All Screen articles in 11 February 2000 – Page 4
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Parallax, Road Movies' Princesa cranks up in Milan
Production has started in Milan on Henrique Goldman's Princesa, a three-way co-production between the UK's Parallax Pictures, Germany's Road Movies Filmproduktion and Italian distributor BIM.The film, which is Road Movies' fifth collaboration with London-based Parallax after films such as Ken Loach's Land And Freedom and Carla's Song, centres on the ...
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Brussels loses FIAPF status
The recently-wrapped Brussels International Film Festival has been stripped of its approved status, by the Paris-based International Federation of Film Producers' Associations (FIAPF). FIAPF said that the Brussels IFF, which specialises in films from the European Union, had lost its accredited status as a result of its use of cassette ...
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Apollo Media lines up Beresford, Cookson projects
German film fund Apollo Media, launched last November (Screen International, Nov 19, 1999), has unveiled its debut slate which includes new projects from Bruce Beresford, Stephen Cookson, Christine Lahti and Tomy Wigand. An April start is being slated for Bruce Beresford's long-gestating project, the $12m melodrama Alma - Bride Of ...
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Hi-Def crime mockumentary plans Berlin heist
Robbers, one of the first feature films to be shot completely on high-definition video, will be unveiled at Berlin this week by its producers Dan Lupovitz, Timm Oberwelland and Leon Melas.A mock documentary about a film crew following a gang of robbers at work and play, Robbers is the first ...
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Videotron, Rogers confirm $4.1bn merger
North America's seventh largest cable TV operator was forged on Monday when Canada's biggest cable company, Rogers Communications, announced a merger with Groupe Videotron, the country's third largest.The C$6bn ($4.1bn) friendly takeover creates a company that boasts not only 3.7m subscribers, representing nearly half of Canadian households, but also the ...
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Sweden's Mother, Knockout share Goteborg prize
Lars Lennart Forsberg's My Mother Had 14 Children and Agneta Fagerstrom-Olsson's Knockout shared the Goteborg-Posten Nordic Competition Award at this year's Goteborg Film Festival (Jan 28-Feb 6).The directors of the two Swedish films were awarded SEK50,000 each. Knockout also won the Kodak NordicVision award - also worth SEK50,000 - for ...
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Toy Story 2 receives top honours at Imagina
Toy Story 2 has won the grand prize at this year's Imagina (Jan 31-Feb 4), the Monte Carlo and Paris-based festival dedicated to 3D animation and special effects. The first Toy Story film - also directed by John Lasseter and produced by Disney-Pixar - picked up the same prize in ...
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iCraveTV close to settlement with studios
Canada's iCraveTV, the web-site that has raised the ire of the US and local entertainment industries, is understood to be close to reaching a settlement with its powerhouse adversaries. The site had been web-casting feeds from US and Canadian channels without permission; but was forced to cease web-casts last Friday ...
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Mehta's Water off again following suicide attempt
Production on Deepa Mehta's Water has been halted again in the Indian city of Varanasi following a suicide attempt and further protests by local government. The controversial film, the third instalment in Mehta's Fire, Earth and Water trilogy, resumed filming last Thursday after India's federal government over-ruled protests by local ...
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Italian directors face blasphemy charges
The directors of Italian production Toto, Who Lived Twice are standing trial in Italy this week on charges of fraud and blasphemy which were brought against them by the state. The Palermo filmmakers, Daniele Cipri and Franceso Maresco, became local celebrities last year when their publicly-funded movie was banned by ...
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Entertainment gurus resurrect Hammer horror label
An investment consortium headed by leading lights in the UK film, music, publishing and advertising sectors has acquired classic British horror and genre franchise Hammer Film Productions.The group aims to boost sales on Hammer's library - which encompasses 179 feature films including The Curse Of Frankenstein and Dracula - plus ...
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Canal Plus snaps up six from Japan's Suncent
France's Canal Plus is acquiring worldwide rights, excluding Japan, to six pictures from Suncent CinemaWorks, the film production arm of Japanese satellite broadcaster WOWOW.The first film in the deal is Sogo Ishii's Gojo Reisenki, a lavishly produced period action film set for an autumn release in Japan. The film is ...
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Canadian exports break C$100m barrier
Canadian film and video exports surpassed the C$100 million mark for the first time in 1997-1998, according to a report from Statistics Canada.Sales agents' foreign sales of Canadian film and video productions reached a record C$101.2m ($70m). The figures excluded productions distributed directly by film and video producers.Meanwhile, the strong ...
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Toy Story 2 opens on digital high
The exclusive digital screening of Toy Story 2 at the Odeon Leicester Square, London raked in an impressive £150,000 ($240,000) in its opening three days. The highly-anticipated Walt Disney/Pixar animation, billed as one of the few sequels that is better than the original, is being projected using Texas Instruments' ...
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Scream 3
Dir: Wes Craven. US. 2000. 116 mins.Prod co: Konrad Pictures, Craven/Maddalena Films. US dist: Dimension Films. Int'l sales: Miramax International. Prods: Cathy Konrad, Kevin Williamson, Marianne Maddalena. Exec prods: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Cary Granat, Andrew Rona. Scr: Ethen Kruger, based on characters created by Kevin Williamson. DoP: Peter Deming. ...
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Fresh talent picks up Tigers at Rotterdam
Three fledgling directors from three different international territories walked away with a VPRO Tiger Award at the close of this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam on Saturday night. The winning directors were: China's Lou Ye for his Suzhou River; Argentinean Pablo Trapero's Mundo Grua (Crane World) and Katrin Ottarsdottir from ...
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Canal Plus reports 16% turnover increase
Canal Plus, the European pay-TV giant which has seen its shares more than double since November, reported 1999 turnover up by 16%.Driven by its international businesses and film division Le Studio Canal Plus, the group saw revenues for its majority owned operations hit $3.33bn (euro3.29bn), up from $2.78 in the ...
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FFC grants producers better terms of trade
The Australian Film Finance Corporation (FFC) has unveiled plans to guarantee producers overhead payments and give them greater access to the revenue streams generated by their projects. A group of 24 producers calling itself the Independent Producers' Initiative (IDI) emerged in November to force some action on terms of trade ...
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Telefonica gets approval for LatAm buy-outs
Shareholders of Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica Friday approved a euro922m increase in capital to allow the conglomerate to follow through on plans to buy out 100% of four of its Latin American interests: Telesp and Tele Sudeste Celular of Brazil, Telefonica of Argentina and Telefonica of Peru. Telefonica will offer ...
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East Is East wins best film at British Film Awards
FilmFour's hit comedy East Is East won Best Film at the Evening Standard British Film Awards last night. Working Title Films' romantic comedy, Notting Hill, the most successful UK film worldwide, took the Peter Sellers Award for Comedy. Best actor went to Jeremy Northam for An Ideal Husband and The ...