All Screen articles in 20 January 2002 – Page 2
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Spain's Auna posts encouraging 2001 results
Spanish telecoms group Auna posted better-than-expected year-end financial results for 2001 amid continued uncertainty about the future of its stake in struggling DTT platform Quiero TV and its various cable interests.Auna reported before tax earnings (EBITDA) of Euros 93m, a 35% improvement on anticipated figures and well above year 2000 ...
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Kirch close to finalising 25% Telecino sale
German giant Kirch may close a sale on its 25% stake in Spanish broadcaster Telecinco in a matter of days, according to local Spanish news sources.The stake could be split among current Telecinco shareholders: Italy's Mediaset and Spain's Grupo Correo as well as any of three Spanish investors approached individually. ...
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Fintage House announces management buyout
Financial services and royalties collection outfit Fintage House has completed a management buyout as well as appointing entertainment lawyer Maarten P Melchior to head the company's film and television collection account management division.Fintage's management is buying the company, which has offices spanning Europe, Australia, Japan and the US, from the ...
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Korea celebrates unprecedented domestic successes
With all of the five highest grossing films of the year being local productions and the top title, Friend (pictured), taking the all-time box office crown, Korean cinema achieved an unprecedented 46.1% market share for Seoul last year, and an estimated 49.1% for the country as a whole.According to year-end ...
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Spanish films' home market share up by 90%
Spanish films came close to doubling their local market share last year, with a record three films breaking through the watershed Euros 6m (pts1bn) mark, while national cinema admissions set a new global (post-war) record of 13 years' consecutive growth.The annual industry report released by the Spanish Cinema Academy also ...
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Premiere World adds Kofler, loses Liberty
German entrepreneur Dr. Georg Kofler (pictured) has been enticed back into the Kirch empire to head up the debt-ridden digital pay TV platform Premiere World. At the same time, US cable operator Liberty Media has surprisingly withdrawn an application submitted to the German cartel office for clearance to take a ...
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Gala takes UK rights to African L'Afrance
UK indie distributor Gala has acquired UK rights to Sundance title L'Afrance, an African film which will next be seen in Rotterdam and is handled worldwide by Mercure Distribution's Jacques Le Glou.L'Afrance, directed by Alain Gomis and previously selected for Locarno, is the coming-of-age tale of a young Senegalese student ...
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Aardman to make 12 one minute films for the net
Acclaimed UK animation studio Aardman has gone into production with 12 new one-minute Wallace And Gromit films, which are to be released later this year on the internet.Meanwhile, the company has announced that its anticipated DreamWorks SKG-backed Wallace And Gromit feature, the script for which Nick Park has been writing ...
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Sundance: Fox woos Girl, Dancer; SPC loves Liza
In the second largest dealstruck so far at Sundance, Fox Searchlight Pictures has paid $4m fordistribution rights in North America, Latin America, Australasia, the UK andSouth Africa to Miguel Arteta's The Good Girl, which is being handled by Myriad Pictures and WMA Independent. At the same time, SonyPictures Classics is ...
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Erlina Suharjono promoted at Warner Bros Asia
Erlina Suharjono has been promoted to the position of vice president, Asia, at Warner Bros Pictures.In her new post, Suharjono will be responsible for supervising distribution and marketing activities in Asia through Warner Bros.' network of affiliate offices and licensees in the region, specifically, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, ...
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Artisan buys John Herzfeld script Jealousy
Artisan Pictures, which is ramping up production under new CEO Bob Cooper, has acquired Jealousy, a comedy script by John Herzfeld as a project for him to direct. Herzfeld's last film was 15 Minutes for New Line Cinema starring Robert De Niro and Ed Burns and he made a splashy ...
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Boeing Digital Cinema retains CAA
The Boeing Company has retained Hollywood talent and literary agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA) for consulting services for the launch of Boeing Digital Cinema, its ambitious network which will be used to transmit first-run movies and alternative programming via satellite and fiber-optic network. CAA will counsel Boeing on the business ...
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Spielberg gets ShoWest Lifetime Achievement nod
Steven Spielberg will be awarded with a Lifetime Achievement Award at exhibition convention ShoWest this March. He will receive his award at the annual Gala Awards Banquet which will be held on March 7.Spielberg's sci-fi actioner Minority Report opens this summer for 20th Century Fox (DreamWorks is handling international rights) ...
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MGM plays down rumours of $7bn sale
MGM has distanced itself from rumours that it is up for sale following a report yesterday (Jan 15) in the Los Angeles Times saying the company had hired investment bank Goldman Sachs to solicit bids that are due this week. In a statement, MGM said, "As we have stated ...
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Paris screenings confirm upbeat French industry
The selection of new titles on view at Unifrance's fourth Paris screenings, held January 11-15, reflected the upbeat mood currently being enjoyed by the French film industry, not just at home, but increasingly abroad.Internationally, French films' attendance jumped 122% last year, to some 30 million admissions, according to Unifrance's latest ...
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24 German films at 25th Goteborg festival
The 25th Goteborg Film Festival (25.1. - 4.2.2002) is continuing its tradition of a large German presence and will be presenting a selection of 24 new German films which for the most part were already successful at other international festivals.In the main programme the festival-goers will be shown 14 German ...
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Dentsu, Tohokushinsha acquire Disney package
Dentsu and Tohokushinsha are to jointly acquire exclusive Japanese broadcasting rights to 150 Disney movies and TV series. The deal, set to be finalised soon according to Dentsu officials, covers titles from 1999 to 2001, including The Sixth Sense, Pearl Harbor and 102 Dalmatians, as well as older films such ...
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Internet film piracy set to increase rapidly
The volume of film-related internet piracy is higher than previously thought, and could rise further with the anticipated growth in take-up of broadband internet connections.According to Bruce Ward, technical director of Net PD, a London-based company which provides internet protection services for copyright holders, current estimates that there are over ...
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Chinese audiences flock to Big Shot's Funeral
Big Shot's Funeral, Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia's production of Feng Xiaogang's comedy starring Donald Sutherland, has earned $4.3m in less than four weeks on release across China, becoming the highest-grossing domestically-produced title in the country's history. Developed and produced as part of the studio's commitment to local language productions ...
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The Good Girl
Dir: Miguel Arteta. US 2001. 93mins.The Good Girl, Miguel Arteta's third feature, represents a step in the right direction for him as a filmmaker, as well as for his star, Jennifer Aniston, best known so far for her part in the TV series Friends. Centring on a thirtysomething woman ...
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