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GMI acquires sales rights to Zhou Yu's Train
Good Machine International (GMI) has acquired worldwide sales rights outside Chinese-language Asia, Latin America and the English-language territories to Zhou Yu's Train starring Gong Li and Tony Leung.Directed by Sun Zhou and written by Sun, Bai Chun and Zhang Mei, Zhou Yu's Train is currently in production in the province ...
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Disney/Pixar titles sold to European free-TV
Buena Vista International Television (BVI-TV) has licensed its Classic Treasure package, a bundle of Disney and Pixar animation features to free-TV broadcasters in Europe. Following a similar deal last week with the BBC (Screendaily Oct 1), Danmarks Radio of Denmark, SIC of Portugal, Cinenova in Benlux and RTE in ...
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Friedman sees AOLTV as interactive brand leader
AOLTV will succeed because of the strength of the AOL brand and because its lead in the on-line market makes it able to federate many of its competitors. That at least was the message from Rob Friedman, newly installed president, worldwide interactive marketing TV at AOL, in his keynote address ...
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Optimum takes UK rights to French hit The Closet
UK independent distributor Optimum Releasing has acquired all UK rights from Gaumont to Francis Veber's French hit The Closet (Le Placard).The comedy, starring Daniel Auteil and Gerard Depardieu, tells the story of a forty-something man who pretends that he's gay in order to save himself from redundancy.The Closet achieved more ...
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The latest MIP-COM deals round-up
Beyond signs five picture deal with WeintraubAustralia's Beyond Films has signed a major five picture deal with US producer Fred Weintraub of Weintraub Kume Productions. The slate of genre features will be co-produced by German film fund MBP, with Beyond Films handling international sales.Beyond is also reported to have signed ...
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Recession watch - Part III
In the third part of Screen International's analysis on the effect on the industry of the Sept 11 attacks on the US, the threat of recession on the production and post-production sectors is assessed.Abstracted from Screen InternationalProductionThe production sector could be the part of the film life-cycle that is most ...
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South Korea's Pusan fest's 6th edition line-up
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has unveiled the complete lineup for its 6th edition, to be held Nov. 9-17 in Busan, South Korea. Opening with the world premiere of Korean director Bae Chang-ho's The Last Witness, the festival will screen a total of 202 films from a record ...
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New MD for Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures GmbH
Producer Gabriela Bacher has been appointed as the managing director of the soon-to-be founded Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures GmbH with responsibility for all media activities in Potsdam/Babelsberg and Los Angeles.Reporting directly to Vivendi Germany boss Thierry Potok, she will also take over the running of the studios from Gerhard Bergfried ...
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Rai Trade shows first fruit of production branch
Rai Trade, the sales arm of Italian public broadcaster RAI, has added a new strategic dimension to its sales and distribution activities and become a co-financier of European and international co-productions. The first fruits of this new branch were on display this week at MIP-COM.Rai Trade gets its first production ...
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Film Export UK assesses autumn markets
MIFED has secured support from 73% of companies asked to choose between the Italian market and the preceeding London screenings in a worldwide survey by promotional body Film Export UK. With the economic downturn adding urgency to buyers and sellers' longstanding complaints about attending two consecutive markets in different countries, ...
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Moulin Rouge regains UK box office crown
Audacious Australian musical Moulin Rouge reclaimed the top of the UK chart this week from two-week champ A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Now in its fifth week on release Baz Luhrmann's film dropped off just 20% from its previous weekend, its largest fall so far, taking a three-day gross of $1.6m (£1.1m) ...
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Industry mourns tragic death of Steen S. Larsen
One of the most respected and competent cinema builders in Europe died on Monday Oct 8, when Nordic major Nordisk Film Biografer's vice president of Logistics, Steen S. Larsen, was among the passengers killed on board the SAS flight that tragically crashed in Milan. Larsen had attended the IBTS Mediatech ...
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Warner Germany scores smash with Polar Bear
Warner Bros Germany has scored a record-breaking opening with its locally produced family entertainment picture The Little Polar Bear (Der Kleine Eisbar), taking DM4,320,651 ($2.04m) on 477 prints over the weekend.The animated German-language film co-produced by Warner Bros Germany with Cartoon Film is the best opening of the year for ...
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Moulin Rouge opens with tuneful $1.9m in France
20th Century Fox scored a powerful opening for Moulin Rouge in France where six months ago the film world premiered as the opening night film of the Cannes International Film Festival. The film's five day total was $1.893m on 343 screens, making it the number one film in France over ...
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Premiere Grp takes US on Electric/Storm's Preacher
Mitch Goldman's new US distribution operation The Premiere Group has signed to handle domestic rights on Preacher, a $22m feature of the comic book series by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon which is being produced by Rupert Harvey's Electric Entertainment and H Michael Heuser's Storm Entertainment.Rachel Talalay (Tank ...
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Bickel sets up new sales outfit at Lexington Ent
Steve Bickel, the international sales veteran who most recently headed sales for The Shooting Gallery, has joined Jeffrey Kramer's Lexington Entertainment Group to head a new sales and marketing venture called Aura Entertainment. He will represent in-house productions, acquire independent and foreign features and selectively develop and produce his own ...
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Hallmark acquires 15 features from Paramount
The Hallmark Channel has acquired a package of 15 features from Paramount International for its Taiwan service. These include Mission: Impossible, Days Of Thunder, The Hunt For Red October, Nick Of Time, The Saint and five films in the Star Trek series.For pan-Asian screening, Hallmark Channel bought 27 episodes comprising ...
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Universal TV & Networks seals MIP-COM deals
British channel packager and distributor Zone Vision has acquired a wide ranging deal to deliver films and TV movies from Universal Television & Networks to Turkey. The films will be shown on basic cable channel, Showtime Turkey, which was launched in February 2000 as a direct-to-home channel carried on the ...
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Encore buys 300 hours of film & drama for China
Entertainment programmer and channel packaging group Encore International (EI) is to buy over 300 hours of feature films and drama series for resale into China. The pictures will be shown in a new primetime slot on China Central Television's Everyday Jiayi (Everyday Best Entertainment) brand, moving from EI's previous variety ...
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Bandits replaces Windtalkers at London film fest
Barry Levinson's crime caper Bandits has replaced John Woo's Windtalkers at the London Film Festival after MGM postponed the US release of the World War II film following the terrorist attacks in the US.Bandits, which stars Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and Cate Blanchett, takes up Windtalkers' gala screening slot ...