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Messier steps down from Vivendi Universal
Jean-Marie Messier has exited his post as chairman of Vivendi Universal following a board meeting yesterday, according to widespread, but still officially unconfirmed, reports.French daily newspaper Le Monde said that Messier had agreed, albeit reluctantly, to quit his position, but that negotiations concerning his severance package could delay an official ...
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Taviani wins top Moscow film festival prize for Resurrection
The 24th Moscow International Film Festival once again boasted a host of international celebrities at its closing ceremony with Harvey Keitel, Holly Hunter, Jacqueline Bisset, Atom Egoyan and Bob Rafelson turning up as well as Vittorio Taviani who collected the main prize for the film Resurrection.Based on a novel by ...
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Spain's Abaco to double its cinema circuit by 2005
Spanish exhibitor Cines Abaco has unveiled plans to invest Euros 48m over the next three years to grow its multiplex cinema circuit and entertainment chain.The expansion plans encompass seven new multiplexes across Spain with a total of 81 screens by 2005. Plans also include 20 new video game entertainment centres.Abaco ...
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Vivendi shares plummet amid accountancy queries
Vivendi Universal shares crashed today (July 2) as the company became the latest to be tinged by questions over its accountancy policies.At 1215 GMT today the shares were down 35% at Euros15.53 having been suspended four times by stockmarket regulator, the COB, which limits violent price movements. The shares had ...
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Lawless Heart woos discerning UK audience
A host of new openers were unable to dislodge Columbia TriStar's Spider-Man from the top of the UK chart this week. Now in its third week on release the blockbuster dropped off 39% from its previous weekend taking $3.97m (£2.6m) from 507 situations. The film faces stiffer competition this coming ...
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UK's FilmFour boards Touching The Void
The UK's FilmFour and the Film Council's New Cinema Fund have boarded Touching The Void, a new feature documentary from Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald.The film, which starts production in Peru on July 22 and continues shooting in the Alps in September, tells the true survival story of two mountaineers - ...
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Paradox Lake wins top $50,000 prize at Los Angeles Film Festival
The eighth annual LosAngeles Film Festival (LAFF) - operating under the aegis of IFP/West fora second year - closed on Saturday night with a screening of MiguelArteta's The Good Girl. Andat its awards ceremony earlier in the day, Przemyslav Reut's ParadoxLake won the $50,000 TargetFilmmaker Award for best narrative feature. ...
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Sandler charms $37.6m opening for Mr Deeds
Adam Sandler wasback on top of the box office over the weekend as his latest comedy Mr Deeds opened with a smashing estimated $37.6mat 3,231 sites for Columbia Pictures. The film marks another hit for the studioafter Spider-Man and PanicRoom, and continues arun of success which should reach record proportions ...
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East & Sinclair name company Spitfire, start Masked & Anonymous
Former Intermediaco-chairmen Nigel Sinclair and Guy East have named their new production outfitSpitfire Pictures and started production in Los Angeles on their first filmunder the banner Masked & Anonymous. The all-star film which is directed by TV veteran Larry Charles, is aco-production with Destiny Productions and BBC Films. Spitfire is ...
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SKYY Short Film Awards give French short its top prize
The SKYY Vodka Short FilmAwards took place in Los Angeles last Thursday night as part of the IFP/WestLos Angeles Film Festival (LAFF) in a ceremony which premiered JamesWoods' directorial debut Falling In Love With Pongo Panga, a short which was commissioned by SKKY.Woods attended the eventalong with host Kevin Pollak, ...
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Global Film School strikes scholarship deal with Fox Searchlab
Global Film School (GFS),the virtual film school jointly founded by UCLA's School of Theater Filmand Television, the Australian Film Television and Radio School and theNational Film And Television School of Great Britain, has signed a strategicagreement with Fox Searchlab offering Fox Searchlab's film-makerprogramme to GFS's student base.Under the terms of ...
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Independent Feature Project reveals 13 No Borders titles
The Independent Feature Project (IFP) has announced the international projects which will take part in the 2002 No Borders Co-Production Market, to be held between Sept. 27 - Oct. 4 in New York City.Thirteen international projects have been announced for No Borders, which takes place during the IFP Market. ...
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Spain's Plural Entertainment close to taking 80% of Tesela
Spanish production house Plural Entertainment is rumoured to be closing a deal to buy out an 80% share of up-and-coming Madrid-based producer Tesela PC.The transaction would provide Tesela with a direct link to heavyweight Spanish media and publishing conglomerate Grupo Prisa, which owns 100% of Plural Entertainment.Tesela was launched in ...
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Casting awards go to German, UK agents
German casting agent Rita Serra-Roll (Manitu's Shoe) and UK casting agency Hubbard Casting (Chocolat, The Lord Of The Rings) are the winners of this year's National and International Casting Awards which have been sponsored by the private media fund Erste MedienDachFonds.The two casting awards will be presented at a gala ...
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AMW announces Lord Of The Rainy Season as Franco-Thai co-production
AMW International, an independent Thai media group, used Hong Kong's FilMart to launch its new film Lord Of The Rainy Season. The project is based on Claire Keefe-Fox's historical novel of the same title Le Ministre Des Moussons documenting France's first official foray into Asia and the meeting between explorer ...
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Applause to give an encore to horror hit The Eye
Hong Kong production house Applause Pictures has added several new projects to its development slate including a sequel to its recent horror film The Eye which grossed a healthy $1.8m (HK$13.8m) at the local box office in May and June.Thailand's Pang Brothers will again direct and are currently scripting the ...
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FilMart wins broad delegate approval
This year's Hong Kong International Film and Television Market (FilMart) ended on an upbeat note on Friday (June 28) with many delegates agreeing that the event was busier and had attracted a broader mix of participants than in previous years."We've seen more buyers from more countries and the prices being ...
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Four German documentary prizes awarded
Four up-and-coming German documentary filmmakers were awarded this year's Bavarian Documentary Prize "The Young Lion" on the eve of the 20th Munich Filmfest this weekend.The three Young Lions- with a purse each of Euros 8,000 - went to producer-director-writer Caterina Klusemann for her film Ima; to the director-writer team of ...
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China Central Television launches English-language channel
State broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) used president Zhang Zemin's visit to Hong Kong to mark the fifth anniversary of the territory's handover to China to launch its English-language channel CCTV-9 on Hong Kong Cable. The launch, which takes place today (July 1), was announced at a high profile launch ...
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Helkon Media reports increased turnover, reduced earnings
While Helkon Media's turnover increased by 48% in the first nine months of its 2001/2002 financial year (August 1 2001 - 30 April 2002) from Euros 98m to Euros 145m, its earnings from usual business activities plummeted to Euros - 21.9m (2001: Euro 3.1m).In a statement Helkon explained that its ...