All articles by Nancy Tartaglione – Page 40
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Lescure's Canal Plus severance package could top Euros 3m
Former Vivendi Universal chairman Jean-Marie Messier fired Pierre Lescure from the helm of Canal Plus in April in what many consided an underhanded manner. Now, however, it seems that Lescure has come out ahead of the erstwhile mogul - at least in terms of his pay-offIn an interview with French ...
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Drubigny leaves UGC International
After a mere six months, UGC International director Alexandre Drubigny has left the company. Although sources at UGC confirm Drubigny's voluntary departure, no answers are being given as to what his future plans are.Drubigny, a former TF1 executive, was hired by Canal Plus in 2001 to head up programming during ...
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Former Canal Plus exec Godfroid joins Air
Former Canal Plus executive Bibiane Godfroid has joined Air Productions, one of France's most successful television production houses.Godfroid, who had been with Canal since 1996, was executive managing director of the Canal Plus Group at the time of her departure earlier this year. She left Canal amid the restructuring ...
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Vivendi to choose between entertainment and telecoms
Vivendi Universal chief executive Jean-Rene Fourtou yesterday announced that he had approval from the corporation's board for a Euros 4bn bid to take over mobile phones group Cegetel. He also revealed that he is not committed to the group staying in the entertainment business.Vivendi Universal currently owns entertainment properties including ...
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Cannes discoveries head Delluc shortlist
Shortlisted for the Prix Louis Delluc are three Cannes films L'Adversaire, La Chatte A Deux Tetes and documentary Etre Et Avoir. But there is no place for France's Oscar hopeful 8 Femmes.A jury of critics and film personalities announced their candidates for this year's Louis Delluc prize late last week. ...
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Messier diary hits French bookstores
Jean-Marie Messier delivers his version of events during his tumultous reign at Vivendi Universal, with the publication in France today of "Mon Vrai Journal" (My True Diary). Excerpts of the book already published in Le Monde reveal the work to be not quite a tell-all nor a memoir, but more ...
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Vivendi Universal reports 2002 third quarter results
Vivendi Universal today released provisional third quarter results for 2002. The company said its revenues had increased 9% to Euros 44.5bn across all businesses for the first nine months of 2002. However, revenues for its media assets in the third quarter were down to Euros 7.4bn, a 4% drop, year-on-year ...
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Pathe seeks public listing
Despite current market instability, Pathe's Jerome Seydoux is looking to the future. In an interview with yesterday's Financial Times, the Pathe chariman said he was eager that his company go public in the next 18 months. Pathe is an entertainment giant in France with interests in film production, distribution, exhibition, ...
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Vivendi faces two new US investigations
One week after becoming the subject of a criminal probe in France, Vivendi Universal has now officially fallen under US scrutiny. The company will be examined by the US Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York and the Security and Exchange Commission's Miami office. The ailing media giant ...
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Beaune conference ends on muted note
The 12th annual Rencontres Cinematographiques de Beaune, a congress of the association of writers, directors and producers (ARP) that takes place in Burgundy's famous wine town, ended Sunday under sunny skies and without much fanfare - though whispering was heard all around. Indeed, the normally fiery three-day round table event ...
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TFM launches Full Frontal into French market
Launching into France's already crowded distribution market, the newly formed TFM - a joint venture between US mini-major Miramax and broadcaster TF1 - has cut its teeth with its first French release. Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal was sent out on 24 screens in the capital on October 2 to lukewarm ...
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Wild Bunch goes independent as Exception
As anticipated, boutique sales house Wild Bunch has announced its separation from parent outfit StudioCanal. The new entity is set to be called Exception.To be run by Wild Bunch president Vincent Maraval along with former StudioCanal chief Brahim Chioua, (pictured) Exception will be 100% independent but will also continue to ...
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Messier faces the heat at Vivendi Universal shareholder meeting
Yesterday evening, Vivendi Universal chairman, Jean-Marie Messier stepped up to the stage before a sweltering and packed house at Paris's Zenith theatre to face a 5,000-strong audience of the annual shareholder's meeting and deliver the performance of his life.Defending himself following weeks of bad publicity, questionable decision making and a ...
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Celluloid Dreams closes out 8 Femmes sales
After launching FrancoisOzon's 8 Women at the AFMlast year, French sales house Celluloid Dreams has come full circle with aspate of finalised deals. PierreMenahem, who has been overseeing the market for the independent outfit, saidyesterday that only four territories remain unsold (Singapore, South Africa,Peru and India) but that those could ...
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New French buyer debuts with Filmax titles
The paint may still be wet on the shingle, but brand new production and distribution company Wild Side Films has made two purchases in its first market outing. By picking up Second Name and Oblivion from Spanish mini-major Filmax, the new company announces its arrival on the international market scene.Second ...
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Nothing Is Everything for Hadida's Metropolitan
Senator International has sold French rights on the Vincenzo Natali directed Nothing to Samuel Hadida's Metropolitan Filmexport. The film, which Senator is financing with Japan's Klockworx, is currently in pre-production while Natali finishes Company Man for Pandora and Miramax. A May start is possible.The Canadian Natali has seen his ...
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Fonlupt dives into Kormakur's The Sea with Flach
Former Ciby 2000 executiveJean-Francois Fonlupt's Emotion Pictures is teaming with Blue Eyes Productions for The Sea, the nexteffort from 101 Reykjavikdirector Baltasar Kormakur. Eric Lagesse, head of Flach Pyramide International, whorecently picked up the film for global sales enthuses, 'It'ssomething hot from a cold place!' Indeed, the film is anIceland-set ...
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Oscar nods, Berlin Bears icing on cake for France
The five Academy Award nominations for France's Amelie were the icing on the cake for a glorious year of French cinema - a year that has seen French films score highly at the box office and now receive Oscar kudos - in addition to the four Silver Berlin Bears awarded ...
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Little controversy at Beaune conference
As the 11th Rencontres Cinematographiques de Beaune drew to a close Sunday (Oct 28), filmmakers comprising the association of writers, directors and producers (ARP) issued a statement outlining the most pertinent points to come from a weekend of debates. The main themes are nothing new in Beaune (cultural diversity, author's ...