All Screen articles in 9 October 2001
View all stories from this month.
-
News
Industry mourns tragic death of Steen S. Larsen
One of the most respected and competent cinema builders in Europe died on Monday Oct 8, when Nordic major Nordisk Film Biografer's vice president of Logistics, Steen S. Larsen, was among the passengers killed on board the SAS flight that tragically crashed in Milan. Larsen had attended the IBTS Mediatech ...
-
Reviews
Elling
Dir: Petter Naess. Norway. 2001. 90 mins. Playing in the Zabaltegi (New Directors) programme at San Sebastian, this sweet-tempered comedy about two eccentrics carving an unusual niche for themselves in society is a modest audience-pleaser which won the Youth Jury award by a comfortable margin and was given a Special ...
-
News
Warner Germany scores smash with Polar Bear
Warner Bros Germany has scored a record-breaking opening with its locally produced family entertainment picture The Little Polar Bear (Der Kleine Eisbar), taking DM4,320,651 ($2.04m) on 477 prints over the weekend.The animated German-language film co-produced by Warner Bros Germany with Cartoon Film is the best opening of the year for ...
-
News
Moulin Rouge opens with tuneful $1.9m in France
20th Century Fox scored a powerful opening for Moulin Rouge in France where six months ago the film world premiered as the opening night film of the Cannes International Film Festival. The film's five day total was $1.893m on 343 screens, making it the number one film in France over ...
-
News
Premiere Grp takes US on Electric/Storm's Preacher
Mitch Goldman's new US distribution operation The Premiere Group has signed to handle domestic rights on Preacher, a $22m feature of the comic book series by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon which is being produced by Rupert Harvey's Electric Entertainment and H Michael Heuser's Storm Entertainment.Rachel Talalay (Tank ...
-
News
Bickel sets up new sales outfit at Lexington Ent
Steve Bickel, the international sales veteran who most recently headed sales for The Shooting Gallery, has joined Jeffrey Kramer's Lexington Entertainment Group to head a new sales and marketing venture called Aura Entertainment. He will represent in-house productions, acquire independent and foreign features and selectively develop and produce his own ...
-
News
Hallmark acquires 15 features from Paramount
The Hallmark Channel has acquired a package of 15 features from Paramount International for its Taiwan service. These include Mission: Impossible, Days Of Thunder, The Hunt For Red October, Nick Of Time, The Saint and five films in the Star Trek series.For pan-Asian screening, Hallmark Channel bought 27 episodes comprising ...
-
News
Universal TV & Networks seals MIP-COM deals
British channel packager and distributor Zone Vision has acquired a wide ranging deal to deliver films and TV movies from Universal Television & Networks to Turkey. The films will be shown on basic cable channel, Showtime Turkey, which was launched in February 2000 as a direct-to-home channel carried on the ...
-
News
Encore buys 300 hours of film & drama for China
Entertainment programmer and channel packaging group Encore International (EI) is to buy over 300 hours of feature films and drama series for resale into China. The pictures will be shown in a new primetime slot on China Central Television's Everyday Jiayi (Everyday Best Entertainment) brand, moving from EI's previous variety ...
-
News
Bandits replaces Windtalkers at London film fest
Barry Levinson's crime caper Bandits has replaced John Woo's Windtalkers at the London Film Festival after MGM postponed the US release of the World War II film following the terrorist attacks in the US.Bandits, which stars Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and Cate Blanchett, takes up Windtalkers' gala screening slot ...
-
News
Dinard assesses UK/French exchange
Asif Kapadia's well-received The Warrior has scooped the Golden Hitchcock at the Dinard Festival Of British Film, which carries a $2,805 (FF20,000) award to aid distribution in France and a $1,400 (FF10,000) grant to the director.Jury president Emily Watson hailed the India-set adventure story as one that had opened "a ...
-
News
Lee Evans, Christopher Walken undertake Plots
Lee Evans and Alfred Molina have joined Christopher Walken and Brenda Blethyn in the cast of Plots With A View, a comedy set in small-town Wales which starts a six-week shoot in the UK this Wednesday (Oct 10).Directed by Nick Hurran and produced by the US' Snowfall and the UK's ...
-
News
Amelie takes the UK box office by charm
UK distributor Momentum Pictures is celebrating a triumphant weekend for its French pick-up Amelie as it stormed into the UK charts, taking fifth position, with a massive $832,000 (£560,768) from its 82 print release, including previews of $64,731 (£43,629) from 67 sites. The film easily outperformed the week's new Hollywood ...
-
News
Real TV dominates MIP-COM television market
MIP-COM organisers are putting a brave face on a television programmes market that is competing against the scariest and most compelling kind of reality TV - war. The main market had not officially opened by the time that US and British missiles had started raining down on Afghanistan on Sunday ...
-
News
Italy's MIFED is increasingly threatened by events
This month's MIFED film market appears to have been hit hard by the terrorist attacks on the US, with the number of registered sellers plummeting by more than 26%, according to Screen International's figures.Many of those companies may now cancel following Sunday night's attack on the Taliban regime. On Monday, ...
-
News
Euromedia & Bollore buy French SFP studios
French state-owned studios and facilities group Societe Francaise de Production (SFP), which has been drowning in red ink for decades, has been acquired for $4.2m (Ffr30m) by Euromedia Television facilities house in partnership with Bollore Investissement.The French government has been seeking to sell SFP -- which lost close to $11.2m ...
-
Reviews
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Dir Jill Sprecher. US 2001. 102 mins.Poignant, touching, and in moments unabashedly philosophical, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Jill Sprecher's sophomore effort, very much fulfils the promise she showed in her 1997 Sundance-premiered debut, Clockwatchers. Interweaving five contemporary stories into a single narrative, the film deals with the profound, often ...
-
Reviews
Max Keeble's Big Move
Dir: Tim Hill. US. 2001. 80 mins. Disney's latest live-action family film is a kid-centric and pleasantly rambunctious junior high school comedy that delivers its life lessons without losing its sense of fun. Pre-teens and parents should give the film a decent start at the box-office - perhaps more than ...
-
News
Speaking Of Sex to close Chicago Film Festival
John McNaughton's comedy Speaking Of Sex will have its world premiere as the closing night film of the Chicago International Film Festival on Oct 18.The film stars James Spader as an over-sexed therapist who becomes involved with a new client (Melora Walters) while a rival doctor (Lara Flynn Boyle) is ...
-
News
Dark Blue World opens AFI Fest, Ball to close it
Jan Sverak's Dark Blue World - distributed in the US by Sony Pictures Classics - will open the AFI Fest 2001 on Nov 1 in Los Angeles, while Marc Forster's Monster's Ball - fully financed by Lions Gate Films - will have its world premiere as the closing night film ...