All Screen articles in 25 July 2002 – Page 3
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Denmark's Nimbus picks up rights to classic French novel
Danish production group Nimbus has bought the film rights to French classic novel Maldonne. A romantic thriller, Maldonne is the story of a down on his luck businessman who poses as a richer man in order to secure an inheritance and win over a beautiful woman. It was written in ...
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Vivendi Universal spins off streamlined Canal Plus
Vivendi Universal is to re-structure its 100% subsidiary Groupe Canal Plus around the division's most valuable assets: its French broadcasting activities; its film production and rights holding division StudioCanal as well as its stake in Spanish broadcasting operation Sogecable. All will be folded back into Canal Plus SA, which is ...
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Disney enters branded consumer electronics market
The Walt Disney Company is entering the consumer-electronics market in a licensing deal with Motorola to develop a line of themed Disney products beginning with cordless telephones and walkie-talkies.Further down the line, Disney plans to enter additional licensing agreements to offer its own branded TV sets, DVD and CD ...
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Game of Dog and Mouse at UK box office
With school holidays now officially underway the UK box office saw a battle for the key children's market at the weekend as Columbia TriStar launched Stuart Little 2 into direct competition against Warner Bros chart-topping holdover Scooby-Doo.However Scooby-Doo eased to victory with a mighty second weekend take of $3.96m (£2.5m), ...
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Japan's Kadokawa acquires Daiei film studio
Kadokawa Shoten Publishing, a publishing house with extensive media interests, has reached an agreement to acquire the Daiei studio from Tokuma Publishing.Once a major studio, Daiei went bankrupt in 1971 and later became the wholly owned subsidiary of Tokuma. Over the last 10 years it has staged a corporate ...
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