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Lightning gets international rights to Motown documentary
Richard Guardian's new international sales outfit Lightning Entertainment has acquired international distribution rights in all media for the new music documentary Standing In The Shadows Of Motown to which Artisan Entertainment recently bought domestic distribution rights.Based upon the 1989 book of the same title by Allan Slutsky, the film chronicles ...
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Simon Sutton promoted to evp at MGM Worldwide TV
Simon Sutton has been promoted to executive vice president, international television, at MGM Worldwide Television Distribution, reporting to president of the MGM division Jim Griffiths.British-born Sutton will continue to oversee sales and distribution activities of all MGM and NBC programming to stations in the international free-TV, pay-TV and pay-per-view markets. ...
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Film supply for German free-TV stations is secure
German newspaper speculation that the supply of Hollywood feature films to the free-TV channels of ProSiebenSAT.1 could become a victim of the KirchGroup crisis, has been refuted by ProSiebenSAT.1's board chairman.Ahead of planned talks on debt-for-equity deals between Hollywood studios and the beleaguered KirchGroup on Monday April 29, Welt ...
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UK to get Film Council's $20m arthouse 'virtual circuit'
UK support body the Film Council is pressing ahead with plans to create a so-called virtual circuit of art house cinemas and will spend $20m (£14m) over the next four years on up to 150 screens around the country. Most screens are expected to leased from existing exhibitors, but new ...
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FilmFour posts deeper losses as UK's C4 reveals first deficit in decade
The red ink deepened at the UK's FilmFour last year, with the film arm of broadcaster Channel 4 posting an operating loss nearly double that of 2000, while its parent company revealed its first loss for 10 years.FilmFour recorded an operating loss of $7.9m (£5.4m) for 2001, close to ...
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Angelina doesn't come close to The Scorpion King
The Scorpion King held its sting and top place in the domestic charts with weekend takings of $17.6m, according to studio estimates released today. Universal's spin-off from The Mummy stars The Rock in his first action lead and has taken $60.8m in its first ten days.Total weekend grosses rose for ...
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Directors' Fortnight line-up complete
The Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine Des Realisateurs) wrapped up its 2002 line-up today (Monday Apr 29) when it announced the inclusion of Werner Schroeter's Franco-German production Deux and Romain Goupil's Une Pure Coincidence.In Deux, last year's Palme-winning actress Isabelle Huppert plays twin sisters deprived of love by a tyrannical mother. Sex ...
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Fox departs online distribution joint venture with Disney
Fox Entertainment Group is exiting Movies.com, its joint venture with The Walt Disney Company intended to provide movies and other entertainment content on demand to US consumers through digital cable systems or broadband internet. The partners have now chosen to pursue other strategies to distribute their films to the broadband ...
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Advanced's corrected figures show deeper losses in '99, but less red ink in 2000
German rights trader Advanced Medien has published its revised financial statements for 1999 and 2000 after auditors exposed "dubious" transactions in the original filing, rendering them "ineffective" and, according to some analyst allegations at the time, possibly fraudulent. (ScreenDaily, March 21, 2002)According to the corrected figures, the company recorded revenues ...
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Messier called to account for his actions by French TV watchdog
Jean-Marie Messier will have to detail the half-year accounts of Canal Plus Group and French pay-TV channel Canal Plus, a 49% subsidiary of Vivendi Universal, to the CSA (Conseil Superieur de l'Audiovisuel), the French broadcasting industry watchdog.Following Messier's controversial firing of Canal Plus Group's chairman Pierre Lescure, the CSA has ...
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Sex-scandal priest drama acquired by Columbia TriStar Mexico
A topical and controversial story of a priest involved in a sex scandal has been acquired by Columbia TriStar Mexico. Carlos Carrera's El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, starring Mexico's fast-rising star Gael Garcia Bernal (Amores Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Motorcycle Diaries) sold all Mexican rights, with a first option ...
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Five-hour thriller wins top prize at Singapore's Silver Screen Awards
Despite a running time of five hours, the Filipino thriller Batang West Side, directed by Lav Diaz, beat 14 other contenders to win the Best Asian Feature Film prize at the Silver Screen Awards of the 15th Singapore International Film Festival (April 11-27). Quantity with quality paid dividends for Batang ...
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Moby Dick gets biggest slice of German film fund backing
New feature film projects by Soenke Wortmann, Sherry Hormann, Wolfgang Panzer and Benjamin Quabeck are among more than 20 projects backed with over Euros 6m by FilmFernsehFonds Bayern in its latest round of funding.The largest single amount of Euros 1.5m though, went to Trixter Film for Moby Dick: The Legend ...
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Berlusconi's Mediaset posts heavily-reduced profits
Mediaset, the leading private Italian network owned by Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, recorded a sharp drop in net profits in 2001 on the back of losses linked to its 2.3% stake in KirchMedia. Net profits were down to Euros 248.4m, compared to Euros 423.5m in 2000.Overall, the group's net ...
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Internationalmedia claims revenues set to double in 2002
After posting a decrease in revenues and a negative EBIT for the financial year 2001, Internationalmedia (IM) has announced that revenues in 2002 will be between Euros 330m - 370m and operating profit before goodwill amortization (EBIA) estimated at between Euros 21m - 25m. "The budget for 2002 is based ...
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UK's Gala acquires Mon-rak Transistor
The UK's Gala Film Distributors has made its first acquisition of a Thai film, buying Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Mon-rak Transistor, which will get its international premiere in Cannes Directors' Fortnight.The film is billed as a contemporary genre-defying odyssey of self-discovery about a young man from rural Thailand. Handled by Fortissimo, the ...
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Nordisk Film adds to Egmont's profits slump
Newly restructured Nordic media major Egmont revealed its highest revenues ever on Wednesday (April 24) - at the same time as announcing a 67% dive in after-tax profits.While Egmont's revenues for 2001 reached an all-time high of Euros 1.1m, its profit after tax was a mere Euros 5.4m, compared ...
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My Brother Tom wins 'Britspotting' audience award
The 3rd 'Britspotting' British Independent Film Festival in Berlin awarded audience prizes for the first time this year, with the Best Feature Film category won by Dom Rotheroe's feature debut My Brother Tom which took home Euros 13,000 in prize-money donated by Das Werk and Metropolitan TV.The prize for Best ...
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Beckham picked up for Germany
Highlight Film has picked up German speaking rights for Gurinder Chadha's box office hit Bend It Like Beckham, which has so far clocked up $6.6m on its UK release. Highlight plans to organise a large scale marketing campaign to launch the football comedy into German cinemas this year and has ...
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Norway's Film Fund supports first-time directors
The Norwegian Film Fund has greenlit seven new films, all of which are set to roll this year, with newcomers and children's films grabbing most of the $4.1m support from the fund.Production outfit Yellow Cottage has received funding for two high-profile children films based on well-known local franchises. Originally a ...