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All Screen articles in 7 November 2000
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Trust picks up Selby's latest cult adaptation
Zentropa's international sales arm, Trust Film Sales, has picked up worldwide rights excluding Scandinavia to Fear The X, the English-language debut from Danish writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn.The thriller shoots in the US and Rio from February 2001 on a $6.5m budget. The script is written by Winding Refn and cult ...
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Keitel, Warren head up Mai's US debut
Harvey Keitel and Leslie Ann Warren head the cast of Snatch, the first film to be produced in the US by Denmark's Thomas Mai.The $4m satirical comedy is set to shoot in January, under the direction of Cecilia Miniucchi, director of Selena Remembered and Nitsch 98. The film is a ...
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Hilltop seals $50m Korean financing pact
LA-based Hilltop Entertainment and Korea's Media Film International (MFI) have sealed a $50m production, financing and distribution deal to deliver five action films with an average budget of $10m per picture. The two companies will jointly finance the films through direct investment and from a previously agreed financing facility arranged ...
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Orfeo adds Samsara to cross-cultural slate
Samsara - a Himalayan-set story of one man's struggle to find spiritual and sexual freedom that was written and directed by Pan Nalin, a Paris-based Indian director - is among several cross-cultural projects being sold by MIFED debutant Orfeo, the Cologne-based outfit formed earlier this year as a joint venture ...
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Alan Parker set to direct for Intermedia
Alan Parker appears to be close to a deal to direct the drama The Life Of David Gale for Intermedia Films.Written by Charles Randolph, the project tells the story of a professor who advocated banning capitol punishment who is falsely accused of murdering a fellow activist and is put on ...
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Libra balances Esposito with Glasser
Anthony Esposito, president of Leading Pictures Inc, and independent producer Richard Glasser have formed a production/distribution outfit called Libra Entertainment which has a first-look production deal with David Glasser's Cutting Edge Entertainment. Richard Glasser is also director of acquisitions at Cutting Edge.Libra will concentrate on projects with Canadian content that ...
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Film Export to shoot Aranda historical comedy
Italy's Film Export Group has announced that it is about to start shooting a new Spanish co-production entitled Locura De Amor and directed by Vicente Aranda.Based on a true story, the $5m historical comedy recounts the trials and tribulations of a young Spanish royal couple in the 15th century. Maria ...
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Dinosaur takes top spot in second week
Dinosaur stomped into the number one spot in the UK's box office chart as it increased its second weekend gross by 8% to take $3.1m (£2.2m) from 495 sites. Coinciding with the schools' half-term break, the Disney picture has grossed an impressive $14.8m (£10.2m) after ten days.Supernatural thriller What Lies ...
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The Legend Of Bagger Vance
Dir: Robert Redford. US. 2000. 119 mins.Prod cos: Allied Filmmakers, Wildwood Enterprises. US dist: DreamWorks SKG. Int'l dist: 20th Century Fox. Prods: Robert Redford, Jake Eberts, Michael Nazik. Exec prod: Karen Tenkhoff. Scr: Jeremy Leven, from the novel Gates Of Fire by Steven Pressfield. DoP: Michael Ballhaus. Prod des: Stuart ...
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EXECUTIVE SUITE - Kirk D'Amico
The founder of Myriad Pictures tells Patrick Frater why bigger is better in the changing film sales sector.Your company prides itself on selling films from a myriad of genres. What are you looking for when you pick up a title'Although I hate to make comparisons with other companies, we are ...
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Zentropa adds Italians to financing web
Denmark's Zentropa has signed a deal with Italy's Istituto Luce and Rome-based producer Leo Pescarolo of Imago Film to co-develop, finance and distribute a package of five titles including Lars Von Trier's next two films and three English-language films by other Danish directors.Zentropa is also in talks with Fine Line ...
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Kinowelt still in the hunt for films; targets RCV
Rainer Koelmel, co-chief of Kinowelt, has insisted that his expansion-minded German outfit is in good financial health and still on the acquisitions trail, for both product and companies - contradicting persistent talk around the MIFED halls that his company is facing a liquidity crunch. Koelmel said that despite the plunging ...
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Summit's Femme Fatale seduces buyers
Summit Entertainment has sealed a score of high-profile sales deals on its new titles including Brian DePalma-directed thriller Femme Fatale which will shoot in Paris no later than Feb 15.Nippon Herald, which has been noticeably aggressive in its acquisitions strategy at London and MIFED, perhaps in anticipation of its planned ...
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Permut signs Swank, sets DreamWorks remake
Hollywood producer David Permut has signed Oscar winner Hilary Swank to star opposite Richard Gere in Julia Pastrana, a romantic epic to which director Taylor Hackford has finally committed as his next film after Proof Of Life.Both this film and another, Thief Of Light, are being financed by a foreign ...
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New German buyer turns up the heat at MIFED
A new all-rights buyer from Germany, E-M-S New Media, has emerged at MIFED and is set to get more aggressive once it goes public on the Neuer Markt later this month. With an initial public offering set for Nov 21, E-M-S (short for European Multimedia Services) has snapped up all ...
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Canada's Itemus acquires The Shooting Gallery
US media company The Shooting Gallery has been sold to Toronto-based dotcom Itemus in a $56m share swap deal. However The Shooting Gallery familiar to the international film industry, namely the film development and distribution business, will be spun off, along with allied television and music arms, to existing shareholders ...
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Filmax develops English-language trio
Fresh from the sales success of forthcoming English-language feature Darkness, Barcelona-based mini-studio The Filmax Group is prepping three new English-language co-productions as part of its international push.Luis Sepulveda's political drama Nowhere, a co-production with Surf Films of Italy and Buena Vista/Telefonica Media-backed Patagonik of Argentina, is being prepped for a ...
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Fox Studios Australia slashes entry prices
Fox Studios Australia has reduced admission prices to its Backlot entertainment area in an effort to increase visitor numbers. The move represents a partial merger of the Backlot with the adjacent Bent Street cinema and restaurant precinct.From mid-November adult prices to various attractions, which include the Titanic experience and the ...
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Demme joins on-line outfit Article 27
Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme has joined the board of advisors of article27, the on-line entertainment syndicator that is rapidly expanding international activities.Demme's appointment comes as article27 is partnering with UK indie distributor Optimum Releasing for a theatrical release of German title Aimee & Jaguar. Article27 picked up all rights ...
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Coppola clan keeps growing at Capitol
Jeremy Davies, Gerard Depardieu, Billy Zane, Elodie Bouchez and Giancarlo Giannini have all been lined up to star in CQ, to be directed for Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope by his son Roman Coppola. It is one of several Zoetrope productions being financed by Germany's VCL and sold through Capitol Film ...