All Screen articles in 15 July 2000 – Page 2
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Production report: HK strives for pan-Asian appeal
The running joke at the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum in April was that the only Asian country producing films of a lower quality than Hong Kong was Macau. The huge success at the Hong Kong box office this year of Nakata Hideo's Japanese psycho-horror Ring ($4m) and Kang Je-gyu's ...
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Jiang banned for seven years by China
Chinese actor-director Jiang Wen has been banned from making films for seven years by the Chinese Film Bureau. His film Devils At The Doorstep (Guizi Lai Le), about China during the time of Japanese occupation, was judged as insufficiently patriotic. Jiang, who starred in several films by Zhang Yimou and ...
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Lions Gate seals US deal on Cannes closer Stardom
Lions Gate Films has acquired US rights to Denys Arcand's Stardom, the closing night film at this year's Cannes Film Festival, from Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Group and production company Serendipity Point Films. Stardom has also been selected to open the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept 7 this year.The ...
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Edinburgh festival to host Luzhin premiere
Marleen Gorris' The Luzhin Defence and Bill Eagles' Beautiful Creatures are amongst the world premieres at next month's Edinburgh International Film Festival (August 13-27).Artistic director Lizzie Francke has also confirmed that the festival will be book-ended by Lars von Trier's opening film Dancer In The Dark and Wong Kar-Wai's closing ...
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Spain's Ono to pump $1.7bn into expanding network
Spain's nascent cable industry is set for a major tranche of investment as local cable operator Ono (Cableuropa) has unveiled plans to invest $1.7bn (PTS300,000m) over the next five years to expand its broadband network into new regions of Spain.The company, which said it plans to build "one of the ...
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Carlton sells Quantel to management team for $77m
UK media group Carlton Communications had ended its search for a buyer for editing equipment maker Quantel by striking a $76.9m (£51m) deal with a management buy-out team, Carlton said on Thursday.The buy-out team, which includes chairman Richard Taylor, struck the deal after securing backing from Lloyds TSB Development Capital. ...
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Soldier video game falls foul of BC ratings board
Soldier Of Fortune, a CD-ROM based video game featuring the anguished cries and death-throes of its victims, has been rated as adult-only entertainment by British Columbia's film classification board. The ruling bans sale or rental of the game within the province to people under 18 and means the game's Canadian ...
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S.O.S. leads nods for Norway's Amanda Awards
Thomas Robsahm's S.O.S. leads the field in the nominations for the Norwegian Amanda Awards - Norway's equivalent of the Oscars - picking up nods for best picture, best actress and the pan-Nordic Amanda Award. S.O.S., an Italian-language comedy produced by Norway's Seperanza Film, was nominated twice in the best actress ...
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EC greenlights Telefonica's Endemol buy-out
The European Commission has waved through Spanish telco Telefonica's proposed takeover of Dutch production company Endemol Entertainment which made headlines across Europe when it was first unveiled in March (Screendaily, March 20)."Although this operation will integrate Telefonica into the upstream market of production of TV programmes, it will not result ...
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UIP's gamble pays off
Setting what other distributors will hope is a precedent, Mission: Impossible 2 has broken the spell of the summer cinema slump in Italy. Grossing $2.5m from 456 screens and going straight to the top of the chart, M:I2 recorded an unheard of success in the month of July when ...
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CASE STUDY - Peppermint Candy
With one arthouse hit already behind him, Korea's Lee Chang-Dong found it quick and easy to finance his Directors' Fortnight entry Peppermint Candy. Tony Rayns reports on the making of the first Korean-Japanese co-production in living memory.Early 1996Four friends come together to form South Korea's East Film, which they jokingly ...
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Cecil B Demented
Dir: John Waters. US. 2000. 88 mins.Prod co: Polar Entertainment. Co prods: Le Studio Canal Plus, Bac Films. Domestic dist: Artisan. Int'l Sales: Le Studio Canal Plus (00 33 1 44 43 98 00). Exec prods: Anthony DeLorenzo, Fred Bernstein. Prods: John Fiedler, Joe Caracciolo Jr., Mark Tarlov. Scr: Waters. ...
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AFI Awards get record number of entries
Twenty-five films have been submitted for the 2000 AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards, the biggest number of entries for nearly 10 years. Titles range from box office winners The Wogboy and Looking For Alibrandi, to highly-anticipated features such as Chopper and Bootmen, to tiny privately-financed fare such as Chasing Parked ...
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Itochu launches internet distribution venture
Japan's Itochu trading house is setting up a joint venture with as-yet-unnamed partners to distribute films via the internet starting early next year.Called eMovie (Japan), the new company is capitalised at $280,000 (Y30m) and Itochu projects annual sales of $47m (Y5bn) by 2003. The company will acquire digital versions of ...
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HBO re-enters Argentinian cable market
HBO Latin America Group has agreed to restore its movie channels HBO and Cinemax to leading Argentinian cable operators Multicanal and Cablevision after boycotting Argentina's cable industry for the past 18 months.HBO and Cinemax pulled out of the Argentine market in January 1999 in protest against the lack of encrypted ...
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Australia's Palace buys private Dope
Australian distributor Palace Films has picked up local rights to Australian title Dope, a privately-financed project from first-time writer-director J Harkness which is currently in pre-production.The cross-cultural love story cranks up in Adelaide on August 21 with Harkness and Mark Patterson producing. Adelaide-based Guerilla Films is the production company. The ...
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Andersson's Songs wins French critics' prize
Roy Andersson's Songs From The Second Floor has been awarded the French critics' prize Le Prix Tres Special.Established by French critics Jean-Claude Romer and Gerard Lenne in 1985 in opposition to the "political correctness which dominates the juries at most international events", the prize is usually awarded to unusual, off-the-wall ...
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Argentina's Aleph tries on Runaway Shoes
Argentina's Aleph Productions has boarded $2m comedy Runaway Shoes (Viva Sapato!) as co-producer alongside Brazil's Total Filmes and Spain's Euroficcion.The Spanish-language film, touted as the first ever co-production between Brazil, Argentina and Spain, will be shot in Brazil and Cuba in December this year. It will feature Cuban actor Jorge ...
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Cecchi Gori confirms Telefonica talks
Italy's Cecchi Gori Communications has confirmed that it is holding talks with Spain's Telefonica, one of eight potential partners, about selling a minority stake in the group or one of its subsidiaries. However president Vittorio Cecchi Gori denied that the group's beleaguered TV station TeleMontecarlo is up for sale.Cecchi Gori ...
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Deauville to host Eastwood tribute
The 26th Deauville film festival (September 1-10) will feature a tribute to Clint Eastwood to coincide with the premiere of his latest film as a director, Space Cowboys, starring Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner and Donald Sutherland who will also attend.Other honourees of the American film festival include producer Dino ...
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