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Consumer-driven communications spending will drive industry growth
Veronis Suhler Stevenson, the venerable media merchant bank, forecasts that communications spending will begin to recover in the second half of this year and continue at an annual rate of 5.5% until 2006. Veronis Suhler Stevenson's annual Communications Industry Forecast (CIF) describes the worst recession for the US media industry ...
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Michelle Yeoh finds Midas Touch in Asia
Han Entertainment's The Touch, produced by and starring Michelle Yeoh, topped the box office in all four Asian territories in which it opened over the weekend.The $20m romantic action drama, directed by Peter Pau, opened Thursday, August 1, in Hong Kong, mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore.In Hong Kong, where Golden ...
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Mark Braddel promoted to vice president, sales, at CTFDI
Mark Braddel, currently director of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), has been promoted to vice president, sales. Braddel is based in London and will oversee territories including Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He will report directly to CTFDI ...
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IFC, Killer & Jersey team for Todd Graff's Camp
IFC Productions, the prolific New York production outfit behind Monsoon Wedding, Tadpole and Boys Don't Cry, has teamed with Killer Films and Jersey Films on Camp, a musical comedy which marks the directorial debut of writer Todd Graff. IFC had previously worked with Killer on Boys Don't Cry, but neither ...
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IM Internationalmedia reports revenues up, profits down
IM Internationalmedia's business activities developed largely as predicted in the first half of 2002, posting a 33% year-on-year increase in revenues to Euros 94.3m, from Euros 70.8m (pro forma) - while EBITDA plummeted from Euros 17.8m in the first half of 2001 to minus Euros 13.4m for this year.The increase ...
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Lost In La Mancha finds favour in London
Although the chart was dominated by the launch of Columbia TriStar's Men In Black II the talking point of the UK weekend box office was Optimum Releasing's Lost In La Mancha.A documentary following the ill-fated production of Terry Gilliam's abandoned project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, La Mancha achieved ...
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Mitch Levine takes over at Palm Springs Film Festivals
Following the departure of Denis Pregnolato earlier this year, film-maker Mitch Levine has been named executive director and CEO of the Palm Springs International Film Festivals (PSIFF) and takes up his post this week in advance of the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films which takes place Aug 6-12 ...
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Signs of a blockbuster: Disney opens Shyamalan's latest on $60.3m
Mel Gibson and director M Night Shyamalan both recorded career-high openings as the mystery-drama Signs recorded a blockbuster opening for Buena Vista over the weekend with an estimated $60.3m. It is the first number one for the studio since Monsters, Inc. last November and is almost double what executives had ...
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Signs of a Blockbuster: Disney opens Syamalan's latest to $60.3m
Mel Gibson and director M Night Shyamalan both recorded career-high openings as the mystery-drama Signs recorded a blockbuster opening for Buena Vista over the weekend with an estimated $60.3m. It is the first number one for the studio since Monsters, Inc. last November and is almost double what executives had ...
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Men In Black II powers to top of UK chart with $8.4m
Men In Black II stormed to the top of the UK charts with an $8.4m four-day opening for Columbia Tristar Film Distributors International over the weekend, according to studio estimates released today. The sci-fi sequel rolled out on 889 screens on Thursday August 1. Overall, the picture registered an international ...
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Saban Entertainment offers top price in Kirch Media auction
Saban Entertainment, the US television production and distribution group, is understood to have submitted the highest bid of around Euros2.6bn for the assets of the insolvent KirchMedia.French broadcaster TF1 is understood to have put in the next richest bid, worth Euros2.2bn, according to German finance magazine Focus. The consortium bid ...
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Rudy Tjio joins ottfilm's development and acquisitions team
Veteran film buyer Rudy Tjio has joined the development and acquisition division of Christoph Ott's distribution outfit ottfilm.Tjio, who had previously worked as a film buyer for over ten years at Prokino and then six years at TiMe Medien (until May 2002), told Screendaily.com that he will be responsible for ...
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Denzel Washington's Antwone Fisher to premiere at Toronto
Antwone Fisher, Denzel Washington's directorial debut, makes its world premiere as a gala presentation at the 27th Toronto International Film Festival. In addition to newcomer Derek Luke in the title role, Antwone Fisher stars Joy Bryant, Salli Richardson and the Academy Award-winning Washington.Antwone Fisher is based on the true story ...
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Seven titles selected for this year's Australian Movie Convention
Australian teen comedy Blurred, which is being released by Becker locally in October, and 8 Femmes, which Dendy is releasing during the peak December period, are among seven films to be screened to hundreds of exhibitors at the annual Australian International Movie Convention, to be held from August 13-17 on ...
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Rosenthal joins Australia's Beyond Films
Isabel Rosenthal has been appointed acquisitions and development manager for sales agent Beyond Films and will be based in the Sydney head office. She has previously worked in similar roles in the US for Visual Media, 20th Century Fox and New Line Cinemas. The appointment comes three months after London-based ...
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Sponsorship issues cause Berlinale retrospectives organiser to quit
Wolfgang Jacobsen, organiser of 12 retrospectives and 15 homages for the Berlinale since 1990, has stepped down from his position, citing "a series of conflicts" about the structure of the collaboration with the festival's TV sponsorsReplacing him, this year's retrospective, on FW Murnau, will be overseen by Hans Helmut Prinzler, ...
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The Works boards Whale Rider
London-based sales outfit The Works has boarded Whale Rider, a drama set in the Maori community and written and directed by Memory And Desire's Niki Caro. Delivered in August, the $4.6m (NZ$10m) film is based on the novel by New Zealand writer Witi Ihimaera (The Matriach, Tangi). It tells ...
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Fledgling US digital cinema circuit targets foreign film suppliers
Foreign films that arestruggling to find a theatrical footing in the US may soon be able to accessthe American marketplace via a budding new exhibition circuit that is thebrainchild of a New York digital film studio.Manhattan's EmergingPictures is targeting international producers and film exporters as potentialsuppliers to an alternative chain ...
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Japan banks on period dramas to woo international market
Japan is targeting the international market that swooned over Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, with at least seven new youth-oriented period dramas in various stages of production.Following 1999's boardroom coup, Shochiku's new management team, led by Nobuyoshi Otani, has dramatically beefed up the company's slate and is now investing $35m to ...