All Screen articles in 9 March 2000
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Israeli commission calls for reform of IBA
The Rafael Vardi commission, appointed by Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, has called for an urgent overhaul of the country's public broadcasting sector.The Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA), which operates Israel's First Television Channel and the Kol Israel radio network, has been suffering for some time. Its troubles include poor ratings, ...
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Lions Gates teams with Ellis for E-Psycho site
The North American release of American Psycho will be ushered in by the psycho himself. In an innovative web-based promotional campaign called Pseudo Psycho, author Brett Easton Ellis, who penned the source novel, will unleash his creation Patrick Bateman once again. Lions Gate Films and netcaster Pseudo Programs will co-present ...
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The Opportunists
Dir: Myles Connell. US. 1999. 89 mins.Prod co: Prosperity Pictures. Int'l sales: Overseas Filmgroup/First Look Pictures. Prods: John Lyons, Tim Perell. Co-prods: Martin Fink, Richard E Johnson. Exec prods: Peter Saraf, Jonathan Demme, Edward Saxon. Scr: Myles Connell. DoP: Teodoro Maniaci. Prod des: Debbie DeVilla. Ed: Andy Keir. Mus: Kurt ...
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Rudolph investigates sex for Germany's Gemini
Cologne-based production outfit Gemini Film is lining up three international features for production this year including Investigating Sex, written and to be directed by Alan Rudolph, which has Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte and Neve Campbell attached to star.The $8.5m project is set to start shooting in North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin ...
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Blair Witch hits $100m internationally
The gang-busting opening of The Blair Witch Project in Italy has pushed the release of the spook-fest to $100m on the international circuit. This brings the micro-budgeted production to a huge worldwide total of $240m and confirms its position as the most profitable film ever.The film's opening three-day weekend in ...
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One And Only sweeps the board at Danish awards
The Danish Film Academy's 17th Robert awards contained few surprises last weekend (Feb 27) when domestic chart topper The One And Only (Den Eneste Ene) racked up six awards including best picture.Susanne Bier's romantic comedy was also awarded best actress for Sidse Babett Knudsen, best actor for Niels Olsen, best ...
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Former PolyGram exec to be general manager of REP
Former PolyGram Filmed Entertainment/Universal Pictures International executive David Collins will take up the newly created role of general manager of REP Distribution from March 6. Collins will oversee day-to-day operations reporting to parent company Becker Entertainment's head of film Mark Gooder. The position makes Collins directly responsible for all REP's ...
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Hitachi takes on Iwanami library
The Digital Media Group of electronics giant Hitachi has acquired the film library of Iwanami Productions, one of Japan's oldest and largest makers of documentary and educational films, which filed for bankruptcy in 1999.Hitachi plans to preserve the films and market them under the name Iwanami Library. The library contains ...
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Cannes 2000 veers towards larger scale pictures
Although Gilles Jacob is still six weeks away from announcing his Cannes competition selection, the line-up in all the Cannes festival sections is already looking heavily skewed towards high-profile, large-scale films, with a particular bias towards English-language titles, many of the them sizeable international co-productions.The potential list of contenders that ...
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CTV shareholders resist takeover
CanWest Global Communications and Electrohome Broadcasting, both shareholders in Canada's biggest broadcaster CTV, are resisting telco BCE's proposed $2.3bn takeover of the company.CanWest, Canada's second-largest private broadcaster which holds nearly 10% of CTV and Electrohome, which holds 12.1%, have both indicated they would prefer a stock swap over BCE's proposed ...
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BONHAM CARTER GETS NOVOCAINE TREATMENTHelena Bonham Carter has joined Steve Martin in the cast of Artisan Entertainment's dark comedy Novocaine which is currently in pre-production. Martin plays a successful dentist who finds himself the target of a con gone bad; Bonham Carter will play Martin's newest patient, a seductress who ...
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Disney signs up Ubi Soft for Dinosaur game
Disney Interactive has signed up France's Ubi Soft Entertainment to produce and distribute a video game adapted from its upcoming 3D animated feature Dinosaur, which is to be released in the US in May 2000.Ubi Soft - which is one of France's leading multimedia companies, along with Infogrames and Cryo ...
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Next Best Thing is second best to Whole Nine Yards
Despite four new releases in the marketplace, nothing could displace Warner Bros' comedy The Whole Nine Yards from the top position at the US box office. In its third weekend, the comedy directed by Jonathan Lynn and starring Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry, grossed $7.3m on 2,793 screens, bringing its ...
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PMP announces Meers, O'Halloran double act
The Premium Movie Partnership (PMP) has confirmed that Sam Meers and Nuala O'Halloran - the two people who worked most closely with former acquisitions and production head Marion Pilowsky - will be covering for her. Former business affairs director Meers becomes director of investment responsible for all film development and ...
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Germany's Loonland on the prowl for UK sales agent
The acquisition of a UK-based sales agent is on the 'to do' list of German animation powerhouse TV-Loonland when it joins the ranks of media companies listed on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt exchange on March 22.The Munich-based enterprise, which produced internationally successful series such as Ned's Newt and The Fantastic Flying ...
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Searchlight appoints Gilula distribution president
Stephen A. Gilula has been named president of distribution for Fox Searchlight Pictures.Gilula becomes one of a triad of presidents at the company alongside Peter Rice, president of production, and Nancy Utley, president of marketing. Gilula co-founded Landmark Theatres in 1974 and served as president and CEO of the company ...
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Canary Islands gets second film commission
Tenerife's local government has formed a film commission to encourage international productions to shoot on the island.The Tenerife Film Commission (TFC) is 40% backed by private industry on the island but the local government controls 51% through the Society to Promote Foreign Tourism (SPET). The Canary Islands, of which Tenerife ...
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A Bench In The Park
Dir: Agusti Vila. Spain. 1999. 83 mins.Prod cos: Fernando Colomo, Alta Films, Canal Plus. Domestic dist: Alta Films. Int'l Sales: Sogepaq (00 34 91 524 72 20). Exec prod: Beatriz de la Gandara. Scr: Vila. DoP: David Onedes. Prod des: Sofia Pape. Ed: Miguel Angel Santamaria. Music: Ian Briton. Main ...
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Hidden River (Rio Escondido)
Dir: Mercedes Garcia Guevara. Argentina. 1999. 87 mins.Prod: Mercedes Garcia Guevara. Int'l sales: Tequila Gang (00 207 290 0773). Exec prod: Diego Dubcovsky. Scr: Mercedes Garcia Guevara. DoP: Esteban Sapir. Ed: Alejandro Brodersohn. Mus: Martin Bauer. Main cast: Paolo Krum, Juan Palomino, Pablo Cedron, Maria Jose Gabin, Laura Melillo.A consistently ...
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France says \'oui\' to web site ads
The decision by French audiovisual watchdog Conseil Superieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA) to lift the ban on the advertising of cinema-related web sites on television is causing an uproar among the French film production unions. Four unions - films producers' associations SPI, SRF and UPA, and talent union ARP - have ...