All Screen articles in 7 November 2000 – Page 3
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Almodovar to stay at home for next film
Still basking in the worldwide success of All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre), Spanish director Pedro Almodovar has decided to shoot his next film on home turf, postponing indefinitely his much anticipated English-language debut.The provisionally titled Hable Con Ella (Talk To Her) will shoot in Spain sometime next ...
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Spain chooses One as Oscar contender
Jose Luis Garci was nominated this week for the sixth time to represent Spain in the foreign-language category of the Academy Awards with his latest film, the black-and-white You're The One. The Garci nomination came as a surprise in some corners: in 1999 a scandal erupted when Garci was accused ...
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HOT joins bidding for Murdoch's TM3
Munich-based home shopping network HOT Networks is in talks to acquire a majority stake in German broadcaster TM3, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Kirch Media was previously seen as a front-runner to buy the channel which has less than a 3% share of the German market.HOT is part-owned by ...
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Bacon & Eggs, Chickflicks fry up Coyote
UK production outfit Bacon & Eggs Productions is co-producing its first feature - a comic horror film called Coyote - with Chickflicks, the US production company founded by Sara Risher and being bankrolled by New Line Cinema, where Bacon & Eggs enjoys a first-look deal.Bacon & Eggs and Chickflicks will ...
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One Life Stand leads nods for Scottish BAFTAs
Elemental Films' One Life Stand and controversial BBC Scotland television drama Tinsel Town lead the nominations for the third biennial BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards. A recent winner for Best Achievement in production at the British Independent Film Awards, the low-budget digital feature One Life Stand tells of the complex ...
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Tokyo governor set to open film office
The governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, has called for the creation of a Tokyo film office to assist film-makers shooting in the Japanese capital.Tentatively called the Tokyo Location Box, the new office is set to open next spring. Speaking at the Tokyo International Film Festival, Ishihara said the Tokyo government ...
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Toei's Firefly finally ready to roll
Toei's Firefly (Hotaru), a feature about Word War II kamikaze pilots starring Japanese screen legend Ken Takakura, is finally ready to go before the cameras after months of delay. Toei intended the film as a tentpole release for the New Year season but dropped it from its line-up when negotiations ...
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Jupiter invests in Japanese movie channel
Japan's Jupiter Programming is taking a 9.9% stake in local movie channel Nihon Eiga Broadcasting Corp, which is part-owned by Sony and Fuji TV.Jupiter, a supplier of programming to cable and satellite television, is also acquiring a 15% stake in Mitsui-owned children's channel Kids Station. The company plans to take ...
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UK admissions per screen in decline
After a good run at the box office during September and October, admissions in the UK are back on track to reach at least 142 million by the year end - the highest level since 1973 according to the Cinema Advertising Association admissions monitor. But due to the huge growth ...
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Masterpiece (Obra Maestra)
Dir: David Trueba. Spain. 2000. 115mins.Prods: Fernando Trueba PC, Buenavida Producciones. Backers: Amiguetes Entertainment, TVE, Via Digital. Domestic dist: Lola Distribucion. Intl sales: Lolafilms (34) 91 436 7400. Prod: Cristina Huete. Scr: David Trueba. DoP: Javier Aguirresarobe. Sound: Pierre Gamet. Music: Roque Banos. Ed: Pablo G. Del Amo. Main cast: ...
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A.Film restructures following Help! success
Danish animation studio A.Film has appointed Henrik Edeltoft as managing director. He replaces Anders Mastrup who will now focus on the company's international development following the worldwide sales and local box office success of its latest project Help! I'm a Fish.Edeltoft recently worked for Scandinavian major Egmont which owns 50% ...
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Brazil's Top Tape ramps up DVD activity
Brazilian distributor Top Tape is shifting gears in a bid to capture the growing DVD market in Brazil. The first indie in Brazil to deal with the new format, Top Tape plans to acquire 40 to 50 DVD music titles a year from artists such as Steely Dan, Cristina Aguilera ...
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Dream, Town share Valladolid's Golden Spike
The 45th annual Valladolid International Week of Film (Oct 20-28) handed out its awards with no single film standing out as a walk-away winner.Top awards were evenly dispersed across a handful of competing films, with US filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and France's Robert Guediguian sharing the top award, the Golden Spike, ...
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Sogepaq, Wild Bunch have a Devil of a time
Spanish sales outfit Sogepaq and France's Wild Bunch have closed a string of sales on the highly anticipated Spanish-language thriller The Devil's Backbone (El Espinazo Del Diablo) from director Guillermo del Toro. Sogepaq and Wild Bunch are jointly handling international sales on the film outside Latin America.All rights were sold ...
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TF1, Beyond share sales on Yu's Revolver
TF1 International and Australia's Beyond Films are to share sales duties on Revolver, the next film by Bride Of Chucky-director Ronny Yu, after his forthcoming 51st State.In a similar fashion to their joint involvement on another Australian picture Cut, TF1 will co-finance and sell the picture in all non-English-language territories ...
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Ster Kinekor puts European circuit up for sale
In the latest shake-up to hit Europe's exhibition industry, Ster Kinekor's European cinema circuit Ster Century has been put on the sales block. Joint South African shareholders Royale Resorts and Primedia are actively courting potential buyers to re-focus on their core businesses as further consolidation of the exhibition market gains ...
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Key, Mediatrade combine buying power
In the latest sign that Italian independent distributors are becoming a force to be reckoned with on the international buying scene, ambitious young Rome-based independent Key Films has partnered with the Berlusconi-owned Fininvest group to acquire films.The new deal with Mediatrade, Fininvest's television and film rights division, will allow the ...
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Winchester raises $32m warchest
In one of the largest City of London funding injections into the UK independent film sector since the heady days of Goldcrest, publicly-quoted Winchester Entertainment is this week raising $31.9m (£22m) on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM).Armed with this warchest, Winchester is looking to become even more involved in US ...
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Japan picks up buying slack in Milan
If German buyers were getting more sober at MIFED, the Japanese have made up for it, closing a string of multi-million dollar deals which kept the market buzzing and propelled brisk business on the smoke-filled corridors of the Fiera.Nippon Herald Films was particularly busy, scoring three pictures from Intermedia (K19: ...
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Brazilian box office revenues up 12%
Brazil's box office has been on the upsurge since 1997, according to local research entity Filme B. To date, box office revenues in 2000 have increased by 12% compared to the same period in the previous year to $156m (Real292m) from $139m (Real260m). Due to ticket price increases, admissions have ...