All Screen articles in 27 April 2001 – Page 3
-
News
Pentamedia bids to rescue Film Roman deal
Senior officials, including V Chandrasekaran chairman of India's Pentamedia have rushed to the US to renegotiate their deal with Film Roman on a stock and cash basis (Screendaily, Oct 24, 2001). Film Roman has set April 28 as the deadline for repair of the alleged breach of contract by Pentamedia ...
-
News
Village makes new retreat from Euro exhibition
Village Roadshow has sold its sold 13-screen cinema site in Switzerland to Pathe, and its 45 Hungarian screens at six sites to Intercom, its jointventure partner in the region. The company has also offloaded its remaining 50% property interest in Village Entertainment Park to the Pradera European Retail Fund, and ...
-
News
UK's Film Council appoints clutch of executives
UK film body the Film Council has named Norman Brock and Emma Clarke as part of a raft of appointments.Brock has been appointed production and development executive for the Council's Premiere Fund, a $14m a year tranche of National Lottery cash for films with broad appeal. Brock worked as a ...
-
News
Summit, Momentum, Samuelsons pact for remake
The US' Summit Entertainment and the UK's Momentum Pictures and Samuelson Productions have partnered on a UK remake of Dutch box office hit All Stars.Provisionally titled 30 Things, the comedy about a group of 20 somethings is to go into production this year. Simon Shore, who debuted with gay-themed coming-of-age ...
-
News
Menegazzi launches Firelight with Zenith deal
Carmen Menegazzi, former head of Columbia TriStar's UK theatrical arm, has partnered on local drama Lifelines with UK media operation Zenith Entertainment for the first project from her production outfit Firelight Films.Menegazzi and Zenith have struck a co-development deal on the £3m project, which is being written by Bridget Lawless. ...
-
Reviews
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Dir: John Madden. UK-US-FR. 2001. 125 minsWhile its aspirations and ingredients should ensure a strong release in all territories where the original Louis de Bernieres novel was triumphant, Captain Corelli's Mandolin curiously lacks harmony for a work with music as one of its core values. There is discord between its ...
-
News
Court dismisses RICO claims against Franchise
Franchise Pictures has won a second dismissal in its acrimonious court battle with Germany's Intertainment Licensing GmbH. On Friday, Judge Carlos Moreno of the US District Court issued an order granting Franchise motion to dismiss Intertainment's claims against it under the Federal Racketeering Influenced And Corrupt Organizations Act (known as ...
-
News
Miramax buys UK, Manhattan close to US on Enigma
Miramax Films has acquired UK rights to Enigma, the World War II thriller directed by Michael Apted which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Intermedia co-financed the film with Germany's Senator Film and handled the UK sales to Miramax.Meanwhile Manhattan Pictures International, the recently formed New York-based producer/distributor run ...
-
News
Universal Focus gets US rights to French smash
Universal Pictures has acquired US distribution rights to Christophe Gans' French blockbuster The Brotherhood Of The Wolf (Le Pacte Des Loups) and will release it under its specialised Universal Focus label in late 2001. The $25m film was acquired from StudiCanal, Universal's sister company in Vivendi, and marks the first ...
-
News
Pacifica acquires Dances With Wolves sequel
LA-based development and production outfit Pacifica Film Development, which is backed by German film fund IMF, has acquired the film rights to the soon-to-be-published novel The Holy Road, the sequel to Dances With Wolves written by original author Michael Blake who will also write the screenplay adaptation.To be published on ...
-
News
Bridget conquers America; Dundee, Freddy only OK
Bridget Jones's Diary vaulted to the top of the North American box office in its second weekend with an appetising estimated $10.53m at 2,211 sites for an average of $4,739 per site. Distributed domestically by Miramax Films, the comedy from Helen Fielding's best-selling novel had opened behind Spy Kids and ...
-
News
Korea's Myung launches own sales operation
Myung Film, the company behind Korean box office breakaway Joint Security Area, is to expand its production capacity and launch its own sales outfit in time for Cannes. The new sales division, E Pictures, will handle international distribution of the ten or so domestic Korean films produced annually by Myung. ...
-
News
Five out of five for Club Des Cinq
Coincidence or moral victory' The five French films in Official Selection at this year's Cannes festival are all set to be distributed locally by members of The Club Of Five (Le Club Des Cinq). This is a new lobby group formed by independent distributors which recently split from the two ...
- Previous Page
- Page1
- Page2
- Page3
- Next Page