All Screen articles in 20 April 2001 – Page 2
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Russian studios consider privatisation options
Russia's film studios are considering turning themselves into private companies following the signing of a new decree by President Vladimir Putin.Putin this week signed two controversial decrees that lay down a strategy for the future of the Russian film industry and pave the way for the creation of a National ...
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Branagh plays Russian Czar in star-heavy Napoleon
Kenneth Branagh will join the already stellar cast of the Ffr250m French mini-series Napoleon, an English-language co-production which unites seven countries and will start shooting May 21. Produced by French big-budget TV drama specialist GMT Productions , previously responsible for Monte Cristo and Les Miserables, the four-part historical drama is ...
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Bille August seduced by Lola's Maid Of Buttermere
Spanish producer Lolafilms has signed two-time Palme d'Or winner Bille August to direct The Maid Of Buttermere, a long-gestating period love tale set in England's Lake District.No cast has yet been confirmed for the film, which was written by Raymond Khoury as an adaptation of a novel by intellectual, TV ...
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NonStop subscribes to Swedish Dream
Sweden's NonStop Sales has secured rights to Swedish feel-good movie, Dream, from new production outfit Finalcut Entertainment. The English-language romantic comedy-drama, which was shot on location in Sheffield, and London on a $3.5m (SKR35m) budget, stars UK veterans Sinead Cusack and Philip Martin Brown as well as EastEnders TV actor ...
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Assante, Forster, Caruso head Promark action trio
Arman Assante, David Caruso and Robert Forster head the casts of a slate of new action-thrillers unveiled by film and TV group Promark Entertainment. All three pictures will be co-produced with German post-production powerhouse Das Werk, marking the first time that the two companies have co-operated on a creative level ...
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Microsoft agrees to EC cable conditions
A European Commission (EC) antitrust inquiry into Microsoft's investments in European cable companies has been wound down after the company promised to modify existing technology pacts with two digital cable operators.'Microsoft has agreed to modify its relationship with two partner companies in order not to exercise undue influence over their ...
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Australia rings the changes to awards rules
Starting this year, films will only qualify for Australia's principal awards system if they have had a theatrical release in the previous year. Until now eligibility for AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards has instead been on the basis of when a film was made, often resulting in released pictures being ...
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CNAC funding quest stymied by Venezuela govt
Maurice Reyna, appointed president of Venezuelan film institute Centro Nacional Autonomo de Cinematografia (CNAC) in February, has lost the first round of his battle with the Chavez government for more support. The Caracas government approved CNAC's 2001 budget of $1.07m (761m) Bolivars) yesterday (April 17), an amount Reyna declared completely ...
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Post-Crouching Columbia backs four new Asian films
Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia - the Asian local production arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment - has announced four new films which it will finance in 2001.The Hong Kong-based company, headed by managing director Barbara Robinson, has enjoyed enormous success since it was launched in early 1999 with Ang Lee's ...
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Natural Nylon boards Mahowny as UK co-producer
UK production outfit Natural Nylon has boarded Richard Kwietniowski's Owning Mahowny, currently shooting in Canada, as UK co-production partner. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver and John Hurt, the drama is now a UK/Canada co production between H20 Motion Pictures (Canada), Alliance Atlantis (Canada) and Natural Nylon (UK). Producers ...
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Showtime buys 20-film ITC package from Carlton
US pay TV network Showtime Networks has bought the domestic premium TV broadcast rights to a package of more than 20 pictures from Carlton International's ITC library. Under the terms of the multi-year arrangement, Showtime will have premium TV rights to films such as On Golden Pond, Sophie's Choice, Farewell ...
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Bridget director takes new aim at Austen
Sharon Maguire, whose debut feature Bridget Jones's Diary this weekend became the biggest UK opener ever, is to direct Mail, a modern-day Jane Austen-style comedy of manners for the UK's Archer Street. Set in Boston, the project sees Maguire return to the fertile ground of her debut, itself based on ...
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Coote spearheads Intertainer's VOD launch in Asia
Intertainer Asia, the licensee of US VoD service Intertainer Inc., will launch a broadband entertainment-on-demand network with Singaporean telco SingTel at the end of May and is pursuing similar launches in New Zealand, Hong Kong, Korea and Taiwan.Executive Chairman Greg Coote told Screen Daily that the Singapore-based company is market ...
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Shore, Fridriksson top debut UK slate for F.&.M.E.
New films by Get Real director Simon Shore and Icelandic maestro Fridrik Thor Fridriksson head the debut slate of F.&.M.E. (UK), the new British outpost of German group F.A.M.E.F.&.M.E. (UK), which is managed by Mike Downey and production head Sam Taylor, has unveiled a line-up of five new features it ...
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Critics Week favours tough eclectic mix
Ken Loach's 1969 film Kes - which is to be given a special screening - will be the token British film in a wide-ranging Critics Week line-up which includes no other English-language title. The sidebar, which runs 10-18 May and is managed by France's film critics' union, has picked a ...
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Turner bid for NTV wobbly after staff exodus
The consortium bid led by Ted Turner to buy into Russian broadcaster NTV looks wobbly after journalists and staff left the station en masse this week. The exodus was prompted by the forceful takeover of the station by its new Gazprom-appointed managers last weekend.NTV journalists, who had been refusing to ...
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Terry Semel named new CEO of Yahoo!
Former Warner Bros titan Terry Semel has surprised the entertainment world by being named the new chief executive and chairman of Yahoo!, the struggling Internet portal that has been frequently bandied as a merger candidate for virtually every Hollywood studio conglomerate in town.He replaces Tim Koogle, who will stay at ...
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Filmline founder Clermont dies suddenly
Nicolas Clermont, one of Canada's leading independent producers, has died aged 59. President of Montreal-based production company Filmline International, Clermont oversaw several major films, most recently The Art Of War, which was co-produced with Franchise Pictures and starred Wesley Snipes. It was the highest-grossing Canadian film of 2000. Clermont ...
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Online spending overtakes cinema ads in UK
For all the predictions of dotcom gloom and doom, the UK's on-line advertising sector overtook cinema advertising last year.The data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for the Internet Advertising Bureau shows that the UK did not follow the US internet advertising market into downturn. Figures from Forrester Research shows advertising revenue ...
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New top dogs give added bark to Dutch industry
The complexion of the Dutch film industry could be set for dramatic change following the appointment of new chiefs at all three of The Netherlands' major film institutions: the Dutch Film Fund, the Filmmuseum and the Maurits Binger Institute.After months of speculation it was announced that broadsheet journalist Toine ...
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