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New Marseilles studio to supply booming location demand
In response to the soaring number of locations shoots in the region, the city of Marseilles is building a brand new film and television studio, thirty years after the closure of its last complex. The southern city has seen a 146% leap in the production shoots over the last five ...
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Edinburgh's new director reveals first festival titles
Gary Winick's Sundance prize-winner Tadpole, Roger Michell's Summer box-office hit Changing Lanes with Ben Affleck and Samuel L Jackson and Mike Leigh's much admired Cannes contender All Or Nothing are among the first titles confirmed for this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival. Leigh is expected to attend what will ...
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MediaPro continues Spanish expansion activity
Recent Spanish entrant into feature film production, media conglomerate MediaPro looks set to continue its expansion with the $57m (Euros 60m) buy-out of rival Avanzit Media, the media subsidiary of Spanish technology giant Avanzit.MediaPro declined to comment on press reports that it is considering a $57m (Euros 60m) offer for ...
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Heidi delayed by KirchGroup fallout
German media giant KirchGroup's bankruptcy has brought work on animated feature film Heidi to a standstill and may threaten the future of animation specialist TV Loonlands' Budapest facility after payments from group subsidiary TaurusProduktion, the film's co-producer failed to materialise.Animation specialist TV-Loonland, the film's other co-producer was forced to lay ...
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Mixed results for UK international TV sales
Providing a pertinent barometer on the state of the international television sales market, the British Television Distributors' Association has announced its export statistics for 2001. Sales of British television programmes to the US and Canada rose by 19.2% and 31.5% respectively, compared to 2000, accounting for $199m and $22m. Sales ...
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Local titles dominate Spain's Huesca festival awards
Spanish films dominated the prizes in both the international and Iberoamerican short film competitions of Spain's 30th annual Huesca Film Festival (June 6 to 15). Spanish-Andorran co-production Upside Down by Guillen Morales took home the top Danzante de Oro award in the official international short film competition, while the ...
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Canal Plus, Telenor settle long-running dispute
Canal Plus Group and Telenor have finally settled their dispute and will now proceed with the deal that sees Nordic pay-TV platform Canal Digital sold to the Norwegian telecoms group.The definitive agreement signed last week (June 14) sees Canal Plus sell its 50% stake to its partner Telenor for a ...
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Scooby-Doo attracts more than just the pesky kids
The live action adventures of a dog and his chums bit a large chunk out of this weekend's box office as Scooby-Doo opened top of the charts for Warner Brothers on $56.4m, according to industry estimates. Adapted from the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon series of the Seventies, the movie version features ...
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Samuel Goldwyn confirms US acquisition of I Capture The Castle
Samuel Goldwyn Films has confirmed its acquisition of Distant Horizon's I Capture The Castle, Tim Fywell's film of Dodie Smith's classic novel which premiered in the market at Cannes recently. There Samuel Goldwyn beat out other interested buyers such as Paramount Classics and THINKFilm to take North American rights.Executive produced ...
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Showtime gets US premiere of Miramax production Daddy And Them
Miramax Films' long-awaited comedy Daddy And Them will not have a theatrical release in the US following a deal with Showtime to premiere the film on pay-TV. The movie is the third to be directed by Billy Bob Thornton after Sling Blade and All The Pretty Horses and features a ...
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Signpost teams with Matthew Lillard for romantic comedy
Stewart Till's Signpost Films has teamed with Scooby-Doo star Matthew Lillard and Mosaic Media Group to develop a romantic comedy with writer Shana Leslie Stern, the former assistant to director Gary Fleder who makes her first screenwriting sale with the project.As yet untitled, the script revolves around two people, one ...
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Satin Rouge, Mon-rak Transistor win top prizes at Seattle Film Festival
Raja Amari's Satin Rouge (Tunisia/France) won the New Director's Showcase Award, Penek Ratanaruang's Mon-rak Transistor (Thailand) won the Asian Tradewinds Award and John Feldman's Who The Hell Is Bobby Roos' won the New American Cinema Award at the 28th Seattle International Film Festival which ended its 25 day-run yesterday. The ...
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Phantom Four, StudioCanal team on Goyer's Mucho Mojo
StudioCanal is to co-finance and handle international sales on Mucho Mojo, a comic thriller to be directed by David S Goyer, who made his directorial debut with ZigZag and has script credits including Blade, Blade 2, Crow: City Of Angels, Ghost Rider and Dark City. The film is a co-production ...
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Spidey meets his match in UK soccer fever
Spider-Man met his match this weekend failing to live up to opening box office expectations in the UK as audiences stayed in with World Cup fever.After its record-breaking launch in the US was followed by a slew of records around the world, much was expected of the web-slinger in the ...
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Chinese drama scoops three awards at Shanghai festival
Life Show, a drama directed by China's Huo Jianqi, scooped three awards at the sixth Shanghai International Film Festival (June 8-16) on Sunday night, including best film, best actress for Tao Hong's performance and best cinematography for Sun Ming.Japanese feature, All About Lily Chou Chou, picked up the Special Jury ...
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Germany's TiME Group confronts insolvency
Germany's TiMe Group has filed for protection from creditors two months after it was forced to dramatically scale back distribution and licence trading arm TiMe Medienvertriebs. Although TiMe founder Wolfram Tichy described the filing as "a legally imperative precautionary measure," the likelihood of TiMe joining Germany's growing list of high-profile ...
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Avex enters adult animation market
Leading Japanese music company Avex, is launching into the animation business with a major new project that it expects will generate international sales of $806m (Y100bn) by 2003.The company is setting up a new subsidiary, Avex Mode to work with best selling author Yoshimi Ishikawa on the project, Son Goku ...
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Endeavour finishes photography on biggest budget Russian picture since 1998
Major photography has just finished on new English language co-production, The St Petersburg Cannes Express, the biggest budget production to shoot in Russia since the 1998 financial crisis and the first in a slated series of new Russian projects being developed by Los Angeles-based Endeavour Productions. Directed and scripted by ...
