All Screen articles in 11 January 2002 – Page 3
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EIB not delivering Reding's Euro funding promises
Unveiled amidst great fanfare this time last year, the European Union plan to help bankroll the European film industry with loans from the European Investment Bank appears to have hit a brick wall, according to a report in this week's Screen International. The Luxembourg-based EIB announced plans to include the ...
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Sundance line-up: 'much darker' than usual
Sundance's reputation as a capricious marketplace has led several sales agents this year to downplay the commercial prospects of the films they will represent in Park City. Manufactured hype has a history here of being hurled back at producers' faces faster than they can say snow-ball.Every year the Sundance Film ...
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Tricky Life (En La Puta Vida)
Dir: Beatriz Flores Silva. Belg-Uru-Sp-Cuba. 97mins.This ambitious Uruguayan tragi-comedy took its home box office by storm last year, as well as gleaning the top prize at Spain's Iberoamerican Film Festival in November. Uruguay's first-ever nomination to the foreign language Oscar, Tricky Life may also serve to re-ignite the country's ...
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Till appoints his executive team at Signpost Films
Stewart Till has announced that his ambitious new worldwide film production and distribution company will be called Signpost Films, and has confirmed a string of London-based executive appointments, including Nicole Mackey and Darryl Iwai.Till, formerly president of London-based Universal Pictures International and head of international activities at the defunct Euro ...
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Sherwin, Tuckman bolster the ranks at THINKFilm
Amanda Sherwin has joinednewly formed North American distributor THINKFilm as vice president ofdistribution, while Michael Tuckman has been named director of theatricalsales. Both will work out of thecompany's New York City office and report to president Jeff Sackman andhead of distribution Mark Urman.Sherwin was previously vicepresident of marketing at Lions ...
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Paul Speaker joins Madstone as president and COO
Paul Speaker, formerpresident of Shooting Gallery Entertainment, has joined New York-based MadstoneFilms as president and COO. He will be involved in all the company'sactivities from production to distribution and exhibition.Madstone is a self-styled 'new-stylefilm studio' formed in New York in 1999 by financier Chip Seelig withformer PFE executive Tom Gruenberg. ...
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Brenner appointed to UK's FilmFour Int'l sales
The UK's FilmFour has appointed Natalie Brenner as deputy head of international film sales. Brenner was previously senior vice president of sales at IAC Film and vice president of sales and marketing at J & M Entertainment.Brenner will work with head of FilmFour International Janine Gold and film sales executive ...
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Toronto fest mourns programmer Ramiro Puerta
Ramiro Puerta, a long-time programmer and staff member of the Toronto International Film Festival died on Friday, Jan. 4. A filmmaker, musician, actor and impresario, he was 48.A native of Colombia, Puerta studied acting at the Mountview Theatre School in London and then moved to Toronto in 1980 where he ...
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UIP retains German box office crown
UIP held onto pole position at the German box office in 2001 with a 20.5% market share, according to ACNielsen/EDI figures, but Warner Bros. was the year's big winner as it more than doubled its share of the market from 2000's 8.3% to 18.8.% thanks in particular to the end-of-year ...
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Oslo Cinemas reject new film rental agreement
Norway's largest exhibitor, Oslo Cinemas, cancelled the opening of Spy Game this week because of a disagreement with distributor Egmont Columbia TriStar on the film's rental terms. More Hollywood titles could follow.Norwegian distributors and exhibitors recently approved a renewal of the Film Rental Agreement after the old agreement expired on ...
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Pathe gets Deathwatch for UK from Odyssey
Pathe Distribution has picked up UK rights to the British supernatural horror Deathwatch (working title) from Ralph Kamp's newly-formed independent sales company Odyssey Entertainment.The debut production from Film And Music Entertainment (F&ME), the UK-based international production and acquisitions wing of Germany's FAME, stars Billy Elliot's Jamie Bell and was written ...
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Imax shares soar after $42m debt repurchase
Giant screen purveyor Imax Corp. has repurchased $42m of its own debt for one-quarter the issue price, alleviating refinancing concerns and placing the big-screen movie maker and large-format exhibitor on firmer financial footing.By noon on Tuesday (Jan 8), Imax's share price had risen nearly 50% on the day - from ...
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Top Oz TV executive in surprise departure
David Leckie, widely considered to be the most powerful television executive in Australia, was replaced as chief executive of the Nine Network late yesterday (Jan 8). For many years the Nine Network has been the highest rating network but events in the past 12 months have lead to its supremacy ...
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Miramax buys North American rights to Samsara
Miramax Films has bought US rights to Samsara (pictured), the German-Tibetan romantic drama that premiered at Toronto last year. Orfeo Films, which is handling world rights, sold other North American rights to Odeon Films for Canada.Orfeo also added to the Asian release of Mira Nair's Golden Lion winner Monsoon Wedding, ...
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Kinepolis abandons cinema box office
Belgian cinema group Kinepolis, is planning to replace box office ticket desks in all of its multiplexes with public-access computers to allow patrons to buy tickets via the internet. The company also intends to install terminals in local bars and restaurants. In addition to on-line ticket sales, film-goers will ...
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Beauty & The Beast scores on the large screen
Buena Vista International scored a sizable hit at the UK box office this week with its large screen format release of 1991's Beauty And The Beast.Taking position 15 in the chart despite playing at just three sites (BFI Imax South Bank, Warner Village Cheshire Oaks, Filmworks Manchester) the animated title ...
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The Shipping News
Dir Lasse Hallstrom. US 2001. 111mins.What has happened to the singular vision of Lasse Hallstrom, so clearly evident in his Swedish (My Life As A Dog) and first American film (What's Eating Gilbert Grape')' The Shipping News, his third consecutive film for Miramax, propagates the same compassionate humanism that defined ...
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Harry Potter is number three int'l hit of all time
Warner Bros' HarryPotter & The Philosopher's Stone has passed the $500m mark in international grosses, bringing its worldwidetotal to date to an estimated $811.1m. Its international gross tips it past IndependenceDay and Star Wars: Episode 1- The Phantom Menace to becomethe third biggest international hit in history after Titanic and ...
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$40m international weekend for Lord Of The Rings
New Line International hadanother rousing weekend at the international box office withThe Lord Of TheRings: The Fellowship Of The Ring,taking $40m from 34 territories to bring the film's total internationalgross to $236m.Latest major territory toopen is Korea where it took $5m since Jan 1, and $2.4m over the weekend. ...
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Robert Wise to receive PGA Milestone Award
Oscar-winning producer,director and editor Robert Wise will receive this year's Producers GuildOf America (PGA) Milestone Award at the 13th annual PGA Awards on March 3 inLos Angeles.Wise, who both produced anddirected classics such as West Side Story and The Sound Of Music,joins past Milestone winners who have included Alfred Hitchcock, ...
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