All Screen articles in 4 February 2000 – Page 3

  • News

    Paradise secures sales in Latin America, Europe

    2000-02-01T17:23:00Z

    Cuban-Spanish co-production A Paradise Under The Stars (pictured) has secured two major sales in the wake of its successful screenings in the World Cinema section of this year's Sundance Film Festival.The deals, concluded in Park City, were for all Scandinavia to Angel Scandinavia AS and for all Latin America to ...

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    Distant Horizon joins party at Shore's Wedding

    2000-02-01T17:16:00Z

    South African production, financing and sales operation Distant Horizon is backing Cassandra At The Wedding, UK director Simon Shore's follow-up to his widely-acquired feature debut, Get Real.The $8.9m comedy drama, which has already secured $1.6m in national lottery funding, is the story of a woman looking to scupper her identical ...

  • News

    Noosa Film Festival unlikely to return

    2000-02-01T17:14:00Z

    Despite the success of last year's Noosa Film Festival in terms of profile and programming, director Luke Davis has admitted that unpaid debts and lack of sponsorship means there is unlikely to be a sequel. Davis confirmed the event has about A$300,000 in outstanding bills due to a sponsor withdrawing ...

  • News

    Canal Plus Nordic reports subscriptions increase

    2000-02-01T17:14:00Z

    Canal Plus' Nordic pay-TV subsidiary has reported a 37% increase in subscriptions during 1999.The French pay-TV giant's Scandinavian service had 472,000 subscribers in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland at the end of 1999, about 100,000 more than at the end of the previous year. About 30% of the new subscribers ...

  • Reviews

    Trixie

    2000-02-01T12:30:00Z

    Dir: Alan Rudolph. USA. 2000. 117 mins.Prod Co: Sandcastle 5. Int'l sales: Pandora Cinema. Prod: Robert Altman. Exec prod: James McLindon. Scr: Alan Rudolph from a story by Rudolph and John Binder. DoP: Jan Kiesser. Prod des: Richard Paris, Linda Del Rosario. Ed: Michael Ruscio. Main cast: Emily Watson, Dermot ...

  • News

    Lucas adds Sega to games franchise

    2000-02-01T11:55:00Z

    George Lucas' games company LucasArts Entertainment is to produce a series of games for the Sega Dreamcast platform. First off will be Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer, a game derived from the pod race sequence in The Phantom Menace, which is already available for PC and Nintendo. The Sega version ...

  • News

    Alone scores double Iris in Brussels

    2000-02-01T11:53:00Z

    Benito Zambrano's directorial debut Alone (Solas) was awarded both the Iris d'Or for best European film and Iris d'Argent for best actress (Ana Fernandez) at the 27th International Film Festival in Brussels.The Spanish film was produced by Antonio Perez-Perez' Maestranza Films and shot entirely in Seville on a modest budget ...

  • News

    Copenhagen to host Nordic film financing forum

    2000-02-01T11:52:00Z

    London-based media consultancy MediaXchange is organising a forum, dedicated to Nordic entertainment law and finance, in Copenhagen on February 7-9.The Nordic Entertainment Law & Finance forum is aimed at entertainment lawyers, business affairs executives and producers working in film and television. Among the issues that will be covered are packaging, ...

  • News

    Oz bank Content Capital boards Monkey's Mask

    2000-02-01T11:51:00Z

    Content Capital has announced it is to become a financial partner in the Australian and New Zealand release of Samantha Lang's A$4.5m lesbian detective thriller The Monkey's Mask. The move fits the company's strategy of establishing itself as a bank for the use of film-makers. The Monkey's Mask, which stars ...

  • News

    Beauty scores with limited UK release

    2000-02-01T09:34:00Z

    UK cinema-goers gave a hero's welcome to the release of the Sam Mendes-directed American Beauty when it opened on 23 prints over the weekend. The limited London release pulled in £425,558 ($687,700), registering a blistering £18,503 ($29,900) screen average. The three times Golden Globe winner widens to over 300 sites ...

  • News

    William Morris closes UK theatrical activities

    2000-01-31T23:44:00Z

    Charles Finch, head of motion pictures Europe, is amongst a string of departures at William Morris Agency (WMA)'s London office as the company closes UK theatrical activities.Finch is expected to set up a London-based production management company with several WMA staff including former producer Luc Roeg. Finch's start-up operation is ...

  • News

    Alliance Atlantis taps Telefilm executive

    2000-01-31T17:38:00Z

    Three weeks after moving its motion picture operation from Los Angeles to Toronto, Alliance Atlantis is hiring Bill House, one of Canada's most prominent public sector film executives, to boost its feature production profile at home. In his 15 years as a production and development executive, first at the Ontario ...

  • News

    Sony, Starz Encore unveil multimedia tie-up

    2000-01-31T16:34:00Z

    In a wide ranging tie-up with Starz Encore Media, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has made one of the most dramatic moves by any studio to push its content into new on-line media.The deal which begins in 2005 spans more than 200 current feature films from the Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems ...

  • News

    FilmFour seals output deal with Senator

    2000-01-31T15:30:00Z

    UK mini-studio FilmFour and leading German producer-distributor Senator Film have struck a co-production and distribution output deal for at least 14 titles over two years.Senator will take German-language rights in all media to a string of projects from FilmFour's development slate with a total estimated budget of $400m. Senator will ...

  • News

    Skin Of A Man wins at Tromso festival

    2000-01-31T15:22:00Z

    French production Peau D'Homme, Coeur De Bete (Skin Of A Man, Heart Of A Beast), directed by Helene Angel, picked up the Don Quixote Award at this year's Tromso International Film Festival (Jan 18-23).The award was founded by the international union of film clubs (FICC).Hungarian feature Simon Magus (Simon The ...

  • News

    Tele Images to back Gaumont Television buyout

    2000-01-31T15:21:00Z

    French production and TV sales operation Tele Images International is to back the buyout of GTV from integrated French major Gaumont.Tele Images founder Simone Halberstadt Harari and Christian Charret, chief executive of GTV (formerly known as Gaumont Television), have jointly bought out Gaumont's remaining equity interest in GTV. The two ...

  • Reviews

    About Adam

    2000-01-31T12:21:00Z

    Dir: Gerard Stembridge. UK. 1999. 105 mins.Prod Co: Venus, HAL Films, Miramax Films. Int'l sales: Miramax International. Prods: Anna Devlin, Marina Hughes. Exec prods: Harvey Weinstein, David M Thompson, David Aukin, Trea Leventhal. Scr: Gerard Stembridge. DoP: Bruno De Keyser. Prod des: Fiona Daly. Ed: Mary Finlay. Mus: Adrian Johnston. ...

  • News

    Genies favour Felicia's Journey

    2000-01-31T11:45:00Z

    Atom Egoyan's Felicia's Journey won four Genie Awards, including the best actor accolade for Bob Hoskins and best adapted screenplay for Egoyan, at the 20th edition of the Canadian film awards ceremony in Toronto on Sunday night. Alliance Atlantis' Sunshine, which had 14 nominations, many of them multiple nods in ...

  • News

    Besson scores at Lumieres

    2000-01-31T11:00:00Z

    Luc Besson's The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc was awarded the top two prizes - best film and best director - at the 2000 Lumieres du Cinema Français. The awards, which are the French equivalent of the US' Golden Globes, are considered as a dress rehearsal for the ...

  • News

    Paramount, SPC continue Sundance buying frenzy

    2000-01-31T09:50:00Z

    Happy Accidents and Shadow Magic were the last two pictures to secure domestic distribution deals at this year's Sundance Film Festival, although offers are on the table for at least four more, making it one of the busiest, if most conservative, buyer frenzies in years.Paramount Classics is in the final ...