All Screen articles in 20 January 2000 – Page 2
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RKO teams with Bigel/Mailer for remakes
RKO Pictures' independent arm Radio Pictures has signed a three picture deal with Bigel/Mailer Films to produce three remakes from the RKO library. The three pictures include Isle Of The Dead, which will be the second film to be directed by Burt Reynolds following The Last Producer for The Kushner-Locke ...
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Woolley, Jordan set first Dreamworks project
Stephen Woolley and Neil Jordan's production house Company Of Wolves has set a comedy to be directed by acclaimed playwright Conor McPherson as the first film to go through its housekeeping deal with DreamWorks SKG.As yet untitled, the project is set in Dublin and is to shoot this spring. "It's ...
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Irish Film Board backs Chosen Few
The Irish Film Board (IFB) has offered production finance loans to four companies in its latest funding round: Treasure Films for The Chosen Few; Subotica Films for Shiney's Head; Magahy & Co for Timbuktu and Wide Eye Films for Running 2 Stand Still. Chosen Few, written by Joe O'Connor and ...
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1999: big hits, big misses
While 1999 will be remembered as yet another record-shattering year in terms of theatrical box office grosses, it will also bear witness to a growing worldwide disparity in fortunes between the handful of huge hits and the mass of movie misses.The seventeen blockbusters that crossed the magic $100m gross point ...
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Telefonica snares ticket to Argentina
Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica sealed a strategic alliance with US-based Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Incorporated this week to jointly divide up a handful of media interests in Argentina.Through an as yet unnamed new firm headed by Tom Hicks and Cesar Baez, CEI Citicorp Holdings - controlled by Hicks, Muse ...
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Madden plays Mandolin
John Madden, director of the Academy Award-winning Shakespeare In Love, has boarded Working Title Films' Captain Corelli's Mandolin, arguably the most keenly anticipated British film this year.Working Title also confirmed that Miramax Films, which has two pictures left in a three picture deal with Madden following Shakespeare, will take 'some ...
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Benitez launches BesoBeso
Spain's top-grossing comedy producer, Cesar Benitez, has launched a start-up production house, BesoBeso Producciones, with Felipe Ortiz of local distributor Tripictures taking a 50% partnership stake in the new venture.The new company's first five films will also be backed by broadcaster TeleCinco, probably as a 50% co-producer on each project. ...
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Lions Gate grabs $32m
Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation has secured a welcome $32m investment from a group led by Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures Inc, Scandinavia's SBS Broadcasting and Germany's Tele-Munchen Group.The move sees the investment group receive warrants and convertible shares that could amount to a 37% stake in Lions Gate. Amongst other companies ...
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Almodovar set to dazzle at Goyas
Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre) looks set to sweep the Goya Awards, Spain's answer to the Oscars, in an already auspicious award season for the director.Almodovar's 13th film grabbed fourteen Goya nominations and is tipped to win several top categories. Competing with Mother for best ...
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Kinowelt moves East
German mini-studio Kinowelt has moved into Eastern Europe by setting up Kinowelt Hungary and is aiming to have distribution operations in Poland, Estonia and Lithuania. It is also positioning itself to capitalise on the growing DVD market.Kinowelt subsidiary Kinowelt International (KI) pacted with Hungary's Budapest Film to launch Kinowelt Hungary ...
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Who'll get mail next'
The creation of AOL Time Warner provided a catalytic jolt to the world's stock markets, seemingly putting every major media and Internet company in play this week after lighting a fire under their share prices. Analysts were predicting not so much a ripple effect as a tidal wave of mergers ...
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Law ducks Searchlight
Lindsay Law is leaving his post as president of Fox Searchlight Pictures to take up a wide-ranging production deal with 20th Century Fox, kicking off with the stage musical of his biggest hit The Full Monty.The studio has yet to announce Law's replacement, although an appointment from within the Fox ...
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Roissy, Dreams to merge
French independent sales outfits Roissy Films and Celluloid Dreams are merging their international sales activities aiming to consolidate what both see as complementary businesses. Catalogue sales accounted for the majority of Roissy Films' activities before the merger while Celluloid Dreams specialises in niche titles and fresh talent which sell best ...
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Lolafilms talks signal co-prod'n ambitions
Andres Vicente Gomez, head of Spain's leading production outfit Lolafilms, is in talks with Germany's Helkon Media to swap 5% company stakes and forge a co-production relationship.Gomez said the proposed move forms a part of his new strategy for 2000 to transform Lola into a major European company."This marks a ...
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Limey, Election lead IFP race
The nominations for the 15th annual IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards were announced last week, with Steven Soderbergh's The Limey and Alexander Payne's Election leading the field with five apiece.The Spirits, which now take place in Santa Monica the day before the Academy Award ceremony, have grown in prestige in recent ...
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AOL creates new order
Content is king again - so long as it can also enjoy widespread access to Internet users. That message was driven home this week by the revelation that America Online (AOL) is swallowing up Time Warner at a huge premium to create a multimedia monster whose market value approaches the ...
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Internet fever propels Telefonica
Telefonica, the Spanish phones group that has turned itself into a media conglomerate, is now reaping the rewards of reinventing itself as a dotcom player.Shares in Terra networks, its Internet division reached Euros116 this morning roughly ten times its price at flotation exactly two months ago. At this price Terra ...
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Grosvenor boards Winterbottom's Kingdom
Canadian-UK financier Grosvenor Park is backing Michael Winterbottom’s $15m Kingdom Come, the company’s largest-scale UK-originated feature since launching a London office two years ago.Grosvenor chief Don Starr said that Grosvenor will arrange 25% of the project’s budget through sale and leaseback financing in the UK and Canadian tax credits.Grosvenor will ...
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New Films expands Miramax deal
New Films International is expanding its distribution pact with Miramax International following its move into exhibition in Turkey where it holds a 50% stake in five-theatre Istanbul outfit New Art International.New York-based New Films will distribute 89 Miramax titles across the Eastern European market, with all rights, including theatrical, TV, ...
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Channel X moves into film
UK TV production house Channel X has appointed Stacy Herbert as head of script development as the company readies a debut feature slate including the first film from comedians Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. Herbert, formerly a script consultant for UK-based sales, financing and production house Capitol Films, will work ...
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