All Screen articles in 3 June 2001 – Page 3
-
News
New York's Snapper teams with Scandinavia's Smile
New York-based production outfit Snapper Films has partnered with Scandinavia's Smile Entertainment to co-produce a slate of English-language features.The three-year arrangement includes Fidelity, written by Tom Griffin and to be directed by Juha Wuolijoki, and Arto Halonen's Guardian Angel. Both projects are drama thrillers that are expected to shoot in ...
-
News
Moscow, St Petersburg festivals link up
Russia's Moscow International Film Festival and St Petersburg International Festival of Festivals are tying up.The two events will now be held in overlapping slots and share films in their out-of-competition Panorama sections. The link up means Moscow will this year move from its traditional date in late July to June ...
-
News
Kinowelt shares slump as profit forecasts slashed
Shares at Kinowelt Medien hit an all-time low this week after the German media concern halved profit expectations for this year.Shares fell 17% to 4.68 Euro on Monday, recovering slightly but then slipped another 2.04% on Tuesday. At the beginning of trading on Tuesday shares were at 4.80 Euro. The ...
-
Reviews
Pearl Harbor
Dir: Michael Bay. US.2001. 182 mins.The best that can besaid about Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor, his colossal take on one of the most tumultuous events of Americanhistory, is that it's decidedly not a popcorn summer movie in the currentsense. Quite the opposite: Deviating from the recent spate of postmodern,intentionally anachronistic ...
-
News
Pearl Harbor pummels US with $75.1m opening
With an estimated Memorial Day weekend gross of $75.1m, Touchstone Pictures' $140m Pearl Harbor enjoyed the second highestfour-day holiday tally ever at North American theatres. However, even this fell short of the box office blitz that many in the media had been preparing for.Pearl Harbor may have elbowed out Mission: ...
-
News
Hallmark grabs major terrs on mini-series pair
The Hallmark Channel has bought exclusive pay-TV rights to two big budget min-series stuffed with theatrical talent from Alliance Atlantis Television.The series Life With Judy Garland: Me And My Shadows and Haven were both bought for Latin America, Spain, Portugal, Russia, the CIS, Middle East and Italy. Hallmark also took ...
-
News
Jove festival unveils youth line-up
Spain's youth-oriented International Cinema Jove Film Festival of Valencia (June 16-23) has unveiled a list of 80 short films and 10 feature films which will compete this year in the two parallel official sections of its 16th annual edition.All of the films are made by directors under 35 years of ...
-
News
Beyond Distribution bolsters sales team
Beyond Distribution has strengthened its sales team by giving additional responsibilities to London-based Ellen Lovejoy and through the appointment of Veronique Verges.The moves follow the resignation of Marena Manzoufas, Beyond Distribution's general manager, who will leave in mid-July.Lovejoy will now manage all sales staff in the UK, US and Australia ...
-
News
Japan says The Bunker is Mi-Pic
UK-based sales outfit The Film Company has sold UK psychological thriller The Bunker to Mi-Pic for Japan.Touted at this month's Cannes market, The Bunker tells the story of a group of German soldiers who get trapped into a disused bunker system on the French-Belgian border during World War 2. Starring ...
-
News
Friend becomes all-time Korean BO champion
Kwak Kyung-taek's Friend continues to rewrite the Korean film industry record books. It notched seven million admissions on its 52nd day of release (May 21) making it the most popular- Korean film of all time. The film, is currently playing on 38 screens in Seoul and 128 nationwide. Based on ...
-
News
BFI to programme art films for UCI
The British Film Institute (BFI) has partnered with UK exhibitor UCI Cinemas to programme classic films, world cinema and previews of new films. Dubbed "BFI@UCI" the partnership will cover 35 of UCI's UK multiplexes, giving the BFI wide access to multiplex cinemagoers. The institute currently has a smaller programming arrangement ...
-
News
Euro Kids Network dropped by Media Plus
Financial support for Media Salles' Euro Kids Network (EKN) is being stopped as part of an overhaul of the cinema exhibition support initiatives of the MEDIA Plus Programme. The European Union-backed MEDIA Programme will instead concentrate its future support for the exhibition sector within the Europa Cinemas network.EKN was founded ...
-
News
Spanish newcomer continues film buying binge
Start-up Spanish distributor Alquimia Cinema, run by former Aurum Producciones head Francisco Ramos, has acquired all Spanish rights on four big-name films from Alliance Atlantis Pictures International and one from Pandora Cinema.From Alliance, Alquimia has picked up Lynne Ramsay's forthcoming Morvern Callar, Atom Egoyan's Ararat, Richard Kwietniowski's Owning Mahowny and ...
-
News
Ireland enjoys unexpected production boom
Feature production in Ireland is heading for an unexpected upturn. It comes after a hesitant start to the year prompted by the threatened Hollywood strikes and exacerbated by industry anxiety that the UK's foot and mouth disease outbreak might spread to Ireland.Spyglass Entertainment's epic fantasy Reign Of Fire with ...
- Previous Page
- Page1
- Page2
- Page3
- Next Page