All Screen articles in 30 March 2001 – Page 2

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    Heartbreakers

    2001-03-27T10:33:00Z

    Dir: David Mirkin. US. 2001. 123mins.The only contribution, and it's a dubious one, that David Mirkin makes in his mildly amusing comedy, Heartbreakers, is to feminise con artists, a perennially male profession in American movies. The regal Sigourney Weaver and the sexy Jennifer Love Hewitt play a consummate mother-daughter team ...

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    Italy's German film festival line-up announced

    2001-03-26T22:47:00Z

    The second edition of Italy's German Film Festival is set to feature Germany's foreign Oscar candidate, No Place To Go by Oscar Roehler and Volker Schlondorff's The Legends Of Rita.The festival will also showcase Filippos Tsitos's Berlin competition title My Sweet Home, Turkish-German director Fathim Akim's Im July, a romantic ...

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    Spanish Las Palmas festival celebrates Europe

    2001-03-26T22:44:00Z

    Spanish and European films will have a strong presence at this year's second edition of the International Film Festival of Las Palmas, Grand Canary Island (March 24-31).Among the 13 feature films competing in the official section are Michael Hanneke's Code Inconnu (Fr), Cecilia Barriga's Time's Up (Sp-US-Chile), Kieron Walsh's When ...

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    Beacon to remake Not Of This World

    2001-03-26T22:41:00Z

    Beacon Communications has acquired US remake rights to Giuseppe Piccioni's multi-award winning Italian film, Fuori Dal Mondo (Not Of This World).The film, about a nun's search for an abandoned child's father, was Italy's foreign Oscar candidate in 1999. Produced by Lumiere & Co and sold by Rome-based Intra Films, Piccioni's ...

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    Amuse, Toshiba link for Japanese film distribution

    2001-03-26T18:47:00Z

    Amuse Pictures and Toshiba plan to launch a new joint business for managing contents rights in the Japanese market, from theatrical distribution to TV program and package sales, including DVD and video.The partners aim to combine Amuse's strength in distribution with Toshiba's in DVD and Internet technologies to better exploit ...

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    New Indian outlet formed for Miramax-style films

    2001-03-26T17:17:00Z

    Mumbai-based film production company Numero Uno has teamed up with both leading Indian film distributor Shringar Films and New York-based Rossellini Associates in a venture to distribute specialist foreign titles across the Indian sub-continent.The first film tto be released in India through the venture is Life Is Beautiful, a Miramax ...

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    French politico tipped to succeed Hoss as CNC boss

    2001-03-26T15:25:00Z

    The well-connected political aide David Kessler is tipped to replace Jean-Pierre Hoss at the head of the Centre National de la Cinematographie (CNC), France's national film centre. His appointment is expected to be confirmed by the end of the week. Hoss was appointed to the CNC as recently as July ...

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    Hungary's most expensive film ever set to roll

    2001-03-26T15:20:00Z

    Bridgeman, at $5m, the biggest-budget Hungarian film of all time, is due to start shooting in the last week of May or the first week of June. The movie tells the life story of István Szechenyi, the 19th century Hungarian revolutionary.The film had a planned budget of $6m (1.8 billion ...

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    Gladiator, Traffic, Tiger share Oscar honours

    2001-03-26T06:55:00Z

    Gladiator won Best Picture, as expected, but Steven Soderbergh surprised the room by taking the Best Director Oscar at tonight's Academy Award ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Soderbergh won for Traffic, one of two films for which he was nominated (the other was Erin Brockovich), and had ...

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    Full List Of Oscar Winners 2000

    2001-03-26T05:54:00Z

    Gladiator won Best Picture, as expected, but Steven Soderbergh surprised the room by taking the Best Director Oscar at tonight's Academy Award ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Soderbergh won for Traffic, one of two films for which he was nominated (the other was Erin Brockovich), and had ...

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    MGM hits with Heartbreakers; comedy takes $12.3m

    2001-03-26T04:01:00Z

    MGM had its second hit of the year with Heartbreakers, a mother-daughter con team comedy which grossed $12.3m over Oscar weekend to take the top spot at the North American box office.Co-financed with upcoming UK independent Winchester Films, Heartbreakers had previewed over the last two Saturdays and generated strong word ...

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    Renaissance reviews sales as Stephens, Bloye exit

    2001-03-25T18:09:00Z

    Sales veteran Bill Stephens is stepping down as head of sales at the UK's Renaissance Films along with the company's senior sales executive Charlie Bloye.In the wake of the departures, Renaissance co-chief Angus Finney, who did not return calls, is expected to oversee foreign sales strategy for the relatively well-heeled ...

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    UK cinema supply outstrips demand

    2001-03-24T13:01:00Z

    Despite a 7% increase of 200 new cinema screens last year, the UK's exhibition sector continued to struggle with sluggish market growth of just 3%, according to industry analysts Dodona Research. This is just the latest confirmation of a trend of industry supply growing faster than demand, that is ...