All Screen articles in 14 November 2000 – Page 2
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Rick Senat to leave Warner Bros after 24 years
Rick Senat, head of European business affairs for Warner Bros and a 24 year-old veteran of the studio, is to retire from the company at the end of the year to pursue independent entrepreneurial opportunities in the entertainment business. He will remain with Warner in an advisory capacity.Senat's departure was ...
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Charlie's Angels beat out Little Nicky
Columbia's Charlie's Angels remained atop the North American box office over the weekend with a huge $25m haul, bringing its total to $75.4m after ten days. The camp adventure spinoff from the TV series of the same name roundly defeated its competition which included Adam Sandler's latest film Little Nicky ...
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FTC delays decision on AOL-Time Warner
US anti-monopoly regulator, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has taken the rare action of "stopping the clock" on its review of AOL's takeover of Time Warner. Having waited so long for the deal to be given the green light, another delay may not hurt anyone. But the latest hold-up seems ...
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Bertelsmann, EMI confirm merger talks
Germany's Bertelsmann and UK music company EMI have confirmed that they are in talks about merging their music assets. Privately-owned Bertelsmann has reportedly proposed folding its music arm into EMI in return for a majority stake in the company, which is listed on London's Stock Exchange.The talks follow a series ...
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Sony to step up Indian operations
Sony Entertainment Television (SET) is eyeing a grand entry into Bollywood after executives made a fact-finding mission to India last week.Sony executives led by Michael Grindon, chairman of Sony Television International, are now evaluating an entry into movie production as part of an expansion in exhibition and TV channels across ...
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Fabrica to relaunch as commercial venture
Italian production outfit Fabrica Cinema, currently funded by clothing retailer Benetton, plans to relaunch next spring as a financially autonomous, market-oriented company under the banner Fabrica Cinema e Televisione.Fabrica head Marco Mueller said he is currently seeking investors that will include a banking partner, as well as Italian and European ...
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Oslo Film Festival to open with Almost Famous
Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous opens the 10th anniversary edition of the Oslo International Film Festival, which runs November 16-26.Highlights at this year's event include festival favourites such as Edward Yang's A One And A Two, Karyn Kusama's Girlfight, Kenneth Lonergan's You Can Count On Me, Jerzy Stuhr's The Big Animal ...
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Danish features bookend Norway's BUFF fest
The third edition of the BUFF festival for children's and youth films in Sandnes, Norway (November 13-18) will open with the international premiere of Danish production Diver, the latest film from Swedish director Ake Sandgren. The festival will end with another Danish entry, Miracle, directed by Natasha Arty.In total, 80 ...
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UTV in talks for broadband, DTH partnerships
Leading Indian content and animation producer United Television (UTV) is in talks with a raft of local broadband players as it readies to scale up its broadband streaming service and launch four niche channels for DTH telecast.UTV is discussing plans for the move, which is expected to cost $11m, with ...
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MacLachlan, Styler join Me Without You cast
Kyle MacLachlan, Trudie Styler, Oliver Milburn and Allan Corduner have joined Anna Friel and Michelle Williams in the cast of Sandra Goldbacher's Me Without You.The story of two women's relationship is being bankrolled by Alliance Atlantis and Kinowelt's UK joint venture Momentum Pictures, erstwhile funding body British Screen and the ...
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Insanally joins FilmFour-Whitaker joint venture
Forest Whitaker's recently-launched producing partnership with the UK's FilmFour has appointed Johann Insanally to spearhead development and production activities.Insanally, who has produced or executive produced shorts including 1997 Palme d'Or winner Is It The Design On The Wrapper', has a brief to focus on black and Asian film talent. Insanally ...
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Gabriel, Bronco secure Scottish Screen loans
Gabriel Films and a revitalised Bronco Films are among the beneficiaries of Development Loan Awards funded by the Scottish Screen National Lottery in partnership with the Scottish Enterprise Creative Industries Team.The two companies will each receive $107,000 (£75,000) of working capital to finance a slate of new film and television ...
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Ardant to star in Chavarri's Year Of The Flood
French actress Fanny Ardant has joined the cast of The Year Of The Flood (El Ano Del Diluvio), a new feature film in development from Spanish director Jaime Chavarri (Tangos Are For Two).Ardant will play Sister Consuelo, a nun in 1950's Catalonia who falls in love with a wealthy landowner. ...
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Staff set to take over Norway's KF
Oslo City Council agreed this week to sell its 50.7% stake in Norway's oldest distribution outfit, Kommunenes Filmcentral (KF), to the company's staff for $51,300.The distributor is now waiting to hear if its other shareholders, which include about 40 other Norwegian municipalities, will follow suit. Two other companies - Oslo-based ...
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Star wins pay-TV licence for Pakistan
News Corp's Star TV has bagged the first pay-TV licence to be granted by the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority. At the same time, Star chairman James Murdoch has confirmed that the company still plans to go ahead with launching pay-TV services in Hong Kong.The Pakistani licence enables local cable operators to ...
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FOREIGN-LANGUAGE OSCAR SUBMISSIONS
The following is a list of films that have been submitted as their country's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. The full list will be announced by the Academy on November 20.(Pictured - Italy's The Hundred Steps (I Cento Passi), directed by Marco Tullio Giordana)ARGENTINA:FelicidadesDir: Lucho ...
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Dimension unveils Kevin Smith's new Jay & Bob pic
Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith will reprise their roles as Silent Bob and Jay for the fifth time in Smith's next feature Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back which will start production in January for Dimension Films. Dimension has already set Aug 10, 2001, as the US release date and ...
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Frank Beddor sells Full Catastrophe to Bel-Air
Frank Beddor, one of the producers of There's Something About Mary, has sold the comic novel The Full Catastrophe by David Carkeet to Steve Reuther's Bel-Air Entertainment.Bel-Air, which is co-financed by Warner Bros and StudioCanal, will co-produce with Beddor's Automatic Pictures. Bel-Air senior vice president Keri Selig who brought the ...
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TVA International wins StudioCanal deal for Canada
Montreal-based TVA International (TVAI) has signed a three year agreement with France's StudioCanal to handle its product across Canada. The exclusive, all-rights deal dramatically expands the Quebec company's position in Canadian feature distribution.The agreement covers more than 40 new features, including such English-language titles as Kathryn Bigelow's The Weight of ...
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Crouching Tiger gets the Oscar nod from Taiwan
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Chinese-language audience and critics' favourite which has been wowing the festival circuit since an out of competition world premiere at Cannes this year has been named the official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award by Taiwan.The nod from Taiwan gives Crouching Tiger ...
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