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PGA nominations throw Oscar race wide open
All bets are off again in this year's Oscar race following the inclusion of both Shrek and Harry Potter And The Scorcerer's Stone among the five motion picture nominees for this year's Producers Guild of America Awards. They compete against A Beautiful Mind, Moulin Rouge and The Lord Of The ...
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ContentFilm buys into Blow Up
ContentFilm, the new production/distribution venture recently set up by Edward R Pressman and John Schmidt, and its international investors are acquiring a minority share in Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente's digital production outfit Blow Up Pictures.Blow Up, which since its launch in 1999 has been behind some of the most ...
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Goldwyn, Fireworks team for Elysian Fields
Samuel Goldwyn Films and Fireworks Pictures are teaming up again to acquire domestic rights to George Hickenlooper's The Man From Elysian Fields, the star-studded drama which world premiered at last year's Toronto Film Festival and is in the premiere section at the Sundance Film Festival this week.The film stars Andy ...
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Winchester takes Scotland, PA international
Winchester Films has acquired international sales rights to Billy Morrissette's Scotland, PA, a comedic retelling of Macbeth set in a fast-food restaurant in rural 1970s Pennsylvania. The deal was concluded between Winchester and New York-based production outfit Abandon Pictures.Domestic rights to the film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival ...
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Three KirchGroup companies renamed
The KirchGroup's three holding companies are to be renamed as a consequence of the planned merger of ProSiebenSat.1 and KirchMedia this June.Thus, KirchHolding will then be known as TaurusHolding, KirchPayTV as Premiere Medien, and KirchBeteiligung as TaurusBeteiligung, while the name KirchMedia will be retained for the new merged company.Commenting on ...
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Wim Wenders produces Berlin cinema
Film director Wim Wenders has joined forces with distributor Christoph Ott of ottfilm and exhibitors Gerhard Gross and Burkhard Voiges of the Hackesche Hoefe cinemas to re-launch one of Berlin's oldest cinemas, the KANT Kino, which first opened its doors in 1912.Most recently, the cinema in Berlin's Charlottenburg district had ...
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Euro MEDIA Programme supports 36 initiatives
Three industry events at the forthcoming Berlinale (February 6-17) are among 36 initiatives which have been awarded over Euros 2.8m by the European Commission's MEDIA Programme as part of its support for promotional measures and film festivals.The Berlin-based events are: the European Film Promotion's (EFP) Shooting Stars showcase of rising ...
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Cool & Crazy launch for new Norwegian distributor
Aage Hoffart, until recently head of marketing at Scandinavia's most established independent film distributor, has launched his own company in competition with his former employer.After 14 years with Norway's leading independent distributor Europafilm, Hoffart has unveiled his own distribution entity, Oro Film, with financial backing from private investment company Diopter.Oro ...
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Norway's state production co becomes media fund
Norwegian private investment company Diopter has acquired a majority stake in the state-owned production entity Norsk Film as part of its creation of a new media investment fund.The 77.6% stake in Norsk Film includes the name of the company, up to 20 films in various stages of development and ...
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Another large-screen operator secures its future
In the week that beleaguered large-format operator Imax Corp. put itself onto firmer financial ground by repurchasing $42m of its own debt, another large format operator in the tight North American exhibition market has secured its future.Iwerks Entertainment yesterday completed its previously announced strategic merger with SimEx, which sees Iwerks ...
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Graz fest highlights three filmmakers
Filmmakers Heddy Honigmann, Gustav Deutsch and Alexander Hammid are the subject of special sidebars being staged at this year's Diagonale showcase of Austrian cinema in Graz from March 18-24, 2002.Dutch filmmaker Honigmann will attend the festival's homage of her oeuvre, while a tribute is being dedicated to filmmaker and artist ...
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Electronics manufacturer wins Chinese films deal
Chinese state-owned film company, Century Hero Film Investment, has signed a worldwide distribution pact with Hong Kong's Mandarin Resources, an electronics manufacturer that has no track record in film.Under the terms of the deal, Mandarin's wholly-owned subsidiary, Eagle's Wing Limited, has been appointed sole distributor of Century Hero product in ...
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Messier puts 'cultural exception' record straight
Last month in New York, Vivendi Universal chairman Jean-Marie Messier (pictured) declared "The French cultural exception is dead", sparking a furore in the French media. Last week he sought to put the record straight with an article in Le Figaro newspaper - the complete text of which we reproduce below:"What ...
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Yukisada's Go sweeps top Japanese awards
In addition to being selected as Japan's nomination for best foreign-language Oscar, Isao Yukisada's Go has now been awarded a record seven prizes from a critics' panel for Kinema Jumpo, Japan's oldest film magazine. The Kinema Junpo awards, considered Japan's most prestigious, went to Go for Best Film, to Yukisada ...
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Mr Bones breaks more South African records
Local comedy sensation Mr Bones continues to break records in South Africa. Earning over $1.75m (Rand 20m) at the South African box office so far the film is already the highest grossing local film of all-time. On release less than five weeks Mr Bones can also claim the record as ...
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FULL LIST OF INDIE SPIRIT AWARD NOMINATIONS
The 2001 IFP/West Independent Spirit Award nominations were announced on Tuesday night in Los Angeles, with winners to be unveiled at the Spirit Awards on March 23. Films nominated were selected based on criteria such as original, provocative subject matter, uniqueness of vision, economy of means and percentage of independent ...
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Julian Levin's role expanded at Fox
Julian Levin, executive vicepresident of digital exhibition and special projects at 20th CenturyFox, has expanded his role at the studio to encompass non-theatrical sales anddistribution and large screen (70mm) and IMAX presentations. His new title isexecutive vice president for digital exhibition and non-theatrical sales anddistribution.Levin, well-known in theinternational community as ...
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Alliance Atlantis cuts 80 jobs, merges TV, film
Alliance Atlantis will cut 80 staff positions ' approximately 9% of its work force -- as the Toronto-based entertainment company consolidates its television and motion picture production operations along with their attendant distribution and promotion departments. Among the high-profile employees affected are Mark Horowitz, Los Angeles-based president of Alliance Atlantis ...
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Enrique Posner joins Warner Sogefilms in Spain
Well-known Spanish executiveEnrique Posner has been named deputy general manager at Warner Sogefilms AIE,the Spanish distribution joint venture between Warner Bros and Sogepaq. Based in Madrid, Posner willbe responsible for supervising Warner's distribution and marketingactivities in Spain. He will report directly to joint venture general managerLuis Hernandez and to Warner ...
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US PR agency MPRM hires Libby, promotes four
Bicoastal US publicrelations agency mPRm has promoted Paul Breton, Kristen Wareham, Chris Reichertand Jennifer Vogelmann to senior account executives, and hired Chris Libby as asenior account executive in the film division of the firm's west coastoffice.Libby joins the filmdivision after several years in independent film releasing at companies such asTrimark ...