All Screen articles in 30 March 2003 – Page 2
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DVD comes to the rescue
With TV markets seemingly as off-colour as the independent film sector, producers and broadcasters are increasingly turning to the fast-rising DVD sector for new revenue and profits."The success story of 2002 was video, not video-on-demand," said Gilles Fontaine, head of media market researcher IDATE. "Home video in Europe last year ...
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Italy's DeAngelis Group picks up major classic library
Italian production and distribution specialist DeAngelis Group has picked up a catalogue of some 200 classic feature films including Cinema Paradiso and Divorce Italian Style.DeAngelis will handle worldwide sales and distribution of the Cristaldi Films catalogue which dates from the 1940s to the early 1990s. The catalogue also contains a ...
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Cape Town film permit office suspends staff
South Africa's Cape Town city council's film permit office has been closed until further notice after six staff members were suspended pending an internal investigation into alleged irregularities in the issuing of film permits. City of Cape Town spokesperson Charles Cooper said in a statement that the Cape Film Commission, ...
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Shooting starts on Taviani bros' Luisa San Felice
Production has got underway on Luisa San Felice, a Euros12.5m picture directed by the celebrated Taviani brothers, Paolo and Vittorio.The cast is headed by supermodel-turned actress Laetitia Casta (pictured) and Adriano Giannini in a romance and revolution story adapted from the Alexandre Dumas classic novel La San Felice. Principal photography ...
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Telecino is Spain's only profitable broadcaster
Telecinco has posted 2002 year-end net profits of Euros 85.9m, making it the only profitable broadcaster in Spain last year.The network said it boasted the second highest audience share in Spain with 20.24% thanks to its in-house productions, and had earned the highest percentage locally of the advertising market: 27.3%."These ...
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Media Business School appoints eight-member advisory council
Pan-European training initiative the Media Business School (MBS) has appointed a new eight-person advisory council for its Master in Audiovisual Management (MEGA) program.The council appointees, named by MBS director Juan Pita, will each be responsible for co-ordinating lectures and shaping content for individual areas of instruction in the MEGA, now ...
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Cognac Film Festival unveils lineup, opens with Pamela Rose
TheCognac Festival du Film Policier has released its line-up for the 21st editionset to take place April 10-13. The festival is devoted to the 'policier' ordetective/crime genre and this year will see French actor Vincent Lindon headup the main jury.France's Mais Qui a Tue Pamela Rose byEric Lartigau will raise ...
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Wolf and Bosch join HBO as co-heads of London film sales outfit
US cable giantHBO and its film production arm HBO Films have formed a new London-basedinternational sales and distribution outfit HBO Films London under theatricalsales veterans Penny Wolf and Rosa Bosch. Wolf and Bosch will be co-managingdirectors of the new division which will continue a theatrical sales push intoall territories for ...
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Taos announces five finalists for five-acre prize
Organisers atthe Taos Talking Picture Festival have announced the five finalists in line forwhat is arguably the most bizarre prize in the festival world - five acres ofland on Taos' Cerro Montoso in New Mexico.The winner willbe announced at the awards presentation on Apr 12 along with the winner of ...
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Intermedia confirms 2002 results, losses of E98.7m
Internationalmedia,the corporate parent of Los Angeles-based Intermedia and IEG, has confirmed itspreliminary fourth quarter and year-end 2002 figures (Screendaily Mar 14), withseveral slight changes.Fourth quarterrevenues were Euros 103.2m, with the company recording a Euros 3.1m operatingprofit (EBITA).Revenues for thefiscal year ending Dec 31 2002 were Euros 259.7m, while Internationalmedia'scash position ...
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Escapist viewing benefits from war fatigue
While there appeared to be some evidence in the US that the war on Iraq affected box office figures last weekend, the effect in Europe seems more on viewing choices rather than numbers.Indeed, athough many territories saw a drop in returns this weekend from last weekend, others including Denmark, Finland, ...
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Civilian Content snaps up BBC stake in The Works
Civilian Content, the UK media group and parent of National Lottery franchise The Film Consortium, has acquired full ownership of sales house The Works, buying the last 25% minority stake from BBC Worldwide to make it a wholly owned subsidiary of the group.AIM-listed Civilian Content has also announced a significant ...
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Media Asia boards Masked Crusader
Hong Kong's Media Asia has boarded Han Entertainment's futuristic action movie, Masked Crusader, starring Michelle Yeoh and Richie Jen, which started shooting today (March 27) in Beijing. The $15m film is a co-production between Han, Media Asia and China's Tianjin Film Studio with the assistance of China Film Co-production Corp. ...
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Silverscreen Films launches in New Zealand
Sydney-based producer Don Reynolds, who made a raft of New Zealand films in the 1980s, has created Silverscreen Films, a feature film and television production company with Geoff Dixon, a giant of the New Zealand commercials production scene. Already on the company slate is Spooked, which Reynolds and Dixon hope ...
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Italy's Mikado takes Coppola's Lost In Translation
Mikado Film, Italy's long-established arthouse distributor and producer, has bought Italian distribution rights to Sofia Coppola's new film, Lost In Translation.Lost In Translation is the second feature from Sofia Coppola after The Virgin Suicides and is being sold by Focus Features. Shot in Tokyo, it stars Bill Murray and Scarlett ...
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UIP wins Australian Ned Kelly appeal
Those under 15 years of age will now be able to see Ned Kelly without being accompanied by an adult following a decision by Australia's five-member Classification Review Board to classify the film M15+ rather than the tougher MA15+ originally imposed after a split vote. The film is recommended for ...
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German media lawyers propose adoption of UK's sale & leaseback model
The UK's sale & leaseback model and Canada's tax credit model are two options proposed by the German producer pressure group Film 20 to Gerhard Schroeder's administration to improve the international competitiveness of the German film industry.The proposals are among a series of recommendations drafted by a legal "think tank" ...
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Two novel adaptations to launch Arclight's Australian production slate
A literary adaptation looks certain to kick off Sydney-based sales agent Arclight Films' career as a producer of Australian films but which one is the question. Arclight has announced it has started selling distribution rights to the schoolgirl teen comedy Hating Alison Ashley, from the children's classic of the same ...
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Bavarian film fund to sign accord with Quebec film body
Bavaria's regional film fund FFF Bayern is to sign a Film Agreement with Quebec's Societe de Developpement des Entreprises Culturelles (SODEC) during a Bavarian Arts and Business Week in Montreal in mid-May.'There has been a collaboration with Quebec for some time', FFF Bayern spokesman Lothar Just said. "We had a ...
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Nordisk Film reports $1.4m loss despite increased revenues
Major Danish Media Group Egmont has reported a 5% increase in revenues for 2002 to Euros 1.2bn, while its film division Nordisk Film registered a Euros 1.3m loss despite improved revenues - from Euros 399m in 2001 to Euros 432m in 2002. The outfit, which encompass feature production, TV ...
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