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K-19 forces Intermedia into new profits slump
Intermedia has issued its second profit warning this year following disappointing US box office results for K-19: The Widowmaker, the Harrison Ford picture on which the company raised its direct distribution risk.In January the company announced that it would miss its 2001 forecast, a profit warning that clouded its tie-up ...
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Vivendi sells off Vizzavi - is Hollywood studio next'
The possibility of a sale of Universal appeared to grow more real this week as Vivendi Universal confirmed a series of meetings between new chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou and senior US management.Vivendi Universal has so far maintained that the US studio does not figure in the disposal plans, which call for ...
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Scottish Screen appoints new Chair
Ray McFarlane has been appointed as the new Chair of Scottish Screen.Currently senior director of business banking at the Bank Of Scotland, she replaces James Lee whose four year term of office ended in May. McFarlane has been a member of the Scottish Screen Board since its inception in 1997 ...
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Kuhn & Co.'s UK debut production begins shoot
Wondrous Oblivion, former PolyGram chief Michael Kuhn's debut UK production through his Soho production company Kuhn & Co, has started shooting with a cast including Delroy Lindo, Emily Woof and newcomer Sam Smith as the star.Smith, whose credits include BBC TV's Oliver, plays eleven-year-old David Wiseman, a Jewish boy in ...
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Japan's Sony Pictures turns cinemagoers into film bookers
Japan's Sony Pictures is to overturn the established practice of film programming by inviting audiences to chose which movies to screen - and at which venues, as well as at what times.Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) will launch a new service offering special screenings of Sony films, based on Internet polls. ...
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UK's Home Entertainment Corp. reports increased profits
Home Entertainment Corporation, the UK company that operates the Choices Video retail chain, reported half year pre-tax profits up 9% at $8.24m (£5.37m) on turnover that increased 24% to $158m (£103m).The company, which floated on the AIM tier of the UK stockmarket last October, said that the transition from VHS ...
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The Illustrated Family Doctor gets the greenlight
Acclaimed commercials, short film and documentary director Kriv Stenders has finally got his dark and irreverent debut feature The Illustrated Family Doctor over the financing line. He wrote the script in conjunction with David Snell, author of the novel on which it is based.The commitment of UK-based sales agent ...
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The Illustrated Family Doctor gets the greenlight
Acclaimed commercials, short film and documentary director Kriv Stenders has finally got his dark and irreverent debut feature The Illustrated Family Doctor over the financing line. He wrote the script in conjunction with David Snell, author of the novel on which it is based.The commitment of UK-based sales agent ...
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Vancouver film festival launches screenwriting prize
The 21st Vancouver International Film Festival is to introduce a new local screenwriter's cash award.The $7,700 Citytv Western Canada Screenwriters Award will be presented annually to a film from western Canada, with this year's winner, selected by the Canadian Images jury, to be announced at the Closing Gala Awards Ceremony ...
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Venice gets going: Hot deals, hot air, hot under the collar
In a late deal sealed just on the eve of the Venice Film Festival's opening ceremony, Rome sales outfit Adriana Chiesa Enterprises picked up international distribution rights to two Italian films: Piergiorgio Gay's competition title La Forza Del Passato and Spiro Scimone and Francesco Sframeli's Due Amici, Italy's contender in ...
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Festival gets going: Hot deals, hot air, hot under the collar
In a late deal sealed just on the eve of the Venice Film Festival's opening ceremony, Rome sales outfit Adriana Chiesa Enterprises picked up international distribution rights to two Italian films: Piergiorgio Gay's competition title La Forza Del Passato and Spiro Scimone and Francesco Sframeli's Due Amici, Italy's contender in ...
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Bright Young Things finds new home at Civilian Content, Icon
Stephen Fry's EvelynWaugh adaptation Bright Young Things is expected to be one of the first projects to re-surface after theclosure of the UK's FilmFour.The 1930s-set satire with JudiDench and Peter O'Toole is finalising a deal with Civilian Content, parent ofUK National Lottery franchise The Film Consortium, and the UK arm ...
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UK gets new film classification category
UK censor the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is to relax its 12 certificate, introducing a new advisory 12A label from tomorrow (30 August), bringing the territory into line with the rest of Europe and the US.The new rating will enable children under 12 to watch 12A certificate films ...
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Dinard festival unveils Hitchcock contenders
Paul Greengrass's Bloody Sunday, Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham and Jim Groom's Room 36 are the first three films to be given confirmed competition slots at the forthcoming Dinard Festival Of British Film (3-6 Oct).These and three more yet to be announced films will compete for the Hitchcock d'Or ...
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One Hour Photo develops snappy int'l debut
An impressive debut in Spain last weekend bodes well for the international box office potential of Mark Romanek's One Hour Photo.Released in Spain simultaneously with the US, 20th Century Fox launched the title on a conservative 180 Spanish screens on Aug 23, achieving a strong three-day opening gross of ...
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Sogepaq takes int'l rights on Mondays In The Sun
Spanish distribution house Sogepaq will handle international sales on San Sebastian International Film Festival competition entry Mondays In The Sun (Los Lunes Al Sol).Directed by Fernando Leon (Barrio), the film stars Spanish actor Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls, The Dancer Upstairs) as an unemployed man struggling alongside his peers to ...
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Saturday wins Agnes B award at Sarajevo film festival
Argentine director Juan Villegas'(pictured) Saturday (Sabado) won the Euros 12,000 'J'aime le cinema' Best First Feature Film Award which was donated by French designer Agnes B. at this year's Sarajevo Film Festival (16-24 August).In addition, one of the festival's opening films, 10 Minutes by local director Ahmed Imamovic, received ...
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Alliance Atlantis records dip in first quarter profit
Alliance Atlantis Communications recorded a lower first quarter profit due to weaker results in its broadcast division. In a statement the company said that while its first fiscal quarter is historically its most modest, this was compounded by severance payments for the 37 full-time positions cut earlier in the year, ...
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Hungary celebrates new box-office champion
Hungarian director Gabor Herendi's A Kind Of America, the story of a young film director longing to make his feature debut, has become the most successful Hungarian film ever. In addition, it is now also the film that has spent the most weeks in the box office top ten, pushing ...
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Brazil's Globo secures Universal output
Universal has struck a multi-year output deal giving Brazilian giant TV Globo free TV rights to Universal's current film output, library titles and made-for-television content.The exclusive deal gives Globo titles including Jurassic Park III, The Mummy Returns and Gladiator. TV shows covered by the deal include classic The Woody Woodpecker ...