All Screen articles in 28 July 2000 – Page 3
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Momentum appoints Caplan as acquisitions chief
Momentum Pictures, the UK distribution and production venture of Canada's Alliance Atlantis and Germany's Kinowelt, has appointed Sally Caplan to the newly created role of head of acquisitions.Caplan, formerly senior vice president of acquisitions for Universal Pictures worldwide, takes the title of senior vice president of acquisitions and business affairs. ...
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First Love (Hatsukoi)
Dir: Tetsuo Shinohara. Japan. 2000. 115 mins.Prod co: First Love Production Committee. Int'l sales: Tokyo Broadcasting System (+81 3 5571 3085). Scr: Masahiko Nagasawa. DoP: Junichi Fujisawa. Ed: Yoshiyuki Okuhara. Mus: Jo Hisaichi. Main cast: Rean Tanaka, Mieko Harada, Hiroyuki Sanada, Mitsuru Hirata, Makoto Sato, Masaki Nishina.Pretty to look at ...
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IN THE HOT SEAT - DIETER KOSSLICK
The following profile is taken from the weekly print version of Screen International. Also in this week's Screen:EXECUTIVE SUITE:J-Works founder Takenori SentoNEWS FOCUS:Is the internet set to revolutionise the sale of cinema tickets' Denis Seguin investigates.ROUND TABLE:Lucky Red's Andrea Occhipinti, Momentum Pictures' David Kosse and Egmont Entertainment's Peter Philipsen discuss ...
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Stuart Little scrapes into pole position in the UK
Seven months after it opened in the US (where the DVD is now available), Columbia TriStar finally gave Stuart Little its nationwide UK release last weekend. Excluding previews, it just missed the number one slot with a three-day gross of $2.1m (£1,394,384) but including paid previews of $454,718 (£454,718) it ...
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Bavaria snaps up film rights to Danella's novels
Munich-based Bavaria Film has purchased film rights to all 38 novels by German bestselling author Utta Danella and plans to adapt two to three of them a year as TV movies.The deal continues Bavaria's association with the popular author, which began recently with the Bavaria/Artus-Film co-production The Black Mirror (Der ...
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De Mol to remain Endemol chairman and CEO
Endemol Entertainment chief John de Mol has decided to remain chairman and CEO of the Dutch production outfit alongside his new position as chief creative officer (CCO).De Mol said he would step down from his position as chairman to concentrate on the creative side of Endemol's business when Spanish telecoms ...
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Crown Media launches Hallmark in Israel
The US' Crown Media Holdings has launched 24-hour movie channel Hallmark Entertainment Network in Israel in partnership with local cablers Matav, Tevel and Golden Channels.Israel's first digital satellite service Yes, set to launch this month, will also carry the channel. Following its launch on Yes, the channel will reach an ...
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Kirch Media unveils new internet platform
Germany's Kirch Media has unveiled the creation of a new internet platform which will be jointly owned with KirchPayTV and affiliated broadcasters Pro Sieben, Sat 1 Media and DSF.The various channels are expected to support the internet start-up with free advertising of up to $250m. News Corp's TM3 could ...
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Indian government passes cable act
India's government has approved the introduction of the Cable TV Act which will regulate all programme content and advertising on cable channels.Among other things, the act aims to curb obscenity on Indian cable television and requires all cable operators to carry at least three channels from state broadcaster Doordarshan.All national ...
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Middelhoff comes out on top in German media survey
Bertelsmann chairman Thomas Middelhoff has been voted the most important player in Germany's media scene in a survey in German magazine TV Today. Leo Kirch came a distant second with 355 to Middelhoff's 435 points. Third place went to Spiegel publisher Rudolf Augstein. Other notable players named were EM.TV's Thomas ...
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Messier changes merger terms to win CSA approval
In a move that potentially clears the way towards clearance of the Vivendi-Canal Plus merger, Vivendi appears to be ready to keep more assets within the part of Canal Plus that will retain a separate identity.Vivendi boss Jean-Marie Messier is understood to have given control of the French subscriber base ...
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Firestone forms Fireworks as worldwide dist'n co
Jay Firestone has consolidated his two LA-based film outfits, international sales company Seven Arts International and domestic distributor CanWest Films into one entity now known as Fireworks Pictures. Fireworks is a subsidiary of Firestone's CanWest Entertainment, itself a division of Toronto-based media giant CanWest Global Communications Corp.The new company now ...
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Hawke, Linklater & Co go Dogme-style for InDigEnt
Independent Digital Entertainment (InDigEnt), New York's answer to Denmark's Dogme95 movement, has completed its first four star-laden digital video features, comprised of Campbell Scott's Final, Ethan Hawke's Last Word on Paradise, Bruce Wagner's Women in Film and Richard Linklater's Tape, and has now started on its fifth, Rodrigo Garcia's Women ...
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UK admissions hit 26-year high
UK admissions between January and June this year reached a 26-year high as cinemas punched 71 million tickets, according to the cinema advertising association monitor (CAA).The tally is all the more impressive coming despite the dent in June's attendance levels from the European Championship soccer tournament. Ticket sales during that ...
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Buyers team up for Telemontecarlo take-over
Telecom Italia and nascent internet giant Seat-Tin.it have confirmed that they are in talks to buy a majority stake in Telemontecarlo (TMC), the troubled Cecchi Gori Group-owned TV platform.A joint statement from Telecom and Seat-Tin.it stated that the two companies were in the "preliminary stages of negotiations" for the free-TV ...
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WW2 drama wins Giffoni festival
The Sky Falls (Il Cielo Cade), a World War II drama set in Tuscany, won the top prize at the 30th edition of the Giffoni Film Festival after 320 child jurors gave the Italian title the thumbs up on Saturday.Veronica Niccolai, who plays opposite Isabella Rossellini, also picked up the ...
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Canal Plus Spain tunes into TV film sector
Canal Plus has finally made its definitive move into made-for-TV feature production in Spain, striking a four-year accord with regional network Television de Galicia (TVG).The partners, which collaborated last year on TV movie La Rosa De Piedra, are to co-produce TV movies, documentaries, fiction series and short films. According to ...
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Germany's IN-motion takes over US' Myriad for $4m
German media concern IN-motion has acquired 76% of Kirk D'Amico's US sales operation Myriad Pictures for $4m, only weeks after the Frankfurt-based company went public.D'Amico will remain CEO of Myriad, working with IN-motion's LA-based chairman for film and TV Philip von Alvensleben, formerly president of Telemuenchen, who joined Myriad's board ...
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Milos Forman heads Venice jury
Director Milos Forman will chair the jury of the upcoming Venice International Film Festival, the festival has announced.Forman, who recently directed Man On The Moon and The People Vs Larry Flint, will head a jury composed of Jennifer Jason Leigh; Giuseppe Bertolucci; Claude Chabrol; writer Tahar Ben-Jelloun; Iranian Cannes prize-winner ...
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Artisan to make film about 60s group The Shaggs
Artisan Entertainment has acquired life rights to the true story of 60s pop group The Shaggs with a view to making a film based on their brief rise to fame to be written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann.A three-sister outfit, The Shaggs only produced one album Philosophy Of The World, ...
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