All Screen articles in 4 February 2001 – Page 3
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Metrodome shares slide to 12-month low
The UK's Metrodome Group saw its shares hit a 12-month low on Tuesday after posting a loss of $908,000 for the six months ended 30 September 2000.The media group blamed higher than expected costs at direct marketing division Home Entertainment. The group's share price slumped to $0.53 on Tuesday, down ...
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Sweden's NonStop takes on Flickering Lights
Swedish sales agent NonStop Sales, launched last year at Cannes, has picked up a raft of hot Nordic titles headed by Danish feature Flickering Lights which has racked up admissions of 380,000 at the local box office.Flickering Lights, produced by Tivi Magnusson and Kim Magnusson's M&M Productions, features an all-star ...
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Montreal's Telescene saved by CineGroupe
Canadian film and television producer Telescene Film Group has been pulled back from the brink of bankruptcy (ScreenDaily, December 4), thanks to a joint venture with another Montreal-based industry player, animation house Cinegroupe Corp. Under the terms of the arrangement, CineGroupe will initially control 80% of the new company with ...
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Oscar-winner Zanetti lines up directing debut
Art director Eugenio Zanetti, who won an Oscar in 1996 for Michael Hoffman's Restoration, is set to make his theatrical directing debut with The Burning Tree, which has Anthony Quinn attached to play one of the leads.Los Angeles-based production company Esparza-Katz (Selena) will co-produce the project with Astrolabio of Spain ...
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Kinowelt bags $78m by offloading Alliance shares
German major Kinowelt has sold half of its shares in Canada's Alliance Atlantis Communications (AAC), but says that the strategic alliance between the two groups will continue.After the German stock market closed yesterday (Tuesday) Kinowelt announced that it had sold 6.3 million class B shares, its entire holding of the ...
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51st BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL COMPLETE LINE-UP
IN COMPETITIONBamboozled (US)Dir: Spike LeeLee's scathing satire on the portrayal of racial stereotypes on TV stars Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, and Jada Pinkett-Smith.Int'l sales: New Line International,(1) 310 967 6700 Beijing Bicycles (Ch)Dir: Wang Xiao-shuaiThe latest film by "sixth generation" Chinese film-maker Wang Xiao-Shuai whose So Close To Paradise was ...
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Dead Babies
Dir: William Marsh. UK. 2000. 105mins.Successful as they may be in the literary world, Martin Amis' books have proved resistant to cinema adaptation, the sole previous attempt being the anodyne and poorly-received 1989 version of The Rachel Papers. Dead Babies, Amis' second novel, written in 1974, has been a long ...
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Berlin names competition jury
Italian horror king Dario Argento, veteran Brazilian director Hector Babenco and UK actress Jacqueline Bisset will be amongst the international jury members for the 51st Berlin International Film Festival. Also on the panel are German film-maker Fatih Akin, French actress Dominique Blanc and former San Sebastian International Film Festival chief ...
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Soros emerges as latest NTV champion
Financier George Soros is poised to join the international consortium of investors offering to buy a stake in Russian broadcaster NTV, part-owned by Vladimir Gusinsky's embattled Media Most Group.Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Soros said he had held talks with Jean Lemierre, president of the European Bank ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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