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Talancon takes lead role in Miravista's Ladies' Night
Ana Claudia Talancon, thelead actress of all time Mexican blockbuster El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, will star in Ladies' Night,the first production from Miravista, the pan regional production companylaunched last year by The Walt Disney Company Latin America and Admira, themedia arm of Spanish telco Telefonica.El Crimen received a ...
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Swedish Oscars acclaim Lilja 4-Ever
Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-Ever was the clear winner at Sweden's 38th Guldbagge awards ceremony held last night in Stockholm - winning in five of its six nominated categories.The dark, Russian-language drama about human trafficking triumphed with five awards, including best film, best director and best script. The film's cinematographer Ulf ...
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Nicole Mackey joins Capitol Films
Nicole Mackey has joined Capitol Films as head of international sales, replacing Josh Kramer who is relocating back to Los Angeles.Industry veteran Mackey most recently held the position of president, international sales at Stewart Till’s now defunct Signpost Films.Before joining Signpost in 2002, Mackey was president of international sales at ...
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Catch Me flies into the UK
UK audiences flocked to safe reliability and flirted with controversy amongst this week's openers as Catch Me If You Can landed the top spot and Irreversible played a solid limited launch.Steven Spielberg's latest, which received positive reviews in the territory and stars box office favourites Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, ...
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Box office, admissions fall in Japan, despite increase in screens
Japanese admissions and box office fell slightly in 2002, despite a rise in the number of screens, according to figures compiled by the Motion Pictures Producers Association of Japan. Without a mega-hit like Spirited Away -- which broke all Japanese box office records in 2001, admissions dipped 1.5% year-on-year to ...
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Mondays In The Sun basks in Goya Awards
There was one clear victor in the battle for the top prizes at Spain's 17th annual Goya Awards ceremony held Saturday night in Madrid: Fernando Leon's Mondays In The Sun. Mondays (Los Lunes Al Sol) triumphed with five top awards including best film and director, new actor for Jose Angel ...
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Canal Plus bosses removed in latest executive cull
Following speculation last week, Canal Plus Group president Xavier Couture has reportedly been replaced at the head of the company by Bertrand Meheut. According to the reputable Le Monde newspaper, Couture was fired on Friday afternoon by Vivendi Universal chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou. His successor, Meheut, was previously managing director of ...
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Sichler steps into StudioCanal as Lenormand finally goes...
Frederic Sichler will take over as CEO of StudioCanal, European the film production and distribution division of Vivendi Universal, it was announced on Friday. He starts on Monday (Feb 3).The announcement follows weeks of speculation about a replacement for exiting president Richard Lenormand. Since late December, Lenormand has been rumoured ...
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StudioCanal sales chief Weisbein flies to Senator International
Pierre Weisbein, the formerhead of sales at StudioCanal, has quit the diminishing French film operationand joined LA-based Senator International as executive vice president,international sales and distribution. Weisbein starts with Senator today.The Frenchman, who is basedin LA, will play a key role in evaluating projects for Senator's production andacquisition slate while ...
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Gangs takes top spot for Columbia TriStar in Mexico and Colombia
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) scored atable topping double whammy over the weekend with number one bows for GangsOf New York inMexico and Colombia. In Mexico the picture grossed an estimated $1.1m from 350prints - more than double the number two picture - while the smallerColombian market yielded $120,000 ...
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The Recruit tops box office with $16.5m haul
Three new releases claimed the top three spots over the weekendwith Buena Vista/Spyglass' spy thriller The Recruit leading the pack with a $16.5mnumber one bow. In second was New Line's horror sequel Final Destination 2 on $16.2m while the bronze medal wentto DreamWorks' motorbike action-drama Biker Boyz on $10.1m. In ...
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Noi The Albino sweeps Goteborg
Icelandic newcomer Dagur Kari's Noi The Albino dominated the awards at the Göteborg film festival in Sweden.The closing ceremony for Sweden's 26th film festival in Göteborg was Icelandic newcomer Dagur Kari's night, when his feature debut Noi The Albino (Noi Albinoi) took top honours including the Nordic Film Award, ...
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Maxine Leonard gets evp marketing job at Myriad
Publicityveteran Maxine Leonard has joined Myriad Pictures to head up its marketing andPR operations in Los Angeles. As executive vice president, marketing andpublicity, Leonard will oversee the company's communication strategy in allareas as well as handle the international marketing and publicity campaigns forthe company's production and acquisitions. She reports to ...
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Three films share Tiger Awards at Rotterdam
Three films shared Tiger Awards at the 32nd International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands on Friday.Winning the three equal VPRO Tiger Awards were Santiago Loza's Extrano from Argentina, Park Chan-Ok's Jealousy Is My Middle Name (Jiltoo-Neun Na-E Him) from South Korea and Larisa Sadilova's With Love. Lilya (S Ljubov' ...
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Odeon Cinemas looks likely as Cinven cashes in
Odeon Cinemas, the UK's largest exhibition group, could soon change hands again, with private investment group, Cinven said to be readying a sale.According to reports in Sunday newspaper Business, Cinven is seeking $720m (£450m) for the operation. Odeon operates over 1,000 screens in some 160 sites and lost $11m (£7m) ...
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Toshiba to buy Japan's Amuse Pictures
Toshiba Corp. has announced the purchase of Amuse Pictures, the film and video distribution subsidiary of Amuse Inc. Toshiba will acquire 67% of Amuse Pictures shares on April 1 and the remainder by October. Also, Amuse Pictures will transfer its 73.5% stake in Amuse Soft Sales, a video and DVD ...
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Artificial Eye takes UK rights on Small Cuts
UK distributor Artificial Eye has picked up all UK rights to Berlin International Film Festival competition title Small Cuts (Petites Coupures).Artificial Eye will release the French-language film this autumn. Directed by Pascal Bonitzer, the Rezo Films production stars Daniel Auteuil and Kristin Scott Thomas.The veteran distributor is also releasing another ...
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Pathe plays Hopscotch with the Australians
Australian distributor Hopscotch has teamed up with London-based production, distribution and sales outfit Pathe to co-develop Australian films. Those that get made are likely to be distributed by Hopscotch in Australia, and by Pathe in the UK and France. Pathe will also handle international sales."Everyone sits around and talks about ...
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Russia spawns rival awards events
Russia's new Academy of Film Art founded by director Nikita Mikhalkov has rolled out the first ever edition of its new awards for cinema excellence the Golden Eagles. But the awards which are being touted as Russia's answer to the Oscars have sparked a major controversy as they are competing ...
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Berlinale awash with Talent
Festival directors know only too well that luck as well as judgement determines the strength or weakness of their competition programmes. The state of world cinema may vary enormously year by year - Cannes head Gilles Jacob has even admitted in the past that his programme has merely been the ...