All Screen articles in 16 October 2000 – Page 3

  • News

    South Korea keeps up screen quotas fight

    2000-10-11T12:57:00Z

    South Korea's Coalition for Cultural Diversity in Moving Images (CDMI) is an organising a symposium involving government ministers on November 8 due to continued fears that the country's screen quota system could be abolished.The CDMI, which has carried out a global campaign for the retention of quotas over the last ...

  • News

    Princess, Baise-Moi to compete at Gijon

    2000-10-11T12:54:00Z

    Tom Tykwer's The Princess And The Warrior, controversial French film Baise-Moi and US indie title Chuck And Buck are among the titles that will compete in the official section of this year's Gijon International Film Festival in Spain. The festival, which takes place November 24 - December 1, is known ...

  • News

    Harrison Ford confirms lead in Intermedia's K-19

    2000-10-11T08:25:00Z

    Harrison Ford has confirmed that he will star in his first independently distributed movie - cold war submarine thriller K-19: The Widowmaker to be financed and distributed by Intermedia. The film, which immediately jumps to the top of buyers' hit lists for London Screenings and MIFED, is to be directed ...

  • News

    EU confirms clearance of AOL-TW deal

    2000-10-11T00:12:00Z

    As expected, the European Commission has cleared AOL's $135bn take-over of Time Warner after the two companies agreed to make concessions to ensure that they would not dominate Europe's fledgling internet music market.These include the agreement that Germany's leading media company Bertelsmann AG will "progressively exit" from its 50:50 joint ...

  • News

    Bignardi to replace Mueller at Locarno

    2000-10-10T19:26:00Z

    The Locarno International Film Festival has appointed Italian film critic Irene Bignardi as its new director, replacing Marco Mueller who quit at the end of this year's event in August. Bignardi, 57, currently works as a film critic and columnist for Rome daily La Repubblica. Until recently, she was also ...

  • News

    Jacquot, Diaz Yanes score Eurimages funding

    2000-10-10T19:24:00Z

    Council of Europe-backed finance body Eurimages is to plough Euros3.075m into eight European co-productions in its third funding round of this year, including new projects from Benoit Jacquot and Agustin Diaz Yanes.Eurimages has two schemes for production funding, both with distinct cultural objectives. The first scheme's awards are based on ...

  • News

    Carlton, JAM team for Archer adaptations

    2000-10-10T19:20:00Z

    A series of TV movies based on novels by best-selling author and politician Jeffrey Archer are to be made under a deal between Michael Braham and Jane Walmsley's UK production outfit JAM Pictures and the US' Carlton America.JAM will develop and produce movies and mini-series for the US market under ...

  • News

    Sheridan Group closes Dublin IMAX

    2000-10-10T19:16:00Z

    Dublin's 370-seat IMAX cinema, operated by the Belfast-based Sheridan Group, was closed down at short notice on Sunday (October 8).The large-format cinema in Dublin's city centre opened June 4, 1998 with what was then claimed to be the biggest cinema screen in Europe. It forms part of a linear on-street ...

  • Reviews

    The Monkey's Mask

    2000-10-10T17:19:00Z

    Dir: Samantha Lang. Australia. 2000. 91 mins.Prod co: Arena Film. International sales: Studio Canal (33-1) 4443 9800. Prods: Robert Connolly, John Maynard. Scr: Anne Kennedy, based on the verse novel by Dorothy Porter. DoP: Garry Philips. Prod des: Michael Philips. Ed: Dany Cooper. Mus: Andrew Kotatko. Main cast: Susie Porter, ...

  • News

    Via Digital signs up as Valencia sponsor

    2000-10-10T17:11:00Z

    Spanish digital satellite platform Via Digital has announced that it will sponsor this year's 21st annual Valencia Film Showing (Mostra de Valencia/Cinema del Mediterrani) which runs October 16-23.Via Digital committed to a three-year sponsorship last year of the Malaga Film Festival alongside Antena 3. As a result, the event boasted ...

  • News

    Universal secures DreamWorks titles for UK DVD

    2000-10-10T16:59:00Z

    Universal Pictures UK (UPUK) is to release titles from DreamWorks Home Entertainment on DVD in the UK, marking the first time that DVD films from DreamWorks have been released locally.First up is American Beauty, which is to hit shelves on November 27. Also on the DVD slate are The Haunting, ...

  • News

    UPC in talks to buy Germany's Tele-Columbus

    2000-10-10T16:57:00Z

    Dutch cable giant UPC has confirmed that it is in talks with Deutsche Bank to acquire Germany's second-largest cable TV company, Tele-Columbus, in a deal worth about $1.3bn.The deal forms part of UPC's plans to build a broadband network across Europe, offering telephony and high-speed internet access. The Dutch company ...

  • News

    New Telefilm money to be allocated this year

    2000-10-10T16:50:00Z

    Hot on the heels of the Canadian government's $67m boost to local film (ScreenDaily, October 6), Telefilm Canada is asking the country's industry for pitches on how best to spend the first gush of new money.Over the next two weeks, Telefilm, the country's principal public sector funding agency, will be ...

  • News

    Pusan emerges as production force

    2000-10-10T16:47:00Z

    South Korean port city Pusan is making a bid to become the production capital of the reviving Korean film industry by constructing state-of-the art facilities and seeking to attract foreign infrastructure investment.Development has begun on Centum City, a high-tech business and production complex half an hour from downtown Pusan. The ...

  • News

    Wenders & Shepard reteam for untitled 2001 project

    2000-10-10T03:03:00Z

    Wim Wenders and Sam Shepard who last collaborated on Wenders' 80s classic Paris Texas are to reteam on the screenplay for Wenders' next feature, an as yet untitled road movie set across the US. The new film which will be produced by Wenders' Berlin-based Road Movies Filmproduktion GmbH is set ...