All Screen articles in 5 January 2001
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Spain's Canal hits 1 million pay-TV subscribers
Grupo Prisa's Spanish pay-TV operation Canal Satelite Digital has racked up 1.05 million subscribers.The figure is nearly double that of rival Via Digital's 630,000, a lead some attribute to four year-old Canal Satelite's ready-made subscriber base through pay platform Canal Plus. The 10-year-old sister service now boasts 1.85 million subscribers.Via ...
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Germany's e-m-s buys into two more media outfits
German DVD company e-m-s new media, the publicly-listed concern which bought into film rights trader Advanced Medien in December, has taken stakes in TV production house AZAWAKH and multimedia company get.Dortmund-based e-m-s has taken a 30% interest in AZAWAKH to develop formats for exploitation on TV and DVD. Named after ...
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Terence Davies in tune with Sunset Song adaptation
Writer-director Terence Davies is eyeing an adaptation of the classic Scots novel Sunset Song to follow his critically acclaimed film of Edith Wharton's book The House Of Mirth.The 1932 book, the first part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair trilogy, centres on Chris Guthrie, a proud young woman whose ...
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Berlin Children's Festival readies global line-up
Films from the US, Italy, Iran and Spain are understood to be joining titles from the UK and Scandinavia in next month’s Children’s Film Festival sidebar at the Berlin International Film Festival.Italy’s RAI Trade is representing Il Cielo Cade, which won the Giffoni Film Festival in July. Camera d’Or winning ...
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Cool And Crazy opens Tromso arctic festival
The world premiere of Norsk Film's musical documentary Cool And Crazy opens this month's Tromso International Film Festival.Belgium's Thomas Est Amoureux closes the Norwegian event, located 200 miles north of the Arctic circle and the country's most attended festival. This year's edition, which runs January 16 to 21, will be ...
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Barry Levinson, Intermedia stike first-look pact
The true-life story which inspired the classic novel Moby Dick is the first project in an exclusive first-look deal announced on Friday between uber-indie Intermedia and Barry Levinson and Paula Weinstein's US production outfit Baltimore/Spring Creek Pictures.The partners are working on an adaptation of Nathaniel Philbrick's National Book Award-winner, In ...
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Australia goes to Meet The Parents at Christmas
UIP's Meet The Parents has become one of the biggest Christmas hits of the year in Australia after its powerful performance on December 26.The Ben Stiller-Robert De Niro comedy took $700,000 from 256 screens, pushing its seven day gross up to January 1 to $3.9m. December 26 is regarded as ...
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Fireworks, Goldwyn buy US on UK's Greenfingers
Fireworks Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films have reteamed to jointly acquire US rights to Greenfingers, the British comedy starring Helen Mirren and Clive Owen.The film, which world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, will be distributed through IDP, the distribution joint venture between Fireworks, Samuel Goldwyn and ...
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Miramax adds two new Italian directors to the fold
Miramax Films has closed two separate multi-picture deals with Italian directors Gabriele Muccino and Davide Ferrario to develop and direct both English and Italian language productions.First picture to go under Muccino's deal will be Miramax's remake of Cedric Klapisch's Paris-set, French-language breakthrough hit, Chacun Cherche Son Chat (When The Cat's ...
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Telefonica in talks for majority stake in Manga
Telefonica Media, the multimedia filial of Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, is in negotiations to take a majority stake in Barcelona-based distributor Manga Films.A spokesperson for Telefonica Media confirmed that talks are in "early stages." Manga was reportedly in negotiations last year to sell a stake to Germany's Splendid Medien.Manga would ...
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Scandinavian fears despite $500m admissions boom
Cinema-going in Scandinavia and the Baltic could explode by almost 40% by 2005 to hit $500m a year, according to the latest research from industry consultants Dodona Research. But, according to separate figues, local films may not benefit from the growth.Dodona calculates that total admissions in 2005 could reach 58 ...
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Carlton, New Select partner on trio for Japan
London-based sales house Carlton International has signed a three-picture deal with Japan's New Select for star-driven TV action films. New Select is buying TV, DVD and video rights in Japan to Rough Air: Danger On Flight 534, Tin Can Alley and Maiden Voyage. All three are produced by Carlton America ...
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Kinowelt gets investor as Koelmels sell 4.9%
German mini-major Kinowelt has gained a new long-term investor after Munich Re Insurance Group's acquisition of 1.2m shares - equivalent to 4.9% of the media concern's capital stock.The shares were bought from Kinowelt founders Michael and Rainer Koelmel. According to an adhoc announcement, the proceeds from the sale will be ...
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Rotterdam programmes nine world premieres
This month's International Film Festival Rotterdam, considered to be at the cutting edge of the Euro festival circuit, boasts nine world premieres in its main competition section.Amongst the films screening for the first time in the VPRO Tiger Award Competition - which showcases first or second features - are Shi ...
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Sundance adds Campers, Stranger to fest lineup
The Sundance Film Festival has announced two surprise screenings which will be added to the 2001 lineup - Daniel Waters' Happy Campers and Cheryl Dunye's Stranger Inside.Happy Campers, financed and distributed worldwide by New Line Cinema, is the directorial debut of Waters. It stars Brad Renfro, Dominique Swain, James King, ...
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Robino joins MGM as s'r vp, worldwide promotions
Mary Goss Robino has been named senior vice president, worldwide promotions, at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) after ten years at New Line Cinema. Reporting to Gerry Rich, president of worldwide theatrical marketing for MGM, she will be responsible for developing creative marketing and promotional partnerships and tie-ins related to all the company's ...
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BVI tops 2000 international league with $1.307bn
Buena Vista International (BVI) grossed $1.307bn in 2000, marking it out as the top performing international distribution company of the year. Buena Vista was also the number one performing distributor in North America with a total of $1.1bn for the year.It is the sixth consecutive year that BVI has crossed ...
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World-wide line-up set for Berlin's Panorama
Films from Sweden, Germany, the UK, Thailand, Korea, Argentina and Switzerland are among the first titles understood to have been selected for the Panorama section of February's Berlin International Film Festival.Family Secrets, a drama directed by Kjell-Ake Andersson, is expected to represent Sweden in the section. Ab Svensk Filmindustri is ...
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German shares slashed, Intertainment battered
German film stocks continued to fall despite stockmarket bouyancy over the recent holiday period as four companies lost at least a quarter of their value in the three weeks after December 15.Intertainment was hardest hit, being stripped of almost two-thirds of its value as it waged a public war with ...
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French films slide to less than 30% market share
French cinema's national pride took a dent last year as local films' box office share dipped under the symbolic 30% mark.The fall from 1999's market share of 32.4% came despite a buoyant market. The French box-office rang up 163m tickets, the highest cinema attendance in ten years with the exception ...