All Screen articles in 2 October 2000 – Page 2
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Sogepaq nabs Quixote, inks pact with El Deseo
Spanish rights and distribution house Sogepaq has picked up theatrical, pay-TV and video rights in Spain on Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which began shooting Tuesday in Spain. Public broadcaster Television Espanola has free TV rights.Pathe International is handling international sales on the film which is backed ...
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Imax pacts with E-Citi to build theatres in India
Imax Corporation has signed an agreement with India's E-Citi Entertainment, a subsidiary of the ESSEL Group of Industries, to open a minimum of six IMAX theatres in India over the next four years. The deal includes an option to build up to 20 theatres in family entertainment centres which E-Citi ...
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Sue Blackmore leaves Trimark for Myriad
Sue Blackmore, formerly executive director of marketing and publicity for Trimark Pictures, has joined Myriad Pictures as vice president, marketing and publicity. She will be responsible for conceiving and implementing marketing and publicity campaigns for Myriad's slate including Chen Kaige's Killing Me Softly which stars Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes ...
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Lisa Mundt joins int'l operations at Warner Bros
Lisa Mundt has been named vice president, international operations, at Warner Bros Pictures, a newly created position in which she will have full operational responsibility for a number of territories as well as supervising Warner Bros Pictures' international non-theatrical business.She will take an active role in systems development related to ...
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Caine, Keaton sink into Quicksand for Visionview
John Mackenzie is to direct Michael Caine and Michael Keaton in contemporary action thriller Quicksand for UK production outfit Geoff Reeve Films and producer-financier Visionview.Caine plays a down-on-his-luck film star embroiled in the criminal world on the Cote d'Azur, where he meets Keaton, a banker investigating shady offshore deposits.Production is ...
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Constantin strikes output deal with USA Films
Bernd Eichinger's Constantin Film has signed an output deal with USA Films giving it German-speaking theatrical, free TV and video rights to the company's product until 2003.Titles covered by the deal include One Night At McCool's, directed by Norway's Harald Zwart and starring Michael Douglas and Matt Dillon, and the ...
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Dark Days
Dir: Marc Singer. US. 2000. 84 mins.Prod Co: Picture Farm Productions. Int'l Sales: Picture Farm Productions (I) 212-343-2314. Prod/DoP: Marc Singer. Co-Prod: Ben Freedman. Ed: Melissa Neidich. Mus: DJ Shadow.A remarkable documentary, Dark Days captures the life and soul of a subterranean shanty town that existed for years in the ...
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My Generation
Dir: Barbara Kopple. US. 2000. 113 mins.Prod co: Cabin Creek Films. Prod: Barbara Kopple. DoP: Tom Hurwitz. Co-director/editor: Tom Haneke.Barbara Kopple has built a successful career around cinematic-release documentaries - most recently her warts-and-all portrait of Woody Allen's jazz band, Wild Man Blues. My Generation is the culmination of a ...
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Harrison's Flowers
Dir: Elie Chouraqui. 2000. France. 126 mins.Prod cos: 7 Films Cinema, Le Studio Canal Plus, France 2 Cinema. Int'l Sales: StudioCanal (33) 1 44 43 98 00. Prod: Chouraqui. Scr: Chouraqui, Didier Le Pecheur, Isabel Ellsen, Michael Katims. DoP: Nicola Pecorini. Prod des: Giantito Burchiellaro. Ed: Jacques Wita, Ailo Auguste, ...
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Murphy, Bauer to head Euro production for RTL
RTL Group has appointed Mike Murphy and Wolf Bauer as joint chiefs of its continental European production activities. Murphy is currently CEO, European drama and CEO Asia for Pearson Television and Bauer is chairman of Ufa Film & TV Production.The two execs will oversee production companies belonging to the group ...
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Tax inspectors swoop on Indian film stars
The Indian Directorate of Investigation, Income Tax, raided the houses and offices of several leading Hindi film personalities yesterday (September 27). A team of 150 officers fanned out to raid more than 30 premises belonging to film stars, directors and one distributor. Among those targeted were actresses Aishwarya Rai, Urmila ...
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Titus to open Flanders festival
Julie Taymor's Titus will open the Flanders International Film Festival in Ghent (October 11-22) where it is screening out of competition. Terence Davies' The House Of Mirth, starring Gillian Anderson, will open the competitive section. Morgan Freeman will be guest of honour at the festival, which is dedicated to exploring ...
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Disease picks up top prize at Gdynia
The grand prize at the Gdynia Festival of Polish Features Films went to Krzysztof Zanussi for Life As A Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease. The film - which took the main award at this year's Moscow film festival - also won the best male actor award for its star Zbigniew Zapasiewicz.The ...
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Pandora takes world on Liddy's Country
Hard on the heels of re-aligning to become the specialist arm of Nashville-based Gaylord Entertainment Company, France's Pandora Films has picked up Irish family drama Country, written and directed by Kevin Liddy.The Paris-based operation will handle worldwide sales on the picture, which is set in rural Ireland in the early ...
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Storaro to get ASC Lifetime Achievement Award
Vittorio Storaro, the multi-award winning cinematographer, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) at the 15th annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards dinner on Feb 18, 2001.Italian Storaro is one of the most famous cinematographers in the world with Oscars to his name for Apocalypse ...
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Jon Voight to play Jolie's dad in Tomb Raider
Jon Voight has joined the cast of Paramount Pictures' action adventure Tomb Raider currently shooting in the UK and will play Lord Croft, father to Lara Croft played by his real-life daughter Angelina Jolie. It is the first time that Voight and Jolie have appeared together on screen.The casting was ...
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Carol Rossi joins Julie Savay-Ross at Miracle
Carol M Rossi has joined LA-based production/sales outfit Miracle Entertainment as vice president, marketing. She will be responsible for implementing marketing strategies for Miracle's production slate as well as the company's international distribution operations run by president of international distribution Julie Savay-Ross. She will report to Savay-Ross.Rossi's appointment follows earlier ...
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Film Roman's Jon Vein named COO at AMG and APG
Jon Vein, former chief operating officer at Film Roman, has joined Michael Ovitz's Artists Management Group (AMG) and Artists Production Group (APG) as chief operating officer.Vein has been at Film Roman as COO since 1995 where he was responsible for overseeing all business activities of the company as well as ...
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News Corp unveils Liberty Media tie-up
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has confirmed that it plans to strengthen ties with John Malone's Liberty Media by acquiring its 21% stake in Gemstar-TV Guide. Liberty Media is transferring its Gemstar stake to News Corp in return for 121.5 million News Corp American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), making it the ...
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US-Mexico committee pushes for tax incentives
Representatives of the US and Mexican film industries agreed to push for tax incentives to spur investment in local production at a meeting in Mexico City last week (September 20).The third annual meeting of the US-Mexico Bilateral Film Industry Committee aimed to press the importance of reactivating the local film ...
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