All Screen articles in 20 April 2000 – Page 2
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Aussie distribution vet Geoff Jackson retires
Australian film industry veteran Geoff Jackson, whose career has spanned 52 years, will retire on July 1, 2000.The announcement came from 20th Century Fox International yesterday that Jackson, who is currently regional print manager at Fox Asia/Pacific, would call it a day.He started his career in 1948 as an office ...
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Tully, Bounce win top awards at LA Indie Festival
What Happened To Tully, a Nebsraska-set family drama directed by Hilary Birmingham, walked away with the Critics Prize and Bounce: Behind The Velvet Rope won the Audience Award at this year's Los Angeles Independent Film Festival (LAIFF) which finished yesterday.Some key domestic buyers were circling some of the films in ...
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Tobis, Gaga to take Hannibal from UPI
Universal Pictures International (UPI)'s newly-reconfigured overseas sales operation is close to finalising sales on Ridley Scott's Hannibal to Germany's Tobis and Japan's Gaga Communications.UPI, which is working closely with producer Dino De Laurentiis on selling certain territories, is also floating the Silence Of The Lambs sequel in several other markets. ...
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Spain's Garci gears up to shoot You're The One
Spanish director Jose Luis Garci begins production on April 24 on You're The One, his follow-up film to 1998 Oscar nominee The Grandfather (El Abuelo).Lydia Bosch (Al Limite), Juan Diego (Between Your Legs), Fernando Fernan Gomez (All About My Mother) and Ana Fernandez (Solas) are set to star in the ...
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Kinowelt buys digital, Trebitsch stakes
Germany's aggressively-expanding Kinowelt group has acquired a clutch of old and new media companies to add to its production and technical stables and underlined the strength of this strategy by reporting better than forecast profits.The company is acquiring a 26% stake in Trebitsch Produktion Holding, a group with close links ...
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Cannes competition tilts towards Asia
Opening with Roland Joffe's French period drama Vatel and closing with Canadian Denys Arcand's highly-touted Stardom, this year's Cannes Film Festival line-up promises a cinematic showcase of truly international dimensions including an astonishing seven Palme D'Or contenders from the Far East.Indeed, with the US studios ever more reticent about seeing ...
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LaCapaGira
Dir: Alessandro Piva. Italy. 2000. 85 mins.Prod co: Kubla Khan. Co-prod: Munbut. Domestic dist (It): Lucky Red. Int'l sales: Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, (+39 06 8070 400). Prods: Umberto Massa, Valerio Bariletti, Alessandro Piva. Dir: Alessando Piva. Scr: Andrea Piva. DoP: Gianenrico Bianchi. Prod des: Maria Teresa Padula. Eds: Thomas Woschitz, ...
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Lakeboat
Dir: Joe Mantegna. US. 2000. 98 mins.Prod cos: Oregon Trail Films, One Vibe Entertainment. Int'l sales: contact Oregon Trail Films (+ 1 503 250 5858). Prods: Joe Mantegna, Eric R Epperson, Tony Mamet, Morris Ruskin. Exec prod: Alan James. Scr: David Mamet. DoP: Paul Sarossy. Prod des: Thomas Carnegie. Ed: ...
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Fortissimo picks up Wen's Foreign Devils
Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up world rights to highly anticipated Chinese title Foreign Devils At The Door (provisional title), the second picture from actor-turned-director Wen Jiang.The film, which is expected to be included in today's Cannes competition list, is a story about the last days of Japanese occupation of ...
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Cruz, Abril attached to Diaz Yanes' second feature
Penelope Cruz and Victoria Abril are reportedly attached to star as a bad angel and a good angel in the highly anticipated second feature from Spanish director Agustin Diaz Yanes, No News From God (Sin Noticias De Dios).The film is a co-production between Edmundo Gil of Flamenco Films, Eduardo Campoy ...
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Pyramide, Arc Light team up for Chinese collection
France's Pyramide group plans to co-produce a collection of six films by some of the hottest young directors in the greater China market, with Peggy Chiao's Taiwan-based Arc Light Films.The six films - two each by directors from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong - are all contemporary tales but ...
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TF1 acquires controlling stake in Telema
In an unexpected switch of allegiance, leading French production house Telema has broken its alliance with Le Studio Canal Plus in favour of free TV broadcaster TF1, which has acquired a controlling 49% stake in the company.Telema has produced a string of French hit comedies such as La Vie Est ...
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Ed Russell retires from Columbia
Ed Russell has announced that he will retire as executive vice president of worldwide publicity, promotions and field publicity at Columbia Pictures when his contract expires this year. He joined the studio in 1986 as vice president of publicity and his career in studio publicity spans nearly 30 years."After nearly ...
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Amritraj & Hoberman unveil Hyde Park's debut slate
Ashok Amritraj and David Hoberman's Hyde Park Entertainment has unveiled its debut slate of pictures set up at its two alternate partner studios MGM and The Walt Disney Co, with one film placed with Sony Pictures' mid-budget range division Screen Gems. Among the stars already set for the pictures are ...
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Pokemon grabs pole position at UK box office
Pokemon: The First Movie jumped into the UK box office chart at number one with an opening three day gross of $3.5m (£2.2m). Playing at 481 sites, this gave the Japanese animation a considerable site average of $7,257 (£4,574) and the film wiped the floor with fellow opening animation The ...
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China Star adds talent to Hundred Years venture
China Star Entertainment has fleshed out its ambitious One Hundred Years Of Film production project, through which it plans to invest $150m a year in Asian production in a bid to woo local audiences back to Hong Kong films.The company - which announced at the AFM that it would produce ...
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Golden Network makes first foray into production
Hong Kong-based international sales agent Golden Network is making its first move into production with a three-picture slate which it will co-finance with Korea's NeGa Corporation.The slate includes Japanese picture Fatal End (working title), to be directed by Hibeo Nakata, while local star Fruit Chan is set to direct Public ...
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Sogecable joins private broadcasters' union
Grupo Prisa subsidiary Sogecable, which houses pay-TV outlet Canal Plus and digital satellite platform Canal Satelite Digital, has announced that it will join free TV stations Antena 3 and TeleCinco in the Union of Associated Commercial Broadcasters (UTECA).The move comes at a time when the Spanish television market is set ...
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Spain's Filmax acquires post-production lab
Barcelona mini-studio Filmax has added another feather to its cap with the 60% buy-out of post-production laboratory Filmtel. The move follows Filmax's entrance last month into the post-production sector with the launch of animation effects house Bren Entertainment. Filmtel was a founding partner in Bren and will maintain its 30% ...
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Granada set to buy Border television assets
The UK's ITV television network faces further consolidation following news that UK radio broadcaster Capital Radio will sell Border Group's television assets to Granada Group if its proposed takeover of the company is successful.Granada has agreed to pay $80.2m (£50.5m) for Border's TV assets. Capital will retain Border's radio stations. ...
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