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Monster's Ball boosts Lions Gate
Monster's Ball (pictured), the Marc Forster-directed drama that earned Halle Berry her best actress Oscar, also did wonders for its distributor Lions Gate.Lions Gate reported net income of $2.7m, or 4 cents a share, in the quarter ended June 30, compared with a loss of $335,000, or 3 cents a ...
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Rush Hour 2 is biggest indie film of 2001
Rush Hour 2, New Line's action sequel, has emerged as the biggest independent film of 2001 in the US, according to a list compiled by AFMA, the trade body representing the independent film industry worldwide. The film, staring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker grossed $226 million.Films eligible for AFMA's list ...
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Abril signs to Alquimia's Swindled
Tie Me Up,Tie Me Down star and Spain's leading lady, Victoria Abril has signed on to star in the forthcoming Alquimia Cinema production Swindled (Incautos).Abril will star alongside Argentine veteran Federico Luppi (The Devil's Backbone) and Spanish up-and-comers Ernesto Alterio and Guillermo Toledo (both from The Wrong Side Of The ...
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Evans to take business role at Film Council
UK funding body the Film Council has recruited Intermedia senior executive Will Evans to be its new head of business affairs. Evans, an entertainment lawyer with 23 years' experience, joins the Film Council on 2 September. He has worked at Intermedia for six years, most recently as co-president of ...
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O'Neal stars in New York indie The Technical Writer
Tatum O'Neal, WilliamForsythe and Michael Harris are the stars and Scott Saunders the director of TheTechnical Writer, an independentfeature which went into production in New York City this week. The film marksthe first feature from production outfit Damage Control which was formed in NewYork by David Leitner and Michael Yanko ...
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Viareggio festival aims to restore former glory
Aiming to restore its past glory, returning festival director Felice Laudadio has unveiled the line-up for this year's European Cinema Festival (Sept 14-21), including a competition section whose jury will be headed by Commedia all'Italiana founder Mario Monicelli.The festival will give special attention to new German cinema. Two German films ...
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Argentinian box office shrugs-off economic crisis
Despite Argentina's crushing economic crisis, box office earnings shot up 15% and admissions rose 20% during the country's school holidays compared to the same period the previous year, according to the latest figures from EDI Nielsen. While robust ticket sales are normal during the winter months in Argentina, this year's ...
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Fox lifts otherwise mournful News Corp
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation today reported widening full year losses of $6.26bn (2001: $445m) after the company was forced to write down the value of its stakes in ailing interactive TV company Gemstar, insolvent KirchMedia and Italian pay-TV broadcaster Stream.Despite posting a 10% increase in annual revenues to $15.2bn, Murdoch ...
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Plenus Entertainment unveils Korean exhibition plans
Plenus Entertainment, the parent of Korea's Cinema Service, today detailed its plans to challenge the market leaders in the country's exhibition sector (see Screendaily, April 14).Plenus will launch a multiplex theatre chain, called Primus Cinema, which it aims to have operating 100 screens with some 24,000 seats by 2004.Primus will ...
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Chuo joins Artisan as vice president, acquisitions in Los Angeles
Artisan Pictures has hired Monica Chuo as its vice president of acquisitions based in Los Angeles. She will report directly to the company's executive vice president Patrick Gunn, and fills the space left by senior vice president, acquisitions, Leilani Forby who left Artisan recently to join former Artisan colleague John ...
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Constantin exits Escape Artist deal
Munich-based producer-distributor Constantin Film yesterday said it had prematurely terminated a two-year output deal with US producer Escape Artists as a result of changes to its product sourcing strategy.Reporting a narrowing first-half net loss of Euros6m (2001: Euros6.7m), Constantin said it had been forced to write-off Euros3.9m - the value ...
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NuVision chief steps down
Pedro Rodriguez Domecq has resigned from his post as president of Mexico-based, Latin American distributor NuVision. Domecq's resignation comes amid reports that NuVision and sister production company Altavista have both been cutting staff following slow returns and less than successful productions since last year's Love's A Bitch (Amores Perros). Federico ...
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European DVD software sales to jump 150% over next four years
Western European consumer spending on DVD software is forecast to increase by more than 150% over the next four years, reaching Eu15.3bn ($15bn) by 2006 and accounting for 85% out of a forecast Eu18.4bn ($18bn) total spending on video software, according to researcher Screen Digest.While sales of VHS tapes in ...
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Das Werk thrown E60m lifeline
The survival of ailing post-production group Das Werk has been given a crucial boost through the granting of a credit line of more than Euros60m ($58.5m) and the extension of previous loans by a banking pool that includes BHF Bank, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank.The additional funds were made available after ...
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Toronto unveils world and North American premieres
The Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 5-14) will feature the world premiere of director Shekhar Kapur's The Four Feathers, along with the North American premieres of writer/director Brian de Palma's Femme Fatale and Julie Taymor's Frida.Filmed in Morocco, Four Feathers is Kapur's (Elizabeth) epic tale of man's indomitable spirit and ...
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Festival unveils more world and North American premieres
The Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 5-14) will feature the world premiere of director Shekhar Kapur's The Four Feathers, along with the North American premieres of writer/director Brian de Palma's Femme Fatale and Julie Taymor's Frida.Filmed in Morocco, Four Feathers is Kapur's (Elizabeth) epic tale of man's indomitable spirit and ...
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Berlinale hit with second sidebar defection
Renate Zylla, director of the Berlinale's Children's Film Festival (Kinderfilmfest), has tendered her resignation, less than a fortnight after Wolfgang Jacobsen's announced he was stepping down as the organiser of the festival's Retrospective. Zylla had worked for the Kinderfilmfest in Berlin since 1985 and was appointed the sidebar's director in ...
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German box office continues upward swing
The recent upward trend in the German exhibition sector has continued in the first half of 2002, according to statistics issued by the German Federal Film Board (FFA).While the number of cinema-goers increased year-on-year from 79.7m to 80.7m - equivalent to growth of 1.3% -, box-office revenues expanded by 7.8% ...