All articles by Francoise Meaux Saint Marc – Page 17
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Venus outshines Joan at Cesars
With eight nominations each, Luc Besson's The Messenger: The Story Of Joan Of Arc and Patrice Leconte's The Girl On The Bridge (La Fille Sur Le Pont) may have been the hottest contenders for the Cesar awards - France's equivalent of the Academy Awards - but it was a smaller ...
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Lagardere, Deutsche Telekom form internet alliance
Europe's internet-oriented merger frenzy is showing no signs of slowing down. In the latest deal, French defence and media conglomerate Lagardere is merging its internet service provider (ISP), Club Internet - which has 380,000 subscribers - with Deutsche Telekom's T-Online, which with 4.3 million subscribers is Europe's largest ISP.Following a ...
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France's GMT gears up for Napoleon four-parter
Leading French drama producer GMT Productions is developing a four-part mini-series, Napoleon, which is set to Christian Clavier (Asterix & Obelix, The Visitors) in the title role. The big-budget historical drama will be co-produced by French public broadcaster France 2 and will be filmed in both French and English. The ...
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French director Vadim dies
French director Roger Vadim died today after a long struggle with cancer. He was 72.Vadim is perhaps best known for launching Brigitte Bardot's career in the 1956 And God Created Woman. His credits also include the 1968 sci-fi picture Barbarella - starring his wife at the time, Jane Fonda - ...
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Ellipse, Expand set to tie the knot
France's two leading television production outfits - Canal Plus subsidiary Ellipse Programme and the Expand group - plan to merge their production labels and libraries to create a new entity with annual revenues of $212m (FFR1.4bn). The new group, which will operate under the Expand banner, will control a library ...
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La Sept-Arte, Sundance partner for movie channel
Robert Redford's Sundance Channel and French public broadcaster La Sept-Arte are linking up to create a cable and satellite movie channel in France.La Sept-Arte, the French end of French-German cultural channel Arte, was already developing a channel, dedicated to independent film from all over the world, before approaching the Sundance ...
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Le Studio set to fully finance Mike Leigh trio
Le Studio Canal Plus has signed a three-picture deal with UK film-maker Mike Leigh and his producing partner Simon Channing-Williams. The acclaimed director had also been in financing discussions recently with United Artists Films.Le Studio is now expected to fully finance the Leigh trio with Les Films Alain Sarde, in ...
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Eyes Wide Shut is French critics' best foreign pic
Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut has been singled out by the French critics as best foreign film of 1999 for their prize, the Prix Leon Moussinac, which was awarded yesterday (Feb 7).The runner-ups for the prize, created in 1967, included Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother, Jean-Louis and Luc ...
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Toy Story 2 receives top honours at Imagina
Toy Story 2 has won the grand prize at this year's Imagina (Jan 31-Feb 4), the Monte Carlo and Paris-based festival dedicated to 3D animation and special effects. The first Toy Story film - also directed by John Lasseter and produced by Disney-Pixar - picked up the same prize in ...
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Besson scores at Lumieres
Luc Besson's The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc was awarded the top two prizes - best film and best director - at the 2000 Lumieres du Cinema Français. The awards, which are the French equivalent of the US' Golden Globes, are considered as a dress rehearsal for the ...
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Canal Plus snaps up Tobis
Canal Plus is taking a controlling stake in Germany's Tobis in order to create the German portion of its proposed pan-European studio; Le Studio Canal Plus Deutschland.The French pay-TV giant is already a 20% shareholder in German distributor Tobis but will increase its holding to around 66%. Tobis's existing shareholders ...
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Roissy, Dreams to merge
French independent sales outfits Roissy Films and Celluloid Dreams are merging their international sales activities aiming to consolidate what both see as complementary businesses. Catalogue sales accounted for the majority of Roissy Films' activities before the merger while Celluloid Dreams specialises in niche titles and fresh talent which sell best ...