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Lagaan, K3G battle it out for Indian Int'l Awards
Lagaan, the epic Indian film which has beennominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, goes head to headwith Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham (Sometimes Happiness, Sometimes Sorrow), the most expensive film in Indian filmhistory also known as K3G, in the nominations for the third annual Electrolux KelvinatorInternational Indian Film ...
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Amalgamated confirms Oz exhibition revival
Australia's Amalgamated Holdings was the latest company with exhibition interests to confirm that the cinema business has recovered from the doldrums of 18 months ago. The owner of the Greater Union and Birch Carroll and Coyle cinema circuits recorded a 67% growth in net profit after tax to $9m (A$17.5m) ...
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France's Celluloid sells out on 8 Femmes
Powerful French sales house Celluloid Dreams has sold out on Francois Ozon's film 8 Femmes. The musical ensemble piece, which appeared in competition at last month's Berlin festival, is now Celluloid's most successful film of all time in terms of figures and market penetration.The value of licences sold has exceeded ...
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Tecmo's Dead Or Alive to be made by Mindfire
Game publisher Tecmo has signed a license deal with US production company Mindfire Entertainment to make a live-action film based on its hit Dead Or Alive fighting game series. Shooting will begin by the end of this year, with release set for 2003.Tecmo and Mindfire are now in the midst ...
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Advanced launches probe into E28m loss
German licence trader Advanced Medien has launched an investigation into its 1999 and 2000 accounts and warned that it may have to re-state these years financial figures,The company said that the measure had become necessary "because of the current course of the lawsuit against the principal debtor of Advanced Medien." ...
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Sony 2002 lineup paves way for global domination
No attendee left the recent global exhibitors' convention ShoWest without one over-riding impression - that Sony Pictures has one of the most promising lineups of any studio in years. As worldwide marketing and distribution president Jeff Blake screened new trailers for Spiderman and XXX and the full-length feature Mr ...
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India's Zee Group plans major Asian studio
India's Zee Telefilms has taken a further step towards realising its ambitions of creating one of Asia's largest studios, by acquired a majority stake in Padmalaya Telefilms, a Hyderabad-based film, television and animation production company, for $12m. Padmalaya Telefilms has more than 300 films, including 60 in-house productions and several ...
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Russian war film sparks controversy
A controversial new film by Alexei Balabanov, one of Russia's leading directors, had its premiere in Moscow yesterday (March 14), sparking a political slanging match in the local media.. The film, War, which was shot last year in the Caucasus and war-torn Chechnya, features an international cast including British actor ...
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Cuaron, del Toro snub Mexican 'Oscars' in protest
Mexican directors Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro and Jorge Vergara, producer of Cuaron's Y Tu Mama Tambien and del Toro's The Devil's Backbone, have declined to submit their films to the prestigious Mexican Ariel Awards, in protest at the "lack of transparency" in the voting process."We ...
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Promising international debut for Monster's Ball
Monster's Ball received its international debut last weekend, opening in Switzerland to a strong reception from a limited release.Opening on 12 screens in the German-speaking region of the country the drama recorded a four-day total of $73,075 to land seventh position in the chart. With a powerful screen average of ...
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Internationalmedia posts loss, predicts profit
IM Internationalmedia pledged to return to profit this year as it announced a loss of Euros 11.9m for 2001 on Thursday.The battered Neuer Markt-listed parent of Intermedia blamed the loss on one-time costs such as the aborted SpyGlass Entertainment merger and delays in booking revenues from K19: The Widowmaker, Adaptation ...
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Korea's Starmax, Gaonix merger eyes Chinese market
South Korean entertainment firm Starmax has announced a merger with Gaonix, a holding company listed on Korea's KOSDAQ exchange. The merger is seen as being partly motivated by Starmax's unsuccessful bid for a listing on the exchange last year.Starmax, a longtime leader in the home video market, was originally ...
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Malaga film festival to honour Angela Molina
Actress Angela Molina will be the recipient of a tribute at next month's fifth annual Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (April 26-May 4).Molina will be given the first-ever Malaga Award (Premio Malaga) in recognition of an "outstanding career in Spanish cinema." Molina, 56, is one of the best known Spanish ...
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PT Multimedia posts impressive results
PT Multimedia (PTM), the media subsidiary of Portuguese telecommunications giant Portugal Telecom (PT), posted operating revenues of Euros 625.8m last year, a 152.5% rise over the previous year.The company credits the phenomenal rise to the full consolidation of leading local film distributor-exhibitor Lusomundo after January 1, 2001. PTM bought out ...
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Fox Phillips receives top Film Council slate fund
The recently-launched production company headed by producers Diana Phillips and Robert Fox - whose combined credits include Smoke, Bad Lieutenant, Iris and The Hours - has secured slate development funding in the latest awards round from UK support body the Film Council.Titled Fox Phillips, the venture received $226,000 (£160,000), while ...
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Village Roadshow sells three more cinema circuits
As part of its drive to re-structure its exhibition arm, Village Roadshow has sold its cinema interests in Thailand, Malaysia and India, consisting of some 135 screens across 19 sites. Village Roadshow has recently been stripping back its under-performing exhibition interests in a bid to restore the company's profitability. The ...
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French film production volume jumps, so do budgets
A new record in French film production was set last year, with the total number of titles, including French co-productions. reaching 204. That is 33 higher than in 2000, says the French film body CNC, which does not count films in which it has not invested.A massive Euros 749m (up ...
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Venice fest set to unveil joint artistic directors
Franco Bernabe, president of the Biennale Venice film festival is believed to be close to naming Piera Detassis, editor of the film magazine Ciak (owned by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi), and Pierluigi Celli, former CEO of RAI, as joint artistic directors of the Venice film festival. According to Italian press ...
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Perry, Poirier to scout UK films for Cannes fest
Simon Perry and Agnes Poirier have been appointed as UK scouts for the Cannes Film Festival. The hirings were confirmed earlier this week by Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux during a short visit to London where he screened possible festival films and met leading industry figures.The pair is expectedto maintain ...
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Sales veteran Arthur Kananack dies in Los Angeles
Arthur Kananack, thewell-known and well-liked film and TV sales veteran, died in Los Angeles lastweek. He most recently was head of his own company Arthur Kananack &Associates (AKA) which he ran with his two sons Michael and Claude in LosAngeles and New York. They will continue to run the company.Born ...