All Screen articles in 20 January 2002 – Page 4

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    Miramax goes Tadpole fishing at Sundance

    2002-01-14T04:53:00Z

    The Sundance Film Festival has once again witness an aggressive bidding war as Miramax Films outgunned Fox Searchlight Pictures to grab worldwide rights to Gary Winick's shoestring-budgetTadpole for around $6m. At the same timeas many as five leading distributors continue in hot pursuit of Miguel Arteta's The Good Girl.But bragging ...

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    Redford launches all-documentary US channel

    2002-01-14T04:51:00Z

    Sensing a new-found hunger fortruth in light of everything that has happened in the world since September11th, Robert Redford is stepping up his involvement in the non-fiction sphereby launching both a new US documentary network and also assuming control of afund that has until now seeded as many 50 international ...

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    Broadcast Critics shower kudos on A Beautiful Mind

    2002-01-14T04:45:00Z

    A Beautiful Mind dominated the Broadcast Film Critics Association awards over the weekend, taking the awards for best film of the year as well as director for Ron Howard, actor for Russell Crowe and supporting actress Jennifer Connelly.Howard tied with Baz Luhrmann for the director prize for Moulin Rouge. Other ...

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    Samuel Goldwyn Films gets US on Das Experiment

    2002-01-14T04:26:00Z

    Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Oliver Hirschbiegel's Das Experiment, the German box office hit which is also the Germany entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. The deal was struck by Joe Drake, president of Senator International which represents the film, with Samuel Goldwyn Films' ...

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    Spyglass, Intermedia merge into indie giant

    2002-01-14T04:25:00Z

    As anticipated, independent powerhouse Intermedia has signed an agreement to merge with Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum's Spyglass Entertainment. This creates an entity with an annual output of major movies as big as any studio and bringing The Walt Disney Studios (TWDS) into the company as a shareholder and potential ...