All Screen articles in 21 July 2000 – Page 2
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Toei invents digital colour technique for cartoons
Toei Animation, Hitachi and Toei Chemical Industry have jointly developed a technique for digitally colouring black-and-white animated films - a first for the Japanese film industry. Toei Animation researchers have successfully used the technique to colour part of an episode of Wolf Boy Ken, a 1963 Toei cartoon series.After cleaning ...
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San Sebastian confirms Galan exit
The San Sebastian International Film Festival today confirmed the departure of festival director Diego Galan (Screendaily, July 18). He will be replaced in 2001 by Mikel Olaciregui, currently sub-director of the event.Galan, who steps down for personal reasons, has helmed the festival since 1995 and between 1985 and 1989. Between ...
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Love's A Bitch continues Mexican wave
Love's A Bitch (Amores Perros), the second title by fledgling film company Estudio Mexico Films (EMF), has triumphed against the odds at Mexico's box office. Despite its length (two and half hours) and the fact that it was pitted against Mission: Impossible 2, the Cannes 2000 Critic's Week awardee earned ...
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Two Thousand And None
Dir: Arto Paragamian. Canada. 2000. 93 mins.Prod co: Galafilm. Int'l Sales: Pandora (00 33 1 40 70 90 90). Prod: Arnie Gelbart. Scr: Paragamian. DoP: Norayr Kasper. Prod des: Anne Pritchard. Ed: Alain Baril. Music: Milan Kymlicka. Main cast: John Turturro, Oleg Kissielov, Katherine Borowitz, Julian Richings.Perhaps the biggest commercial ...
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CASE STUDY - Famous
Actor-turned director Griffin Dunne found himself juggling both roles with mockumentary Famous, his first venture into digital film-making. John Hazelton reports on the making of the film.Summer 1999New York-based independent producer Dolly Hall (High Art, The Incredible True Adventures Of Two Girls In Love) is sent a script by actress ...
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Sega partners with Omega, Suncent
Sega Enterprises has struck a partnership with Japanese production outfits Omega Pictures and Suncent CinemaWorks under which it will promote and distribute their movies at its newly-opened Net@ chain of game arcades in Tokyo."This is only the start of our plans with Omega and other film companies for integrating films ...
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MIFED sets Agenda for film commissions, producers
This year's MIFED film market in Milan will feature a new initiative, Agenda, under which film commissions from all over Europe will hold pre-scheduled meetings with producers.The film commissions will offer detailed information on all phases of production in each country. Agenda workshops will also be held at MIFED, on ...
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British Film Office sends visual effects rep to LA
Meg Guidon has been appointed to the British Film Office in Los Angeles as its first visual effects sector representative.Guidon, who has worked with such post houses as Cinesite and Mill Film in London, will take up her position in August, working under the title of visual effects marketing executive.The ...
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Barroso, Hayek to fly with Butterflies
Up-and-coming Spanish director Mariano Barroso has reportedly been signed on by MGM and Showtime to shoot his first English-language film, In The Time Of The Butterflies, with actress Salma Hayek in the lead.Showtime and MGM are co-producing the $10m project, which is scheduled to start production in Mexico in September. ...
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Ex-Helkon chief Martin takes helm of 2K Media
Patrick Martin, the former managing director and partner of Helkon Media, is to spearhead the ambitions of yet another aggressive German-based international film production and distribution hydra, 2K Media.Martin will become a joint partner and share the chief executive officer title with 2K Media's founder Hans Peter Kaufmann, the former ...
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Lucky Red chief to head up Italian distrib body
Italian distributors' association, UNIDIM, has appointed its vice president, Lucky Red chief Andrea Occhipinti, to the post of president, replacing Manfredi Traxler, who died in June.Unusually, the position of vice president has been split between an independent and a studio executive - Morgan Films head Francesco Pamphili and Richard Borg ...
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Film Council appoints Bagnall to head training
UK film body the Film Council has appointed Helen Bagnall to head its $1.5m (£1m) a year Film Training Fund, the Council announced today.Bagnall, previously training officer at UK producers' body PACT, will initially focus on supporting the areas of script skills and producer and business executive training. Her first ...
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Rat
Dir: Steve Barron. 2000. Ire-UK. 90mins.Prod cos: Ruby Films/Henson with Samson Films. Int'l sales: Universal Pictures International, tel: (44) 207 307 1300. Prods: Alison Owen, Steve Barron. Exec prod David Collins. Scr: Wesley Burrowes. DoP: Brendan Galvin. Prod des: Mark Geraghty. Ed: David Yardley. Mus: Bob Geldof. Main cast: Imelda ...
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Galan expected to quit San Sebastian
Diego Galan, the popular head of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, plans to leave his post in January 2001, to be replaced by the festival's number two, Mikel Olaciregui, according to Spanish press reports.Sources at the festival would neither confirm nor deny the reports, which said that Galan is ...
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McCormack steps into Fragile's High Heels
Mary McCormack is starring opposite Minnie Driver in Mel Smith's High Heels & Low Lifes, the debut production through the partnership formed by the UK's Fragile Films and Buena Vista International (UK).The female action comedy this week started a ten-week shoot on location in London and in Ealing Studios, which ...
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M6 first half revenues up by 21%
French broadcaster M6 has reported a 21% hike in first-half revenues, to Euros377.3m, compared to Euros211.9m for the same period in 1999. The increase was mostly due to a rise in advertising revenues, which increased 28.3%, from Euros214.6m in the first half of 1999, to Euros275.3m during the same period ...
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Macclesfield retires from UIP
Mike Macclesfield is retiring as vice president of international sales and development at United International Pictures (UIP), the joint distribution partnership of Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Macclesfield, who has served more than 26 years at UIP, will step down at the end of this year. Julian Stanford, senior vice ...
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Inside Story triumphs at AWGIES
Robert Sutherland's script for The Inside Story won the prize for best original feature film at the Australian Writers Guild Awards (AWGIES) on July 15. Sutherland also produced and directed the low-budget privately-financed film.The Inside Story was the sole winner at the awards as no prize was given in the ...
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Phil Jackson named int'l video chief for Paramount
Phil Jackson has been named the new London-based president of Paramount Home Entertainment International, where he will replace longstanding international video veteran Paul Miller at the end of July.Jackson joins Paramount from Walt Disney where he held the position of senior vice president/managing director, Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Europe, Middle ...
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British patriotism eggs Chicken Run back to top
British claymation feature Chicken Run beat out two of Hollywood's highest profile summer blockbusters to the number one slot in the UK chart last weekend when it grossed $3.9m (£2.6m) over the three days. After a running total of $21m and 17 days on release, the Aardman animation rules the ...
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