All Screen articles in 11 September 2000 – Page 3
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Altman lines up UK-set manor house drama
In Venice to promote his latest feature, Dr T And The Women, director Robert Altman has revealed details of his next project, Gosford Park, which he plans to shoot in the UK from next March.Written by Julian Fellows, the film is set in 1933 - the year Hitler rose to ...
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The Princess And The Warrior
Dir: Tom Tykwer. Germany. 2000. 129mins.Prod co: X Filme Creative Pool. Int'l sales: Canal Plus, tel: (33) 1 4610 1212. Prods: Stefan Arndt, Maria Koepf. Scr: Tykwer. DoP: Frank Griebe. Ed: Mathilde Bonnefoy. Main cast: Franka Potente, Benno Fuermann, Joachim Krul, Juergen Tarrach, Natja Brunckhorst, Lars Rudolph, Melchior Beslon, Ludger ...
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Chinese Coffee
Dir: Al Pacino. US. 2000. 97 mins.Prod cos: CHAL Productions in association with Shooting Gallery. Exec prod: Anne D'Amato. Prods: Michael Hadge, Larry Meistrich, Robert Salerno. Scr: Ira Lewis adapted from his own play. DoP: Frank Prinzi. Prod des: Wing Lee. Ed: Michael Berenbaum. Mus: Elmer Bernstein. Main cast: Al ...
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Hollow Man fills Spanish box office
Columbia TriStar had a successful weekend in Spain with the release of Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man where it won the number one slot with a three-day gross of $2.3m (PTS434m). This is the territory's third strongest opening so far this year. Comparatively, Fox's Titan AE on 226 screens (versus Hollow ...
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Kevin Williams takes three from Tornasol
Spanish sales outfit Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has picked up world rights on three titles from Madrid-based producer Tornasol Films.Two of the films are screening in the Toronto Film Festival's Contemporary World Cinema sidebar: Nuts For Love (Nueces Para El Amor), an Argentinean co-production from director Alberto Lecchi starring Ariadna ...
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Pop.com closes shop after merger talks fail
Entertainment web-site Pop.com - fronted by Imagine Entertainment and DreamWorks - is shutting down following the collapse last week of merger discussions with LA-based film portal Ifilm.com (Screendaily, September 4).The site, backed by $50m from Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures, never went live despite being scheduled for a spring 2000 launch. ...
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Festivals feel impact of global releasing
Global releasing is only now being adopted by Hollywood studios, but it is already having an impact on the timing and programming of festivals. Felice Laudadio this week announced that he will move next year's Taormina festival by a couple of weeks - from mid July to the last week ...
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Innocence, Le Gout share top gong at Montreal
French director Agnes Jaoui's The Taste Of Other (Le Gout Des Autres) and Australian Paul Cox's Innocence shared the top prize at the 24th Montreal World Film Festival which wrapped on Monday. The Grand Prix of the Americas is the second major prize for the Cox title after Taormina. Iranian ...
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Warner wins rights to Brazil's Xuxa sequel
Warner Bros has beaten off competition from Columbia TriStar, 20th Century Fox and Lumiere Brasil to acquire Brazilian rights to local children's feature Xuxa Pop Star, the third film in domestic TV star Xuxa's franchise.The last Xuxa film - Xuxa Wiggles (Xuxa Requebra) - distributed by 20th Century Fox through ...
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The Man Who Cried
Dir: Sally Potter. UK-Fr. 2000. 98 mins.Prod co: Working Title, Adventure Pictures. Backers: Universal Pictures, StudioCanal. Int'l sales: StudioCanal, tel: (33) 1 4443 9800. Prod: Christopher Sheppard. Exec prods: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner. Co-prod: Simona Benzakein. Scr: Sally Potter. DoP: Sacha Vierny. Prod des: Carlos Conti. Editor: Herve Schneid. Music: ...
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Before Night Falls
Dir: Julian Schnabel. US. 2000. 131 mins.Prod co: Grandview Pictures. Int'l sales: Overseas FilmGroup (+1 310 855 1199). Prod: Jon Kilik. Scr: Cunningham O'Keefe, Lazaro Gomez-Carriles, Julian Schnabel. DoPs: Xavier Perez-Grobet, Guillermo Rosas. Editor: Michael Berenbaum. Music: Carter Burwell, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson. Main cast: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea ...
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Snatch steals record-breaking UK opening
The latest UK gangster movie Snatch has stormed into the UK chart at number one with an impressive three-day gross of $3.85m (£2.6m). Adding in paid previews of $800,000, the film's official opening gross reaches an impressive $4.6m - a new record for an 18-certificate film released in the UK.Playing ...
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San Sebastian unveils Spanish, Music sidebars
The San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30) has announced the titles to be included in its Made In Spanish section, a popular sidebar dedicated to presenting the year's best Spanish and Latin American features and short films.Among the 37 feature films included are:Miguel Albaladejo's Verbal Attack (Ataque Verbal)I Will ...
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Cisneros launches pan-Latin American channel
Venezuelan media giant Grupo Cisneros has launched a pan-Latin American entertainment and news channel - Venevision Continental - which will also be available to viewers in Spain and Portugal.According to Venevision Continental president Carlos Bardasano, the Spanish-language network currently reaches eight million viewers in Latin America. Its launch in Spain ...
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Firstmovies launches with on-line marketing tool
A new UK film industry marketing company launches this week, aiming to provide distributors with market research about their films via the internet. Called Firstmovies.com, the service has been set up by Chris Ward, managing director of youth marketing agency Beatwax Communications. Film Council deputy chairman Stewart Till has been ...
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MIFED expands with related events
Mifed is to defend its claim to be the autumn's leading film sales market by improving its technical facilities and creating a network of linked events."The need for human contact will mean that there is always a need for film markets. But at a time when deals are increasingly done ...
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Brotherhood's local debut pushed back to next year
The French release of StudioCanal's eagerly-awaited The Brotherhood Of Wolves (Le Pacte Des Loups) has been postponed from an autumn 2000 slot to the end of January 2001 due to an extended post-production period.The $25m fantasy period piece involves a high degree of special effects. Shot in Super 35mm and ...
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