All Screen articles in 25 August 2000 – Page 2
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Fintage House to make InternetStudios e-safe
UK-based Fintage House, which provides financial services to the entertainment industry, has reached an agreement with InternetStudios under which it will handle all financial transactions for the company's OnlineFilmSales web-site.Fintage's e-safe service, launched at Cannes, will handle all transactions resulting from sales and acquisitions of film and TV rights on ...
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AFC confirms Zeccola, Barron appointments
Australia's arts minister Peter McGauran has announced that Antonio Zeccola, who founded and owns local distributor Palace Films and co-owns Palace Cinemas with Village Roadshow, has been appointed to the board of the Australian Film Commission (AFC). He also confirmed that Southern Star executive Maureen Barron is to stay on ...
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Japan's Square to securitize Final Fantasy assets
Japanese games software company Square has announced a scheme to securitize cost overruns on the feature version of its Final Fantasy computer game which it is producing with Columbia Pictures. Though other securitization schemes have been devised for film production, Square's will be the first to offer shares to ordinary ...
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Smith, Coltrane join all-Brit Harry Potter cast
Warner Bros has confirmed that Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Fiona Shaw, Richard Griffiths and Ian Hart will star in its adaptation of JK Rowling's Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone. They join previously announced child actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson in the film's cast (Screendaily, August 18).At ...
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Norstar seals six-picture deal with New Legend
Toronto-based Norstar Filmed Entertainment has pacted with New Legend Media AG to co-produce six-pictures kicking off with The Fourth Angel starring Jeremy Irons, Forest Whitaker, Jason Priestly and Charlotte Rampling.The Fourth Angel is now configured as a co-production between Norstar, headed by Peter Simpson, Allan Scott's Rafford Films and UK-based ...
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Sundance launches Online Film Festival for 2001
The Sundance Institute yesterday unveiled The Sundance Online Film Festival, a showcase of new work specifically developed for the web, which will coincide with next year's film festival, Jan 18-28, 2001. The cyber-festival will launch on Jan 18 on www.sundance.org.The online film festival is open to mixed-media pieces that have ...
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Sapient to sponsor BAFTA LA's Britannia Award
Sapient - a leading creator of new economy businesses - has partnered with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles (BAFTA LA) to sponsor the 10th Annual Britannia Award - now called the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence In Film - which is this year being ...
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Rainbow/IFC buys 5% stake in website IFILM
Rainbow Media Holdings Inc, the Cablevision-owned outfit which manages US cable channel The Independent Film Channel (IFC), has acquired a 5% equity stake in entertainment website IFILM. Rainbow will provide IFILM with on-air promotional time on IFC and the two will exchange content and cross-promote through their web, television and ...
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Total Film Group buys Nebenzal's Lion Cult
Gerald Green's LA-based production outfit Total Film Group has acquired film rights to Harold Nebenzal's third novel The Lion Cult, a thriller set in Zurich about a group of foreign companies who all share a lake-front mansion who are thrust into danger by the greed of competing cartels, Swiss banks ...
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Liberty buys stake in Sony's Game Show Network
Liberty Digital, a subsidiary of the US' Liberty Media Corp, is acquiring a 50% stake in Sony Pictures Entertainment's (SPE) Game Show Network (GSN) for $275m. The two partners said they are joining forces to create what they describe as "the first game-based interactive TV network." The deal is expected ...
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Toei plugs New Year hole with Battle Royal
Japanese studio Toei has lined up Battle Royal, the latest film by veteran action director Kinji Fukasaku, for release in the New Year, after it realised that its big movie for the key New Year's season, Firefly (Hotaru), would not be ready in time.Starring Beat Takeshi, better known abroad as ...
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EC outlines concerns over AOL-Time Warner merger
The European Commission has sent out a formal set of objections to the proposed merger between America Online (AOL) and Time Warner and the linked merger between Time Warner and EMI.In June the Commission announced that it would launch full four-month investigations into the competitive effects of the two mergers. ...
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The Little Vampire
Dir: Ulrich Edel. Germany-UK. 2000. 95minsProd Co: Cometsone Pictures. Int'l sales: New Line Cinema. Prod: Richard Claus. Exec prods: Alexander Buchman, Anthony Waller, Larry Wilson. Scr: Karey Kilpatrick, Larry Wilson based on the Little Vampire novels by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg. DoP: Bernd Heini. Prod des: Joseph C. Nemec III. Ed: Peter ...
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Intermedia pacts with Cage's Saturn
UK and US-based film packager and financier, Intermedia, has struck an first-look deal with Nicolas Cage and Norm Golightly's Saturn Pictures, which is expected to cover two films per year in the $30m-$60m budget range.Intermedia said that the exclusive two-year deal, which is currently at the detailed longform negotiation stage, ...
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Snatch
Dir: Guy Ritchie. UK. 2000. 102 mins.Prod Co: SKA Films. Worldwide dist: Columbia TriStar. Prod : Matthew Vaughn. Co-prod: Michael Dreyer. Scr: Guy Ritchie. DoP: Tim Maurice-Jones. Prod des: Hugo Luczyc-Wynowski. Ed: Jon Harris. Mus: John Murphy. Main cast: Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, Jason Flemyng, Vinnie Jones, Brad Pitt, ...
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Perfect Storm swells Spanish box office
Warner Bros' The Perfect Storm succeeded in pulling in a significant box office gross when it opened in Spain last weekend with $1.6m (PTS294.6m) from its super-wide release of 315 prints. The opening makes it the fifth biggest weekend opening in Spain this year, squeezing past Columbia TriStar's release of ...
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Copenhagen to host new children's film festival
A new children's film festival will take place in Copenhagen for five days from November 28. The Copenhagen International Children's Film Festival will screen more than 50 features from around the world and hand out a prize to the best film, the Buster Grand Prix.The festival is headed by Ola ...
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Werner goes international with Platinum
German cartoon character, Werner, the star of three hugely successful feature films, is set to enjoy an international TV career.Achterbahn, the company behind the character and all three films, has struck a joint venture agreement with the US' Platinum Studios to produce 26 English-language episodes for broadcast and the internet. ...
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Germany's media[netCom] grabs Highlight titles
German video-on-demand (VoD) company media[netCom] has signed a deal with Swiss-based rights trader Highlight Communications giving it VoD rights to all Highlight-licensed pictures. The non-exclusive deal covers titles such as Scary Movie, U-571, Requiem For A Dream, The Way Of The Gun and Soldier.Media[netCom] expects to reach 70,000 German cable ...
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UPC claims lead in Polish digital market
Dutch cable giant UPC has claimed the lead in the race to deliver digital services to Poland. It has also unveiled plans for the roll-out of broadband services in the territory later this year.UPC said that at the end of June it had 378,000 subscribers to its digital cable services, ...
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