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Sales agents, distributors awarded MEDIA cash
The UK's FilmFour, Pathe International, Bavaria Media and Adriana Chiesa Enterprises are among 18 European sales agents granted over Euros 700,000 in financial support by the European Union's MEDIA Plus programme to promote the trans-national distribution of European films. MEDIA's sales agent support scheme works in two phases. Firstly, there ...
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Strong overseas film sales reported by troubled FilmFour
On the eve of what many expect to be a dramatic re-focusing on lower-budget films made for the local market, the UK's FilmFour has underlined its international strengths with a host of overseas sales.Sales arm FilmFour International is closing US deal with Sony Pictures Classics on Cannes title Once Upon ...
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Hong Kong's Panorama signs library deal with Japan's Shochiku
Hong Kong distributor Panorama Entertainment has signed an output deal with Japan's Shochiku giving it exclusive video rights to the studio's back catalogue of around 4,000 films. The five-year deal, unveiled at FilMart on Thursday, includes titles such as the hit Tora-San comedy series, Yoji Yamada's 1977 The Yellow Handkerchief ...
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Alternative cinema content remains an unexploited revenue stream
Alternative content has long been a holy grail for exhibitors, with the potential to create new profit streams - which can even amount to as much as 19% of revenue. And despite the fact that no solid market for alternative content - be it sporting events, rock concerts or other ...
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Myriad backs Bombay Ice, ropes in Burton, Willing
Myriad Pictures has optioned Leslie Forbes' novel Bombay Ice and has closed a deal with Mark Burton, the producer of Cherish who himself has close ties to India, to produce it. Nick Willing (Dr Sleep, Photographing Fairies) is in negotiations to write and direct the film.A murder mystery set in ...
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Men In Black II
Dir: Barry Sonnenfeld. US. 2002. 82 mins. The invigorating burst of zany energy that made sci-fi comedy Men In Black the surprise smash of the 1997 summer season was never going to be easy to reproduce. So it's hardly surprising that Men In Black II feels more slight and less ...
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FilMart wins broad delegate approval
This year's Hong Kong International Film and Television Market (FilMart) ended on an upbeat note on Friday (June 28) with many delegates agreeing that the event was busier and had attracted a broader mix of participants than in previous years."We've seen more buyers from more countries and the prices being ...
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Independent Feature Project reveals 13 No Borders titles
The Independent Feature Project (IFP) has announced the international projects which will take part in the 2002 No Borders Co-Production Market, to be held between Sept. 27 - Oct. 4 in New York City.Thirteen international projects have been announced for No Borders, which takes place during the IFP Market. ...
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Spain's Plural Entertainment close to taking 80% of Tesela
Spanish production house Plural Entertainment is rumoured to be closing a deal to buy out an 80% share of up-and-coming Madrid-based producer Tesela PC.The transaction would provide Tesela with a direct link to heavyweight Spanish media and publishing conglomerate Grupo Prisa, which owns 100% of Plural Entertainment.Tesela was launched in ...
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AMW announces Lord Of The Rainy Season as Franco-Thai co-production
AMW International, an independent Thai media group, used Hong Kong's FilMart to launch its new film Lord Of The Rainy Season. The project is based on Claire Keefe-Fox's historical novel of the same title Le Ministre Des Moussons documenting France's first official foray into Asia and the meeting between explorer ...
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Applause to give an encore to horror hit The Eye
Hong Kong production house Applause Pictures has added several new projects to its development slate including a sequel to its recent horror film The Eye which grossed a healthy $1.8m (HK$13.8m) at the local box office in May and June.Thailand's Pang Brothers will again direct and are currently scripting the ...
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Four German documentary prizes awarded
Four up-and-coming German documentary filmmakers were awarded this year's Bavarian Documentary Prize "The Young Lion" on the eve of the 20th Munich Filmfest this weekend.The three Young Lions- with a purse each of Euros 8,000 - went to producer-director-writer Caterina Klusemann for her film Ima; to the director-writer team of ...
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Casting awards go to German, UK agents
German casting agent Rita Serra-Roll (Manitu's Shoe) and UK casting agency Hubbard Casting (Chocolat, The Lord Of The Rings) are the winners of this year's National and International Casting Awards which have been sponsored by the private media fund Erste MedienDachFonds.The two casting awards will be presented at a gala ...
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China Central Television launches English-language channel
State broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) used president Zhang Zemin's visit to Hong Kong to mark the fifth anniversary of the territory's handover to China to launch its English-language channel CCTV-9 on Hong Kong Cable. The launch, which takes place today (July 1), was announced at a high profile launch ...
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Helkon Media reports increased turnover, reduced earnings
While Helkon Media's turnover increased by 48% in the first nine months of its 2001/2002 financial year (August 1 2001 - 30 April 2002) from Euros 98m to Euros 145m, its earnings from usual business activities plummeted to Euros - 21.9m (2001: Euro 3.1m).In a statement Helkon explained that its ...
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Sandler charms $37.6m opening for Mr Deeds
Adam Sandler wasback on top of the box office over the weekend as his latest comedy Mr Deeds opened with a smashing estimated $37.6mat 3,231 sites for Columbia Pictures. The film marks another hit for the studioafter Spider-Man and PanicRoom, and continues arun of success which should reach record proportions ...
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SKYY Short Film Awards give French short its top prize
The SKYY Vodka Short FilmAwards took place in Los Angeles last Thursday night as part of the IFP/WestLos Angeles Film Festival (LAFF) in a ceremony which premiered JamesWoods' directorial debut Falling In Love With Pongo Panga, a short which was commissioned by SKKY.Woods attended the eventalong with host Kevin Pollak, ...
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Global Film School strikes scholarship deal with Fox Searchlab
Global Film School (GFS),the virtual film school jointly founded by UCLA's School of Theater Filmand Television, the Australian Film Television and Radio School and theNational Film And Television School of Great Britain, has signed a strategicagreement with Fox Searchlab offering Fox Searchlab's film-makerprogramme to GFS's student base.Under the terms of ...
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Paradox Lake wins top $50,000 prize at Los Angeles Film Festival
The eighth annual LosAngeles Film Festival (LAFF) - operating under the aegis of IFP/West fora second year - closed on Saturday night with a screening of MiguelArteta's The Good Girl. Andat its awards ceremony earlier in the day, Przemyslav Reut's ParadoxLake won the $50,000 TargetFilmmaker Award for best narrative feature. ...
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East & Sinclair name company Spitfire, start Masked & Anonymous
Former Intermediaco-chairmen Nigel Sinclair and Guy East have named their new production outfitSpitfire Pictures and started production in Los Angeles on their first filmunder the banner Masked & Anonymous. The all-star film which is directed by TV veteran Larry Charles, is aco-production with Destiny Productions and BBC Films. Spitfire is ...