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EMI buys into Hong Kong's Golden Harvest
EMI Group, the world'sthird-largest music company, plans to buy a stake in Hong Kong film maker anddistributor Golden Harvest Entertainment.Golden Harvest said in astatement on Monday it wants to raise US$4.9m (HK$38m) via the issue of 155million new shares to Typhoon Music (PRC) Ltd. which is jointly owned by EMIGroup ...
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HONG KONG 19 July
Johnnie To action drama ThrowDown opened in third position with a respectable US$628,172 from 33screens, but was no match for Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkabanwhich grossed more than US$2m in its opening week.Produced by To's MilkywayImage for China Star Entertainment, Throw Down tells the story of aretired judo ...
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French admissions cross 100m in first six months
More than 100million filmgoers went to French cinemas in the first half of 2004, an increaseof 19% over the first six months of last year, and 8% over the stronger firsthalf of 2002, according to the National Federation of French Cinemas (FNCF).102,540,000tickets were sold in the first six months of ...
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Brogliatti promoted to executive vp at Warner Bros
Barbara S Brogliatti (pictured) hasbeen promoted to executive vice president and chief corporate communicationsofficer at Warner Bros Entertainment.Brogliatti will continue tohead up press activities, serving as the company's official spokesperson andchief press officer. She reports directly to Warner Bros Entertainment chairmanand chief executive officer Barry M Meyer.The position involveshandling corporate ...
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AFM ties up with Loews Hotel Santa Monica till 2008
The American Film Market(AFM) has signed a multi-year deal with the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel tocontinue holding the annual eight-day trade event through 2008.The Loews first hosted theevent, now in its 25th anniversary year, in 1991. The next market is scheduledto take place in its new November slot from ...
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Menke, Dykstra, Wolsky among honorees at Hollywood Film Awards
Quentin Tarantino's longtimecollaborator Sally Menke will receive the Hollywood Editor of the Year Awardand Oscar winning visual effects artist John Dykstra will receive the HollywoodVisual Effects of the Year Award at the upcoming Hollywood Film Awards on Oct 18.In other special awards tobe handed out at the Beverly Hilton ...
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Markline gets vp stripes in international publicity at Universal Pictures
Mark Markline has beenpromoted to vice president of international publicity at Universal Pictures,where he will oversee the bulk of the studio's international theatricalcampaigns from production through release in all territories.Based on the studio lot inLos Angeles, Markline will immediately begin work on such titles as TheBourne Supremacy, Ray, and KingKong, ...
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King Arthur reigns in Australia with $2.4m gross
Buena Vista's KingArthur opened in itsfirst international markets through BVI at the weekend including Australia,where it opened top on $2.4m from 245 screens.The self-styled realistic account of the mystical Britishlegend opened top in Singapore on a strong $397,000 on 33 and 35% market share,top in Malaysia on $324,000 from 41, ...
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Brother To Brother, Wild Side top Outfest winners
Rodney Evans's HarlemRenaissance drama Brother To Brother won the OUTstanding American Narrative Feature awardyesterday (18), while Sebastien Lifshitz won the OUTstanding InternationalNarrative Feature prize for the drama Wild Side at the 22nd annual Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Outfest.Jessica Chandler's A FineState This Is took the OUTstandingDocumentary Feature ...
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Beyond, Seven support on-line Evolution
Two of Australia's biggest content suppliers - Beyond International and the Seven Network - have thrown their weight behind a new high-speed network that plans to pump entertainment and services into Australian homes.Operated by fledgling Australian company Evolution Technologies, the venture plans to concentrate on providing services to high-density housing ...
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Amorette Jones heads up marketing at Arenas
Amorette Joneshas joined Latino entertainment and marketing outfit Arenas Entertainment asmarketing chief and will oversee all theatrical campaigns as well as advisingon the company's talent management concerns."Jones' trackrecord and sensibility proves that she can take a film project and deploy aneffective campaign across multiple platforms reaching a broad-based audience,"Arenas chief ...
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Anders unveils lineup for second rock & roll film festival in LA
The secondannual Don't Knock The Rock Film And Music Festival will kick off in Hollywoodon Aug 12 with Gandulf Hennig's Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel and closes on Aug 15 with VickiTischler-Blue's Edgeplay - A Film About The Runaways.The annualthree-day film and music extravaganza launched last year by director AllisonAnders includes ...
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Chomet teams with Universal for Despereaux
Academy Awardnominee Sylvain Chomet is attached to direct an animated adaptation of KateDiCamillo's 2004 Newbery Award winning children's book The Tale OfDespereaux for UniversalPictures.The book, whosefull name is The Tale Of Despereaux: Being The Story Of A Mouse, A Princess,Some Soup, And A Spool Of Threadim, has resided on the ...
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The Manchurian Candidate
Dir:Jonathan Demme. US. 2004. 130 mins.While not all of the choices made in it are successful, Jonathan Demme'scontemporary revamp of John Frankenheimer's marvelous The ManchurianCandidate is unquestionably one of the smarter, more persuasive films toemerge out of a Hollywood studio this year. Loaded with the intensity you'dexpect a cast led ...
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Cinepool strikes first Schloendorff sales
Cinepool has concluded its first sales for Volker Schloendorff's TheNinth Day (Der Neunte Tag) ahead of its world premiere screening inLocarno's Piazza Grande open-air programme on August 5.Cinepool sales executive Wolfram Skowronnek-Schaer told ScreenDaily.comthat the moral drama has already been sold to Switzerland's Filmcoopi andHungary's Best Hollywood and "negotiations are ...
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German fund to raise Euros 230m for Universal
Germany's Hannover Leasing(HL) is to partner again with Universal Studios on its second Montranus mediafund, which is to be launched this September to raise at least Euros 230m forinvesting in several feature films by the US studio.The first Montranus mediafund was, says HL, fully placed "within only a few weeks."To ...
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UK's Metrodome names Frain as theatrical chief
UK distributor Metrodome hasappointed Sara Frain to be its new general manager-theatrical, overseeing thecompany's theatrical acquisitions, marketing and sales.Frain joins on September 2from Tartan Films, where she is director of sales and promotions.Metrodome managing directorAndrew Keyte said: "This year has seen us have the biggest theatrical hit(Monster) in our 10 ...
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Russian Watch clocks up record box office
Russian produced horror film Night Watch, directed byTimur Bekmambetov, is on its way to becoming one of the top grossing filmsin Russian box office history, challenging the $14m record set by Lord OfThe Rings: The Return Of The King. Local audiences are also eagerlyawaiting the sequel Night Watch II due ...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 scores in Middle East
Michael Moore'scontroversial Fahrenheit 9/11 debuted at number one at the United ArabEmirates' box office last week, its first opening in an Arab state in theMiddle East.Its distributor,UAE-based Front Row Entertainment, said the film brought in over 26,000admissions for a gross box office of $211,000 in five days on 16 screens.The ...
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Michael Koelmel faces up to nine years in jail
Kinowelt co-founder Michael Koelmel faces apossible nine-year prison sentence for claims of embezzlement, fraud anddelaying the filing of insolvency.The case against Koelmel opened in mid-April inMunich's District Court, and centres on the bankruptcy of Kinowelt in 2001.In their closing speeches on Tuesday, publicprosecutors Markus Kammann and Mathias Buering called for ...