All Screen articles in 18 August 2000 – Page 3

  • News

    Deauville competition line-up echoes Sundance

    2000-08-14T18:01:00Z

    Several Sundance titles feature in the competition line-up at this year's Deauville Festival of American Cinema (September 1-10), including Ben Younger's Boiler Room, Miguel Arteta's Chuck And Buck and Karyn Kusama's Girlfight.Other Sundance titles in the nine-strong line-up include Rob Schmidt's Crime And Punishment In Suburbia, Brad Anderson's Happy Accidents, ...

  • News

    Gladiator keeps Serbian box office rolling

    2000-08-14T16:48:00Z

    Gladiator racked up 12,094 admissions from eight prints during its opening weekend (August 4-6) in Serbia. The result, while not astounding, marks an attempt by UIP and local distributor Vans to extend the territory's box office season into the summer. It makes Gladiator the seventh largest opener in Serbia so ...

  • News

    Film Council appoints Jones as Premiere fund chief

    2000-08-14T16:02:00Z

    Producer Robert Jones will head the main National Lottery fund for commercial films at UK film body the Film Council.Jones, whose credits include Simon Magus, Dad Savage and The Usual Suspects, will oversee the Premiere Production Fund, which has $16m a year in National Lottery cash to finance popular, mainstream ...

  • News

    Dutch director offers reward for return of negs

    2000-08-14T13:57:00Z

    Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh has promised a $40,000 (NLG100,000) reward to the person who can return film negatives from his latest project Baby Blue (Bloedlink) which went missing somewhere between Curacao in the Dutch Antilles and Amsterdam. Instead of finding key scenes from the film, staff at Cineco laboratories ...

  • News

    Declaration calls for revamp of Swiss funding

    2000-08-14T13:53:00Z

    The Swiss Association of Film Producers (SFP) and French-speaking Switzerland's film trade association ARC have called for sweeping changes to the country's public film funding structure in their "Locarno Declaration", published at last week's Locarno Film Festival.Switzerland's production community was recently hit by the news that the Swiss culture ministry ...

  • News

    Igel Media launches London-based sales arm

    2000-08-14T13:49:00Z

    German family entertainment rights trader Igel Media has opened a London-based international sales arm to be headed by current international sales chief Edward Galton.The new division will be responsible for worldwide distribution of Igel product working closely with the company's Hamburg headquarters.Earlier this year Igel and French production studio Xilam ...

  • News

    Grade pitches Pinewood, Shepperton merger

    2000-08-14T10:53:00Z

    Michael Grade and Ridley and Tony Scott are to join forces in running a UK super studio facility combining Pinewood Studios and Shepperton Studios, if current proposals from Grade get the go-ahead.Grade, who became chairman of Pinewood in February after buying the operation from Rank for $93m (£62m), confirmed he ...

  • News

    HBO to launch South Asia movie service on Sept 1

    2000-08-14T01:53:00Z

    HBO is to launch an English language movie channel HBO South Asia service in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Maldives on Sept 1, 2000. Programming will consist exclusively of films sourced through exclusive licensing agreements with Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Studios and Warner Bros.HBO will manage the new ...

  • News

    Space Cowboys, Hollow Man tie at the top

    2000-08-14T01:51:00Z

    Buoyed by good reviews and strong word-of-mouth, Warner Bros' Space Cowboys tied for the top spot at the North American box office over the weekend with Columbia Pictures' sci-fi thriller Hollow Man, each film taking an estimated $13.1m. Hollow Man fell 50% from its blockbusting opening last weekend, while Space ...

  • News

    Under Hellgate Bridge wins at Narrowsburg Fest

    2000-08-14T01:49:00Z

    Michael Sergio's Under Hellgate Bridge was named Best Feature Film at the second annual The Narrowsburg Independent Film Festival in Narrowsburg, upstate New York, last week. The film also won the Best Director prize for Sergio, the Best Actor prize for Michael Rodrick and the Rising Star Award for Brian ...