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Germany's DVD sell-through market leaps 79%
Germany's DVD sell-through market has leaped 79% in the first quarter, over 2001, helping to boost overall turnover in the national video industry by 25.5% to $332.2m in the first three months of 2002.Statistics compiled by GfK for the trade association Bundesverband Video (BVV) show that the video/DVD sell-through sector ...
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Sam Neill's next role is acting as investor
Actor Sam Neill will be putting more effort than usual into his next film role - as well as starring in Gaylene Preston's romantic thriller Perfect Strangers, Neill is also an investor through his Huntaway Productions Neill's partners in Huntaway - the New Zealand production company that he set ...
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Buena Vista Spain adds two more co-production projects
Buena Vista International Spain (BVIS), which last autumn announced its full-fledged entry into local feature film co-production, has added two more titles to its slate: Cat Kisses (Besos De Gato) and Hold-Up At 3... Thirty (Atraco A Las 3... Y Media). Rafael Alcazar directs the Euros 2m Kisses, a co-production ...
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Spain's Alquimia pacts with France's Fidelite for co-productions
Spain's Alquimia Cinema and France's Fidelite Productions have signed a two-picture co-production deal likely to be expanded to include two further forthcoming titles. Included in the deal are Alquimia's Euros 6m Utopia, a thriller from director Maria Ripoll (Tortilla Soup), and Fidelite's $6m Cronique Des Anees De Baist, a chronicle ...
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Mama, Look! gets attention at Mediawave festival
British director Grant Thobur's production Mama, Look! was awarded the Grand Prize at this year's Mediawave International Festival of Visual Arts in Gyor, Hungary. Dutch films were also very successful at Mediawave 2002 receiving the awards for Best Dance Film and Best Experimental Film. In the documentary category, Russian films ...
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Australia's Palace furnishes itself with Raitrade slate
Australia's Palace Pictures has picked up a package of ten Italian films from Italian sales house Raitrade.The deal sees Palace grab Cannes competition film The Religion Hour (aka My Mother's Smile) by Marco Bellocchio, Gabriele Salvatores' Amnesia, Alessandro Alatri's Casomai and Andrea and Antoni Frazzi's Almost America. The deal is ...
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Medusa busy as Italian distributors unveil autumn slates
Medusa, Silvio Berlusconi's Rome distribution powerhouse, has unveiled a bumper slate of new releases including James Foley's crime drama Confidence and Lars Von Trier's widely anticipated Dogville.Medusa is also set to release several of the year's most eagerly awaited pictures, ranging from Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio, to comic blockbuster trio Aldo, ...
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Couture fashions seamless Canal Plus revolution
Xavier Couture, who was plucked in dramatic circumstances in April from TF1 to head Canal Plus, has unveiled a management team that boasts only modest changes, but shorter lines of communication.Despite Couture's TF1 background, there are no appointments from other broadcasters and most new faces come from within the Vivendi ...
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US runaway productions in decline
The number of so-called runaway productions from the US to Canada is decreasing, according to a report by the Center for Entertainment Industry Data and Research (CEIDR). The 2001 Production Report, which focuses on "theatrical-length motion pictures released in US theatres", indicates that of 158 films in its 2001 study, ...
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Karlovy Vary names first festival jury members
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has announced the names of six members of the grand jury for the main competition, including Pulitzer-Prize-winning American film critic Roger Ebert.The festival, which takes place in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary on July 4-13, announced that Czech director of photography Jan ...
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IN-motion hangs on to Neuer Markt listing
International media company IN-motion will remain listed on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt exchange after an arbitration panel ruled against the Deutsche Boerse's plans to delist itThis development comes less than a week after IN-motion announced sales of Euros 46.91m and a consolidated net loss of Euros 7.71m for the first six ...
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Pathe, FilmFour in holy alliance for Bulletproof Monk
In a high profile move that underlines the growing co-operation between the two companies, Pathe Distribution and FilmFour have picked up UK rights to Bulletproof Monk. In another deal begun at Cannes, Filmax confirmed that it is to handle Spanish rights to the picture. The $55m action-adventure is the first ...
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Barbara Hannegan tops restructured publicity team at Universal International
Barbara Hannegan has been promoted to vice president, international publicity, at Universal Pictures, completing a restructure of the studio's international publicity team which sees the arrival of three new staff publicists - Larry Angrisani, Mark Markline and Elena O'Gorman.Hannegan will report to Randy Greenberg who is senior vice president of ...
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DTS renews credit line from Comerica
Comerica Entertainment Group, the entertainment lending subsidiary of Comerica Bank-California, has struck a new two year revolving line of credit facility with digital audio technology outfit DTS (Digital Theater Systems Inc), a client since 1997. Comerica has also increased the company's borrowing power from $7.5m to $10m.A pioneer in multi-channel ...
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Good Spanish opening doesn't mean Snipes' drama will be undisputed hit
Wesley Snipes latest film Undisputed received its debut this week in Spain, four months prior to its US launch. However, just how the film will perform internationally is hard to gauge as despite achieving a second-placed chart position in Spain, behind Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones, ...
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UK's Channel 4 mulls FilmFour options
UK broadcaster Channel 4 is in talks to bring in a partner for its loss-making film arm FilmFour, chief executive Mark Thompson said on Wednesday.The statement came after reports in the local press said the broadcaster had already decided to make significant cuts at the film operation, which has suffered ...
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Langhelle reveives Norway's prestigious Aamot Award
The coveted Aamot Award, given by Norway's film distribution professionals and theatre managers, has been bestowed on local actor Joergen Langhelle for his contribution to Norwegian film. The prize has existed since 1959 and is considered to be the finest, as it for some 30 years was the only major ...
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German media funds defend accusation of US bias
The newly created interest group for Germany's media funds, Verband Deutscher Medienfonds (VDM) has responded to criticism from Culture Minister Julian Nida-Ruemelin and film industry figures that monies raised by the funds flow wholesale into US major studio productions.High-profile US productions that have tapped German equity funds include: The Fast ...
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Beyond International adds second London executive
Sydney-based Beyond International has named Liliana Lombardero as general manager of television arm Beyond Distribution. With the news leaking out at Cannes that Hilary Davis from Alibi Films International was replacing Gary Hamilton as head of sales at Beyond Films, this is the second London-based divisional head to be appointed ...
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Italy's Adriana Chiesa seals Cannes deals
Italian seller Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE) had a busy Cannes.On its Directors' Fortnight film Angela it sold a package of Japanese and European rights to France's MK2. The film is the story of a Mafiosa woman who is emotionally torn between her husband and a man she takes to ...