All articles by Agnes Poirier – Page 13
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Deutchman joins Studionext as CEO
Ira Deutchman has joined New York-based online entertainment producer Studionext as its CEO. The founder of Fine Line Features and, more recently, Redeemable Features is the latest high-profile film industry executive to join the dotcom fray. Studionext, which launched last year with the backing of private investors, has what Deutchman ...
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The Dish
Dir: Rob Sitch. Australia. 2000. 104 mins.Prod co: Working Dog. International sales: Working Dog Sales (61 3) 9826 4344. Exec prod: Michael Hirsh. Prod: Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Jane Kennedy, Rob Sitch. Scr: Cilauro, Gleisner, Kennedy, Sitch. DoP: Graeme Wood. Prod des: Carrie Kennedy. Ed: Jill Bilcock. Mus: Edmund Choi, ...
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Sexy Beast
Hollywood Partners (HP), the Munich-based private film fund, has committed to co-financing and co-producing Walter Hill's Undisputed, starring Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames and Peter Falk, in return for all foreign rights and certain income rights in the US and Canada.The film, which began shooting at a maximum security prison just ...
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Possible Worlds
Dir: Robert Lepage. Canada. 2000. 93 min. Prod co: The East Side Film Company, In Extremis Images. Int'l sales: Alliance Atlantis International, tel: (1) 310 899 8000. Prod: Sandra Cunningham, Bruno Jobin. Scr: John Mighton, from his play. DoP: Jonathan Freeman. Ed: Susan Shipton. Prod des: Francois Seguin. Main cast: ...
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State And Main
Dir: David Mamet. US. 2000. 106 mins.Prod cos: Green, Renzi Productions, El Dorado Pictures. US dist: Fine Line. Int'l sales: Filmtown International (1) 323 464 6644. Exec prod: Alec Baldwin, Jon Cornick. Prod: Sarah Green. Scr: David Mamet. DoP: Oliver Stapleton. Prod des: Gemma Jackson. Ed: Barbara Tulliver. Mus: Theodore ...
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waydowntown
Dir: Gary Burns. Canada. 2000. 83 mins.Prod co: Burns Films, Odeon Films. Int'l sales: Alliance Atlantis Films International (1) 416 967 1141. Exec prod: Bryan Gliserman, Marguerite Pigott. Prod: Shirley Vercruysse, Gary Burns. Scr: Burns, James Martin. DoP: Patrick McLaughlin. Prod des: Donna Brunsdale. Ed: Mark Lemmon. Mus: John Abram. ...
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Canada's Rogers buys Cable Atlantic for $102m
Days after bowing out of the battle for Groupe Videotron, Rogers Communications has purchased Newfoundland-based cable outfit Cable Atlantic for $102m.The acquisition raises Rogers' Canada-wide subscriber base to 2.3 million and boosts the company's maritime presence. Cable Atlantic has approximately 75,000 subscribers.Rogers used a chunk of its consolation prize for ...
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Maelstrom
Dir: Denis Villeneuve. Canada. 2000. 88 min.Prod co: Max Films. Int'l sales: Alliance Atlantis International, tel: (1) 310 899 8000. Prods: Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal. Scr: Villeneuve. DoP: Andre Turpin. Prod des: Sylvain Gingras. Ed: Richard Comeau. Music: Pierre Desrochers. Main cast: Marie-Josee Croze, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Stephanie Morgenstern, Pierre Lebeau.A ...
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Canadian cable player abandons Videotron bid
Canadian cable leader Rogers Communications has abandoned its bid for Quebec-based rival Groupe Videotron.The move ends a six-month battle with publishing giant Quebecor and its powerful backer, pension fund Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec. Last month, Quebecor and the Caisse, through a jointly-held company, topped Rogers' February $26-per-share ...
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Alliance Atlantis forms TV venture with Zoetrope
Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope has signed exclusive television development deals with Alliance Atlantis and Viacom Productions. The Viacom deal involves TV series while the Alliance Atlantis deal involves TV movies and miniseries. In a statement, Coppola said: "'series, mini-series, movies of the week, reality shows, live TV -- you ...
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Lions Gate starts Canadian production services arm
Lions Gate Entertainment and Vancouver-base CineGate Holdings have formed an equal joint venture production services company. CineGate Production Management Services which will cater to those film and television projects shooting in Canada that are accessing tax credits, particularly US studio productions. In a statement, Lions Gate vice chairman and CEO ...
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Alliance Atlantis bags Villeneuve, Freundlich pics
Denis Villeneuve, director of Toronto festival hit, Maelstrom, has signed to direct a new production to be co-financed by Alliance Atlantis and Toronto-based Rhombus Media, the producers of Francois Girard's The Red Violin and Don McKellar's Last Night. The new film, Boyd, will roll next spring. It will be Villeneuve's ...
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Pop.com closes shop after merger talks fail
Entertainment web-site Pop.com - fronted by Imagine Entertainment and DreamWorks - is shutting down following the collapse last week of merger discussions with LA-based film portal Ifilm.com (Screendaily, September 4).The site, backed by $50m from Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures, never went live despite being scheduled for a spring 2000 launch. ...
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Innocence, Le Gout share top gong at Montreal
French director Agnes Jaoui's The Taste Of Other (Le Gout Des Autres) and Australian Paul Cox's Innocence shared the top prize at the 24th Montreal World Film Festival which wrapped on Monday. The Grand Prix of the Americas is the second major prize for the Cox title after Taormina. Iranian ...
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Beast, Coffee join Toronto world premiere line-up
The Toronto International Film Festival has finalised its programme for the 25th anniversary event, announcing a further six world premieres including UK heist film Sexy Beast, directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Ben Kingsley and Ray Winstone, and Chinese Coffee directed by and starring Al Pacino.The other world premieres are:How ...
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Rogers goes to court over Videotron merger
Canada's largest cable operator Rogers Communications has gone to court in an effort to lift an injunction, handed down in April, that effectively prevents its merger with the country's third-largest cabler Groupe Videotron.Rogers tendered a bid for the company in April, only to have it blocked by Videotron shareholder Caisse ...
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Toronto adds Bigelow, Fields titles to line-up
The Toronto International Film Festival has added four premieres to its line-up: Kathryn Bigelow's The Weight Of Water, Joel Hershman's Greenfingers, Michael Corrente's A Shot At Glory and US actress Sally Field's directorial debut Beautiful.Suspense saga The Weight Of Water stars Sean Penn, Catherine McCormack and Elizabeth Hurley. Greenfingers, also ...
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De Niro, Paltrow films to premiere at Toronto
Two world premieres have been added to the line-up at this year's Toronto International Film Festival - George Tillman Jr's military drama Men Of Honour, starring Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding Jr, and Bruce Paltrow's Duets, featuring an ensemble cast including daughter Gwyneth. The festival will also present North ...
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Montreal lines up Sade for competition
Benoit Jacquot's Sade, starring Daniel Auteuil, Claude Chabrol's Nightcap and Pupi Avati's Midsummer Night Dance are among the competition titles at the 24th Montreal World Film Festival (August 25-September 4). In addition, David Mamet's State And Main will make its world premiere at the event out of competition.Also featuring in ...
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Montreal's Telescene faces cash crunch
Montreal-based film and television producer Telescene Film Group is running out of cash credit and may be unable to finance its autumn television production slate. The company has been seeking a backer - it says it needs $24m to meet its obligations - so far without luck. Now, having exhausted ...