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Former HSN chief sets up film outfit with Sellevision
Mark Bozek, theformer chief executive officer of Barry Diller's Home Shopping Network (HSN),will kick off his new production company Halo Entertainment with the blackcomedy Sellevision.Bozek is playing to his strengths here as the projectcentres on the home shopping business and is based on the novel by AugustenBurroughs. Bozek adapted the ...
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POW! teams up with films and other products with CIA
Stan Lee andGill Champion's Los Angeles-based POW! Entertainment will co-produce andco-develop an animated series of titles and products with Celebrities In Action(CIA).The projectincludes direct-to-DVD titles, features, video games, clothing, publishing andother consumer products."After havinginvented countless fictional characters over the years, what a kick it is to betackling a project as ...
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Sea Inside is top Goya contender
Alejandro Amenabar's The Sea Inside dominated the nominations at Spains Goya Awards, the local Oscar equivalent, with 15 nods including best film and director.No other title came close to as many nods as Sea, which last weekend picked up best director and actor prizes at the European Film Awards in ...
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Van Gogh's last film debuts on the Internet
0605, the last film of murdered Dutchfilmmaker Theo van Gogh, was released on the Internet on Sunday. The thriller,which reconstructs a fictional conspiracy around the murder of Dutch politicianPim Fortuyn, is the first European feature film to be legally broadcast theInternet before its theatrical release.0605, which refers to the date ...
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Once more with Passion
Christ will rise again inthe UK at Easter next year. UK distributor Icon Film Distribution has announcedthat Mel Gibson's 18-certificate blockbuster film, The Passion Of The Christ,will receive a theatrical re-release in the UK on March 25 (Good Friday), 2005.Exhibitor response to theidea will dictate the scope of the release ...
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CME acquires Czech broadcaster TV Nova
CentralEuropean Media Enterprises (CME), the multinational media conglomerate, hasagreed to buy leading Czech private sector television station TV Nova.Thedeal is rich in irony as TV Nova previously broke away from CME, sparking along-running series of court and arbitration battles.Under theterms of the new deal CME will pay Euros 485m in ...
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MPAA takes legal action against file-trading networks
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) istaking legal action to shut down file-trading networks it says distributemillions of unauthorised copies of Hollywood films and TV programmes.The MPAA said it was filing civil suits and pressing forcriminal actions against networks with the names BitTorrent, eDonkey andDirectConnect.The association said the three ...
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Incredibles rules international box office chart
TheIncredibles is looking unstoppable at the top of theinternational chart with its latest weekend gross nearly double that of thesecond placed title.Lastweekend saw a number one debut in Germany gross $5.7m (Euro 4.3m) from 751,000admissions adding to holdover territories and taking the animated film past$150m internationally.WarnerBros' The Polar Express is ...
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Jones leaves UK Film Council to run New Line/Entertainment venture
Robert Jones is leaving as chief of the UK Film Council'sPremiere Fund to head up Material Entertainment, a new London-based productioncompany jointly owned by Nigel and Trevor Green's Entertainment FilmDistributors and New Line Cinema.The company willlaunch in the first quarter of 2005 and aims to produce up to four pictures ...
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Relativity, Platinum team up on Dylan Dog
Hollywood talentmanagement agency Relativity Management has teamed up with Platinum Studios,which controls one of the world's biggest libraries of comic book characters,on the computer animated thriller Dylan Dog: The Fourth Kingdom.The partners have selected computer animation productionhouse Vancouver-based The Shop Animation Studios to develop and co-produce theproject, based on Tiziano ...
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Lumet to receive honorary Oscar
Sidney Lumetwill receive an Honorary Oscar at the 77th Academy Awards on Feb 27 inrecognition of his "brilliant services to screenwriters, performers and the artof the motion picture.""Lumet is one ofthe most important film directors in the history of American cinema and hiswork has left an indelible mark on both ...
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Australia's FFC bankrolls Elephant, Power
Elephant Tales, a French/Australian co-productionwritten and directed by Mario Andreacchio, and the psychological thriller PowerSurge, the first feature from high-profile commercials director DavidDenneen, will go into production after receiving backing from Australia's Film Finance Corporation (FFC).The FFC has also announced it is willing to invest in fourother features providing certain ...
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Head-On star boards Holocaust Train drama
Head-On star Sibel Kekilli is to play the female lead of ayoung Jewish woman in veteran producer Artur "Atze" Brauner'sHolocaust drama The Last Train (Der Letzte Zug) about Jews being sent tothe concentration camp in Auschwitz in early 1943.The film will be directed by actor Armin Mueller-Stahl. Speakingto ScreenDaily.com, 86-year-old ...
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ROK Player launches to bring film to mobile phones
A new system that allowsmobile phone users to watch films on their phone, even without networkcoverage, launches this week.ROK Player, which launchedin the UK on Monday, is predicting a mobile content platform market worth £100min three years for film distributors, TV companies and record labels.ROK Player is a specialdigital video ...
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Three Dots unveils horror Heirloom
Three Dots Entertainment,the Taiwanese production company behind hit gay comedy Formula 17, hasunveiled a slate of three new productions for 2005.The up-and-coming companyhas secured private equity investment of around US$1m for the three-pictureslate.First off is horror film TheHeirloom to be directed by 23-year-old Leste Chen whose last film, Uninhibited,screened in ...
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Matheson re-elected to key Pact film post
Bard Entertainment managing director Margaret Matheson is to serve athird year on the governing council of producers' alliance Pact as vice chair,film. Matheson stood unopposed for the top film industry role at Pact.Andrew Zein, managing director, Tiger Aspect Productions, will continuefor a second year as chair of Pact, while David ...
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12 projects selected for Sundance Screenwriters Lab in Jan
Projects from the UK, South Africa and Brazil are among 12represented in the Sundance Institute's annual January screenwriters labs,which run from Jan 14-19 2005.The labs offer emerging writers a chance to develop new work underthe guidance of experienced screenwriters including Allison Anders, GuillermoAriaga, David Benioff, Walter Mosley, Frank Pierson, Tom ...
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GERMANY 14 December
Bridget Jones only lasted one week at the top before Disney's TheIncredibles stormed the German box office with over $5.7m from 1,003prints. The film's opening performance of 750,000-plus admissions made it thefourth most successful for a CGI animation film after Finding Nemo (2m),Ice Age (1.5m) and Shrek 2 (1.3m).The only ...
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UK/IRELAND 14 December
It proved a great weekendfor Entertainment at the UK box office this weekend. Entertainment FilmDistributors released both Blade: Trinity and The Phantom Of TheOpera across the country.The third instalment in the Bladefranchise landed second place over the three-day weekend with $3.6m (£1.9m) at329 sites, a stunning $10,810 location average. The ...
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Incredibles crosses $150m at international box office
Buena Vista International's (BVI) The Incredibles was the number one international picturefor the third weekend in a row as it added a mighty $32.1m to raise its runningtotal to $152.1m.The picture opened top inGermany on $5.8m and top in Brazil on an excellent $1.7m on 352 screens thatwas the biggest ...