All Screen articles in 5 December 2000
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UA mad for Winterbottom's Party People
United Artists is finalising a deal to join UK National Lottery studio franchise The Film Consortium as a financier on Michael Winterbottom's Manchester music scene film, 24 Hr Party People.The story of Factory Records co-founder Tony Wilson is expected to mark the first project to be greenlit through UA's first-look ...
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Carlton set to sell Technicolor within weeks
UK media company Carlton Communications is close to a deal to sell its Technicolor unit, the company said on Tuesday.The company said the film duplication and DVD production operation could be sold off within weeks, a move which would end months of speculation. Carlton put Technicolor on the block last ...
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Star TV drops plans to launch HK pay-TV platform
News Corp-owned Star TV has withdrawn its application to operate a pay-TV service in Hong Kong in favour of providing content to the recently-liberalised Hong Kong pay-TV market.Star TV subsidiary, Hong Kong DTV, was one of five companies granted pay-TV licences by the Hong Kong authorities in July this year. ...
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D'Amico appointed to IN-motion board
Kirk D'Amico, president of Myriad Pictures and J&M Entertainment, has been appointed a board member of Frankfurt-based entertainment concern IN-motion, which has acquired both Myriad and J&M since floating on Germany's Neuer Markt in August.D'Amico and IN-motion's Philip von Alvensleben will be responsible at board level for the company's film ...
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Pathe passes review despite production shortfall
Despite acknowledging that it may have been overly ambitious in its original production goals, UK National Lottery studio franchise Pathe Pictures has sailed through its mid-term review by film super-body the Film Council.The greenlight, which means Pathe can download the rest of its six-year lottery award of $48m (£33.12m), comes ...
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Epsilon acquires European rights to Franchise trio
Kirch and Mediaset's joint venture for big-budget productions, Epsilon Motion Pictures (Emotion), has selected the first three projects to kick off its distribution pact with Franchise Pictures: Michael Caton-Jones' City By The Sea, Antonio Banderas-starrer Ecks vs. Sever and David Goyer's directorial debut Zigzag.Emotion signed a deal in October to ...
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Grinch steals pole position from Charlie's Angels
Dr Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas opened at the top of the UK chart with a healthy $4,408,344 (£3,063,799) from 430 sites, defying expectations that it would receive a cold reception outside the US where the Dr Seuss series of children's books are not as well known.The film performed ...
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Vertical Limit
Dir: Martin Campbell. US. 2000. 126 mins. Prod co: Columbia Pictures. US dist: Columbia Pictures. Int'l dist: Columbia TriStar. Exec prod: Marcia Nasatir. Prods: Lloyd Phillips, Robert King, Martin Campbell. Scr: Robert King, Terry Hayes from a story by King. DoP: David Tattersall. Prod des: Jon Bunker. Ed: Thom Noble. ...
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Marceau lights up Belgrade's Festival of Auteurs
French star Sophie Marceau flew in from Paris to attend the screening of Fidelity on the closing night of the International Festival of Films D'Auteurs (Nov 23 - 30) in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.Marceau, who was accompanied by the film's director, Ukrainian-born Andrzej Zulawski, plays a photographer hired by a sleaze merchant ...
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Together scoops four awards at Gijon fest
Swedish film Together walked away the top winner at the 38th annual Gijon International Film Festival (November 24 - December 1).Together writer-director Lukas Moodysson's follow-up to last year's Fucking Amal took home the best director, best script, best actor (Michael Nyquist) and young jury awards.Pawel Pawlikowski's The Last Resort was ...
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TPS losses to amount to $502m at year-end
French digital pay-TV platform Television Par Satellite (TPS) has announced that it has reached the one million subscribers mark, but that it will also have accumulated losses of $502m (FFr3.7bn) by the end of this year. TPS - which is backed by terrestrial broadcasters TF1, M6 and France Television as ...
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Angela's Ashes, Saltwater triumph at Irish awards
Alan Parker's Angela's Ashes and Conor McPherson's Saltwater between them took four of the six film prizes given out by the Irish Film and Television Academy at its second annual awards ceremony on Sunday night.The Academy was set up three years ago to foster recognition of Irish talent and expertise ...
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Kirk Douglas to be honoured at Berlin
Veteran Hollywood actor Kirk Douglas will be honoured with a Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement at next year's Berlin International Film Festival (February 7-18). Douglas will receive the award on February 16 before a special festival screening of his 1957 film Paths Of Glory in the Berlinale Palast Theatre at ...
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HBO acquires KWA's San Bernardo
Madrid-based sales agent Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has sold pay-TV rights on Spanish-language romantic comedy Saint Bernard (San Bernardo) to HBO USA.The deal reflects the growing commerciability of Spanish cinema, which was on display last week at the Spanish Film Screenings for Europe, held Nov 29-Dec 1 in Lanzarote. KWA ...
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Papandrea to head production at Mirage UK
Mirage Enterprises is expected to appoint Bruna Papandrea to head production and development at its London-based operation under director Anthony Minghella.Papandrea, who is likely to relocate from Australia to the UK in January, recently produced Better Than Sex with Frank Cox. The comedy romance charts what happens after a one-night ...
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Angelina Speare named executive vp at Warner
Angelina Speare has been promoted to the newly created position of executive vice president, international operations & finance, at Warner Bros Pictures. She will oversee the day-to-day operations, business development and financial planning and reporting for the international arm of Warner Bros as well as the company's international regional offices ...
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United invests $30m in Creative Planet
UK-based United News & Media has acquired a $30m stake in Creative Planet, a web-based entertainment industry resource backed by several high-profile venture capital firms. In a related deal, United will merge The Knowledge, its own UK-based creative services business, into the Creative Planet fold. In return, United receives a ...
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FilmFour lassoes Pope as Cowboy ramps up slate
FilmFour and UK production outfit Cowboy Films have struck a first-look deal for the next project from The Crow: City Of Angels director Tim Pope.Cowboy and FilmFour are still to choose a project, but Pope is expected to put a title into development within a year. The production will form ...
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Germany's F.A.M.E. in talks to tap film funds
Munich-based film and music production house F.A.M.E. Film & Music Entertainment, which floated on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt at the end of August, is in talks with two German media funds to support its push into international co-productions.As F.A.M.E. board member Michael Bischoff explained, changes in German tax legislation have meant ...
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Russia calls in Interpol to track down Gusinsky
Russian authorities have reportedly asked Interpol to put embattled Media Most chief Vladimir Gusinsky, who is currently living abroad, on an international wanted list, in connection with fraud charges. A domestic arrest warrant has already been issued, but Gusinsky's lawyer has said his client has no intention of returning home. ...