All Screen articles in 4 September 2000 – Page 2
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Beautiful Creatures
Dir: Bill Eagles. UK. 2000. 87 mins.Prod Co: Snakemen Productions for DNA. Int'l Sales: UPI (44) 20 7307 1300. Prods: Alan J Wands, Simon Donald. Exec prods: Duncan Kenworthy, Andrew McDonald. Scr: Simon Donald. DoP: James Welland. Prod des: Andy Harris. Ed: Jon Gregory. Main cast: Rachel Weisz, Susan ...
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KirchPayTV offloads stake in BSkyB
UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB's shares slid to a three-month low yesterday after Germany's KirchPayTV sold its remaining 3.1% stake in the company for $862m (£594.5m).KirchPayTV, which houses digital platform Premiere World, acquired a 4.3% stakes in BSkyB last December. At the same time, the UK company bought a 24% stake ...
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Kosslick talks up Berlin in Babelsberg speech
Berlin-Brandenburg is currently dragging behind other German states as a production location, but will soon play catch-up, according to incoming Berlin festival chief Dieter Kosslick, who delivered the keynote speech at this week's Babelsberg 2000 producers' convention.Kosslick presented figures from a report by market research company FORMATT which showed that ...
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Stone sparkles at Amfar's Venice premiere
Sharon Stone was the undoubted star of the first ever amFAR benefit event to be held in Venice.Stone, in town to present Clint Eastwood with a Golden Lion, donated a leather vanity case that she had designed and produced by luxury luggage maker Louis Vuitton. The case was sold for ...
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Renaissance/Clear Blue Sky mount first two of five
Glenn Close and Dermot Mulroney will headline an impressive cast in Rose Troche's The Safety Of Objects, a tale of suburban angst which is one of five pictures being co-financed by the UK's Renaissance Films and investor Paul Allen's Clear Blue Sky Productions. It will be quickly followed by Paul ...
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Telecinco buys stake in digital producer
Spanish broadcaster Telecinco has acquired a 35% stake in TV and interactive content producer Multipark Madrid (MPM). The two companies plan to develop new thematic channels for TV as well as content for the internet.The move forms part of Telecinco's entry into digital content and interactive link-ups. Earlier this year ...
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Aberdeen
Dir: Hans Peter Molland. Norway-UK. 2000. 105 mins.Prod Co: Norsk Films, Freeway Films. Int'l sales: Trust Film Sales: (45) 3686 8788. Prods: Tom Remlov, Petter J Borgli. Co-prods: Kastro Khatib, John McGrath. Scr: Hans Petter Moland, Kristin Amundsen. DoP: Philip Ogaard. Prod des: Janusz Sosnowski. Ed: Sophie Hesselberg. Mus: ...
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Moodysson follows up on early promise
Sweden is currently enjoying the release of Together (Tillsammans), the second feature film by the country's most promising director Lukas Moodysson whose Fucking Amal (aka Show Me Love) in 1999 became one of the most successful Scandinavian films ever. Fucking Amal opened in Sweden in November 1998 with 35 prints, ...
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Telluride world premieres Pacino, Kaufman pictures
Al Pacino's second film as director Chinese Coffee and Phil Kaufman's eagerly awaited Marquis de Sade drama Quills are receiving their world premieres this weekend at the 27th annual Telluride Film Festival which unveiled its programme to attendees today. The prestigious festival, which has received personal sponsorship support this year ...
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Scorsese documentary pulled from Venice line-up
Martin Scorsese has pulled his much-awaited Italian cinema documentary out of this year's Venice film festival, saying that the four-hour film, entitled Il Mio Viaggio In Italia is not yet ready to be screened."Due to the nature of working with old films and elements that are sometimes forty and fifty ...
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Whiteout
Dir: Setsurou Wakamatsu. Japan. 129 mins.Prod cos: Destiny, INB Production. Backers: Nippon Herald, Fuji TV, Toho, NTV, Dentsu, INB, Destiny. Dist: Toho, Nippon Herald, tel (813) 3213-6821. Prod: Shohei Kotani. Scr: Yuichi Shimpo. DoP: Hideo Yamamoto. Prod Des: Fumio Ogawa. SFX: Hajime Matsumoto. Music: Osamu Onodera. Main cast: Yuji Oda, ...
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Spain's Prisa reports 40% profit increase
Spanish multimedia giant Grupo Prisa reported first half profits of $46.6m (PTS8,393m), a 40.7% rise over the same period last year. Operating revenues rose 86% to $470m (PTS87.5bn). The first half of 2000 has been an important period for Prisa, which floated 20% of its shares to great success on ...
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France's MK2 set to launch loyalty pass
MK2 plans to launch a loyalty pass, as an answer to the cards created by fellow French exhibitors UGC, Pathe and Gaumont. The company's chairman Marin Karmitz - who has been one of the staunchest opponents of loyalty passes - is not giving details about the card, but said in ...
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Bread And Roses to get airing at Valladolid
Ken Loach's Bread And Roses is among the titles to be included in the official section of the 45th edition of the popular Valladolid International Film Week (Oct 20-28).The title, co-produced by Spain's Alta Films, received strong reviews in competition at Cannes this year. It will screen out of competition ...
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Sony Classics bags House Of Mirth
Terence Davies's acclaimed The House Of Mirth has been acquired for North American theatrical release by Sony Pictures Classics, in a last minute agreement with Showtime which had previously wanted to premiere the film on its cable channel (Screendaily, August 23).Showtime co-produced the film - an adaptation of Edith's Wharton's ...
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Columbia gives Brazilian series theatrical outing
Columbia TriStar Brazil is lining up a 55-print release from September 15 for The Dog's Will (Auto Da Compadecida), a feature film derived from the Brazilian mini-series of the same name broadcast by Rede Globo last year.Although made-for-TV, the mini-series' producers - Rede Globo's film arm, Globo Films - considered ...
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Lions Gate takes on Urbania as Unapix cancels deal
Lions Gate Films has taken over US distribution duties on Sundance Film Festival competition entry Urbania from Unapix Films Theatrical, signalling increasing concern over the future of the ambitious New York-based Unapix Entertainment, which also yesterday said it has terminated its sale of a 25% stake to German entertainment company ...
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Nieto to spearhead Telefonica Media
Putting a close to weeks of speculation, Juan Jose Nieto was confirmed today as the new executive president of Telefonica Media, the powerful multimedia subsidiary of Spanish telco Telefonica. Nieto's promotion means he will take over the position left vacant with the August 10 departure of Manuel Garcia Duran in ...
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Telecinco's Lejarza to join Grupo Arbol
Spanish television executive Mikel Lejarza has announced that he will leave his post as general director of broadcaster Telecinco to join TV production outfit Grupo Arbol.Lejarza, 44, who made his resignation public earlier this month (Screendaily, August 6), has been with Telecinco for five years. He was appointed general director ...
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Indian stars offer to plead for Rajkumar's release
Prominent Indian film stars - including Tamil superstar Rajnikanth - have offered to walk into the jungle to plead with bandit Veerappan for the release of Kannada matinee idol Rajkumar.Veerappan kidnapped Rajkumar and three of his relatives near the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border on July 30. Only one group of hostages ...
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