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Vulcan hires Hutton for media development
Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc. has hired Richard Hutton to serve as the company's vice president of media development. He will oversee the feature film and documentary teams at Vulcan's Clear Blue Sky Productions and manage content partnerships and business and distribution deals across the film, television and Internet platforms.Hutton, previously ...
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New South Wales launches Aurora workshops
The New South Wales Film and Television Office (FTO) is calling for "compelling and distinctive" feature film scripts to be the first beneficiaries of the inaugural Aurora feature film script development workshops. Applicants must intend making the film in the state of NSW and the scripts must have a writer, ...
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Firefly Dreams wins Hawaii's Golden Maile award
John Williams' Firefly Dreams was the winner of the First Hawaiian Bank Golden Maile award for the main competition of the Hawaii International Film Festiva (Nov 2-11). Shot on location in Japan and starring Maho Ukai and Yoshi Minami, the film is the British-born Williams' first feature. Among other entries ...
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Potter is top 2001 UK opening - a week early
Few people can have avoided the hype that has been building around Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, one of the most eagerly anticipated films of recent years. Now the children's adventure film is proving it can live up to the hype, at least in the UK. This ...
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New Country, No Man's Land win top AFI Fest prizes
Swedish road movie The New Country and Bosnian favourite No Man's Land won the top awards at this year's AFI International Film Festival in Los Angeles, which finished last night with the world premiere of Marc Forster's Monster's Ball.The New Country, directed by Geir Hansteen Jorgensen, won the jury's feature ...
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Monsters, Inc. stays on top
Monsters, Inc., the Walt Disney/Pixar animation, continued athwart the North American box office, with audiences lifting it past the $100m mark after nine days on release, a record cash-dash for an animated film. After two weekends, its estimated take stands at $122m. Perhaps its haste is quickened by the sound ...
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Optimum acquires Officer's Ward & The Greatest
Independent UK distributor Optimum Releasing has acquired all local rights to Francois Dupeyron's The Officer's Ward (La Chambre Des Officiers) and documentary Muhammed Ali The Greatest.Acquired from Mercure, Officer's Ward will be released theatrically in the spring, while The Greatest goes out in January.Set during the First World War, Officer's ...
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Taylor Nelson Sofres buys into cinema services
US market research giant, Taylor Nelson Sofres, has announced the acquisition of two American cinema services companies: Theatrical Entertainment Services and sister firm RapidChek Reporting for an initial cash payment of $38m.The two businesses track cinema attendance and box office figures, as well as monitoring trailer and on-screen advertising. Last ...
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Rush & Davis team for Swimming Upstream
Two of Australia's most internationally acclaimed actors, Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis, will be acting alongside each other as husband and wife when shooting starts next week in Queensland on the family drama Swimming Upstream.Australian-born Russell Mulcahy is the director and Howard and Karen Baldwin, and Australia's Andrew Mason, are ...
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Second Global Motion Pictures fund launched
The Frankfurt-based IN-motion Group is behind the launching of a second private media fund to follow its Euros 15m first Global Motion Pictures Fonds (GMPF) which was brought on to the market in July. The Second Global Motion Pictures Fonds (GMPF 2) will be inviting private individuals to put ...
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Lantana scores big at Australian IF awards
Lantana confirmed its critical worth at Australia's annual IF Awards, taking home nearly every major award including best film for producer Jan Chapman, best director for Ray Lawrence, best script for Andrew Bovell and best actor for Anthony LaPaglia. The ensemble cast of Barbara Hershey, Kerry Armstrong, Leah Purcell, Rachael ...
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New Zealand film sales increase
The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) grossed more than $1.7m (NZ$4m) in sales in the 12 months to June 30, 2001, according to its annual report, which was tabled in Parliament today. Sales in the previous year were $465,000 (NZ$1.1m). The biggest contributor was director Glenn Standring's $887,000 (NZ$2.1m) horror ...
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Finalists selected for Sundance/NHK awards
The Sundance Institute and Japanese broadcaster NHK have selected eleven finalists for the 2002 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards. The winners, one from each of four global regions (Latin America, Europe, USA and Japan) will take home a cash award of $10,000 and a guarantee from NHK to acquire the Japanese ...
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Spain's Auna to get Euro720m injection
Shareholders of Spanish telecoms operator Auna (Retevision) approved a capital injection of Euros720m (pts120bn) in a move apparently intended to stall the potential sale by Telecom Italia of its 27% stake. However, the boost might not be enough to save pay TV platform Quiero TV, 49% owned by Auna, from ...
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German media sector sees further major changes
Advanced Medien, VCL Film + Medien, and FAME are the latest publicly listed German media companies forced by the 'unfavourable market environment" in the German media sector to embark on a radical strategic reorientation of their operations. Beleaguered producer-distributor Advanced Medien, whose share price has hovered just above oblivion for ...
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Turin film festival unveils competition line-up
The 19th edition of the Turin Film Festival, Italy's pre-eminent cutting-edge event, has unveiled its competition line-up which includes Ake Sandgren's Dogme title Truly Human (Et Rigtigt Menneske) and Terry Zwigoff's Steve Buscemi starrer Ghost World, which is produced by John Malkovich.Titles in the festival's main competition also include Monica ...
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Pusan opens with atmosphere of regional growth
The sixth edition of the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) got underway on Friday with an air of self-confidence and regional prosperity. Proceedings got underway on Friday with the world premiere of Bae Chang-ho's highly anticipated Korean War drama The Last Witness. This was followed by a mix of public, ...
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Spanish heavyweights sign multi-year accord
Two Spanish heavyweights - distributor/exhibitor Lauren Films and film and TV producer Cartel - have signed a multi-year production and distribution accord. The new alliance, published in local newspaper La Gaceta de los Negocios, will see Lauren distribute all Cartel titles theatrically and on video, with an option to co-produce ...
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Target launches Euros50m media fund
Berlin-based Target Media Entertainment, who entered into a long-term, multi-picture deal with Warner Bros. Pictures Germany at the end of October (Screendaily, Oct 26 2001), has now launched a Euro 50m media fund to finance up to 15 live.action and animated German and English-language features.The production companies Comet Film (The ...
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Spice Factory/Beyond to Cut Deeper
The UK's Spice Factory and Australia's Beyond Films are co-developing writer/director Michael Hurst's science fiction horror film Cut Deeper, a sequel to the 1999 Australian film Cut (pictured). Shooting is scheduled to start early next year.Cut Deeper is to be produced by Michael Cowan and Jason Piette from the UK's ...