All Screen articles in 4 February 2001

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  • News

    Valentine can't edge out Wedding Planner from No 1

    2001-02-04T23:29:00Z

    Columbia Pictures' The Wedding Planner - sold internationally by Intermedia - held on to the number one slot at the North American box office over the weekend, taking in an estimated $11m to bring its ten day total to $28.2m. The romantic comedy beat out competition from Warner Bros' teen ...

  • News

    Cool And Crazy bags top award at Goteborg

    2001-02-04T21:13:00Z

    Knut Erik Jensen's feature-length documentary Cool And Crazy (Heftig Og Begeistret) picked up the Nordic film award at Scandinavia's largest film event, the Goteborg Film Festival in Sweden, which wrapped on Saturday night.The film had its successful world premiere at the Tromso International Film Festival in Norway, but director Jensen, ...

  • News

    Uruguay's 25 Watts lights up Rotterdam

    2001-02-04T21:11:00Z

    Uruguayan directors Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll's 25 Watts, about a group of bored teenagers in Montevideo, clinched one of the three VPRO Tiger Awards, along with the Movie Zone Award, at this year's Rotterdam International Film Festival.The other two Tiger Award winners, who each receive prizes worth Euro10,000, ...

  • News

    Pellet scoops four awards at Spain's Goyas

    2001-02-04T21:05:00Z

    Actor-turned-director Achero Manas' debut feature film, Pellet (El Bola), was the surprise grand winner at the 15th edition of Spain's top Goya Awards on Saturday night.A startlingly realistic tale of child abuse and one of the first titles out of new production house Tesela Producciones, Pellet won four out of ...

  • News

    Hollywood Partners champions Hill's Undisputed

    2001-02-04T19:40:00Z

    Hollywood Partners (HP), the Munich-based private film fund, has committed to co-financing and co-producing Walter Hill's Undisputed, starring Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames and Peter Falk, in return for all foreign rights and certain income rights in the US and Canada.The film, which began shooting at a maximum security prison just ...

  • News

    Jodie Foster drops out as Cannes jury president

    2001-02-04T17:59:00Z

    Actress Jodie Foster has been forced to drop out as president of this year's Cannes Film Festival jury after being selected as a last-minute replacement for the injured Nicole Kidman in the lead role of David Fincher's The Panic Room.The impending threat of a summer strike, should either the writers ...

  • News

    Kevin Williams picks up Cordoba's debut

    2001-02-02T20:15:00Z

    Madrid-based sales outfit Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has picked up world rights on Juan Vicente Cordoba's feature film directorial debut, What You Never Knew (Aunque Tu No Lo Sepas).The film, a co-production between Samarkanda and Enrique Cerezo PC, premiered at last year's San Sebastian International Film Festival.What You Never Knew ...

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    Fake UK doc gets Colombian treatment

    2001-02-02T20:13:00Z

    Colombian production outfit Tucan Productions is developing a feature inspired by the case of UK broadcaster Carlton Television's fake 1996 documentary The Connection, which claimed to have uncovered a new heroin route from Colombia to British school playgrounds.The Deal (El Trato) is to be directed by Colombian filmmaker Francisco Norden, ...

  • News

    Usborne to head regional at UK's New Cinema Fund

    2001-02-02T20:07:00Z

    UK film superbody the Film Council has appointed independent producer Alex Usborne to oversee regional funding through its low-budget and edgy production fund, the New Cinema Fund.Usborne is to encourage film-makers across the UK to access the fund, which is worth $7.4m (£5m) a year. He previously ran Sheffield-based production ...

  • News

    BV International acquires Vietnamese Stork

    2001-02-02T20:01:00Z

    Norwegian sales company BV International Pictures has picked up international rights to Jonathan Foo and Nguyen Phan Quang Bing's Song Of The Stork, described as the first Vietnam war film to be shot on location in Vietnam by an international crew. Inspired by true stories, Song Of The Stork depicts ...

  • News

    Davis quits as CEO of Terra Lycos

    2001-02-02T19:57:00Z

    Bob Davis, founder of internet giant Lycos, will step down as CEO of Terra Lycos in a move widely depicted as the result of a power struggle with Terra chief Joaquim Agut.Davis will continue as non-executive vice president to the administrative board of Terra Lycos, the merged firm which resulted ...

  • News

    Beckett on Film project rolls out in Dublin

    2001-02-02T19:03:00Z

    Top directors including Anthony Minghella, Atom Egoyan and David Mamet are expected to attend the ambitious "Beckett on Film" project, a week-long series of screenings of filmed versions of Samuel Beckett's 19 plays, which kicks off at the Irish Film Centre in Dublin today.Some of the films have already been ...

  • News

    Italy's Buskin Film snaps up Berlin trio

    2001-02-02T16:21:00Z

    Fledgling Italian sales outfit Buskin Film has picked up worldwide rights to three films which are set to screen at the upcoming Berlin Film Festival: Peter Del Monte's Against The Wind (Controvento), Luciano Emmer's A Long, Long, Long Night Of Love and Rosalia Polizzi's Reconciled.Against The Wind, produced by Italy's ...

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    StudioCanal's German arm boards second project

    2001-02-02T16:16:00Z

    The German production arm of France's StudioCanal, StudioCanal Produktion, is to co-produce Robert Schwentke's directorial debut Tattoo, it's second project following Edward Berger's love story Frau 2 Sucht Happy End.StudioCanal's German theatrical arm, Tobis StudioCanal (TSC), has set an autumn 2001 release for the thriller, which has been shooting ...

  • Reviews

    The Invisible Circus

    2001-02-02T14:50:00Z

    Screened at Sundance (Premieres). Dir: Adam Brooks. US. 2001. 98mins.Adam Brooks' The Invisible Circus is a total miss, both as a potentially intriguing look into the tumultuous politics of the 1960s and 1970s, and as a coming of age of a young girl obsessed by the mysterious death of her ...

  • Reviews

    The Believer

    2001-02-02T14:39:00Z

    Screened at Sundance (Dramatic Competition). Dir: Henry Bean. US. 2001. 99 mins.The most provocative feature in competition at this year's Sundance Film Festival was The Believer, Henry Bean's mesmerising drama about neo-fascism in America, this time propagated by a Jewish youngster who rebels against his own tradition. Loosely based on ...

  • News

    FFA supports Wortmann, Egger projects

    2001-02-02T13:08:00Z

    New features by Soenke Wortmann, Urs Egger and Joseph Orr are among the projects awarded almost $2.4m (DM5m) production support by the Berlin-based German Federal Film Board (FFA) in its latest round of funding.Wortmann's Cologne-based production company Little Shark Entertainment received $481,000 (DM1m) for his football film about the German ...

  • News

    CinemaxX embarks on $9m cost-cutting programme

    2001-02-02T13:05:00Z

    The board of German exhibitor CinemaxX has agreed to a "massive programme of reducing costs" which should lead to a $9.6m (DM20m) improvement in its results. The company also said that it now plans to focus on the German market, and will only pursue expansion abroad "in co-operation with a ...

  • News

    TF1 takes 100% control of Eurosport

    2001-02-02T13:00:00Z

    Leading French broadcaster TF1 - which recently reported a 57.8% jump in its net revenues for 2000 - has acquired Canal Plus' and Havas Images' stake in the Eurosport group, which it now owns 100%.Eurosport, which reaches 92 million households and is available in 54 countries and 17 different languages ...

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    Svankmajer to be awarded Freedom Prize

    2001-02-02T12:46:00Z

    Veteran Czech filmmaker-artist Jan Svankmajer is to be presented with the Andrzej Wajda/Philip Morris Freedom Prize by Polish director Wajda at a special ceremony in Berlin's Academy of Arts on February 11.The presentation will take place as part of the Freedom Film Showcase of films from Central and Eastern Europe ...