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Ex-Miramax buyer Dreyer joins Sperry's Paris office
Elizabeth Dreyer, who most recently served as Miramax'sLondon-based film buyer, has joined Stephane Sperry's Liaisons Films as vicepresident of development and acquisitions.Dreyer will work out of Liaisons' Paris office and her duties willinvolve coordinating with the company's Los Angeles office, Canal Plus,StudioCanal and parent company Universal Pictures. Liaisons has a ...
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Henson family buys Jim Henson Company from EM.TV
Having been reportedly courted by Haim Saban and Walt Disney, Germany's EM.TV & Merchandising has sold all of its shares in the 100%-owned subsidiary The Jim Henson Company (TJHC) to the children of its founder Jim Henson.The transaction is worth approximately $89m, including a cash purchase price of $78m and ...
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Cannes to screen restored classics
The Cannes Film Festival has announced a line up of restored classics which will be screened during the fortnight in the Salle Bunuel. The program, which began last year, is a way to help audiences discover rare films and to provide them with the opportunity to see cinematic treasures in ...
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Spyglass hires Sortito to tap corporate sponsors
Marketing veteran Karen Sortito has joined Spyglass Entertainmentin the new position of executive vice president of worldwide marketing,Most recently she served as an entertainment consultant forHollywood studios and production companies, where her clients included SonyPictures Entertainment, Revolution Studios and IMAX.Prior to that her previous appointments have included, amongothers, executive vice ...
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Spain's Filmax to expand and diversify
Spanish mini-studio Filmax is preparing ambitious new plans to expand and diversify its already wide-ranging activities. The Barcelona-based company is one of the Spanish industry's biggest, with production, distribution, exhibition and international sales ventures. It is behind internationally successful genre label Fantastic Factory and is readying a new slate of ...
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Studio Hamburg launches English-language division
Studio Hamburg Produktion (SHP) has launched an English-language division Studio Hamburg International Production (SHIP) to focus on internationally marketable productions as part of the reorganisation of SHP's production activities by CEO Sytze van der Laan. Operating from Hamburg and Los Angeles, SHIP's head of production will be former independent ...
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Talk To Her crosses C$1m milestone in French Canada
Pedro Almodovar's Talk To Her has surpassed C$1m ($708,000) in its 19th weekat the Quebec box office, making it one of the top grossing foreign languagefilms of all time in Canada's predominantly French-language province.The highest grossing film in alanguage other than English or French, Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful(La Vie ...
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Johnny English holds up strongly against X2
Universal's smash spy spoof Johnny English has hoisted its international runningtotal to $90.5m after 25 days on release, adding $8.2m from 3,000 theatres in37 countries over the weekend, according to estimates.The comedy placed second in the international market behind Fox's X2:X-Men United and managedseveral decent holds despite the global mutant ...
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X2 global rampage keeps pirates at bay
20th Century Fox's X2: X-Men United grossed an emphatic $69,270,300 outside North America this past weekend in what was the most ambitious - and most lucrative - day-and-date global release ever staged by a studio.Adding in the simultaneous $85,558,731 taken in domestically, the global total of $154,829,031 for X2 represents ...
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UK gives X2 its biggest international opening
As X-Men fever swept the globe over the weekend, the UK was no exception to 20th Century Fox's mammoth success. Indeed X2: X-Men United's $11.3m (£7m) four-day opening from 449 UK sites gave the distributor its highest international opening for the film.The comic-book adventure easily took the top spot over ...
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Albert Lee named CEO of Emperor Multimedia Group
Albert Lee has been appointed chief executive of Hong Kong's Emperor Multimedia Group (EMG), replacing Carl Chang who is leaving the company to set up his own production outfit.Chang is expected to work alongside Lee at EMG until delivery of $6m action adventure The Twins Effect which is currently in ...
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Carver appointed senior vice president at Screen Gems
Benedict Carver has been promoted to senior vice president, acquisitions and co-productions for Screen Gems, it was announced by Clint Culpepper, president, Screen Gems. Carver oversees worldwide acquisitions for Screen Gems and for the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group (CTMPG). He also initiates co-financing ...
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Imax results beat quarterly expectations
Imax Corp. posted improved quarterly results, yieldingearnings of $34m, up from $31.3m in the prior year quarter and exceedinganalyst estimates. The company has been hot of late, following news lastmonth that the second and third Matrix films, The Matrix Reloadedand The Matrix Revolutions, willbe released on Imax screens concurrent with ...
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BVITV names Maigret vice president, portfolio development
Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) has appointed Philippe Maigret as vice president, portfolio development, it was announced by Tom Toumazis, senior vice president and managing director, BVITV EMEA. Maigret will be based in London and report directly to Toumazis. Maigret will focus on optimising the value of the BVITV ...
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CanWest dumps Firestone as Fireworks fizzles
Money-losing Fireworks Entertainment has a new leader,following the departure Monday of founding president and CEO Jay Firestone fromparent company CanWest Global Communications. CanWest has invested considerably more than $100m in thefilm and television production company since acquiring it in 1998. Firestone'sfive-year contract was up for renewal on May 4, 2003. ...
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Nordic films dominate Toronto children's festival
Finnish filmmakerKlaus Haro's Elina continued its winning ways, taking theYoung People's Jury Award at the Sprockets Toronto International Film Festivalfor Children, which wrapped this weekend. Elina, from Sweden, won theCrystal Bear at the Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest in February, and top prizes atthe Montreal International Children's Film Festival and Sweden's BUFF, a ...
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Euro cinema classics set for US re-issue
New York-based Rialto Pictures has acquired US theatrical, videoand DVD rights to seven classic titles from the StudioCanal library vaultsincluding works by Jean-Luc Godard, Vittorio De Sica, Alain Resnais andJean-Pierre Melville.A theatrical run of the restored films will kick off withGodard's romantic comedy A Woman Is A Womanat New York's ...
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Two offers made for UGC Cinemas
Two venture capital firms have made takeover offers for UGC Cinemas according to French financial daily Les Echos. The two, LBO France and CDC Ixis, have made firm approaches to Vivendi Universal, which owns 55% of the exhibition giant. A third venture, headed by Banque Paribas offshoot PAI apparently examined ...
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Streetsweeper cleans up at LA Italian festival
The Streetsweeper, a low budget American drama by James Hill that took five yearsto make, was named best picture at the 5th annual Los Angeles Italian FilmAwards at the weekend (May 4).Broadway veteran Paul Michael stars as a man who honourshis wife's dying wish by cleaning streets in order to ...
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Helkon SK renamed Redbus Film Distribution
Helkon SK chiefs Simon Franks and Zygi Kamasa have renamed their UK distributor Redbus Film Distribution, signalling their imminent separation from bankrupt German parent Helkon Media.Franks and Kamasa have a contractual right to purchase Helkon Media's equity in their UK business at the end of this year but are seeking ...