All Screen articles in 23 October 2000
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Fox, Lloyd reteam on Fireworks' Interstate 60
Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd, the two stars of the Back To The Future trilogy, are reteaming in supporting roles in Fireworks Pictures' coming-of-age fantasy Interstate 60 which marks the directorial debut of Back To The Future writer-producer Bob Gale. James Marsden, Gary Oldman and Amy Smart are in ...
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Deneuve leads Chatiliez latest for TF1
Catherine Deneuve will star in Etienne Chatiliez's next film, an as-yet-untitled project produced by France's Telema and handled worldwide by TF1 International.The film, which is to go before the camera in February 2001, is to be the French film-maker's fourth feature film, after the offbeat comedy Life Is A Long ...
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Media Vision takes Oz comedy quartet
LA-based sales outfit Media Vision has picked up four "edgy mainstream comedies" which are being produced by Australia's Lance Peters and US producer Marina Martins under the joint production banner Cop-Outs Production. Peters has written all four projects which will shoot in Australia. LA-based Australian expat Marina Rose will co-produce. ...
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New World, Nordisk among buyers for 51st State
New World Films in Spain, Nordisk in Scandinavia and Les Films De L'Elysee in Benelux are among the buyers which have committed to Alliance Atlantis Pictures International's $25m action comedy The 51st State starring Samuel L Jackson. Momentum Pictures has UK rights and Kinowelt has German rights. Other buyers which ...
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Oz's Pinefilm in line for cash boost
Australian distributor Pinefilm Entertainment is in the final stages of negotiations to merge with an unnamed public company, in a move that will provide it with considerable new cash resources for film acquisitions. Pinefilm managing director Sean Rothsey confirmed the talks but said a non-disclosure agreement prevents him from naming ...
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Mothman flies at Screen Gems
Screen Gems, the mid-budget releasing division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, has acquired all North American rights to Lakeshore Entertainment's psychological thriller The Mothman Prophecies which is set to start shooting in Jan 2001. Richard Gere will star and Mark Pellington (Arlington Road) will direct. The film is based on a ...
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MDP, Crystal Sky spread Fear.com
Mark Damon's MDP Worldwide and Steven Paul's Crystal Sky have teamed up to handle the worldwide distribution of two new films - Fear.com to be directed by William Malone (House On Haunted Hill) and sports action thriller The Extremists to be directed by Christian Duguay (The Art Of War). The ...
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Neeson replaces Gianopulos as Fox Int'l chief
Scott Neeson, former executive vice president of international marketing at 20th Century Fox, has been appointed president of 20th Century Fox International Theatrical, taking over from his former boss Jim Gianopulos who was upped to chairman of the studio last month.He will oversee the international theatrical marketing and distribution of ...
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DreamWorks walks from Walk The Talk
DreamWorks SKG, which financed and co-produced Australian comedy Walk The Talk on the back of director Shirley Barrett's debut feature Love Serenade, has had a change of heart about releasing the film and is shopping domestic rights. Evidently the film's disturbing nature did not fit well into the company's TV ...
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Good Machine adds some Latin Backbone
Good Machine International has picked up Latin American rights to Guillermo del Toro's thriller The Devil's Backbone, which is currently in post-production. Other territories are sold by Wild Bunch.The film is co-produced by Pedro and Agustin Almodovar's El Deseo company with Mexico's Producciones Anhelo and Tequila Gang. Good Machine has ...
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Intermedia puts Heaven into expanding line-up
Intermedia has added Jeroen Krabbe's new picture The Discovery Of Heaven to its already expanding London and MIFED line-up.The picture is only the second as director by Krabbe, who scored highly with Left Luggage (Twee Koffers Vol). A supernatural drama, Heaven stars Gillian Barge, Timothy Bateson, Nicholas Farrell and Emma ...
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Hannover Leasing throws $150m into Rings trilogy
Munich-based leasing company Hannover Leasing (HL) has established a $150m (DM350.5m) fund to finance the third installment in New Line Cinema's $270m The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, The Return Of The King, which Peter Jackson is directing.Private German individuals looking for a way to reduce their tax burden in ...
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Quixote struggles against collapse
Producers in Spain are fighting to keep Terry Gilliam's new film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote alive after shooting stalled last week when 70 year-old lead actor Jean Rochefort suffered a double disk hernia. Sources close to the production say that shooting can't resume until at least January, which ...
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Good Machine plays hard to get
Good Machine is once again being courted by several corporate suitors interested in marrying up with the decade-old New York production and sales operation that is currently enjoying its most successful year yet. So far, however, Good Machine's three partners are resisting that final walk down the wedding aisle. "There ...
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Parents holds off Bedazzled, Pay It Forward
Neither 20th Century Fox's comedy Bedazzled nor Warner Bros' Pay It Forward could unseat Universal's Meet The Parents from the top slot at the domestic box office. The popular Ben Stiller/Robert De Niro fell just 23% in its third weekend to take $16.3m and bring its total to $81m - ...
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Renaissance adds Gilliam, Hytner projects to slate
Terry Gilliam has for the second time this year secured financing out of Europe for a large-scale production, partnering with the UK's Renaissance Films to direct $50m comic fantasy Good Omens. Renaissance has also announced that it will handle Los Alamos, a $25m romantic thriller to be directed by Nicholas ...
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SW9 kickstarts Alibi, Irish Screen pact
SW9, UK production outfit Fruit Salad Films' follow-up to rave culture hit Human Traffic, will kick off an exclusive partnership between sales outfit Alibi Films International and financing operation Irish Screen.Alibi, which has announced that it will handle worldwide sales on all upcoming Irish Screen features, will use London and ...
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IFC Films gets Together for first acquisition
The Brotherhood Of Wolves, backed by StudioCanal, has attracted a strong 1.5 million admissions in its first five days in France, but the $29m (FFr200m) title has yet to top records set by other domestic films such as Taxi 2 and Asterix Et Obelix Contre Cesar.The Christophe Gans-directed title, which ...
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LONDON PRODUCT GUIDE
AB INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTIONAlso buying:Executives attending:Deputy managing director Frederik RangeInternational sales manager Valerie VleeschhouwerMarketing manager Nathalie Aymard132 ave du President Wilson, La Plaine, Saint Denis, 93213, France, tel: (33) 1 49 22 20 01 fax: (33) 1 49 22 22 16 e-mail: ventes@groupe-ab.frAKA MOVIESMarket address: Le Meridien Hotel, 21 PiccadillyExecutives attending:President ...
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Alston issues warning to Oz post sector
Australian communications, IT and arts minister, Richard Alston, has warned the local post sector that it has only about 18 months left to exploit its current competitive advantages, because bandwidth, which connects it to the rest of the world, is "virtually unaffordable".Australian post-production companies enjoy the dual advantages of being ...