All Screen articles in 2 October 2000
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Germany's IN-motion buys J&M Entertainment
IN-motion, the listed German media company that has a majority stake in Kirk D’Amico’s Myriad Pictures, has bought UK sales operation J&M Entertainment for approximately $20m.IN-motion, which floated on Frankfurt’s Neuer Markt in June, will merge J&M with US-based Myriad to form a new, yet-to-be-named production and sales entity headed ...
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MIPCOM: SBS signs output deal with Buena Vista
The Dutch arm of broadcasting giant SBS has signed a multi-year output deal with Buena Vista International Television (BVI-TV) for terrestrial rights to all movies from Walt Disney Pictures.The deal, which replaces an earlier pact due to expire next year, also covers titles from Walt Disney Co subsidiaries Hollywood Pictures, ...
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MIPCOM: TVB to launch in the Netherlands
TVB Europe, owned by Hong Kong-based broadcaster TVB, is entering the Dutch market where it will be carried by cable operators Mediakabel and UPC.The channel, which will reach 500,000 households in the Netherlands, is aimed at expat Chinese. Programming includes news from Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China along with ...
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Hewison to head Melbourne Film Festival
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has appointed James Hewison as executive director. He was formerly marketing manager (Victoria) for public broadcaster the ABC. Since 1993, when he returned from living in Paris for five years, Hewison has worked for Palace Cinemas, played a key role in re-establishing the French ...
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First Look acquires US rights to Chopper
Beyond Films has confirmed that US rights to writer-director Andrew Dominik's Chopper have been sold to First Look Pictures, which plans to stage a theatrical release in March 2001.Chopper screened at the Edinburgh, Toronto and Telluride Film Festivals and has now been in the Australian top 20 list for eight ...
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Hollow Man beats Billy Elliot to number one spot
Highly-anticipated British title Billy Elliot has failed in its bid to take the number one spot at the UK box office over the weekend. The release of Columbia Pictures' Hollow Man crept into the top of the chart by a slim margin of $138,000 (£93,277).However the widely-feted Billy Elliot opened ...
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Pathe takes on Automatic's Season
UK National Lottery studio franchise Pathe Pictures has acquired the comedy pitch The Season from Automatic Pictures, the LA-based production outfit run by There's Something About Mary producer Frank Beddor. An original idea by London-based commercial and video director Aasaf Ainapore, The Season is currently being scripted by agent-turned-writer Sam ...
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Telstra set to revise Pacific Century deal
Australian telecommunications giant Telstra is set to consider a second revision of its $2.7bn (A$5bn) alliance with Richard Li's Hong Kong-based Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW) this week. Since being announced in April, the deal - which would create one of the largest internet, data and business services groups in the ...
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Bootmen
Dir: Dein Perry. Australia. 2000. 96 mins.Prod co: Bootmen Productions. Worldwide dist: 20th Century Fox. Exec producer: Dein Perry. Producer: Hilary Linstead. Co-producer: Antonia Barnard. Scr: Steve Worland . DoP: Steve Mason. Prod des: Murray Picknett. Ed: Jane Moran. Composer: Cezary Skubiszewski. Main cast: Adam Garcia, Sam Worthington, Sophie Lee.Australian ...
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Without A Trace
Dir: Maria Novaro. 2000. Mexico-Spain. 125 mins.Prod cos: Tabasco, Altavista, Tornasol. Domestic dist: Altafilms. Int'l sales: Altavista (52) 5 55 20 45 04. Exec prods: Tita Lombardo, Mariela Besuievsky. Prod: Dulce Kuri. Co-prods: Francisco Gonzalez Compean, Gerardo Herrero. Scr: Novaro. DoP: Serguei Saldivar Tanaka. Prod des: Patrick Pasquier. Ed: Angel ...
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Yeldham to head FilmFour's US office
The UK's FilmFour has appointed Rebecca Yeldham - previously senior film programmer at the Sundance Film Festival - to head its start-up production office in Los Angeles. Yeldham will liaise with US companies including Warner Bros, which struck a co-production pact with the UK company earlier this year (ScreenDaily, May ...
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Canal Plus moves into profit after assets sale
Canal Plus has reported first-half net profit of Euros104m - compared to a Euros36m loss during the same period last year - mostly due to a Euros205m one-time gain from the sale of its 24.9% stake in German channel Vox and a 4% stake in CanalSatellite.But consolidated profit before exceptional ...
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ITV acquires Walt Disney's 1999 slate
UK commercial broadcasting network ITV has secured Walt Disney Co's 1999 theatrical slate.The network has partnered with BVI-TV, the international distribution division of Walt Disney Television International, to secure the US studio's line-up. Titles under the deal include Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis; Runaway Bride, with Richard Gere and Julia ...
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Ripstein wins San Sebastian's Golden Shell
Arturo Ripstein's The Ruination Of Men (La Perdicion De Los Hombres) walked away with the Golden Shell award for best film at the 48th San Sebastian International film festival (September 21-30).Shot in black and white, the black comedy about two women who fight over the body of a dead lover ...
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Wild Bunch picks up El Otro Barrio
StudioCanal's classics division Wild Bunch has picked up worldwide rights excluding Spain to Salvador Garcia Ruiz's San Sebastian competition title El Otro Barrio.The film, which is Garcia Ruiz's second after Mensaka, stars Jorge Alcazar and Alex Casanovas and is produced by Tornasol Films. Spanish rights are held by Alta Films.The ...
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RAI to seek international partners
Italian state broadcaster RAI continues to deny rumours that its television channels are about to be privatised, but according to board member Stefano Balassone, will seek global partners as soon as it gains autonomy from the Italian government.The Italian parliament has recently stepped up efforts to push through statutory reforms ...
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Under The Sand (Sous Le Sable)
Dir: Francois Ozon. France. 2000. 90 mins.Prod co: Fidelite Productions. Int'l Sales: Celluloid Dreams (33) 1 4970 0370. Prods: Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missionier. Scr: Ozon. DoP: Jeanne Lapoirie, Antoine Heberle. Prod des: Sandrine Canaux. Ed: Laurence Bawedin. Mus: Phillipe Rombi. Main cast: Charlotte Rampling, Alexandra Stewart, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Nolot.The ...
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Best In Show
Dir: Christopher Guest. US. 2000. 90 mins.Prod co: Castle Rock Entertainment. Worldwide dist: Warner Bros. Exec prod: Gordon Mark. Prod: Karen Murphy. Scr: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy. DoP: Roberto Schaeffer. Prod des: Joseph T Garrity. Ed: Robert Leighton. Main cast: Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock, Eugene ...
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Zee Telefilms to offload stake in cable network
Indian cable and satellite broadcaster Zee Telefilms plans to sell up to 20% of its fully-owned cable network, Siticable. According to chairman Subhash Chandra, the company has appointed investment bank AIA Capital to oversee the sale.The move will help finance Zee's ambitious expansion plans which include investing $1bn in building ...
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SBS plans digital expansion in Eastern Europe
Mediatrade president Maurizio Costanzo has been appointed head of Veleno (Venom), the new company recently launched as Cross Media Factory by Italian media giant Fininvest, with the aim of seeking synergies between its publishing, internet, film and television arms.Veleno aims to be a 'factory of ideas,' that will draw on ...