All Screen articles in 4 February 2001 – Page 4
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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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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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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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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