All Screen articles in 16 October 2001 – Page 2
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KirchMedia reports strong first half performance
Releasing interim results for the first time, Geermany's KirchMedia has reported significant increases in sales and earnings for the six months to June 30 2001.While revenues climbed by 15% to $1.51bn (DM 3.247bn) and its EBITDA rose by 42% to $238.9m (DM 514m), the new corporate transparency showed that the ...
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UK's FilmFour International goes for Gold
Janine Gold has been promoted to head of FilmFour's sales arm, FilmFour International (FFI).Gold, previously head of sales, replaces Sue Bruce-Smith, who left earlier this year to join Irish-based production outfit Little Bird. The former Celluloid Dreams executive is recruiting a film sales manager. FFI has also boosted sales co-ordinator ...
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Former PolyGram boss Levy called on to head EMI
Former PolyGram chief executive, Alain Levy has been tapped to head the world's number three music group EMI. He replaces Ken Berry, who leaves the company today, three weeks after issuing a surprise profits warning.Levy, who headed PolyGram until it was sold by it parent the Dutch electronics giant Philips ...
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Cowboy shoots for Iwai's All About Lily Chou Chou
Fortissimo Film Sales has secured a US release for its All About Lily Chou Chou through Cowboy Films. The film, a futuristic romance by Japanese director Iwai Shunji, premiered at Toronto and was the closing film at last week's New York Film Festival. Cowboy also announced that it had bought ...
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Riding In Cars With Boys
Dir Penny Marshall. US 2001. 132 min.What begins as fun, nostalgic highschool comedy quickly escalates into a relentlessly dreary melodrama in Penny Marshall's Riding in Cars With Boys, a two-decade chronicle of a woman who got pregnant at adolescence and found herself stuck with an undesirable marriage and ...
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Graham King steps down from Splendid board
Graham King, the chief executive of Initial Entertainment Group (IEG), has stepped down from the board of Splendid Medien, the public German distributor which owns a 49% stake in IEG.The move comes as no surprise since the two operations have been somewhat estranged in the last few months, especially since ...
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Bandits underwhelms with $13.4m
Warner Bros' Training Day remained at the top of the box office over the weekend with an estimated $13.55m gross, some $90,000 more than MGM's Bandits which opened in second position with $13.46m. It was a disappointing performance for the action comedy starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and Cate ...
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Japan to get Kurosawa museum
The Akira Kurosawa Foundation, headed by Kurosawa's son Hisao, plans to build a museum in Imari, Saga Prefecture to honour Kurosawa, with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese agreeing to serve as honorary directors. The directorial trio are lending their names to help the foundation raise $12.5 m (Y1.5b) ...
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Myriad tests German market with teen comedy sale
Myriad Pictures got the autumn film market season off to a bright start with the sale of its teen comedy Van Wilder: Party Liaison to Germany. The Walt Becker-directed film, which screens at next week's London and Milan markets, was sold in all German-speaking territories to Telepool. "We are delighted ...
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Invincible
Dir: Werner Herzog. UK/Germany. 2001. 130mins.After many years dedicated to stage, documentaries and guest performances in films directed by others, Werner Herzog, one of the original pillars of New German cinema, makes a return to feature-length fiction. However, as with his previous films (such as The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser ...
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Recession watch - Part V: distribution, marketing
In the fifth part of Screen International's analysis on the effect on the industry of the Sept 11 attacks on the US, the threat of recession on distribution and marketing is assessed.Abstracted from Screen InternationalDistribution and marketing"The indie distribution business will be good long term, but the next year will ...
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Constantin postpones nine theatrical releases
German producer-distributor Constantin Film has "considerably" reduced its planned earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) for 2001 after deciding to postpone nine theatrical releases from the second half of this year until the beginning of 2002.Due to current developments in the German and US distribution markets, the EBIT for the ...
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UK actors union proposes revenue percentage deal
Having won additional payment concessions from Warner Bros so that the next Harry Potter movie can shoot, UK performers union Equity has proposed that independent producers pay its members a slice of all revenues after initial investment has been recouped in order to side-step December's strike.Equity sent out guidelines late ...
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German producers decry
The future of the German film and television sector is under serious threat from the Gerhard Schroeder administration's plans to introduce a new copyright bill to improve the situation of authors and performing artists, according to producer associations and the six major regional public funds.On the eve of Monday's public ...
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Corky Romano
Dir: Rob Pritts. US 2001. 104 minutes Children are taught never to call anyone or anything "stupid," a word which all parents for some reason find objectionable. With that in mind, let it be said that the film Corky Romano has one of the lowest IQs in recent memory --probably ...
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BBC, Film Council launch UK director-driven slate
The UK's Film Council, BBC Films and BBC 2 are to co-produce and co-finance a slate of four features in a package worth around $3.6m (£2.5m), aimed at breaking new UK directors and guaranteeing at least some exposure through broadcast on BBC 2.The scheme, which is expected to run for ...
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Lantana lights up Australian audiences
The enthusiasm shown by local audiences for new Australian film Lantana has buoyed the already high expectations by Palace Films, which is distributing the psychological drama in association with Beyond Films. The film opened on October 4 and took $215,348 (A$430,696) in four days from 15 screens, giving it an ...
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NBC pays $2bn for US hispanic TV network
Just as analysts werepredicting a marked slowdown in media mergers and acquisitions, NBC announcedyesterday it was paying $1.98bn for complete ownership of the number two Spanish-language broadcasting network in the US, Telemundo. The deal reportedly trumped a rival bid from Viacom.NBC is paying ahuge premium to buy out the interests ...
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The Sales Co changes its name to The Works
London-based The Sales Company, one of the oldest sales operations in the business, has changed its name to The Works, a new brand which will be launched during the run up to London and MIFED.The new name coincides with a new modus operandi at the company under chief executive Aline ...
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Senator International to back Nothing from Natali
Vincenzo Natali, the Canadian film-maker behind Cube and Pandora's upcoming Company Man, has signed to direct the movie Nothing for Senator International.Senator is executive producing, providing principal financing for and will handle worldwide distribution on the film; The Klockworx Co holds all rights in Japan. It is the first Natali ...
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