All Screen articles in 4 May 2002 – Page 2
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Wellspring buyer Marie Therese Guirgis gets promotion
Marie Therese Guirgis has been named senior director of acquisitions at US distributor Wellspring Media, reporting to Krysanne Katsoolis, senior vice president of acquisitions, at the company which recently became independent of its former owner Winstar. Guirgis joined Wellspring (aka Winstar) in 1999 and was soon after named manager of ...
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Polish director adapts Vinterberg's Festen for the stage
Thomas Vinterberg's powerful Dogme95 feature Festen/The Celebration has been adapted for the stage by hot young Polish director Grzegorz Jarzyna.Having achieved widespread acclaim in Europe, the production heads for London's Sadler's Wells in October.
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Curb acquires international rights to Bug
LA-based sales outfit Curb Entertainment has acquired international rights to Hayland/Margolis Productions' ensemble drama Bug which stars Jamie Kennedy, Brian Cox, Ed Begley Jr, Sarah Paulson, John Carroll Lynch and Michael Hitchcock.The film, which won the audience choice award at the 2002 Santa Barbara Film Festival, tells the interconnected stories ...
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Sony tipped to take 40% of UK's DNA
Sony Pictures Entertainment is reportedly in talks to take a 40% stake in UK National Lottery franchise DNA.The deal would give Sony access to the $23.4m (£16m) in lottery cash that DNA has still not spent from its franchise of around $44m (£30m), as well as projects from Duncan Kenworthy ...
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Sogecine's South Of Granada signals greater co-production push
British actors Matthew Goode, James Fleet and Laurence Fox have signed on to star alongside Spaniards Veronica Sanchez and Guillermo Toledo in director Fernando Colomo's forthcoming Gerald Brenan biopic, South Of Granada (Al Sur De Granada).The story of writer Brenan's first encounter with Spain and his love affair with a ...
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Vampires to travel most of the world with Columbia TriStar
The Era Of Vampires, Fortissimo Films Sales' (FFS) first venture into Hong Kong film production has been sold to Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group for worldwide distribution, excluding Italy, Singapore, Malaysia and some smaller territories.The $3m actioner, (pictured) which was shot on locations throughout China, was produced by Hong Kong ...
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Controversy boosts results for Baise-Moi down under
The controversy, and subsequent awareness, surrounding French film Baise-Moi has led to its limited release performing about three times the business expected by its Australian distributor, Potential. The film's gross of $49,419 (A$91,426) from just three screens over its first four days to April 28, gave a screen average of ...
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Richard Eyre to direct Compleat Female Stage Beauty for Artisan & Tribeca
Artisan Pictures and Tribeca Productions have hired British director Richard Eyre to direct the film of Jeffrey Hatcher's stage play Compleat Female Stage Beauty which the two companies are teaming to co-produce. Eyre, who last directed Iris for BBC Films and Intermedia, is currently directing the Broadway revival of The ...
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Delphi Film picks up The Russian Ark for Germany
Delphi Film will handle the German theatrical distribution of Alexander Sokurov's The Russian Ark, which will have its world premiere in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival.The Euros 2.4m German-Russian co-production between Egoli Tossell Film, Heritage Bridge Studio, Cappa Productions and Koppmedia had received backing from MDM Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, ...
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UK celebrates another home-grown success
UIP celebrated another successful campaign at the weekend as About A Boy, starring Hugh Grant, opened to strong figures of $5.4m (£3.7m), including $938,688 of previews. Opening at a massive 446 sites, second only this year to Monsters, Inc.'s 503, the film recorded the third-highest opening of the year so ...
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Blue Butterfly wings its way to Alliance Atlantis
Alliance Atlantis has made its first feature film acquisition since the reorganization of the company, taking all international rights including the US, but excluding Canada, to The Blue Butterfly starring William Hurt and directed by Lea Pool.The film, currently shooting in the rain forests of Costa Rica, was acquired by ...
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Blue Butterfly wings its way to Alliance Atlantis
Alliance Atlantis has made its first feature film acquisition since the reorganization of the company, taking all international rights including the US, but excluding Canada, to The Blue Butterfly starring William Hurt and directed by Lea Pool.The film, currently shooting in the rain forests of Costa Rica, was acquired by ...
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Italy's Rai & Spain's KWA add to their Cannes' market slates
Melanie Rodier in Rome and Jennifer Green in MadridItaly's Rai Trade and Spain's Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) have each picked up two hot titles to add to their respective Cannes' market slates.Rai Trade, the sales arm of Italian public broadcaster RAI, has acquired controversial documentary Bella Ciao, about last ...
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Legal dispute prompts Intertainment to increase write-offs by Euros 109m
The continuing legal dispute with Franchise Pictures over allegedly inflated budgets has led German rights trader Intertainment to increase depreciations, allowances and provisions by Euros 109.3m to Euros 142.4m for the last financial year.Intertainment announced that its first hearing regarding the assets of Franchise Pictures had been held before a ...
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Film supply for German free-TV stations is secure
German newspaper speculation that the supply of Hollywood feature films to the free-TV channels of ProSiebenSAT.1 could become a victim of the KirchGroup crisis, has been refuted by ProSiebenSAT.1's board chairman.Ahead of planned talks on debt-for-equity deals between Hollywood studios and the beleaguered KirchGroup on Monday April 29, Welt ...
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Simon Sutton promoted to evp at MGM Worldwide TV
Simon Sutton has been promoted to executive vice president, international television, at MGM Worldwide Television Distribution, reporting to president of the MGM division Jim Griffiths.British-born Sutton will continue to oversee sales and distribution activities of all MGM and NBC programming to stations in the international free-TV, pay-TV and pay-per-view markets. ...
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Lightning gets international rights to Motown documentary
Richard Guardian's new international sales outfit Lightning Entertainment has acquired international distribution rights in all media for the new music documentary Standing In The Shadows Of Motown to which Artisan Entertainment recently bought domestic distribution rights.Based upon the 1989 book of the same title by Allan Slutsky, the film chronicles ...
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Industry vets start new US indie distributor MAC
A new independent US distributor has been founded by industry veterans Mike Marcus, Andy Gruenberg and Craig Baumgarten. Named MAC Releasing, the company intends to capitalize on untapped commercial opportunities in the distribution of independent films and kicks off with the release of A Shot At Glory starring and produced ...
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Sundance Film Festival changes HQ to Prospector Square
The Sundance Film Festival has moved its official Park City headquarters for next year from the Shadow Ridge Hotel to the Park City Marriott in the Prospector Square area of the town.The recently renovated Marriott, formerly the Olympia Park Hotel, housed a screening room for the 2002 festival and is ...
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Canada rules on reception of US satellite TV signals
The reception of US satellite TV signals in Canada has been declared illegal by the Supreme Court of Canada, reversing previous lower court decisions and heralding a victory for the two licensed Canadian operators, Bell Expressvu and Star Choice Communications.The two local operators had complained that grey and black market ...
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