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Warner Bros sails past billion dollar mark overseas
Driven by the global success of Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone and Ocean's Eleven, Warner Bros Pictures announced that it has passed the $1bn mark in international markets.In the year to date, the division has taken $1.006bn at the international box office. It is the fifth time it ...
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Spanish film on course for bumper box office share
Spanish producers have been predicting since September that the market share for local films would rise this year - up from 10.7% to 12% in anticipation of high-profile autumn releases.The prediction, from the Spanish Producers' Federation (FAPAE), looks on course: as of October 15, Spanish films had an 11.8% market ...
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UK industry reacts to Parker's plea for change
The British film industry is waiting on more detail from Alan Parker, the UK director and chairman of strategy body the Film Council, after he unveiled a blueprint for curing Britain of its 'little England' syndrome, partly by providing tax breaks for local and foreign distributors which invest in British ...
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Local films in Estonia, Serbia/Montenegro smash opening records
Local films in both Estonia and Serbia/Montenegro have this week smashed local box-office records, each taking more in their home territories on their opening weekend than blockbuster Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone. Estonian film, The Names In Marble, became the first local picture in its country's history to break ...
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German TV still suffering from advertising crisis
The recession in the TV advertising market has continued to affect the revenues of German broadcasting giant, the ProSiebenSAT.1 Media Group which reported a 10% decline in revenues - down Euros 40m to Euros 351.1m - for the third quarter of 2002.Over the first nine months of this year, revenues ...
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Till confirmed as head of UIP
In a move that ends weeks of speculation and will have confirmed the suspicions of many in the industry, Stewart Till has been appointed chairman and chief executive officer of United International Pictures (UIP). The announcement was made today by Rob Friedman, chief operating officer at Paramount Pictures and vice ...
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Danish veteran Holst goes solo
Danish veteran producer Per Holst, who won the Palme d'Or, Golden Globe and Academy Award for Pelle The Conqueror, has once again set up his own production company after working under major Nordisk Film for some 10 years. The 63 year-old Holst (pictured) has established Asta Film with two newcomers, ...
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Kaurismaki, Almodovar lead European Film Award nominations
Local box office hits line up against several of this year's festival prize-winners as the eight nominees for the 2002 European Film Award, to be handed out by the European Film Academy in Rome on Dec 7.Leading the way in nominations for Europe's own answer to the Oscars is Aki ...
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Scacchi and Prochnow headline Baltic Storm
Greta Scacchi and Juergen Prochnow are the leads in US director Reuben Leder's poltical thriller Baltic Storm which began shooting on location in Berlin on November 5.The co-production between Babelsberg-based Top Story Filmproductio, Denmark's Smile Entertainment and the UK sales agent IAC centres on the sinking of the Baltic ferry ...
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Stephen Fry starts shooting Bright Young Things
Dan Aykroyd, Jim Broadbent, Simon Callow, Richard E Grant, Sir John Mills and Peter O'Toole are all set to play cameo roles in Stephen Fry's directorial debut Bright Young Things, which started shooting this week in and around London and at Pinewood Studios.An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies, the ...
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Four Nordic sales companies form Viking Export
Four Nordic film sales companies have joined together to create an informal lobbying group, Viking Export.Members include Svensk Filmindustri (SF) and NonStop Film Sales from Sweden and Nordisk International and Trust Film Sales from Denmark. Ann-Kristin Westerberg of SF has been asked to chair the group.Viking's agenda is to improve ...
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Das Werk's holding company files to start insolvency
Following Helkon International Production and peppermint from the Helkon Media Group, the German postproduction group Das Werk has become the latest former Neuer Markt stock to file an application to start insolvency proceedings. And while peppermint was still operating at MIFED as a sales entity with an ongoing business - ...
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Rialto Film is first in line for Dear Wendy
Switzerland's Rialto Film has been the first to pick up distribution rights to Dear Wendy, the highly-anticipated collaboration between Denmark's award-winning filmmakers, Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. The two previously fathered the influential Dogme95 movement, and this time Vinterberg will direct the English-language film based on Trier's script. Wendy ...
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Industry jury still out on MIFED's future
If anything concrete could be learned from this year's MIFED it was that the jury is still out on whether the Milan event should be replaced as the pre-eminent movie market of the autumn.And there was even less consensus among buyers and sellers over whether their business calendar should be ...
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Industry jury still out on MIFED's future
If anything concrete could be learned from this year's MIFED it was that the jury is still out on whether the Milan event should be replaced as the pre-eminent movie market of the autumn.And there was even less consensus among buyers and sellers over whether their business calendar should be ...
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Intermedia takes world sales rights on Suriyothai
Los Angeles-based sales house Intermedia has picked up world sales rights on Suriyothai, the historical epic, which is the largest film ever to come out of Thailand.Directed by Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol and originally presented in a three hour version at the Pusan festival in November 2001, the film was subsequently ...
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Divided Asia may hold key to MIFED future
Although London's pre-MIFED Screenings was undone by the power of a handful of US sellers, dislodging MIFED could depend on persuading one group which has traditionally found the Milan event a hit, Asian buyers and sellers.However, there appears to be no consensus among the Asians who were at MIFED ...
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Jackie Chan suits up for hit in Korea
Jackie Chan-vehicleThe Tuxedo landed top of the South Korean box office last weekend with an impressive $1.96m nationwide opening. Sporting a strong screen average of $11,140, the film is another hit for Chan, who has a long history of box-office success in Korea, and easily bested the $1.4m opening for ...
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MIFED deals
Korea's CJ Entertainment struck its first ever Mexican sale when it sold drama The Way Home to Cine Video Y TV. Paramount Classics opens the film in neighbouring US on Nov 15. CJ, which had amassed over $1m of sales revenue by day four of the MIFED market, had another ...
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Hard sell, soft money
For many market players MIFED this year has been as much about putting together next year's films through international financing partnerships as it has been about selling the ones on their current slates.Former Das Werk boss Stefan Jonas was in town with his new company Playground. Nothing very striking in ...