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Joseph Hobel named COO at Infinity
Jospeh Hobel has been named chief operating officer of Infinity International Entertainment, Michael Ovohen's LA-based production and financing outfit which has a non-exclusive deal with German production fund Cinerenta to supervise its funds for US production.Hobel will be based in the LA headquarters of the company and report to president ...
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Joseph Woolf joins entertainment group at GKM
Joseph S Woolf has joined New York-based investment banking firm Gerard Klauer Mattison (GKM) as a prinicipal in its entertainment media advisory group in Los Angeles. Woolf joins GKM from Trowbridge Capital, a financial consulting firm he founded in 2001. Prior to Trowbridge, Woolf helped create the entertainment lending division ...
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2002 UK cinema admissions predicted to reach 164m
Cinemagoing is continuing to rise in the UK, prompting the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA) to predict that ticket sales will reach 164 million in 2002 - a 5% increase on last year's hefty total of 156 million.Admissions reached over 48.3 million in the first quarter - a year on year ...
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Imax set for widest ever release with Space Station 3D
Imax Corp. is set for the widest release yet of one of its giant-screen films. The company said Space Station 3D, with narration by Tom Cruise, has commitments from more than 100 IMAX theatres. The film, its first space-related 3D picture, opens in North America April 19 in 24 theatres. ...
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Amitabh Bachchan's Aankhen packs South African cinemas
Aankhen, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan's latest film, opened last weekend to packed houses in South Africa achieving a screen average that outperformed both Britney Spears and Bruce.Released on just five screens, Aankhen grossed $14,600 (R163,259) over the weekend and earned a massive screen average of $2, 900 (R32,651).Aankhen ...
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Canadian animation series funded by Scottish bank
Ottawa-based animation studio Amberwood Entertainment will produce two animated series with gap financing provided by the Royal Bank of Scotland.It's the first time the RBS has arranged the financing for a Canadian company. The productions covered by the arrangement include 13 half-hour episodes of preschool series Katie And Orbie narrated ...
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Cannes' Camera d'Or jury announced
The jury of Cannes' Camera d'Or, which was created 25 years ago by Gilles Jacob and is awarded to a first film selected either in the official competition or in the Un Certain Regard, Director's Fortnight and International Critics' Week sidebars, has been announced.Selected from among previous Camera d'Or jury ...
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Danish fest audience awards Lagaan distribution cash
At the closing ceremony of Denmark's 13th NatFilm Festival in Copenhagen (April 14), the event's audience voted the Indian cricket-musical Lagaan yet another prize, but this time one which means it will get a theatrical release in Denmark. The prize, which is awarded in collaboration with the Danish Film Institute, ...
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MGM deals Bond with RTL in Germany, Viacom in US
MGM Worldwide Television Distribution has concluded two major deals on its James Bond franchise. Germany's RTL Television has signed an exclusive licensing agreement for German free-TV rights to the next Bond movie Die Another Day which teams Pierce Brosnan with Halle Berry, as well as broadcast rights to four classic ...
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First programmes for Cologne Conference selected
The German premieres of the World War II series Band Of Brothers, produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, American Beauty author Akan Ball's black comedy Six Feet Under and Swiss documentary filmmaker Christian Frei's Oscar-nominated War Photographer are among the international productions being lined up for the 12th International ...
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Columbia develops European dramas
Columbia Tristar International Television (CTIT) has announced that it is developing local European dramas and plans to launch them internationally at Mipcom in October. CTIT has Spanish, French, German and Italian-language connections in the region. The model of As If - a European youth drama format that first aired on ...
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Universal strikes film supply deal with Greece's Star
Universal has struck a long-term film supply deal with Greek commercial broadcaster Star. The exclusive contract spans films and made for television programming.Among the films is a mixture of current films and library material. Titles include Gladiator, The Mummy, Bridget Jones's Diary, Hannibal, and The Fast And The Furious.TV content ...
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Jordi Molla's directorial debut to open Malaga fest
We're Nobody (No Somos Nadie), the directorial debut of actor Jordi Molla (Blow, Second Skin), will open the fifth annual Film Festival of Malaga (April 26-May 4), Spain's leading competitive event dedicated to national productions and co-productions.Other titles competing in the official section alongside Molla's Lolafilms production, (pictured) include: Julio ...
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Almodovar's Talk reaches international audiences
The latest film from Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella), has seen a strong launch in international territories outside its homeland. Opening in France this week for Pathe Distribution, the film, which was produced by El Deseo, sold an impressive 355,412 tickets, equivalent to $1.7m, in ...
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Cannes competition jury line-up announced
A week ahead of the announcement of the Cannes film festival's official competition line-up, Gilles Jacob has announced the full jury, which this year is chaired by David Lynch. Actresses Sharon Stone, Michele Yeoh and Christine Hakim will be joined by no less than five film-makers, including three Cannes veterans ...
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David Lynch joins condemnations of Lescure's removal
Condemnations of Jean-Marie Messier's decision to sack Pierre Lescure were coming from as far away as Hollywood yesterday, with Cannes jury president David Lynch calling the move scandalous.It is the second time in as many months that Messier has sparked a political furore (the first being when he publicly stated ...
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Beautiful Mind puts Crowe at top of Oz actors' earnings list
Actor Russell Crowe's estimated 2001 earnings of $15.4m (A$29m), including from A Beautiful Mind, were not enough to put him at the head of the annual top 50 entertainers list published in the current issue of Australia's Business Review Weekly. Coming third, Crowe, however, easily led the fifteen actors on ...
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Dutch film festival director kills two Golden Calves
The Dutch Film Festival (25 September - 4 October in Utrecht) will have fewer awards - the traditional Golden Calves - for this year's edition. The new director, Doreen Boonekamp, has cut the two prizes for best actor and actress in the television-drama-section.The number of films in competition will also ...
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Tribeca Fest unveils 24 international titles, adds Insomnia, Ya-Ya
The inaugural Tribeca Film Festival has announced the 24 films to screen in its International Film Showcase and added two high profile Warner Bros films to its world premiere list - Callie Khouri's Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Christopher Nolan's Insomnia.The festival, which takes place from May 8-12, ...
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Le Boulet is a smash for Warner France with $5.6m
Le Boulet (Dead Weight), the eagerly awaited action comedy starring Gerard Lanvin and Benoit Poelvoorde, stormed to the top of the French box office charts at the weekend with nationwide grosses of Euro 6.4m ($5.6m). Jointly produced by Warner Bros France and La Petite Reine, the $21m ...