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BSkyB axes film production arm
UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB is axing Sky Pictures, the prolific film production arm that was out to challenge Channel 4 and the BBC's established feature operations.A spokesperson said on Thursday that the broadcasting giant expected to close the division within months. Sky Pictures' 17 staff were told this week that ...
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Dutch bureaucracy floors film funds
Policy makers from the Dutch ministries of finance and economic affairs have been quick to blame the slow bureaucratic machinery in Brussels, but when Labour politician and former documentary maker Hillie Molenaar started asking questions in parliament, it transpired that the Dutch bureaucrats had not even sent off its proposal ...
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$100m double boost for German film funding
$100m double boost for German film funding Mediability and MDF funds launch in Germany, bringing new $100m revenue stream onlineGerman media mogul Herbert Kloiber's CTM Concept TV & Merchandising is to serve as the production and international distribution partner for the new Munich-based media fund Mediability, which was launched last ...
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Norsk's last film gets blockbuster roll-out
The last feature to roll out from the now disbanded Norwegian state production outfit Norsk Film will benefit from the highest p&a budget ever for a local film.Thomas Robsahm's $3.4m The Greatest Thing, about a rural femme fatale who simultaneously marries three men only to run away from all of ...
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Cyprus becomes focus for multiplex builders
Mediterranean sunspot, Cyprus is to get its second multiplex next month with the opening in Larnaca of a six-screen theatre operated by K Cineplex.DJK Karatatis, the local Cypriot trading group which built and operates the K Cineplexes, opened its first site in Limassol in late 1999 and plans to open ...
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Pathe and Sky Pictures sign eight-picture deal
Pathe's UK arm and Sky Pictures, the film production arm of UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB, have signed a production and distribution agreement for up to eight films over the next two years.The partners will jointly select films, with Pathe handling distribution in the UK, France, Benelux and Switzerland and international ...
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Showcase closes deals on thriller Pendulum
LA-based producer/distributor Showcase Entertainment has completed a raft of deals on its thriller Pendulum during and after this year's Cannes Film Market. The film stars Rachel Hunter and James Russo and was produced by Blue Thunder Films and On Deck Productions; it was directed by James D Deck.Buyers included Videoville ...
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Scorsese, Philips team up for widescreen promotion
Martin Scorsese has teamed up with Philips Consumer Electronics to launch a global education campaign designed to provide consumers with a clear understanding of widescreen-formatted television (16:9) and to promote the viewing of movies on widescreen versus standard television size.The campaign, dubbed "See What You've Been Missing", shows how widescreen ...
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Actress Fiorentino countersues Germany's Art Oko
US actress Linda Fiorentino filed a response and cross-complaint yesterday in the Los Angeles Superior Court action brought against her by Art Oko Film, the German production company of abandoned film Till The End Of Time. Art Oko sued Fiorentino earlier this year claiming that she "held production of the ...
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INTERNATIONAL
Pearl Harbor has performed well on its debut in the international market, led by a strong showing in Italy. As it started its international roll-out at the weekend Buena Vista International's World War II epic suggested a new trend in Italy, which has traditionally all but closed down for the ...
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Columbia TriStar boards Waddington's House
Columbia TriStar Brazil has boarded the next film by Andrucha Waddington, director of international hit Me, You, Them (Eu, Tu, Eles). Budgeted at $3.5m, high for Brazilian standards, the drama, titled The House Of Sand, will be co-produced by Me, You, Them production house Conspiracao and prominent Brazilian producer Luiz ...
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SF backs low-budget film incentive
The Danish arm of Nordic major Svensk Filmindustri (SF) has signed a first look deal with the young production outfit Buttenschoen & Budde. 'Our aim is to finance and initiate projects from young professionals and new talents,' explained producer Mads Buttenschoen. 'What we can offer is an incentive for the ...
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VCL cuts 2001 forecasts, raises new cash
Germany's VCL Film + Medien's "liquidity bottleneck has been uncorked by a $33.9m financial package provided by a consortium of banks and other investors, led by France's Societe Generale. It will help to secure the financing of the first two Woody Allen films in VCL's three-picture deal concluded in June ...
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Mediacs moves into film licensing
German multimedia producer mediacs has followed rival e-m-s new media into the film licensing business. It has sealed an output deal for the production and distribution of DVDs for films from Berlin-based production house TTD Checkpoint Berlin.The first TTD productions to be released on mediacs' own DVD label will be ...
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Norway backs Most People...
Production outfit Motlys has been granted $760,000 from the Norwegian Film Institute for portmanteau project Most People Live In China - a single feature film with eight directors and six screenwriters attached. The directors and writers involved are a combination of well-known names and newcomers.Each segment of the $942,000 film ...
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Preston unexpectedly quits UK's Metrodome
Rupert Preston has quit as head of UK independent distributor Metrodome Distribution.Preston, who released titles including Human Traffic, Shadow Of The Vampire, and Chopper while at Metrodome, confirmed that he will leave the company in late August after overseeing upcoming releases. Metrodome group chairman John Hall said that the publicly-quoted ...
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Before Night Falls falls foul of UK censor
Before Night Falls, Julian Schnabel's acclaimed biopic of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, has fallen foul of UK censor, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).Before agreeing to certify the film, the BBFC demanded a scene involving the capture of a bird in prison be cut under the Cinematograph Films (Animals) ...
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Stockmarket confirms Kinowelt share trading probe
The Frankfurt-based German Federal Securities Supervisory Office (BaWe) has said that it has begun formal investigations into alleged insider trading at Kinowelt. The move comes after shares in Kinowelt, listed on the Nemax50 blue-chip segment of Germany's Neuer Markt, lost some 40% of their value in the three days ahead ...
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Closet, booming exhibition lift Gaumont Q1 figures
Beleaguered French major Gaumont has seen its sales jump 44% for the first quarter of 2001. This comes as a welcome reprieve for the company, which saw revenues drop 50% in the last quarter of 2000 and 15% for the full year, mostly due to the dismal box office performance ...
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George Lucas to get 11th BAFTA/LA Britannia Award
The British Academy Of Film And Television Arts Los Angeles (BAFTA/LA) will give its annual Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence In Film to George Lucas. The award will be presented during a gala event in LA on Nov 10.Since the mid-1970s, Lucas has directed and/or produced nine films on ...