All Screen articles in 14 April 2000 – Page 4
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Schnedecker appointed to head up TCM France
Turner Broadcasting-owned classic movies channel TCM Europe has appointed Eric Schnedecker as director of its French-language service, available in France, French-speaking Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Mauritius.TCM Europe, headquartered in London, currently offers five versions of the channel in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Schnedecker will work from Turner Broadcasting's ...
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Microsoft to buy controlling stake in Titus
Microsoft Corp is buying a 60% stake in Japan's second largest cable operator Titus Communications from US cable company MediaOne Group which is merging with telco AT&T.Microsoft claimed the deal would speed up the roll-out of broadband networks in Japan. Titus already offers cable telephony and high-speed Internet access to ...
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Doroniuk exits post as Lions Gate chief
Roman Doroniuk has resigned from his post as president and chief operating officer of Lions Gate Entertainment.Doroniuk's departure is the latest to hit Lions Gate following the March 21 appointment of former Sony Pictures chief Jon Feltheimer to the position of vice chairman and CEO.Lions Gate founder Frank Giustra stepped ...
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Reviews
Circus
Dir: Rob Walker. UK. 2000. 96 mins.Prod Co: Film Development Corporation. US dist: Sony Pictures. Int'l dist: Columbia TriStar. Prod: Alan Latham, James Gibb. Scr: David Logan. DoP: Ben Seresin. Prod des: James Merifield. Ed: Oral Norrie Ottley. Mus: Simon Boswell. Main cast: John Hannah, Famke ...
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Rosetta director to head short film jury at Cannes
Belgian director Luc Dardenne, who directed last year's Palme d'Or-winning feature Rosetta, will this year head the Cannes jury for the short film and Cinefoundation sections.Other members of the jury include directors Francesca Comencini, Claire Denis and Abderrahmane Sissako and the actress Mira Sorvino.Dardenne, who shared writing, producing and directing ...
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Downtown picks up Belgium's Molokai
UK distributor Downtown Pictures has acquired UK rights to Molokai: The Story Of Father Damien, which screened last week in London at the "United Tastes of Belgium" showcase (March 31-April 5).Downtown is planning an autumn release for the film, about a Belgian priest on the Hawaiian island Molokai, which stars ...
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TPS film channels outrank CanalSatellite
Television Par Satellite (TPS) movie channels, Cinestar 1 and Cinestar 2, are outperforming rival CanalSatellite's three CineCinema channels, according to Mediametrie's viewership survey Audicabsat.The TPS channels were France's top-rating film channels with a 5.8% share of the country's 11 million cable and satellite subscribers according to Mediametrie figures for November ...
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Eagle swoops on Buena Vista's Sidewalks
Aggressively acquisitive Italian distributor Eagle Pictures has added four pictures to its line-up, including Buena Vista Film Sales' Sidewalks Of New York, directed by Ed Burns, and is discussing multi-picture deals with US sales companies Alchemy Entertainment and Joe Singer Entertainment.The newly capitalised distributor has also added Tomorrow Film Corp's ...
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Kinovision fills out slate with Devil's Beauty
Kinovision, the start-up production arm of Spanish distributor Araba Films, has added $40m drama The Devil's Beauty to its rapidly expanding English-language production slate.Beauty, based on the novel by French writer Lauren Haloche and adapted by Enrique Urbizu, has been set up as a co-production with France's Orly Films ...
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