All Screen articles in 23 October 2000 – Page 3
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UIP, MBS kickstart joint training programme
UIP and the pan-European Media Business School (MBS) kicked off the inaugural edition of their joint training initiative in Seville, Spain on Tuesday, describing it as the "first international marketing and distribution training programme given by practitioners and for practitioners."MBS director Juan Pita, UIP president and COO Andrew Cripps and ...
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Cannes sets up Residence for new talent
The Cannes film festival has opened a film-making facility, "Residence", which will be made available to a selection of young film-makers from around the world.Those selected will be able to use the facility to work on their first or second features for four and a half months.The CNC (Centre National ...
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Hart, McElhone join Killing Me Softly cast
UK actors Ian Hart and Natascha McElhone have joined the cast of Chen Kaige's first English-language project Killing Me Softly, currently gearing up to shoot from the end of October for eleven weeks in the UK. Festen's Ulrich Thomsen has also been confirmed for the film, which stars Heather Graham ...
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Myriad listens to Rash's Good Advice
Myriad Pictures has added $6m comedy Good Advice, directed by Steve Rash, to its sales roster. The film, which stars Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards and Rosanna Arquette, will be distributed by Artisan Entertainment in the US. With the title currently in post-production, Myriad is screening a promo in London and ...
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UIP, UGC resolve legal battle over UK rental terms
The legal battle between distributor UIP (UK) and UGC's UK circuit has been resolved three months after it began. Since the release of Mission: Impossible 2 in July, both companies have been at loggerheads over the terms agreed for tickets sold through the use of UGC's loyalty pass. UIP and ...
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Canadian movie attendance hits 38-year high
Canadians went to the pictures in record numbers in 1998-99 - the biggest years since 1972 - but that hasn't helped exhibitors' profitability, according to a recent report from Statistics Canada, surveying all 692 of the nation's cinemas and drive-ins.Lured by multi-screen theatres with stadium-style seats and expanded common areas ...
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Denmark's Moviefan launches London sales outfit
Start-up Danish financing house Moviefan Scandinavia has launched a London-based sales company, Moviefan Ltd, with former Beyond Films executive Dee Emerson heading up sales.Moviefan Scandinavia co-owner, Michael Lunderskov, is managing director of the new outfit which will debut at the London Screenings and MIFED. It's initial slate includes four titles, ...
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Feature Film Co to test UK censors with Baise-Moi
In a move expected to mark the most high-profile test to date of newly relaxed UK film censorship rules on sex, local indie distributor Feature Film Company has picked up all rights to controversial French rape story Baise-Moi.The explicit story of two women on a sex and murder spree after ...
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UK Govt waves through Pinewood-Shepperton merger
The UK government has cleared the merger of the Pinewood and Shepperton filmmaking facilities, a decision that spares the proposed $180m super-studio from having to be scrutinised by the local anti-trust watchdog, the Competition Commission.The proposal was waved through on Tuesday evening by Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ...
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Winchester reteams with Wind Dancer on actioner
Winchester Entertainment has extended its relationship with US production outfit Wind Dancer Films to co-produce The Untitled Blake Masters Project, a "character-driven action film" to be produced and directed by Wind Dancer's Matt Williams. Williams made his directorial debut on Where The Heart Is, released domestically earlier this year by ...
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Suspicious River
Dir: Lynne Stopkewich. Canada. 2000. 92 mins.Prod co: Tartan Films/Okulitch Pedersen. Int'l sales: Beyond Films (61-2) 9281 1266. Exec prods: Hamish McAlpine, Erik Stensrud. Prod: Michael Okulitch. Scr: Stopkewich, based on the novel by Laura Kasischke. DoP: Gregory Middleton. Prod des: Don MacAulay. Ed: Allan Lee. Mus: Don MacDonald. Main ...
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TMC taps Giovalli to lure youth audience
Italian publishing giant Seat has appointed Roberto Giovalli as Telemontecarlo's (TMC's) new chief of programming, as part of its drive to target the youth market and rake a healthy portion of the TV advertising market.Giovalli, who takes up the post on November 1, is currently director of Mediaset's youth-orientated channel, ...
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Mechanic named as Berlin jury president
Former 20th Century Fox chairman and CEO Bill Mechanic will preside over the jury at the next Berlin Film Festival, to be held February 7-18, 2001.Festival chief Moritz de Hadeln, who hands over to Dieter Kosslick after next year's event, described Mechanic as "a staunch supporter of the festival during ...
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ONdigital postpones float; doubles subscribers
UK digital terrestrial broadcaster ONdigital has reportedly postponed its planned flotation until next spring, due to unfavourable market conditions and parent company Granada Media's recent share slide.Granada and Carlton Communications, the two ITV companies that each own 50% of ONdigital, had been expected to sell about 20% of the pay-TV ...
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Victory Media to finance EM.TV internet venture
Private German film fund Victory Media plans to co-finance EM.TV & Merchandising's proposed internet platform Junior Web through its 16th MultiMediaFonds.The fund, which plans to raise the necessary capital from private individual investors by mid-December, will channel about $29m (DM66m) into the web-site and about $25m (DM57) into co-producing nine ...
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Applications pile up for new Japanese bird
Japan's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has said that 25 companies have applied for licences to broadcast on the next-generation N-SAT-110 communications satellite (CS), which launched from French New Guinea on October 7. The ministry expects to receive about 30 to 40 applications in total and will announce the successful ...
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Sony to distribute Hindi movies worldwide
Sony's Indian channel, Sony Entertainment Television (SET), is moving into international theatrical distribution of Hindi films, starting with Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Mission Kashmir which opens in the UK on October 26.The film, which features Indian star Hrithik Roshan, opens in the US the following day, before rolling out to six ...
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Dinosaur storms into UK's number one spot
Six months after its North American release, Dinosaur hit UK screens with a robust three-day gross of $3m (£2.1m) last weekend. Playing at 374 sites, Walt Disney Pictures' computer-animation set in a real-life background secured a healthy screen average of $8,319 (£5,690) taking the number one place in the box ...
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Menemsha picks up Captain Pantoja
Los Angeles-based Menemsha Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to Peruvian hit Captain Pantoja And The Special Services (Pantaleon Y Las Visitadores), directed by Francisco Lombardi. The erotic comedy has attracted more than one million admissions in Peru, an impressive tally in a country that boasts an estimated 132 ...
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Chopper leads race for AFI Awards
Andrew Dominik's Chopper, about one of Australia's best-known living criminals, topped the nominations for the AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards with 10 nods including best film, best director and best screenplay.The other three titles vying for best film are Looking For Alibrandi with a total of nine nominations and Better ...
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