All Screen articles in 4 February 2000 – Page 2

  • News

    Alliance, Canal Plus set for UK distribution pact

    2000-02-03T11:11:00Z

    Alliance Atlantis and Canal Plus are close to finalising a deal for Alliance to handle UK distribution on a slate of high-profile English-language titles from Canal Plus's production operation, Le Studio Canal Plus.The anticipated deal is understood to cover six pictures, and is likely to include Kathryn Bigelow's The Weight ...

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    MBP to go public with top-flight slate

    2000-02-03T09:57:00Z

    MBP, one of Germany's hottest film finance houses, is set to offer the public a slice of films by directors including Bruce Beresford, Iain Softley, Bob Rafelson and Andre Bonzel. The outfit, which controls a spread of tax efficient funds, plans a flotation within the next 18 months.In the initial ...

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    Fantasia 2000 conjures up $20m worldwide

    2000-02-03T09:48:00Z

    Walt Disney's animated Fantasia 2000: The Imax Experience has taken over $20m after its first month of exclusive screenings in Imax theatres. Distributed by Buena Vista around the world, Fantasia 2000 has been updated from the original masterpiece over a period of 10 years and at a cost of about ...

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    Redbus, Grosvenor line up multi-territory deal

    2000-02-03T09:20:00Z

    Aggressively-expanding UK film-to-Internet outfit Redbus Film Group and Canadian-UK financier Grosvenor Park are in advanced talks to strike a long-term, multi-territory pact on a slate of large-scale titles.The expected deal would feed about five projects a year to Redbus' UK distribution arm, which has just appointed a wave of executives ...

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    Merger mania ignites again in Hollywood

    2000-02-03T08:04:00Z

    Sony's chief executive officer Nobuyuki Idei has denied any intention to sell either his music operations or his movie studios, insisting last night that they are "a cornerstone in our overall strategy.""We want to be very clear in stating that our entertainment businesses, Sony Music Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment, ...

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    INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION NEWS IN BRIEF

    2000-02-02T17:35:00Z

    GOLDBACHER COMMITS TO POND LIFE'S CORDOVALONDON The Governess director Sandra Goldbacher has committed to direct period piece Cordova from a script by Wonderland writer Laurence Coriat. The project, based at UK production outfit Pond Life Filmed Entertainment, is an adaptation of a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield. The ...

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    Artisan ups Jones to key marketing role

    2000-02-02T16:21:00Z

    Artisan Entertainment has promoted marketing executive Amorette Jones to the newly created position of executive vice president, worldwide marketing, Artisan Pictures.Jones will continue to report to Artisan's president of worldwide marketing John Hegeman, but she will assume more of his duties while he takes a more active role in developing ...

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    Euroficcion, TeleCinco team up for English comedy

    2000-02-02T16:20:00Z

    Fledgling Spanish production house, Euroficcion, part of the Europroducciones group, is co-producing an English-language romantic comedy Latidos with Spanish broadcaster TeleCinco. A UK co-producer is also likely to board the PTS400m ($2.6m) project which is scheduled to crank up in London this summer. Angel Garcia Roldan and Valentin Fernandez Tubao ...

  • News

    Sega speeds up Dreamcast with cable partners

    2000-02-02T16:18:00Z

    In a move that threatens to bring UK production to a virtual standstill, powerful local performers' union Equity has told its members not to agree to any contracts for feature films that involve working on or after December 1.The call marks a serious turn in Equity's talks with UK producers' ...

  • News

    Lehmann Brothers to acquire stake in Kirch PayTV

    2000-02-02T16:17:00Z

    New York-based investment bank Lehman Brothers is planning to acquire a 3% stake in Leo Kirch's pay-TV holding Kirch PayTV. The holding controls the digital platform Premiere World and Swiss pay channel Teleclub, among others.According to a report in the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau, the investment would cost Lehman ...

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    Australia embraces DVD

    2000-02-02T16:16:00Z

    DVD appears to have gained a foothold in the Australian market according to recent statistics that show that 63% of video stores were carrying DVDs at the end of 1999 compared to only 35% at the end of the previous year.In addition, a total of 529 titles were released ...

  • Reviews

    Herod's Law

    2000-02-02T13:05:00Z

    Dir: Luis Estrada. Mexico. 1999. 120 mins.Prod Co: Bandidos Films, Imcine. Prod: Luis Estrada. Exec prod: Sandra Solares. Scr: Luis Estrada, Jaime Sampietro, Fernando Leon, Vicente Lenero. DoP: Norman Christianson. Prod des: Ana Solares, Salvador Parra. Ed: Luis Estrada. Mus: Santiago Ojeda. Main cast: Damian Alcazar, Pedro Armendariz, Leticia Huijara, ...

  • News

    Asian films dominate Japan's box office

    2000-02-02T12:56:00Z

    In a rare box office coup, Asian films occupy three of the top five spots in the Japanese chart this week.The South Korean spy actioner Shuri (also known as Shiri and Swiri) debuted at number one with a huge screen average of $65,069 from a seven-day gross of $1,041,107 (from ...

  • Reviews

    Punks

    2000-02-02T12:51:00Z

    Dir: Patrik-Ian Polk. USA. 2000. 103 mins.Prod Co: Tall Skinny Black Guy, Edmonds Entertainment. Int'l sales: contact Edmonds Entertainment. Prods: Tracey Edmonds, Michael McQuarn, Patrik-Ian Polk. Exec prod: Kenneth Edmonds. Scr: Patrik-Ian Polk. DoP: Rory King. Ed: Anne Misawa. Mus: Whole 9, Patrik-Ian Polk. Main cast: Seth Gilliam, Dwight Ewell, ...

  • News

    Artificial Eye unveils debut productions

    2000-02-02T11:29:00Z

    UK specialist distributor Artificial Eye Film Company is kickstarting its long-planned move into production with Working Up To Winter, a contemporary road movie written and to be directed by Sarah Turner. The project, set to go into production this summer, was developed with support from FilmFour Lab, the experimental wing ...

  • News

    AFM Premiere Screenings unveils line-up

    2000-02-02T07:07:00Z

    This year's AFM Premiere Screenings will include the world premieres of two high profile Kushner-Locke Co movies: Alfonso Arau's Picking Up The Pieces, starring Woody Allen with a cameo from Sharon Stone, and Burt Reynolds' directorial debut The Last Producer.Sponsored by internet downloading outfit SightSound.com, the Santa Monica screening programme ...

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    MGM roars back to financial health, reveals slate

    2000-02-02T06:50:00Z

    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has announced its strongest quarterly operating results in 12 years, signalling a financial turnaround at the company under its new management structure of Alex Yemenidjian and his second-in-command Chris McGurk EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation), the cashflow measure by which Wall Street evaluates the performance of ...

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    New Latin American combo goes on shopping spree

    2000-02-02T06:44:00Z

    A pan-Latin American buying consortium of independent distributors is gearing up for the American Film Market, having quietly launched late last year in reaction to the increasing appetite amongst Hollywood studios to buy all rights in the region.The consortium - named Entertainment Consortium Ltd - is composed of Gussi in ...

  • News

    Summit scores foreign sales on Chuck & Buck

    2000-02-02T02:54:00Z

    Summit Entertainment has lost little time concluding the first international sales on Miguel Arteta's Chuck & Buck, striking deals with theatrical distributors from Germany, France and South Africa within days of securing the international sales rights to the digital video feature at last week's Sundance Film Festival.Highlight Communications will now ...

  • News

    HAL, Miramax confirm split

    2000-02-01T19:03:00Z

    Miramax Films and HAL Films, the production venture headed by David Aukin, Colin Leventhal and Trea Hoving, have disbanded their London-based partnership, Miramax announced today (Feb 1).Aukin and Leventhal are to pursue interests in the entertainment industry through HAL, the company they founded two years ago with Miramax backing. Hoving ...