All Screen articles in 4 February 2000 – Page 4

  • News

    Kusama, Lonergan films share Sundance jury prize

    2000-01-30T19:33:00Z

    Girlfight - the story of a teenage girl boxer - and You Can Count On Me - about a brother and sister whose parents died when they were kids - tied for the Grand Jury Prize in the dramatic competition section of the Sundance Film Festival this year.Girlfight, directed by ...

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    UK's Adler scoops Sundance/NHK award

    2000-01-30T19:27:00Z

    UK film-maker Carine Adler, who won critical raves for her first film Under The Skin, was the European winner of this year's Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award - presented at the Sundance Film Festival Awards Night on Saturday.The prize, which includes $10,000 in cash and a licensing fee for Japanese broadcast ...

  • News

    Winter Films launches with $25m investment

    2000-01-30T19:26:00Z

    A new New York-based production outfit - Winter Films - was launched at Sundance last week backed by a recently completed $25m equity investment. Formerly known as Ikahn Productions, the company is headed by Michael Kahn with a management team including British production veteran Steve Hodges and Erick Feitshans, who ...

  • News

    Showcase builds AFM slate with Falling, Eastside

    2000-01-30T19:25:00Z

    Showcase Entertainment has acquired two new pictures for its AFM slate - The Sky Is Falling and Eastside.The LA-based company headed by David Jackson has bought international rights to The Sky Is Falling, a comic drama about a 28-year-old having a mid-life crisis, which stars Dedee Pfeiffer, Teri Garr, Howard ...

  • News

    Bernstein named ShoWest 2000 Producer of the Year

    2000-01-30T19:23:00Z

    Armyan Bernstein, the producer-writer of The Hurricane and chairman of Beacon Communications, will receive the ShoWest 2000 Producer of the Year award at the US exhibition convention in Las Vegas on March 9.Bernstein has become one of the most prolific producers in Hollywood over the last decade, with a production ...

  • News

    Israel's Yes threatens to return digital franchise

    2000-01-30T19:22:00Z

    Israel's digital satellite franchise holder, Yes, has told the government that it will return the franchise to the ministry of communications unless the country's cable operators are forced to share their programming with the new outfit.Yes has also told its programming suppliers that all deals are off until the issue ...

  • News

    Alchymie cools on BBC's Romantic

    2000-01-28T17:53:00Z

    Alchymie, the European production and distribution operation for which British financier Flashpoint has pledged $250m, has pulled out of financing what was expected to be its debut project, Born Romantic.But a spokesperson for Flashpoint, which launched Alchymie in October under UK producer Simon Channing-Williams, dismissed rumours that Flashpoint is beset ...

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    NATPE 2000: DOTCOMS TAKE CENTRE STAGE

    2000-01-28T16:50:00Z

    NATPE organisers said that despite bad weather delays, attendance at the New Orleans programme market exceeded last year - 17,520 had checked in after two days. But it was unclear whether record amounts of sales were being conducted.NATPE chairman Bruce Johansen said that the number of programme acquisition executives from ...

  • Reviews

    Love And Sex

    2000-01-28T14:57:00Z

    Dir: Valerie Breiman. USA. 2000. 82 mins.Prod Co: Bogart/Barab/Wyman. Int'l sales: Behaviour Worldwide. Prod: Timothy Scott Bogart, Brad Wyman, Martin J Barab. Exec prod: Mark Damon. Scr: Valerie Breiman. DoP: Adam Kane. Prod des: Sarah Sprawls. Ed: Martin Apelbaum. Mus: Billy White Acre, Pierpalo Tiane. Main cast: Famke Janssen, Jon ...

  • Reviews

    Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her

    2000-01-28T14:56:00Z

    Dir: Rodrigo Garcia. US. 2000. 110 mins.Prod cos: Franchise Pictures. US dist: United Artists. Int'l sales: Franchise Pictures. Exec prods: Elie Samaha, Andrew Stevens. Prods: Jon Avnet, Lisa Lindstrom, Marsha Oglesby. Scr: Rodrigo Garcia. DoP: Emmanuel Lubezki. Mus: Edward Shearmur. Ed: Amy E Duddleston. Main cast: Glenn Close, Holly Hunter, ...

  • News

    Australia lifts ban on Romance

    2000-01-28T13:36:00Z

    Australia's Film Board of Review has overturned the recent decision by the Office of Film and Literature Classification not to classify Catherine Breillat's French film Romance, a judgement that meant the film could not be released in Australia. The decision will be a great relief to local film critics and ...

  • News

    Cologne Conference to host programming market

    2000-01-28T13:35:00Z

    North Rhine Westphalia (NRW), the region which likes to think of itself as the electronic capital of Germany, yesterday unveiled details of plans for the Cologne Screenings (June 4-7), a new programming market to be held during the Cologne Conference.The Cologne Screenings confirmed international participation from Pearson, Granada and the ...

  • News

    Universal signs deals with BBC, Canal Plus

    2000-01-28T10:29:00Z

    Universal Studios Networks UK has acquired extensive packages of movies from the BBC and Canal Plus.Universal declined to comment on speculation that it will launch a second European pay movie channel, based on 13th Street, in the UK other than to point out that "there are other brands". Universal has ...

  • News

    Sony Pictures Classics promotes Leiner

    2000-01-28T10:16:00Z

    Dylan Leiner has been promoted to senior vice president of acquisitions and production at Sony Pictures Classics (SPC), reporting to company co-presidents Michael Barker, Tom Bernard and Marcie Bloom.Leiner was instrumental in the New York-based company's acquisition last weekend of worldwide rights to rave movie Groove at the Sundance Film ...

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    Sundance to get 10-screen cinema complex

    2000-01-28T10:13:00Z

    Resort Theaters Of America (RTA) - the recently established cinema circuit which has to date bought, built or identified over 100 screens in US resorts - has teamed with The Sundance Film Festival to build the RTA Theater in Park City, Utah, home to the festival.The $7m, 10-screen site will ...

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    Village launches own brand UK cinema chain

    2000-01-28T10:10:00Z

    Village Roadshow Cinemas International has officially launched its own branded cinema chain in the UK with a market identity distinct from its existing joint venture with Warner Bros International Theatres (WBIT) - Warner Village Cinemas.The new Village sites will be designed and fitted out according to the Village corporate image ...

  • News

    USA Films takes Romeo Brass

    2000-01-28T10:08:00Z

    USA Films has finally completed its US acquisition this week of Shane Meadows' critically acclaimed drama A Room For Romeo Brass, according to reports at the Sundance Film Festival. The deal was made between USA and the film's backer/producer Alliance Atlantis Communications.USA has been eyeing the film since its world ...