All Screen articles in 11 September 2000
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TEAM to file counter suit against Germany's FFP
Los Angeles-based TEAM Communications Group is to file a counter suit today against German media company FFP Entertainment and its largest shareholders Datty Ruth and Michael Smeaton, alleging amongst other things breach of contract and fraud.The suit comes after FFP filed suit this month alleging that TEAM had failed to ...
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Lucky Red gets No News From God
Italian distribution and production outfit Lucky Red is co-producing Spanish film No News From God, starring Victoria Abril and Penelope Cruz.Augustin Diaz Yanez is directing the $5.5m story of a good and a bad angel sent to earth to battle for the soul of an ageing boxer. Spain's Torna Sol ...
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Granada acquires 45% stake in Ireland's TV3
UK broadcaster Granada Media has launched its drive to expand overseas, acquiring 45% of Irish commercial operator TV3 from Canada's CanWest Global Communications for $28m in cash.Granada has also agreed to sell its major programme brands to TV3, with the broadcaster's flagship soap Coronation Street moving from Irish state broadcaster ...
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The Wrestlers (Uttara)
Dir: Buddhadeb Dasgupta. India. 2000. 102 mins.Prod co: Buddhadeb Dasgupta Productions. Int'l sales: Buddhadeb Dasgupta Productions, tel: (91) 33 4735545. Prod: Buddhadeb Dasgupta. Scr: Buddhadeb Dasgupta. DoP: Asim Bose. Prod des: Ashok Bose. Editor: Raviranjan Maitra. Music: Biswadeb Dasgupta. Main cast: Jaya Seal, Tapas Pal, Shankar Chakraborty, R.I.Asad, Tapas Adhikari, ...
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Hispanic TV hots up as Mexico's Azteca enters US
Mexican broadcasting giant TV Azteca has realized its long-standing ambition to enter the US by creating Azteca America, a third Hispanic network that is armed with investment commitments worth nearly $500m.Azteca, Mexico's second largest broadcaster, has joined forces with private station owner Pappas Telecasting to bankroll the venture, which is ...
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The Circle (Dayereh)
Dir: Jafar Panahi. Iran-Italy. 2000. 91 mins.Prod co: Jafar Panahi Film Productions. Co-prod: Mikado Film, Lumiere & Co (It). Int'l sales: Celluloid Dreams (33) 1 4970 0370. Prod: Jafar Panahi. Ass. prod: Mohammed Attebai. Scr: Kambozia Partovi. DoP: Bahram Badakhshani. Prod des: Iraj Raminfar. Ed: Jafar Panahi. Main cast: Fereshteh ...
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Better Than Sex
Dir: Jonathan Teplitzky. Australia. 2000. 85 mins.Prod cos: Better Than Pty Ltd. Int'l sales: President Films (+33 1 4562 8222). Dist (Australia): Newvision Films Distributors. Producers: Bruna Papandrea, Frank Cox. Scr: Jonathan Teplitzky. DoP: Garry Phillips. Prod des: Tara Kamath. Ed: Shawn Seet. Music: David Hirschfelder. Main cast: David Wenham, ...
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Elisabeth Murdoch joins UK publisher Future
Elisabeth Murdoch has joined the board of UK magazine publisher Future Network.Murdoch takes up the position of non-executive director, her first post since quitting her father's satellite TV company BSkyB three months ago. The former managing director of Sky Networks joins with immediate effect.Future Network announced the appointment as it ...
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Iran's The Circle wins the Golden Lion at Venice
Iranian film, The Circle (Dayereh) grabbed the top honours at the 57th Venice film festival.After the disappointments that had marked the competition section until the first weekend, it became clear that Jafar Panahi's episodic tale recounting the ongoing humiliations of women in modern Iranian society, had every chance of taking ...
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Vivendi Universal fends off critics in Deauville
Canal Plus top brass used the occasion of an informal press lunch with their Universal counterparts in Deauville on Thursday to shrug off Credit Lyonnais' recent downgrading of Vivendi and Canal Plus stock."Credit Lyonnais should keep in mind its past Hollywood ventures," quipped Canal Plus chairman Pierre Lescure.In an investor ...
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Fortissimo sells Venice titles to Canada, Brazil
Fortissimo Film Sales has sold Venice titles The Goddess Of 1967, which is screening in competition, and Thomas Est Amoureux, screening in the Present Cinema section, to Canada's Seville Films, Brazil's Imovision and Greece's Prooptiki.In addition, Australian title Goddess, directed by Clara Law, has been sold to Gemini in Mexico, ...
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Memento
Dir: Christopher Nolan. US. 2000. 113 mins.Prod co: Team Todd. Exec prod co: Newmarket. Backers: Summit Entertainment. Int'l sales: Summit Entertainment, tel: (1) 310 309 840001. Prods: Suzanne Todd, Jennifer Todd. Exec prods: Aaron Ryder, Will Tyrer, Chris Ball. Scr: Christopher Nolan, based on short story by Jonathan Nolan. DoP: ...
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Urbania
Dir: Jon Shear. US. 2000. 104 mins.Prod cos: Day-Harris Productions, Commotion Pictures. US dist: Lions Gate Films. Prods: Jon Shear, Stephanie Golden, J Todd Harris. Scr: Shear, Daniel Reitz, from the play Urban Folk Tales by Reitz. DoP: Shane Kelly. Prod des: Karyl Newman. Eds: Randolph K Bricker, Ed Marx. ...
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Brother
Dir: Takeshi Kitano. Japan-UK-US. 2000. 108 mins.Prod cos: Office Kitano, Recorded Picture Company. US dist: Sony Picture Classics. Int'l sales: HanWay Films Ltd, tel: (44) 20 7290 0750. Prod: Masayuki Mori, Jeremy Thomas. Scr: Takeshi Kitano. DoP: Katsumi Yanagijima. Ed: Yoshinori Ota, Takeshi Kitano. Music: Joe Hisaishi. Main cast: Takeshi ...
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ABC appoints Virgo as drama chief
Italy has chosen Marco Tullio Giordana's The Hundred Steps (I Cento Passi) as its official entry for the foreign-language Oscar, over both Silvio Soldini's Bread And Tulips and Giuseppe Tornatore's Malena, which had both been widely tipped.The Hundred Steps is based on the true story of Peppino Impastato, a student ...
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Reynolds to head Screen Tasmania board
Launceston-based Margaret Reynolds, currently president of the United Nations Association of Australia and a former Federal Minister, is to head up the new board of Screen Tasmania. The other board members include producer Rosemary Blight, author and director Richard Flanagan, lawyer and executive producer Bryce Menzies, writer-director Roger Scholes, ABC ...
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Italy's Scimeca lines up Spanish period drama
Sicilian director Pasquale Scimeca, whose Placido Rizzotto premiered this week in the Venice film festival's Filmmakers of Today sidebar, has finished writing his next project which will be set in 15th Century Spain.The film will recount the period when a royal edict forced thousands of persecuted Jews to leave Spain. ...
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Deluxe to open Italian facility
Laboratories group Deluxe is to open a new processing facility in Rome, which will be only its second site in Europe.Deluxe Italia is expected to serve distribution clients across the European region. "This is about more than the Italian market. From Rome we will be serving our clients' European needs. ...
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New Zealand exhibitors scrap merger proposal
New Zealand's biggest exhibitors - Village Force Cinemas and Hoyts Cinemas - have admitted publicly that they have abandoned plans to merge because of the New Zealand Commerce Commission's continued opposition to the deal.The two players would have jointly owned about one third and jointly controlled about three quarters of ...
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FFC boards Aboriginal drama Beneath Clouds
The Australian Film Finance Corporation (FFC) and local broadcaster SBS are backing the first feature from Aboriginal film-maker Ivan Sen, Beneath Clouds, with commitments from UK sales agent Axiom Films and Australian distributor Dendy Films.The film, scheduled to start shooting January 15, is about two teenagers - one the daughter ...