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German VOD market grows with ProSiebenSat.1-Disney deal
Germany's ProSiebenSat.1 Group and Disney-ABC International Television have closed their first deal for Subscription Video-on-Demand (SVoD) feature films for ProSiebenSat.1's video online store maxdome, licensing such library titles as Toy Story 2, Armageddon and Pearl Harbor, the first dealof its kind in Germany.In addition, they concluded a transactional VoD agreement ...
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Tele München launches international sales arm with Sea Wolf
Herbert Kloiber's Tele Muenchen Group (TMG) has launched its own as-yet-unnamed international sales arm with the TV two-parter The Sea Wolf based on the classic Jack London novel as its first title.The position of Head of International Sales at the new venture has been taken by Carlos Hertel who had ...
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Odeon/UCI to manage five more cinemas in Ireland
Odeon and UCI Cinemas have struck a deal with Entertainment Enterprises Group to manage and operate a further five multi-screen cinemas in Ireland, after the recent acquisition of the Storm Cinema group.The five cinemas will continue to be run under the Storm name.Odeon and UCI Cinema Group now operate and ...
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Once star Marketa Irglova in talks for horror role
Czech musician and star of Once, Marketa Irglova, is in talks to appear in an upcoming project from veteran director Juraj Herz.Irglova, who co-wrote and performed Once's Oscar-winning song 'Falling Slowly' with Glen Hansard, is in negotiations to play a main supporting role in psychological horror Darkness.Produced by Prague-based Film ...
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BAFTA Wales film nominees include Summer Scars, Daddy's Girl
BAFTA Wales has announced the nominees for its 17th annual awards.Nominees for best film are DJ Evans' Daddy's Girl, Ashley Way's Small Country (Calon Gaeth), and Julian Richards' Summer Scars. Daddy's Girl star Richard Harrington is also recognised in the best actor category.TV projects nominated include Coal House, The History ...
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Revanche takes grand prix at Austria's Diagonale
Goetz Spielmann's rural drama of guilt and revenge Revanche was awarded the Diagonale Grand Prix for Best Austrian Feature Film 2007/2008 at this year's showcase of Austrian filmmaking in Graz at the weekend.In addition, the film's DoP Martin Gschlacht received the award for best cinematography in a feature film. Revanche ...
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Korea Telecom, Softbank launch $41m content fund
Korea Telecom (KT) and Japanese IT investment company Softbank have announced a $41m (KW40bn) content fund called the KT Global New Media Investment Fund. The two companies are to invest 50:50 in the fund focusing on content for KT's internet protocol TV (IPTV) service MegaTV, which will also be shared ...
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Sony's 21 comes up trumps again in US
Sony's card counting drama 21 came up trumps in its second weekend to hold on to the top spot and shut out Universal's George Clooney screwball comedy Leatherheads and Fox/Walden Media's family adventure Nim's Island.Last week's leader added an estimated $15.1m to reach $46.5m in an uninspiring session that bore ...
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MGM snaps up Ludlum thriller to star Denzel Washington
MGM Motion Pictures and Relativity Media have acquired rights to Robert Ludlum's thriller The Matarese Circle.The property had done the rounds at the US majors as executives hunted for a new spy franchise from the late author, whose Jason Bourne series has brought Universal Pictures such lavish rewards.News late last ...
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UTA 'comedy wheel' derails to Endeavor agency
Senior UTA partners Nick Stevens, Sharon Sheinwold and Lisa Hallerman - prominent members of the so-called 'comedy wheel' that came to define UTA as Hollywood's leading laugh factory - have defected to Endeavor.While it remained unclear whether the new arrivals will be anointed as partners in their new Beverly Hills ...
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Mermaid wins best narrative feature in Dallas
Anna Melikyan's Mermaid won an unrestricted $25,000 cash prize for the Target Ten Filmmaker Award for Best Narrative Feature as the AFI Dallas International Film festival came to a close at the weekend.The Russian film was previously shown in the US at the Sundance Film Festival and then at the ...
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Horton hears nearly $100m overseas for Fox
As expected, Fox International's Horton Hears A Who! dominated the Hollywood overseas pack thanks to a three-day haul that delivered an estimated $11.7m from 5,783 screens and raised the tally to $91.5m.The animated family release is several days away from crossing the $100m threshold and owes much of its weekend ...
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Meurer, Curling to produce Stephen Fry's Handel biopic
Egoli Tossell Film Halle, the joint venture production company established by Berlin-based Egoli Tossell Film and the UK's Zepyhr Films initially to produce Michael Hoffman's $20.5m (Euros 13m) The Last Station, has other projects in the pipeline to be shot in Central Germany and particularly in the Land of Saxony-Anhalt. ...
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Celestial pacts with Kadokawa, MGM Central Europe
Hong Kong-based Celestial Pictures has signed two new distribution deals for its Shaw Brothers library with MGM Channel Central Europe and Kadokawa Entertainment in Japan. The deal with Kadokawa includes video, pay-TV, free TV, video-on-demand and mobile distribution rights. Kadokawa will offer different genres from the Shaw Brothers library - ...
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UK sales company Lumina rebrands as Salt to reflect wider remit
London-based Lumina Films has changed its name to The Salt Company, or Salt for short. The change is effective immediately.Samantha Horley continues as managing director with Lumina partners Robert Bevan and Cyril Megret now more hands-on as directors of Salt.Salt is part of the Monaco-based International Film Collective that also ...
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Charlotte Van Weede leaves HanWay for new Protagonist
Protagonist Pictures, the new UK-based sales company formed by Film4, Ingenious, and Vertigo, has hired Charlotte Van Weede as its head of sales.The company's CEO Ben Roberts announced the appointment of Van Weede, who joins from HanWay Films, where she is director of sales and distribution.Prior to joining HanWay in ...
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Censors block four films at Singapore festival
The 21st Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF) which started on Apr 4 has lost four documentary films to the local censors with another feature still pending a rating.Two of them, Arabs And Terrorism and David The Tolhildan, were 'disallowed' on account of their sympathetic portrayal of allegedly terrorist organisations.'Films which ...
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Censors block four films at Singapore festival
The 21st Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF) which started on Apr 4 has lost four documentary films to the local censors with another feature still pending a rating.Two of them, Arabs And Terrorism and David The Tolhildan, were 'disallowed' on account of their sympathetic portrayal of allegedly terrorist organisations.'Films which ...
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India's UTV restructures film division
UTV has restructured UTV Motion Pictures, its film production and distribution division, and promoted Siddharth Roy Kapur to CEO, UTV Motion Pictures.Previously Kapur was EVP Marketing, Distribution & Syndication, UTV Motion Pictures. He will continue to report to Ronnie Screwvala, CEO, UTV Software Communications and be responsible for spearheading the ...
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Indiana Jones setfor Cannes premiere, accordingto star
The fourth filmin the Indiana Jones series will premiere at this year'sCannes, according to actor John Hurt, who appears in the film.There has long been speculation that the Steven Spielberg-directed film - Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of TheCrystal Skull - would be one of this year's big Hollywood attractions ...