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MIPCOM to launch DVD awards
TheMIPCOM TV programmes market is to launch a series of awards for innovation inDVD content at its forthcoming show (4-8 October).Organisedin partnership with the DVD Association (DVDA, USA) and the International VideoFederation (IVF) the prizes will be awarded in seven categories: TV series(English-language); TV series (original version non-English); children/youthfiction; children/youth ...
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Warner strikes three-picture deal with Italy's Vanzina brothers
Warner Bros Pictures Italy is to collaborate with the celebratedVanzina brothers, through their production company International Video 80, onthree Italian-language pictures.Carlo Vanzina will direct all three and co-write with Enrico, withWarner Bros Pictures International retaining all worldwide rights."This agreement marks our second collaboration with the Vanzinabrothers," Richard Fox, executive vice ...
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UK's Parasol Peccadillo picks up five features at Cannes
UK distribution outfitParasol Peccadillo picked five titles during the Cannes Film Festival forrelease.Three of the films willbe released through distribution arm Parasol Peccadillo Releasing (PPR), whichfocuses on arthouse titles, while two will go through Peccadillo Pictures,which focuses on niche gay and lesbian interest titles.The three films picked upfor release under ...
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Dolgen resigns from Viacom
Following the announcementon Tuesday that Viacom president and COO Mel Karmazin will be succeeded by TomFreston and Les Moonves, Viacom Entertainment Group chairman Jonathan Dolgenhas resigned. He will leave the company on July 15.Dolgen, who has overseenParamount Pictures for over a decade, leaves behind a studio which has had atroubled ...
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Int'l doc market celebrates 15th anniversary
The international documentary market Sunny Side of the Docwill celebrate its fifteenth anniversary when it runs from June 19-22. Set inMarseille, the market will welcome 1,800 professionals from the world over andhas added a day in order to meet growing industry demand and interest.In 2003, 284 buyers and commissioning editors ...
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Spain allies with France in piracy move
Spain's new culture minister Carmen Calvo has lent herSocialist administration's support to long-held French moves to lower statetaxes on cultural products including DVDs and CDs in a bid to counter piracy.The French culture minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, whois spearheading the move, said he was delighted with Spanish support but ...
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Baker Street Media Finance partners with Mactaggart
UK tax financier BakerStreet Media Finance has struck a partnership with Ivan Mactaggart and hiscompany Meteor Pictures.Mactaggart will now act asan executive producer on Baker Street-funded films and oversee businessaffairs, effectively replacing Sharon Menzies, who recently departed to joinfellow financier Foresight. Meteor willbe based out of Baker Street's offices."Ivan Mactaggart's ...
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Danish film institute loses production chief
Lars Feilberg hasdecided to step down as head of production and development at the Danish FilmInstitute from Aug 1, despite recently getting his position prolonged by threeyears."The Danish FilmInstitute has been a highly inspirational and exiting place to work for thepast three years," he says, "and I am proud to ...
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Porchlight strikes US DVD deal with Questar
LosAngeles-based Porchlight Entertainment has signed a deal for the homeentertainment release of 27 of its family-oriented titles through Chicago-basedproduction, marketing and distribution outfit Questar.Among the titlesincluded in the agreement are family kidnap drama A Month Of Sundays starring Rod Steiger, the faith-baseddrama Small Miraclesstarring Jonathan Pryce, and the wartime drama ...
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Green lit - Irish film industry turns to literature
News from Cannes that Neil Jordan will film his adaptationof Pat McCabe's Breakfast On Plutolater this year may mark the resurgence of the literary adaptation in Irishfilm production. Jordan's earlier adaptation of McCabe's The Butcher Boy is often cited, in Ireland at least, as the bestIrish film of all time ...
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Lions Gate, IFC, Showtime join Bob and Harvey's 9/11 coalition
Fahrenheit 9/11 will be released theatrically in the US on Jun 25through a coalition of Harvey and Bob Weinstein's fledgling FellowshipAdventure Group, Lions Gate Films and IFC Films.Pay-TV rights will behandled by Showtime, Lions Gate's pay-TV partner, leaving an announcement stillpending for home entertainment. Focus Features and Columbia TriStar HomeEntertainment ...
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Lasorsa, Kelley get promoted at New Line Home Entertainment
Matt Lasorsa and PamelaKelley have been promoted to executive vice president of marketing andexecutive vice president of sales respectively at New Line Home Entertainment.Lasorsa and Kelley haveshepherded tentpole titles such as The Lord Of The Rings trilogy and key franchises including AustinPowers, A Nightmare On ElmStreet, Rush Hour and Blade ...
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Freston, Moonves step up at Viacom
Tom Freston and LeslieMoonves have been appointed co-presidents and co-chief operating officers ofViacom, effective immediately, following yesterday's (Jun 1) resignation of MelKarmazin.Both Freston and Moonveswill continue with their current roles within the company and will jointlyoversee all Viacom operations as directed by Sumner Redstone, who remainschairman and chief executive officer ...
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FRANCE 1 June
Brad Pitt and Co. continue to lead the box-office chargewith Troy still at number one in its second week. The film only droppedoff by 12% and has so far brought in over $10m. Kill Bill Vol. 2 is also holding strong at number 2 with a $4.5mtake in just two ...
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AUSTRALIA 1 June
For the third time in four weeks the record for the highestopening weekend for a film released in 2004 has been broken, this time thanksto 20th Century Fox's The Day AfterTomorrow. The film took a massive A$6,664,837 from 402 screens and showed ascreen average of A$16,579.But there was only about ...
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NEW ZEALAND 1 June
The Day After Tomorrowdid huge business in New Zealand on the weekend. The 20th Century Fox eventfilm grossed NZ$1,040,090 from 68 screens to record a screen average ofNZ$15,295.Roadshow's Troygrossed NZ$446,928 from 73 screens in its third weekend on release to takesecond place and it was followed by Columbia TriStar's You ...
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FINLAND 1 June
RolandEmmerich's ecological disaster extravaganza, The Day After Tomorrow, easily blew away the other action flicks, Troy, Van Helsing and Kill Bill Vol.2, off the top of theFinnish chart with its impressive Euros 6,199 screen average on its 52 prints.Troy has ten moreprints, but dropped 52% to a low Euros 1,357 ...
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IRELAND Production Listings - June 1 2004
IRELANDPRE-PRODUCTIONAURORA ISLAND(Magma Films [Irl], Art Oko Film [Ger]) Co-prods: Future Film [UK]. Budget:Euros 5m. Backers: Buena Vista [Ger]. Dist: Buena Vista (Germany) andMoviehouse (UK). Thriller. Exec prods: Ralph Christians, Stephen Margolis,Michele Berk. Prods: Karel Dirka, Clodagh Freeman. Dir: Peter Medak. Scr:Agatha Dominik, Robert Newton. DoP: Elemer Ragalyi. Prod des: Michael ...
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Weinsteins secure rights to Moore doc through Fellowship Adventure Group
Harvey and Bob Weinstein have concluded the buy-back of MichaelMoore's Palme D'Or winner Fahrenheit 9/11 from The Walt Disney Co and are free tohire a domestic distributor or distribute the picture personally in the US.The brothers began negotiations several weeks ago after it emergedthat Disney had told both the Weinsteins ...
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Odeon Cinemas heads for auction
The UK's Odeon Cinemas isreportedly going up for auction just a year after it was taken over by aconsortium including Nigel and Trevor Green's Entertainment Group, propertytycoon Robert Tchenguiz and German bank West LB.One of the leading likelybids, from Tchenguiz, is reportedly £50m less than the original price tag.The auction ...