All Screen articles in 16 June 2000 – Page 2
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Brune to replace Dassonville at Columbia France
Eric Brune, currently sales director at French distributor UGC Fox Distribution (UFD), is to replace Richard Dassonville as CEO of Columbia TriStar's French outpost.Prior to UFD, where he has spent the last five years, the 38-year-old Brune has worked at Pathe, Disney and Warner.UFD - a joint venture between French ...
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Intertainment to raise $163m for production push
Fast-expanding German rights broker Intertainment plans to raise more than $163m (Euros170m) to fund its drive into film production.The Munich-based company today said that it will increase its share capital by some two million shares in a rights issue in mid-July. Intertainment's financial advisers will set the price for the ...
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Alliance sews up world sales on Stardom
Alliance Atlantis Pictures International has sold Denys Arcand's Stardom, which closed this year's Cannes Film Festival, to a slew of territories including Germany, where the picture went to Arthaus, and Rentrack in Japan.The film also went to Spring Cinema for Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, Cinemien for Benelux, Triangle Films ...
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Paramount worldwide acquisitions chief to quit
John Ferraro, senior vice president, worldwide acquisitions and co-productions at Paramount Motion Picture Group, is to leave the studio after 20 years to pursue other interests. A well-known figure on the international festival and market circuit, Ferraro was most recently instrumental in acquiring British comedy Kevin & Perry Go Large ...
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Tout Va Bien (On S'En Va) Everything's Fine
Dir: Claude Mourieras. France. 2000. 94 mins.Prod co: Rezo Productions. Int'l sales: Flach Pyramide International (+33 1 4296 0220). Prods: Jean-Michel Rey, Philippe Liegeois. Scr: Mourieras. DoP: William Lubtchansky. Prod des: Wouter Zoon. Editor: Monique Dartonne. Main cast: Michel Piccoli, Miou Miou, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natach Regnier.No big build-up: in true ...
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Blockbusters bunch up in Oz
While the European box office fights soccer-mania and pre-summer seasonal box office lows, Australia's chart is riding high with help from the southern hemisphere winter and two hits carrying a high level of Australian content.Mission: Impossible 2 at number one has scooped $7.6m (A$13.3m) after just 12 days, a record ...
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Balkans documentary scoops BANFF grand prize
The grand prize at Canada's BANFF Television Festival went to documentary A Cry From The Grave, which investigates the massacre of 7,000 Muslim refugees in Srebrenica.The film, produced by the UK's Antelope and BBC, the US' Thirteen-WNET and the Netherlands' Ryninks Films, also picked up the top prize in its ...
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Pearson completes TalkBack acquisition
Pearson Television, the TV production arm of the UK's Pearson Group, has finalised its acquisition of London-based TV production outfit TalkBack Productions for $94m (£62m), Pearson announced today (June 14).The Pearson group is to finance the widely-anticipated move through existing bank facilities. The debt incurred is transferring to Pearson Television ...
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Russian media baron Gusinsky arrested
Russian tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky, head of the country's largest independent media conglomerate Media Most, has been arrested and is being held in a Moscow prison pending charges of defrauding the government of more than $10m. Media Most-owned television channel NTV and daily newspaper Segodnya have been sharply critical of the ...
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Shower takes top honours at Seattle
Continuing its award-nabbing festival tour, Chinese director Zhang Yang's Shower walked away with audience awards for Best Film and Best Director at the 26th Seattle International Film Festival, which wrapped on Sunday. The film has also yielded prizes at Toronto, San Sebastian, Thessaloniki and Rotterdam. Dan Futterman, star of Urbania, ...
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Ramsay project secures Scottish lottery funding
Company Pictures' Morvern Callar, the latest project from writer-director Lynne Ramsay, was the main beneficiary in the latest round of Scottish Lottery Panel awards. The first awards under the administration of Scottish Screen rather than the Scottish Arts Council, announced a £500,000 production grant to the film which already has ...
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Norway gains Vitofilm production, consultancy shop
Former Danish Film Institute director Mona Jensen and Gunnar Svensrud, a former consultant for the Norwegian Film Institute, have launched an Oslo-based production and consultancy outfit Vitofilm."After spending many years in the industry we both have networks that we believe can be useful," Svensrud told Screendaily. "Many Norwegian directors don't ...
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Fine Line gets domestic rights to Human Nature
Fine Line Features has acquired North American rights to Human Nature, the much anticipated movie scripted by Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich) and directed by Michel Gandry.The film, a Good Machine production which is being sold internationally by StudioCanal, is produced by Good Machine's Ted Hope, Anthony Bregman, Kaufman and ...
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Vivendi, Canal Plus confirm Seagram talks
Universal Studios is set to change hands once again, passing from Canadian to French ownership within the next few weeks, now that Seagram is back at the negotiating table jointly with utilities and media combine Vivendi and its pay-TV subsidiary Canal Plus.Despite all previous denials, Seagram's boss Edgar Bronfman Jr ...
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Star pledges $64m for Chinese-language production
News Corp-owned broadcaster Star TV is setting up a Chinese Programming Department through which $64m (HK$500m) will be invested in Chinese-language film and television productions, some of which will be aimed at the international market.Veteran Hong Kong TV producer Michael Mak will head the department which represents a significant expansion ...
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Moscow fest launches market; becomes annual event
For the first time in its 43-year history, the Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) is set to become an annual event from this year. The festival, which will run July 19-29, is also launching a market focusing on European and Russian product.The MIFF has previously been held every two years, ...
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CineMedia grabs stake in Watch! Entertainment
German film services group CineMedia has given itself a further leg-up into production and new media through the acquisition of a stake in Watch! Entertainment.CineMedia is buying 26% of Watch!, a television producer established by a group of senior managers from Grundy Ufa TV Productions. Terms of the purchase were ...
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Telepiu expands into cable broadcasting
Italian digital satellite platform Telepiu has reached an agreement with Telecom Italia to begin cable broadcasting in 500,000 homes in seven key cities beginning this September. Telecom Italia is understood to have been forced into the agreement by European Union anti-trust requirements.Measures have been underway for several years to break ...
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Ullmann receives Norwegian Aamot Award
Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann has received the coveted Norwegian Aamot Award in Bergen, Norway. The Award, given by Norway's theatre managers and distribution professionals, was bestowed on Ullmann for her "many sided artistic contribution to Norwegian, Nordic and international film over the past 40 years." Ullmann has been ...
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Edinburgh Festival to expose Cineworks shorts
Cineworks, the short film scheme funded by support agency Scottish Screen, is showcasing its inaugural year's work at August's Edinburgh International Film Festival.Films screening include: Exidore, by Richard Weeks, whose credits include the shorts Running Man and The Arrangement; experimental documentary I Am Boy; Cat McKiernan's Sex And Death; The ...
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