All Screen articles in 7 November 2000 – Page 4
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Bac desires Wenders, plans DVD release
French distributor-exhibitor Bac Majestic has acquired all French rights to selected Wim Wenders titles from the German film-maker's own production company Road Movies. Bac, which plans to release the titles on DVD during 2001, is also in talks to acquire Wenders' Paris Texas and Wings Of Desire from the French ...
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Rosetta takes honours at Belgian Oscars
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's Rosetta took four Joseph Plateau Awards for Belgian Cinema at this year's 16th edition of the Night Of Cinema Musica, dubbed the Belgian Oscars. The Palme d'Or winning film picked up the prizes for best actress, best director, best film and top grossing Belgian film. Meanwhile, ...
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Peakviewing taps Sales to grow feature business
Peakviewing Transatlantic has appointed Daniel Sales, former president and chief executive officer of Cinequannon Pictures International, to act as consultant in a drive to step up feature activities.The company has formed a new division specifically geared to produce and market features internationally. The move comes as Martin Myers is heading ...
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Working Title opens Eye
Working Title is fast-tracking a Big Brother-meets-horror genre picture, My Little Eye, which follows a group of 20-somethings who sign up for a reality web show that turns increasingly sinister. Resurrection Man's Marc Evans is shooting the film, written by David Hilton, in Nova Scotia early next year for low-budget ...
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Anderson moves to UIP Australia
Expatriate Australian Jon Anderson is returning home to take up the role of marketing manager of UIP Australia from November 20. Anderson was most recently Columbia TriStar's London-based director of marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Throughout the 1980s he worked for the merged Fox Columbia company in ...
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Miracle to work for Italian
Miracle Entertainment - the public LA-based company run by Tony Cataldo and Richard Abramson - is to fully finance and handle worldwide sales on The Italian, a drama to be directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal and produced by Mike Marcus and Carroll Kemp.The movie, which is the story of a man ...
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Tomorrow picks up Shadow Magic
Tomorrow Film Corp has taken international rights to Shadow Magic, Ann Hu's China-set period drama which had its world premiere in the World Cinema section at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. Sony Pictures Classics has domestic rights to the film in which Jared Harris plays an English entrepreneur who travels ...
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RAI Trade picks up Taviani duo, Mikado trio
RAI Trade, the film sales division of the Italy's state-owned RAI broadcast giant, has picked up a trio of new features from producer-distributor Mikado and added the next two pictures from the Taviani brothers, Paolo and Vittorio.The three from Mikado - Domenica, The Dervish (Il Dervisco) and The Third Act ...
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Franchise adds Plan B, Stallone duo to slate
Franchise Pictures is debuting a range of new pictures at London including two new actioners starring Sylvester Stallone and the mob comedy Plan B starring Diane Keaton. And for the first time in several markets, all major territories are available on the titles since Franchise's German partner, Intertainment, has not ...
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Charlie's Angels
Dir: McG. US. 2000. 92 mins. Prod cos: Columbia Pictures, Leonard Goldberg, Flower Films, Tall Trees. US dist: Columbia. Int'l dist: Col TriStar. Prods: Leonard Goldberg, Drew Barrymore, Nancy Juvonen. Exec prods: Betty Thomas, Jenno Topping, Joseph M Caracciolo. Scr: Ryan Rowe & Ed Solomon, John August. DoP: ...
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Media Asia sells packages to Miramax, Medusa
Hong Kong's Media Asia has struck two key deals - one a 20-picture North American deal with Miramax, the other a five-year European DVD distribution deal with the UK's Medusa Communications - that together ensure an explosive presence in international markets.Miramax is acquiring theatrical and video rights to a mix ...
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Unified Film Organization creates theatrical arm
Unified Film Organization (UFO), the LA-based production and sales operation in which publicly traded German distributor Advanced Medien took a 51% stake earlier this year, has launched a theatrical level division called Consolidated Motion Pictures.First film to come out of the division is $6m New York-set romantic comedy Snatched with ...
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Fireworks buys Innocence for the US
Fireworks Pictures - the domestic distribution subsidiary of Jay Firestone's Toronto-based CanWest Entertainment - has closed its latest acquisition at MIFED, taking US rights to Paul Cox's award-winning crowd-pleaser Innocence from sales agent Cinemavault Releasing.The deal was sealed by Fireworks vice president of acquisitions and co-productions Bob Aaronson and Cinemavault ...
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RAI Cinema says no deal yet with StudioCanal
RAI Cinema has firmly denied trade reports that it has closed a deal with StudioCanal to become its Italian distribution partner. President & CEO Giancarlo Leone said negotiations with the French company are continuing but insisted that he is also talking to other potential European supplier partners for its upcoming ...
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Coppola clan keeps growing at Capitol
Jeremy Davies, Gerard Depardieu, Billy Zane, Elodie Bouchez and Giancarlo Giannini have all been lined up to star in CQ, to be directed for Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope by his son Roman Coppola. It is one of several Zoetrope productions being financed by Germany's VCL and sold through Capitol Film ...
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Demme joins on-line outfit Article 27
Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme has joined the board of advisors of article27, the on-line entertainment syndicator that is rapidly expanding international activities.Demme's appointment comes as article27 is partnering with UK indie distributor Optimum Releasing for a theatrical release of German title Aimee & Jaguar. Article27 picked up all rights ...
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Fox Studios Australia slashes entry prices
Fox Studios Australia has reduced admission prices to its Backlot entertainment area in an effort to increase visitor numbers. The move represents a partial merger of the Backlot with the adjacent Bent Street cinema and restaurant precinct.From mid-November adult prices to various attractions, which include the Titanic experience and the ...
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Filmax develops English-language trio
Fresh from the sales success of forthcoming English-language feature Darkness, Barcelona-based mini-studio The Filmax Group is prepping three new English-language co-productions as part of its international push.Luis Sepulveda's political drama Nowhere, a co-production with Surf Films of Italy and Buena Vista/Telefonica Media-backed Patagonik of Argentina, is being prepped for a ...
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Canada's Itemus acquires The Shooting Gallery
US media company The Shooting Gallery has been sold to Toronto-based dotcom Itemus in a $56m share swap deal. However The Shooting Gallery familiar to the international film industry, namely the film development and distribution business, will be spun off, along with allied television and music arms, to existing shareholders ...
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New German buyer turns up the heat at MIFED
A new all-rights buyer from Germany, E-M-S New Media, has emerged at MIFED and is set to get more aggressive once it goes public on the Neuer Markt later this month. With an initial public offering set for Nov 21, E-M-S (short for European Multimedia Services) has snapped up all ...