Village Roadshow Pictures/Clipsal Films. Worldwide dist: Warner Bros/Village Roadshow. Exec prod: Tom Rooker. Prod: Clint Eastwood, Andrew Lazar. Scr: Ken Kaufman, Howard Klausner. DoP: Jack N Green. Prod des: Henry Bumstead. Ed: Joel Cox. Mus: Lennie ...
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Clark, Van der Werff, Bachmann upped at CTFDI
In the wake of Duncan Clark's departure from Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), parent company Sony Pictures has promoted three senior executives in CTFDI's marketing department.Nigel Clark, formerly senior vice president of international marketing, has been promoted to executive vice president, international marketing. Susan van der Werff, formerly vice ...
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MGM snaps up package of Allen titles
Bolstering its position in the library film sector, MGM has bought a package of 11 Woody Allen films. The titles were those made between 1982 and 1992 under the studio's production arrangement with Orion Pictures and include A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Broadway Danny Rose, Purple Rose Of Cairo, Radio ...
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Endemol sells stake in Spanish internet portal
Dutch production outfit Endemol Entertainment is to sell its 25% stake in Spanish-language internet portal Telepolis.com to one of the company's major shareholders.In a statement, the company said that following its acquisition by Spanish telecoms and multimedia giant Telefonica, the "synergy benefits of a stake in a company like Telepolis ...
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Austar expands offering with Two Way TV
Australian pay-TV operator Austar is adding a local version of popular interactive UK TV channel Two Way TV to its line-up starting from October.However, the service will initially be one-way as it will not allow users in different locations to compete with each other until there is improvements to Austar's ...
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Gabriel rises to commercial challenge
Hong Kong-produced films racked up $61m (HK$475.98m) at the local box office in 2001, according to industry body, the Motion Picture Industry Association (MPIA), an impressive 24% increase on the previous year. The growth comes despite a decrease in the number of films screened. 133 locally produced films were released ...