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Effects gurus launch Uncharted Territory production outfit
The Academy Award-winning special effects team of Volker Engel (Independence Day) and Marc Weigert today announced the formation of their new production company, Uncharted Territory. Based in Los Angeles, the duo plan to make story-driven motion pictures with cost-effective blockbuster effects. Uncharted Territory's first feature, the action adventure Coronado,recently wrapped ...
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Moonstone to handle Kaige's Together for worldwide sales
MoonstoneEntertainment announced today that it will start representing Chen Kaige's Together for worldwide sales ahead of its galaworld premiere at next month's Toronto International Film Festival. The latestfeature from Kaige, whose previous credits include the Miramax-released Farewell,My Concubine - willshowcase under the festival's Masters Series banner on September 10 and ...
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Lantana
Ray Lawrence's critically-acclaimed second feature, Lantana, continued to take Europe by storm at the weekend opening on a platform 16 prints in the UK this week with a resounding $142,409 (£92,566) for distributor Winchester.Scoring a massive per site average of $8,900 the Australian title, which features an ensemble cast including ...
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Universal Studios faces merger with Malone's cable networks ahead of possible IPO
John Malone's Liberty Media has reportedly begun exploratory talks with Vivendi Universal with a view to merging some of his cable TV interests with the US entertainment businesses of the beleagured French conglomerate. The combined operation, which would bring Universal Studios, Focus Films and USA Networks under the same roof ...
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AOL takes back full ownership of Warner Bros, HBO
AOL Time Warner has taken full control of Time Warner Entertainment (TWE), the business that owns Warner Bros. studios and cable channels HBO, Court TV and Comedy Central, with a $9bn acquisition of the telecommunication giant AT&T's 27% stake.The deal ends two years of negotiations between AOLTW and AT&T over ...
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Scorsese, Lynch, Coppola head for Morocco
A jaw-dropping pageant of international stars is set to take the desert air at the forthcoming Marrakech International Film Festival (Sept 18-22) in Morocco.David Lynch, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Catherine Deneuve, Edward Yang, Constantin Costa Gavras, Monica Bellucci, Patrice Leconte, Elodie Bouchez and Irene Jacob are scheduled as guests ...
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My Little Eye director, producer plan 'musical verite'
After receiving a strong positive reaction for their horror title My Little Eye at an audience screening at the 56th Edinburgh Film Festival, director Marc Evans and producer Jon Finn (Billy Elliot) revealed that their next project will be world's apart from the one they are promoting in Scotland. The ...
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Goldwyn acquires Mexican priest scandal smash for US
Samuel GoldywnFilms has acquired North American rights to Mexican priest-scandal drama TheCrime Of Father Amaro (ElCrimen Del Padre Amaro),which has already been a controversy-fueled smash hit in its home country. The film is slated for US release in late 2002.The $1.8m dramabroke weekend opening records in Mexico after it debuted ...
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Sundance Institute among HFPA's new beneficiaries
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) presentednearly half a million dollars in donations to the Sundance Institute and othernon-profit organisations at its annual installation luncheon in Beverly Hillsfor incoming officers. Cameron Diazaccepted a $200,000 cheque on behalf of the Film Foundation Inc while otherrecipients included: Don Cheadle on behalf of ...
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Canada's Telefilm announces management restructure
Canada's film and television development agency Telefilm has appointed three new management executives as part of plans to improve its "decision-making, processes and overall performance" announced by executive director Richard Stursberg at Banff in June.Paris-based director of Telefilm's European office, Sheila de La Varende moves to a new position of ...
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Publicity change-around at Universal, MGM
Universal and MGM separately announced a number of keyappointments today as part of a strategic restructuring of their publicitydepartments. At Universal,Jeffrey Sakson, Stephanie Kluft, Michael Moses and Greg Sucherman were namedsenior publicity executives and will report directly to Universal PicturesMarketing co-president Eddie Egan. Sakson, whojoined the studio's New York office ...
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Revolution renames Lopez, Fiennes romance
RevolutionStudios has changed the name of its romantic comedy The Chambermaid, starring Jennifer Lopez and RalphFiennes, to Maid In Manhattan. The picture wasco-produced by Shoelace Productions and directed by Wayne Wang, whose previouscredits include Smokeand The Joy Luck Club.Lopez plays amaid in a first class Manhattan hotel who is mistaken ...
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Restructured Nordisk Film aims for former glory
Nordic media giant Egmont has once again restructured it film divisions and has merged its production outfit Nordisk Film with distribution arm Egmont Entertainment, into a new entity called Nordisk Film. Egmont Entertainment's managing director Kenneth D. Plummer will head up the new organisation that will have an annual turnover ...
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SPE smashes annual box office record
Sony Pictures Entertainment has broken its own industry record for North American ticket sales by one studio in a single calendar year, registering $1.29bn and passing 1997's previous best mark of $1.27bn with more than four months to spare.With a 2002 slate that includes such tentpole successes as Spider-Man and ...
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Veteran Indian film-maker appeals over 'ridiculous' censorship
Indian documentary film-maker Anand Patwardhan is appealing to the country's Appellate Tribunal in a bid to overturn a decision by Indian censors that is insisting over 20 cuts be made to his anti-war film War and Peace before it can be shown in Indian cinemas.Despite triumphing at the Bombay International ...
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Audiard, Felsberg, Kovacs join Venice jury
French director and scriptwriter Jacques Audiard, Russian poet Evgenij Evtusenko, producer Uli Felsberg, Hungarian cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs, Italian actress Francesca Neri and Turkish director Yesim Ustaoglu have joined the official jury of the Venice film festival (Aug 29-Sept 8). As previously announced, the jury is to be headed by Chinese ...
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Audiard, Felsberg, Kovacs to decide competition winners
French director and scriptwriter Jacques Audiard, Russian poet Evgenij Evtusenko, producer Uli Felsberg, Hungarian cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs, Italian actress Francesca Neri and Turkish director Yesim Ustaoglu have joined the official jury of the Venice film festival (Aug 29-Sept 8). As previously announced, the jury is to be headed by Chinese ...
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European box office continues upward trajectory
The European box office saw more than 1 billion admissions in 2001, generating upwards of Euros5.6bn, according to new research from global cinema analysts Dodona Research.Dodona's Cinemagoing Europe report forecasts that the value of European box office will continue its current upward swing to hit Euros7.4bn by 2006, despite a ...
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Gladiator, Mummy head Premiere/Vivendi film deal
Beleaguered German pay-TV platform Premiere has sealed a deal with Vivendi Universal for such films as Gladiator, Erin Brockovich and The Mummy Returns as it attempts to put itself on a sound financial footing and attract new investors. Universal is the third studio, following Fox Entertainment Group Inc. and Dreamworks, ...
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Hong Kong: ATV share deal collapses
Hong Kong's richest tycoon Li Ka-shing has withdrawn an offer to buy a stake in local free-to-air broadcaster Asia Television (ATV), the day after it was revealed that the station has secured rights to broadcast on the Chinese mainland.Li Ka-shing's multimedia company, Tom.com was set to become ATV's second biggest ...