All Screen articles in 7 November 2000
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Houston's Angel takes flight with Noe
French production company Noe Productions is developing an adaptation of Canadian novelist Nancy Houston's The Mark Of The Angel, set to star French actress Elsa Zylberstein, who optioned the novel.Noe's president Frederique Dumas is currently in talks with US and UK partners to join the English-language project which the UK's ...
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Kidman resumes work on Amenabar's The Others
Nicole Kidman has returned to the Spanish shoot of Alejandro Amenabar's thriller The Others after nearly a month off to treat a recurring knee injury.Kidman left Spain on October 9 for treatment in the US. In her absence, Amenabar carried on filming scenes in which Kidman's character does not appear. ...
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Daldry renews pact with Working Title
Hot UK director Stephen Daldry, whose debut Billy Elliot has become both a critical and box office sensation on home turf, has signed a three-year deal with Working Title Films to direct a minimum of two films. The pact follows on from Working Title's previous first-look arrangement with Daldry which ...
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EFA nods reward box office heavy-hitters
Four of Europe's biggest homegrown hits of 2000 - the UK's Chicken Run and Billy Elliot, Italy's Bread And Tulips and France's Le Gout Des Autres - have been nominated for best European Film at the European Film Awards which take place December 2 in Paris.Also competing for the prize ...
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What Lies Beneath resurfaces above
What Lies Beneath returned to the top of the UK chart last weekend after the previous week's chart topper Dinosaur dropped a hefty 62%. The supernatural thriller starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer was the only film to make more than $1.5m (£1m) over the weekend (Nov 3-5) and has ...
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Billy Elliot nominated for European Cinema award
Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot is one of 15 European titles competing for a $130,000 (FFr1m) prize at the 5th edition of the Forum of European Cinema to be held November 9-14 in Strasbourg. The award - doled out by French film industry support organisation CNC - is intended to support ...
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Lost Killers wins main award at Cottbus
Georgian director Dito Tsintsadze's Lost Killers was awarded the $8,800 (DM20,000) top prize at the 10th annual Cottbus Film Festival in Germany, which spotlights Eastern European films.The German production, recently acquired by German distributor Advanced (see separate story), qualified for the festival because of the director's nationality as well as ...
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MTG buys worldwide rights to Crown Film Library
Modern Entertainment, part of Sweden's Modern Times Group, has acquired worldwide distribution to the Crown Film Library.The 110-title catalogue spans English-language pictures produced between 1960 and 1990 and includes several early films by Danny DeVito and Kevin Costner.Modern Entertainment, which is part of the Modern Studios division and which was ...
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First-half losses almost double at Stream
Ailing Italian pay-TV operator Stream has reported that losses almost doubled in the first half of 2000 to $134.4m (L302bn) from $67.6m (L152bn) in the same period last year, despite an increase in both revenues and subscriber numbers.Revenue was up to $46m (L104bn) compared to $10m (L23bn) in the first ...
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Germany's Filmfest Luenen to present editing prize
For the second time, German film magazine Der Schnitt will present an award for Best Editing at the Filmfest Luenen (November 16-19) which will be accompanied by a cash prize of $6,600 (DM15,000) from funding body Filmstiftung NRW. The 11 German films nominated for this year's prize include the festival's ...
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Kinowelt sells Warner package to ZDF
Kinowelt, the German distribution, licensing and production giant, has sold a package of films from its famously hard to shift Warner Bros catalogue to state broadcaster ZDF. The deal should help defuse some of the recent criticism of the group. The 21-picture package for free TV is made up of ...
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Hurley, Leary reteam for Gold Circle's Dawg
Elizabeth Hurley and Dennis Leary are to star in romantic comedy Dawg, their second film together for fledgling production company Gold Circle Films (GCF) following Double Whammy.The project joins a rapidly expanding slate at GCF which was founded earlier this year by Gateway Computers co-founder Norm Waitt. The Los Angeles-based ...
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BSkyB on course for five millions subscribers
UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB is set to reach its target of five million subscribers almost two months ahead of schedule.The broadcaster has notched up more than 4.7 million direct-to-home subscribers, of which more than four million were digital customers. BSkyB had aimed to reach five million by the end of ...
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Vine sells Superstition to Germany, Spain
Vine International has clocked up a handful of key sales on Superstition, its supernatural suspense thriller which is now shooting in Amsterdam. At Mifed it clinched a sale to Germany with Atlas Film + Medien, to Spain with VTF and to Poland with NVC. Vine said it was also in ...
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Japan's Gaga picks up Third World Cop
Gaga Communications has picked up Japanese rights to Third World Cop from London-based sales outfit The Film Company.The Film Co also used Mifed to sell Stephen King's The Night Flier to Aditya for India, Lady Ninja to SBS Australia and Remote Control to Comedy for Australia. UK thriller Going Off ...
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Berlin Film Festival to feature Lang tribute
The 2001 edition of the Berlin Film Festival will honour director Fritz Lang with a retrospective, screening the complete filmography of the German director, who died in Los Angeles in 1976. Many of the prints that will screen have been restored from original negatives.The highlight of the series, which was ...
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Gilmartin to head development for Impact Pictures
UK and US production outfit Impact Pictures has appointed Rory Gilmartin as head of development as the operation ramps up production activities after forming a joint venture with Germany's Constantin Film.Gilmartin, formerly at Pathe and Miramax in London, will develop and co-ordinate international film projects at the production operation, which ...
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The Bench takes trio of awards at Nordic Filmdays
Danish director Per Fly's critically-acclaimed debut The Bench (Baenken) scooped three prizes at the 42nd Nordic Filmdays in Lubeck, Germany, which wrapped Sunday night.The film was awarded the Audience Prize, the NDR Promotion Prize and a special prize for lead actor Jesper Christensen from international Church organisation Interfilm for his ...
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Advanced boosts slate with Paradise, Killers
Adding to a string of MIFED deals, German distributor Advanced Medien has added two more titles to its 2001 release slate: Majid Majidi's award-winning film The Colour Of Paradise and Dito Tsintsadze's Lost Killers.Paradise, acquired from Menemsha Entertainment, has enjoyed successful runs in a number of countries, but in Germany ...
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Motohiro cranks up Bayside Shakedown follow-up
Japanese director Katsuyuki Motohiro, whose 1998 cop comedy Bayside Shakedown grossed nearly $100m at the Japanese box office, has started production on SF drama Satore.The film stars hot male TV star Masanobu Ando as a mind-reading doctor whose gift becomes a national treasure - and personal misery. It marks the ...