All Screen articles in 19 May 2002 – Page 5
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Hartnett signs onto FilmEngine pair
Superstar-in-waiting Josh Hartnett has signed to two new films from FilmEngine, the production and finance outfit set up by AJ Dix, Anthony Rhulen and Bill Shively, which made previous Hartnett-starrer O. He will star and co-produce action/adventure Wish You Were Here and has joined Johnny Depp, Nick Nolte and Benicio ...
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Spain's Mate Productions unveils new sales division
Spanish production outfit Mate Productions has launched an international sales division which will make its market debut at Cannes.Sales will be co-ordinated under executive Pablo Davila, formerly with Lolafilms. The first title on the company's sales slate is Argentine co-production Private Lives (Vidas Privadas) starring Cecilia Roth (All About My ...
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Signpost points to Germany for next Int'l distribution move
Stewart Till's ambitious Signpost Films aims to launch distribution operations in 80% of the international sector in the next three to five years, with Germany shaping up as one of the next markets.The would-be studio is holding talks with German distributor Concorde about a partnership, one of several options on ...
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Signpost points to Germany for next Int'l distribution move
Stewart Till's ambitious Signpost Films aims to launch distribution operations in 80% of the international sector in the next three to five years, with Germany shaping up as one of the next markets.The would-be studio is holding talks with German distributor Concorde about a partnership, one of several options on ...
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Signpost points to Germany for next Int'l distribution move
Stewart Till's ambitious Signpost Films aims to launch distribution operations in 80% of the international sector in the next three to five years, with Germany shaping up as one of the next markets.The would-be studio is holding talks with German distributor Concorde about a partnership, one of several options on ...
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Taewon six-picture deal kicks off busy market for Miramax
Miramax International closed a six-picture deal with Taewon Entertainment in Korea at the end of last week, kicking off a Cannes market which worldwide distribution chairman Rick Sands is anticipating as a busy one.Sands's sales drive is focused around a new package of pictures including Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things, ...
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Taewon six-picture deal kicks off busy market for Miramax
Miramax International closed a six-picture deal with Taewon Entertainment in Korea at the end of last week, kicking off a Cannes market which worldwide distribution chairman Rick Sands is anticipating as a busy one.Sands's sales drive is focused around a new package of pictures including Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things, ...
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UGC lures French talent for big budget slate
UGC International has lured some of France's top film-making talent away from rival production houses in lining up a slate of big budget projects for Cannes - led by Ruby Et Quentin, a $25m action comedy starring Gerard Depardieu and Jean Reno, and directed by Francis Veber.The high profile slate ...
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UGC lures French talent for big budget slate
UGC International has lured some of France's top film-making talent away from rival production houses in lining up a slate of big budget projects for Cannes - led by Ruby Et Quentin, a $25m action comedy starring Gerard Depardieu and Jean Reno, and directed by Francis Veber.The high profile slate ...
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Vivendi Universal hits out at bankruptcy claim
Vivendi Universal lashed out yesterday at press reports that suggested the media conglomerate was technically bankrupt.Le Monde, France's newspaper of record, reported that during December last year the group's liabilities came breathtakingly close to exceeding its assets. Le Monde said its Euros 2bn of reserves were all but absorbed by ...
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Canadian ban upheld on foreign satellite signal reception
A group of Canadian satellite TV dealers has failed in its bid to delay enforcement of a ban on the unlicensed reception of foreign satellite signals. The group, which operates in the so-called grey market, whereby Canadian consumers maintain a US mailing address and receive US signals , was responding ...
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France's Haut et Court readies Hitchcockian Bambi tale
French production company Haut et Court is readying Fuis Bambi Fuis, a first directing effort by Gilles Marchand, the co-scriptwriter for both Laurent Cantet's Human Resources and Dominik Moll's With A Friend Like Harry.The film, an Hitchcockian tale of a young nurse fascinated by a doctor who proves much ...
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France's Haut et Court readies Hitchcockian Bambi tale
French production company Haut et Court is readying Fuis Bambi Fuis, a first directing effort by Gilles Marchand, the co-scriptwriter for both Laurent Cantet's Human Resources and Dominik Moll's With A Friend Like Harry.The film, an Hitchcockian tale of a young nurse fascinated by a doctor who proves much ...
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Media Asia bolsters library, expands slate
Regional powerhouse Media Asia (MA) is moving to corner the market in Hong Kong catalogue films and has expanded its slate of current pictures.A long-term deal sees the company handle international rights to the 150-title Golden Princess library of martial arts films and dramas, including pictures by John Woo and ...
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Media Asia bolsters library, expands slate
Regional powerhouse Media Asia (MA) is moving to corner the market in Hong Kong catalogue films and has expanded its slate of current pictures.A long-term deal sees the company handle international rights to the 150-title Golden Princess library of martial arts films and dramas, including pictures by John Woo and ...
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Scorsese gangs up again with IEG, Di Caprio
Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) is backing the next film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio - whatever it turns out to be. Martin Scorsese told Screen International this week that his next film will definitely be either Alexander, his Alexander The Great movie, which IEG bought ...
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Scorsese gangs up again with IEG, Di Caprio
Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) is backing the next film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio - whatever it turns out to be. Martin Scorsese told Screen International this week that his next film will definitely be either Alexander, his Alexander The Great movie, which IEG bought ...
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Europa Cinemas increases network to 896 screens
The MEDIA Programme's exhibition initiative Europa Cinemas has added 171 screens in 28 European cities to its network, bringing the total number of screens getting support from MEDIA Plus for programming European films, to 896 in 356 cinemas located in 201 cities in 17 countries.Combined with other similar cultural supporting ...
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Ealing Studios teams with Odyssey for $40m animation
The UK's Ealing Studios has teamed with Ralph Kamp's newly-launched sales outfit Odyssey Entertainment to produce $40m CG animation film Valiant.John Williams, the US producer of Shrek and Jackie Chan film The Tuxedo, is producing with Barnaby Thompson, co-head of Fragile Films, one of the owners of Ealing.The film, which ...
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Ealing Studios teams with Odyssey for $40m animation
The UK's Ealing Studios has teamed with Ralph Kamp's newly-launched sales outfit Odyssey Entertainment to produce $40m CG animation film Valiant.John Williams, the US producer of Shrek and Jackie Chan film The Tuxedo, is producing with Barnaby Thompson, co-head of Fragile Films, one of the owners of Ealing.The film, which ...