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Cinar sues Bahamas companies for missing funds
Troubled Canadian producer-distributor Cinar Corp has filed lawsuits against several Bahamas-based investment companies in an attempt to recoup $76m in missing funds.Cinar's co-founders, Micheline Charest and Ronald Weinberg resigned from their roles as co-CEOs earlier this month over an alleged $122m in unauthorised corporate bond purchases made by executive vice-president ...
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Along Came Polly's NZ$300,945 gross for UIP from 40 screens was enough to knock Scooby-Doo 2 - Monsters Unleashed down into second position at the New Zealand box office over the Easter weekend. In dollar terms there wasn't much between the two films, but Scooby-Doo 2, which is in its ...
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Universal Pictures Int'l appoints director of acquisitions
Universal Pictures International today announced the appointment of Ben Roberts to the position of director of acquisitions. Based in London, the newly-created appointment is effective April 2004.Ben Roberts' responsibilities as director of acquisitions will centre around the development of UPI's strategy of all-rights acquisitions for Universal's key operating company ...
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Eight projects vie for co-production market
Projects by eight South-East European filmmakers are in the running to be pitched at the second CineLink co-production market to be held during the Sarajevo Film Festival in August in collaboration with Rotterdam's CineMart.The projects selected by the CineLink regional jury are:Albanian Tales - dir: Saimir Bajo (Albania)Gravity - dir: ...
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Kinowelt's Koelmel faces possible jail term
Kinowelt's Michael Koelmel will appear before Munich's District Court from today (Wednesday) to answer claims of embezzlement, delaying the filing of insolvency and bankruptcy.According to German press reports, the indictment against the media manager runs to 343 pages and the trial documents already fill some 100 files. The trial is ...
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Sydney to get two more sound stages by July
Two additional sound stages, each with a floor area of 1,000 square metres, are to be open for business in Sydney by July."We have been a little behind schedule due to building delays but as promised we will have fully sound proofed stages available for hire," said Serenity Cove Studios ...
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Skillset, UK Film Council unveil $90m training strategy
Training agency Skillset and support body the UK Film Council have announced further details of their new £50m UK film skills strategy, which aims to revolutionise training and skills in the UK industry.A key component of the five-year strategy - called A Bigger Future - is a network of Screen ...
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Godard's latest gets official screening out of competition
Master French auteurJean-Luc Godard's latest film Notre Musique will be screened in the official selection but outof competition at Cannes Film Festival, according to organisers, who also enigmatically promised a surprise for Godard on the night of the film's screening.The film is split into threeparts: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. Hell ...
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Wellspring boards Quinzaine-bound Tarnation
US independent distributor Wellspring has come on board JonathanCaouette's acclaimed docudrama Tarnation as co-producer and worldwide distributor.Wellspring will provide completion financing and marketing fundsfor domestic and international release on the picture, which has secured aDirectors Fortnight slot in Cannes next month.The company's worldwidesales division will begin marketing the picture at ...
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Fortissimo earns Forgiveness
Hong Kong and TheNetherlands-based Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up international rights to Forgiveness,a timely South African drama from the DV8 stable.With a cast headed by TheMummy star Arnold Vosloo, the story is that of an anti-hero. A former Apartheidpoliceman is psychologically tormented by the atrocities he committed in hispast. ...
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France's AB seeks secondary listing
French television producer-distributor Groupe AB, which also operates cable and satellite channels in France and Germany, has announced plans to seek a secondary listing on the Paris Stock Exchange. The company, which acquired leading French cable and satellite channel RTL9 from CLT-Ufa in May 1998, has been listed on the ...
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CJ plays it both ways in South Korea
South Korea's distribution sector looks set for a major realignment, with CJ Entertainment announcing plans to invest in both halves of soon-to-be-split rival Plenus Entertainment.CJ's initial focus will be on the internet/game business, part of its efforts to expand into a "total entertainment company" encompassing film, exhibition, cable TV, and ...
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Restored Wang movie to kick off VC Film Festival in LA
A newly restored print ofWayne Wang's 1982 crime drama Chan Is Missing will kick off the 20th anniversary edition of theVisual Communications (VC) Film Festival 2004, which runs in Los Angeles fromApr 29-May 6.The annual showcase of Asianand Asian-American films will screen more than 100 features and shorts,including the US ...
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TV4 signs long-term deal with MGM for Nordic market
MGM Networks has signed adeal to provide an MGM-branded film block every Monday night on the new NordicTV4 Film Channel, as well as a long-term supply of pictures that will airacross the channel.The TV4 Film Channel isscheduled to debut this month and will be available to cable, satellite and DTTsubscribers ...
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Israeli box office hit goes to Wellspring in North America
US distributor Wellspring hasacquired all North American rights to Savi Gabizon's Israeli box office hit Nina'sTragedies.Wellspring plans an early2005 US release for the picture, which won 11 Israeli Academy Awards andrecounts a turbulent year in the life of a Tel Aviv family through the eyes ofa sensitive teenage boy.Marie Therese ...
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India braces for The Passion on May 15
Deepak Nayar'sKintop Pictures has scheduled the Indian release of Mel Gibson's The PassionOf The Christ for May 15and has already begun a publicity blitz over the Easter weekend with brochuresdistributed in churches across the sub-continent and special screenings heldfor church groups."We will release50 prints of The Passion Of The Christ ...
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Theron, Ricci among Outfest gay and lesbian Screen Idols 2003
Monster and Angels In America dominated LA Outfest's fourth annual Screen Idolawards in honour of the best four performances in a gay, lesbian, bisexual ortransgendered role in a feature film or movie for television.Charlize Theron won the leadactress award for her Oscar winning performance as the serial killer AileenWuornos in ...
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Horizon acquires Proteus to launch at Cannes
Vancouver-based productionand international sales company Horizon Entertainment has picked upinternational rights to John Greyson and Jack Lewis' 18th century interracialgay love story Proteus.The South African-Canadianco-production will receive its first market screening at Cannes and will screenas part of a South African retrospective at the festival to mark the 10thanniversary of ...
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Miramax score best ever openings in Spain, Australia
Miramax's Scary Movie 3 opened top in Spain through Buena VistaInternational (BVI) at the weekend on a superb $3.8m for the fifth biggest BVIlive-action bow ever and the best opening for a Miramax title.Overall the sequel grossed$5.3m at the weekend to raise the international running total from BVI marketsto $70.4m.Starsky ...