All Screen articles in 25 February 2000 – Page 3
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Record-breaking previews for Australia's Wog Boy
Australian comedy The Wog Boy has grossed a highly impressive A$1.2m from just three days of preview screenings (Feb 18-20), which would have placed it at number three in the chart had it been included. Previews are traditionally excluded from box office charts. Only two films performed better than this ...
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Star mulls Indian Internet drive
Star TV has joined the rush to invest in Internet ventures by unveiling plans to pump between $50m-$100m into Asian Internet properties including consumer portals in India.The company is planning to take between 10 and 20 per cent equity stakes in popular Indian consumer portals, according to News Corp India ...
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Callahan set to acquire Deutsche cable assets
Deutsche Telekom is expected to confirm today the sale of a 55% stake in its cable television network in North Rhine-Westphalia, for about $3bn to Denver investment company Callahan Associates International (CAI).In addition, DB Investor, an investment unit of Deutsche Bank, is expected to take a minority stake in the ...
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Love Me
Dir: Laetitia Masson. France. 1999. 105mins.Prod co: Lilo Films. Int'l sales: Flach Pyramide International (33 1 42 96 02 20). Prod: Alain Sarde. Exec prod: Nicolas Daguet. Co-prod: Christine Gozlan. Scr: Masson. DoP: Antoine Heberle. Prod des: Arnaud de Moleron. Ed: Ailo Auguste. Music: John Cale. Main cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, ...
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Fandango
Dir: Matthias Glasner. Germany. 2000. 103mins.Prod co: Calypso Filmproduktion, Buena Vista International Filmproduktion (Germany). Int'l sales: Bavaria Film International (49 89 6499 3506). Prod: Werner Possardt. Scr: Glasner. DoP: Sonja Rom. Prod des: Ingrid Buron. Ed: Markus Goller. Mus: Fetisch/meister. Main cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Nicolette Krebitz, Richy Muller, Corinna Harfouch, ...
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Finland's Ambush sweeps local Jussi Awards
Finnish box office smash Ambush, directed by Olli Saarela, swept seven of the Finnish Film Awards - the Jussi - last weekend taking prizes for best film, direction and cinematography as well as editing, music, sound and set design.The film, produced by Marko Rohr and Ilkka Matila for MRP Productions, ...
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Israel's Yana's Friends adds BO success to awards
Israeli film Yana's Friends, directed by Arik Kaplun, is fast becoming one of Israel's best performing movies as well as its most decorated.The bitter-sweet comedy, about Russian immigrants trying to find their bearings in Israel during the Gulf War, has racked up about 100,000 admissions since its release in October ...
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China Star licenses martial arts pics to Yahoo!
Hong Kong film production house China Star Entertainment has signed a distribution agreement with Yahoo! Hong Kong to supply martial arts pictures for Internet distribution.Under the terms of the deal, 100 China Star titles will be digitised and distributed on the Internet free of charge. China Star chairman Heung Wah-keung ...
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Cecchi Gori faces up-Stream battle
Italian media mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori is taking legal action against his partners in pay-TV platform Stream over a capital increase which he claims is designed to give Rupert Murdoch control of the company.According to Italian press reports, Cecchi Gori has filed an urgent suit with a Rome court to ...
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Grade consortium buys Pinewood for $99m
After announcing yesterday that it has sold Odeon Cinemas to private equity financier Cinven, the UK's Rank group today confirmed the sale of British film studio Pinewood Studios to a consortium headed by former Channel 4 boss Michael Grade for $99m (£62m). The deal sees Grade become chairman of Pinewood ...
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ABC's theatrical arm acquires Tank Engine movie
ABC Films has confirmed it has acquired all Australian and New Zealand rights to the US$20m family film Thomas And The Magic Railroad which director Britt Allcroft has adapted from the Thomas The Tank Engine hit television series she also created. To avoid Olympics fever, which will take over Australia ...
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Canada's Lux, Jet team up for production venture
Montreal's Lux Films has joined forces with commercials house Jet Films to form a new feature film company Go Films.The new company, headed by Lux president Nicole Robert, director Gabriel Pelletier and Jet's Jacques Langlois and Richard Speer, will focus on producing features for the domestic and international marketplace."We decided ...
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Giffoni children's fest gets cash boost
The Giffoni Film Festival has had a $1m budget increase (70% from public organisations, 30% from private sponsors) for this year's event which runs from July 15-22.Sharon Stone and Oliver Stone and expected to be among the guests at the event which celebrates its 30th birthday this year. The festival, ...
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Toshiba moots link-up with AOL-Time Warner
In a bid to boost its low profile in the Internet business, Toshiba has announced plans to enter into talks with AOL-Time Warner about the distribution of content in Japan."We have long had a strong relationship with Time Warner. Since the merger with AOL they have been emphasising their Internet ...
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Suzhou racks up sales at quiet Berlin market
Philippe Bober's Berlin-based The Coproduction Office could claim the accolade of "buzz title" at last week's European Film Market (EFM) for Chinese director Lou Ye's Suzhou (pictured) which has sold to 12 territories and is expected to clean up the rest of the key territories at this week's AFM.With 14 ...
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Initial teams with Jodie Foster on Altar Boys
In its third major acquisition of the week, Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) has boarded The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys, a project developed by Jodie Foster's Egg Pictures, which Foster will co-produce and take a supporting role in - as a one-legged nun.IEG will fully finance the $15m-$20m film which ...
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Toy Story 2, Beach and Beauty show legs
The triumvirate at the top of the record-breaking UK chart last weekend maintained eye-popping screen averages for the three days Feb 18-20. Despite Toy Story 2's unprecedented $12.4m (£7.8m) gross last weekend, the computer-generated animation fell just 16% this weekend, with a 3-day gross of $10.4m (£6.5m). This ...
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Bellens appointed new chief of CLT-Ufa
Luxembourg-based broadcaster CLT-Ufa has named Didier Bellens chief executive officer and Ewald Walgenbach chief operating officer. Bellens takes over from joint chief executives Remy Sautter and Rolf Schmidt-Holtz who were appointed to represent CLT and Ufa when the two companies merged three years ago. The appointments will take effect on ...
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Italy's Eagle appoints Sodano, plans buying spree
Italian distributor Eagle Pictures plans to make several big-budget acquisitions at this year's AFM following an investment boost from private equity financier B&S and the appointment of former SACIS chief Giampaolo Sodano as president. B&S Private Equity Group has taken a 20% stake in Eagle which is gearing up to ...
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Visionview taps Berliner Bank's Robbins
Veteran UK film and television financier Jim Reeve has ramped up his financing outfit Visionview with the appointment of Steve Robbins.Robbins joins Reeve's outfit from Berliner Bank where he has spent the last seven years, most recently as the bank's head of media finance.The duo will work side by side ...
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