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Intertainment ends Filmgroup deal as sales fall
Following the insolvency of the UK media company Filmgroup PLC, Germany's Intertainment has taken back from the company more than 75 titles including The Whole Nine Yards, 3000 Miles To Graceland and Battlefield Earth. News of the termination of the contract came as Intertainment reported a reduced surplus of Euros ...
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Portman stages management buy-out
UK media concern Portman Entertainment has staged a management buy-out from its parent, PrimeEnt, the companies have announced. Chief executive Tim Buxton and managing director Tristan Whalley are understood to be staying with Portman, which is expected to continue to be active in film and TV sales and production. PrimeEnt, ...
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German scopas fund adds to family entertainment
Frankfurt-based animation studio scopas medien has joined a recent wave of funds concentrating on family entertainment, including Victory, Mediability, Equity Pictures, and Festival Film by launching a Euros 30m private media fund to invest in internationally marketable family entertainment for cinema and television.The fund is inviting private individuals to each ...
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One Leg Kicking scores at Singapore box office
Eric Khoo, Singapore's most famed director, has scored at the box office with the football comedy One Leg Kicking. This much needed domestic hit opened on November 14 with $60,818 (S$111,973), Singapore's highest ever opening day gross for a local film. Distributor UIP took advantage of the local Nov 14 ...
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Berlinale lines up 13-strong selection committee
The UK's Simon Perry, Holland Film's Claudia Landsberger and Pandora Film's Christoph Friedel are among the members of the revamped selection committee for the Berlinale's official competition section at the forthcoming festival (February 6-17, 2002).The 13-person line-up comprises: Dieter Kosslick (festival executive director), Wieland Speck (Panorama), Christoph Terhechte (International Forum), ...
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Irish Film Board celebrates record year at home
A record nine films, including When Brendan Met Trudy, H3, Disco Pigs and About Adam, which received funding from the Irish Film Board, were released in Irish cinemas during 2001, taking more than $3.1m (£2.2m) at the Irish box office to date. Rod Stoneman, chief executive of The Irish Film ...
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Oz producers lobby for film promotion funds
Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) president Nick Murray has called for the introduction of a scheme to inject up to $260,000 (A$500,000) into the p&a budgets of local films.The move, he said, would help Australian films to overcome the difficulties they have in securing prominent and sustained release. "US ...
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Leading UK talent agency bought by CSS Stellar
Peters Fraser & Dunlop (PFD), the leading UK talent agency with clients including Richard Curtis, Ewan McGregor and Kate Winslet, has been bought by UK management and marketing group CSS Stellar.CSS, which already represents TV personalities such as Michael Parkinson and The Weakest Link's Anne Robinson, is paying an initial ...
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Europeans appreciate Training Day
Denzel Washington is proving his star appeal once again across Europe with his latest film Training Day. The crime drama in which Washington plays against type as a corrupt Los Angeles cop, opened this week to strong figures in Italy and Scandinavia as well as continuing to perform with gusto ...
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Artisan gets Kushner-Locke rights in North America
Artisan Entertainment has secured the North American rights to service the library assets of The Kushner-Locke Company. Subject to bankruptcy court approval, Artisan will become the sales agent controlling North American TV and home entertainment rights to over 300 Kushner-Locke titles.The titles produced or licensed by Kushner-Locke include feature films, ...
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German cultural film funding gets boost
German Minister for Culture Julian Nida-Ruemelin will have Euros 1.5m more to spend on film funding measures in 2002 as part of a global 3% increase in Gerhard Schroeder administration's arts budget.The budget for culturally-oriented film funding will increase from Euro 9.7m to Euros 10.7m while German contribution to EURIMAGES ...
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Danish film institute appoints new consultant
The Danish Film Institute has appointed the 66-year-old Morten Grunwald as film consultant in charge of new projects in collaboration with Vinca Wiedemann, film consultant since 1999, who, at the same time, has had her contract extended another two years. Between them, the consultants manage some $8.9m (DKR75.5m) annually.Grunwald is ...
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The New Hollywood style: Part II
Abstracted from Screen International - Part IITo read the previous article, enter: Mike Goodridge into the Screendaily search barPivotal to the symbiotic relationships developing between the US studios and independent production companies lies the purchasing power of TV. "What international broadcasters want is big-budget movies," explains Jay Firestone, chairman and ...
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Italy's Eagle feathers its nest with books
Italy's Eagle Pictures, which recently received substantial acquisition and production funding from financial group Interbanca (Screendaily Nov 20, 2001), is just one of the internationally-minded Italian companies filling its production slate with screen adaptations of literary masterpieces.In particular, hot on the heels of last year's Oscar contender Chocolat, Eagle scooped ...
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Germany's Road Movies relocates to London
German production outfit Road Movies is to relocate from Berlin to London from 2002 as part of a restructure by the Das Werk Group in order to generate savings of around Euros 5m next year.Das Werk spokesman Wolfgang Borgfeld stressed that the move did not mean the closure of the ...
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Assumption Of The Virgin becomes doubtful
Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella's Mirage Enterprises is battling to save Assumption Of The Virgin, one of the highest-profile UK productions on the market, after being forced to shelve plans to start production in March. The Benicio Del Toro-Juliette Binoche drama, which Mirage developed with BBC Films and Intermedia, first ...
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Mira Nair named Berlinale 2002 jury president
Indian director Mira Nair has been named as president of the International Jury of the 52nd Berlinale 2002. Nair's feature debut, Salaam Bombay, won the Camera d'Or in Cannes, as well as 25 other international awards. It was also nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film. Nair's ...
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Fat Girl distributors lose Ontario appeal
The North American distributors of Catherine Breillat's controversial film Fat Girl (A Ma Souer!) have lost an appeal to the Ontario Film Review Board (OFRB). Given that joint distributors Cowboy Pictures and Lions Gate Films have chosen not to make the cuts requested, the decision effectively bans the film from ...
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Universal crosses $1bn in international grosses
Universal Pictures became the first Hollywood studio this year to cross the $1bn mark in international grosses over the weekend. It is only the second time in the studio's history - 1999 was the first - that the milestone was crossed and continues a blisteringly successful year for the company ...
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Iberoamerican co-prod forum wins approval
The second annual Iberoamerican Co-Production Forum came to a close Tuesday (Nov 20) midway through a quiet Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva, with both events emphasising the Latin American industry. The Forum earned positive marks by participants, both for the quality of the projects being pitched and the good turn-out. ...