All Screen articles in 19 December 2000 – Page 3
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IN THE HOT SEAT - ROLAND PELLEGRINO
Following a flurry of deals, including multi-picture financing pacts with Mandalay, Pathe and Lions Gate, KC Medien CEO Roland Pellegrino has risen to become a leading light on the international film financing scene. Martin Blaney surveys the rise of the former bank clerk from Ludwigsburg.The road to Mandalay, and indeed ...
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Artisan renews Canada deal with Alliance Atlantis
Artisan Entertainment and Alliance Atlantis Communications have renewed their 1998 output deal giving Alliance Atlantis the Canadian theatrical, home entertainment and TV rights to upcoming Artisan films for an additional three years.The agreement also gives Alliance Atlantis Canadian rights for another five years to Artisan's 6,700-title film and TV library. ...
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Walton signed to script The Pornographer's Poem
Canadian screenwriter Karen Walton has been signed by Alliance Atlantis to adapt Michael Turner's novel The Pornographer's Poem for the screen. Walton wrote the acclaimed horror film Ginger Snaps which premiered at this year's Toronto International Film Festival and received an honourable mention "for its wicked, insightful and intelligent script."A ...
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Fox ups Yankowitz to top int'l marketing position
Mitch Yankowitz has been promoted to the position of executive vice president of marketing at 20th Century Fox International, filling the position held until recently by Scott Neeson, who was promoted to president of international theatrical in October.Yankowitz will develop and supervise the strategic marketing plans of all Fox releases ...
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Bouffard appointed Unifrance general manager
The French free-tv broadcasters will have to increase their compulsory investment in French film production (through pre-buys, co-productions and theatrical distribution) to 3.2% of their revenues (against 3% previously) according to new broadcasting legislation.The French broadcasting sector is a major backer of the French film indsutry. Last year, the involvement ...
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All systems go for AOL Time Warner after FTC nod
The most arduous legal obstacle facing the biggest corporate merger in US history was swept away on Thursday after Washington's five-member Federal Trade Commission gave its unanimous approval to America Online's $111bn takeover of Time Warner - but with stringent conditions attached in the form of a consent decree.With only ...
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Memfis, Slot Machine board Vinterberg's Love
The final pieces of financing have fallen into place on Thomas Vinterberg's eagerly-awaited new project It's All About Love, his first since acclaimed Dogme title The Celebration, with Japan's Shochiku pre-buying Japanese rights and Marianne Slot's Slot Machine and Lars Jonsson's Memfis Film boarding as French and Swedish partners.The $10m ...
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Gaumont, Pathe merge exhibition interests
French film groups Gaumont and Pathe - headed respectively by brothers Nicolas and Jerome Seydoux - are forming a joint venture to house their exhibition interests, EuroPalaces, which will be 66% owned by Pathe and 34% by Gaumont.The new combine, which will be chaired by Pathe/Chargeurs' Eduardo Malone, will operate ...
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Meet The Parents charms German box office
UIP's Meet The Parents began its international roll-out by shooting straight to the top of the German box office chart, with a four-day gross of $2.51m (DM5.54m) from 356 screens. The film's healthy opening screen average of $7,064 is the third highest of the year in Germany behind Mission: Impossible ...
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Traffic
Dir: Steven Soderbergh. US. 2000. 147 mins. Prod cos: Bedford Falls. US dist: USA Films. Int'l sales: Initial Entertainment Group (+ 1 310 315 1722). Exec prods: Richard Solomon, Mike Newell & Cameron Jones, Graham King & Andreas Klein. Prods: Edward Zwick, Marshall Hersovitz, Laura Bickford. Scr: Stephen Gaghan, based ...
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Australia introduces moral rights legislation
Legislation giving moral rights to the principal director, producer and screenwriter of Australian features, television programmes, documentaries and commercials has now passed through both houses of parliament. The new legislation also gives the creators of works reproduced or recorded in these productions, such as music, moral rights over that aspect ...
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CTFDI glides past the $1 billion mark for 2000
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) has passed $1 billion in international box office grosses, the company announced on Wednesday, marking the second time in its history after 1997 when Men In Black, My Best Friend's Wedding and Jerry Maguire pushed the studio past the billion mark.The announcement came Wednesday, ...
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Alliance Atlantis, H20 to produce Kwietniowski pic
Alliance Atlantis Communications is backing Richard Kwietniowski's second film Owning Maloney which is being produced by Alliance Atlantis-based H20 Motion Pictures. H20's Andras Hamori and Seaton McLean, president of Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Production, will produce the film which is set to start shooting in mid-March on location in Toronto ...
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Dailey, Epstein promoted in marketing at Artisan
Brian Dailey been promoted to vice president of media and research at Artisan Entertainment from his position as director of theatrical administration. He will report to Amorette Jones, executive vice president, worldwide marketing, Artisan Pictures. In this new capacity, he will oversee the newspaper and broadcast media buys for Artisan's ...
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What Lies Beneath crosses $100m internationally
What Lies Beneath, the DreamWorks/20th Century Fox co-production starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer, has crossed the $100m barrier internationally, making it the 18th film to do so this year. Fox has international rights to the film which is directed by Robert Zemeckis; DreamWorks has taken $155m on it domestically.Last ...
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New York critics get high on Soderbergh's Traffic
Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, the $50m theatrical re-working of the Channel 4 mini-series on the international drug trade, was named best picture on Wednesday by the New York Film Critics Circle after nearly five hours of deliberation at Manhattan's Sardi's Restaurant.Soderbergh himself was named the year's best director for both Traffic ...
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Compassionate Sex (Sexo Por Compasion)
Dir: Laura Mana. Spain-Mexico. 100mins.Prod cos: Sogedasa (The Filmax Group), Visual Grup SL. Co-producers: Resonancia Productora. Backers: Via Digital, Media, Tabasco Films, ICAA, IMCINE, L'Institut Catala de Finances. Spain distrib: Filmax. Int'l sales: Filmax International (34-93-336-8555). Prods: Julio Fernandez, Miguel Torrente. Exec prods: Carlos Fernandez, Fina Torrente. Co-prods: Fernando Camara, ...
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Spain's Grupo Correo buys 30% of Grupo Boca
Spanish multimedia house Grupo Correo has acquired a 30% stake in Madrid-based production outfit Grupo Boca, home to the BocaBoca and Cristal labels.The deal leaves the door open for Correo to take an additional 30% interest before January 2002, a move which would convert Boca owner Cesar Benitez into a ...
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StudioCanal shares leap by 20%
The shares of StudioCanal have become the latest part of the Vivendi Universal galaxy to suddenly shine. In heavy trading on Wednesday the shares surged 20% from Euros9.39 to Euros11.20.Stockmarket rumours suggest that Vivendi Universal is considering a bid for the 18% of the company that it does not already ...
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Helkon planning to buy Eagle, Tri Pictures stakes
Germany's Helkon Media, which earlier this year acquired 51% of the UK's Redbus Films Distribution, is eyeing stakes in its two other European partners, Italy's Eagle Pictures and Spain's Tri Pictures, as part of its on-going strategy to create an international distribution network.The company also plans to fill the network ...
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