All Screen articles in 30 October 2001 – Page 3
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Regent rides with Media Asia's Unicorn
Regent Entertainment has boarded Media Asia's English-language action flick, The Unicorn Hunt. The film, to be directed by Li Chai Ngai, is a light-hearted action film in the mould of The Thomas Crown Affair. It is the story of a reporter and a CIA sleuth on the hunt of a ...
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Refn secures Eno to score Fear X
Musician and producer Brian Eno is to score Nicolas Winding Refn's English-language debut, Fear X. The script for Fear X was penned by Refn and cult author Hubert Selby Jr, writer of Requiem For A Dream. The Danish filmmaker sent Eno his previous features Pusher (1996) and Bleeder (1999) along ...
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Good Machine ties up Almodovar, Parker deals
Good Machine International (GMI) has tied up key territory sales on Pedro Almodovar's latest picture Hable Con Ella (Talk To Her) and Oliver Parker's The Importance Of Being Earnest. But the deals were not done at Mifed. GMI did most of its business in London last week and president David ...
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Five Korean directors team to form EGG Films
Five established South Korean filmmakers have grouped together to form the nation's first in-house production company. Named EGG Films, the company will tie up the services of directors Park Chan-wook (Joint Security Area), Bae Chang-ho (My Heart), Kwak Jae-yong (My Sassy Girl), Lee Young-jae (Harmonium In My Memory) and Lee ...
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News Corp withdraws Hughes/DirecTV offer
News Corp has formally pulled out of the race to buy US satellite pay-TV giant DirecTV, leaving Echostar Communications as the only other likely bidder. "We have no option but to withdraw immediately our fully negotiated and financed proposal,'' said chief executive Rupert Murdoch in a statement. "Hughes [DirecTV's immediate ...
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Rai seeks US distribution reciprocation
In a bid to boost the presence of Italian films in the US theatrical market, Rai Cinema is including a clause in all the acquisition and co-production contracts it signs with US partners stipulating that they must in turn agree to distribute of a number of selected Rai titles in ...
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Miramax strikes a host of long distance sales
Miramax International may have opted not to attend London and MIFED but it is closing deals by phone in New York and has sold a four-picture package to Gaga Communications for Japan. Gaga, the only Japanese buyer attending the markets in force, stopped in New York en route to London ...
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London: Intermedia in discussions to buy IEG
Intermedia, the independent giant which floated on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt 18 months ago, is in discussions to buy Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group (IEG), the independent maverick which has backed mega-projects such as Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York and Michael Mann's Ali.Buyers at London Screenings this ...
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Warner Germany strikes deal with Target Media
Warner Bros Pictures Germany has entered into a long-term, multi-picture deal with Target Media Entertainment covering the production and distribution of German- and English-language films to be released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Target Media is a recently established, Berlin-based joint venture betweeen Cartoon Film, Comet Film, Cometstone International and ...
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Paramount Classics goes for Mostly Martha
Paramount Classics has acquired North American, other English-speaking and Lation American distribution rights to Mostly Martha, the German-language romantic comedy written and directed by Sandara Nettelback, from Bavaria Film International. The film, which world premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and then screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, stars ...
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Spirited Away conjures $200m in Japan
Japanese animation sensation Spirited Away has crossed the mammoth $200m mark in Japan, the first non-US feature ever to do so and, still going strong at the top of the box office, is on track to overtake Titanic's all-time box office record of $213 million (Y26bn). The fantasy , which ...
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Korea enjoys biggest industry boom since 1960s
Not since the 1960s has Korean cinema enjoyed a boom that compares to this year. Four local features - Friend, My Sassy Girl, Kick The Moon and My Wife Is A Gangster - make up the top-grossing releases of the year to date. The market share for Korean films in ...
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peppermint adds six titles to Mifed slate
German sales company peppermint has added another six titles to its new film division's MIFED slate bringing the line-up to 14 films for its market premiere.Leading the raft of the latest peppermint pickups is US production outfit Interlight's $28m film noir thriller White Jazz, which is currently in pre-production and ...
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Bergman marries up again with Ullman, Josephson
Sweden's most renowned filmmaker, 83 year-old veteran Ingmar Bergman, has written a TV-movie for national broadcaster SVT Fiktion entitled Anna, which is set to shoot in 2002. The chamber-piece, which Bergman is to direct, will star regulars Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson as well as Borje Ahlstedt and Julia Dufvenius ...
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Danish Film body may sack critical consultants
The Danish Film Institute (DFI) has suspended two of its film consultants, Thomas Danielsson and Gert Duve Skovlund, for publicly rubbishing a new production, Jolly Roger, which they themselves had awarded state funds worth $900,000 (DKR 7.5m).It all began with an editorial in the Danish newspaper: Information, criticising the consultants ...
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SunriseMediaStar fund lines up partners
Pierce Brosnan's Irish production outfit DreamTime, veteran producer Wayne Duband's Screen Corporation Limited (SCL), France's TF 1 and Ireland's Mc Films are being lined up as production partners for the new Euros 50m private film fund SunriseMediaStar.Sunrise's managing director Nadia Saleh plans to provide financing for between six to seven ...
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Blockbuster has 92% rise in third-quarter earnings
Blockbuster the global video rental giant, has reported a 92% increase in third-quarter earnings as it continues to benefit from the increasing growth and higher margins of the burgeoning DVD market.The company said that it expects that its DVD business, where margins are some 10% higher than that of video, ...
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ProSiebenSat.1 suffers nine-month profit dive
The slowdown in the German advertising market has pushed down the earnings of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group in the first three quarters of 2001. Consolidated revenues of Euros 1.419 billion were posted as of September 30, down 4.5% on last year's Euro 1.486 billion. While the consolidated pre-tax result was Euros ...
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IMAX format films to showcase at Berlinale 2001
A selection of past and present large format IMAX films are set to be shown in a special sidebar at next year's Berlinale.The showcase, which will be spread over three days during the festival, will be screened at the two IMAX cinemas at the festival's Potsdamer Platz venue - in ...
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Telefonica signs output deal with Warner Bros TV
Telefonica Media, the multimedia subsidiary of Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, has signed a non-exclusive, multi-year output deal with Warner Bros International Television (WBIT) for free-to-air, pay TV and PPV rights to WBIT product beginning in January 2002. The deal gives Telefonica Media (TM, soon to be renamed Admira) non-exclusive rights ...
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