All Screen articles in 19 May 2002 – Page 6
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Hollywood majors wade into indie buying territory
The Hollywood majors are wading into the marketplace to pick up the slack left by the TV crisis in Europe, with a slew of deals closed in recent days that leaves sales companies sighing with relief but independents out in the cold.Paramount Pictures alone has just acquired rights in Italy ...
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Mercure takes worldwide rights to Dix Sept Fois Cecille Cassard
Mercure's Jacques Le Glou has picked up worldwide rights to the Beatrice Dalle-starrer Dix Sept Fois Cecile Cassard which is screening in Un Certain Regard.Dix Sept Fois Cecile Cassard, which portrays a woman through 17 moments of her life, is a first film by Christophe Honore. The title, produced by ...
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News Corp clashes with Vivendi over Italian pay-TV deal
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has reacted angrily to moves by rival Jean-Marie Messier of Vivendi to pull out of the planned Italian pay-TV merger of Vivendi's Telepi's with News Corp's Stream.Vivendi said on Wednesday it would seek to pull out of the merger, in light of conditions imposed by the ...
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Sony Pictures Classics takes US on Owning Mahowny
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired US rights to Owning Mahowny, the new film from Richard Kwietniowski from Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group. The film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver and John Hurt. The film is inspired by the true story of a junior level bank executive with a secret ...
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Menemsha takes on controversial Turkish film Hejar
LA-based Menemsha Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights excluding Turkey to the controversial Turkish film Hejar directed by Handan Ipekci. The film, which was the Turkish submission for last year's Academy Awards, was a breakthrough hit and scored 100,000 admissions before being banned for its "chauvinistic portrayal of the Turkish-Kurdish relationship."The ...
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Kidman's Pleasure project tops MDP/Neverland deal
Mark Damon's MDP Worldwide and its investor/partner Neverland Pictures have entered into a first look production deal with hot LA management and production outift Handprint Entertainment which numbers Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lopez among its clients.The first film under the arrangement is The Sixteen Pleasures which will star Kidman as ...
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Kidman's Pleasure project tops MDP/Neverland deal
Mark Damon's MDP Worldwide and its investor/partner Neverland Pictures have entered into a first look production deal with hot LA management and production outift Handprint Entertainment which numbers Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lopez among its clients.The first film under the arrangement is The Sixteen Pleasures which will star Kidman as ...
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Tartan Films, F&ME team on James Elroy project
Hamish McAlpine's expanding production outfit Tartan Films has teamed with Mike Downey and Sam Taylor's F&ME to board Killer On The Road.The project is an adaptation of legendary crime novelist James Elroy's classic serial killer novel about "sexecutioner" Martin Plunkett and a policeman who himself has a murderous past.The team ...
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Four Horsemen rides with Overseas Filmgroup
Overseas Filmgroup has struck a multi-picture deal to handle sales on films from Four Horsemen Films, the UK genre label which recently struck a deal for European distribution with Buena Vista.The first titles in the deal include Octane, starring Madeleine Stowe, Norman Reedus, Bijou Philips, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Mischa Barton. ...
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Four Horsemen rides with Overseas Filmgroup
Overseas Filmgroup has struck a multi-picture deal to handle sales on films from Four Horsemen Films, the UK genre label which recently struck a deal for European distribution with Buena Vista.The first titles in the deal include Octane, starring Madeleine Stowe, Norman Reedus, Bijou Philips, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Mischa Barton. ...
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Spanish-French PHF Films' partners prepare separate slates
Partners in Spanish-French production venture PHF Films, co-producers of Directors' Fortnight title Nada +, are dismantling their joint banner but will continue to co-produce projects together.Antonio Perez of Maestranza Films and Sarah Halioua of MDA Films, who formed PHF at Cannes in 1999 with Thierry Forte of France's DMVB, call ...
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Rasa pitches indie Indian films
Ashvin Kummar and Suran Goonatilake, founders of Rasa Pictures, are in Cannes drumming up interest in a slate of cross-over independent films with their roots in the Indian diaspora.Deepa Metha is to executive produce their first film, Samir The Terrorist a UK-set drama about a man wrongly suspected of terrorism ...
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Paramount Pictures takes Korean Way Home
Paramount Pictures has picked up Korean drama The Way Home (Jibeuro) from CJ Entertainment.The studio has grabbed rights for all English-language territories and will release the film through UIP in the UK, Australia and South Africa.The film, the story of a boy sent to live with his deaf grandmother in ...
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Paramount Pictures takes Korean Way Home
Paramount Pictures has picked up Korean drama The Way Home (Jibeuro) from CJ Entertainment.The studio has grabbed rights for all English-language territories and will release the film through UIP in the UK, Australia and South Africa.The film, the story of a boy sent to live with his deaf grandmother in ...
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Miramax, TF1 play up European film push
"We're not coming here to make Spider-Man," said an ebullient Harvey Weinstein, as he unveiled a ground breaking alliance with France's TF1. "This is about fostering European film and European talent."Patrick Le Lay, TF1 chairman and chief executive, presented the partnership as a two step-deal involving the creation of a ...
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Miramax, TF1 play up European film push
"We're not coming here to make Spider-Man," said an ebullient Harvey Weinstein, as he unveiled a ground breaking alliance with France's TF1. "This is about fostering European film and European talent."Patrick Le Lay, TF1 chairman and chief executive, presented the partnership as a two step-deal involving the creation of a ...
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Poire's Visual Factory readies $23m sci-fi comedy
Jean-Marie Poire, creator and director of hit French franchise The Visitors, has started pre-production on his next opus, the $23m sci-fi comedy Damian And The Invaders (Damien Et Les Envahisseurs) through his own outfit, London-based sales and post-production company Visual Factory.Poire is in Cannes to promote his latest film, My ...
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John Sayles aims high and low for next films
John Sayles has announced a full cast for his half-Spanish language Casa De Los Babys, which starts shooting this August at a knock-down budget of $1m - while aiming high for his next production, between $24 and $32m for the Robert Carlyle-starrer Jamie MacGillivray.The IFC-backed Casa De Los Babys, set ...
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Mixed reactions greet Weinstein, Le Lay announcement
While rivals saluted TF1 yesterday for its grand ambitions with Miramax welcoming a new competitor on the local theatrical distribution scene, there was also unease at the prospect of ever more films cluttering up French cinemas because of television's encroaching influence over cinema. Some even suggested that French regulators should ...
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UA bowled over by Bowling For Columbine
United Artists (UA) has acquired US rights to Michael Moore's gun control documentary Bowling For Columbine, marking the first domestic deal of this year's festival. The studio division of MGM beat out a clutch of distributors bidding for the film including Miramax and Fine Line, paying a reported $1.5m.The deal ...