All Screen articles in 4 February 2001
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Azzurro takes top honours at Swiss Film Awards
Denis Rabaglia's Azzurro was named Best Feature Film at this year's Swiss Film Awards, held during the Solothurn Film Days (Jan 23-28), against competition from Markus Imboden's Komiker - which left empty-handed despite being nominated in three categories - Silvio Soldini's Bread And Tulips, Xavier Koller's Gripsholm and Clemens Klopfenstein's ...
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Sweden set to revise ratings system
Sweden's culture minister Marita Ulvskog has announced that a new film ratings system could be introduced in Sweden, based on a report which she recently commissioned from the Swedish Council on Media Violence.Sweden's current censorship debate started at the end of last year with the release of teen horror spoof ...
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Wedding Planner tops Superbowl Weekend
The North American box office continued to look healthy, improving some 55% on the same weekend last year this Superbowl weekend, when the competition from sports on television is traditionally intense.Heading the pack was Columbia Pictures' romantic comedy The Wedding Planner - a co-production with IMF and Intermedia (which has ...
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Sundance: Artisan buys US on Sundance rape docu
Artisan Entertainment, which has picked up a film every year at Sundance for the last three years, made it four on Friday, closing a deal to acquire North American rights to the documentary Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent, which is playing in the festival's American Spectrum section.The film examines ...
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Showcase buys Dumped and Code Conspiracy
LA-based independent producer/distributor Showcase Entertainment has picked up international sales rights to two new pictures - romantic comedy Dumped and high-tech thriller The Code Conspiracy.Dumped, which is written and directed by former child actor Oliver Robbins (one of the children in Poltergeist), stars Dana Barron as a young woman who ...
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Sundance: ARP gets European rights to Haiku Tunnel
French independent ARP concluded its buying streak at the Sundance Film Festival, taking continental European rights to American Spectrum entry Haiku Tunnel. ARP had already bought French-speaking rights to David Siegel and Scott McGehee's The Deep End and Joel Hopkins' Jump Tomorrow, in both instances before the US domestic buyers ...
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Bean's The Believer takes top prize at Sundance
Signalling a return to its roots as a committed showcase for edgy, provocative filmmaking, the Sundance Film Festival awarded its top dramatic prize to Henry Bean's incendiary directorial debut The Believer.Starring Ryan Gosling in a career-making role as a tormented Jewish religious student who joins a militant neo-Nazi clan, The ...
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Fox Searchlight, Key Films dive into Deep End
Fox Seachlight has splashed out $4m for the distributionrights to The Deep End in all available worldwideterritories except Italy, where Key Films looks set to release the film aftertabling a pre-emptive bid during this year's Sundance Film Festival. Cited by this jury for its cinematography, The Deep End stirred up ...
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Sky Global float dependent on merger talks
News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch said that he may not press ahead with the proposed flotation of his satellite operations under the Sky Global Networks banner.Murdoch said the need for a flotation would be determined by News Corp's ongoing talks to acquire DirecTV from Hughes Electronics and separate talks to ...
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Vivendi Universal to withdraw from BSkyB board
Vivendi Universal is reportedly planning to pull its board director from UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB next month, as the first move in a strategic exit from the company.The European Commission is forcing Vivendi to dispose of its 22.7% stake in BSkyB as one of the conditions of its recent three-way ...
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Harry, Le Gout Des Autres lead race for Cesars
Two sleeper hits - Harry, He's Here To Help (Harry, Un Ami Qui Vous Veux Du Bien) and Le Gout Des Autres - dominated the nominations for this year's Cesar awards, with nine nods apiece.Departing from its taste for high-profile and classic dramas by established auteurs, the French film industry ...
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Gazprom claims victory in battle for NTV
Representatives of Vladimir Gusinsky's embattled Media Most group have been barred from exercising voting rights attached to a disputed 19% stake in the group's flagship station NTV, leading gas giant Gazprom to claim victory in its long-running battle to take control of the broadcaster.Gazprom, which already owns 46% of NTV, ...
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Hundred Steps clinches Brussels' Golden Iris
Marco Tullio Giordana's The Hundred Steps (I Cento Passi) was awarded top honours at the 28th Brussels International Film Festival, which closed Saturday night. The film, a true story of a young Sicilian militant who mounts a rebellion against the reigning mafia don, won the Golden Iris for Best Film ...
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StudioCanal pays a visit to God's Town
France's StudioCanal is to co-finance the next feature from Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, God's Town (Cidade De Deus), which is scheduled to start shooting on location in Rio de Janeiro in June.The film will be produced by Sao Paulo-based O2 Filmes, which is co-owned by Meirelles and Andrea Barata Ribeiro, ...
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Twenty Twenty Vision sets sights on Bach project
Young Berlin-based production outfit Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion, which has its debut feature Filippos Tsitos' My Sweet Home in competition at Berlin next week, has lined up three further productions including a biopic of composer Johann Sebastian Bach set to star Vadim Glowna (No Place To Go).Dominique Rivaz will direct ...
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Film Council pledges to support distribution
UK film body the Film Council has revealed that it plans to fund distribution through its National Lottery Premiere Fund.The $14.6m (£10m) annual fund, launched in October to back production on mainstream pictures, will use a range of methods including sharing p&a costs with distributors or footing the cost of ...
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Wowow to list on Tokyo's Mothers market
Japanese satellite broadcaster Wowow has unveiled plans to raise about $172.4m (Y20bn) by listing shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Mothers market for venture capital firms. The company plans to list by the end of March but may delay until April or beyond depending on market conditions.Wowow plans to allocate ...
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Sundance/NHK Filmmakers Awards announced
The winners of the 2001 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award were announced at the weekend at the close of the Sundance Film Festival. The award was created to honour and support emerging film-makers with their next screenplays - one each from the US, Europe, Latin America and Japan.The winning filmmakers and ...
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DeLaurentiis, Lehman, Cardiff get Oscar honours
Octagenarian Dino De Laurentiis will be presented with the Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award while Ernest Lehman and Jack Cardiff will receive honorary Oscars at this year's Academy Awards ceremony on March 25.De Laurentiis, whose films range from La Strada and Nights Of Cabiria in Italy to Serpico, Death Wish, ...
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Maelstrom sweeps the board at Canada's Genies
Denis Villeneuve's Maelstrom won five prizes at Canada's Genie awards on Monday night, including best picture, best director, best screenplay (Villeneuve) and best actress for its star Marie-Josee Croze. The film's cinematographer, Andre Turpin, was the winner in his category. The victory was another feather in the cap of leading ...