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Sufrin promoted at MGM's home entertainment group
Ron Sufrin hasbeen promoted to executive vice president of business and legal affairs at MGMHome Entertainment Group, where he will oversee business and legal affairs forthe company's home entertainment, video-on-demand, pay-per-view and consumerproducts operations.Sufrin reportsto group president and chief operating officer David Bishop and Jay Rakow, MGMStudios' senior executive vice ...
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Gelber, Garfinkel, Fischer get senior promotions at Showtime
ShowtimeNetworks has promoted three key programming executives with Danielle Gelberbecoming senior vice president of original programming, Gary Garfinkel risingto senior vice president of film acquisitions and Sara Fischer named as seniorvice president of production.All three willcontinue to work out of the company's Los Angeles office. Gelber will continueto report to ...
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India strengthens industry ties with Pakistan, UK
The first ever entertainment industry delegation from Pakistan is currently in India to meet with its counterparts in Mumbai after a gap of 40 years.The twenty-strong delegation is led by Shaukat Zaman Khan, chairman, standing committee on Film Production & Censor Issues, Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry ...
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Vivendi reduces its losses to Euros 1.1bn
Vivendi Universal recorded a net loss of Euros1.14bn for 2003, down from the record breaking loss by a French company of Euros 23.3bn that it registered in 2002.The group said that the results reflected tighter management of costs and the disposal of several assets, although the sale of the US ...
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What Will Become Of Us earns 12 Italian Oscar nods
In a surprise turn of events, Giovanni Veronesi's coming-of-age tale Che Ne Sara' Di Noi (literally, What Will Become Of Us) scored a massive 12 nominations for the David di Donatellos awards, Italy's most prestigious accolade - beating films from long-established directors such as Marco Bellocchio, Marco Tullio Giordana and ...
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Oz's Rialto aquires arthouse trio
Rialto Entertainment has picked up three arthouse titles for distribution in Australia and New Zealand as a result of negotiations at the AFM.The three titles are: Joshua Marston's Maria Full Of Grace from HBO Films London, Ken Loach's Ae Fond Kiss from The Works and Ondrej Trojan's Zelary from Menemsha ...
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Seducing Dr Lewis leads Canada's Genie nods
Jean-Francois Pouliot's Seducing Dr. Lewis grabbed 11 nominations while Denys Arcand's Academy Award winner The Barbarian Invasions earned nine nominations and Robert Lepage's The Far Side Of The Moon earned four nominations for the 2004 Genie Awards.All three Quebec titles were nominated in the Best Motion Picture category, as were ...
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UK film sector welcomes new funding rules
UK qualifying films will be able to access 20% of their budget in tax-related support under dramatic new rules unveiled by UK Chancellor Gordon Brown in today's (March 17) budget.Replacing tax-based support under Section 48, the new system will offer filmmakers a credit or rebate worth 20% of budgets that ...
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Cold Mountain kept its leading position at the Romanian box office for the second week running despite a hefty 44% fall-off compared to its opening weeks' performance.Same can't be said about The Last Samurai which is still making a strong 5,000 each weekend despite running for six weeks already.Of last ...
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While the UK chart saw a new leader in Columbia TriStar's Mona Lisa Smile this week and surprisingly strong support from second-placed UIP romantic drama Honey, it was limited releases that held most sway.BVI launched '70s TV spin-off Starsky & Hutch in London's Odeon Leicester Square and in sites across ...
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Chen starts high-profile Promise
Acclaimed Chinese director Chen Kaige has started shooting The Promise (Wu Ji), a big-budget fantasy epic that brings together some of Asia's top talent both in front of and behind the camera.Heading the cast of the film - which cranked up at the Beijing Film Studio on Monday - is ...
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Angrisani joins Miramax as vp, international publicity
Larry Angrisanihas joined Miramax Films as New York-based vice president of internationalpublicity.Angrisani willliaise with distributors and festivals around the world and play a role inimplementing the company's strategic initiatives.Reporting toAmanda Lundberg, executive vice president of worldwide publicity, and RickSands, chief operating officer, he will also work closely with Miramax'sUK-based international ...
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Germany, UK step up anti-piracy operations
Anti-piracy operations in both Germany and the UK say they are making increasing inroads against DVD and video pirates.In its annual report for 2003, the German Federation Against Copyright Theft (GVU) revealed that the fines German courts imposed in copyright cases increased to more than Euros 500,000.Even though proceedings were ...
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Oz's Aurora script programme selects Caesar's Prime Mover
Writer/director David Caesar's Prime Mover is one of four projects chosen for Australia's third Aurora intensive scriptwriting programme.The director of Dirty Deeds, Mullet and Idiot Box is working with producer Vincent Sheehan on what is billed as a diesel-fuelled love triangle between Thomas, his wife Melissa, and his truck. Caesar ...
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Shore to kick off Rings symphony tour in Belgium
Veteran composer HowardShore is launching the European tour of his Oscar winning The Lord Of TheRings score with a concert in theBelgian city of Antwerp on Apr 16.The Lord Of The Rings Symphony: Six Movements for Orchestra and Chorus isbeing organised by the Flanders International Film Festival, a longtimesupporter of ...
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Irish box office shock: Starsky & Hutch vs The Passion
BVI's Starsky & Hutch squared up to Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ and took the round one opening weekend in cinemas in the Republic of Ireland.Given the reported demand for The Passion in the territory - Irish distribution company Eclipse Pictures, which is handling the local release of ...
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Dukakis, McCarthy, others, join Serenade's Wonderful cast
Olympia Dukakis, JimGaffigan, Thomas McCarthy (writer/director of The Station Agent), and Naseeruddin Shah (Monsoon Wedding, TheLeague Of Extraordinary Gentlemen) havejoined Edie Falco, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Tony Shalhoub in the cast of TheGreat New Wonderful, the first projectfrom low-budget production house Serenade Films.The picture weaves togetherfive stories set against the backdrop ...
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Disney to launch TV channel into India
Walt Disney is to launch a satellite TV channel in India next year.Andy Bird, president Walt Disney International met Indian Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ravi Shanker Prasad in Mumbai yesterday (Mar 15) to discuss investment plans for the service.The station has been given the government go-ahead.Disney plans to spend ...
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Romania hosts Seed Of Chucky shoot
Seed Of Chucky, the fifth picture in the Child's Play franchise about berserk homicidal dolls, beganproduction in Romania yesterday (Mar 15).It joins a growing list ofhorror pictures which are shooting in the country including the completed TheMethod and Blessed and upcoming productions Man With A Movie Camera directed by Bernard ...
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De Luca lands in production deal at Sony
Mike De Luca, who leaves hisjob as DreamWorks head of production in June, is in final talks to set up athree-year production deal with Columbia Pictures.Once the contracts aresigned De Luca and his Michael De Luca Productions will move on to the Sony lotin Culver City in July."Mike is a ...