All Screen articles in 16 June 2000 – Page 3
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CASE STUDY - Bread And Roses
A European co-production about struggling migrant workers sounds just like Ken Loach's cup of tea. The difference is this story is set in LA. Natacha Clarke reports.The Pitch:Ken Loach takes on America in this story of immigrant workers fighting for their rights.1994-1996Former human rights lawyer Paul Laverty goes to LA ...
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Kinowelt acquires stake in media[netCom]
Kinowelt Medien has bought a 10% stake in emerging German video-on-demand (VoD) player media[netCom].The move comes after several months of co-operation between the two companies, which saw Kinowelt become a supplier of content during media[netCom]'s experimental phase."The present state of development of media[netCom]'s cinema-on-demand technology shows very clearly how quickly ...
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StudioCanal to fully finance Polanski's Pianist
France's StudioCanal is close to finalising a deal to fully finance and handle worldwide sales on Roman Polanski's next project, The Pianist, a $35m adaptation of the novel by Polish writer Wladyslaw Szpilman.Polanski's own outfit, RP Productions, is producing the project which is scheduled start shooting either at the end ...
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Crawford to quit Village Roadshow
The future of Village Roadshow's international exhibition arm looks uncertain following the surprise decision of chairman and co-chief executive officer John Crawford to leave the company. Crawford is quitting Village's UK-based international arm in December after deciding not to renew his contract. The UK headquarters will relocate to Melbourne, despite ...
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Shaft
Dir: John Singleton. US. 2000.Prod cos: Scott Rudin Productions, New Deal Productions, Paramount Pictures. US dist: Paramount. Int'l dist: UIP. Exec prods: Adam Schroeder, Paul Hall, Steve Nicolaides. Prods: Scott Rudin, John Singleton. Scr: Richard Price, Singleton & Shane Salerno, story by Singleton & Salerno based on the novel by ...
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Japan's ASMSE enters film finance arena
Japan's Association of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (ASMSE) is planning to back further feature projects following completion of its debut film Home Sweet Home which is set for domestic release this August.ASMSE, a Tokyo-based business organisation with fifty member companies, has developed a financing scheme that bypasses banks and ...
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ZDF boards Barreda's Peruvian debut
German broadcaster ZDF is backing Peruvian road movie Y Si Te Vi, No Me Acuerdo, the directorial debut of Miguel Barreda Delgado which started production June 5 in Lima. The film, about an ex-pat Peruvian who returns home after many years, is being shot in the digital format but there ...
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Australia's Niche Pictures picks up Mr Death
Australian distributor Niche Pictures, which was recently acquired by Lyn McCarthy, has acquired local rights to Errol Morris's Mr Death: The Rise And Fall Of Fred A. Leuchter Jr. The 90-minute documentary was well received when it screened this week on the third day of the Sydney Film Festival. McCarthy ...
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Mondo inks co-production deal with Hahn Shin
Mondo TV, Italy's number two animation company after Mediaset, has signed a co-production agreement with Korean animator Hahn Shin Corporation under which the partners will produce 200 half hours over the next three years.The deal takes in several series including adventure series Genghis Khan and Gladiators and religious series In ...
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Ambush wins Gold Dolphin at Festroia
Finnish drama Ambush, set during the Second World War, won the 16th Festroia film festival's top honour, the Gold Dolphin, on Saturday night. The film also won the best director award for Olli Saarela. The international jury, presided over by Spanish director Juan Antonio Bardem, gave its Special Prize to ...
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Tiger Aspect adds Kemp, Blatt to Dog Eat Dog cast
Pop stars Gary Kemp and Melanie Blatt have joined TV actor Alan Davies in UK comedy Dog Eat Dog.The FilmFour-backed production has just started shooting for Tiger Aspect Pictures and Shona Productions for six weeks in and around London. Kemp and Blatt have starred in The Krays and Honest respectively, ...
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Sweet And Lowdown rises above soccer
Blame the start of the Euro 2000 soccer tournament or blame the warmer weather, but no amount of counter-programming could prevent last weekend's box office retreating to the traditional pre-summer holiday season low. The only film to open with any redeemable gross was Woody Allen's Sweet And Lowdown which ...
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UPC turns attention to video-on-demand
Dutch cable giant United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC) is positioning itself to become a major supplier of content to third generation mobile phone operators and as a video-on-demand (VoD) wholesaler. Although the group is expanding from cable into telephony and wireless communications, UPC chairman Mark Schneider said that cost factors mean ...
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UPC in talks to acquire major stake in Noos
Dutch cable giant United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC) confirmed that it is in the running to buy a major stake in Noos, the French cable network operated by the Suez-Lyonnaise combine. UPC's bid was explained by chairman Mark Schneider at a press meeting in Amsterdam on Friday: "We are interested in ...
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Stardom
Dir: Denys Arcand. Canada. 2000. 102 mins.Prod cos: Alliance Atlantis, Serendipity Point. Co-prods: Cinemaginaire, Cine-b. Int'l Sales: Alliance Atlantis (001 310 899 8000). Prods: Denise Robert, Robert Lantos. Scr: Arcand, J. Jacob Potashnik. DoP: Guy Dufaux. Prod des: Zoe Sakellaropoulo. Ed: Isabelle Dedieu. Main cast: Jessica Pare, Dan Aykroyd, Charles ...
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The Prompter
Dir: Hilde Heier. Norway. 1999. 97 mins. Prod cos: Wildhagen Produksjon AS, CO Film, Norwegian Film Institute & Swedish Film Institute. US sales c/o Menemsha Entertainment (+1 310 712 3720). Int'l sales: Norsk Filminstitute (+47 2247 4575). Prod: Christian Wildhagen. Scr: Hilde Heier. DoP: Harald Gunnar Paalgard. Prod des: Aida ...
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Hodgson appointed chief executive of ITC
Patricia Hodgson, currently BBC director of public policy, has been appointed chief executive of UK commercial broadcasting body the Independent Television Commission (ITC).Hodgson takes up the post in September. She succeeds Peter Rogers, who is retiring.Hodgson’s move to the ITC comes just a few months after BBC director general Greg ...
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Italian cinema loses local market share
Italian films' share of the domestic theatrical market dropped from 27% to 14% in the 12 months from June 1999 to May 2000 according to local exhibitors association ANEC. Without local hits such as 1998's Life Is Beautiful or Cosi E' La Vita, US films dominated the Italian box office ...
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Dutch gov't to open cable networks to rivals
The Dutch government has ruled that local cable networks must be open to rival internet suppliers, but partly allayed cable operators' fears by delaying the introduction of "open access" for at least two years.The cabinet also said that new legislation will be drawn up in line with wider European regulations ...
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Prisa appoints US, Internet chiefs on eve of float
On the eve of its public offering, Spanish media empire Grupo Prisa has announced two key appointments.Jaime Polanco Soutullo has been appointed general director of Prisa for North America, a strategic post for further developing Prisa's activities in the US Spanish-speaking market. Polanco Soutullo will be headquartered in New York ...
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