All Screen articles in 9 March 2000 – Page 2
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Pearson reveals strong results; Internet alliances
UK media entity Pearson has reported record group operating profits of $864m (£549m) for the year to December 31, 1999, up 41% from $612m (£389m) for the previous year. Turnover was £3.33bn, up 39% from £2.4bn in 1998.Pre-tax profit for the period was up 15% to $633m (£402m) compared to ...
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Warner gets new co-financier/supplier in Alcon
Warner Bros Pictures has entered into an exclusive, long-term worldwide distribution agreement with Alcon Entertainment under which Warner will distribute a minimum of 10 films produced and financed by Alcon over the next five years. The agreement also allows Warner to co-finance certain films with Alcon.The new arrangement gives Warner ...
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Gandhi film stirs political conflict in India
Following the trouble surrounding Deepa Mehta's Water, a second production filmed in India - Kamal Haasan's Hey Ram, about Mahatma Gandhi's assassination - is stirring controversy in different parts of the country.Several Indian political organisations are angry about what they describe as an incorrect portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in the ...
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Parallel seeks rebirth in Internet venture
Troubled UK production outfit Parallel Pictures is planning a rebirth as part of a new Internet group backed by Easynet co-founder Keith Young and Rank Group former director of treasury Clifford Perkins.Parallel, whose shares have been suspended since October, aims to raise £3m to push into business-to-business Internet activities. The ...
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Sightsound wins 35 Franchise films for internet
Franchise Pictures, the prolific Hollywood production partnership between Elie Samaha and Andrew Stevens, has entered into an exclusive, five year, worldwide internet distribution deal with Sightsound.com, the internet company which has pioneered distribution of music and movies online. Franchise will concurrently become a shareholder in Sightsound.com.Under the terms of the ...
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Israeli French Film Week unveils line-up
Bruno Dumont's L'Humanité and Michel Deville's La Maladie De Sachs are among the films that have been selected for the ninth French and Francophone Film Week, which is scheduled to take place in Tel Aviv from March 25 to April 1. Put together by the French Cultural Institute and the ...
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Ordinary Decent Criminal
Dir: Thaddeus O'Sullivan. Ireland. 1999. 94 mins. Prod cos: Little Bird, in association with Tatfilm and Trigger Street Productions. Int'l sales: Icon Entertainment International (44 207 494 8100). Exec prods: James Mitchell. Prods: Jonathan Cavendish. Co-prods: Martha O'Neill, Christine Ruppert. Scr: Gerry Stembridge. DoP: Andrew Dunn. Prod des: Tony Burrough. ...
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European Film Awards touch down in Paris
The European Film Awards are on the move again. This year the awards will move from their traditional home in Berlin to Paris for a ceremony on December 2.In line with the event's growing profile, the ceremony will again be broadcast live, this time by pay-TV channel Canal Plus. The ...
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Doordarshan changes name; gains autonomy
Indian state broadcaster Doordarshan will be renamed Prasar Bharati Corporation (Broadcasting Corporation of India) and receive a $250m grant when it becomes a fully fledged autonomous body from April 1 this year.The grant aims to cover the gap in resources Prasar Bharati Corp will meet when it gains autonomy. In ...
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Carlton acquires large-format film processor
UK media group Carlton Communications is pushing into giant-screen formats by acquiring US film processor Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Carlton announced on Monday (March 6).Carlton's film processing subsidiary, Technicolor, acquired CFI from its parent Continental Graphics for $48m in cash. CFI specialises in giant-screen and large film formats including IMAX. ...
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Intercom opens Romania's first multiplex
Multiplex Operation Romania, a subsidiary of Andy Vajna-controlled Intercom Corp, is planning to open Romania's first multiplex theatre on May 29. Intercom has invested $5.5m in the ten-screen, 2,340-seat theatre, built in the Bucharest Mall on Alea Vitar. Tickets are likely to cost about 45,000 Romanian lei ($2.50)."We have great ...
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Hungary's multiplex boom boosts local cinema
The multiplex building boom in Hungary has helped box office receipts for local productions increase by 15% according to figures from the Hungarian Film Union (HFU).Hungary has become the undisputed multiplex capitol of Eastern Europe, boasting 13 multiplexes at the end of 1999 and two on the way in the ...
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The Next Best Thing
Dir: John Schlesinger. US. 2000. 108 mins.Prod co: Lakeshore Entertainment. US dist: Paramount Pictures. Int'l sales: Lakeshore International. Exec prods: Gary Lucchesi, Ted Tannebaum, Lewis Manilow. Prods: Tom Rosenberg, Leslie Dixon, Linne Radmin. Scr: Thomas Ropelewski. DoP: Elliot Davis. Prod des: Howard Cummings. Ed: Peter Honess. Mus: Gabriel Yared. Main ...
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Dorff, Cleese star in first ever internet movie
The first feature film produced exclusively for global internet distribution is set to go into production next week. Quantum Project will star Stephen Dorff, Fay Masterson and John Cleese and marks the directorial debut of Oscar winning production designer Eugenio Zenetti (What Dreams May Come, Restoration, Last Action Hero).Produced by ...
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Australian critics give Two Hands best film award
Two Hands, produced by Marian Macgowan, won best film at the Australian Film Critics Circle Awards on March 3 but writer-director Gregor Jordan did not take home everything he was eligible for as he did at last year's Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards. Instead, John Curran was judged best director ...
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Franchise sells five to HBO Asia
Franchise Pictures, the LA production powerhouse behind box office hit The Whole Nine Yards, has signed an exclusive five picture deal with HBO Asia.The films in the package are The Whole Nine Yards, Battlefield Earth starring John Travolta, The Pledge starring Jack Nicholson, Get Carter with Sylvester Stallone and The ...
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Three Kings storms into UK chart
Warner Bros' Gulf war epic Three Kings charged into the UK box office with £1.4m from 307 sites (including previews of £187,186) reaping a solid site average of £4,687. This placed the film at number two in the chart below record-breaking champ Toy Story 2 which held over at number ...
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Blomfield replaces Mockridge at Foxtel
Veteran television executive Jim Blomfield has been named CEO of dominant Australian pay-TV outfit Foxtel replacing Tom Mockridge who is to head up the joint venture between News Corp's Star TV and Cable & Wireless HKT in Hong Kong.In recent years Blomfield has been working on the commercial television aspirations ...
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Antena 3, Fox ink five-year output deal
Twentieth Century Fox International Television and Antena 3 have entered into a five-year output deal which includes future feature films as well as titles such as Independence Day, Romeo & Juliet, The Full Monty and There's Something About Mary.The deal also includes new television series such as Angel, Roswell and ...
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Mr Altman and his movies
The following Q&A appeared in Screen International, the weekly, on February 25.Robert Altman celebrated his 75th birthday on February 23, just two weeks after completing principal photography on his 32nd dramatic feature film, Dr T And The Women. In this ensemble piece, Richard Gere plays a gynaecologist struggling with the ...
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