All Screen articles in 28 November 2000
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Unapix files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Unapix Entertainment, the New York film and TV production and distribution outfit whose shares stopped trading on the American Stock Exchange last week, has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.According to a statement issued on Tuesday afternoon, Unapix expects that its primary lender, G.E. Capital Corp, will bail the ...
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Nordisk Film & TV launches feature production unit
Norway's Nordisk Film & TV, owned by Copenhagen-based Nordisk Film, is establishing a feature film production division that aims to have an output of two titles a year that will travel across Scandinavian borders.The new outfit, to be headed by producer Rune Trondsen, will run parallel to Nordisk Film's other ...
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Kirch in talks to buy majority stake in EM.TV
Germany's Kirch Group is in negotiations to acquire a majority stake in local family entertainment rights trader EM.TV & Merchandising, which earlier this year swallowed The Jim Henson Company and 50% of Formula One motor racing company SLEC.EM.TV's shares rebounded slightly on Tuesday to close at Euros21.50 on news ...
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Norwegian mockumentary to get blockbuster roll-out
Norwegian distributor Egmont Columbia TriStar (ECT) plans to give low-budget local mockumentary Get Ready To Be Boyzvoiced a blockbuster opening by releasing it on 52 screens across Norway this weekend.In comparison, ECT released studio titles such as The Patriot and Hollow Man on 50 prints and its upcoming Charlie's Angels ...
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Paredes in line for Spanish Cinema Academy post
Veteran actress Marisa Paredes was the only candidate presented to take over the soon-to-be-vacated position of president of the Spanish Cinema Academy, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais.The Academy's current president, actress Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, will vacate the post on December 17.Catalan producer-director Antonio Chavarrias and writer-director Joaquin Oristrell were the ...
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Village blames weak results on exhibition arm
Village Roadshow Ltd (VRL) chairman John Kirby has told shareholders that the company's unsatisfactory profits in the last two to three years are entirely due to the exhibition arm of the business, most recently because of a downturn in film quality. Speaking at the company's annual general meeting last week, ...
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UK's Skillset launches new entrants scheme
UK training body Skillset's one-year-old Skills Investment Fund (SIF) is backing a new scheme to support film industry trainees in the craft and technical fields.The initiative will support trainees throughout a two-year programme of training and work placements with freelance training organisation FT2. SIF has put aside $284,000 (£200,000) for ...
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Star strikes output deal with Andy Lau's Teamwork
Star TV has signed a five-year output agreement with Hong Kong star Andy Lau and his Teamwork Motion Pictures production company.The deal gives Star exclusive pay-TV, pay-per-view and video-on-demand rights to Teamwork films starring Lau, for Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, the Philippines and Singapore. Star also has output deals with ...
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Unbreakable
Dir: M Night Shyamalan. US. 2000. 107 mins. Prod co: Blinding Edge Pictures, Touchstone Pictures. US dist: Buena Vista. Int'l dist: BVI. Exec prods: Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum. Prods: M Night Shyamalan, Barry Mendel, Sam Mercer. Scr: Shyamalan. DoP: Eduardo Serra. Prod des: Larry Fulton. Ed: Dylan Tichenor. Mus: James ...
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Geoff Ammer leaves Disney, joins Revolution
Geoffrey Ammer has left his position as co-president of marketing for Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group to join Joe Roth's Revolution Studios. He is replaced at Buena Vista by Oren Aviv, formerly his co-president at Disney, who now assumes sole responsibility for creative materials, publicity, promotions, research, media and internet ...
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De Heer's Tracker secures FFC investment
The Australian Film Finance Corporation (FFC) has approved investment in The Tracker, described as "an Australian western with attitude", according to writer-director Rolf de Heer, who is also producing the film alongside Julie Ryan. Principal photography on the film, which is set in the 1920s, begins on February 26 next ...
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Babelsberg to launch multimedia centre
Germany's Babelsberg Studios is planning to add a state-of-the-art multimedia production centre to house up to 30 companies, with construction scheduled to start as soon as spring 2001. Babelsberg co-managing director Gerhard Bergfried said the move was in response to demand from multimedia companies looking for a base in ...
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E-M-S taps Jovy to advise on expansion
German video and DVD distributor E-M-S New Media, which emerged as a major all-rights buyer at this year's autumn markets, has appointed former Advanced Medien board member Hanns-Arndt Jovy as a consultant to advise on its expansion into licence trading and production.E-M-S, founded in 1997 by Werner Wirsing, chief of ...
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KC Medien unwraps alliances with Pathe, Lions Gate
Film seasons from The Netherlands and Croatia have been scheduled in the US next month. Dutch Treats 2000: New Films From Holland presents ten recent films at the Quad Cinema in New York (Dec 1-7), while Wednesdays In Croatia (Nov 29-Dec 20) screens classic and new Croatian films kicking off ...
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India's Maya Entertainment plans IPO
Indian computer graphics company Maya Entertainment, owned by producer-director Ketan Mehta, is planning an initial public offering (IPO) on the Mumbai stock exchange within the next few months. Indian investment companies, Intel Capital and Enam Securities, have picked up substantial stakes in the company ahead of the float. Proceeds from ...
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Australia's WIN Television set to go public
One of Australia's largest privately-owned media companies, WIN Television, owned by former Paramount TV International president Bruce Gordon, is planning to float on the Australian Stock Exchange early next year.The regional network was sold to Gordon by Rupert Murdoch about 20 years ago and was a public company for about ...
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Morena to co-produce Portozas Vision's Pencil
Madrid-based production house Morena Films has boarded The Carpenter's Pencil (El Lapiz Del Carpintero), a feature film in development at Galician outfit Portozas Vision.International co-producers are being sought for the film, which is backed by regional broadcaster Television Galicia. First-time feature director Anton Reixa is prepping Pencil for a May ...
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One Life Stand sweeps board at Scottish BAFTAs
Pioneering digital drama One Life Stand scooped five prizes at the BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards in Glasgow on Sunday evening including best drama and best writer and director for its creator May Miles Thomas.The low-budget, independent feature also secured best film performance for actress Maureen Carr. Thomas also received ...
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Star to invest over $400m in Indian DTH service
Rupert Murdoch's Star TV has said it will invest more than $400m on setting up a direct-to-home (DTH) satellite platform in India, following the Indian government's decision to open its doors to such services earlier this month.However, Star has denied reports that it is talking to Indian state broadcaster Doordarshan ...
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102 Dalmations
Dir: Kevin Lima. US. 2000.Prod co: Walt Disney Pictures. Worldwide dist: Buena Vista/BVI. Prod: Edward S Feldman. Scr: Kristen Buckley & Brian Regan, Bob Tzudiker & Noni White, from a story by Buckley & Regan and the novel The One Hundred And One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith. DoP: Adrian Biddle. ...