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Yes TV signs content deals for Hong Hong VoD pilot
The UK's video-on-demand (VoD) operator, Yes Television has struck deals with Buena Vista International, BBC Worldwide and MTV Networks Asia to supply programming for its new Hong Kong service. Local content is set to come from AOL Time Warner's CETV, Mei Ah Film Production, Universe Films, Sun TV, Regentact and ...
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This week in Screen International
News UK films CannedWhile Bridget Jones conquered America, Cannes could not find a UK film worthy of selection. Has British film-making sold its soul for the sake of a few dollars more' News Focus Set me free"Handcuffing us in how we do business is ridiculous in this day and age." ...
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Bogosian, Koteas, Plummer join Egoyan's Ararat
Eric Bogosian, Christopher Plummer and Elias Koteas have joined the cast of Atom Egoyan's Ararat which is set to shoot mid-May in Toronto. The Serendipity Point film, backed by Alliance Atlantis, follows the production ofa historical drama about the Armenian Genocide and the ripple effect of the production on the ...
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Financial briefs (Germany)
Odeon FilmFilm and TV production group Odeon Film is forecasting an operating profit $630,000 (Euros700,000) in the current financial on sales of $45.1m (Euros50.1m) after reporting an EBIT loss of $1.44m (Euro1.6m) for 2000. For 2002 it is forecasting an EBIT $1.53m (Euros1.7m). Director of production Reinhard Klooss said the ...
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Chapman heads Birmingham festival
The Birmingham Film and TV Festival has appointed Barbara Chapman as its director.Chapman, the festival's film programmer for the last three years, replaces Sarah McKenzie, who left last year to join the British Film Commission. Part of Chapman's brief is to add new elements to the festival such as a ...
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Besson's Europa wins Hellman distrib contract
Philippe Hellman's specialist acquisitions and production outfit UGC Ph has struck an output deal with Luc Besson's new company Europa Corp, to handle French theatrical distribution.Hellman, who is a co-founder of UGC, previously released his films through UFD, a joint venture between UGC and 20th Century Fox.The first titles to ...
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UK admissions down 8.7% for first quarter
UK cinema admissions were down 8.7% in the first quarter this year, according to the latest figures from cinema advertising body the CAA.Admissions hit 8.3 million during the period, compared to just over nine million during the same period last year. Average admissions per week during the entire quarter this ...
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Les Visiteurs cause heavy losses at Gaumont
Beleaguered French major, Gaumont announced plans to produce some ten films over the next 18 months as it concentrates its efforts on production and distribution. But two of its big productions forced the company into massive losses for last year.Gaumont announced net losses of $60.1m (FF437m) compared with a profit ...
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Driven drives lacklustre US box office with $13.1m
Franchise Pictures' bang-em-up car-racing actioner Driven opened at the number one spot in the North American box office last weekend with an okay $13.1m from 2,905 sites. Directed by Renny Harlin and starring and written by Sylvester Stallone, the movie was poorly received by critics and its opening hardly looks ...
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Weinstein considers directing Warsaw ghetto epic
Harvey Weinstein,co-chairman of Miramax Films, says he is now considering himself as the director for Mila 18, an ambitious screen adaptation of Leon Uris' novel about the ghetto uprising in WWII Warsaw in which a small group of Jews held off Nazi forces for 42 days using only handmade weapons.Even ...
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Neighbor's Dog, Made In France win Avignon/NY Fest
How To Kill Your Neighbour's Dog starring Kenneth Branagh and Robin Wright Penn was named Best American Feature and Zakia and Ahmed Boucheala's Made In France was Best French Feature at the seventh annual Avignon/New York Film Festival last week.11 new French and seven new US features were screened at ...
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CTS creates global home entertainment mktg group
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (CTHE) has created a worldwide marketing group under president Benjamin S Feingold reinforcing the global nature of the business and reflecting Sony Pictures' unified domestic and international theatrical organisation under Jeff Blake.Three senior executives have been promoted within CTHE. Robin Russell, formerly executive vice president, has ...
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Seattle Film Fest to world premiere
21 feature films will receive their world premieres at this year's Seattle International Film Festival including the controversial O recently sold by Miramax Films to Lions Gate Films because of its scenes of shooting in schools. Also unspooling in Seattle will be new films from Alan Rudolph (Investigating Sex), Terry ...
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Kaaterskill, Jessica Stein win at LA Film Fest
Kaaterskill Falls and Kissing Jessica Stein were the two key prizewinners at yesterdays awards ceremony closing this year's revamped Independent Feature Project/West Los Angeles Film Festival. The event, which kicked off with the world premiere of Ed Burns' Sidewalks Of New York on Friday April 20, screened 51 feature films ...
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Crouching Tiger takes eight at HK Film Awards
Hong Kong was in the mood for action as Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was the big winner at Sunday night's 20th Hong Kong Film Awards with eight statues, including best film and best director.Wong Kar-wai's 1960s love story In The Mood For Love took five awards, nabbing ...
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Cannes Market Comment
Blurring the line between art and commerceIt was exactly forty years ago that the Cannes Film Festival finallyrecognised that cinematic art could not exist in an economic vacuum bydeciding to formalise a trading venue for buying and selling filmdistribution rights across the world.The Marche or Cannes Market, as this rather ...
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Competition and special screenings line-up
2001 CANNES COMPETITIONFeature FilmsOpening film (in competition): Moulin Rouge Baz Luhrmann (Dist: 20th Fox)Desert Moon Shinji Aoyama (Int'l sales: Celluloid Dreams)Mulholland Drive David Lynch (Int'l sales: StudioCanal)The Man Who Wasn't There Joel Cohen (Int'l sales: Good Machine International)Shrek Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson (Dist: DreamWorks SKG)L'Eloge De ...
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Directors and Critics comment
Directors' Fortnight, Critics' Week Comment: Experimentation and discovery to the foreDirectors' FortnightMarie-Pierre Macia in her second year as chief selector of the Directors' Fortnight (La Quinzaine Des Realisateurs) has picked an eclectic mixture with very few well-known directors. The biggest names are Amos Kollek, in Cannes last year with Fast ...
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Directors Fortnight line-up
2001 Directors Fortnight Feature FilmsSlogans Gjergj Xhuvani (Albania/France) (Int'l sales: Celluloid Dreams)Pauline & Paulette Lieven Debrauwer (Belgium) (Int'l sales: TF1 International)The Orphan Of Anyang Wang Chao (China) Big Bad Love Arliss Howard (US) Chelsea Walls Ethan Hawke (US) (Int'l sales: Cinetic)The Deep End ...
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Un Certain Regard line-up
UN CERTAIN REGARDOpening film: R' Xmas Abel Ferrara (Int'l sales: Wild Bunch)The Chimp (Maimal) Aktan Abdykalykov (Int'l sales: Wild Bunch)La Libertad Lisandro Alonso (Int'l sales: TVOR)Domani Francesca Archibugi (Int'l sales: IntraMovies)Ganhar A Vida Joao Canigo (Int'l sales: Gemini Films)No Such Thing Hal Hartley (Int'l sales: ...