All Screen articles in 26 January 2001 – Page 3
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TEAM profit warning sends shares on 25% slide
TEAM Communications, the German-US film and TV licensing group, saw its shares plunge 25% to Euros2.7 on Frankfurt's disaster strewn Neuer Markt after it put out a profit warning.The company said: "revenue and earnings for the financial year ended December 31, 2000 will be below the company's prior expectations." It ...
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UK production up but facing strike threat
Underlining the potential impact of the threatened Hollywood production hiatus, the volume of overseas-financed production in the UK rose 33% last year, according to the British Film Commission's annual report.Overseas-backed feature and high-end TV production hit $788m, eclipsing last year's $591m with such high-profile studio-backed fare as Harry Potter And ...
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Chopper
Screening at Sundance (World Cinema). Dir: Andrew Dominik. Australia. 2000. 94mins.Writer-director Andrew Dominik spent a year working on commercials and music videos with producer Michele Bennett before the pair set to work on this, a haunting debut feature that depicts Australia's best known serial killer Mark 'Chopper' Read. A stylised ...
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Skarsgard joins von Trier's Dogville
Sweden's Stellan Skarsgard has joined the cast of Lars von Trier's new feature film Dogville which will be shot in English with mostly US and UK actors.Von Trier recently completed a $313,000 (DKr2.5m) test for the project in Zentropa's studios in Filmbyen outside Copenhagen, which according to producer Vibeke Windeloev ...
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Butler moves to Pathe marketing post
UK distributor Pathe Distribution has appointed Anna Butler as director of marketing, deputy managing director Ian George announced on Friday.Butler formerly spent five years as head of press and marketing at UK film and TV cultural body the British Film Institute. She will report directly to George, who was promoted ...
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Dancer In The Dark to kick off Belgrade FEST
Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark will open the 29th International Belgrade Film Festival, FEST (February 1-10), optimistically dubbed "Life Again, Fest Again" after the October changes in Serbia.Altogether the festival will feature 99 films including Jafar Panahi's The Circle, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, the Coen Brothers' O ...
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Village Roadshow to cut debt via Austereo float
Australian entertainment conglomerate Village Roadshow Ltd (VRL) is expected to raise more than $222.5m (A$400m) from the partial float of its Austereo radio division, part of which will be used to reduce its $406m (A$730m) on and off balance sheet debt. VRL will retain a controlling interest of at least ...
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Das Weisse Rauschen wins Max Ophuels Prize
Austrian-born director Hans Weingartner walked away with this year's $28,700 (DM60,000) Max Ophuels Prize for his psychological drama Das Weisse Rauschen while the Prize of the Saarland Prime Minister went to Austria's Florian Flicker for Der Ueberfall.The awards were handed out during the Max Ophuels Prize Film Festival in Saarbruecken, ...
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Norwegian Film Workers bid for Norsk library
In a surprise move, The Norwegian Film Workers' Association has expressed interest in acquiring Norsk Film's back catalogue of around 170 films, that are to be sold together with the government's 77.5% stake in the state-owned company.Earlier this week, the Norwegian culture ministry decided to consider the sale of Norsk ...
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Epsilon launches theatrical sales outfit
Epsilon, the programming and acquisition joint venture between European broadcasters Kirch and Mediaset, has launched an international sales company, Beta Cinema, to focus on distribution of theatrical features.The new operation is in addition to the group's Beta Film sales subsidiary which has traditionally concentrated on TV. It will be headed ...
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Berlin unveils further Panorama, Forum titles
Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmoniak and Renny Bartlett's Eisenstein are among another batch of titles confirmed for the International Forum of Young Cinema sidebar at this year's Berlin Film Festival. Meanwhile titles from Jean-Jacques Beineix, Lea Pool and Gerardo Herrero have been added to the Panorama line-up.Hungarian feature Werckmeister Harmoniak has ...
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SearchParty embarks on global film rights hunt
SearchParty Films, the new "distribution services" outfit looking to hoover up films that have been ignored by conventional buyers, has picked up its first eight US-made indie acquisitions and is now training its ambitious sights on international features of all languages.SearchParty, jointly spearheaded by co-chairman Larry Estes and Scott Rosenfelt, ...
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Save The Last Dance leads, Snatch opens strongly
Paramount and MTV Films' teen drama Save The Last Dance continued to lead the North American box office over the weekend, taking an estimated $16m for a ten day total of $46.9m. It is the first hit of the year and looks set to head for the $80m mark.Meanwhile 20th ...
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