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Highlight bid met with hostility from Constantin
Highlight Communications' bid for additional Constantin shares has sparked 'controversial discussion' within the German distributor-producer's supervisory and management boards about the possibility of the Swiss media concern effecting a complete takeover.In a statement, Constantin announced that 'alternative scenarios and possible counter-measures in the sense of Constantin Film's shareholders' were presented ...
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Warner, Pandora team to distribute A Home At The End Of The World
Warner Bros Pictures willhandle domestic rights and Pandora will handle international sales on A HomeAt The End Of The World, the secondfilm to be made from a novel by Michael Cunningham (The Hours) which is currently in production in Toronto, NewYork and Arizona. The film, which stars ColinFarrell, Robin Wright ...
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Bertelsmann raises $500m from US private placement
German media concern Bertelsmann has raised $500m from US investors in a private placement to offset existing bank loans.The issue, which was more than three times oversubscribed and represents the biggest US private placement to date by a German group, is divided into three tranches: one of $100m with a ...
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Buenos Aires Lab announces subsidy award winners
Buenos Aires Lab, the film workshop launched by the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival with the co-operation of the Fundacion Antorchas of Argentina and the Hubert Bals, Goteburg, Rockefeller and Ford foundations, announced the winners of subsidy awards at the festival (April 16 to 26).The Hubert Bals fund rewarded ...
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Mexican production company buys into arthouse cinema
New Mexican film production company INDIFilms has bought a major stake in arthouse cinema Cinefrancia in Mexico City. INDIFilms, run by Juan Carlos Blanco and his wife Mitzuko Villanueva, currently has three films in pre-production, both written and to be directed by Blanco. Villanueva will take over the day to ...
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Norway puts cinema sell off plans on hold
Plans by Norway's three largest cities - Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim - to sell large stakes in their municipally-owned local exhibitors have stalled. Oslo City Council has not managed to secure the price it wanted from any private cinema operator for a 66% of its stake in the municipally-owned ...
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Bailey, Barbato named recipients of Frameline Award 2003
Frameline,presenter of the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival(SFILGFF), today (Apr 24) announced that this year's Frameline Award willgo to Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, the director-producers of numerousgay-themed TV and film projects through their World of Wonder Productions.The award willbe presented at the 27th SFILGFF on Jun ...
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MGM announces reduced losses for first quarter of 2003
MGM today (Apr 24) announcedreduced losses for the first quarter of 2003, driven chiefly by the successfultheatrical release of Agent Cody Banks, improved performance in the home entertainment division and the launchof MGM-branded channels in Europe.First quarter 2003 losseswere $55.8m or 22 cents per share compared to a net loss ...
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Two Towers scales $910m worldwide box office
New LineCinema's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers has become the fifth highest grossingworldwide film of all time with a cumulative box office to date of $910m.Making the announcementtoday (Apr 24) Rolf Mittweg, the company's president and chief operatingofficer of worldwide distribution and marketing, hailed the achievement as ...
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Focus, Eskwad team up for French thriller Saint Ange
Focus Features andStudioCanal subsidiary Eskwad have teamed up to finance the thriller SaintAnge, Focus co-presidents DavidLinde and James Schamus announced today (Apr 24).Principal photography is setto begin imminently in France, where the film will be shot simultaneously inEnglish-language and French-language versions.Focus has worldwide rightsto the film excluding France and other ...
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STARZ! takes three TV premieres including DNA's Final Curtain
Three movies -DNA's British comedy The Final Curtain, Nu-Image/Millenium Films' romantic comedy AllI Want aka Try 17 and StudioCanal's Gaughin biopic ParadiseFound - will go straight topay-TV on the US through Starz Encore Group's STARZ! Cinema multiplexchannel.In The FinalCurtain, which premiereson STARZ! Cinema in June, Peter O'Toole plays a leading ...
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Wolfe Video to invest in US theatrical distribution
Wolfe Video, theUS distributor dedicated to gay and lesbian videos, is embarking on a newstrategy of marketing support to independent theatrical distributors whosetitles it will eventually release on video.Making theannouncement today (Apr 24) company president Maria Lynn Wolfe said she waslaunching the initiative with a marketing outreach campaign in support ...
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Teri Kane leaves Miramax after nine years, sets up PR firm
Teri Kane,Miramax senior vice president of publicity, is leaving the company to set upher own firm, Teri Kane Public Relations.During hernine-years at Miramax, Kane has overseen individual publicity campaigns onnumerous acclaimed films, including Academy Award winners Shakespeare inLove and The EnglishPatient.'Teri hasmade great contributions to Miramax during her long tenure ...
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Wild Bunch takes selected territories for Today And Tomorrow
France's Wild Bunch has picked up international sales rights outside Spain and four Latin American territories on new Argentinean title Today And Tomorrow (Hoy Y Manana), set to premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.Spanish rights will remain in the hands of Madrid-based sales and production house Bulbeck & Mas, ...
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Directors' Fortnight champions 'less equal' films
Directors' Fortnight, under the new stewardship of Francois Da Silva, has unveiled a greatly expanded line-up for this year's Cannes Film Festival. Usually featuring some 15 films, this year's Directors' Fortnight showcases 25 films from 19 countries, while a further 9 countries are represented in the concurrent shorts competition. (See ...
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Fortnight champions 'less equal' films
Directors' Fortnight, under the new stewardship of Francois Da Silva, has unveiled a greatly expanded line-up for this year's Cannes Film Festival. Usually featuring some 15 films, this year's Directors' Fortnight showcases 25 films from 19 countries, while a further 9 countries are represented in the concurrent shorts competition. (See ...
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UK's Artificial Eye acquires At Five In The Afternoon
UK distributor Artificial Eye has picked up Samira Makhmalbaf's Cannes competition film At Five In The Afternoon.The distributor is waiting until January next year to release the film, understood to be the first foreign film made in Kabul since the toppling of the Taliban regime.The pick-up renews Artificial Eye's relationship ...
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Reese Witherspoon to play slain American activist
Reese Witherspoon is attached to star in a South African film about slain American activist Amy Biehl for Anant Singh's Videovision. Durban-based producer Anant Singh said this week: "When the movie's ready to go, she will be the star playing Amy." Witherspoon's manager, Evelyn O'Neill, told South African press that ...
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Adriana Chiesa Enterprises picks up slew of new titles
Rome sales agent Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE) has picked up worldwide rights to several new films, including Berlin title Little More than A Year Ago - Diary of a Male Porn Star.The Italian drama, which explores the last year in the life of a famous gay porn star, Riki Kandinsky, ...
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Transylvania film fest announces competition line-up
The Transylvania International Film Festival has announced its program for its second edition to take place May 23-31 in Cluj. Over sixty features will be screened in three venues, out of which thirteen will be in competition for the Transylvania Trophy and the $4,000 prize. The competition is limited to ...