All Screen articles in 18 September 2000 – Page 3
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RTL raises Antena 3 stake
Pan-European broadcaster RTL Group has raised its stake in private Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 to 16% in a bid to expand in southern Europe.RTL paid $134m for an additional 6.23% stake in Antena 3. The move is expected to bring the group closer to Antena 3's other key shareholder, Spanish ...
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Navidi, Wilde raise financing
Producers Barry Navidi and Manfred Wilde have raised $30m in equity for a slate of films through their production outfit Sun, Moon & Stars Entertainment, according to Navidi and Wilde.Navidi, whose producing credits include TV film Mr Corbett's Ghost, said the money was raised via private investors in Europe and ...
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Tom Sherak joins Roth's Revolution
Tom Sherak has resigned as chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment's US film group to join former Walt Disney Co film chief Joe Roth at Roth's start-up production outfit Revolution Studios.Sherak is to include film development and production in his brief at Revolution alongsdie marketing and distribution. He will be ...
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Alliance Atlantis forms TV venture with Zoetrope
Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope has signed exclusive television development deals with Alliance Atlantis and Viacom Productions. The Viacom deal involves TV series while the Alliance Atlantis deal involves TV movies and miniseries. In a statement, Coppola said: "'series, mini-series, movies of the week, reality shows, live TV -- you ...
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Lions Gate starts Canadian production services arm
Lions Gate Entertainment and Vancouver-base CineGate Holdings have formed an equal joint venture production services company. CineGate Production Management Services which will cater to those film and television projects shooting in Canada that are accessing tax credits, particularly US studio productions. In a statement, Lions Gate vice chairman and CEO ...
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Alliance Atlantis bags Villeneuve, Freundlich pics
Denis Villeneuve, director of Toronto festival hit, Maelstrom, has signed to direct a new production to be co-financed by Alliance Atlantis and Toronto-based Rhombus Media, the producers of Francois Girard's The Red Violin and Don McKellar's Last Night. The new film, Boyd, will roll next spring. It will be Villeneuve's ...
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Dutton's Corner, Winfrey's Morrie surprise Emmys
A change in the voting procedures in the major categories for the Emmy Awards resulted in several surprise winners over the weekend, among them multiple trophies for Charles Dutton's explicit mini-series The Corner and for the Oprah Winfrey-produced TV movie Tuesdays With Morrie. British stand-up comedian Eddie Izzard also won ...
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Disney clamps down on R-rated marketing tactics
Responding to a growing political storm in the US surrounding screen sex and violence, Walt Disney has decided to enforce stricter rules for the way that R-rated films released under its Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures and Miramax Films labels are marketed, particularly towards children.Print advertising, trailers and web sites will now ...
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Sogepaq takes international rights on Spanish hit
Spanish rights and distribution house Sogepaq has added Ano Mariano, Spain's top box office performer this year, and Kilometro Zero to its growing list of local pick-ups for international sales.Ano Mariano has racked up more than a million admissions since its August 11 premiere. The film was produced by Asegarce ...
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British indie awards unveil industry jury
UK producer Michele Camarda, ICM London chief Duncan Heath and East Is East writer Ayub Khan Din are on the jury at this year's British Independent Film Awards.Joining them are producer and Civilian Content chief Richard Holmes, director Declan Lowney, sales executive Fiona Mitchell, producer Andy Paterson, actress Samantha Morton ...
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Nine Network strikes Paramount supply deal
Australia's Nine Network has struck a supply deal with Paramount Pictures, securing the rights to half of the studio's theatrical output from 2000/01 and all of it from the following year.The Australian network is also gaining access to programming from the Paramount Television group up to the 2001/02 US broadcast ...
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Wenders, Road Movies take radically digital route
German director Wim Wenders and Road Movies Filmproduktion, the production company he co-founded, have gone digital.Along with confirming that Wenders' next film will be shot digitally in America next spring, Road Movies is to produce a slate of low-budget digital films from new film-makers under the banner "radikal digital".Road Movies ...
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The Hundred Steps (I Centro Passi)
Dir: Marco Tullio Giordana. Italy. 2000. 105 mins.Prod co: Titti Film. Co-prod: Rai Cinema. Backer: Tele +. Int'l sales:Istituto Luce (39) 06 729921. Prod: Fabrizio Mosca. Scr: Claudio Fava, Monica Zapelli, Marco Tullio Giordana. DoP: Roberto Forza. Prod des: Franco Ceraolo. Ed: Roberto Missiroli. Main cast: Luigi Lo Cascio (Peppino ...
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Deauville honours Girlfight
The Deauville Festival of American Cinema has awarded its Grand Prix du Cinema Independent to Karyn Kusama's Sundance title Girlfight.But Christopher Nolan's Memento, the only Deauville competition title which did not premiere in Sundance, won no less than three prizes. The revenge story, which stars Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss and ...
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Menemsha gets five new titles for worldwide sales
Neil Friedman's Menemsha Entertainment has acquired worldwide distribution rights to five new international pictures, furthering the company's ambitions to become a prolific seller of foreign-language and independent film from around the world. To date, Friedman has handled hit festival titles including Train De Vie, Color Of Paradise and The Life ...
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Franchise to sell foreign rights to Magellan trio
Franchise Pictures has signed a deal with LA-based production outfit Magellan Filmed Entertainment to handle international sales on three pictures kicking off with Rennie's Landing, a drama about four college friends starring Peter Facinelli, Ethan Embry, Scott Foley and Charlotte Ayana.The agreement marks the first time that Franchise has concluded ...
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Good Machine buys international rights to Series 7
Good Machine International (GMI) has acquired international sales rights to Daniel Minahan's Series 7, a dark comic satire to which USA Films recently acquired domestic rights.The film - taking off the phenomenal success of such reality shows as Survivor and Big Brother - imagines that the highest-rated TV show is ...
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