All Screen articles in 23 March 2001 – Page 3
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Pan-European Animation training network planned
The MEDIA Programme-supported initiative Cartoon signed an agreement with a group of animation schools at this year's Cartoon Movie financing market in Babelsberg to create a European training network .Announcing the new venture, Cartoon's Corinne Jenart explained that the network initially consists of eight schools of animation which will collaborate ...
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Australia's cinema wars move into the courtroom
Reading Entertainment Australia is heading for the courts over the issue of access to first-release films according to The Age newspaper. Using its Market City cinema site in the heart of Sydney as its latest battle arena, it is claiming in the Federal Court that Roadshow Film Distributors is in ...
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China and Taiwan dominate popular Fribourg
Films from China and Taiwan were particularly strong at the 15th edition of Fribourg's festival dedicated to films from Asia, Africa and Latin America, which registered a record attendance of some 22,000 festival-goers between 11-18 March.The International Jury awarded its Grand Prix "Le Regard d'Or" to Yi Yi (A One ...
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The Film Company boards Russell's Louse Of Usher
London-based sales outfit The Film Company has boarded Ken Russell's The Fall Of The Louse Of Usher as international sales agent, handling all rights.The film, an update of Edgar Allen Poe's story, is currently being shot on digital video by Russell, who also produces through his Gorsewood Studios outfit. Seminal ...
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Seven Network pulls out of Asia TV service
The Seven Network has dumped the Asian satellite service Australia Television (ATV), which it took over from public broadcaster the ABC in 1997. It made the move despite being chosen in favour of five other tenderers to revamp the service with Federal Government money.The announcement drew a new round of ...
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Irish singer makes acting debut in Time Machine
Dublin-born singer-songwriter Samantha Mumba will make her feature film debut starring opposite Guy Pearce in the DreamWorks/Warner Bros sci-fi project The Time Machine, which is currently shooting in New York and Los Angeles. Mumba, best known for her hit Gotta Tell You, joins a cast that also includes Jeremy Irons, ...
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Village Roadshow, Network Ten see venture fail
The ambitious internet leisure site SCAPE has gone into voluntary administration only 18 months after Village Roadshow and Network Ten negotiated the joint venture. The news was announced in a joint statement to the Australian Stock Exchange today. The first such formal coupling between a broadcaster and an entertainment giant ...
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Executive Suite
Vincent MaravalThe founder of Wild Bunch, which has handled some of the most distinctive films of recent years, including Eureka, pictured, explains how a "research department" has become one of the world's hottest sellers and producers.Why did you start Wild Bunch'We wanted to do sales differently. Historically the international ...
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First Run adds Fighter to arsenal of US releases
New York'sFirst Run Features has acquired the US rights to Amir Bar-Lev's Holocaust-themeddocumentary Fighter in a licensing agreement struck with The Independent FilmChannel's Next Wave Films. A theatrical release has been penciled in forthis autumn.Fighter has won awards at the leading festivals around the world, including the Hampton's Film Festival(Audience ...
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Duke Nukem enters a new big screen Dimension
Duke Nukem is coming to a much bigger screen near you now that Dimension Films has acquired the movie rights to the video game phenomenon from Larry Kasanoff and his Threshold Entertainment. In his feature film debut for the Miramax genre label, Duke assumes the role of Earth's best defense ...
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Internet merger provides Giants with new beanstalk
Afterspending a year making a noise at international film markets through blanketadvertising campaigns and huge slate announcements, David Dadon's GiantsEntertainment has been sold to a tiny publicly-quoted Internet company that hasbeen operating until now as a minor-league entertainment-themed portal.The merger with Hollywood Partners.com Inc - no relation to the German ...
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British Short Film Festival axed
The 14 year-old British Short Film festival is to close after the event's title sponsor, BBC Television, withdrew funding.The move comes as recently-installed BBC director general Greg Dyke is under pressure to cut costs from the government. The BBC has backed the annual event since it launched in 1987.Festival director ...
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Filmax restructures Spanish animation division
Following the lead of its successful start-up genre division The Fantastic Factory, Spain's Filmax Group has initiated a restructuring of its animation division, newly dubbed Filmax Animacion.Under the direction of Paco Rodriguez, former head of Spanish rights and production house PPM Multimedia, Filmax's animation division will incorporate three main areas.The ...
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Bridget Jones's Diary
Dir: Sharon Maguire. UK. 2001. 90minsTBC.Bridget Jones's bestselling diaries made the fictional thirtysomething singleton Britain's most successful under-achiever of recent years, and the screen version of her intimate journal bears all the signs of becoming the UK's biggest film hit since Notting Hill. Domestically, massive advance publicity and media attention ...
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Mar Del Plata triumphs despite troubles
The new Mar Del Plata festival administration led by National Film Institute (INCAA) director Jose Miguel Onaindia and artistic director Claudio Espana struggled against logistical problems that threatened to disrupt the otherwise successful event that wrapped on March 17.The festival boasted nearly 30,000 admissions sold during the first three days. ...
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Australian independent exhibitors push for change
Australia's independent cinema owners are planning to push through a number of changes in the code of practices between distributors and exhibitors. The code generated considerable controversy when it was introduced three years ago, but despite increasing transparency in the industry it has failed to satisfy many independents.The Cinema Owners ...
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Greenlight Media to launch second animation fund
Greenlight Media and the Dresdner Bank's investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein are to launch a second BAF Berlin Animation Film fund to raise in the region of $100m for the production of up to five international animation features.According to Greenlight's chief operating officer Nikolaus Weil, BAF II, which concentrates on ...
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Canal Plus denies sale of Expand stake to RTL
An unsubstantiated report in French newspaper Le Figaro suggesting that Canal Plus is about to sell a stake in Expand, a leading French television production outfit, to Luxembourg's RTL Group has prompted vehement denials.Born of the merger between Ellipse Programmes and the Expand group, Expand is a European leader in ...
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Industry veteran Thomas dies aged 85
Ralph Thomas, director of the long-running franchise of Doctor films, has died after an illness aged 85.Along with seven Doctor titles, which initially starred Dirk Bogarde, Thomas directed such stars as Peter Finch and Katherine Hepburn in films such as No Love For Johnnie and The Iron Petticoat. His son ...
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Village Roadshow A$3.8m short after financial scam
Village Roadshow managing director Graham Burke has told the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) that Village Roadshow Ltd's (VRL) net loss is A$3.8m from a financial scam that saw nearly A$30m wrongly removed from company accounts in 1998 and 1999. Burke was speaking on the eve of Andrew Ross Henry, ...
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