All Screen articles in 16 March 2000 – Page 3
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American Beauty passes $100m international mark
DreamWorks SKG's American Beauty has crossed the $100m barrier at the overseas box office, eclipsing its domestic gross which currently stands at $93m. At Thursday, the multi Oscar nominee and favourite to win Best Picture had taken $103,071,004 outside North America. To date it has opened in most key territories ...
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Minghella poised to climb next mountain
The following Q&A appeared in Screen International, the weekly, on March 3, in the run-up to ShoWest where Minghella was awarded director of the year.British writer-director Anthony Minghella began his career in radio, television and theatre in the 1980s before making his first feature, supernatural drama Truly Madly Deeply for ...
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Water Drops On Burning Rocks
Dir: Francois Ozon. France. 1999. 90 mins.Prod cos: Fidelite Productions, Les Films Alain Sarde. Int'l sales: Roissy Films-Celluloid Dreams (+33 1 4970 0370). Prods: Olivier Dubosc, Marc Missonier. Scr: Francois Ozon, based on a play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. DoP: Jeanne Lapoirie. Prod des: Arnaud de Moleron. Ed: Laurence Bawedin. ...
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Israeli Cinematheques plan Loach retrospective
Three Israeli Cinematheques - Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa - will launch one of their most ambitious programmes in April - an extensive retrospective of the work of UK director Ken Loach.Fully supported by the British Council, the programme features some 22 titles directed by Loach, spanning his feature films, ...
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Scotland's Italian fest fetes Taviani Brothers
Scotland's Italian Film Festival (April 14-23), which takes place in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and London, will host a tribute to the work of Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, to include a restored print of their 1984 film Kaos.The festival will also screen the Taviani Brothers' 1977 Padre, Padrone, Good Morning ...
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BBC, Indigo's Warriors racks up RTS nods
Warriors, by BBC Films and Single Drama and UK production outfit Deep Indigo Productions, has secured a clutch of nominations for the UK's annual Royal Television Society awards, including best single drama.The production for BBC1 about the war in the former Yugoslavia also secured nods for male actor, production team ...
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Smith appoints four to BFI board
UK culture secretary Chris Smith has appointed Jenny Abramsky, Terry Ilott, David Kustow and Nasreen Munni Kabir to the board of governors of film and TV body the British Film Institute (BFI).Abramsky was appointed director of BBC Radio last year, while Ilott is a film and media analyst with the ...
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ShoWest: Fox puts spotlight on five summer flicks
20th Century Fox chose to focus just on its five summer movies at its luncheon today (Thursday) at Showest in Las Vegas.Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman Bill Mechanic introduced trailers for animated epic Titan AE (June 16), Martin Lawrence-starrer Big Momma's House (June 2), The Farrelly Brothers' latest comedy Me Myself ...
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Mission To Mars takes off with $23m
Marking the first mega-budget blockbuster in the marketplace since Christmas, Buena Vista's $75m space epic Mission To Mars opened with a mighty $23.1m despite uniformly negative reviews across North America. Directed by Brian DePalma, the film, which is the story of a rescue mission to the red planet, beat a ...
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Eurimages unveils new funding round
Eurimages, the European production finance body, has made its first round of funding decisions since changing its rules at the beginning of the year.At a three-day funding round (March 6-8), the Council of Europe-backed organisation said that it is investing a total of $3.8m (Euros3.95m) to back ten features. Decisions ...
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Goldman's Hombre set to conquer US
Former New Line marketing and distribution president, Mitch Goldman, and his partner Lou O'Neil have launched a US Latino distribution company - Hombre de Oro - to distribute Mexican box office hit The Other Conquest (La Otra Conquista) in the US. Although the company has been set up to handle ...
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UPC creates Euro giant with SBS takeover
Europe is to get its first pan-European broadcast and Internet giant following the announcement that Dutch cable giant UPC has agreed terms for the acquisition of SBS Broadcasting. The deal, which has yet to be finalised and may require regulatory approval, values SBS at some $2.8bn in total. UPC's offer ...
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Wortmann makes US debut with Pleswin-backed comedy
Sonke Wortmann, German director of Der Bewegte Mann, will make his US production debut with The Hollywood Sign which also marks the first US picture to be produced and financed by Dutch production outfit Pleswin Entertainment Group, a partnership between Eric Pleskow and Leon De Winter.Burt Reynolds, Rod Steiger and ...
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Production Show: Producers slam UK broadcasters
UK broadcasters were accused of undermining the creation of a sustainable local film industry by a line-up of leading producers, financiers and international sales agents at The Production Show in London on Wednesday.The broadcasters came under fire at the Movie Days conference, hosted by Screen International at The Production Show ...
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Murdoch to visit Indian politicians
Rupert Murdoch will visit India for five days from March 12 to review the expansion of Star TV. The News Corp boss was facing an arrest warrant in India until recently because a participant on the Nikki Tonight show, broadcast on Star, had abused Indian icon Mahatma Gandhi.The visit will ...
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Suzhou
Dir: Lou Ye. China-Germany. 1999. 83 mins.Prod cos: The Coproduction Office, Essential Film, Dream Factory. Int'l sales: The Coproduction Office (+49 30 3277 7879). Prods: Nai An, Philippe Bober. Scr: Lou Ye. DoP: Wang Yu. Prod des: Li Zhuoyi. Ed: Karl Riegl. Music: Jorg Lemberg. Main cast: Zhou Xun, ...
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Swedish directing duo deliver third hit
Swedish directing duo Maans Herngren and Hannes Holm flexed their box office muscle once again with their third film, Shit Happens (Det Blir Aldrig Som Man Taenkt Sig). After two weeks, the comedy, about a TV soap actress trying to juggle her family and professional life, has taken $1.2m and ...
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Loews, Israeli Theatres expand into Poland
Poland has become the latest hot spot for multiplex development with two international cinema chains - the US' Loews Cineplex International and Israel's IT International Theatres - unveiling plans to expand into the territory.IT, known in its home territory as Israeli Theatres, is using the proceeds from its recent IPO ...
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Kodak to co-develop digital projection system
Eastman Kodak has etched itself firmly in the digital cinema arena with the announcement yesterday (March 8) that it has forged an alliance with QUALCOMM Inc. and JVC in developing a prototype digital projection system.QUALCOMM's expertise in the compression and encryption techniques together with JVC's advanced projection chip technology will ...
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Six US exhibitors team up in internet ticketing co
A start-up North Amercian internet ticketing company founded by six major exhibitors was unveiled at ShoWest yesterday. With an initial investment of $30m, the landmark venture is expected to be the leading internet portal for remote ticketing as well as providing comprehensive movie information, reviews and trailers.The alliance between Loews ...
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