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ONrequest signs pay-per-view deal with Buena Vista
Digital pay-per-view service ONrequest has signed a film licensing agreement with Buena Vista International Television.The deal gives ONrequest - a joint venture between ONdigital and SDN - digital terrestrial television pay per view rights to a package of films including Scream 3, The Cider House Rules, High Fidelity, Gone In ...
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Strike talks move into third post deadline meeting
Hollywood writers and producers today (4 May) began another day of negotiating, amid persistent rumours that a deal may not be far off. The negotiations have already stretched two full days past the official expiry date of the writer's previous contract with producers. Reports say that the situation still remains ...
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Writers and producers talks into second extra day
Hollywood writers and producers continued talking throughout Wednesday (2 May), amid a news blackout from both negotiating teams.The Writer's Guild of America's contract with producers had been due to expire at 12.01am on 2 May Los Angeles Time (8.01am GMT). The continuation of the talks follows a marathon 17 hour ...
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UK actors next to threaten strike
UK performers union Equity has given six months notice on its cinema film agreement with UK the Producers Alliance for Cinema & Television (PACT), in a move which could lead to a UK actors' strike. Like the potential US actors strike, the dispute centres on residual payments to actors. Equity ...
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US writers talks continue past deadline
Talks to avert the screenwriters strike in Hollywood are continuing beyond the contract deadline.The Writer's Guild of America's contract with producers had been due to expire at 12.01am Los Angeles Time (8am GMT)."The talks are continuing and we're working very hard to reach an agreement," said Cheryl Rhoden, spokeswoman for ...
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Edinburgh Film Festival chief to quit
Lizzie Francke, Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, is to quit after this year's Festival in August - her fifth in charge of programming what has become Britain's leading launch-pad for introducing new local talent.Francke told Screen: "Five is a good round number. I've helped shaped the festival, ...
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Advertising plunge hits UK exhibition sector
UK cinema advertising revenues plunged last year as major advertisers pulled out of the sector completely or scaled back dramatically, according to new figures from monitoring service ACNielsen MMS.UK exhibitors took $116m for the period January to November 2000, down from $125.8m for the same period in 1999. The rare ...
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Billy Elliot opens Brussels International Festival
Stephen Daldry's crowd pleaser Billy Elliott is to open the 28th Brussels International Film Festival, which is being held from January 18 to 27.The ten-day festival will close with Elle Chouraqui's tale of war-torn former Yugoslavia, Harrison's Flowers, starring Andie McDowell. The competitive event offers a Euros 80,000 top prize ...
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Myriad sells on Chen Kaige's Killing Me Softly
US-based Myriad Pictures has racked up a string of international sales on Chen Kaige's English-language debut, Killing Me Softly. The erotic thriller, which stars Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes, has sold to European distributors including Metropolitan in France, Telepool in Germany, Tri Pictures in Spain and Scanbox in Scandinavia. Other ...
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Shockwave.com to acquire AtomFilms
Marking the end of a roller-coaster year for the troubled online entertainment business, Shockwave.com has announced its stock swap acquisition of short films specialist AtomFilms, in a deal which is expected to lead to 100 redundancies.Under the terms of the deal, Shockwave.com will acquire AtomFilms in a stock for stock ...
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EFA nods reward box office heavy-hitters
Four of Europe's biggest homegrown hits of 2000 - the UK's Chicken Run and Billy Elliot, Italy's Bread And Tulips and France's Le Gout Des Autres - have been nominated for best European Film at the European Film Awards which take place December 2 in Paris.Also competing for the prize ...
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Japan picks up buying slack in Milan
If German buyers were getting more sober at MIFED, the Japanese have made up for it, closing a string of multi-million dollar deals which kept the market buzzing and propelled brisk business on the smoke-filled corridors of the Fiera.Nippon Herald Films was particularly busy, scoring three pictures from Intermedia (K19: ...
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Gaga takes Gaudi Afternoon for Japan
Japanese distributor Gaga Media has bought local rights to Gaudi Afternoon from Lolafilms UK, in a deal struck at the London market screenings last week.The Susan Seidelman directed film had previously been sold to Kinowelt for Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia, Switzerland and Vietnam; to Lolafilms for Spain; Smile for Scandinavia; ...
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Elstein exits UK's Channel 5
UK broadcaster Channel 5 has parted company with its chief executive David Elstein, in a shock move announced to staff on Friday afternoon. Channel 5's director of programmes Dawn Airey is to take over from Elstein, who leaves immediately after four years with no other job to go to.In a ...
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Bread And Roses wins inaugural UIP Award
Ken Loach's Bread And Roses scooped the first ever UIP Award for best European film at this year's Rio International Film Festival. The award, voted for by the festival audience, is accompanied by a purse of Euros15,000.A total of 99 European films competed for the prize. Runners-up included Lars von ...
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CITT teams with Total, Mediatrade for TV movies
Columbia TriStar International Television (CITT) is teaming up with Brazilian production companies Total Filmes and O2 and Italy's Mediatrade to co-produce two TV movies.Both projects will be financed through a combination of pre-sales and tax incentive mechanisms under Brazil's Audiovisual Law. Budgets will be capped at $500,000.The first project under ...
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House Of Mirth to open Rio festival
Terence Davies' The House Of Mirth will open the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival (October 5-18), with the UK writer-director in attendance.The festival will also feature a UK Focus including titles such as Simon Cellan Jones' Some Voices, Peter Greenway's 8' Women, Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot and Nick Hurran's ...
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Ripstein wins San Sebastian's Golden Shell
Arturo Ripstein's The Ruination Of Men (La Perdicion De Los Hombres) walked away with the Golden Shell award for best film at the 48th San Sebastian International film festival (September 21-30).Shot in black and white, the black comedy about two women who fight over the body of a dead lover ...
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Rio festival firms up hefty line-up
Tim Robbins' Cradle Will Rock, Ken Loach's Bread And Roses and Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark are amongst the highlights at next month's sprawling Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival.Guests expected during the 14-day event include UK director Stephen Daldry, whose debut Billy Elliot will screen, and John ...
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Williams steps down as PACT chief executive
Shaun Williams, the chief executive of UK producer's alliance PACT, is to stand down from the post in January.A successor has yet to be appointed. PACT said it would shortly set up an appointments committee to seek a successor to take over in the New Year.Williams commented: "After three years ...
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