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Cartel to make biopic of Spaniard on death row
Spanish production outfit Cartel has announced plans to produce a film about Joaquin Jose Martinez, the Spaniard currently on death row in the United States accused of double murder.Writers Mercedes Segovia and Julia Montejo are now putting the final touches on the script. Cartel, headed by Eduardo Campoy, secured exclusive ...
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Civilian Content acquires majority of The Sales Co
Civilian Content, parent company of National Lottery franchise The Film Consortium, has secured an international sales operation by agreeing to acquire the majority of The Sales Co. (Screen Daily Sept 25, 2000)Civilian, which already owns 25% of the sales Co through the Consortium, has taken two further 25% holdings owned ...
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UNITED KINGDOM
A dearth pf strong openers in the UK left the top six virtually unchanged over the weekend leaving Hannibal unchallenged at the top of the chart. Despite falling 40% on the previous weekend, the thriller's $1,774,915 (£1,208,717) was easily enough to hold the top spot for a fourth week. The ...
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Internationalmedia acquires Largo library
Internationalmedia has acquired the 25-title Largo Entertainment film library which includes such films as, Kathryn Bigelow's Point Break, starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, Spike Lee's historical drama Malcolm X, the Jean-Claude Van Damme actioner Timecop, and Ridley Scott's White Squall and G.I. Jane.Commenting on the acquisition, Neuer Markt-listed Internationalmedia ...
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EM.TV to sell Henson one year after acquisition
Troubled German media concern EM.TV & Merchandising has confirmed that it is planning to sell the Jim Henson Group as part of a corporate restructure following its deal with the KirchGroup last month (ScreenDaily, Feb 2000).EM.TV spokeswoman Marion Moormann declared to the dpa/AFX news service, however, that the sale was ...
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French film production dips; investment soars
Although the number of French films produced last year decreased by a slight 3.3% from 1999's level, total investment in French films rose by 16% to $636m (Ffr 4.5bn) with a record seven titles (six of them period pieces) breaking the $14m (Ffr100m) budget mark - compared with just two ...
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Blockbuster, Enron divorce creates VoD rivals
Blockbuster Video and Enron are to set up rival video-on-demand (VoD) services, having ended their year-old partnership.The original deal (Screendaily, July 20) had envisaged a match between Blockbuster's marketing power and the distribution capacity provided energy giant Enron's broadband fibre-optic network. This already spans North America and is being expanded ...
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New UK sales and distribution outfit launched
Micro-budget film-maker Ray Brady, best known for controversial 1994 horror flick Boy Meets Girl, has launched his own UK distribution and international sales operation under the banner Boudicca.The venture is already lining up two Brady titles for UK release - 1999 thriller Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and the recently completed ...
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Mar del Plata
MAR DEL PLATA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALMarch 8 - 17Argentina's Mar del Plata International Film Festival has bounced back after mismanagement and a local film industry boycott forced a hiatus last year. A new executive team led by film critic and historian Claudio Espana has promised to provide a more organised ...
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New body to lobby for deal for Polish filmmakers
Polish film and television producers have established a new consultative body which will lobby the government for better legal and commercial conditions for the Polish audio-visual industry. The newly formed Association of Producers made up of producers working in both film and television will act as Chamber of Commerce for ...
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Crouching Tiger makes history in Hong Kong
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon secured a place in Hong Kong film history, earning more nominations than any other film in the 20 year history of the Hong Kong Film Awards. The Ang Lee film was received a record-breaking 16 nominations in 15 categories, including best film, best director, best screenplay ...
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Vivendi Universal posts 60% rise in profit
Vivendi Universal - which has seen its net income jump 60%, to Euros 2.3bn, and revenues rise 37% to Euros 41.8bn in 2000 - will meet its aggressive growth and synergy targets in 2001 and 2002 according to chairman Jean-Marie Messier.At a conference call on March 9, Messier said: "We ...
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Ticket sales down; The Mexican still number one
It was a disappointing weekend at the North American box office, falling some 17% from the same weekend last year. This first drop of the year comes just days after a keynote speech by MPAA president Jack Valenti at ShoWest in which he made much of the dramatic rise in ...
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Paredes joins Savages
Spanish actress Marisa Paredes has joined the castof first-time writer-director Carlos Molinero's feature film, Savages(Salvajes).The film will reunite Paredes - who is currentlythe president of Spain's Cinema Academy - with Imanol Arias, her co-star inPedro Almodovar's 1995 hit The Flower Of My Secret (El Flor De Mi Secreto).Paredes also starred ...
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Telepool in first-look deal with New Legend Media
German rightstrader Telepool has concluded an all German language rights first-look dealwith the US-German production outfit New Legend Media. The first New Legendprojects to be covered by the deal are the Jeremy Irons-thriller The Fourth Angel, a new version of The Count Of Monte Cristo withChristopher Lambert and John Malkovich, ...
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Indian epic to be most expensive ever
Hindi film star, director and producer Sanjay Khan hasannounced a multi million dollar historical feature film, which will roll inNovember. The film, titled Maryada Purshottam Ram and based on the epic RamaYana will be made on an international scale and will be the most expensivefilm ever made in Mumbai. Kahn ...
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Pentamedia goes big with Little John
Chennai-based Pentamedia Gaphics Ltd has announced a $20mfeature film Little John about the adventures of an American Tourist inIndia who gets accidentally miniaturized. The company has already made its mark in the digitalentertainment sector with a slew of full length digital animation moviesincluding The Pandavas, a complete animation story based ...
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Stealthily, Secretly causes rioting in India
Delhi High Court has directed City Government and PoliceCommissioner to provide adequate security to the capital's cinema halls wherethe controversial film financed by Bharat Shah and produced by Nazim HassanRazvi Chori Chori Chupke Chupke (Stealthily, Secretly) is playing. Thefilm's distributor Manpreet Singh Chadha, had received threats from certainreligious, political and ...
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Italy's Film Exporters lobby for loans
In a bid to give a major boost to the Italian film industry, Italy's National Film Exporters Union is appealing to the government to give more financial support to projects with significant international appeal.Roberto Di Girolamo, the president of Italy's Film Exporters, will ask the cultural ministry to evaluate screenplays ...
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Escapist collared by UGC International
UGC International has boarded Gillies Mackinnon's The Escapist as worldwide sales agent.The film, currently in pre-production prior to shooting later this month, tells the story of a man who reinvents himself as a ruthless criminal so that he can get incarcerated in the same prison as the man who killed ...