All Screen articles in 26 January 2001 – Page 2
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Ad chief moves to South Australian Film Corp
David Minear, chairman of the Young & Rubicam Adelaide advertising agency, has been appointed chairman of the board of the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC), which recently announced a new strategy aimed at making the state a centre for independent film-making. Film-maker Rolf de Heer has an office at the ...
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Switzerland's Fribourg fest unveils first titles
South Korean director Im Kwon-Taek's Chunhyang and Yi Yi directed by Taiwan's Edward Yang are among the first batch of films confirmed for the official competition at the 15th Fribourg International Film Festival in Switzerland (March 11-18).The competition line-up also includes Chang Wai-hung's Among The Stars (Hong Kong), Vivian Chang's ...
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Berlin to feature sidebar of De Hadeln favourites
Outgoing Berlin Film Festival director Moritz de Hadeln has made a selection of personal cinematic memories from his 22-year tenure that will screen in a special sidebar at this year's event under the banner "Moritz' Favourites".De Hadeln said he didn't want to put his own personality into the spotlight, but ...
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Lions Gate buys US rights to Double Whammy
In the second deal of the Sundance Film Festival, Lions Gate Films has bought North American distribution rights to Tom DiCillo's latest film Double Whammy, which screened in the Premiere section, for an estimated $1m. The deal was negotiated between Lions Gate Films co-presidents Tom Ortenberg and Mark Urman with ...
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Sundance Channel buys three sports films for US TV
The Sundance Channel has picked up US TV rights to three independent films - P David Ebersole's feature Straight Right which premiered at last year's Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, Katya Bankowski's documentary Shadow Boxers which was in the Toronto Film Festival 1999 and Greg Stiever's documentary Poles Apart. All ...
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Noreen Ward named senior vp at Good Machine
Noreen Ward has been promoted to the position of senior vice president of operations at Good Machine Inc, overseeing all business administration for both Good Machine and its sister company Good Machine International.The promotion comes in the company's tenth - and most profitable - year to date and was announced ...
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Lot 47 signs three year US deal with Blow-Up
Blow-Up Pictures, the digital film-making production outfit behind Series 7 - Contenders and Chuck And Buck, has signed a three year, multi-picture distribution agreement with US independent distributor Lot 47 Films whereby Lot 47 will provide domestic distribution for at least 50% of Blow-Up's film productions to Jan 2004.Films under ...
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UK cinema admissions the highest for 26 years
As expected, UK cinema attendance hit a 26-year high in 2000, despite November admissions dropping 30% over the same period in 1999. According to year-end figures from the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA) more than 142.5 million tickets were sold, compared with 139 million in 1999.Strong box office performances towards the ...
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Italian box office up but local fare slides
Italian box office takings grew 5.5% to $378m (L779.5bn) in 2000, according to figures from box office service Cinetel, but local product's share of the market slipped to 17.48% compared to 23.90% in 1999.Italian films and co-productions grossed $61.6m (L127bn) in 2000, down 18% from $75m (L154.6bn) in 1999, as ...
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UK's Target merges with New Media Industries
Target Media, a leading advertising space buying company for the UK film industry, has merged with internet outfit New Media Industries (NMI).Target, which boasts clients including FilmFour, Icon, Metrodome, Redbus and Winchester, and its parent DPA Soho are forming a new operation titled Target NMI as a result of the ...
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Cast Away hangs on to UK box office crown
Tom Hanks, who won the Golden Globe for best actor on Sunday night, continued to reign at the UK box office over the weekend as Cast Away held first position in its second week. The UIP film took $3,527,590 (£2,402,289) from 393 sites for an impressive three-day site average of ...
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German film fund supports South Africa's AVEA
German film fund MFG Medien und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Wuerttemberg has joined the list of backers of the new South Africa-based producers' training initiative "AVEA - Audiovisual Entrepreneurs of Africa" which is modelled on the MEDIA programme's EAVE scheme.Financing for the initiative, which aims to prepare film and TV producers from the ...
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Jupiter consortium to launch CS movie channel
A consortium of Japanese companies, including Jupiter Satellite Broadcasting, Jupiter Programming, Sony Broadcast Media, Nihon Keizai Shimbun and TV Tokyo, has launched Interactive, a broadcaster that plans to operate six specialty channels, including a movie channel, on the N-SAT-110 communications satellite from March 2002. Jupiter Satellite Broadcasting will own 30% ...
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Yugoslavia opens airwaves to outsiders
The new Yugoslav government's telecommunications minister Boris Tadic has announced that the country's airwaves will be opened up to foreign entities. A group of experts has been assembled to draw up new broadcasting legislation in line with EU countries.Tadic also announced that he will annul all licences in Yugoslavia (which ...
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Kirch acquires TM3 and sells it to H.O.T.
Germany's Kirch Media has acquired News Corp's shares in commercial free-TV channel TM3, and transferred them to EUVIA Media, a 100% subsidiary of the home shopping management and holding company H.O.T. Networks. News Corp has taken a 2.48% stake in Kirch Media as part of the deal.H.O.T. Networks' chairman Georg ...
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Loews Cineplex to close 675 screens
North America's second-largest exhibitor Loews Cineplex plans to shutter 675 of its nearly 3,000 screens in North America as it reported a third quarter loss of $185m. The closures represent 23% of its screens in the US and Canada. The company also suggested it will file for bankruptcy protection in ...
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Moscow court freezes sale of NTV shares
CNN founder Ted Turner has hit a major obstacle in his attempts to buy into Russian broadcaster NTV, owned by the beleaguered Media Most group, as a Moscow court has blocked the sale of 19% of the company, pending a court hearing in mid-February. Russia's state-controlled gas giant, Gazprom Media, ...
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Sony Classics buys Polish Brothers' Jackpot
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired rights in North America, Australia and New Zealand to Jackpot, the second movie from Mark and Michael Polish whose first film Twin Falls Idaho was also picked up by SPC at Sundance 1999. Currently in post-production, Jackpot was written by both Polishes but directed by ...
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Fox Searchlight buys the world on Super Troopers
In the first deal of the Sundance Film Festival, Fox Searchlight Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Supertroopers, a crazy comedy directed by Jay Chandrasekhar which screened as a midnight movie on Friday.The company is believed to have paid some $2m for the picture which was represented by John Sloss ...
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Crouching Tiger the real winner at Globes
In a year when no one film has taken the lead in the race for the Academy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night offered no pointers. While Ridley Scott's Gladiator was named Best Picture (drama), its victory was overshadowed by the success of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden ...
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