All Screen articles in 11 February 2000 – Page 3
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ProSieben, Sat1 mull collaboration options
German commercial broadcasters Sat1 and the ProSieben Media Group are considering forming a joint family of channels according to ProSieben's new chief Urs Rohner.The two groups are understood to be examining three scenarios. One involves Sat1 being brought into ProSieben with Sat1's shareholders becoming shareholders in ProSieben; while another sees ...
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Mason and Coote join Macquarie board
Producers Andrew Mason and Greg Coote have been appointed to the board of the Macquarie Film Corporation as the company gears up to release its second prospectus in March. Macquarie is one of two Australian companies awarded licences to raise A$20m ($12.6m) in concessional capital to help grow the film ...
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Other Voices
Dir: Dan McCormack. US. 1999. 104 mins.Prod Co: Charny/Strong. Int'l sales: Beyond Films. Prods: Ruth Charny, Shelly Strong. Co-prods: Alicia Reilly-Larson, Deborah Cappogrosso. Exec prods: Robert Baruc, Alicia Reilly-Larson. Scr: Dan McOrmack. DoP: Dan Gillham. Prod des: Michael Krantz. Ed: Fred Wardell, Martin Hunter. Mus: William T Stromberg. Main cast: ...
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Harris, Madigan sign up for Elton John project
Elton John's London-based film production company Rocket Pictures has partnered with Ed Harris and Amy Madigan for an adaptation of A L Kennedy's novel So I Am Glad.The husband and wife acting team will star in and, with Rocket co-founder David Furnish, produce the project through their US production ...
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BSkyB reports $99m loss; ups digital subscriptions
Investment in joint ventures and heavy subscriber acquisition costs have had a negative impact on UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB's bottom line, resulting in a pre-tax loss of £61.5m ($99.2m) for the six months to the end of 1999 compared to a profit of £53.2m ($85.8m) for the same period the ...
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Mehta's Water to relocate
Director Deepa Mehta has revealed that after weeks battling with protestors on the set of her film Water, she has decided to shift location from the Indian city of Varanasi."There is a good chance that the sets of Water will now float into the state of Madhya Pradesh, where chief ...
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Canal Plus, Pathe embark on Mission To Mars
C+P - the joint acquisition and distribution venture between French majors Canal Plus and Pathe - has acquired French rights to mammoth Disney sci-fi picture Mission To Mars from Spyglass Entertainment.Brian De Palma's epic, which is budgeted around $75m, will open in North America on March 10 through Buena Vista. ...
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Sony Pictures Classics converts to Tao Of Steve
Sealing yet another Sundance acquisition, Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the North American distribution rights to Jenniphr Goodman's The Tao Of Steve from New York's Good Machine.The crowd-pleasing romantic comedy, about a group of friends living in Santa Fe, New Mexico who use the philosophies of Lao-Tzu, Kierkegaard and Marx ...
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Artisan bets big on black entertainment
Shrewd US distributor Artisan Entertainment is boosting its product supply once again, this time sealing an agreement this week to distribute 6-8 black-themed films across North America.The films will be made by BET Pictures II, a subsidiary of BET Holdings II, the first and only black-owned and operated entertainment company ...
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Horror scores in German market
As Scream 3 breaks records in the US, the horror genre is making its mark in Germany - and this time for a locally produced film. Anatomie, written and directed by hot young Austrian Stefan Ruzowitzky, attracted 320,000 cinema-goers over its opening four-day weekend. Making almost $2m (DM4m) from 386 ...
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Le Studio set to fully finance Mike Leigh trio
Le Studio Canal Plus has signed a three-picture deal with UK film-maker Mike Leigh and his producing partner Simon Channing-Williams. The acclaimed director had also been in financing discussions recently with United Artists Films.Le Studio is now expected to fully finance the Leigh trio with Les Films Alain Sarde, in ...
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Fox to release Prokino slate in Germany
German independent distributor Prokino and 20th Century Fox have entered into an exclusive strategic cooperative alliance which will see all of Prokino's future releases being distributed by the US major, starting with Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labours Lost. Branagh's Shakespeare adaptation, which is showing at this year's Berlin Film Festival in ...
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Animal Factory
Dir: Steve Buscemi. US. 1999. 90 mins.Prod Co: Phoenician Entertainment, Industry Entertainment, Arts Production Corp. Int'l Sales: Franchise Pictures. Prods: Julie Yorn, Elie Samaha, Steve Buscemi, Andrew Stevens. Exec prods: Alan Cohen, Barry Cohen, Edward Bunker, Danny Trejo. Scr: Edward Bunker form his novel. DoP: Phil Parmet. Prod des: Steven ...
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Granada ties TV production knot with Seven Network
The UK's Granada Media Group has become one of the top five shareholders in Australia's Seven Network, as part of a deal which sees the two entities form an as-yet-unnamed Australian-based production company.Granada will combine its Australian production company Artist Services, which has several feature credits, with Seven's in-house production.The ...
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Beyond to sing with Other Voices
Beyond Films has acquired worldwide rights, excluding North America, to Dan McCormack's debut feature Other Voices, which featured in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Beyond quietly signed for the film after getting a sneak preview prior to Sundance. Other Voices stars Campbell Scott, Peter Gallagher and Stockard Channing and ...
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Kinowelt picks up two from Checkpoint Berlin
Kinowelt International, the foreign sales arm of German media concern Kinowelt Medien, has acquired international rights to Hansjoerg Thurn's Love Never Fails (Marmor,) and Peter Keglevic's Falling Rocks (Stein Und Eisen).The films are the first two projects from young Berlin-based production outfit TTD Checkpoint Berlin. The company was founded a ...
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European Commission seeks tax on internet movies
The European Commission (EC) is specifically targeting media products as it seeks to extend its tax net to goods sold on the Internet. The proposals, which will be detailed in the next two months, focus on virtual goods such as music, software and, by implication, streamed or downloadable film content. ...
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Fantasporto fetes Bowie, Bunuel at 40th bash
Retrospectives dedicated to David Bowie and Luis Bunuel are among the highlights of the Oporto International Film Festival - better known as 'Fantasporto' - which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year (Feb 25-March 4). Although the festival is best known for fantasy and sci-fi, it boasts a wide-ranging international Official ...
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Eyes Wide Shut is French critics' best foreign pic
Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut has been singled out by the French critics as best foreign film of 1999 for their prize, the Prix Leon Moussinac, which was awarded yesterday (Feb 7).The runner-ups for the prize, created in 1967, included Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother, Jean-Louis and Luc ...
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Muratova to receive Wajda Freedom Prize in Berlin
Russian director Kira Muratova, whose credits include the 1990 Berlin Special Jury prize winner The Asthenic Syndrome, will receive the first Andrzej Wajda/Philip Morris Freedom Prize at the Berlin Film Festival on February 13.Wajda, whose film Pan Tadeusz will receive a special screening at Berlin, will present the prize to ...