All Screen articles in 25 February 2000 – Page 4

  • News

    UK's Carlton Cinema channel set for cable launch

    2000-02-21T16:58:00Z

    UK digital terrestrial channel Carlton Cinema is launching on cable on March 1 in a move that will increase its subscriber base by 1.5 million viewers. The 24-hour film channel, owned by UK media group Carlton Communications, has concluded agreements with UK cable operators Cable and Wireless, NTL, Telewest and ...

  • Reviews

    Home Game (Heimspiel)

    2000-02-21T14:41:00Z

    Dir: Pepe Danquart. Germany. 1999. 95 mins.Prod co: Quinte Film, Arte, Goethe Institut. Int'l sales: Amberlon Pictures. German distribution: Senator Film. Prod: Mirjam Quinte. Scr: Pepe Danquart. DoP: Michael Hammon. Ed: Mona Brauer. Mus: Walter W. Cikan, Eddi Siblik. Before embarking on his rousing documentary about an East Berlin ice-hockey ...

  • News

    India's GV, Asian Online form webcasting venture

    2000-02-21T11:59:00Z

    Madras-based production outfit GV Films is linking up with UK internet portal Asian Online to create a joint venture focusing on internet broadcasting and related ventures.A memorandum of understanding was signed in London between GV chairman and managing director G. Venkateswaran and Asian Online on February 18. The board of ...

  • News

    Globe buys Human Voices for Australia, New Zealand

    2000-02-21T11:17:00Z

    Despite withdrawing from international acquisitions, The Globe Film Co has signed on to handle Australian and New Zealand distribution on Til Human Voices Wake Us, one of two features which have just secured investment from the Australian Film Finance Corporation (FFC). Director-writer Michael Petroni has sold several scripts to Hollywood ...

  • News

    Quebec gears up for co-production conference

    2000-02-21T11:15:00Z

    Quebec-based international financing and co-production conference CONTACT has selected 20 feature film projects for this year's event (March 3-6).The initiative, organized by the Societe de Development des Enterprises Culturelles du Quebec (SODEC) with the involvement of Brussels-based Linking Market Forces (LMF), is open to French and English-language projects with co-production ...

  • News

    Whole Nine Yards, Hanging Up tie for top place

    2000-02-21T11:06:00Z

    It was a healthy Presidents Day weekend at the North American box office with the three-day Friday-to-Sunday figures (final four-day figures will emerge on Tuesday) proclaiming $15m apiece for both SPE's Hanging Up and Warner Bros' The Whole Nine Yards (pictured).Meanwhile Paramount/Nickelodeon Movies' Snow Day showed legs with a second ...

  • News

    Odeon, ABC merge to form UK's largest circuit

    2000-02-21T10:19:00Z

    The Rank Group has confirmed the sale of Odeon Cinemas to private equity financier Cinven, which plans to combine the circuit with its own ABC Cinemas to create the UK's largest cinema chain.Cinven paid $450m (£280m) for Rank's 75 cinemas following several weeks of speculation. Odeon chief Richard Segal has ...

  • News

    First Look Pictures acquires The Opportunists

    2000-02-21T04:50:00Z

    First Look Pictures has acquired North American theatrical and TV rights to Sundance American Spectrum entry The Opportunists from the film's producers Prosperity Pictures and New Beginnings Media. First Look's parent company Overseas FilmGroup was the international sales agent on the film which stars Christopher Walken and Cyndi Lauper.As reported ...

  • News

    IEG to finance historical epic Smoke And Mirrors

    2000-02-21T04:43:00Z

    Initial Entertainment Group (IEG), which last week bought international rights to high profile Harrison Ford-starrer Traffic, has unveiled another acquisition - the rights to historical adventure Smoke And Mirrors, one of the most famous never-produced scripts in Hollywood in recent years. IEG will fully finance the film and handle worldwide ...

  • News

    Venus outshines Joan at Cesars

    2000-02-20T20:26:00Z

    With eight nominations each, Luc Besson's The Messenger: The Story Of Joan Of Arc and Patrice Leconte's The Girl On The Bridge (La Fille Sur Le Pont) may have been the hottest contenders for the Cesar awards - France's equivalent of the Academy Awards - but it was a smaller ...

  • News

    US, German titles take top honours at Berlin

    2000-02-20T19:29:00Z

    Magnolia, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, was awarded the Golden Bear at the 50th Berlin International Film Festival on Sunday night (Feb 20), a choice that proved popular among critics and audiences alike. US films also picked up Silver Bears for best actor and director, but for the second year ...

  • News

    Artisan seeks to raise $140m from Nasdaq IPO

    2000-02-19T00:42:00Z

    Artisan Entertainment has announced that its seeking to raise $140m from its upcoming initial public offering and has applied to trade its shares on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol "RTSN". Merrill Lynch & Co., Bear Stearns & Co and ING Barings have been engaged as Artisan's IPO underwriters.According to ...