All Screen articles in 7 November 2000 – Page 5

  • News

    Permut signs Swank, sets DreamWorks remake

    2000-10-31T18:17:00Z

    Hollywood producer David Permut has signed Oscar winner Hilary Swank to star opposite Richard Gere in Julia Pastrana, a romantic epic to which director Taylor Hackford has finally committed as his next film after Proof Of Life.Both this film and another, Thief Of Light, are being financed by a foreign ...

  • News

    Summit's Femme Fatale seduces buyers

    2000-10-31T18:14:00Z

    Summit Entertainment has sealed a score of high-profile sales deals on its new titles including Brian DePalma-directed thriller Femme Fatale which will shoot in Paris no later than Feb 15.Nippon Herald, which has been noticeably aggressive in its acquisitions strategy at London and MIFED, perhaps in anticipation of its planned ...

  • News

    Kinowelt still in the hunt for films; targets RCV

    2000-10-31T18:12:00Z

    Rainer Koelmel, co-chief of Kinowelt, has insisted that his expansion-minded German outfit is in good financial health and still on the acquisitions trail, for both product and companies - contradicting persistent talk around the MIFED halls that his company is facing a liquidity crunch. Koelmel said that despite the plunging ...

  • News

    Zentropa adds Italians to financing web

    2000-10-31T18:06:00Z

    Denmark's Zentropa has signed a deal with Italy's Istituto Luce and Rome-based producer Leo Pescarolo of Imago Film to co-develop, finance and distribute a package of five titles including Lars Von Trier's next two films and three English-language films by other Danish directors.Zentropa is also in talks with Fine Line ...

  • News

    EXECUTIVE SUITE - Kirk D'Amico

    2000-10-31T13:32:00Z

    The founder of Myriad Pictures tells Patrick Frater why bigger is better in the changing film sales sector.Your company prides itself on selling films from a myriad of genres. What are you looking for when you pick up a title'Although I hate to make comparisons with other companies, we are ...

  • Reviews

    The Legend Of Bagger Vance

    2000-10-31T13:15:00Z

    Dir: Robert Redford. US. 2000. 119 mins.Prod cos: Allied Filmmakers, Wildwood Enterprises. US dist: DreamWorks SKG. Int'l dist: 20th Century Fox. Prods: Robert Redford, Jake Eberts, Michael Nazik. Exec prod: Karen Tenkhoff. Scr: Jeremy Leven, from the novel Gates Of Fire by Steven Pressfield. DoP: Michael Ballhaus. Prod des: Stuart ...

  • News

    Dinosaur takes top spot in second week

    2000-10-31T13:13:00Z

    Dinosaur stomped into the number one spot in the UK's box office chart as it increased its second weekend gross by 8% to take $3.1m (£2.2m) from 495 sites. Coinciding with the schools' half-term break, the Disney picture has grossed an impressive $14.8m (£10.2m) after ten days.Supernatural thriller What Lies ...

  • News

    Film Export to shoot Aranda historical comedy

    2000-10-31T11:40:00Z

    Italy's Film Export Group has announced that it is about to start shooting a new Spanish co-production entitled Locura De Amor and directed by Vicente Aranda.Based on a true story, the $5m historical comedy recounts the trials and tribulations of a young Spanish royal couple in the 15th century. Maria ...

  • News

    Libra balances Esposito with Glasser

    2000-10-31T11:33:00Z

    Anthony Esposito, president of Leading Pictures Inc, and independent producer Richard Glasser have formed a production/distribution outfit called Libra Entertainment which has a first-look production deal with David Glasser's Cutting Edge Entertainment. Richard Glasser is also director of acquisitions at Cutting Edge.Libra will concentrate on projects with Canadian content that ...

  • News

    Alan Parker set to direct for Intermedia

    2000-10-31T11:29:00Z

    Alan Parker appears to be close to a deal to direct the drama The Life Of David Gale for Intermedia Films.Written by Charles Randolph, the project tells the story of a professor who advocated banning capitol punishment who is falsely accused of murdering a fellow activist and is put on ...

  • News

    Orfeo adds Samsara to cross-cultural slate

    2000-10-31T11:26:00Z

    Samsara - a Himalayan-set story of one man's struggle to find spiritual and sexual freedom that was written and directed by Pan Nalin, a Paris-based Indian director - is among several cross-cultural projects being sold by MIFED debutant Orfeo, the Cologne-based outfit formed earlier this year as a joint venture ...

  • News

    Hilltop seals $50m Korean financing pact

    2000-10-31T11:23:00Z

    LA-based Hilltop Entertainment and Korea's Media Film International (MFI) have sealed a $50m production, financing and distribution deal to deliver five action films with an average budget of $10m per picture. The two companies will jointly finance the films through direct investment and from a previously agreed financing facility arranged ...

  • News

    Keitel, Warren head up Mai's US debut

    2000-10-31T11:21:00Z

    Harvey Keitel and Leslie Ann Warren head the cast of Snatch, the first film to be produced in the US by Denmark's Thomas Mai.The $4m satirical comedy is set to shoot in January, under the direction of Cecilia Miniucchi, director of Selena Remembered and Nitsch 98. The film is a ...

  • News

    Trust picks up Selby's latest cult adaptation

    2000-10-31T11:11:00Z

    Zentropa's international sales arm, Trust Film Sales, has picked up worldwide rights excluding Scandinavia to Fear The X, the English-language debut from Danish writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn.The thriller shoots in the US and Rio from February 2001 on a $6.5m budget. The script is written by Winding Refn and cult ...