All Screen articles in 23 March 2000 – Page 2
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Italian film suffers domestic box office decline
Admissions to Italian films dropped by almost 50% to 9 million in the eight months from August 1999 to March 2000, according to local trade body Cinetel, compared to 16 million the previous year.Total admissions fell by 1.5 million over the eight-month period, according to Cinetel which monitors 75% of ...
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Nicks signs on to direct Destination's Slackers
Commercials and music video director Dewey Nicks has signed to direct Slackers which is being produced and distributed domestically by Destination Films. Set to start principal photography on May 24, the film is written by first-time writer David Steinberg (currently writing the sequel to American Pie) and follows three college ...
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The Mill Group appoints Shenfield CEO
UK visual effects company The Mill Group has appointed Robin Shenfield as chief executive officer.Shenfield was one of the original founders of The Mill in 1990 along with current production director, Pat Joseph. The company, which has facilities in London and the UK's Shepperton Studios, provides digital effects for feature ...
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Warner, Fox to part ways in Brazil
Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros are to end their Brazilian distribution alliance - formed less than two years ago - at the end of November.According to Fox Warner Brazil general manager Marco Oliviera, Brazil's improving economy and rapidly expanding exhibition market have prompted both companies to go it alone. ...
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Magnolia flowers overseas
Three times Academy Award nominee Magnolia is finding niche audiences as it opens up across international territories, despite its three-hour plus running time. Its most successful release to date is surprisingly in Japan where the New Line Cinema picture has attracted $5m at the box office in two weeks. In ...
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EC expected to greenlight BSkyB, Kirch deal
UK satellite TV operator BSkyB is expected to get the green light to buy into Germany's KirchPayTV today (March 21).News Corp-controlled BSkyB agreed in January to pay DM2.9bn for a 24% stake in the division of giant Kirch Medien that comprises the merged DF1 and Premiere digital pay-TV operations. Since ...
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Start-up financier to pump $24m into new media
A group of UK film-makers and finance specialists have launched International Film One (IFO), a financing vehicle which aims to raise $23.6m (£15m) through UK tax breaks to invest in product targeted at new media platforms.Accountancy firm Hacker Young is assisting in raising the cash through the UK's Enterprise Investment ...
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Nowhere To Hide steals spotlight at Deauville fest
South Korean film Nowhere to Hide scooped four out of six awards at the second Pan-Asia Festival of Deauville (March 17-19). The Sundance title won the Grand Jury prize, best director for Lee Myung-Se, best actor for Park Joong-Hoon and best cinemaphotography.The quirky cop story - which had its European ...
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Buena Vista, Warner Bros commit to Yes flotation
UK video-on-demand (VoD) pioneer, Yes Television, is to float on the London Stock Exchange. By the end of the year it may be followed by rival Video Networks. Yes has already secured separate commitments from Buena Vista and Warner Bros International Television to buy into the company at the time ...
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De Ida Y Vuelta wins best picture at Guadalajara
Maria del Carmen de Lara's En El Pais De No Pasa Nada made a sweep of major awards at the 15th Mexican film showcase in Guadalajara (March 10-16), although it was Salvadar Aguirre's De Ida Y Vuelta that won the official jury prize for best picture.En El Pais was awarded ...
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Chan sets off Applause to boost Asian production
Hong Kong filmmaker Peter Chan has formed a production company - Applause Pictures - with Teddy Chen, director of 1997 actioner Downtown Torpedoes, and the former head of Hong Kong video company Panorama Allan Fung. According to Chan, the goal of the company is "to bring Asian filmmakers together and ...
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My Life So Far
Dir: Hugh Hudson. UK. 1999. 93mins.Prod Co: Enigma, Hugh Hudson Films. Int'l sales: Miramax International. Prods: David Puttnam, Steve Norris. Exec prods: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Paul Webster. Scr: Simon Donald from the autobiography Son Of Adam by Sir Denis Forman. DoP: Bernard Lutic. Prod des: Andy Harris. Ed: Scott ...
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Zee launches English-language movie channel
Indian broadcaster Zee Network launched two 24-hour satellite channels on Saturday (March 18) - an English-language entertainment channel, called Zee English, and an English-language film channel, Zee Movies.Zee has acquired more than 700 films from US and UK companies for the launch, including Warner Bros International Television, MGM and CBS ...
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UPC set to float broadband division
Dutch cable giant, UPC is to float chello, its broadband Internet subsidiary. The move is expected to herald rapid expansion of its services in Europe and Latin America.UPC, which this month announced the takeover of TV group SBS Broadcasting, said that chello will probably be floated in the next three ...
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San Sebastian to feature Bertolucci tribute
The 48th San Sebastian International Film Festival (September 21-30) will host a tribute to Bernardo Bertolucci which will feature screenings of all of his films as well as several documentaries about him and his body of work. Coinciding with the film's 25th anniversary, Bertolucci's Novecento will be given a special ...
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BKN International raises $60m from IPO
Children''s animation producer and distributor BKN International raised $59.5m (euros61.2m) from its IPO on Frankfurt''s Neuer Markt last week. The German subsidiary of US concern BKN Inc will use a portion of proceeds from the sale to increase its European production capacity by opening a European studio with facilities in ...
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Hoyts South America takes on Kushner-Locke titles
Exhibitor Hoyts General Cinema (HGC) South America has agreed to handle Latin American distribution of several titles from Phoenix World Investments (PWI), the Chile-based outpost of US independent producer-distributor Kushner-Locke. The deal calls for the distribution of PWI films in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, starting with Very Bad ...
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Israeli actors form breakaway union
A group of Israeli actors, which includes local stars such as Gila Almagor, Amos Lavi, Sami Houri and Shmil Ben Ari, has formed a breakaway actors'' union.Called Screen Actors Union (SAU), the organisation competes with existing union EMI (the initials stand for "Artists Union" in Hebrew), which SAU''s founding members ...
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Helkon, Rebus create pan-Euro buying alliance
UK distributor Redbus Film Distribution and Germany's Helkon Media have formed a joint acquisition alliance.The companies are to pick up rights for their respective markets, but may also take pan-European rights, accounting for about 50% of a film's budget between them and striking an output deal with a US studio ...
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Clockwork Orange fails to wind up UK box office
Despite this weekend being one of the best in terms of well-reviewed cinema product and the high-profile re-release of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, the UK box office recorded its lowest aggregate gross so far this year. The total tally of all films on release this weekend came in at ...
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