All Screen articles in 18 August 2000
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Cartel, Creaccion set to shoot Ungria's El Deseo
Spanish producers Creaccion and Cartel plan to shoot Alfonso Ungria's El Deseo De Ser Piel Roja from September in Spain and Morrocco.The $1.1m film tells the story of two men, their fight to close a nuclear power centre and their battle for the love of one woman. Up-and-coming actors Patxi ...
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Cinar fires founders Charest and Weinberg
Cinar Corp has fired its co-founders Micheline Charest and Ronald Weinberg as employees of the company and asked them to step down as directors.The move is seen as a way for the embattled company to distance itself from the tarnished image of its founders, who have been on leave since ...
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Taxi 2 Drives Admissions In Japan
Even though its villains are Japanese, Taxi 2 is burning rubber at the Japanese box office. Opening on August 12, it recorded 110,000 admissions on 165 screens its first weekend, for a gross of $1,587,156 (Y173m), enough for third place in the rankings after MI:2 and The Perfect Storm.To rev ...
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A Brief History Of Errol Morris
Dir: Kevin McDonald. 1999. UK-US. 48 mins.Prod Co: Minerva Pictures. Int'l sales: Film Transit International (+1 514 844 3358). Prods: Paula Jalfon, Colin MacCabe. DoP: Neve Cunningham. Ed: Stephen Devlin. Mus: Alex Heffes. Main cast: Errol Morris, Werner Herzog, Tom Luddy, Philip Glass.An Oscar-winner earlier this year for the controversial ...
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My Mother Frank wins Melbourne vote
Audiences favoured home-grown films at this year's Melbourne Film Festival (July 19-August 6). My Mother Frank, directed by Sydney-based Mark Lamprell, scooped the Stella Artois Award for most popular film, while Melbourne director Paul Cox scored second and third spot with Innocence and Molokai: The Story Of Father Damien. A ...
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Oz producers, directors claim copyright victory
Australia's parliament has passed the Copyright Digital Agenda Bill prompting both directors and producers to issue media statements claiming they have won the long-running battle over directors' copyright. The Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) claimed victory on the basis that the new legislation was passed without the controversial amendment ...
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Jazztel founder launches rival cable operator
Jordi Compte Batista, co-founder of Spanish cable company Jazztel, has launched his own competing cable outfit dubbed Flash10.com, according to Spanish news reports. Flash10 plans to offer telephone, data, internet and multimedia services in 32 cities in the Catalan region of Spain. Compte is said to be seeking international backers ...
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Radcliffe revealed as the real Harry Potter
UK actor Daniel Radcliffe has been cast as Harry Potter in Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, scotching rumours over the weekend that fellow Brit Gabriel Thomson had clinched the role.11-year-old Radcliffe recently played young David in the BBC's David Copperfield and also features in John Boorman's The ...
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Oz ratings chief speaks out on screen violence
Des Clark, director of Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC), has claimed that Australians are concerned about rising levels of screen violence, and plans to take this into account in a review of the film classification system to take place next year.The most serious concerns are about violence ...
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Parallax unveils partnership with Scotland's Makar
The UK's Parallax Pictures has established a Scottish production base through a partnership with Edinburgh-based Makar Productions. The two companies are already collaborating on Makar's first National Lottery-financed feature, the $3.9m Child Of Air.Parallax's Sally Hibbins will executive produce the feature with Makar's Eddie Dick producing. Pat Harkins, who recently ...
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German exhibs team for on-line ticketing venture
German exhibitors CinemaxX, UFA Theater and Kieft & Kieft Filmtheater are joining forces to launch what they claim will be Germany's first nationwide on-line ticketing service.The service will allow customers to use the internet to make reservations and pay for tickets at the three circuits' combined 1,000 theatres across Germany. ...
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The Low Down
Dir: Jamie Thraves. UK. 2000. 96 mins.Prod cos: Oil Factory, Sleeper Films, FilmFour, British Screen. International Sales: FilmFour International, tel: (44) 207 868 7700. Prods: John Stewart, Sally Llewellyn. Assoc prod: Nicole Keddy. Scr: Jamie Thraves. DoP: Igor Jadue-Lillo. Ed: Lucia Zucchetti. Mus: Nick Currie, Fred Thomas. Main cast: Aidan ...
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There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
Dir: John Hay. UK. 2000. 105 mins.Prod co: Sarah Radclyffe Productions, Impact Films. Co-prods: Arts Council, Le Studio Canal Plus. Domestic dist: Pathe. Int'l Sales: Pathe (001 310 247 4747). Exec prods: Alexis Lloyd, Andrea Calderwood, Bill Godfrey. Prods: Sarah Radclyffe, Jeremy Bolt, Alison Jackson. Scr: Simon Mayle, Hay, Rik ...
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IN THE HOT SEAT - ROBERT JONES
The Film Council's new head of commercial production, Robert Jones, has a heavy burden to bear. If he fails to generate a flow of hit mainstream films the whole of the UK government's recently revamped film support strategy could be in jeopardy. Adam Minns asks if he has what it ...
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Leipzig documentary fest to open with Happiness
A gala screening of a restored print of Alexander Medvedkin's silent classic Happiness (Stschastje) from 1934 will open this year's International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animation Films (October 17-22). The festival will also feature a retrospective dedicated to the East German film-maker Juergen Boettcher and a special programme of ...
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Macleod quits Channel 4 International
Bernard Macleod is stepping down as managing director of UK programming distributor Channel 4 International (C4I).Macleod is leaving to pursue interests in further education and will act as a media consultant. He joined C4I in 1998 from his own TV production outfit Cahoots."We will be sad to see Bernard depart, ...
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Italy's Mikado bags Venice closing film Vengo
Italian distributor Mikado has acquired Venice closing night film Vengo, directed by Tony Gatlif, a French-Spanish co-production that is being sold worldwide by France's Flach Pyramide International.Following the international arthouse success of Gatlif's award-winning titles Latcho Drom and Gadjo Dilo, Vengo - in which Gatlif once again explores his gypsy ...
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Antonine Films unveils scheme for Scottish shorts
UK production outfit Antonine Films has launched a short film initiative, "8 1/2", designed to nurture new talent based in Scotland. Named after the Federico Fellini classic, the title also represents the running time of each short to be produced under the scheme. Supported by a wide range of Scottish ...
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Rogers goes to court over Videotron merger
Canada's largest cable operator Rogers Communications has gone to court in an effort to lift an injunction, handed down in April, that effectively prevents its merger with the country's third-largest cabler Groupe Videotron.Rogers tendered a bid for the company in April, only to have it blocked by Videotron shareholder Caisse ...
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Harvey buys first film for theatrical distribution
The Harvey Entertainment Company has acquired US distribution rights to UK/French animated family film A Monkey's Tale from Pearson Television International and plans to release it through a distribution partner on a limited 150-screen release at the end of January 2001. Universal Home Video will then release it on video ...