All Screen articles in 9 October 2000 – Page 3
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Leak bags four Golden Calves at Netherlands fest
Jean van de Velde's Leak (Lek) grabbed four top awards, including the Golden Calves for best feature and best director, at this year's 20th Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht (September 20-29). The film, hotly tipped as the Netherlands' official entry for next year's foreign-language Oscar, also picked up Golden Calves ...
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Horwits poised to boost Contantin's American dream
Bernd Eichinger's Constantin Film has hired high-profile US producer Mitch Horwits as president of its stateside development and production division, Constantin Development.Horwits, whose producer credits include The Usual Suspects, Short Cuts, Bound, Shadowlands and Breakdown, was most recently president of Spelling Pictures.According to a statement, Horwits will be responsible not ...
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Digital alliance to compete with Sky PerfecTV
Japan's largest trading house Mitsubishi Corp has joined forces with four corporate allies to enter the communications satellite (CS) broadcasting market, currently dominated by the Sky PerfecTV platform. According to a basic agreement signed on September 28, Mitsubishi, Nippon Television Network, Japan Satellite Broadcasting, NTT DoCoMo and NTT Communications have ...
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Deutchman joins Studionext as CEO
Ira Deutchman has joined New York-based online entertainment producer Studionext as its CEO. The founder of Fine Line Features and, more recently, Redeemable Features is the latest high-profile film industry executive to join the dotcom fray. Studionext, which launched last year with the backing of private investors, has what Deutchman ...
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Transcontinental to debut with Convent, Conquest
A new production-distribution outfit, Transcontinental Film, has launched in the Northern Italian town of Bergamo, with two picks-ups under its belt - horror film The Convent and Mexican hit The Other Conquest.The company, headed by Adriano Valoti, plans to handle both mainstream and arthouse titles. The Other Conquest, written and ...
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Spean Bridge expands across Europe, Asia
Despite the gloom hovering over several European exhibitors, particularly those with circuits in Germany and the UK, fledgling exhibition company Spean Bridge has announced ambitious expansion plans to build sites across nine European countries, as well as Taiwan and Japan.From its initial announcement in 1998 to build cinemas in the ...
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Sky Perfect to raise $1bn in IPO
Japan's Sky Perfect Communications, which operates the Sky PerfecTV communications satellite platform, expects to raise more than $1.019bn (Y110bn) via its initial public offering (IPO) scheduled for October 20.Sky Perfect intends to list its shares on the MOTHERS market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. If it reaches its target figure, ...
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MIPCOM: TV-Loonland acquires Sony Wonder
German animation group TV-Loonland has bought the television production and distribution assets of Sony Wonder - a division of Sony Music Entertainment specialising in children's and family programming - and its subsidiary Sunbow Entertainment for $20.5m.Sony Wonder handles a catalogue of 1,200 half-hour episodes. The division started out as a ...
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Artisan acquires comedy script Trifecta
Artisan Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to the comedy script Trifecta - the first feature script from the creators of cult US cable TV series Strangers With Candy. Written by show creators Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert with Strangers actor David Pasquesi (all alumni of Chicago's Second City comedy troupe), ...
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Meet The Parents
Dir: Jay Roach. US. 2000.Prod cos: Nancy Tenenbaum Films, Tribeca Productions. US dist: Universal Pictures. Int'l dist: DreamWorks/UIP. Prods: Nancy Tenenbaum, Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro, Jay Roach. Scr: Jim Herzfeld, John Hamburg from a story by Greg Glienna & Mary Ruth Clarke. DoP: Peter James. Prod des: Rusty Smith. ...
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The Dish
Dir: Rob Sitch. Australia. 2000. 104 mins.Prod co: Working Dog. International sales: Working Dog Sales (61 3) 9826 4344. Exec prod: Michael Hirsh. Prod: Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Jane Kennedy, Rob Sitch. Scr: Cilauro, Gleisner, Kennedy, Sitch. DoP: Graeme Wood. Prod des: Carrie Kennedy. Ed: Jill Bilcock. Mus: Edmund Choi, ...
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MIPCOM: Video Networks secures BBC product
UK video-on-demand operator Video Networks has signed an output deal with BBC Worldwide under which it gains access to hundreds of hours of programming, shortly after its has aired on BBC1 and BBC2.As yet, BBC Worldwide has not decided which programmes will be covered by the deal, but top-rating shows ...
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Vivendi reports 67% rise in first-half profits
France's Vivendi, currently awaiting approval from the European Commission (EC) for its proposed merger with Seagram, has reported a 67% rise in first-half profit to Euros1.4bn on turnover up 16% to Euros19.4bn. The growth came mostly from Vivendi's SFR mobile phones unit.Meanwhile Vivendi has given the EC "voluntary undertakings" over ...
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Billy Elliot leads race for BIFAs
Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot has garnered five nominations at the forthcoming British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), including nods for best British independent film and best director. The low-budget film, co-produced by Working Title, Tiger Aspect and the BBC, has also picked up nominations for best actress (Julie Walters), best screenplay ...
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House Of Mirth to open Rio festival
Terence Davies' The House Of Mirth will open the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival (October 5-18), with the UK writer-director in attendance.The festival will also feature a UK Focus including titles such as Simon Cellan Jones' Some Voices, Peter Greenway's 8' Women, Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot and Nick Hurran's ...
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Desire to kickstart Mannheim-Heidelberg
The International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg has announced its line-up for this year's event (November 9 -18), which opens with the premiere of Desire, a German-Canadian co-production, directed by Colleen Murphy. Among the titles in the International Competition are Rafi Pitts' Sanam (Iran), Alain de Halleux's Pleure Pas Germaine (Belgium), Arto Paragamian's ...
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LA-based Halcyon unveils four new projects
One year-old Los Angeles-based production outfit Halcyon Entertainment, headed by producer Chris Coen, has unveiled four new projects joining two previously announced ones on its development slate.They are:- Deepwater based on the novel by Matthew Jones and scripted by Tim Metcalfe (Kalifornia, Bones, Killer) is a psychological thriller about a ...
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