All Screen articles in 16 March 2001 – Page 2
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Platnick to leave Mandalay
Adam Platnick, president of motion pictures at Peter Guber's Mandalay Pictures, is to leave the company when his contract expires this summer. In a press release, Platnick did not specify his future plans but said he is "looking forward to new opportunities." Until his contract expires, Platnick will continue work ...
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Ferry-Go-Round claims first Jameson award
Finnish director Aleksi Salmenperä's short Onnenpeli 2001 (Ferry-Go-Round) about love and relationships during a Baltic cruise has won the first Jameson Short Film Award presented at this year's Tampere Film Festival which wrapped on March 10.All fiction short films in the festival's national selection were eligible for the award which, ...
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Beauty, Lights for Non Stop Films
The 52nd Berlinale has announced the names of the eight members of the Official Competition's International Jury which will be headed this year by Indian director Mira Nair.They are: film author Peter Cowie (UK), director Lucrecia Martel (Argentina), producer Claudie Ossard (France), director Oskar Roehler (Germany), film reviewer Kenneth Turan ...
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German Experiment pays off
Oliver Hirschbiegel's feature debut Das Experiment was the highest entry in this week's German box office chart with the highest screen averages for box office takings and admissions ($6,282 and 1,031) from its 229-print opening.The hard-hitting thriller about a group of volunteers agreeing to take part in a scientific experiment ...
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Portugal Telecom posts results
Telecoms and media giant Portugal Telecom (PT) released its year-end financial results, which were highlighted by a 32.1% rise in consolidated operating revenues to Euros 4.19bn.The company pointed to investments in mobile phones, data and internet services as new high growth business areas which now account for as much of ...
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German film board awards production funds
New projects by Paul Anderson and Roman Polanski are among seven features which have received a total $3m (DM 6.42m) production backing this week from the Berlin-based German Federal Film Board (FFA). Anderson's Resident Evil, which has begun shooting at Berlin's Adlershof Studios with Milla Jovovich (The Million Dollar Hotel) ...
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Brotherhood Of The Wolf
Dir: Cristophe Gans. France. 2001. 143mins.Hailed as the prototype for a new genre-bending kind of popular European cinema, Brotherhood Of The Wolf is a crazy quilt of historical romance, horror movie, frontier saga, conspiracy thriller and martial arts actioner. One can only admire the sheer chutzpah of writer-director Christophe Gans, ...
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Traffic
After taking best movie cast and best actor awards at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards last weekend, multi-Oscar nominee Traffic is proving that it has box office clout as well. The film, which has taken more than $115m worldwide so far, added several strong openings over the weekend.Topping the ...
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UK's year-end cinema admissions below par
Admissions in the last quarter of 2000 slid 13% to 32.2 million, compared with 37.1m in the last three months of 1999, according to data from government agency National Statistics. If the data is seasonally adjusted the fall was 14%, from 37.7 million to 32.4 million.The figures reveal a total ...
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Only Mine for Buena Vista Spain
Buena Vista International Spain (BVIS) has picked up Spanish theatrical rights on Sergi Lopez-starrer Only Mine (Solo Mia) from Madrid-based production house Star Line Productions.Digital satellite platform Via Digital has pay TV and Television Espanola free-to-air rights to the film, director Javier Balaguer's feature debut.Only Mine stars Lopez and up-and-coming ...
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UK film production affected by animal virus
With much of the UK's countryside under virtual lockdown to curb the burgeoning foot-and-mouth epidemic, producers are beginning to feel the disruption as rural locations become inaccessible, and the scramble begins to find suitable replacements."Most scripts will have a bit of greenery in them," says Gavin Northover, location manager on ...
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Cartel to make biopic of Spaniard on death row
Spanish production outfit Cartel has announced plans to produce a film about Joaquin Jose Martinez, the Spaniard currently on death row in the United States accused of double murder.Writers Mercedes Segovia and Julia Montejo are now putting the final touches on the script. Cartel, headed by Eduardo Campoy, secured exclusive ...
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Civilian Content acquires majority of The Sales Co
Civilian Content, parent company of National Lottery franchise The Film Consortium, has secured an international sales operation by agreeing to acquire the majority of The Sales Co. (Screen Daily Sept 25, 2000)Civilian, which already owns 25% of the sales Co through the Consortium, has taken two further 25% holdings owned ...
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UNITED KINGDOM
A dearth pf strong openers in the UK left the top six virtually unchanged over the weekend leaving Hannibal unchallenged at the top of the chart. Despite falling 40% on the previous weekend, the thriller's $1,774,915 (£1,208,717) was easily enough to hold the top spot for a fourth week. The ...
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Internationalmedia acquires Largo library
Internationalmedia has acquired the 25-title Largo Entertainment film library which includes such films as, Kathryn Bigelow's Point Break, starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, Spike Lee's historical drama Malcolm X, the Jean-Claude Van Damme actioner Timecop, and Ridley Scott's White Squall and G.I. Jane.Commenting on the acquisition, Neuer Markt-listed Internationalmedia ...
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The Mexican
Dir: Gore Verbinski. US. 2001. 125mins.The first pairing of Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt, Hollywood's beloved stars, proves to be a mixed blessing in Gore Verbinski's The Mexican, a mishmash of a movie in which different genres and different styles compete aggressively and strenuously for the viewers' attention. Although the ...
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EM.TV to sell Henson one year after acquisition
Troubled German media concern EM.TV & Merchandising has confirmed that it is planning to sell the Jim Henson Group as part of a corporate restructure following its deal with the KirchGroup last month (ScreenDaily, Feb 2000).EM.TV spokeswoman Marion Moormann declared to the dpa/AFX news service, however, that the sale was ...
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French film production dips; investment soars
Although the number of French films produced last year decreased by a slight 3.3% from 1999's level, total investment in French films rose by 16% to $636m (Ffr 4.5bn) with a record seven titles (six of them period pieces) breaking the $14m (Ffr100m) budget mark - compared with just two ...
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Mullet
Writer-director David Caesar's third feature, his first since the admired Idiot Box (1996), is a small-budget, small-scale character study surprisingly showing in widescreen 35mm and six-track Dolby. Though rich in Australian idiom and seldom exploited southern New South Wales coastal scenery, Mullet's theatrical ambitions seem overstretched. Its true home is ...
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Blockbuster, Enron divorce creates VoD rivals
Blockbuster Video and Enron are to set up rival video-on-demand (VoD) services, having ended their year-old partnership.The original deal (Screendaily, July 20) had envisaged a match between Blockbuster's marketing power and the distribution capacity provided energy giant Enron's broadband fibre-optic network. This already spans North America and is being expanded ...
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