All Screen articles in 11 February 2000 – Page 2
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Ellipse, Expand set to tie the knot
France's two leading television production outfits - Canal Plus subsidiary Ellipse Programme and the Expand group - plan to merge their production labels and libraries to create a new entity with annual revenues of $212m (FFR1.4bn). The new group, which will operate under the Expand banner, will control a library ...
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Naumann opens new bag of funding measures
German culture minister Michael Naumann has unveiled a package of measures to strengthen the federal government's culturally-oriented film funding programme.Naumann, whose film funding budget was raised this year from $7.75m (DM15.5m) to $9m (DM18m), is directing more money at script development with sums of up to $50,800 to be paid ...
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Germany, Spain to renew co-production treaty
Spain's culture secretary, Miguel Angel Cortes, and German culture minister, Michael Naumann, have announced that they will sign a German-Spanish co-production agreement tomorrow (Feb 11) at the Berlin Film Festival.The accord replaces and expands on an existing agreement which the two countries signed in 1956. It aims to encourage German-Spanish ...
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Newcomers split prize at Hungarian Film Week
Two films from relative newcomers - Frigyes Godros's Glamour and Gergely Fonyo's Johnny Famous - shared the best film prize at this year's Hungarian Film Week (Feb 3-8).The 31st edition of the Budapest event presented a programme of 24 features and 31 non-fiction films made in Hungary over the past ...
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Alliance, Canal Plus confirm UK distribution pact
Alliance Atlantis and France's Le Studio Canal Plus have confirmed a deal for Alliance to handle UK distribution on a slate of Le Studio's high-profile English-language titles (Screendaily, Feb 3).The deal covers all UK rights to Simpatico, starring Sharon Stone and Jeff Bridges; Kathryn Bigelow's Weight Of Water, with Sean ...
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Lisowsky jumps from DreamWorks to Universal
Dirk Lisowsky has been appointed managing director of Universal Pictures Video Germany, replacing Haig Balian who headed up both theatrical and video operations for Universal in Germany before the decision to channel theatrical product through UIP.Lisowsky previously managed DreamWorks' operations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Prior to that he held ...
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MTM to shoot biopic of student leader Dutschke
Munich-based production outfit MTM cineteve has successfully bid for the film rights to the biography of legendary student movement leader Rudi Dutschke.The biography - entitled Dutschke: We Had A Barbarically Lovely Life - was published by his widow Gretchen Dutschke in 1996. Urs Egger, whose credits include Opera Ball, will ...
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The Broken Hearts Club
Dir: Greg Berlanti. US. 2000. 91 mins.Prod co: Meanwhile Films. US dist: Screen Gems. Int'l dist: Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International. Prods: Mickey Liddell, Joseph Middleton. Co-prods: Julie Plec, Sam Irvin. Scr: Berlanti. DoP: Paul Elliott. Prod des: Charlie Daboub. Ed: Todd Busch. Mus: Julianne Kelley, Joe Guthrie. Main cast: ...
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Oz studio plans fail to attract cash
The ambitious plan to build a third major film studio in Australia - with the backing of US giant Viacom - is floundering because of a complete lack of interest from institutional investors.The public float has now been abandoned and the retail precinct shaved off the development to bring the ...
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La Sept-Arte, Sundance partner for movie channel
Robert Redford's Sundance Channel and French public broadcaster La Sept-Arte are linking up to create a cable and satellite movie channel in France.La Sept-Arte, the French end of French-German cultural channel Arte, was already developing a channel, dedicated to independent film from all over the world, before approaching the Sundance ...
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Rotterdam's CineMart sows seeds for Berlin
The Berlin International Film Festival and market may only have unfolded this week, but the mating game for development and production finance partners is already in full swing.It kicked off in earnest earlier this month at the International Film Festival, Rotterdam which staged the 17th CineMart gathering for financiers, talent ...
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Oscar frontrunner Swank logs onto Porchlight slate
Porchlight Entertainment, the LA-based sales and production outfit specialising in family programming, has acquired international theatrical, TV and video rights to Heartwood, a coming of age story starring Hilary Swank and Jason Robards.Swank, who is frontrunner to win this year's Best Actress Academy Award for Boys Don't Cry, plays the ...
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Miramax stages Broadway version of Stoppard play
First it was magazine publishing, now Miramax Films has extended its tentacles onto The Great White Way. The New York-based Disney-offshoot has signed a deal to co-finance the Broadway run of the hit London stage revival of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing.The London cast which is currently in the middle ...
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Valenti enlists moguls to improve trade with China
Jack Valenti, chairman and CEO of The Motion Picture Association, has enlisted a who's who of Hollywood's most influential power-brokers to pressure the US Congress into bolster trade relations with China.Valenti, who will head up a new committee comprised of leading media tycoons and studio bosses, said the lobby group ...
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Dudley-Smith expands WBITD role
Malcolm Dudley-Smith has been promoted to senior vice president, sales and business development, at Warner Bros International Television Distribution where he will now oversee all sales activities in Latin America, Asia and Canada including pay, cable and free TV.Dudley-Smith will also continue to be responsible for identifying equity investments, strategic ...
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Livingstone to steer specialist fare for UIP
Universal has finalised the appointment of David Livingstone, formerly president of marketing at Universal Pictures International, to oversee the release of specialist films through the studio's international outlet, United International Pictures. Livingstone's brief will include titles from the UK's Working Title Films and DNA Films as well as projects from ...
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Finland's Restless knocks down Beauty, Joan
Finnish production Restless (Levottomat) has attracted 54,125 admissions in its first week on release, beating American Beauty to the number one slot with a box office gross of $372,337. The impressive opening is the biggest in Finland for a local film since the 1989 release of The Winter War which ...
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Genies grant Sunshine box office boost
Genie awards publicity translated into a box office boom for Istvan Szabo's Sunshine last weekend, as the film notched up its strongest sales to date since its release in Canada on December 16.Earning an impressive C$85,000 ($59,000) on 42 screens across Canada for the weekend Feb 4-6, the film now ...
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Relph takes BAFTA chair as membership surges
UK producer Simon Relph is replacing Tim Angel as chairman of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).Relph will take up the position on July 1. Angel has been chairman for three years after the traditional two-year post was renewed for an additional year.Relph assumes chairmanship as BAFTA ...
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Carlton, United merger hits competition snag
The proposed merger between UK media congloms Carlton Communications and United News & Media has hit a setback after being referred to the Competition Commission.The widely-expected decision by trade and industry secretary Stephen Byers comes after the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) raised concerns regarding both TV programming and advertising. ...