All Screen articles in 26 May 2000 – Page 2
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Satellite Theatre scores major coup with Shiri buy
Shochiku-owned movie channel Satellite Theatre has made its first major acquisition, purchasing all broadcasting rights to hit South Korean actioner Shiri, which has grossed $15m (Y1.6bn) at the Japanese box office. Channels such as Satellite Theatre which broadcast on communications satellites usually rely on their parent companies, including majors such ...
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Nordisk swallows Per Holst as part of overhaul
Danish production outfits Per Holst Film and Victoria Film are being folded into parent company Nordisk Film & TV in an attempt to streamline production operations at the Scandinavian major. The two companies, which merged prior to being acquired by Nordisk in 1991, have operated as stand-alone units since the ...
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A One And A Two (Yi Yi)
Dir: Edward Yang. Taiwan-Japan. 2000. 174 mins.Prod cos: Atom Films (Taiwan), Pony Canyon Inc (Japan). Int'l sales: Capitol Films, tel: (44) 20 7471 6000. Prods: Kaway Shinya, Tsukedea Naoko. Scr: Edward Yang. DoP: Yang Weihan. Prod des: Kaili Peng. Music: Kaili Peng. Ed:Chen Bowen. Main cast: Wu Nainzhen, Kelly Lee, ...
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Blackboards (Takhte Siah)
Dir: Samira Makhmalbaf. Iran. 2000. 85 mins.Prod cos: Makhmalbaf Film House, Fabricia Cinema in association with RAI in collaboration with T-Mark of Japan. Int'l Sales: Wild Bunch (Le Studio Canal Plus), tel: (33) 1 53 64 85 55. Exec prod: Mohamad Ahmadi. Prods: Mohsen Moahmalbaf, Marco Mueller. Scr: Mohsen and ...
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Billy Elliot
Dir: Stephen Daldry. UK. 2000. 110 mins.Prod Co: Tiger Aspect Pictures, WT2. Int'l Sales: Universal Pictures. Prods: Greg Brenman, Jonn Finn. Exec prods: Natasha Wharton, Charles Brand, Tessa Ross, David M Thompson. Scr: Lee Hall. DoP: Brian Tufano. Ed: John Wilson. Mus: Stephen Warbeck. Main cast: Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis, ...
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Chow reduces Golden Harvest stake
Golden Harvest Entertainment chairman Raymond Chow has sold an 11.7% stake in the company lowering his 34% stake to 22.3%.Chow recently acquired an additional 4.8% of the company from Australia's Village Roadshow. At the same time Roadshow offloaded the rest of its stake in Golden Harvest to Taiwan's Acer Digital ...
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Canal Plus makes five-year pledge to French film
Canal Plus signed a five-year deal with the French film producers' associations in Cannes last week, in which it pledged to invest FFr20.5 per subscriber per month in European films in return for exclusive pay-TV rights.Of the FFr20.5 per subscriber per month, FFr15.5 will go to French productions, underscoring Canal ...
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CLT-Ufa acquires stake in Antena 3
CLT-Ufa is to buy an 11% stake in Spanish free broadcaster Antena 3 in a move that further tightens an emerging European TV production and distribution network.According to unconfirmed reports, the stake is being sold by Bank Of New York and Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica will maintain an unchanged 47% ...
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UK box office spawns hits and misses
Aided by seven opening films, the UK box office picked up again last weekend after the recent spate of warm weather. But with Gladiator holding over well, falling just 3% from its opening weekend, not all the new releases profited from healthy box office returns. Best out of the ...
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Artifical Eye snags four Cannes titles
The UK's Artificial Eye picked up four films at Cannes, including Jury Prize winner Blackboards by Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf.UK rights to the film were acquired from Wild Bunch, which also sold Artificial Eye international critics prize winner Eureka.Artificial Eye also picked up Dominik Moll's buzz Cannes film Harry, A ...
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Murdoch invites TF1 to join Stream
News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch has reportedly invited French free-TV broadcaster TF1 to enter News Corp and Telecom Italia's Italian pay-TV operation Stream, a competitor to Canal Plus' Telepiu.Murdoch and TF1 previously discussed an Italian alliance in the early days of News Corp's involvement in Stream, but the talks did ...
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Miramax bags US, remake rights to Jet Set
Miramax has acquired remake and US distribution rights to French-language comedy Jet Set which Hilltop Entertainment is selling internationally in collaboration with French packaging specialist Jean-Michel Ciszewski.The film is a "fish-out-of-water" tale about a comedian's attempts to infiltrate the jet set in order to save a nightspot threatened by closure. ...
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Carlton snaps up US cinema ad company Screenvision
Carlton Communications has made a vital step forward in tackling the US cinema advertising market through its purchase of New York-based Screenvision Cinema Network. The $93.3m cash deal announced yesterday (May 22) gives Carlton access to Screenvision's 65% share of the US screen advertising industry. This is a major ...
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Zentropa boards Zenith's Jenny Wagon
White-hot Danish production outfit Zentropa will co-produce English-language western The Jenny Wagon with the UK's Zenith Productions. The film will be shot in Trollhattan, Sweden, one of the locations used for Zentropa's Palme d'Or winner Dancer In The Dark."We learnt so much about imitating the US in Sweden when we ...
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Mission Impossible 2
Dir: John Woo. US. 2000. 126 mins.Prod co: Paramount Pictures, Cruise/Wagner. US dist: Paramount Pictures. Int'l distribution: UIP. Prods: Tom Cruise, Paul Wagner. Exec prods: Terence Chang, Paul Hitchcock. Scr: Robert Towne. DoP: Jeffrey L Kimball. Prod des: Tom Sanders. Ed: Christian Wagner, Steven Kemper. Visual effects supervisor: Richard Yuricich. ...
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Metrodome, DBC launch Internet rights company
The UK's Metrodome Group and pay-per-view broadcaster Digital Broadcasting Co (DBC) have teamed up to launch an Internet TV rights company called ProgramNet. Each of the partners will own 50% of the joint venture.The company will compile a library of digital content ranging from short films to full-length movies through ...
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NTV, Wowow to launch digital broadcast service
Japanese broadcasters Nippon Television (NTV) and Wowow have reached a basic agreement to jointly provide broadcasting services on a digital communications satellite, beginning as early as spring 2001.The satellite is to be launched this summer in the same position as a digital broadcast satellite that is scheduled to start transmitting ...
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Miramax set to bask in Tuscan Sun
Miramax has acquired an option on Frances Mayes' best-selling non-fiction book Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home In Italy. The book - for which Miramax reportedly paid a mid six-figure dollar sum - is about Mayes' work restoring an abandoned villa in the Italian countryside. It figured in the New ...
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India's Modi, Penta team for animation venture
India's Modi Entertainment Network and computer graphics company PentaMedia Graphics have formed a 50:50 joint venture to provide animated software to broadcast and Internet platforms in India and overseas.Modi will lead the marketing initiative for the joint venture - which has an initial investment of $10m - in the US ...
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Gregor to quit post as Forum head
Ulrich Gregor, head of the Forum section of the Berlin film festival, is to resign after next year's event. His departure will co-incide with the less amicable departure of the festival's chief selector Moritz De Hadeln.The 67-year-old Gregor, who has headed the Forum young directors' sidebar since 1971, said he ...
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