All Screen articles in 2 June 2000 – Page 3
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Star stalls on joint venture with HKT
The future of a pay-TV and Internet joint venture between Star TV and Cable & Wireless HKT has been cast into doubt after Star TV questioned the viability of the proposal.Star TV, a unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and a leading provider of satellite programming in South-East Asia, said ...
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Helkon takes majority control of Newmarket
Adding to its flurry of US production deals Germany's Helkon Media has taken majority control of US film finance boutique Newmarket Capital Group.The deal was conducted through the wholly-owned Helkon International and involved the exercise of options on a further 32% of Newmarket's capital in addition to the 19% it ...
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Chorot to replace Le Pogam at Gaumont
Franck Chorot, who currently heads UIP's French distribution outpost, will join Gaumont this summer, replacing Pierre-Ange Le Pogam as deputy general manager in charge of worldwide marketing and distribution.Chorot will oversee the activities of three Gaumont subsidiaries including GBVI, a joint venture with Buena Vista, headed by Jean-Francois Camilieri, which ...
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Hungary's culture body picks millennium winners
Hungary's National Cultural Heritage Ministry has awarded a total of 150m forints ($535,000) to six feature projects which it has deemed representative of Hungarian life.The projects were chosen as part of a competition held to mark the end of the millennium. The first project, Peter Kukac From Nagyapat Is Going ...
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Ferrari replaces Cabanillas at RTVE
Javier Gonzalez Ferrari has been appointed general director of Spain's public television broadcaster Radio Television Espanola (RTVE), replacing outgoing head Pio Cabanillas, who was given the post as spokesperson for the recently re-elected national government.Ferrari takes on a television network steeped in debt as well as an on-going controversy concerning ...
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Estorvo (Turbulence)
Dir: Ruy Guerra. Brazil. 2000. 95 mins.Prod cos: Sky Light, Rio Filme, D&D Audiovisuais. Co-prod: Productora Cinematografica ICAIC. Int'l Sales: Serene Skylight International (001 801 659 8840). Exec prod: Jom Tob Azulay, Miguel Mendoza. Prod: Bruno Stroppiana, Bruno Cerveira. Scr: Guerra, based on the novel by Chico Buarque. Dop: Marcelo ...
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Under Suspicion
Dir: Stephen Hopkins. US. 2000. 111mins.Prod Co: Revelations Entertainment. Int'l Sales: TF1 International. Prod: Lori McCreary, Anne Marie Gillen, Stephen Hopkins. Exec prod: Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman. Scr: Tom Provost, W. Peter Iliff based on the film Garde A Vue by Claude Miller, Jean Herman, Michel Audiard. Garde A Vue ...
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Leys to spearhead Gillon Aitken push into film
Kate Leys, formerly head of development at the UK's FilmFour, has joined Gillon Aitken Associates to head a drive into exploiting film and TV rights at the London literary agency.Leys, who left FilmFour last year to go freelance, takes up the newly-created post of film and TV executive. She is ...
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Prisa to go ahead with float in June
Spanish media empire Grupo Prisa is pushing ahead with flotation plans and will offer up to 20% of its shares on June 12, according to reports in Prisa-owned financial newspaper Cinco Dias. Sources at the Group declined to comment while the operation awaits approval from the national market commission (CNMV). ...
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Japan's Dance waltzes into Korea
Japanese title Shall We Dance' is poised to repeat its overseas box office success in Korea where it has outperformed Erin Brockovich, racking up 100,000 admissions in its first week.The 1995 comedy, directed by Masayuki Suo, opened in Korea on 69 screens on May 13. The film looks set to ...
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Mission drives US box to all-time high
The North American opening of Mission: Impossible 2 has broken a raft of box office records across its Memorial weekend debut, grossing an estimated six-day figure of $92.8m from Wednesday June 24 to Monday June 29. In the traditional four-day Memorial slot, the John Woo directed blockbuster raked in around ...
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