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Smile snaps up Sinatra pic for Scandinavia
Copenhagen-based Smile Entertainment has acquired the Scandinavian rights to Paul Goldman's The Night We Called It A Day, which started shooting in Australia earlier this month for Scala Productions and Ocean Pictures. The deal was negotiated between Smile's Timo T. Lahtinen and Scala's Nik Powell as an early pre-buy. International ...
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Bertelsmann accesses Euros 1.5bn credit facility
German media concern Bertelsmann has closed the syndication of a five year Euros 1.5bn revolving credit facility to be used for general corporate purposes and to partially replace a Euros 2.5bn bridge loan agreed in June 2002. The non-underwritten deal was so successful with the market that there was a ...
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Greek Wedding swings past $200m
My Big Fat Greek Wedding confirmed its place among the box office elite on Tuesday (Nov 19)when it joined the select band of pictures that have grossed more than $200m. Thecomedy-romance passed the mark exactly seven months or 215 days after its USrelease on Apr 19, with a domestic box ...
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Berlinale announces talent campus hosts, Cinema For Peace special screening
German filmmaker Wim Wenders, production designer Ken Adam, screenwriter Alessandro Baricco and Lia van Leer, founder and director of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and Israel Film Archives are the first industry figures recruited by the Berlinale Talent Campus.The five-day training programme (February 10-14),.which is organised in co-operation with Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg and ...
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Ararat takes highest screen average crown
Atom Egoyan's Ararat scored the highest screen average of films on release in North America last weekend. Opening on six screens in Toronto, New York and LA, the film logged a cumulative $211,130, for an average of more than $35,000. The next highest per screen average was the weekend's box ...
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Cecchi Gori released from house arrest
Embattled movie mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori has been freed from house arrest, although he will have to report to the police on a daily basis and cannot leave Italy. Florence magistrate Francesco Carvisiglia accepted a request by Cecchi Gori's lawyers for their client's release, police said.Cecchi Gori had been staying ...
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Pusan's problems reflect Asian industry's growing pains
The inconsistencies at this year's Pusan International Film Festival and the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) reflect the uneven progress of the growing Asian film industry.The festival and productions markets were hampered by growing pains, most notably the decision to locate in two different districts of Pusan which are an ...
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Hong Kong's Filmko boards Floating Landscape
Rising Hong Kong film-production indie Filmko has boarded romantic drama The Floating Landscape by director Carol Lai (pictured) and producer Stanley Kwan.The film, the story of a recently bereaved woman who unexpectedly finds new love when on a trip to Qingdao to discover her late boyfriend's roots, has been one ...
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Italian broadcaster thrown into disarray by resignations
Two members out of Italian public broadcaster Rai's five-member board have resigned, throwing the TV platform into a new state of disarray.The two members who stepped down on Wednesday are Carmine Donzelli, a publisher, and Luigi Zanda, a lawyer. They were the only two representatives of the centre-left on the ...
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German film industry wants more cash from broadcasters
The debate on a revised Film Funding Law (FFG) - due to come into effect from 2004 - has heated up with the German film industry "umbrella organisation" SPIO calling on the public broadcasters ARD and ZDF to follow the State Ministry for Culture's (BKM) proposal and substantially increase their ...
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Sweden seeks to develop links with German market
On Friday Nov 22 the Swedish minister of culture will open a Swedish Film Week in Berlin. According to Ase Kleveland, managing director of the Swedish Film Institute, the event marks the start of a three-year campaign in the German market by the Swedish Film Institute. "Outside the Nordic region, ...
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Wellspring takes Madame Sata to the US
New York-based Wellspring Media has acquired US distribution rights to Brazilian biopic Madame Sata, the directorial debut of Karim Ainouz, which had its world premiere in Cannes' Un Certain Regard this year. According to Wellspring acquisitions head Krysanne Katsoolis, the company is scheduling a platform theatrical release in April 2003 ...
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Vivendi shares leap at rejection of billion dollar bid for entertainment assets
Vivendi Universal has been approached with a Euros 15bn offer for its entertainment assets by a consortium of businessmen - including oil billionaire Marvin Davis (pictured), the former owner of Twentieth Century Fox - but is refusing to sell. As a result, Vivendi shares ended the day (Thursday) up 21.2% ...
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PPP wraps with attendance record
Local Korean director Hong Sang-soo anda team of Taiwanese directors headed by veteran Hou Hsiao-hsien were named asprize-winners at the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) projects and co-productionmarket that is held parallel with the Pusan festival. Determiningthe real winners - in terms of which projects get the finance and commercialpartners ...
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Bond stirs up box office on UK release
The latest James Bond film Die Another Day has grossed a mighty $1.9m (£1.23m) on its first day of release in the UK.Opening on Wednesday Nov 20, the twentieth film of the franchise scored a strong $4,502 per site (430 sites). This is particularly impressive given that the opening day ...
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Zona leads Serbia/Montenegro box office charge
Government initiatives introduced early last year, which were expected to result in large increases in admissions in Serbia and Montenegro, appear to have paid off with the week ending November 10 giving the territory its highest grossing week in history.Boasting a massive 254,587 admissions ($490,300), an increase of more than ...
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Aardman's Rose goes solo with Sirolo
Michael Rose, who spearheaded Aardman Animations' drive into features with its hit debut Chicken Run, has left the UK animation company to set up his own production outfit, Sirolo Films.The London-based venture has formed an informal partnership with Celluloid Dreams, the Paris-based sales agency of Hengameh Panahi, who aims to ...
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Asia gets multi-purpose market after Korea's BIFCOM-PPP merge
The Busan International Film Commission Exhibition (BIFCOM), held during the Pusan International Film Festival, is set to merge with the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP)'s Korean Film Industry Centre to form an expanded industry expo for the Asian market in 2003. Renamed the Asian Film Industry Center (AFIC), the event will ...