All Screen articles in 9 June 2000 – Page 3
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Elliott becomes on-line chief at Alliance
Canada's Alliance Atlantis Communications has appointed Jeffrey Elliott to the new position of senior vice president, in which he will be responsible for developing the company's on-line and Internet strategies. Elliott joins Alliance Atlantis from Canadian cable channel operator Nestar Communications, where he was managing director of its Interactive division. ...
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Channel 4 International expands sales staff
Channel 4 International, the distribution arm of the UK's Channel 4, has made two new appointments. Sabine Broening has been hired as senior sales executive. She was previously senior sales executive for German-speaking territories at Carlton International. At the same time, Sarah Tonkiss has been promoted to programme sales executive. ...
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EC extends deadline on AOL/Time Warner probe
The European Commission (EC) has ruled that it needs more time to adjudicate on the competition issues raised by America On-Line (AOL)'s proposed takeover of Time Warner (TW). But it kept quiet on whether it would link its investigations into Time Warner's takeover of music group EMI.The EC, which has ...
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Hamburg fest launches debut feature competition
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 ...
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Vivendi in talks to offload AOL France stake
French media and utilities giant Vivendi has started talks with America On-Line (AOL) about selling its stake in AOL France. Vivendi managing director Philippe Germond made it clear last week that: "our wish is to get out of AOL France and not to have a shareholding link with it." While ...
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EC probe could help Vivendi's up-Stream battle
Today's decision by the European Commission (EC) to investigate the takeover of Italian digital TV platform Stream may help French facilities group Vivendi negotiate the terms on which it would cease hostilities with News Corp and join Platco.While expressing growing enthusiasm for Platco, a new holding company that would harness ...
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Landscape enlists Cronenberg for Internet start-up
Indie film giant Intermedia is launching into TV with the acquisition of a 24.9% stake in Box TV, the start-up production house run by former Channel 4 executive Gub Neal.Intermedia will handle worldwide distribution on the bulk of Box TV's projects. Since launching last month, the new outfit has lined ...
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BKN swallows France's Studio Arles
German animation producer and distributor BKN International (BKNI) has acquired specialist French cartoon house Studio Arles Animation. Arles' boss Daniel Schwall is to join BKNI as its head of production.Stockmarket-traded BKNI said the deal: "is the first step of BKNI's expansion strategy in the production side of the business' and ...
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The Yards
Dir: James Gray. US. 2000. 108 mins.Prod cos: Paul Webster, Industry Entertainment. Co-prods: Matt Reeves, Christopher Goode. Int'l Sales: Miramax International (+1 212 219 4100). Exec prods: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Jonathan Gordon. Prods: Nick Wechsler, Paul Webster, Kerry Orent. Scr: Gray, Reeves. DoP: Harris Savides. Prod des: Kevin Thompson. ...
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Telefonica to acquire Bertelsmann's mediaWays
Telefonica added another acquisition to its growing European portfolio this week with the planned 100% buy-out of mediaWays, an Internet subsidiary of German media group Bertelsmann. MediaWays will be managed by Telefonica subsidiary Telefonica Data.The acquisition, valued at $1.6bn (PTS282,000m), forms part of a strategic relationship arising between two of ...
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Media Luna launches joint venture sales company
Cologne-based sales agent Media Luna International Film Sales has joined forces with four German production houses to launch an expanded theatrical sales outfit Media Luna Entertainment (MLE).This week's Media Forum NRW in Cologne provided the backdrop for the launch of the new company which will be managed by Ida Martins, ...
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Bhaman Naraghi joins Miramax as executive vp
Bahman Naraghi has joined Miramax Films as executive vice president of finance and operations. Naraghi will oversee all aspects of the company's finance, accounting, reporting and human resources as well as supervising certain business development efforts and arranging new financial arrangements for film projects. He will report directly to co-chairmen ...
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Texas Instruments licenses DLP technology to Imax
Imax Corporation and electronics giant Texas Instruments (TI) have entered an agreement which will see the large-format entertainment company develop, manufacture and market projectors based on TI's (Digital Light Processing) DLP Cinema projection technology for large-format IMAX theatres.Texas previously licensed the technology to Imax-owned Digital Projection (UK) for standard (35mm) ...
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Arte, GMT team up for gender series
Franco-German broadcaster Arte is partnering with French drama producer GMT to produce 10 TV movies under the strand name Masculin/Feminin (Male/Female), which will examine issues of equality between men and women around the world.As with previous Arte drama series, Petites Cameras, Masculin/Feminin is to be shot using DV cameras.Two of ...
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Japan registers 60% increase in Internet users
The number of Internet users in Japan rose 59.7% to 27.6 million in 1999 according to a report by Japan's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT). The report also found that Internet penetration in Japan now stands at 21.4%, which ranks it 13th worldwide, and that subscribers to i-Mode and ...
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NTV wraps Japan's first 3D CGI feature
Japanese television network Nippon Televison (NTV) has completed production on Japan's first all 3D, all computer generated feature film, The Aurora. Based on an original script by Michiru Shimada and made over a period of nearly three years under director Yoshinori Kanno, The Aurora is an undersea adventure featuring a ...
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Oz exhibition giants partner for joint Sydney site
Australia's three largest exhibitors - Village Roadshow, Hoyts and Greater Union - are planning to replace their separate cinemas on George Street, Sydney with a site that will feature single management of both the ticket booth and the concessions area. The development will have over 15 screens and be the ...
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EC to investigate Pearson, CLT-Ufa merger
The European Commission (EC)'s competition regulators have decided to probe the proposed merger of Pearson Television and CLT-Ufa. The EC has used its merger regulation powers to open a preliminary, one-month review of the $19bn deal that was announced in April (Screendaily, Apr 07) . The companies were notified on ...
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Some Voices
Dir: Simon Cellan Jones . UK. 2000. 101 mins.Prod Co: Dragon Pictures. Int'l sales: FilmFour. Prod: Damian Jones, Graham Broadbent. Co-prod: Fiona Morham. Scr: Joe Penhall. DoP: David Odd. Prod des: Zoe Macleod. Ed: Elen Pierce Lewis. Mus: Adrian Johnston. Main cast: Daniel Craig, David Morrissey, Kelly Macdonald, Julie Graham.A ...
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A Belly Full (Le Conte Du Ventre Plein)
Dir: Melvin van Peebles. France. 2000. 102 mins.Prod co: Euripide Productions. Int'l Sales: Films Distribution (00 33 1 53 10 33 99). Exec prods: Daniel Toscan du Plantier, Frederic Sichler, Van Peebles. Prod: Jean-Pierre Saire. Scr: Van Peebles, based on his own novel. DoP: Philippe Pavans de Ceccaty. Prod des: ...
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