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UK's Equity, PACT resolve actors pay dispute
UK performers union Equity and producers body PACT are understood to have resolved their dispute over payments to actors.The terms for the new contract between the two bodies are expected to be a compromise but are thought to include residual payments to actors from ancillary revenues. Equity's main grievance was ...
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Wachs joins Senator Entertainment board
German industry association, Producers AG, is to lose its chief executive Dr. Friedrich-Carl Wachs (pictured), who is to become the fourth board member of Senator Entertainment from April 1.Wachs, who had headed up the producers group since September 2000, will assume the post of chief operating officer (COO) and deputy ...
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Miyazaki spirits away crown from Go's record haul
Spirited Away was awarded Best Picture at the 25th Japan Academy Awards ceremony, beating Go, Japan's nominee for the foreign film Oscar.Spirited Away director Hayao Miyazaki also received an outstanding achievement award for a remarkable four-decade-long career that has produced Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind, My Neighhbor Totoro ...
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Polish 'Oscar' winner highlights funding fears
Despite the glittering surroundings of Warsaw's Royal Place and a guest list that included Agnieszka Holland and Krzysztof Zanussi, an air of gloom hung over the 'Orly 2002', Poland's version of the Oscars, on Saturday (March 9). Award winners bemoaned the sharp reduction in film backing from TVP (Polish Television), ...
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Francis Ford Coppola to re-cut, sell Thai epic
Francis Ford Coppola has confirmed his role as executive producer on the international version of Thai film Suriyothai and will take over the sale of all international rights. The re-edit will carry the credit 'Francis Ford Coppola presents a film by Chatrichalerm Yukol' and will be finished in time for ...
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Bormann becomes Internationalmedia CEO
Moritz Bormann (pictured) has taken up the newly-created role of chief executive officer with worldwide responsibility for the Intermedia-Pacifica group and become chairman of its German parent, IM Internationalmedia.Bormann replaces Florian Bollen as chairman after Munich-based Bollen offered his resignation last week when the company issued its second profits warning ...
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Crowe, Berry, Howard win SAG, DGA honours
Universal Pictures' ABeautiful Mind emerged as the bigwinner at the weekend's final awards shows before the Academy Awards onMarch 24. Russell Crowe looks like a shoo-in for the best actor Oscar having added theScreen Actors Guild (SAG) award for best actor to the British Academy Award andGolden Globe, while director ...
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Estudio Mexico plans US distribution operation
Estudio Mexico Films, parentcompany of Mexican production powerhouseAltavista Films (Amores Perros) and Latin American distributor NuVision, is planning to launchdistribution operations in the US for Spanish language films. According toEstudio Mexico head Federico Gonzalez Compean, they are actively seeking outco-investors in the new venture which will require seed capital of ...
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The Time Machine lands at number one
Box office was up about 35%from the same weekend last year in North America as DreamWorks' lavishadaptation of HG Wells' The Time Machine opened well at number one with an estimated $22.5mat 2,944 sites. Directed by Wells' grandson Simon Wells (Balto), the film stars Guy Pearce as Alexander Hartdegen,the young ...
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Lakeshore co-chairman Tom Tannabaum dies
Ted Tannabaum, theco-chairman of Lakeshore Entertainment Group, died last Thursday at his home inChicago, leaving Lakeshore in the hands of his co-chairman, partner and friendTom Rosenberg.Tannebaum had a backgroundin finance and built Chicago HMO, a wholly-owned subsidiary of HMO America,from $7m in revenues in 1984 to $1bn in 1994. He ...
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ChickFlicks & Bacon & Eggs option Dud Avocado
ChickFlicks, the production company formed last year byformer New Line Cinema production president Sara Risher, has optioned the filmrights to Elaine Dundy's cult 1958 bestseller The Dud Avocado. Risher will produce the film alongside her Englishpartner Leslie Tobin Bacon of Bacon & Eggs Productions.The story of an Americangirl's rite of ...
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MIP-TV market seeks relevance with dates switch
MIP-TV, the Spring TV programmes market in Cannes, is to shift its dates from April to March as of next year.The move is intended to make the festival more relevant to buyers and sellers and will mean a March 24 start in 2003 compared with April 15 this year. Organisers, ...
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Sogecable to get five more years of Columbia pics
Spanish media group Sogecable has renewed its output TV deal with Columbia Tristar International Television for another five years beginning in January 2003. The original deal, signed in 1997, gave Sogecable exclusive rights to Columbia films for its pay-TV and pay-per-view (PPV) services on platforms Canal Plus and Canal Satelite ...
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San Sebastian, Toulouse team for Argentina promo
Argentina already has four films heading for September's San Sebastian International Film Festival after the event teamed with Toulouse's Latin American Cinema Screenings to trawl for films from Latin America.Films selected by the two events will screen to professionals in Toulouse in March before heading on to San Sebastian, Spain's ...
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Pusher director Refn shoots English-language debut
Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn starts shooting his long-anticipated English-language debut Fear X today, with John Turturro signed up to star and backing from the UK's Moviehouse Entertainment.(March 11).The cast includes US veteran James Remar, Canada's Deborah Kara Unger and Sweden's Jacqueline Ramel. Tom Sizemore signed up last year but ...
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Judi Dench to star in Fry's Vile Bodies adaptation
Judi Dench is expected to star in Bright Young Things, an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies that marks UK actor Stephen Fry's directing debut.The story about the fashionable 'it' crowd in 1930s London could mark the Academy Award winning actresses' next production, depending on how financing comes together. ...
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Vultures circle as Kirch misses debt repayment
Studios and other creditors are poised to pick choice morsels from the body of the Kirch group. The once glorious German media group this week also flirted with insolvency after it missed a loan repayment.According to the heavyweight Suedduetsche Zeitung Kirch is seeking to shed part of the debts accumulated ...
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Spain's Admira plans cash boost for Lolafilms
Spanish production house Lolafilms looks set to receive a much needed capital injection of Euros 21.6m by the end of March. Telefonica media subsidiary Admira, 70% majority owner of Lola, has proposed a refinancing scheme to balance Lola's estimated losses of Euros 11m and carry out a capital amplification with ...
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Fribourg fest fetes Latin America, Asia and Africa
Prominent figures of Afro-American cinema such as Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep), Billy Woodberry (Bless Their Little Hearts) and Haile Gerima (Bush Mama), and the South American documentary filmmakers Marta Rodriguez (Colombia), Vladimir Carvalho (Brazil) and Mario Handler (Uruguay) are among 50 directors who will be attending the 16th Fribourg ...
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Record number of submissions for Animation fest
A record 1,000 entries from more than 40 countries were submitted for the 11th International Animation Film Festival Stuttgart which will be staged from March 22-27 showing a total of 425 films with enlarged competition sections and a more international slant.This year, four competitive sections - International Competition, Young Animation, ...