All Screen articles in 9 October 2000 – Page 2

  • News

    Lions Gate buys US on Korea's Nowhere To Hide

    2000-10-06T01:59:00Z

    Lions Gate Releasing will release Lee Myung-Se's acclaimed Korean action thriller Nowhere To Hide in the US, starting with a limited run in New York and Los Angeles in December. The film was sold internationally by sister outfit Lions Gate Films International but this is a separate deal negotiated by ...

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    1st German Cinema Festival set for LA next month

    2000-10-06T01:56:00Z

    The Export-Union of German Cinema is to stage the 1st annual Festival of German Cinema in Los Angeles from Nov 3-9 presenting 16 new feature films, 15 shorts and a selection of shorts from German film students.Films screening will include: Sebastian Schipper's Gigantic, Achim Von Borries' England, Peter Keglevic's Falling ...

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    Das Werk takes majority stake in LA's Promark

    2000-10-06T01:53:00Z

    Publicly traded German post-production facility Das Werk has acquired a 73% stake in 13 year-old LA-based production and sales outfit Promark Entertainment Group.The move gives Promark access to Das Werk's network of post-production facilities while giving Das Werk a foothold in the US and access to Promark's international sales network. ...

  • Reviews

    Away From The Window

    2000-10-05T18:57:00Z

    Dir: Jan Jakub Kolski. Poland. 2000. 104mins.Prod co: Close Up, TVP SA: Agencja Filmowa and Agencja Produkcji Filmowej Komitetu Kinemotograffii. Int'l sales: Close Up, tel: (48) 22 851 2042. Domestic dist: Gutek Film. Prod: Witold Adamek. Scr: Cezary Harasimowicz. DoP: Arkadiusz Tomiak. Set des: Bogdan Nobel-Nobielski. Music: Michal Lorenc. Ed: ...

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    Ibiza comedy Harry cranks up for Sky

    2000-10-05T17:13:00Z

    Sky Pictures has started production on Is Harry On The Boat', a TV movie with a cast headed by Human Traffic's Danny Dyer and Davinia Taylor, Kate McGowan, Daniela Denby-Ashe, Will Mellor and Ralph Little. UK comedian Keith Allen is also taking a role.Based on the book of the same ...

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    CITT teams with Total, Mediatrade for TV movies

    2000-10-05T17:01:00Z

    Columbia TriStar International Television (CITT) is teaming up with Brazilian production companies Total Filmes and O2 and Italy's Mediatrade to co-produce two TV movies.Both projects will be financed through a combination of pre-sales and tax incentive mechanisms under Brazil's Audiovisual Law. Budgets will be capped at $500,000.The first project under ...

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    Splendid launches TV division

    2000-10-05T16:59:00Z

    German rights trader Splendid Medien has launched a New York-based television arm, headed by TV veteran Douglas J. Schwalbe.The unit will acquire, co-finance and sell mini-series and TV movies. "We realised that there is worldwide demand for a special type of product," said Splendid chairman Andreas Klein.Splendid's first television project ...

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    MIPCOM: Universal pacts with SBS, TV3

    2000-10-05T16:58:00Z

    Universal Studios International has entered into multi-year output agreements with both the Dutch arm of broadcasting giant SBS and Swiss channel TV3.The deal with SBS, which owns two Dutch channels, SBS6 and NET5, covers recent box office hits such as The Mummy, The Green Mile and Shakespeare In Love as ...

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    Film Council to give boost to UK production houses

    2000-10-05T16:54:00Z

    UK film superbody the Film Council, which went live this week, is to pump a share of its own revenues from films back into independent production companies in a bid to help build a sustainable local industry.The boost will come from films backed through the Council's main fund for commercially-oriented ...

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    Stanley lines up $9m sci-fi thriller

    2000-10-05T16:49:00Z

    Richard Stanley, the South African-born director controversially taken off New Line Cinema's The Island Of Doctor Moreau in 1996, is returning to the sci-fi genre of his auspicious 1990 debut Hardware.Stanley is readying $9m futuristic action thriller In A Season Of Soft Rains for a shoot next year. Set in ...

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    Time Warner, EMI call off merger plans

    2000-10-05T11:02:00Z

    Time Warner and EMI said today (October 5) that they have called off their planned $20bn merger because they have not been able to meet the concerns of the European Commission's competition regulators. The two companies said were are pulling their application for regulatory approval, but will press on with ...

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    Zanucks strike first-look deal with DreamWorks

    2000-10-05T05:26:00Z

    Veteran Hollywood producers Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck have signed a two-year, first-look deal with DreamWorks Pictures. Richard Zanuck has already produced Deep Impact for the studio in 1998 with his longterm producing partner David Brown and he is teaming with Dean Zanuck to produce Road To Perdition, ...

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    Kinowelt USA buys Let It Ride pitch for Hurd

    2000-10-05T05:22:00Z

    Kinowelt USA, the US production arm of German film giant Kinowelt, and producer Gale Anne Hurd have acquired the rights to the pitch Let It Ride by Melanie Mayron and Cynthia Mort for a sum in the mid-six figures.The film will be produced by Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures, which has ...

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    WAMC set to animate Stephen King's Dragon

    2000-10-04T16:26:00Z

    Los Angeles-based financing outfit WAMC Entertainment, headed by Frenchman Sidonie Herman, has optioned Stephen King's novel The Eyes Of The Dragon, which it plans to adapt as a $45m animated feature.WAMC - founded by Herman in 1995 - specialises in securing international production financing for North American and European film ...

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    Jacob appoints twin assistants to head up Cannes

    2000-10-04T16:24:00Z

    Veronique Cayla and Thierry Fremaux are the two new names for every producer and director to watch following their appointment to top roles at the Cannes Film Festival under president Gilles Jacob. The two will report directly to Jacob who is giving up his role as general manager, having taken ...

  • Reviews

    Tigerland

    2000-10-04T14:52:00Z

    Dir: Joel Schumacher. US. 2000. 95 mins.Prod co: New Regency Productions. International sales: New Regency (310) 369 8300. US dist: 20th Century Fox. Exec prods: Ted Kurdyla, Bruce Berman. Prods: Arnon Milchan, Steven Haft, Beau Flynn. Scr: Ross Klavan, Michael McGruther. DoP: Matthew Libatique. Prod des: Andrew Laws. Ed: Mark ...

  • Reviews

    Greenfingers

    2000-10-04T14:46:00Z

    Dir: Joel Hershman. UK-US. 2000. 91 mins.Prod Co: Boneyard Entertainment. Int'l Sales: Overseas Filmgroup (1) 310 855 1199. Prods: Travis Swords, Daniel J Victor. Exec prod: Trudie Styler. Scr: Joel Hershman. DoP: John Daly. Prod des: Tim Hutchison. Ed: Justin Krish. Mus: Guy Dagul. Main cast: Clive Owen, Helen Mirren, ...

  • News

    The Cell captures top spot; Comunidad opens well

    2000-10-04T14:41:00Z

    It was a busy weekend at the Spanish box office with five new releases bowing to different fates last Friday. Riding on buzz and hefty marketing campaigns leftover from their US premieres, Jennifer Lopez-starrer The Cell and Buena Vista's Coyote Ugly landed in the first and second spots. Aurum and ...

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    Viennale to open with Le Gout Des Autres

    2000-10-04T13:17:00Z

    Agnes Jaoui's French hit Le Gout Des Autres will open this year's Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival (October 13-25). Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys will close proceedings.Highly-anticipated titles in the festival's feature section include Terence Davies' The House Of Mirth, Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood For Love, Lars von Trier's ...

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    Lewis, Gershon don Claire's Hat for Alliance

    2000-10-04T13:14:00Z

    Juliette Lewis and Gina Gershon are set to star in Bruce McDonald's Claire's Hat, the Canadian director's fifth feature, set to begin production October 16 in Toronto. Billed as a noir caper, the picture is produced by Robert Lantos and Alliance Atlantis, through its first look deal with Lantos' Serendipity ...