All Screen articles in 9 October 2000
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Filmax, Endemol launch joint production venture
Growing Spanish producer-distributor The Filmax Group and Endemol-backed TV producer Gestmusic have joined 50-50 to launch new production outfit Zenit Multimedia.Based in Santiago de Compostela, Zenit will produce original product for television including fiction series, variety shows and docu-series. Plans to market its original formats abroad are also in the ...
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Messier denies rumours of rift with Lescure
Vivendi chairman Jean-Marie Messier has officially denied rumours of a rift with Canal Plus boss Pierre Lescure which he described in a televised interview as 'a storm in a glass of water'.Messier said he was confident that Lescure would ride out any changes arising from the proposed three-way merger between ...
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Billy Elliot leaps 13% in second weekend
The Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps may have weighed in at number one in the UK's weekend chart but the box office winner was British title Billy Elliot, which rose 13% from its opening weekend to $2.5m (£1.7m).The figures are vindication that UIP's ambitious release strategy for Stephen Daldry's low-budget ...
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Norwegian government axes Norsk Film
In a move widely supported by the local film industry, the Norwegian culture ministry has decided to close state-owned production company Norsk Film and replace it with a new financing body The Norwegian Film Fund (NFF).Norsk Film has suffered a string of box office and critical disappointments over the last ...
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A Shot At Glory
Dir: Michael Corrente. UK-US. 2000. 114 mins.Prod Co: Eagle Beach Productions, Butcher's Run Productions. Int'l Sales: Seven Arts International (1) 323 467 1822. Prods: Michael Corrente, Robert Duvall, Rob Carliner. Exec Prods: Billy Heinzerling, Steven Bowman, Denis O'Neil. Scr: Denis O'Neil. DoP: Alex Thomson. Prod des: Andy Harris. Ed: David ...
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Chaplin Film to back competition winners
Hungarian production company Chaplin Film and web-site www.magyar.film.hu have selected five treatments from their joint screenwriting competition which Chaplin plans to develop into full-length screenplays.The winning projects include Propulsion by Balazs Loth, Dead Channel by Miklos Varga and Andras Horvath, Champion Factory by Istvan Bernath and family dramas Lajcsi, The ...
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Stream, Telepiu given ultimatum on decoder
The Italian communications watchdog has slapped a second fine and an ultimatum onto rival pay-TV companies Telepiu and Stream for failing to agree on a common decoder. According to Rome daily La Stampa, communications chief Enzo Cheli imposed a fine of $250,000 on top of an existing $150,000 fine and ...
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Belgrade cinemas hold one-day celebration
The citizens of Belgrade were treated to free cinema admissions for one day on Friday (October 6) as distributors and exhibitors celebrated the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic's ten-year dictatorship.Among the films screening for free were Mission Impossible 2, Gladiator and Hollow Man. The National Film Archives went one step ...
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Universal to enter Japan's CS market
Universal Studios is tying up with Japanese companies including Hitachi and the Asahi media group to enter the communications satellite (CS) broadcasting business in Japan. The partners will launch a joint venture company in April to provide broadcasting services starting from autumn 2001. They plan to use the Universal film ...
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Marcondes relaunches Brazilian distribution co
Brazil's Marco Aurelio Marcondes has relaunched his distribution consortium, which includes Art Filmes' Ugo Sorrentino, Jose Sobrinho of Top Tape and Europa Filmes' Wilson Feitosa, under the new banner M.A. Marcondes.The consortium, first announced in March last year, was originally called Consorcio Brasileiro de Cinema (CBC). "It was more a ...
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Virgin takes top honours at Pusan
Korean writer-director Hong Sang-Soo's third film, Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, was awarded best film and best script by Pusan Film Critics on Sunday night in a ceremony that coincides with Korea's 5th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF).The best director award went to Bae Chang-Ho for My Heart, while ...
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Meet The Parents scores a whopping $29m
Topping the Columbus Day weekend box office in North America with the highest October opening ever was Universal's comedy Meet The Parents which grossed a stunning $29.1m at 2,614 theatres. The comedy, directed by Jay Roach - the man behind the two Austin Powers films, was another hit for Universal ...
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French film fest throws spotlight on thrillers
The resurgence of the traditional French thriller will be celebrated at this year's French Film Festival in Scotland and the UK with a series of screenings including Frederic Schoendoerffer's Scenes De Crimes and Eric Rochant's Total Western.Other films in the series include Claude Chabrol's Au Coeur Du Mensonge, Cannes Quinzaine ...
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Germany's MediaFonds 1 launches 'back-end' fund
European film projects in need of urgent gap finance have a new source of cash to turn to following the establishment of "back-end", a fund being created by Munich-based MediaFonds 1.The new fund, which starts life with a pot worth $5m-$8m, aims to provide 30%-40% of budgets for films which ...
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European Investment Bank turns attention to film
Capital starved EU film-makers are set to grab a share in a Euros12bn boost from the European Investment Bank (EIB), the EU's long-term lending arm. The move - which could shrug off the EU's low-budget image - follows concerns that massive box office potential rests untapped because EU film-makers have ...
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Canada boosts funding for domestic films
The Canadian government has unveiled its new Feature Film Policy under which it will double its investment in feature films to $67m (C$100m) a year.The policy also includes promises to support production from "script to screen" and to boost lacklustre box office receipts for indigenous films."This policy will offer us ...
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Plenilunio
Dir: Imanol Uribe. Spain. 2000. 118 mins.Prod cos: Sogecine, Aiete-Ariane Films. Int'l Sales: Sogecine (00 34 91 396 74 00). Exec prod: Fernando Bovaira. Prod: Andres Santana. Scr: Elvira Lindo, based on the novel by Antonio Munoz Molina. DoP: Gonzalo F Berridi. Prod des: Felix Murcia. Ed: Teresa Font. Music: ...
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The Crimson Rivers (Les Rivieres Pourpres)
Dir: Mathieu Kassovitz. France. 105mins.Prod cos: Legende Entreprises, Gaumont, TF1 Productions in association with StudioCanal. Int'l sales: Gaumont, tel: (33) 1 46 43 2000. Domestic dist: GBVI. Exec prod: Alain Goldman. Scr: Mathieu Kassovitz and Jean-Christophe Grange, based on Grange's novel. DoP: Thierry Arbogast. Ed: Maryline Monthieu. Prod des: Thierry ...
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Lachlan Murdoch rises at News Corp
Rupert Murdoch's eldest son, Lachlan Murdoch, has been appointed deputy COO at News Corp, making him the company's third highest ranking executive behind his father and president and COO Peter Chernin. The 29-year-old is currently in charge of News Corp's US print and publishing operations, and has been chairman and ...
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Helkon adds UK plank to European platform plans
German production and distribution group Helkon Media has bought a 51% stake in UK distributor Redbus Films Distribution (RFD) as part of its plan to build a pan-European studio akin to PolyGram Filmed Entertainment.The RFD acquisition is immediately expected to help Helkon cement its growing alliance of European distributors, which ...