All Screen articles in 12 January 2001 – Page 3
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Brian Yuzna's genre Factory heads for Fantasporto
Brian Yuzna's Fantasy Factory, the Spanish genre house which struck deals with Dimension Films, Lions Gate and Trimark late last year, is expected to world premiere Arachnid at Portuguese fantasy festival Fantasporto as part of a spotlight on the Filmax subsidiary.The Porto-based festival, which runs February 23 to March 3, ...
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Germany's Das Werk takes over Centropolis Effects
European digital post powerhouse Das Werk has established a key presence in the North American market by taking over Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's Los Angeles-based facility Centropolis Effects (CFX).Emmerich and Devlin, who launched the company in 1996 to handle digital effects on Independence Day, will receive a 4% stake ...
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Latin American admissions on the rise
Cinema admissions in Latin America grew by 7% last year thanks to the influence of multiplex building, according to figures from UK consultants Dodona Research.Dodona's data shows that audiences grew from 272 million to 290 million in the seven major Latin countries. It forecasts that Audiences will growth another 25% ...
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Industry figures to attend UK Production Show
Robert Jones, head of the Premiere Fund at UK film body The Film Council, Working Title's Debra Hayward and Universal Pictures' Graeme Mason are some of the names appearing at the Production Show's Movie Day on March 14.Other industry insiders appearing at Olympia in London include Scala Productions' Nik Powell, ...
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Japan's Wowow secures 2.6 million subscribers
Japanese satellite service Wowow has broken the 2.6 million subscribers barrier.The broadcaster recorded 1.7 times more new subscriptions in December than in the same month the previous year. Wowow is expected to benefited from the highly-publicised launch of digital broadcast satellite services on December 1. The company recruited 42,708 subscribers ...
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Hindi mogul arrested
In the biggest scandal to hit the Hindi cinema in recent years, police have arrested leading film financier Bharat Shah under the Organized Crime Act. Police swooped as part of investigations into links between the Karachi based underworld and the makers of the film Chori Chori Chupke Chupke - a ...
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Forman & Zaentz together again for Goya biopic
Director Milos Forman and producer Saul Zaentz are to reteam for the third time on a new film about the life and times of Spanish painter Francisco Goya. The previous collaborations between the two, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Amadeus (1984), both won Academy Awards for Best ...
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Swedish Oscars return Lukas Moodysson's insult
Lukas Moodysson, the director who showed his appreciation when he won the Swedish Oscars for Show Me Love by giving the audience the finger, has controversially missed getting a best film nomination this year for Together.Instead, Roy Andersson's Songs From The Second Floor was heavily nominated, securing nominations for best ...
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Spain's San Sebastian appoints festival manager
Leading Spanish film event the San Sebastian International Film Festival has named Mikel Etxagibel as its general manager.Etxagibel will work alongside incoming festival director Mikel Olaciregui, who replaces Diego Galan this month. Etxagibel, 48, comes to the festival from the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, where he had been assistant director ...
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Indian film business signs biggest music contract
Music company Saregama India has signed the biggest ever music contract with the Indian film industry, striking a $6m accord with leading production company Puja Entertainment.Saregama, formerly named the Gramophone Company of India, takes the music rights to the next five films from Puja, one of the top Hindi film ...
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Harry Potter adds Character
Character Group, the UK-branded goods manufacturer buffeted last year by disappointing sales of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace merchandising, is set to return to the film sector on Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone.The company confirmed press reports on Monday that it is in talks over the UK distribution of ...
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DVD future has Vegas video conference in a spin
How to exploit the potential of DVD divided delegates at this week's Las Vegas Video Software Dealers' Association after Blockbuster Video pushed for creating a rental window for the format.Blockbuster, which recently begun trials of video-on-demand (VoD) movies, aims for the move to allow time for DVDs to be available ...
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Hollywood stars face off European upstarts
New European stars face off against Hollywood screen legends in the best actor race for the Academy Awards this year.At time of going to press, Tom Hanks had been named Best Actor by the New York Film Critics Circle for Cast Away, while Michael Douglas was given the same nod ...
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Cast Away No 1 but Traffic flies high $14.9m
USA Films' critical favourite Traffic opened on a high in its first weekend of wide release.The Steven Soderbergh picture secured the highest screen average in the top ten - $9,991. Taking the number three spot, the film grossed $14.9m from 1,510 theatres.That result surpassed the expectations of many who had ...
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Winchester, Wind Dancer seal three-year deal
Wind Dancer Films, the US-based production company behind What Women Want and hit sitcom Home Improvement, has cemented its relationship with UK/US production and sales outfit Winchester Films.The two companies have struck an overall three-year development and co-production deal on a new slate of pictures. Winchester will provide development funds ...
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