All Screen articles in 19 December 2001
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UK's Working Title options boo.com story
Working Title Films is to make a film about the spectacular boom and bust story of on-line fashion store boo.com.Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner's UK production company has optioned the rights to the book boo hoo: a dot.com story from concept to catastrophe. The story offers an eyewitness account of ...
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Curb acquires Dummy with Brody, Jovovich
LA-based sales outfit Curb Entertainment has acquired international distribution rights to Greg Pritikin's romantic comedy Dummy starring Adrien Brody, Illeana Douglas and Milla Jovovich.Brody stars as a shy, unemployed ventriloquist who falls in love with his employment counselor. The film was produced by Richard Temtchine and Bob Fagan through Quadrant ...
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Ross Landsbaum joins Miramax as evp, CFO
Miramax Films has hired Ross Landsbaum as executive vice president of finance and operations and chief financial officer. He will oversee the company's finance, accounting, reporting, information systems, facilities and human resources as well as working on new financial arrangements for film projects.He will report directly to co-chairman Bob and ...
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Beautiful Mind, Ring top Broadcast Critics noms
The US Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced its nominees for the seventh annual Critics Choice Awards which will be announced on Jan 11 in Los Angeles. Leading the way with five nominations was A Beautiful Mind followed by The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring ...
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Dimension, Storyopolis plan Opus animated film
Dimension Films has acquired the rights to develop and produce an animated feature based on the cartoon character Opus, a penguin who first appeared in the first year of Bloom County in 1980. The project is the first film to come from the newly established first-look deal between Dimension and ...
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Artisan Pictures revs up with Garbo Deception
Artisan Pictures has announced its first script project since Artisan Entertainment merged with Bob Cooper's Landscape Entertainment in Sept and Cooper took over as CEO of Artisan Pictures.The company has hired screenwriter Bill Wheeler to draft the feature film script The Garbo Deception based on actual source material recounting the ...
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Jacques Tati to be feted at 55th Cannes festival
A special tribute to Jacques Tati, on the 20th anniversary of his death, which will include public, open-air screenings of two of his most popular films, will be part of next year's 55th Cannes film festival, to be held May 15-26.A restored 70mm print of the French film-maker's Playtime will ...
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Sony subsids join German lobby group
Sony Pictures Entertainment's German film and television production arms Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion (DCPF) and Columbia TriStar Film und Fernsehproduktions (CTFF) have become the 21st and 22nd members of Germany's producer lobby group film20."I am very pleased that Deutsche Columbia Pictures was accepted as a member of film20 and ...
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CJ becomes Korea's first international distributor
South Korean major CJ Entertainment will become the first Korean company to distribute directly into international territories when it releases the political drama Joint Security Area (pictured) in Hong Kong on January 3, 2002. The film will be the first in a series of planned overseas releases in Hong ...
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Kloiber plans assault on Kirch pay-TV domination
Herbert Kloiber's Tele Muenchen Group (TMG) and digital and interactive TV service company GET ON AIR are planning an ambitious 2002 launch of three German digital pay-TV channels to compete with Leo Kirch's high-profile Premiere World. The partners' timetables sees cartoon channel Toongate going on air in March, with action ...
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Hong Kong's eSun strikes production pacts
Hong Kong's eSun Holdings, part-owner of production and distribution outfit Media Asia Group, has signed a $25.6m (HK$200m) joint venture with leading Singapore broadcaster MediaCorp. At the same time, Media Asia has unveiled co-production pacts with Taiwan's Pandasia Entertainment and Hong Kong outfits Teamwork Motion Pictures and Filmko Pictures. The ...
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Bollywood UK: Sometimes Happiness Sometimes Sorrow
Indian films got a dramatically varied reception at the UK box office this week as Yash Raj Films' Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (K3G) established a new record for a Bollywood opening, while Eros International's Bollywood Calling, managed only a dismal response at the turnstiles.K3G (Sometime Happiness, Sometimes Sorrow) took third ...
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Kate & Leopold
Dir: James Mangold. US. 2001. 120minsSo here's the pitch: a 19th-century English duke gets caught up in a time warp and is transported from New York in 1876 to 2001 where he meets a high-powered career woman. After much comedy derived from the differences between the two, they fall in ...
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Enigma
Screened at Sundance (Premieres). Dir: Michael Apted. UK. 2001. 117mins.Revisiting a little-known yet extremely important and heroic chapter of World War II, Michael Apted's Enigma is a compelling, sumptuously-made romantic thriller that is effective in both its political and more personal dimensions. Steeped in the tense atmosphere of wartime Britain, ...
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BVI tops $1bn for seventh consecutive year
Buena Vista International (BVI) has become the third distributor this year to cross the $1bn barrier at the international box office, making it seven years in a row for the company. The battle charge was led by Pearl Harbor which took $251.5m in overseas territories, over $50m more than in ...
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Harry has $45m weekend in international market
Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone showed no signs of crumbling fast over the weekend, taking a massive $45.3m or 8.8m admissions from 8,378 prints in 39 countries. Its international total now stands at $313.16m, its worldwide cumulative total at $570m.Over the weekend, the film opened in Korea with an ...
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AFI announces first annual award nominations
The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced its nominations for the first annual AFI Awards 2001.which will be presented on Jan 5, 2002, in Los Angeles. Two 13-member committees - one representing films and one representing TV - made the nominations; a 100-person AFI jury will select the award-winners.The film ...
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Universal sets The Hulk for June 2003
Joining a trend for dating movies over 18 months in advance, Universal Pictures has announced that it will open Ang Lee's comic book adventure The Hulk on June 20, 2003. Earlier this month, 20th Century Fox announced that it would open X2, the sequel to X-Men, on May 2, 2003, ...
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Catalunya to back Spain/Argentina co-productions
The Spanish autonomous regional government of Catalunya has signed an agreement to back TV co-productions between Spain's national public television network Television Espanola (TVE) and Argentine firms Pramer and Tranquilo Producciones. The first two productions out of the accord will be Perfiles Catalanes, a 26-chapter series of 26 minutes each ...
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BSkyB accused of pay-TV market abuse
BSkyB's stranglehold on pay-TV film rights in the UK has come under threat after competition watchdog the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said on Monday (Dec 17) it is to rule that the satellite broadcaster has breached competition laws.The investigation said that the difference between the prices BSkyB charges its ...