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Beyond Distribution bolsters sales team
Beyond Distribution has strengthened its sales team by giving additional responsibilities to London-based Ellen Lovejoy and through the appointment of Veronique Verges.The moves follow the resignation of Marena Manzoufas, Beyond Distribution's general manager, who will leave in mid-July.Lovejoy will now manage all sales staff in the UK, US and Australia ...
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Japan says The Bunker is Mi-Pic
UK-based sales outfit The Film Company has sold UK psychological thriller The Bunker to Mi-Pic for Japan.Touted at this month's Cannes market, The Bunker tells the story of a group of German soldiers who get trapped into a disused bunker system on the French-Belgian border during World War 2. Starring ...
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Friend becomes all-time Korean BO champion
Kwak Kyung-taek's Friend continues to rewrite the Korean film industry record books. It notched seven million admissions on its 52nd day of release (May 21) making it the most popular- Korean film of all time. The film, is currently playing on 38 screens in Seoul and 128 nationwide. Based on ...
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BFI to programme art films for UCI
The British Film Institute (BFI) has partnered with UK exhibitor UCI Cinemas to programme classic films, world cinema and previews of new films. Dubbed "BFI@UCI" the partnership will cover 35 of UCI's UK multiplexes, giving the BFI wide access to multiplex cinemagoers. The institute currently has a smaller programming arrangement ...
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Euro Kids Network dropped by Media Plus
Financial support for Media Salles' Euro Kids Network (EKN) is being stopped as part of an overhaul of the cinema exhibition support initiatives of the MEDIA Plus Programme. The European Union-backed MEDIA Programme will instead concentrate its future support for the exhibition sector within the Europa Cinemas network.EKN was founded ...
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Spanish newcomer continues film buying binge
Start-up Spanish distributor Alquimia Cinema, run by former Aurum Producciones head Francisco Ramos, has acquired all Spanish rights on four big-name films from Alliance Atlantis Pictures International and one from Pandora Cinema.From Alliance, Alquimia has picked up Lynne Ramsay's forthcoming Morvern Callar, Atom Egoyan's Ararat, Richard Kwietniowski's Owning Mahowny and ...
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Ireland enjoys unexpected production boom
Feature production in Ireland is heading for an unexpected upturn. It comes after a hesitant start to the year prompted by the threatened Hollywood strikes and exacerbated by industry anxiety that the UK's foot and mouth disease outbreak might spread to Ireland.Spyglass Entertainment's epic fantasy Reign Of Fire with ...
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EIB now ready to accelerate audiovisual funding
The European Investment Bank (EIB) gave a clear signal at last week's Audiovisual Roundtable in Cannes that it wants to support the European film and TV industry and build greater competitiveness in the international market.The Roundtable had been organised following the launch of the Euros500m "Audiovisual i2i" initiative and to ...
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Valladolid sets up retrospective six pack
The International Film Week of Valladolid, Spain (Oct 26-Nov 3) is preparingsix retrospectives for its 46th edition this autumn.The first of these, "Todo Visconti", will feature restored copies of the famed Italian neo-realist director Luchino Visconti's oeuvre, including Death In Venice, Rocco And His Brothers, The Leopard, The Wanton Countess ...
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Sharada snags two Cannes titles for Italy
Confirming the rise in Italy of a new generation of ambitious distributionoutfits, Sharada, a new Rome-based company, has snapped up Italiandistribution rights to two Cannes titles, including Catherine Corsini'scompetition film La Repetition.Sharada's Andrea De Liberato, who also heads Italian production outfitPoetiche Cinematografiche, and his business partner Antonio Fusco, have alsoacquired ...
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Danielsen to take over at Edinburgh Festival
Shane Danielsen has been named as the next artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.A writer and critic for The Australian newspaper, Danielsen will take over from current artistic director Lizzie Francke after she has presided over this year's festival, which runs from 12-16 August. As well as being ...
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Zee seeks partner for int'l expansion drive
Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) is looking to partner with a multi-national media group in order to catapult itself into Asian and international markets.The executive committee of ZTL, which is managed by The Essel Group, has invited proposals from leading international investment and merchant bankers to put together the proposed strategic ...
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Bidding may go sky-high for DirecTV with new buyer
A bidding war is set to erupt over DirecTV, the largest satellite TV operator in the US with 9.5m subscribers.DirecTV's current owner, General Motors, says it is willing to entertain offers from bothcurrent suitor News Corp as well as new would-be buyer EchoStar Communications,which is second largest satellite TV provider ...
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Sony pays theatre chains to show film trailer
Sony PicturesEntertainment has set a new precedent by becoming the first Hollywood studio toactually pay theatre chains to carry one its promotional trailers.According to a news report in Thursday's Los Angeles Times, Sony paid two US exhibition chains -- General Cinema Theatres and AMC Entertainment -- as much as $100,000 ...
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Streather to head LFCA's European operations
Large Format Cinema Association (LFCA) has appointed Phil Streather as vice president - Europe, Africa and Middle East.Streather, who is currently co-chairman and head of large format at Principal Media Group and current LFCA board member, is briefed with raising the association's global profile and helping to grow the large ...
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Swaraj promotes booming Indian film sector
The Indian Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sushma Swaraj announced this week that the government is in discussions with The British Film Institute with a view to setting up a Museum of Moving Images in New Delhi. Discussions advanced during a meeting at last week's Cannes Film Festival.The minister said ...
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UK BO enjoys best April for quarter of a century
After an uncertain start to the year, things are finally looking up for the UK's exhibition sector. According to the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA) admissions in April were the highest for 26 years, averaging 3.26m ticket sales a week. This, says the CAA, could translate into 148m admissions by the ...
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Sony Classics has a crush on FilmFour's Crush
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has reportedly capped a late flurry of Cannes acquisitions by taking all North American rights to FilmFour's Crush, one of the market's most talked about UK titles. The $6.5m picture, which stars Andie MacDowell, follows the relationship between three middle-aged single women and a younger man. ...
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Oz industry reacts bitterly to tight Govt budget
"We are fighting for survival," said Catriona Hughes, chief executive of Australia's Film Finance Corporation (FFC), in reaction to the very small increases for film announced in this week's budget.Other commentators noted that the proposed A$50m budget for the FFC, the Australian industry's biggest film investor, is only half that ...
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Director Khudoinazarov sets up two more pictures
Luna Papa director Bahktiar Khudoinazarov is planning to shoot a low-budget feature Faraway Gochi on location in Russia this September ahead of his $4m-$4.4m (DM 9m-DM 10m) feature Leo which is being slated to shoot in and around Vienna for 12 weeks in spring 2002.Budgeted at under $440,000 (DM 1m) ...