All Screen articles in 14 April 2000 – Page 2
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Warner, Lagardere pact for TV production push
Warner Bros International Television (WBIT)has struck a long-term alliance with Europe Audiovisuel, the audiovisual division of defence, communications and media conglomerate Lagardere.The two companies are to co-produce and co-finance English-language TV programmes for the international market, plus French-language TV drama aimed at the local market.WBIT and Europe Audiovisuel will share ...
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Russia's first mall-based mini-plex opens doors
Moscow-based entertainment company Karo has opened Russia's first shopping centre-based mini-plex. The 700-seat, four-screen cinema opened its doors last week in the Ramstore shopping centre in a Moscow suburb. The site follows a model that has proved successful in Eastern European countries such as Hungary where cinemas are incorporated into ...
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Chapman, Lawrence team for FFC-backed thriller
Leading Australian producer Jan Chapman (Holy Smoke, The Piano) has teamed with award-winning director Ray Lawrence (Bliss) to make Lantana, one of four films which have just received backing from the Australian Film Finance Corporation (FFC). Lantana marks Lawrence's first film for 15 years when he won best director at ...
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Mitchell Galin resigns from New Amsterdam Ent.
Mitchell Galin has resigned from his position as president and member of the board at New Amsterdam Entertainment. Richard P Rubinstein will now assume the position of president alongside his current roles as chairman and CEO.Galin, who has relocated to Nashville to set up his own production company On The ...
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Romanian studio backs down from DiCaprio boast
Romania's Castel Film Studios has backed down from claims made earlier this week that Leonardo DiCaprio would be appearing in Librium, the sci-fi thriller that is due to shoot in Bucharest this Summer for Dimension Films.Admitting to the same wishful thinking that makes casting credits so non-contractual at film markets, ...
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Cuaron returns to Mexico with Good Machine
Good Machine International (GMI) has acquired international sales rights outside North America, Spain and Latin America to Alfonso Cuaron's latest film Y Tu Mama Tambien which is currently shooting in Mexico.The film marks Cuaron's return to Spanish-language films in Mexico after two Hollywood films - Great Expectations (1998) for 20th ...
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Rapp's Gout takes top prizes at Cognac crime fest
Bernard Rapp 's Une Affaire De Gout bagged three awards at the 18th Cognac Festival of Crime Films (April 6-9), including the Cognac 2000 Grand Prize, the Critics' Prize and the Cine Live Prize.The film noir, which stars Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Lorit and Florence Thomassin, was the token French film ...
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MIP-TV: Hallmark signs output deal with M6
French broadcaster M6 has signed a two-year output deal with US-based TV drama producer Hallmark Entertainment.The deal gives M6 exclusive free TV rights to Hallmark's television movies and mini-series, starting immediately. M6 will also co-finance a number of mini-series with Hallmark each year for the duration of the deal.This is ...
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Oz commission attacks broadcasting legislation
One of the Australian government's advisory bodies, the Productivity Commission, has warned that Australia's digital conversion plan faces "serious risk of failure".The warning is a slap in the face for both the government that formulated the plan and the influential existing free-to-air television networks which it clearly favours. The commission ...
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Bornedal, Holst team up for Dina adaptation
Danish director Ole Bornedal (Nightwatch) is attached to direct an adaptation of best-selling Norwegian novel Dina's Book for Danish producer Per Holst. The $10m English-language project is set to start production in September.Dina will be Bornedal's first directing project since the 1999 TV movie Deep Water (Dybt Vand). Bornedal achieved ...
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UK's Optimum, MGM team for Flawless release
Optimum Releasing, the indie distributor that flashed its marketing savvy by re-releasing The Third Man opposite Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, has struck a joint partnership with MGM to release Flawless, starring Robert DeNiro and Philip Seymour Hoffman.Optimum and MGM have also partnered for a UK release on Mike Figgis' ...
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Allen, DreamWorks seal three-pic deal
Woody Allen has signed a domestic distribution deal with DreamWorks SKG for his next three untitled comedies. DreamWorks, whose film Antz featured Allen's voice, is already distributing the next Woody Allen picture Small Time Crooks in the US. The agreement comes in the wake of the ending of Allen's association ...
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Silver creates low-budget Zinc division
Joel Silver's production outfit Silver Pictures is launching a new low-budget production division Zinc Pictures which will bow with the $5m thriller Proximity directed by Scott Ziehl, whose critically acclaimed first film Broken Vessels premiered at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival two years ago. The company emerged out of ...
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The Nine Lives Of Tomas Katz
Dir: Ben Hopkins. UK. 1999. 84mins.Prod co: Strawberry Vale Film &TV. Int'l sales: United Artists Films. Prod: Caroline Hewitt. Scr: Ben Hopkins. DoP: Julian Court. Ed: Alan Levy. Music: Dominik Scherber. Main cast: Thomas Fisher, Janet Henfrey, Ian McNeice, Tim Barlow. Ben Hopkins' The Nine Lives Of Tomas Katz is ...
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Carlotti expected to exit Mediaset
Mediaset CEO Maurizio Carlotti is expected to resign this week ending a power struggle that has shaken up Italy' largest commercial broadcasting group.Carlotti's resignation has not yet been made public, but sources at Silvio Berlusconi's TV outfit say the resignation came at the request of several top executives after a ...
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Spanish film stays alive with Art Of Dying
Domestic productions continue to hold their own at the Spanish box office. Last week, two Spanish films opened in the top ten, one of which - Aurum Producciones' teen horror flic The Art Of Dying (El Arte De Morir) - nabbed the number two spot, beaten only by awards-laden American ...
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Hyde Park signs output deals in five territories
Ashok Amritraj and David Hoberman's Hyde Park Entertainment has concluded a slew of output deals in smaller territories, sealing the patchwork of worldwide deals on its upcoming slate.Warner Nu Metro has signed a two-year, ten-picture deal with the company in South Africa; three-year deals have been closed in Israel with ...
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Dern, Koteas, Caan in cast of Artisan's Novocaine
Laura Dern, Elias Koteas and Scott Caan have joined the cast of Artisan Entertainment's dark comedy Novocaine which began principal photography this week in Chicago.The film, which toplines Steve Martin and Helena Bonham Carter, is written and directed by David Atkins, previously best known as the screenwriter of Emir Kusturica's ...
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Michael Stone joins sales team at Regent Int'l
Michael Stone has joined Regent Entertainment as director of international sales and servicing as part of the expansion of the company's international sales division. Stone was most recently vice president worldwide distribution at Blue Rider Pictures and previously director of international servicing at Lakeshore International and Trans Atlantic Entertainment. He ...
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Kinowelt bags five-year deal with Gale Anne Hurd
Kinowelt USA, the recently set-up US film production arm of German film giant Kinowelt, has signed its first major producer deal - with Gale Anne Hurd. Kinowelt and Hurd have entered into a multi-year, first-look development, production and distribution arrangement whereby Kinowelt USA will provide Hurd with financing to develop ...
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