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Sharp rise in Argentine cinema admissions
The Lord Of The Rings : The Two Towers propelled Argentine admissions to a record high in January. Admissions rose 60% compared to the same period last year. Another franchise, Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, which opened in December 2002, also helped bring back cash -strapped ...
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UK's Momentum restructures home entertainment arm
UK distributor Momentum Pictures is to restructure its home entertainment division, with director of retail video Conrad Withey leaving the company this month to set up his own production company and rights business.Peter Dutton, head of Momentum's rental video division for the past three years, is promoted to the newly ...
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John Daly's back, now heading up Miracle Entertainment
Producer JohnDaly, the former Hemdale Films chief who recently joined Miracle Entertainment aschairman, has launched Miracle Film Distribution (MFD), a wholly owned film distributioncompany that plans to release 10-12 picture a year in the US domestic market. Daly said MFDhas arranged a print and advertising fund for its first release, ...
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UK's Optimum makes Discoveries with BBC Four
UK independent distributor Optimum Releasing is teaming with BBC Four to release an annual package of six world cinema titles, designed to increase the number of foreign titles distributed in the UK.Dubbed Discoveries, the programme will focus on new films from first time directors, as well as more established film-makers ...
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German box office in decline, recovery predicted
Box office takings in Germany last year were the second best since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, according to figures released by the German Federal Film Board (FFA) yesterday.The FFA's statistics showed that box office turnover was down 2.8% year-on-year from 2001's Euros 987.2m to Euros 960.1 ...
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Spirited outing for new Irish film festival
The inaugural Dublin International Film Festival (March 6-13) has clinched a major sponsorship deal with Jameson Irish Whiskey worth Euros 100,000. The partnership is one of the largest business sponsorships of the arts in Ireland in recent years. Backing of Euros 25,000 has also come from the Arts Council, while ...
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Taxi 3 gets off to flying start
The third instalment in French action-comedy franchise Taxi got off to a racing start in three European territories this weekend. Taxi 3 sped into top positions in France and Belgium and saw an impressive launch in French-speaking Switzerland to take a total weekend haul of $11.6m.Launching in France last Wednesday ...
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Babelsberg gets Around The World
Babelsberg Studios has been given a major boost with news that Jackie Chan's Around The World In 80 Days will be shot at the studios from this spring.Frank Coraci (The Wedding Singer) directs the big-budget production for US-based Walden Media at Babelsberg and on location including Berlin and Central Germany. ...
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Taormina festival plots date change to attract Hollywood
The Taormina film festival is to move one month forward, in a bid to establish the event as a European launch-pad for summer blockbusters. This year's edition will run from June 7 - 14.Ever since he took over the festival's reins in 2000, former Venice director Felice Laudadio (pictured) ...
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French film critics vote documentary Etre Et Avoir as best film
Cesar nominees Etre Et Avoir and Talk To Her took the major French film critics' awards on Monday evening at a ceremony in Paris. Etre Et Avoir is a documentary by Nicolas Philibert centering on a small provincial school with only one class. The film's star, professor Georges Lopez, has ...
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Catch Me If You Can runs up European revenues
Catch Me If You Can swept through a host of new territories over the weekend notching up more than $15.5m from the nine territories that received it. These openings included UIP's launches in three major European territories: Germany, Italy and the UK.The unquestionable box office draw of megastar triumvirate Leonardo ...
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In This World to get UK release by ICA Projects
Michael Winterbottom's Berlin competition title In This World has secured a UK release though ICA Projects, the distribution-exhibition offshoot of UK cultural institute the ICA.ICA's acquisition of UK theatrical and video rights to the film continues its aggressive acquisition policy on specialist titles such as Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without ...
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UK's Winchester gets Last Orders settlement
The UK's troubled Winchester Entertainment has reached a $2.5m (£1.53m) settlement with German fund MBP after a dispute over payments on Last Orders.The agreement sees $1.6m (£980,000) paid to Winchester in cash. The AIM-listed UK company will receive the balance of $906,500 (£550,000) in instalments over the next six months.The ...
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Former agent, producer Peter Shaw dies in LA, aged 84
Peter Shaw, the formerHollywood agent who married Angela Lansbury and produced her in thelong-running TV series Murder, She Wrote, has died of heart failure after a long illness. He was 84. Shaw was born in Reading,England, in 1918 and served in the Army in the Second World War beforerelocating to ...
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Marshall, Swedlin among four new BAFTA/LA board members
The British Academy of Filmand Television Arts/Los Angeles (BAFTA/LA) has elected producers Alan PMarshall and Rosalie Swedlin, Universal Studios Home Video vice president ofpublicity Vivian Mayer Sr, and Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, partner at Glassman, Browning& Saltsman, to its board of directors. The four new board members joinreturning directors Ian Abercrombie, David ...
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Fine Line wins battle to release HBO Films' Splendor
For the second time in six months, HBO Films has sealed adeal to release one of its productions theatrically in North America before itsHBO TV premiere, this time teaming with AOL Time Warner sister company FineLine Features to release American Splendorwhich last month won the Grand Jury Prize at the ...
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Changes at Myriad: Roberts signs three-year production deal
Moving tobolster the production and development divisions at Myriad Pictures, companypresident Kirk D'Amico today (Feb 4) announced that former vice presidentof acquisitions and development Karen Roberts has signed a three-pictureproducing deal with the company. In addition, Neil Butler has been promoted todirector of development and JC Rappaport becomes manager of ...
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Rosario Tijeras rights snapped up for adaptation
Mexican producer Matthias Ehrenberg of Titan Prods. (Sex, Shame And Tears) beat stiff competition for the rights to best-selling novel Rosario Tijeras by hot new Colombian writer, Jorge Franco Ramos, hailed as the precursor of a new generation of writers in Colombia. Up to 15 million copies of Rosario Tijeras ...
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Beauty wins Hungarian Film Week main prize
The Main Prize of the 34th Hungarian Film Week was awarded to Peter Gothar's feature Hungarian Beauty. The story that probes the problems of two neighbouring families in present day Budapest beat the 21 other films in competition, judged by the five-member jury chaired by Sandor Radnoti. Three films received ...