All Screen articles in 27 January 2000 – Page 2
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NATPE: ONDA set to march to different drummer
ONDA Digital is a broadcaster that wants to do things differently. And in doing so it is likely to bring a sigh of relief to film sellers who have recently seen prices plateau.But, as the operator of only the second digital terrestrial television network in Europe after the UK's ONdigital, ...
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Flanders chief plans Ghent film commission
Flanders International Film Festival director Jacques Dubrulle is drawing up plans that could lead to Ghent becoming the first Belgian city to launch a film commission. Dubrulle, who was approached by the Ghent city authorities to help with the project, put Ghent on the map as home for the Flanders ...
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MGM wins back German pay-TV rights
MGM has regained further control of its extensive film library by renegotiating a deal with Degeto, the rights trading associate of German public channel ARD. Titles returning to MGM include Raging Bull, Moonstruck and Midnight Cowboy, as well as some Rocky and Pink Panther pictures.The new deal sees MGM able ...
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American Beauty opens well in Germany
Even before it scooped three top prizes at the Golden Globe awards last Sunday, Sam Mendes' American Beauty benefited from favourable word-of-mouth in Germany to rack up an impressive screen average of $16,720 over the four-day weekend (January 20-23). The film, which distributor UIP is now sure to widen following ...
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International buyers step up at Sundance
It's not just domestic buyers who are putting up millions for premiere pictures at Sundance anymore. Yesterday Lions Gate Films made its first ever worldwide acquisition - American Spectrum title Two Family House - while Fiona Mitchell of United Artists Films (UAF) was reportedly set to buy international rights to ...
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Whalley takes reins at Portman Film
Tristan Whalley has been appointed managing director of Portman Film, the film division of Portman Entertainment, which is basking in yesterday's Sundance sale of North American rights to its $6m comedy Saving Grace to Fine Line Features for $4m.Whalley, former marketing chief at Majestic Films And Television and subsequently CEO ...
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NATPE: Film Co expands slate with Palm Pictures
UK sales and finance boutique The Film Co has picked up international sales duties to a package of films from Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures. The five Lady Ninja pictures are produced by Japan's Tohokushinsha Film Corp and were financed by Palm. Palm will retain US rights for distribution through its ...
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NATPE: Beresford boards Coote/Hayes' Fatal Shore
Coote/Hayes Productions has added two high-profile TV movies to its expanding slate of film and TV productions and has confirmed Bruce Beresford as director of its four-hour miniseries The Fatal Shore.Jeffrey Hayes, Coote/Hayes Prods co-founder, revealed that the firm has optioned Bio Hazard, a novel written by Russian scientist Ken ...
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NATPE: Carlton picks up world rights to Wilderness
Carlton America has picked up worldwide distribution rights to Wilderness Love, a TV movie which stars Valerie Bertinelli.The picture to be produced by Grossbart/Barnett Productions in association with Carlton America, will get its US premiere on CBS later this year. The story is about three children who rekindle love between ...
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Paramount bags more rights to Sunshine
Paramount Classics has acquired rights in Japan, Australia and New Zealand to Istvan Szabo's epic drama Sunshine, following its US acquisition of the movie after its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival last year. The film, which was produced by Alliance Atlantis Communications and Robert Lantos' Serendipity Point Films, ...
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East writer lines up second project for FilmFour
Ayub Khan-Din, the playwright and screenwriter behind current UK box office phenomenon East Is East, is re-teaming with the film's backers FilmFour for a romantic comedy.Khan-Din is writing Belmondo Sahib, which is understood to be his first feature after East Is East. The script is the story of an Indian ...
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CineMedia enters rights arena with Icon title
Germany witnessed the entrance of another aggressive rights buyer this week as leading post-production concern CineMedia unveiled a raft of acquisitions headed by Icon Entertainment International's What Women Want, starring Mel Gibson.CineMedia acquired rights to product with a total production budget of around $240m, taking all-media rights for German-speaking territories ...
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American Psycho
Dir: Mary Harron. Canada/USA. 2000. 104 minsUS Dist: Lions Gate Films. Int'l Sales: Lions Gate. Scr: Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner. Prods: Edward R. Pressman, Chris Hanley, Christian Halsey Solomon. Exec Prods: Michael Paseornek, Jeff Sackman, Joe Drake. DoP: Andrzej Sekula. Prod Des: Gideon Ponte. ...
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Tartan Films, Muse team up for London Fields
An $8-12m adaptation of well-known UK writer Martin Amis' novel London Fields heads the second development slate of Hamish McAlpine's Tartan Films, the Los Angeles-based sister company of UK distributor Metro Tartan Distribution.Tartan has jointly acquired rights to the book with US production outfit Muse Productions, which has credits including ...
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Intermedia appoints Meyer as development executive
Intermedia Films has appointed Sophie Meyer as development executive at its London office, co-chairmen Guy East and Nigel Sinclair have announced.Meyer, who was previously development assistant at UK funding body British Screen, will report to department head Nick Drake. Intermedia's UK production activities include backing Ruth Jackson's West Eleven Films; ...
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Alta readies first English-language production
Alta Films' Enrique Gonzalez Macho is developing his first English-language production for the company, Once In Europa. Based on the book by John Berger, the £3.5m ($5.8m) film is planned for a May shoot in Spain. According to international production head Ana San Martin, Alta is in talks with UK ...
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IBB pumps $15m into Berlin Animation Fund
Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) has become the latest German bank to get involved in Germany's private media fund sector by investing DM30m ($15.4m) in the DM168m ($86m) Berlin Animation Film (BAF) fund, launched at the end of last year by London-based Kleinwort Benson.Kleinwort Benson, part of the Dresdner Bank Group, reports ...
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Igel, Xilam join forces for Gaumont library
German family entertainment rights trader Igel Media and the French production studio Xilam have joined forces to acquire more than 200 animation episodes from the Gaumont Multimedia library.The deal, which includes such internationally successful series as Sky Dancers, Dragon Flyz and Space Goofs (aka Home To Rent), includes all rights ...
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Joe Gould's Secret
Dir: Stanley Tucci. USA. 1999. 107 mins.Prod Co: October Films, Bohemian Productions. Int'l sales: Good Machine International. Prods: Beth Alexander, Stanley Tucci, Charles Weinstock. Exec prod: Chrisann Verges, Mike Leiber. Scr: Howard A. Rodman, from the book by Joseph Mitchell. DoP: Maryse Alberti. Prod des: Andrew Jackness. Ed: Suzy Elmiger. ...
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Berlin to pay tribute to De Niro
This year's Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 9-20) will pay tribute to actor Robert De Niro with a special screening of The Deer Hunter on Feb 17 and a selection of eleven other films in which he stars including Bloody Mama (1970), Raging Bull (1980) and Ronin (1998). "We ...
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