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Isle of Man launches $35m location incentive fund
The Isle of Man Government has launched a $35.6m (£25m) fund to attract big-budget films to use it as a locationThe so-called Media Development Fund will invest in films, as well as develop an infrastructure for the film sector. The Isle of Man government aims for the fund to retain ...
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Working Title, DNA team on Curtis comedy
Working Title Films and National Lottery franchise DNA Films have teamed to produce leading UK writer Richard Curtis' directing debut, a romantic comedy in which Hugh Grant is to play the British prime minister.Grant is in talks to play a bachelor PM who falls in love on his first day ...
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Internationalmedia posts loss, predicts profit
IM Internationalmedia pledged to return to profit this year as it announced a loss of Euros 11.9m for 2001 on Thursday.The battered Neuer Markt-listed parent of Intermedia blamed the loss on one-time costs such as the aborted SpyGlass Entertainment merger and delays in booking revenues from K19: The Widowmaker, Adaptation ...
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Fox Phillips receives top Film Council slate fund
The recently-launched production company headed by producers Diana Phillips and Robert Fox - whose combined credits include Smoke, Bad Lieutenant, Iris and The Hours - has secured slate development funding in the latest awards round from UK support body the Film Council.Titled Fox Phillips, the venture received $226,000 (£160,000), while ...
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Bond 20 officially christened
Ending months of speculation, Bond producers Eon Productions have christened the spy's 20th instalment Die Another Day.The film, which now has the acronym DAD, was rumoured to have been named Beyond The Ice and Beneath The Sea. One website reported last year that it was Final Assignment, only to discover ...
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UK's Equity, PACT resolve actors pay dispute
UK performers union Equity and producers body PACT are understood to have resolved their dispute over payments to actors.The terms for the new contract between the two bodies are expected to be a compromise but are thought to include residual payments to actors from ancillary revenues. Equity's main grievance was ...
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Bormann becomes Internationalmedia CEO
Moritz Bormann (pictured) has taken up the newly-created role of chief executive officer with worldwide responsibility for the Intermedia-Pacifica group and become chairman of its German parent, IM Internationalmedia.Bormann replaces Florian Bollen as chairman after Munich-based Bollen offered his resignation last week when the company issued its second profits warning ...
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San Sebastian, Toulouse team for Argentina promo
Argentina already has four films heading for September's San Sebastian International Film Festival after the event teamed with Toulouse's Latin American Cinema Screenings to trawl for films from Latin America.Films selected by the two events will screen to professionals in Toulouse in March before heading on to San Sebastian, Spain's ...
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Judi Dench to star in Fry's Vile Bodies adaptation
Judi Dench is expected to star in Bright Young Things, an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies that marks UK actor Stephen Fry's directing debut.The story about the fashionable 'it' crowd in 1930s London could mark the Academy Award winning actresses' next production, depending on how financing comes together. ...
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Secretary sold to multiple territories for Alibi
UK-based sales house Alibi Films International has sold a slew of international territories on its US romantic drama Secretary, including deals with Eagle Pictures for Italy and NonStop Entertainment for Scandinavia.The film, which stars James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Lesley Ann Warren, went to LNK for Portugal, Yehmax Film for ...
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UK film certification boss to stand down
Andreas Whittam Smith is standing down as president of UK certification body the British Board of Film Classification.Whittam Smith, credited with liberalising certification with regard to sexual content, made the decision after being appointed First Church Estates Commissioner, which is a Crown appointment. He steps down on July 31, having ...
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Allen's Hollywood Ending to close San Fran fest
The world premiere of Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending will close next month's San Francisco International Film Festival, the event announced this week.Expected to attend are George Hamilton, Mark Rydell and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, who star in the comedy of Hollywood manners."It's our tribute to what Hollywood can do best - satirise ...
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Brit TV watchdog demands respect from Ali G
Working Title Films' Ali G IndaHouse, the feature debut of UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's spoof gangsta rapper, is heading for a showdown with. UK TV advertising watchdog BACC.Ali G's backer Universal said it has been told by BACC to get permission from the Queen, president George W Bush and ...
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Intermedia shares crash after merger cancellation
Intermedia saw two thirds of its value wiped out within hours on Monday after it cancelled its imminent merger with production firm Spyglass Entertainment and slashed its earnings forecast.Intermedia's Neuer Markt-listed stock fell as much as 66% before recovering slightly to Euros 7.21, down more than 62%. The company said ...
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Intermedia shares crash after merger cancellation
Shares in Intermedia plummeted 65% on Monday after it cancelled a merger with production firm Spyglass Entertainment and slashed its earnings forecast.In an ad hoc disclosure to Frankfurt's Neuer Markt, the company said that Nigel Sinclair, Guy East and Moritz Borman will continue in their positions as co-chairmen of Intermedia. ...
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Intermedia/Spyglass merger cancelled
Intermedia and Spyglass Entertainment have called off their imminent merger, Intermedia announced on Monday in an ad hoc disclosure to Frankfurt's Neuer Markt.Intermedia said that Nigel Sinclair, Guy East and Moritz Borman will continue in their positions as co-chairmen of Intermedia. East and Sinclair had been expected to step down ...
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BBC Films appoints Isabel Begg
BBC Films, the film arm of the UK public broadcaster, has appointed Isabel Begg, formerly head of UK business and legal affairs at Miramax, as head of business and legal affairs.Begg will report to Jane Wright, who has been promoted from head of business development to the new role of ...
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UK's Granada and Carlton call off merger talks
UK commercial television companies Granada and Carlton have called off merger talks, it was announced on Wednesday (Feb 27).A link-up would have given the broadcasters 90% control of commercial television network ITV. The decision is said to have been made because of onerous regulatory hurdles, although talks could restart ahead ...
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UK's Granada and Carlton end secret merger talks
UK commercial television companies Granada and Carlton have called off a planned merger, it was announced on Wednesday (Feb 27).A link-up would have given the broadcasters 90% control of commercial television network ITV. But the annual savings from the merger - estimated at $71m (£50m) by 2002-3 - pale beside ...
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British Academy bestows awards on Fellowship
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring was the big winner at last night's British Academy Film Awards with five awards including best film and best director for Peter Jackson.Moulin Rouge, which like Lord Of The Rings had 12 nominations, went away with three lower profile prizes ...