All Screen articles in 25 February 2000 – Page 2
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Softbank invests in Content Capital
Japanese venture capitalist Softbank has taken a strategic stake in Australia's Content Capital, one of two government-sanctioned Film Licence Investment Companies (FLICs) aimed at coaxing private investment into Australian production. The investment is Softbank's first venture capital investment in Australia. Legislation restricts foreign companies from owning more than 33% of ...
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AFM: Harlin tapped for Stallone's Champs
Renny Harlin is in talks to direct Sylvester Stallone's long-cherished motor racing thriller for Franchise Pictures. Formerly titled Champs, the movie is now simply known as Untitled and will be executive produced by Franchise's Andrew Stevens.Untitled would reteam Harlin, hot off worldwide hit Deep Blue Sea, and Stallone, who has ...
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AFM: Harrison Ford drops out of Traffic
Harrison Ford has dropped out of Traffic, the highly publicised drug trafficking movie to which Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) bought international rights last week. Director Steven Soderbergh, domestic distributor Fox Searchlight and IEG are already talking to other major male stars with a view to replacing him and are hoping ...
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New Line locks down Japanese package deals
New Line International (NLI) has sealed two high-profile package deals in Japan - with Nippon Herald for 15 Minutes starring Robert De Niro and ensemble piece Knockaround Guys, and with Gaga Communications for Jennifer Lopez-starrer The Cell, The Invisible Circus with Cameron Diaz and teen comedy Detroit Rock City.Rolf Mittweg, ...
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Summit has Panic attack
Summit Entertainment has acquired all international rights to Panic - the Sundance American Spectrum entry which was picked up by Artisan Entertainment for domestic release earlier this week.Panic stars William H Macy as a man having a mid-life crisis drawn to a manic young woman (Neve Campbell) he meets in ...
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AFM: Metrodome forms prod venture with Danish duo
Metrodome Distribution, the UK distributor of British hit Human Traffic, has formed a UK production company with Nicolas Winding Refn and Henrik Danstrup, the up-and-coming film-makers behind the two Danish films Pusher and Bleeder.Titled NWR UK, the company will produce English-language features from the Danish duo, with director Winding Refn's ...
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Nikkatsu forced to sell studio to clear debt
Japan's oldest film production company Nikkatsu is selling its studio - one of the largest and most active in Japan - for $72.7m (Y8bn). The buyer is Maru, a real estate management company owned by Masaya Nakamura, the president of Nikkatsu's corporate parent Namco.The sale will enable Nikkatsu to raise ...
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Filmax launches Galician animation studio
Spain's growing mini-studio The Filmax Group has joined with post-production laboratory Filmtel and a Galician capital risk fund to launch animation producer Bren Entertainment. The new outfit, which describes itself as an 'animation factory', will service both Filmax-originated projects as well as those from other producers from both Spain and ...
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AFM: Franchise, Mark Canton reteam for Six
Elie Samaha's Franchise Pictures and Mark Canton's The Mark Canton Co - whose first collaboration Get Carter opens later this year and who are about to shoot Angel Eyes with Jennifer Lopez - have pacted to reteam for the third time on action thriller Six.To be directed by Kirk Wong ...
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Hilltop debut slate boasts Miller, Leven
In an attempt to become a new supplier of studio-level pictures, Hilltop Entertainment has unveiled a debut slate featuring Gone To Earth - the second film from director Rebecca Miller starring Oscar nominee Samantha Morton - and Lovers Liars And Thieves which marks the first feature from writer/director Jeremy Leven ...
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USA, Canal Plus backing Finch start-up Eclipse
Former William Morris Agency (WMA) UK heads Charles Finch and Luc Roeg have formed a management and production company - Eclipse - with the backing of USA Films and Canal Plus.London-based Eclipse will produce four pictures a year under the terms of the three-year deal, with USA label October Films ...
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Clouds Of May (Mayis Sikintisi)
Dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Turkey. 1999. 130mins.Prod co: NBC Ajans. Int'l sales: Keriman Ulas Ulusoy (33 1 48 87 36 26). Scr, DoP, Prod des, Ed: Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Main cast: Ermin Ceylan, Muzzafer Ozdemir, Ermin Toprak, Muhammed Zimbaoglu, Sadik Inescu, Ebru Yapici.Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan evokes the spirit ...
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Audition
Dir: Miike Takashi. Japan. 1999. 115 mins.Prod co: Omega Project. Int'l sales: Omega Project (83 1 5468 1212) Scr: Tengan Daisuke, based on novel by Murakami Ryu. DoP: Yamamoto Hideo. Prod design: Ozeki Tatsuo. Ed: Shimamura Yasushi. Mus: Endo Koji. Main cast: Ishibashi Ryo, Shiina Eihi, Matsuda Miyuki, Ishibashi Renji.The ...
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UK partners join forces for urban production
Leaping on the Blair Witch guerilla filmmaking bandwagon, UK production company Samuelson Productions is linking up with BSkyB, Whitecliff Film and Television and British Screen Finance to produce a slate of low-budget, digital films for distribution theatrically, on television and on the Internet.The films - to be shot on digital ...
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AFM: Cineart, A-Film acquire Magnolia
The freshly-formed Benelux distribution alliance between Cineart and A-Film is understood to have secured Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, its first title from New Line Cinema.Cineart targeted the ensemble drama even before it scooped three Oscar nominations this month (including one for Tom Cruise as Best Supporting Actor) and then walked ...
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Cinar shares slide following review admissions
Montreal-based Cinar Corp, a producer of family films and children's television, watched its shares plummet this week after the company admitted that an internal review, prompted by tax fraud charges, could adversely affect its financial results."The financial and accounting impacts of the outcome of those reviews, although not yet determined, ...
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AFM: Lion's Gate picks up Race To Space
Lions Gate Films International has acquired foreign rights to Race To Space, a true story drama about the first chimpanzee in space, which stars James Woods, Alex Linz, Annabeth Gish and William Atherton. Columbia TriStar Home Video has domestic rights to the movie which started principal photography this month with ...
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UPI floats Bullwinkle, Hannibal
Universal Pictures International (UPI) is sounding out selected territorial buyers at the American Film Market (AFM) on a clutch of high-profile studio titles headed by the $90m The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle and Ridley Scott's Hannibal, the sequel to Silence Of The Lambs.The move is seen as a bid ...
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Hollywood returns to Serbia
Serbian distributor Vans, which handles UIP's slate in the region, is opening The Mummy on February 24, marking the third studio distributor to return to Serbia since Hollywood ceased distribution activity in the region in March 1999.All but one studio - 20th Century Fox - is now active in the ...
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Zentropa wins producer award at Monte Carlo
Danish production outfit Zentropa has picked up the award for best European producer at the 40th edition of the Monte Carlo Television Festival (Feb 17-23). The Monte Carlo jury cited Zentropa for the quality of programmes submitted - The Kingdom and TV movie Morten Korch ' and the volume of ...
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