All Screen articles in 13 August 2000 – Page 2
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Constantin doubles turnover, posts profit increase
Germany's Constantin Film has reported that turnover doubled to $57.6m (DM125.1m) and pre-tax profit increased to $4.8m (DM10.4m) in the first half of the current financial year.Constantin boasts a 34% share of the German distribution market and has also had success with its own productions during 2000 including Harte Jungs ...
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Mendes confirmed to direct Hanks in gangster pic
British wunderkind director Sam Mendes will return to DreamWorks SKG for his second film after his Oscar winning debut American Beauty. He will direct megastar Tom Hanks in The Road To Perdition, a film adaptation of a 1930s gangster comic strip novel by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayners. ...
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Revolution Films seals first look deal with UA
United Artists Films (UAF), the specialised film division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), has entered into a two year, first-look deal with Revolution Films, the UK-based independent production company headed by director Michael Winterbottom and his producing partner Andrew Eaton.The deal, which had been anticipated at Cannes this year (Screendaily, May 14, ...
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Hanway taps Lynch-Staunton for marketing role
HanWay Films, the international sales arm of Jeremy Thomas' UK production outfit Recorded Picture Co, has appointed Jonathan Lynch-Staunton as manager, publicity and marketing.Lynch-Staunton was previously vice president of publicity and marketing at UK-based sales operation J&M Entertainment. Reporting to Thomas and HanWay managing director Thierry Wase-Bailey, he is to ...
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Bellucci signs to play Cleo in Asterix sequel
Italian actress Monica Bellucci has reportedly signed to play Cleopatra opposite Christian Clavier and Gerard Depardieu in Renn Productions' Asterix And Obelix In The Service Of Cleopatra.The first Asterix film, Asterix And Obelix Vs Caesar, was France's most expensive production at $50m and topped the French box office during 1999. ...
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Belgian box office basks in summer high
Admissions in Belgium reached a record-breaking 2.25 million for the month of July, up 30% from the same month in 1999. This resulted in an unprecedented box office gross of more than $12m (BFr500m).Similar to southern European countries July and August are traditionally slow months in terms of cinema-going in ...
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Tribeca lines up Oscar nominee for debut feature
JJ Keith, nominated for an Oscar in 1999 for his short film Holiday Romance, is attached to direct the first feature from UK production outfit Tribeca Films.Tony Curtis Kissed Me, produced by Matthew Hobbs, is a gritty contemporary drama about a dysfunctional family. It will shoot on location in Preston ...
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Film Council appoints Holden to finance post
UK film support body The Film Council has appointed Vincent Holden as production finance controller.Holden, who takes up the position from September 4, was previously head of finance at George Faber's UK production outfit Company Television. Part of Holden's brief is to analyse investments made through the Council's National Lottery ...
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Technicolor invests in Southern Star Duplitek
US-based video, CD, DVD and film print manufacturer Technicolor is investing $19m (A$33m) in Australia's Southern Star Duplitek, which will use $16m (A$28m) of the cash to acquire rival optical disc manufacturer Pacific Mirror Image (PMI). Both companies will then assume responsibility for new capital expenditures at PMI totalling about ...
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Shochiku unveils Korean co-production
Japanese major Shochiku and Korea's Cinema Service are teaming up to produce $1.8m (Y200m) drama Pure Love Melody (Sunebo), billed as one of the most equal co-productions between the two countries since Korea lifted its 35-year-old cultural embargo against Japan. At a Tokyo press conference yesterday, representatives from the ...
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Imax owners plan assault on Oslo cinema market
Investment company Norway Cinema Group (NCG) - which operates Oslo's Imax theatre - is challenging the local authorities' dominance of the Oslo exhibition market with plans for a 10-screen multiplex scheduled to open in 2003.The complex, which represents an investment of $10m-$12m, will be built in Oslo's affluent seaside neighbourhood ...
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Montreal lines up Sade for competition
Benoit Jacquot's Sade, starring Daniel Auteuil, Claude Chabrol's Nightcap and Pupi Avati's Midsummer Night Dance are among the competition titles at the 24th Montreal World Film Festival (August 25-September 4). In addition, David Mamet's State And Main will make its world premiere at the event out of competition.Also featuring in ...
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My Mother Frank wins audience vote at Brisbane
Australian writer-director Mark Lamprell's debut film My Mother Frank was voted best film by audiences at the 9th Brisbane International Film Festival (July 26-August 6).Other favourite features at the event were Nabbie's Love (Japan) in second place followed by Under The Sun (Sweden), Better Than Sex (Australia), Gigantic (Germany), Titus ...
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Canal Plus, Vivendi report revenue increases
Canal Plus' film and television production and distribution division StudioCanal has reported an 11% increase in first-half revenues to Euros144m, mostly due to increased library sales and its consolidation of German film distributor Tobis.The company, which recently sold European DVD rights (excluding France) to 240 titles to Germany's Kinowelt, said ...
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NTL, MSDW buy France Telecom's Noos stake
UK cable operator NTL is partnering with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Private Equity (MSDW) to acquire France Telecom's 49.9% stake in Suez Lyonnaise-controlled French cable operation Noos, for a reported Euros1.35bn.The deal - which will see NTL and MSDW owning 27% and 22.9% of the cable operator respectively - values ...
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B4U plans private placement ahead of Indian launch
B4U Multimedia International, which owns Hindi film channel Bollywood For You (B4U), is planning a private placement of equity with non-resident Indians (NRI) and overseas corporate bodies (OCBs) ahead of its proposed $120m float and Indian launch.The company, which operates movie channels in the US and UK, is aiming to ...
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The Romanovs - The Imperial Family
Dir: Gleb Panfilov. Russia. 2000. 150 mins.Prod co: Vera Film Studio. Int'l sales: Vera Film Studio, tel: (7) 095 229 0744. Prod: Vladimir Bychkov. Scr: Gleb Panfilov. DoP: Mikhail Agranovich. Ed: Enzo Meniconi. Music: Vadim Bibergan. Art dirs: Anatoly Panfilov, Alexander Boim. Costume des: Svetlana Titova. Main cast: Alexander Galibin, ...
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Gone In Sixty Seconds speeds to top of UK chart
Gone In Sixty Seconds sped to the top of the UK box office over the weekend with an opening three-day gross of $2.4m (£1.6m) from 394 sites, excluding previews of $230,000. This gave the Jerry Bruckheimer-Touchstone Pictures co-production a site average of $6,600 (£4,353), a stable opening considering the mixed ...
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Art Films grabs Gramado winner Pantaleon
Brazil's Art Films has beaten off several other distributors to acquire local theatrical rights to Gramado festival winner Captain Pantoja And The Special Service (Pantaleon Y Las Visitadoras), a Peruvian title directed by Francisco Lombardi.The company acquired the film jointly with local video distributor Europa Video. According to Art Films ...
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Redbus, Warner strike video pact
UK distributor Redbus Film Distribution has struck a video and DVD deal with Warner Home Video, which gives the company sole rights to distribute and market up to 25 titles a year until 2003. The deal kicks off with Academy Award-winning documentary One Day In September.Other films to go through ...
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