All Screen articles in 19 December 2000 – Page 2
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TV Azteca launches film and TV production arm
Mexico's second largest broadcaster, TV Azteca, has launched a film and television production division, Azteca Cine, which has forged co-production deals with both Columbia TriStar International Television (CTIT) and the UK's Pearson Television. Apart from supplying programming to TV Azteca, the new unit aims to feed upcoming US Hispanic television ...
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Japan's Battle Royale boosted by censorship row
Proving that there's no such thing as bad publicity, Japanese splatter-fest Battle Royale is piling up ticket sales as quickly as its on-screen body count, grossing $5.45m (Y613m) on its opening weekend, despite, or perhaps because of, politicians' attempts to get the film banned.Lambasted by politicians and bureaucrats for its ...
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Mumbai police hunt for mafia money in film
The police in the Indian city of Mumbai have reportedly launched a crackdown on the involvement of criminal organisations in Hindi film financing.Mumbai joint police commissioner D. Sivanandan spoke to journalists about "the deep involvement" of "a majority of the members of the film industry" with local mafia. "We ...
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Norway's Cinema Commission proposes levy increase
Norway's Cinema Policy Commission has recommended an increase in the country's film and video levy, by 1% to 3.5%, in order to help smaller theatres make the conversion to digital projection.The Commission, appointed by Norway's Ministry of Culture one year ago to review the government's exhibition policy, also suggested the ...
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What Women Want
Dir: Nancy Meyers. US. 2000. 126 mins.Prod cos: Icon Productions, Wind Dancer. US dist: Paramount Pictures. Int'l sales: Icon Entertainment International (+ 44 20 7494 8100). Exec prods: Stephen McEveety, David McFadzean, Carmen Finestra. Prods: Nancy Meyers, Bruce Davey, Matt Williams. Scr: Josh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa from a story by ...
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Bronco's Flying Scotsman secures lottery backing
Bronco Films' $5m The Flying Scotsman was the main beneficiary of the latest Scottish Screen Lottery Panel Awards, receiving a production grant of $738,000 (£500,000). Described by producer Peter Broughan as "Chariots Of Fire meets The Full Monty", the film tells the inspirational true story of world champion cyclist Graham ...
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Denmark's Italian selected for Berlin competition
Italian For Beginners, the first of a new string of Danish films made according to Dogme rules, has been selected for the main competition section at the upcoming Berlin Film Festival (February 7-18, 2001). The film is written and directed by Lone Scherfig and produced by Ib Tardini for Denmark's ...
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What Women Want breaks all-time December record
Mel Gibson's first stab at romantic comedy What Women Want was exactly that, with a massive estimated $34.4m opening over the weekend and over 60% of the audience consisting of women. Distributed by Paramount but sold internationally to independent distributors by Icon Entertainment International, the film could stand to become ...
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Advanced Medien chairman open to friendly takeover
Further ownership changes could be on the cards for Germany's Advanced Medien according to executive board chairman Christophe Montague, who has said that he is not excluding the possibility of a friendly takeover of the company.In an online chat with Financial Times Deutschland this week, Montague added that a takeover ...
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German internet provider joins Kinowelt in B.TV
Leading German internet service provider Web.de has joined mini-major Kinowelt as a shareholder in regional broadcaster B.TV Television, by acquiring a 9.94% stake in the Baden-Wuerttemberg-based channel.The move makes Web.de, which reaches 5.4 million users, the first German internet player to become directly involved in television.B.TV can be received by ...
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Munich prosecutor launches probe into EM.TV
Brothers Thomas and Florian Haffa and other executives at troubled German media concern EM.TV & Merchandising are being investigated by Munich state prosecutor Manfred Wick for alleged breaches of securities law.EM.TV spokesman Michael Birnbaum declared that the books of the licence trader would be open to the investigating authority as ...
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LA Critics declare Crouching Tiger Best Picture
Ang Lee's Chinese-language epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon increased its chances for consideration in major Oscar categories when it was named Best Picture of 2000 last night (Saturday) by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys was runner-up for best picture.However, not even Ang Lee could beat ...
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Das Werk buys into France's Mikros Images
German post-production house Das Werk has added to its international network by acquiring a 15% stake in French digital post and effects house Mikros Images, with plans to extend this to a majority interest in future.The two companies are founding members of the Max European Post-Production Alliance, along with Belgium's ...
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Shockwave.com to acquire AtomFilms
Marking the end of a roller-coaster year for the troubled online entertainment business, Shockwave.com has announced its stock swap acquisition of short films specialist AtomFilms, in a deal which is expected to lead to 100 redundancies.Under the terms of the deal, Shockwave.com will acquire AtomFilms in a stock for stock ...
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Metrodome acquires Together, 101 Reykjavik
Metrodome Distribution has acquired UK rights to Scandinavian hits 101 Reykjavik and Together from Trust Film Sales.Metrodome distribution chief Rupert Preston expects to release the two films in the spring next year. The UK release will follow screenings for both films in the World Cinema section at the upcoming edition ...
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Blockbuster to double number of Argentine stores
Blockbuster has unveiled an aggressive expansion plan for Argentina. Starting next year, the Viacom-owned home video retailer will begin to offer franchises in regional Argentine cities, in a bid to double the number of outlets it has in the country. Blockbuster currently enjoys a 37% share of the Argentine market, ...
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Miss Congeniality
Dir: Donald Petrie. US. 2000. 104min. Prod co: Castle Rock Entertainment in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment. Dist: Warner Bros/Village Roadshow (Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Cyprus and Greece). Exec prods: Marc Lawrence, Ginger Sledge, Bruce Berman. Prod: Sandra Bullock. Co-prod: Katie Ford. Scr: Lawrence, Ford, Caryn Lucas. ...
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The Claim
Dir: Michael Winterbottom. US. 2000. 120mins.Prod cos: United Artists Films in association with Pathe Pictures, The Arts Council Of England, StudioCanal, BBC and Alliance Atlantis. US dist: United Artists. Int'l sales: Pathe International, tel: (33) 1 40 76 91 65. Exec prods: Martin Katz, Alexis Lloyd, Andrea Calderwood. Prod: Andrew ...
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Planeta seeks partners for debut production
Planeta 2010 - the start-up media division of publishing giant Planeta - is seeking international co-production partners for the feature film which will mark it's entry into the production market, Avatar.An English-language futuristic action story from up-and-coming director Elio Quiroga, Avatar is planned for an autumn 2001 shoot on a ...
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Ratcatcher reels in top prize at Bratislava
Lynne Ramsay's UK drama Ratcatcher won the grand prize at the second edition of the Bratislava International Film Festival.The award for best director went to Lee Chang-dong for Korean title Peppermint Candy. Mandy Matthews won the best actress prize for her part in Ratcatcher, while Peppermint Candy's Sol Kyung-gu took ...
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