All Screen articles in 7 April 2000 – Page 3
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GERMANY: Financial Briefs
Constantin turnover up 23%Distributor Constantin Film achieved a 23% increase in turnover last year as 1999 revenues climbed from $50m (DM102m) to $61.7m (DM126m). Earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) - although negative at a loss of $4.6m (DM9.4m) - were $1.01m (DM2.2m) better than forecast at the time of ...
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CLT-Ufa reports turnaround in earnings
European broadcast giant CLT-Ufa reported an impressive turnaround in earnings for the 1999 financial year, delivering a euros415m profit compared with a loss of euros14m in 1998. Revenue for the period was up 5% to euros3.21bnCLT-Ufa attributed the improvement to increased profit from its traditional broadcast operations, which include Germany's ...
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Columbia TriStar boards New Zealand thriller
Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group has boarded Scott Reynolds' New Zealand thriller Shearer's Breakfast and taken all distribution rights to the $2.1m film outside Germany and Australia.Starring Radha Mitchell (High Art, Pitch Black) as a young woman whose roadside diner is invaded by a host of menacing criminals, Shearer's Breakfast ...
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Canal Plus abandons search for Italian partner
France's Canal Plus has abandoned its search for a local partner for Italian pay-TV platform Telepiu, according to French daily newspaper La Tribune.Canal Plus, which hold nearly 100% of Telepiu, was going to sell a share in the loss-making operator to Italian utilities and communications group Enel. However, the deal ...
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Nylon recruits Daldry to shoot Hellfire
UK-based production company Natural Nylon has lined up Stephen Daldry, director of Cannes-tipped feature Dancer, to direct Hellfire Club about a notorious aristocratic society.The project is set to star Natural Nylon co-founders Jude Law, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewan McGregor, Sean Pertwee and Sadie Frost. John Brownlow has written the script.Meanwhile ...
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Australia's REP buys New Zealand's Scarfies
Australia's REP Film Distributors has bought New Zealand's second biggest local hit from last year, Robert Sarkies' comedy thriller Scarfies, about a group of students who quickly discover that crime should be left to professionals. Traditionally films do not travel between Australia and New Zealand, despite the two countries being ...
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Kinepolis bullish on expansion despite losses
Belgian exhibitor Kinepolis Group is planning to open six new multiplexes throughout Europe by December after reaching its legal investment limit in Belgium with 125 screens.The first to open will be the 12-screen Forum Kinepolis in Nimes, France to be followed by an eight-screen multiplex in Ede, The Netherlands in ...
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Film to receive boost at revamped BBC
Incoming BBC director general Greg Dyke has pledged to create a new film division as part of a far-reaching overhaul of the UK broadcaster. The film operation will come under the auspices of Alan Yentob, the former director of television, who now heads a newly-created division spanning drama, entertainment and ...
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Japan to revise broadcasting legislation
Japan's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) plans to overhaul broadcasting and telecommunications legislation in a bid to break down regulatory barriers between the country's broadcasting and telecoms sectors.The MPT plans to make sweeping changes to Japan's Broadcasting Law, Telecommunications Law and NTT Law in a move to encourage convergence. ...
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Alliance Atlantis picks up Himalaya
Alliance Atlantis/Kinowelt has picked up UK rights to Academy Award-nominated Tibetan-language film Himalaya (Caravan) from Alison Thompson's UK-based The Sales Co.The picture, which is directed by Eric Valli, has grossed more than $10m in France since opening in November.Shot in Nepal, the film centres on the struggles of the inhabitants ...
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Pia to float to fund digital expansion
Pia, a privately owned company that operates Japan's largest ticket agency, is planning an IPO by summer 2001 to finance development of a next-generation ticketing service that will relay customer orders via a digital network.Pia, which also publishes Japan's most widely-read weekly entertainment magazine and sponsors its largest and most ...
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Noiret to receive Cannes Festival Award
French actor Philippe Noiret is to receive the Festival Award at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The festival said it is making the award in order to "pay tribute to the richness, diversity and everlasting life of an extraordinary career."The 69-year-old Noiret will receive the special trophy at a ceremony ...
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Israel's Doc Aviv launches market
The Doc Aviv documentary festival (April 21-26) is to host a market for documentary projects looking for co-producers and broadcaster partners. The event's organisers, local documentary body the Israeli Documentary Forum (IDF), have selected 26 out of 87 proposed projects. The successful titles will be showcased to international broadcasters including ...
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Comic trio scoop Orange Screenwriting Prize
The 2000 Orange Prize for Screenwriting has been awarded to three comedies from new British writers: The Alchemist, written by Simon Rose, Feet Up by Ewan Kilgour and The Wedding Gift by Lisa Flett.The three projects, which were chosen from more than 1,000 entries, were awarded a cash prize of ...
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High Fidelity
Dir: Stephen Frears. US. 2000. 113 mins.Prod cos: Working Title Films, Touchstone Pictures in association with Dogstar Films & New Crime Productions. Worldwide dist: Buena Vista/Buena Vista International. Exec prods: Mike Newell, Alan Greenspan, Lisa Chasin. Prods: Tim Bevan, Rudd Simmons. Co-prods: DV DeVincentis, Steve Pink, John Cusack. Scr: DeVincentis, ...
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Erin beats off DreamWorks' El Dorado
Universal Pictures' Erin Brockovich starring Julia Roberts continued to reign atop the US box office this past weekend with a third weekend gross of $14.2m, a slight 23% drop from the previous weekend. Its 17-day total now stands at $76.2m.The critically acclaimed movie, which will open in many key European ...
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German Film Prize nods for Buena Vista, Hotel
An unhappy week for German film closed on a more conciliatory note on Friday night with nominations for the German Film Prize evenly spread.Heading the list was Andreas Kleinert's Wege In Die Nacht, Oskar Roehler's Die Unberuehrbare and Tomy Wigand's Fussball Ist Unser Leben with three nominations each. They were ...
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Dunaway to star in story of Diana's biographer
Faye Dunaway, Paul McGann and Brian Cox will star in The Biographer, a privately-financed British feature film which is due to crank up on March 31.The film traces the events that led former royal journalist Andrew Morton to write his biography of the Princess of Wales, Diana: Her True Story.McGann ...
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Artisan promotes Greeman to development VP
Cybelle Greeman has been promoted to vice president of development at Artisan Entertainment. She will now be responsible for the development of film scripts on the company's slate as well as tracking new material and up and coming talent. She will report to Artisan president Bill Block.Greeman was previously director ...
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Israeli government gives blessing to third channel
The Israeli parliament has given the greenlight to the launch of a third free-to-air terrestrial channel in a bid to increase competition in the Israeli television market.According to new legislation, the Third Channel will be operated by two companies. Israel's only existing commercial broadcaster, the Second Channel, is currently operated ...
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