All Screen articles in 8 April 2002 – Page 3
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Ledoyen returns to host Cannes ceremonies
French actress Virginie Ledoyen was this week confirmed as hostess for the opening and closing ceremonies at Cannes, reprising her role from 2000.The local beauty who also represents perfume house L'Oreal, has starred in nearly 30 films and made her international break-through with James Ivory's A Soldier's Daughter Never Dies. ...
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Holdovers benefit in week of weak openers
Britney Spears vehicle Crossroads, distributed by Momentum Pictures, benefited over the weekend from a slew of underachieving openers at the UK box office.Crossroads, along with other films aimed at younger cinema goers, Return To Neverland, Ice Age and Jimmy Neutron - Boy Genius, took advantage of the end of the ...
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Cash or closure imminent for Spain's Quiero TV
Spanish DTT platform Quiero TV could be forced to close down as soon as next week if a buyer doesn't emerge in time.Backers of Quiero, led by telecoms operator Auna (Retevision), set April 15 as a deadline to sell off the pay outlet or else shut it down. While sources ...
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South Africa's Ster-Kinekor boosts local revenues
By closing some of its loss-making South African cinema sites, wooing Indian and black audiences by increasing its Bollywood offer - and effective management of its labour costs, Ster-Kinekor, the territory's leading distributor/exhibitor has managed to engineer a turnaround in its fortunes at home.The company reported a 39% improvement ...
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Italian publisher buys into Mikado Film
Italian publishing giant De Agostini has taken a majority stake in local arthouse production and distribution outfit Mikado Film, which recently co-produced Otar Iosseliani's Lundi Matin and released Jill Sprecher's 13 Conversations About One Thing. The move, which represents De Agostini's third major venture in the Italian film industry in ...
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Spean Bridge emerges as potential UCI investor
Vivendi Universal is looking to pull out of United Cinemas International (UCI) - its international exhibition joint venture with Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures.A report in the Financial Times on Wednesday (April 10) said that Vivendi chief Jean-Marie Messier was looking to make an exit from UCI in order to lower Vivendi's ...
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Seattle gives first Alpha Cine Award to Ching Ip
The Seattle InternationalFilm Festival (SIFF) has named Ching Ip as the recipient of the first annualAlpha Cine Filmmaker Award for her feature film See You Off The The Edge OfTown. Ip's film will receive afree transfer to 35mm and a gala world premiere screening of the new printduring the final ...
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Blockbuster gives its first Indie Filmmaker Award
Blockbuster Video hasawarded its first ever $100,000 Independent Filmmaker Award to writer/directorDean Pollack on the basis of his debut feature Show And Tell, which has screened at various film festivalsincluding the Austin Film Festival where it won the second place award.Set in the world of tabloidTV, Show And Tell is ...
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Jeff Coleman promoted to evp, production, at MGM
Jeff Coleman has beenpromoted to executive vice president - worldwide feature physicalproduction - for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's film units MGM Pictures andUnited Artists. He will report jointly to Michael Nathson, president and COO ofMGM Pictures, and Bingham Ray, president of United Artists.Coleman will oversee all aspectsof production from inception through post-production for ...
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Ledoyen returns to host Cannes ceremonies
French actress Virginie Ledoyen was this week confirmed as hostess for the opening and closing ceremonies at Cannes, reprising her role from 2000.The local beauty who also represents perfume house L'Oreal, has starred in nearly 30 films and made her international break-through with James Ivory's A Soldier's Daughter Never Dies. ...
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Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending to open Cannes
Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending will mark the director's first trip to Cannes when it opens the festival out of competition, the event announced on Thursday.Publicity-shy Allen has shown Manhattan, The Purple Rose Of Cairo and Hannah And Her Sisters at Cannes, but has declined to attend the screenings. The French ...
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Technicolor buys Southern Star's Duplitek
The Southern Star Group is expected to net about $26.4m (A$50m) from US-based video, CD, DVD and film print manufacturer Technicolor's acquisition of its duplication subsidiary Duplitek. Technicolour invested $17.4m (A$33m) in Duplitek nearly two years ago in a deal that gave it the right to expand its result minority ...
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Goldfish Memory wraps first digital production
Goldfish Memory, the first of four feature films to begin shooting in Dublin in March, has wrapped after a 24 day shoot, notching up 23 set ups a day according to producer Breda Walsh of Goldfish Films.Financed by a combination of Irish Film Board finance and deferrals, the Euros1.3m contemporary ...
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Dutch incentive to re-make European films
The Dutch film industry has turned to European films as a source for re-makes in an attempt to foster local production. Three titles - 14 Tage Lebenslaenglich and Sex Oder Liebe (both German) and the Swedish comedy Gossip - have been selected to be given a Dutch make-over.The Dutch industry ...
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Telefonica names Faura head of contents
Telefonica has appointed Kim Faura as the first corporate general manager of the newly organised contents division, Contenidos de Telefonica.Faura will take charge of co-ordinating contents and seeking synergies across the Telefonica group's multiple platforms and international holdings which include television, film, mobile phones and the internet.Faura ...
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Mexico finally revises film certification system
Mexico's ratings board announced a long awaited revision of its ratings system - nearly a year after director Alfonso Cuaron and producing partner Jorge Vergara filed a lawsuit against the board for the C rating it gave their film, Y Tu Mama Tambien. Incensed that the C rating - ...
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Germany's RTL buys three Intermedia titles
Pursuing an 'all rights' strategy, German private broadcaster RTL Television has acquired German rights for three titles - K-PAX, K-19 and Basic - from Intermedia Film, in what is described as the beginning of a business relationship.RTL's co-operative agreement with theatrical distributor Constantin Film for Germany and Austria, will see ...
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Iain Glen chosen to star in Japanese spy thriller
Scottish actor Iain Glen is to star in veteran Japanese director Masahiro Shinoda's final film project: the $15m thriller Spy Sorge.The 71-year-old Shinoda has been trying for more than a decade to get backers for the film, which will require two months of filming in Shanghai and Berlin, as well ...
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Media Asia loses Star TV's library to Fortune Star
News Corp-owned broadcaster Star TV has ended its eight-year film distribution contract with Hong Kong's Media Asia Group, following the launch of its own international distribution unit, Fortune Star Pictures.Media Asia has handled worldwide distribution of the 600-title Star film library since 1994. It will now be distributed by Star's ...
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Canada builds on its production capacity
Canada is poised for a massive boost to its production capacity with four major studios having been announced in less than three months.Two of the new projects are in Toronto, one in Quebec and one in Regina, in the province of Saskatchewan, with the backers of the Toronto and Quebec ...
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