All articles by Adrien Gombeaud – Page 2
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Euro is best thing to happen to European film
Less than two weeks after its official launch, a top European film executive has described the Euro as "the best thing that ever happened to the European film industry".Juergen Schau, head of Columbia Pictures' German subsidiary, said the single currency would have a dramatic impact on the European film industry, ...
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NTL suffers as mounting debt is downgraded
The UK's biggest cable operator NTL has said it is "fully able" to meet all its trading obligations and interest payments, after rating agency Standard & Poor cut its rating from stable to negative.It is the second time in six month's that Standard & Poor has downgraded NTL, which is ...
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Liberty Media's lifeline complicates Kirch dilemma
John Malone's Liberty Media Group is reported to have opened talks with Kirch Group about ways to help the debt laden German giant meet pressing loan repayments. According to The Financial Times, executives from the companies have discussed options to provide funds to Kirch. This includes the possibility of Liberty ...
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Wait-and-see approach to video-on-demand
The introduction of video-on-demand will not be an overnight revolution, but will take place gradually over the next five years. Globally, just 26 million households will be capable of accessing VoD services by 2005, with the vast majority - 83%, located in the USA. According to Screen Digest's Video On ...
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UK press is spellbound by Harry Potter magic
The UK awoke on Monday morning to blanket coverage of Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone.With the exception of business daily The Financial Times, every British national paper carried front page news of the film's premiere at Leicester Square. The premiere was attended by a stream of celebrities as well ...
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EFCA lobbies against EC-proposed subsidy ceiling
Film lobby group, the European Film Companies Alliance (EFCA) has taken issue with a key European Commission communication on state aid schemes for cinema.The Commission proposal was published last week and recommended capping state aid to 50% of a film's production budget, arguing that this would stimulate the growth of ...
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MIFED: figures show attendance drop of15%
Mifed organising company Rassegne has pledged to tackle one of the most persistent complaints of the market's attendees - the terrible air-conditioning system - which chilled this year's dwindling number of delegates."Next year, we will be upgrading the air conditioning system," promised Manlio Armellini, managing director of Rassegne. The move ...
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Muted Mifed benefits smaller buyers
With many of the big US and Japanese players absent, 2001 was never going to be a vintage year for MIFED. The market corridors of the Fiera in Milan were visibly quieter than in previous years and a number of exhibitor booths were paid for but remained empty. As a ...
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US actors guild supports UK's Equity strike
The US' Screen Actors Guild has come out in support of the threatened actors' strike by UK performer's union Equity, instructing its members to seek SAG advice before accepting work on any UK production.The SAG support is a boost to Equity's ongoing dispute with UK producers, which centres around attempts ...
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Beyond to sell 3 Blind Mice for international
Beyond Films has signed up to handle international sales on 3 Blind Mice, starring Edward Furlong and Sharleen Spiteri, the lead singer of rock group Texas.The cyber thriller is slated to begin shooting in the UK during January 2002, with France's Mathias Ledoux directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with ...
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Cannes extends an olive branch to UK
When not one new UK feature was selected for the Cannes Film Festival this year, it caused an outburst of national soul searching. Now the British film industry has been thrown an olive branch by the festival's artistic director Thierry Fremaux.Fremaux says he wants to appoint a British correspondent who ...
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Post-tragedy schedules completely revised for TV
The tragedy that befell America last week has prompted TV and theatre owners around the world to pull potentially offensive or sensitive material from their schedules. A good example of the extent to which schedules have had to be altered out of sensitivity to events is found at the UK's ...
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Global media industry reacts to terror attack
Terrorist attacks in the US on Tuesday threw into sharp relief the relevance of the entertainment industry. As the tragedy unfolded, US studios, cinemas and TV networks shut down for the day. The Emmy TV awards were postponed and the Latin Grammy awards cancelled. Even Walt Disney World in Florida ...
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Blockbuster to replace video with DVD
Blockbuster, the world's largest home video rental chain, has announced a decisive move to replace video cassettes with DVDs throughout its global network of outlets.Blockbuster chairman John Antioco said the company plans to discard 25% of its stock of video tapes to make room for the growing number of DVD ...
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Local blockbuster forecast to boost Thai BO take
A mixture of home grown hits and Hollywood imports are expected to give a huge boost to revenues at the Thai box office this year.The industry is expected to generate revenues of $66m (Bt3btn) this year, up from $50m (Bt2.3bn) in 2000.At least one third of the Thai 2001 box ...
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Danielsen to take over at Edinburgh Festival
Shane Danielsen has been named as the next artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.A writer and critic for The Australian newspaper, Danielsen will take over from current artistic director Lizzie Francke after she has presided over this year's festival, which runs from 12-16 August. As well as being ...
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Streather to head LFCA's European operations
Large Format Cinema Association (LFCA) has appointed Phil Streather as vice president - Europe, Africa and Middle East.Streather, who is currently co-chairman and head of large format at Principal Media Group and current LFCA board member, is briefed with raising the association's global profile and helping to grow the large ...
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Producer Martin Brown parts ways with Baz Luhrmann
Moulin Rouge producer Martin Brown has parted ways with longtime directing partner Baz Lurhmann, and is readying a slate of ten films to produce through his own production company, Martin Brown Films.Brown, who worked with Luhrmann as art director on Strictly Ballroom and as a co-producer on Romeo + Juliet, ...
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Dogtown skates into arms of Sony Pictures Classics
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American and English speaking territory rights to Dogtown And Z-Boys, winner of the audience award for best documentary at this year's Sundance Film Festival.Written and directed by Stacey Peralta the $600,000 skateboarding documentary was fully funded by Vans, the athletic shoe-maker most identified ...
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UK's Optimum adds Grosso's Peaches
Optimum Releasing has acquired UK theatrical rights to Peaches, a Stone Ridge Entertainment production written and directed by Nick Grosso.The acquisition follows Optimum's acquisition this week of three titles: comedy thriller Ginger Snaps; French-language film Le Secret and Suri Krishnamma's coming-of-age drama New Year's Day (Screendaily.com, May 2).Peaches is billed ...
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