All Screen articles in 1 March 2000 – Page 2
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Miramax cleans up at AFM
Miramax International closed most of the world on its latest package of pictures at this year's AFM with many of its usual customers and a new one - recently floated Senator Film in Germany - for Juliette Binoche/Johnny Depp-starrer Chocolat.Miramax has also won an AFMA arbitration against Spain's Aurum Producciones ...
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BBC confirms Redbus deal for UK
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the UK's public broadcasting empire and BBC Films, the Beeb's feature arm, have sealed an eight-picture output deal for the UK with distributor Redbus Film Distribution (RFD).RFD, owned by Redbus Film Group, will also handle video-on-demand rights for the eight titles, all of which ...
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Blair Witch 2 scares up big numbers
In the fashion of a documentary pieced together from found fragments of footage, the story of The Blair Witch Project 2 is beginning to emerge. Buyers are being given plot snippets to help them commit to the chunky prices being asked by seller Summit Entertainment.The film apparently begins with a ...
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Ripley, Green Mile open well against Toy power
Toy Story 2 has confirmed its status as a true phenomenon grossing over $10m for its third consecutive weekend at the UK box office. The running total of the Disney/Pixar animation is now $53m after just 17 days on wide release. But the weekend openers The Talented Mr Ripley ...
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Dir: Kimble Rendall. Australia. 1999. 78 mins.Prod cos: Mushroom Pictures, Beyond Films, MBP (Germany). Int’l sales: Beyond Films (612) 9281 1266. Prods: Martin Fabinyi, Bill Bennett, Jennifer Bennett. Scr: Dave Warner. DoP: David Foreman. Prod des: Steven Jones-Evans. Ed: Harry Dangar. Music: Guy Gross. Main cast: Molly Ringwald, Jessica Napier, ...
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AFM: Warner buys massive Franchise package
In unquestionably the biggest deal of the AFM so far, Franchise Pictures has sold 26 pictures to Warner Bros for Latin America.The deal was driven by Angel Eyes starring Jennifer Lopez and Trust Me starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, with other titles including Dance with Patrick Swayze and Viva Las Nowhere ...
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AFM: China Star goes on $150m content binge
Chinese media conglomerate China Star is poised to invest $150m a year in Asian film production as it pushes its film-making and broadcasting efforts into a new dimension. The company is also in the market as a buyer and is putting together a massive library.China Star has launched a new ...
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RTL buys stake in sister channel Vox
Germany's leading commercial broadcaster RTL is making its biggest ever investment by acquiring a 49.9% stake in sister channel Vox, according to RTL chief executive Gerhard Zieler in an interview with German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung. The stake is currently owned by RTL parent company, Luxembourg-based CLT-UFA, which bought News Corp's ...
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News Corp, Yahoo! in talks about alliance
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has reportedly held talks with Internet portal Yahoo! about a wide-ranging alliance under which the two companies would take financial stakes in each other's assets.Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang has met News Corp president and COO Peter Chernin several times in recent weeks, according to an article ...
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Japan's DirecTV swallowed up by larger rival
Hughes Electronics' Japanese pay-TV platform, DirecTV, is merging with SKY PerfecTV in a move that marks DirecTV's effective withdrawal from the Japanese market after an unsuccessful three-year struggle to catch up with its larger rival.The deal was negotiated by DirecTV majority shareholder Hughes and the leading shareholder group of SKY ...
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Sky Hook set for pan-Yugoslav opening
Ljubisa Samardzic's Sky Hook, which had its world premiere at the recent Berlin Film Festival where it featured in competition, is set to receive a pan-Yugoslav release in March. The release will mark the first time since the collapse of the former Yugoslavia that a feature from one of its ...
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FFC, AtomFilms give shorts theatrical outing
Independent distribution outfit the Feature Film Company (FFC) has teamed up with Seattle-based Internet distributor AtomFilms to secure a number of short films a theatrical outing in the UK.The deal, sealed by overseas outpost AtomFilms Europe, is the first UK theatrical deal the Seattle outfit has secured for its short ...
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AFM: US buyers say only maybe to AFM titles
It's slim pickings for North American buyers at this year's AFM, with only a handful of titles creating any sort of buzz. But at least one film looks likely to sell - USA Films is understood to have put in an offer on BBC Films/Pandora Cinema's Maybe Baby - and ...
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AFM: Intertainment sells Franchise pair to France
Barrie Baeres' pan-European rights-broker Intertainment AG has sold two of its specialised Franchise Pictures titles - Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her and The Green Dragon - in France, signalling a move by Baeres to sell off select pictures in certain territories where appropriate. Lisa Wilson of ...
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Canal Plus Image to float by June
France's Canal Plus will float subsidiary Canal Plus Image on the French stock exchange before summer 2000 and probably no later than June according to an interview with Canal Plus chairman Pierre Lescure in French magazine Le Nouvel Economiste.Image regroups all of the French pay-TV giant's film activities and is ...
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Bertolucci named Critics' Week patron
Bernardo Bertolucci will take on the newly-created role of patron of the Critics' Week (May 11-19) at this year's Cannes Film Festival.To honour the Italian director, the organisation will hold a public screening of his debut, Before The Revolution (Prima Della Rivoluzione), which screened at the festival in 1964 and ...
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AFM: Redbus takes Sidewalks for UK
Fast-moving UK distributor Redbus Film Distribution has pre-bought Ed Burns' Sidewalks Of New York from Buena Vista Film Sales.The romantic comedy, which has just started shooting, is written, directed, and produced by Burns, who also stars alongside Heather Graham and Stanley Tucci. Budgeted at under $10m, it follows the trials ...
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Kinowelt hatches plan for international network
Germany's Kinowelt Medien is advancing plans for a high-powered international distribution consortium to be fed by high-profile US pictures.Talks are already underway with leading independent distributors in France and Spain to complement Kinowelt's existing distribution outlets, which include Germany and Eastern Europe. Additionally, the UK and Canada will be covered ...
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