All Screen articles in 19 December 2001 – Page 3
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Bacall, Gazzara join von Trier's Dogville
Hollywood veterans Lauren Bacall and Ben Gazzara have been the latest additions to the all-star cast of Danish maverick Lars von Trier's highly anticipated follow-up to the multiple award-winning Dancer In The Dark. His new project, Dogville, has already attracted high-profile talent, including: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Chloe Sevigny and ...
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Cruise hits the top spot again with Vanilla Sky
Tom Cruise proved once again why he is one of the world's biggest box office stars as his R-rated love story-cum-sci-fi fantasy Vanilla Sky opened over the weekend with $25m from 2,742 sites. The Paramount Pictures release, one of the rare pictures for which Paramount has worldwide distribution, had been ...
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Summit, Mandalay extend relationship till 2004
International sales, production and financing outfit Summit Entertainment has renewed its relationship with Peter Guber's Mandalay Pictures for another three year term starting Jan 2002. Summit has provided international sales and distribution for Mandalay since Guber founded the company in 1995, servicing its movies with international partners through its domestic ...
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Winstar bought out, renamed Wellspring Media
Winstar TV & Video, the entertainment arm of Winstar Communications, has been bought out by a group of private investors and re-named Wellspring Media. The buyout includes the theatrical division, Winstar Cinema, as well as the TV, home video, production and direct distribution units.Winstar TV & Video president Al Cattabiani ...
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Paramount Classics buys Jaglom's Cannes comedy
Paramount Classics has acquired rights in North America, Australia & New Zealand, Latin America and Japan to Henry Jaglom's Festival In Cannes - a romantic comedy set among the highrollers of the international film business and shot during the Cannes International Film Festival itself.The movie, which had its world premiere ...
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Palm Springs Fest to open with Monsoon Wedding
Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding, which won the Golden Lion at last year's Venice Film Festival, has been named as the opening night film at the 13th annual Nortel Networks Palm Springs International Film Festival which will be held Jan 10-21, 2002.A total of 150 films will screen from 45 countries ...
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LA critics choose In The Bedroom as best picture
Todd Field's In The Bedroom continued its winning streak with the end-of-year critics associations, winning the Best Picture of The Year award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) on Saturday night. David Lynch's Mulholland Drive - another frequent citation in the awards to date - was runner-up.Lynch was ...
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Harry to get speedy release in China in Jan, 2002
Warner Bros has set a release date for its worldwide blockbuster Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone in China. The film will open in advance of the Chinese New Year on Jan 31 and continue to play through the Chinese New Year holiday period (Feb 12-18), a period which has ...
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Mulholland Drive is top choice of New York critics
David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (pictured here), a film that was rescued by France's StudioCanal after being rejected as a pilot for US network TV, has been named this year's Best Picture by the New York Film Critics Circle - although the film didn't win a single other award during deliberations ...
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NTL suffers as mounting debt is downgraded
The UK's biggest cable operator NTL has said it is "fully able" to meet all its trading obligations and interest payments, after rating agency Standard & Poor cut its rating from stable to negative.It is the second time in six month's that Standard & Poor has downgraded NTL, which is ...
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Liberty Media's lifeline complicates Kirch dilemma
John Malone's Liberty Media Group is reported to have opened talks with Kirch Group about ways to help the debt laden German giant meet pressing loan repayments. According to The Financial Times, executives from the companies have discussed options to provide funds to Kirch. This includes the possibility of Liberty ...
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Indian directors, cable cos agree piracy measures
The representatives of Indian film producers and cable operators havereached an agreement to check video piracy which poses a serious threat tothe Indian film industry. Under the terms of the deal it was agreed that no film should be exhibited without a valid licence from the copyright holder. Also, ...
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Libermann picked to head France Television Dist
Michel Libermann is to become CEO of France Television Distribution (FTD), the film and television rights trading arm of public broadcaster France Television, which includes international sales house President Films.The 43 year-old Libermann replaces Marc Bonduel, who departed in October to head Pathe's French film distribution arm Pathe Distribution and ...
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Germany's Feardotcom acquired by Warner
Warner Bros. has picked up North American rights for William Malone's horror action thriller feardotcom, starring Stephen Dorff, Natasha McElhone, Stephen Rea and Udo Kier.The German-UK-Luxembourg co-production, produced by ApolloMedia's Frank Huebner, Quality International's Jan Fantl and Moshe Diamant, will be released by Warner Bros in the US on March ...
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Alliance given OK for Canadian indie film channel
Alliance Atlantis Communications (AAC) has received approval from theCanadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for its acquisition of the Independent Film Channel Canada (IFCC). The IFCC was acquired through AAC's purchase of Halifax-based Salter Street Films earlier this year. The IFFC was launched in September 2001, one of an array ...
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2001: The Film Year in Review
There were few great films in 2001, but enough good ones by new (Todd Field), developing (Peter Jackson,Baz Luhrmann), and veteran (Lynch, Altman) directors, to make the year moreagreeable. With most studio releases slipshod and slapdash, the interestingfilms were easily evident on first viewing. Hence, choosing the best was notdifficult, ...
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New Zealand moves against parallel imports
The New Zealand Government yesterday announced it will introduce legislation to ban parallel import of video.The move will prevent films, videos and DVDs from being imported by retailers or persons other than the authorised distributor within nine months of its worldwide release. The policy will not affect private or domestic ...
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Vivendi builds war chest with BSkyB stake sale
Vivendi Universal yesterday raised $1.5bn from the sale of a third of its stake in UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB. It appears to be amassing a warchest with which to build a TV production and distribution powerhouse. Last week it raised $1.07bn from the sale of some of its non-media ...
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Helkon SK ventures into production
Children's fantasy comedy Tooth and comedy thriller Max Dark are among the first projects at the newly-launched production operation of UK distributor Helkon SK. Emma Berkosfky, former head of development at BSkyB film arm Sky Pictures, will head up development at the outfit.Berkosfky, who was also previously at British Screen ...
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Zee confirms Indian partnership with AOL offshoot
Zee Telefilms , India's largest media firm, and AOL Time Warner offshoot Turner International (India) Private Ltd, have agreed the establishment of a joint venture outfit that will distribute Zee's channels abroad and AOL's in India.The deal sees Zee hold 74% of the new Delhi-based company, Zee Turner Private Ltd. ...
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