All Screen articles in 14 April 2000 – Page 3
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US micro distribs snare Ratcatcher, Hit & Runway
In a sign that US micro-distributors are starting to fill the acquisitions void left by the studio specialist divisions as they gravitate to more commercial higher-budgeted fare, two emergent releasing boutiques have separately added two long-overlooked festival favourites to their forthcoming slates.Marking its third acquisition over the past six weeks, ...
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Rothkrans becomes Australia's offshore ambassador
Trisha Rothkrans has been appointed chief executive of AusFILM, the national marketing alliance that aims to attract offshore productions to Australia. She replaces Judith Crombie who takes up her new role as head of the South Australian Film Corporation on May 1. Rothkrans was previously the manager of production liaison ...
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Telefonica tight-lipped on Telemundo acquisition
Telefonica refused to comment today on press reports that the telecommunications giant is negotiating the buy-out of US-based Spanish-language channel Telemundo. The company also declined to comment on its rumoured acquisition of a majority stake in Argentinean cable company Multicanal or the possible sale of its 5% share in the ...
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Guild rules against Stewart over Honest credits
UK writers' body the Writers' Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) has ruled against musician Dave Stewart's production company in a dispute over credits on his directing debut Honest, which stars Nicole and Natalie Appleton and Melanie Blatt from UK pop group All Saints.All three WGGB arbitrators ruled in favour of ...
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Pathe steps into Cowboy's Hole
UK National Lottery studio franchise Pathe Pictures is financing Cowboy Films and Granada Film's The Hole, set to star American Beauty's Thora Birch.Director Nick Hamm (Martha, Meet Daniel, Frank and Laurence) is to start shooting the psychological thriller in the UK in July from a screenplay by Ben Court and ...
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MIP-TV: Carlton, TeleMuenchen unwrap alliance
UK-based Carlton International Media and Germany's TeleMuenchen have signed a wide-ranging agreement which covers co-production, licensing, a representation deal for German-speaking territories and an output deal with Carlton's Los Angeles-based offshoot Carlton America.Under the terms of the four-part deal:TeleMuenchen will co-produce a minimum of eight TV movies either with Carlton ...
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Rudolph stands down as FilmFour deputy CEO
Mark Rudolph is stepping down as deputy chief executive officer of the UK's FilmFour, the company confirmed.FilmFour expects to confirm a replacement for Rudolph by Cannes next month. In unrelated moves, Carl Clifton, formerly at Universal Pictures International in London, will replace FilmFour's sales chief Sue Bruce-Smith during Cannes. Bruce-Smith ...
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Downtown seals DVD output deal with MGM
Downtown Pictures, the UK distributor of Spike Lee's Summer Of Sam and Bill Condon's Gods And Monsters, has signed an exclusive output deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) for DVD and video sell-through titles in the UK.The deal also requires Downtown to identify and acquire product for MGM in the UK. The ...
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MIP-TV: Hallmark extends output deal with RTL
US-based TV drama producer Hallmark Entertainment has extended its three-year output deal with Germany's RTL Entertainment for a further three years.Under the initial agreement, RTL held exclusive rights for all German-speaking territories to major dramas produced by Hallmark Entertainment. The German broadcaster also co-produced Hallmark event mini-series such as Merlin, ...
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MIP-TV: Channel 4, Company strike first-look deal
UK TV production outfit Company Television has signed a first-look development and distribution deal with UK-based TV distributor Channel 4 International (C4I).Under the terms of the deal, C4I will handle distribution on selected Company titles and the two companies will jointly develop a raft of projects. The partners are already ...
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MIP-TV: Japan's Tohokushinsha takes ITC classics
UK-based TV distributor Carlton International Media (CIM) has sealed a $3m licensing deal with Japan's Tohokushinsha Film Corp covering broadcast, video and merchandising rights to a package of films and TV programming from the ITC library.Titles included in the deal range from movie classics such as The Boys From Brazil, ...
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MIP-TV: Delon, Belmondo sign up for TF1 drama
French broadcaster TF1 has unveiled two big-budget television mini-series, to be produced by regular producing partner GMT, which are set to star big-screen talents, Alain Delon and Jean Paul Belmondo.Delon will star as a Marseilles cop in La Trilogie De Marseilles, an adaptation of three best-selling French crime novels, Total ...
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Rules Of Engagement
Dir: William Friedkin. US. 2000. 127 mins.Prod cos: Paramount Pictures, Seven Arts Pictures. Dist: Paramount (US, UK). Intl sales: Seven Arts. Prods: Richard D Zanuck, Scott Rudin. Exec prods: Adam Schroeder, James Webb. Co-prod: Arne Schmidt. Scr: Stephen Gaghan. DoPs: Nicola Pecorini, William A Fraker. Prod des: Robert Laing. Ed: ...
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Brockovich powers Columbia overseas
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) enjoyed a powerful weekend at the international box office, topping charts in nine territories as it unleashed US megahit Erin Brockovich and continued the rollout of family smash Stuart Little.Erin Brockovich, on to which CTFDI parent Sony Pictures Entertainment was invited as a financing ...
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DiCaprio linked to Miramax sci-fi thriller
Leonardo DiCaprio's unexpected attachment to Dimension Film's Librium has allowed that sci-fi project to proceed with plans to shoot certain scenes this coming Summer in the same Bucharest Parliament building that once housed the reviled Communist tyrant Nicolae Ceausescu.According to a statement released on Monday by the Deputies Chamber board, ...
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VCL commits titles to Germany's first VoD service
Munich-based video distributor VCL Film + Medien is backing the launch of Germany's first Video-on-demand (VoD) television service.VCL has licensed 100 titles from its extensive home entertainment catalogue to Marburg-based [netCom], which begins testing of its service later this month and hopes to have a more commercially viable service delivered ...
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BAFTA mulls pre-Oscars awards outing
After one its glitziest film awards in years, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is debating moving the event to a pre-Academy Awards slot to focus worldwide attention on the ceremony as a pointer for the Oscars.Supporters of the move, said to include incoming BAFTA chairman Simon ...
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CanWest dubs new US distribution venture IDP
Canada's CanWest Entertainment has confirmed a joint venture with Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and Carl Icahn, the billionaire backer of Stratosphere Entertainment, to launch an independent distribution outfit, IDP Distribution, to be based in New York. IDP will acquire North American rights to smaller-budget films in a model similar to Lions ...
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BSkyB says Yes with Buena Vista, Warner
BSkyB could be the next major player to invest in UK video-on-demand (VoD) pioneer Yes Television. According to a report in the Sunday Telegraph the News Corp subsidiary BSkyB is preparing to take a stake in Yes, which is currently in the middle of an £800m flotation on the London ...
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Aardman, AtomFilms team for Internet premiere
UK animation house Aardman Animations is launching its latest creation, Angry Kid, exclusively on the Internet, via online distributor AtomFilms' web-site from early May.The 25 60-second episodes will be available as free Quicktime downloads from Sunday, May 7. Aardman and AtomFilms previously pacted for Web distribution of Aardman's back catalogue ...
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