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First Look buys world on Griffin Dunne comedy
First Look Media has acquired worldwide rights to Griffin Dunne's digital video film Lisa Picard Is Famous which first screened in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival 2000 with the title Famous. First Look's international sales division Overseas Filmgroup will handle international sales while domestic distributor First Look ...
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Amores Perros sweeps Mexico's Ariel awards
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Love's A Bitch (Amores Perros) grabbed 11 awards from its 15 nominations at this week's 43rd Ariel Awards ceremony in Mexico City. The three-part urban drama made a sweep of all the major awards except for Best Actress which was shared between actresses Ximena Ayala (Perfume De ...
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Artificial Eye buys two more Cannes titles for UK
Closing a busy festival for the company, UK art-house distributor Artificial Eye Film Distribution has picked up Cannes competition titles Va Savoir! and I'm Going Home (Vou Para Casa).Feted in Screen International's review as "resplendent from first frame to last" Jacques Rivette's Va Savoir! centres on the drama created by ...
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Mediastream, F.A.M.E. unveil new German funds
The launch of two new film funds this week underlines the growing gulf in fortunes between Germany's high flying private media funds and the struggling Neuer Markt media outfits.Duesseldorf-based fund manager GVP has launched its second Mediastream fund to raise Euro 141.4m for the financing of two Universal Pictures productions ...
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Ster Kinekor backs out of Zimbabwe exhib sector
South African exhibition giant Ster-Kinekor is to pull out of neighbouring Zimbabwe by the end of June.The move is reportedly due to shortages of foreign currency within the Zimbabwean operations making it difficult to acquire foreign films and to pay for company houses. Two complexes, said to be the best ...
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TF1 set to board Kino Vision's Devil's Beauty
France's TF1 International is in negotiations to co-produce and handle world rights on Spanish production The Devil's Beauty, an ambitious English-language project in development at Madrid-based Kino Vision.The $35m project has attracted international attention since it was announced last year. The script, which is being adapted by Enrique Urbizu, who ...
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Bronfmann family cut Vivendi stake by a third
Vivendi Universal this week bought in 16.9 million of its shares after the Bronfman family sold off approximately a third of its holding in the media giant. Edgar Bronfman Jr, who remains executive chairman of the group, said: "This sale reflects my family's desire to diversify our investment portfolio after ...
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Aline Perry poised to head Sales Co
Aline Perry, former president of PolyGram Film International, has emerged as the front-runner to head UK-based international sales operation The Sales Co.Civilian Content, which in March agreed to acquire a majority stake in the sales outfit, is understood to be wooing the executive as part of plans to move the ...
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Digital costs push Wowow into loss
Wowow, a leading satellite broadcaster on satellite and cable TV which dedicates half its schedule to films, swung from profit to loss in 2000.It announced a $27.6m Y3.34bn) group net loss and a $26.9 (Y3.26bn) consolidated pre-tax loss for fiscal 2000, which ended on March 31. Company officials blamed the ...
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Reitman to be honoured at Cinema Expo
Ivan Reitman, director of Ghostbusters , Twins and Dave, is to receive the "award of excellence in filmmaking" at the forthcoming Cinema Expo convention (June 25-28)."Reitman has consistently been exciting, thrilling and entertaining moviegoers worldwide. He is remarkably talented and a tribute such as this is justly deserved," said ...
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UPC loan gives Malone more control
Beleaguered cable giant United pan-Europe Communications (UPC) has completed a series of transactions that gives it a Euros1bn loan and sees US entrepreneur John Malone take effective control of UPC's American parent UnitedGlobalCom.The loan from Malone's Liberty Mediareplaces a rights issue that was proposed in February, but to which stock ...
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Lecce Euro festival unveils line-up
Joaquin Cortes vehicle Gitano and Envy Of Gods by Russian director Vladimir Menshov are among the eight films in competition at the second edition of the European Cinema festival, which will be held in the southern Italian town of Lecce (June 2-9).Films to be viewed by Polish director ...
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EM.TV discusses Henson buyout with management
Charles Rivkin, chief executive of the Jim Henson Company, creator of the Muppets, is planning a management buy-out from German media group, EM.TV, according to a report this week in the UK's Financial Times. The paper said that Rivkin and other Jim Henson managers were canvassing US private equity houses ...
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Jackie Chan launches rival Art Of War project
Hong Kong-superstar, Jackie Chan has set up a gladiatorial contest to produce an epic film based on classic Chinese tract The Art Of War. Chan announced yesterday (May 28) that he will star in a mega-budget adaptation of the philosophical works by Sun Tzu for Golden Harvest. Earlier this month ...
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New York's Snapper teams with Scandinavia's Smile
New York-based production outfit Snapper Films has partnered with Scandinavia's Smile Entertainment to co-produce a slate of English-language features.The three-year arrangement includes Fidelity, written by Tom Griffin and to be directed by Juha Wuolijoki, and Arto Halonen's Guardian Angel. Both projects are drama thrillers that are expected to shoot in ...
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Moscow, St Petersburg festivals link up
Russia's Moscow International Film Festival and St Petersburg International Festival of Festivals are tying up.The two events will now be held in overlapping slots and share films in their out-of-competition Panorama sections. The link up means Moscow will this year move from its traditional date in late July to June ...
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Kinowelt shares slump as profit forecasts slashed
Shares at Kinowelt Medien hit an all-time low this week after the German media concern halved profit expectations for this year.Shares fell 17% to 4.68 Euro on Monday, recovering slightly but then slipped another 2.04% on Tuesday. At the beginning of trading on Tuesday shares were at 4.80 Euro. The ...
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Pearl Harbor pummels US with $75.1m opening
With an estimated Memorial Day weekend gross of $75.1m, Touchstone Pictures' $140m Pearl Harbor enjoyed the second highestfour-day holiday tally ever at North American theatres. However, even this fell short of the box office blitz that many in the media had been preparing for.Pearl Harbor may have elbowed out Mission: ...
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Hallmark grabs major terrs on mini-series pair
The Hallmark Channel has bought exclusive pay-TV rights to two big budget min-series stuffed with theatrical talent from Alliance Atlantis Television.The series Life With Judy Garland: Me And My Shadows and Haven were both bought for Latin America, Spain, Portugal, Russia, the CIS, Middle East and Italy. Hallmark also took ...
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Jove festival unveils youth line-up
Spain's youth-oriented International Cinema Jove Film Festival of Valencia (June 16-23) has unveiled a list of 80 short films and 10 feature films which will compete this year in the two parallel official sections of its 16th annual edition.All of the films are made by directors under 35 years of ...