All Screen articles in 28 November 2001 – Page 2
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Paramount taps latest German fund
Having already accessed German private film funds initiated this year by Alcas and Bayerische Immobilien-Leasing (BIL)/Deutsche Bank, Paramount Pictures is set to benefit from a new German private equity fund launched by SachsenFonds and EastMerchant.The Euros 52.7m MMP Investitions GmbH & Co. 2001 KG will be inviting private individuals to ...
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Mediability is first German film fund to collapse
Launched just five months ago, Mediability has become the first casualty among the recent wave of German private media funds; unable to raise sufficient cash from investors for its three proposed animation series: Frog, Thorgal,and Baron Muenchhausen, the Munich-based equity fund has now filed for insolvency.Ellipse Deutschland, the German arm ...
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Spy Game, Heist no match for Potter's Mettle
The phenomenon that is Harry Potter continues to exceed expectations in the UK, dropping a mere 13% on its second weekend and becoming the second highest earner of the year so far with its $41m to date. To put the film's astonishing results into context: in just 10 days Potter ...
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Behind Enemy Lines
Dir: John Moore. US 2001. 105 mins The US military couldn't have asked for a more effective recruitment tool than this rousing, high-concept action feature about a young navy pilot trapped behind enemy lines in Bosnia, who must outwit and evade his legion of pursuers until the Marines can arrive ...
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The Affair Of The Necklace
Dir. Charles Shyer. US 2001. 117mins.Much of the dramatic juice and historical intrigue has been drained out of The Affair Of The Necklace, an old-fashioned costume drama that suffers from being stiff, stuffy and banal. In her first major role after a well-deserved Best Actress Oscar for Boys Don't ...
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Universal targets Latino market with Arenas Group
Universal Pictures has teamed up with The Arenas Group, an advertising, PR and talent management firm focused on the US Latino market, to form Arenas Entertainment, a new film label to acquire, produce, finance, market and distribute films for Hispanic audiences worldwide.The deal was struck to form the company by ...
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Sundance gets its quirky groove back
It will not justbe the visibly heightened security measures that will lend next year's Sundance Film Festival a distinctive new flavour; the competition filmsthemselves are liable to provoke rather different audience and industry responses than in recent years, say selectors.Many of thedramatic feature films that will vie for various jury ...
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Iranian films dominate Hyderbad awards
Iranian films dominated awards at the 12th International Film Festival in Hyderbad, India. Children Of Petroleum directed by Ebrahim Forouzesh won the Golden Elephant for the best feature film in the international competition. The Silver Elephant for the best director went to Rassul Sadr Ameli for Iranian film Girl In ...
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Icon buys Australian rights for Swimfan
Icon Film Distribution is believed to have bought Australian rights for the teen thriller Swimfan, from sales agent Cobalt. It is the second film and first offshore outing from local director John Polson, working under the umbrella of GreeneStreet Films and Michael Douglas's Furthur Films. Erika Christensen, Jesse Bradford and ...
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UK's Film Council backs French-language title
The UK's Film Council's Premiere Fund for commercially-oriented films is pumping $700,000 (£500,000) into its first foreign-language production, French director Patrice Leconte's L'Homme Du Train.Pathe will distribute the comedy drama in the UK, while Pathe International is handling international sales. Shooting started this month in France, with Philippe Carcassonne producing ...
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Winchester Films engages 'comedy Czar'
UK theatrical distributor Winchester Films has engaged local comedian and author David Baddiel to source and develop a strand of British comedy projects.Baddiel, an established stand-up comedian and novelist is best known as co-creator of the 1990s cult show Fantasy Football with Frank Skinner."David's role is to be like a ...
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Ian George replaces Maj-Britt Kirchner at Pathe UK
Maj-Britt Kirchner is stepping down as managing director of the UK's Pathe Distribution at the end of the year, Francois Ivernel, managing director of Pathe UK, announced on Monday.Deputy managing director Ian George, who joined Pathe with Kirchner in 1999 from Warner Bros.' UK theatrical arm, will replace the Swedish-born ...
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Kinowelt may be forced into insolvency
Just four days ahead of the presentation of its nine-month figures on November 30, embattled German media concern Kinowelt Medien may now have to file for insolvency after ABN Amro Bank announced its intention to call in loans of more than $45.1m (DM 100m) to Kinowelt as from November 28.In ...
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Spy Game opens well, but trails Harry and Monsters
It was another phenomenal weekend for Warner Bros' Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone across North America. Over Thanksgiving Weekend, the film took a mighty estimated $58.5m from Friday to Sunday and a whopping $83.5m for the five-day period Thursday to Sunday (the official holiday was last Thursday). Those were ...
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Ocean's Wally Norman gets FFC funding
The Film Finance Corporation (FFC) is to invest in The Honourable Wally Norman, allowing Ocean Pictures to fulfil its sales agent ambitions. The comedy will be represented internationally by both Ocean and the UK's Alibi Film Sales, under an agreement struck when the Australian company launched nearly two years ago.The ...
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TV Nova still on track for Barrandov Studios
Czech broadcaster TV Nova appears to be pushing ahead with plans to purchase Prague's Barrandov Studios despite recent setbacks, including a ruling against it Wednesday (Nov 21) by the Czech Supreme Court in its dispute with the US's Central European Media Enterprises (CME).Last week, Nova director Vladimir Zelezny spent the ...
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Europa Cinemas gets MEDIA thumbs-up
Europa Cinemas, the support system for independent exhibitors which screen European films, closed its annual conference in Rome yesterday with the news that it had won a new two-year mandate from the Media programme."This is a first for us and is a real vote of confidence in the work that ...
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Loehr's Ming dynasty aims to rule in Asia
China's leading independent producer, the American-born Peter Loehr is to quit Beijing-based Imar Films and establish an international label focused on bigger and more ambitious pictures. His new outfit Ming Productions will also be located in Beijing, but starts life with a slate of four projects and a three-picture development ...
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European Investment Bank starts loan facility
The Luxembourg-based European Investment Bank (EIB) has made its first investment into European audiovisual production as part of the "Audiovisual i2i" initiative by signing two agreements for Euros 20m each with the French credit institutions Cofiloisirs and Coficine.The agreements, which were signed on November 23 by the EIB's Vice-President Francis ...
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Tricky Life takes top prize at Huelva festival
Uruguayan box office wonder Tricky Life (En La Puta Vida) was awarded the top Golden Columbus (Colon de Oro) prize Saturday (Nov 24) by the jury of Spain's 27th annual Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva. A Uruguayan-Spanish-Belgian co-production sold internationally by Bavaria Film, Tricky is the first film ever nominated ...
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