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Reisenbach joins Village Roadshow Pictures board
Sanford Reisenbach, the formerWarner Bros marketing chief, has been appointed to the board of directors ofVillage Roadshow Pictures International, the holding company of VillageRoadshow Pictures (VRP), the LA-based production division of Australia'sVillage Roadshow Ltd.The announcement was made byVillage Roadshow Ltd chairman John Kirby. Reisenbach joined Warner in 1979 asexecutive vice ...
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Mike Leigh Untitled gets title: All Or Nothing
Mike Leigh's latestfilm has been titled All Or Nothing.The story of a London couple - he a taxi driver, she a supermarketcheckout girl - whose life is thrown into turmoil when an unexpectedtragedy occurs, the film features Leigh regulars including Timothy Spall(Secrets And Lies, Topsy-Turvy, Life Is Sweet), Lesley Manville ...
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Sidney Poitier to receive honorary Oscar
Sidney Poitier is to receivean honorary Academy Award at this year's Oscar ceremony on March 24,2002.The decision to give Poitierthe award was made by the board of governors of the Academy Of Motion PictureArts & Sciences "for his extraordinary performances and uniquepresence on the screen, and for representing the motion ...
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Bruce Willis boards Intermedia, Hartswood, BBC pic
In an unlikely pairing of resources, independent giant Intermedia and Bruce Willis and Arnold Rifkin’s Cheyenne Enterprises are teaming up with Beryl Vertue’s UK company Hartswood Films and BBC Films to produce a US-set thriller Me Againwhich will star Willis and is set to go into production this year.To be ...
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Altman snubbed by DGA; Nolan gets surprise nod
Just two days after theGolden Globe for best director of the year went to Robert Altman for GosfordPark, the Directors Guild Of America(DGA) has thrown the running open again by omitting Altman from its shortlistof five nominees.The nominees are Ron Howardfor A Beautiful Mind, PeterJackson for The Lord Of The ...
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Julian Levin moves to digital cinema at Fox
Julian Levin, executive vicepresident of sales and distribution for 20th Century FoxInternational, has switched jobs at the studio and been named executive vicepresident, digital exhibition and special projects, a title he will assume onFeb 4.Levin will now reportjointly to Scott Neeson, president of international theatrical, and BruceSnyder, president of domestic ...
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Seattle Women's Fest kicks off tomorrow
The 2002 Women In Cinemafestival will kick off tomorrow (Jan 24-31) in Seattle, a presentation ofCinema Seattle and the Seattle International Film Festival.Films screening in thefestival include Jill Sprecher's 13 Conversations About One Thing, Kasia Adamik's Bark, Clara Law's The Goddess Of 1967, Lone Scherfig's Italian For Beginners, Lucrecia Martel's ...
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SPC buys North American rights to Juana La Loca
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC)has acquired North American rights to Vicente Aranda's Juana La Loca (Mad Love), the historic story of Queen Joan Of Castille and her love for thedecadent Archduke Of Austria Philip The Handsome. The film is the Spanishsubmission for the foreign language Academy Award and was recently nominatedfor ...
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PGA gives Vanguard honour to Pixar Animation
The Producers Guild OfAmerica is to give its inaugural Vanguard Award to Pixar Animation Studios atthe annual PGA Awards on March 3 in Los Angeles.The award was established tohonour the "brilliant and creative contributions in entertainmentproduction in the fields of new media and technology." It will beaccepted by Ed Catmull ...
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Mex 10% tax on satellite & cable TV proposed
Foreign pay-TV programmers may have won a temporary victory over the implementation of harsh taxes in Brazil, but in Mexico the battle is just heating up. The bone of contention is a Congressional move to impose a new 10% tax on satellite and cable TV services in the country. Last ...
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MTV, Nelvana to co-produce two TV series
Viacom's MTV Networks and Toronto-based Nelvana Ltd. have signed an agreement to co-produce two new television series targeted to young adults. The first, the animated comedy Clone High, imagines a universe where young clones of historical figures and dead celebrities are in attendance at the same high school. The second ...
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Cinepool picks up films for Berlin market
Austrian filmmakers Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl's drama Nogo and Oliver Dommenget's children's film Help I'm A Boy! will be given their market premieres by Munich-based world sales outfit Cinepool at the forthcoming European Film Market in Berlin.Produced by Dor Film, Nogo stars hot young German acting talent such as ...
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Buena Vista Int'l TV, TF1 sign multi-year deal
Buena Vista International Television (BVI-TV), has concluded a multi-year agreement with French broadcaster TF1. The wide-ranging agreement includes rights to first-run feature films, the latest live action series, TV movies and mini-series. The agreement will also include a TV special about the opening of the new theme park at Disneyland ...
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Arthouse cinema 'virtual circuit' mooted for UK
UK support body the Film Council is proposing to unite the county's art-house cinemas in a so-called virtual circuit, as well as underwrite distributors' p&a costs, under proposals worth $24.3m (£17m) in support for the specialist sector.The council, which is now consulting the film sector before launching its initiatives in ...
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Spanish pay-TV merger talk resurfaces
Spanish media and publishing giant Grupo Prisa has played down local reports that it is negotiating the sale of its 21.3% stake in media subsidiary Sogecable to Vivendi Universal. The move would double the French giant's stake to 42.54%.An article published in Spanish newspaper El Mundo suggested that Vivendi Universal ...
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A-Line launches South Korean distribution network
A major new player has arrived in the South Korean film industry in the form of a new investment/production/distribution network named A-Line, to be run collectively by KTB Entertainment, Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, Kang JeGyu Films and the recently-established EGG Films. More a broad partnership than a distinct corporate ...
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Amelie becomes North America's favourite
Amelie has become the highest grossing French-language film ever released in North America, having grossed $20,891,879 by Jan 21, breaking the previous record - held by La Cage Aux Folles since 1979 - of $20,424,259.Last week, Amelie also crossed the $100m mark in worldwide box office receipts.The film, which has ...
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Foreign production spend in UK down 57%
Inward investment from overseas productions shooting in the UK collapsed last year by 57%, according to figures released by the British Film Commission.The commission, responsible for attracting US productions to the UK, said that inward investment plummeted from£539.44m ($771.6m) in 2000 to£230.46m ($329.6m) in 2001."The key factor for this downturn ...
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The Son's Room to open Belgrade festival
Nanni Moretti's The Son's Room will open the Belgrade International Film Festival, kicking off a 30th anniversary edition that encompasses such high profile international fare as David Lynch's Mullholland Drive, Steven Soderbergh's Traffic and Baz Lurhmann's Moulin Rouge.Moretti's Palme d'Or winner will also open the festival's gala section, which houses ...
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TRP teams with IAC for The Mammoth Hunters
TRP Prodcutions, the production venture set up last year by former CLT/Ufa sales chief Heinz Thym and writer-director Stewart Raffill, has partnered with UK-based sales agency IAC Film on its debut picture, the tentatively titled $17 million prehistoric adventure The Mammoth Hunters.The effects-laden family film, which is to recreate the ...