All Screen articles in 16 October 2001
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UK welcomes second helping of Pie
American Pie 2, the sequel to 1999's hit gross-out comedy, took the UK box office by storm at the weekend taking a massive $8m (£5.5m) from 420 sites, including previews of $1,111,103 (£765,550) from 376 sites, for an impressive site average of $19,036. Accounting for well over 50% of the ...
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Cannes names new German correspondent
Cannes Film Festival has taken another step in its rapprochement with the German film industry by the naming of Berlin film journalist Christiane Peitz as the festival's new national correspondent to succeed Hans-Dieter Seidel.Peitz, who works for the arts pages of Berlin-based daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, will work closely with ...
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Local films eroding US marketshare in France
French films, which have been performing consistently well in their home territory since the beginning of the year, have wrestled US titles' normally dominant marketshare down to 49% (compared with 62% last year) in the first nine months of 2001, According with the latest estimations by the CNC (Centre National ...
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Lolafilms UK continues without Mackey
Lolafilms UK, the troubled London-based production and sales arm of Spanish powerhouse Lolafilms, is claiming 'business as usual' after it emerged that president of international sales Nicole Mackey had resigned.In a statement, Lolafilms asserted: "Regardless of a cost cutting plan, London activities will continue since they are considered an essential ...
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The Others poised to reign in Spain
Spanish-US co-production The Others is poised to overtake raunchy local comedy Torrente 2: Mission In Marbella (Torrente 2: Mision En Marbella) at the Spanish box office this week as the highest grossing domestic film in history. As of last weekend, the Warner Sogefilms release The Others - director Alejandro Amenabar's ...
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Sur Mes Levres (Read My Lips)
Dir: Jacques Audiard. France. 2001. 115minsAn adventurous mixture of unconventional romance and crime melodrama, Sur Mes Levres underlines writer-director Jacques Audiard's reputation for originality and flair. Initially quite unpredictable, the film, which is released in France this week, remains intriguing even as it becomes increasingly bogged down in the elaborate ...
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UPI shrinks video & DVD rental-to-retail windows
Universal Pictures International (UPI) has announced long-term plans to narrow its international rental-to-retail release windows for video and DVD to between four to eight weeks. The normal international standard window between rental and retail markets stands at around four to six months.UPI, the London-based international video distribution arm of Universal ...
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Klein & Messick take up senior roles at Mutual
Producers Jennifer Klein and Kevin Messick are to join Mutual Film Co as senior production executives. Reporting to Mutual chief executives Gary Levinsohn and Don Granger, the two will be responsible for identifying and securing projects for the company to produce and finance as well as overseeing their development and ...
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Warner Bros takes over Kinowelt's New Line deals
New Line International's output arrangement with the financially troubled German distributor Kinowelt has finally unravelled. In a deal hammered out last week, Warner Bros has assumed the distribution of New Line Cinema features in all German-speaking territories, eastern Europe and Russia effective immediately and through 2003.The announcement was made in ...
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Warner Home Video-Japan taps DVD, games specialist
Warner Home Video hasappointed Takeshi (Tim) Harada as managing director of its Japanese subsidiary,with direct control over all its local home entertainment operations includingsales, marketing, finance and DVD production.Reporting directly to WarnerHome Video president Warren Lieberfarb, Harada replaces Toshio Yajima who hasresigned from Warner Home Video-Japan to pursue other business ...
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High Point sells Murder Rooms at MIP-COM
High Point Films & Television used last week's MIP-COM TV market to secure further deals on its feature package Murder Rooms - The Real Mysteries Of Sherlock Holmes. The pictures were sold to Ceska TV for the Czech Republic, TV2 for Norway, Hungarian TV, VRT for Belgium, SVT for Sweden, ...
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UIP hands over Hong Kong to Golden Harvest
United International Pictures (UIP) has closed its Hong Kong office in a downsizing move after more than 10 years of operation.For the last five years, Louisa Chan has been the general manager and sole representative of the Hong Kong office.Golden Harvest will assume UIP's operations, with head of film ...
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UPI launches operations in Japan, Korea & Brazil
Universal Pictures International (UPI), the London-based international video distribution arm of Universal Pictures, has launched new video distribution operations covering Japan, Korea and Brazil, following the expiration of a CIC distribution agreement.The local offices will focus on expanding the rental and home video sell-through markets, driven by DVD growth, as ...
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Helkon signs $9.1m package deal with RTL 2
The Mexican, The Contender and Brotherhood Of Wolf are among the titles in a Euros 10m film package deal of first and second run licences concluded by Helkon Media with private German broadcaster RTL 2 as part of new, comprehensive long-term programme between the two companies.Commenting on the programme of ...
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Pauline & Paulette scoops 5 Ghent Plateau awards
Belgium's entry for the Foreign Language Oscar: Pauline & Paulette by Lieven Debrauwer was the big winner at this year's "Joseph Plateau Awards" which were presented during the International Flanders Film Festival in Ghent.Five of the seven awards celebrating local Belgian filmmaking went to Debrauwer's film in the categories of ...
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Give Up Yer Aul Sins gets two Cork shorts awards
Cathal Gaffney' s Give Up Yer Aul Sins (pictured) from Brown Bag Films, took two of the major awards for short films at the close of the 46th Cork Film Festival last night (14 Oct).The animated short won both the award for Best International Short Film, and the Jameson ...
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Palm Tree announces period drama slate
Palm Tree Productions has secured independent backing from Monaco-based media investment company IPH (IP Hedge) for a slate of four period dramas set in Scotland. Budgeted in the $5-$10 million range, the projects are Red Rose, Chopin's Widow, Voyage Of Dreams and The White Duchess. It is understood that IPH ...
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Bridget Jones's Diary is the talk of Paris
Bridget Jones's Diary has attracted a massive 872,000 admissions in France in its first five days and should reach the one million admissions mark in its first week. The Working Title film, distributed in France by StudioCanal's affiliate Mars Films (which scored a hit last year with another British title, ...
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France's Vidocq takes five awards at Sitges
French box office sensation Vidocq was the big winner at this year's 34th annual edition of the Catalan International Film Festival of Sitges, walking away with best film, new director, effects, make-up and original soundtrack nods.Directed by FX wizard Pitof, Vidocq stars Gerard Depardieu in a hi-tech suspense period tale ...
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Ramirez boosts its Mexican cinema domination
Mexico's largest exhibitor Organizacion Ramirez is fast moving towards its 1000-screen objective by the end of 2002. This week alone the company is to launch a 20-screen multiplex in Mexico City and another 18-screen site in Monterrey. "We're targeting a growth ratio of at least 100 screens per year," said ...