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Planeta 2010 moves on education and Revelation
Heralding the frenzied competition for content to feed Spain's expanding TV market, publishing giant Grupo Planeta's media entity Planeta 2010 announced it would invest a whopping $33m (pts6,000m) over the next five years in the production of a single thematic channel: interactive educational channel Beca TV.Beca, which offers traditional cultural ...
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Spanish fest to host Sundance script lab
Spanish fest to host Sundance script labThe Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (June 1-9) will play host to the first Sundance Institute Scriptwriters' Lab to be held in Spain in conjunction with national authors and editors rights' organization SGAE.The lab will be held May 21-26, just prior to the fourth ...
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Sonet couples with Trust
Denmark's Trust Film Sales has struck an output deal with prolific Swedish production and distribution outfit Sonet. The deal hatched on the eve of last month's AFM gives Trust, part of Denmark's Zentropa Entertainment empire, two more titles to add to its Cannes list. First up will be Home Sour ...
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Canal Plus claims bouyant financial health
The Canal Plus group (which now includes Universal Studios) is expecting a substantial rise in its operating and net earnings as well as its subscription base in 2001. The pay-tv giant -- which will announce its 2000 results, along with Vivendi Universal's, today after the close of the Paris Stock ...
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Free digital conversion offer for US theatres only
A joint venture of communications giant Qualcomm and film processors Technicolor this week unveiled an ambitious plan to kick-start the digital conversion of the exhibition industry by installing and maintaining the necessary equipment free of charge in a thousand US theatres. But, despite acknowledging the global dimension of the exhibition ...
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Fernan-Gomez awarded Gold Medal
Spanish film legend Fernando Fernan-Gomez will add another notch to his belt this year with the receipt of the Spanish Cinema Academy's prestigious Gold Medal lifetime achievement award.The Academy this week unveiled Fernan-Gomez as the newest recipient of an award whose previous honorees include a long list of revered local ...
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Plural signs with New York Times TV
New Spanish production outfit Plural Entertainment, a 100%-backed Grupo Prisa company with headquarters in Madrid and New York, has signed a landmark co-production agreement with the television filial of The New York Times.The accord, the first of its kind for The New York Times TV, will see the two firms ...
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Belgian fund boosts World Cinema
After five years of lobbying, the organisers of the Bruges-based Cinema Novo fest for world cinema have secured commitment from the Belgian state to back the funding of films from the South (Africa, Asia, Latin America). On the back of Bruges' status as 2002 European capital, Cinema Novo will issue ...
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Warner signs free-tv deal with Greece's Star
Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed a multi-year free television deal with Greece's Star Channel. The deal, which extends an existing relationship, includes the free television broadcast rights to feature films from Warner Bros.,HBO's cable mini-series The Sopranos and TV television series such as ER, and The West ...
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Astral acquires Family Channel for $82m
Montreal based broadcaster Astral Media will take 100% control of specialty channel The Family Channel after agreeing to acquire the 50 per cent interest currently held by Corus Entertainment. The (US)$82m cash deal is subject to regulatory approval. The acquisition will also increase to 40% Astral's ownership of the Teletoon ...
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Resident Evil benefits from Constantin's credit
Paul Anderson's Resident Evil ,the big-screen adaptation of the video game, is the first project to benefit from a $140m revolving credit line granted to Bernd Eichinger's Constantin Film by a bank consortium led by the DG Bank.The agreement between the consortium, comprising the DG Bank, Bayerische Landesbank Girozentrale, BHF ...
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Local films have legs, Hannibal has teeth
Norwegian documentary Heftig Og Begeistret, directed by Knut Erik Jensen, continues to hold strong at the local box office, where the box office share of local films is one of the lowest in Europe (5-7%). It has grossed $1,023,922, achieving admissions of 169,464 to March 4, and after 7 weeks ...
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Intermedia shows excellent form, predicts better
Intermedia has posted pre-tax earnings of Euros27.5m, 46% above the Euros18.8m forecast when the company floated on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt in May 2000 as Internationalmedia AG.Final net income for last year reached Euros19.7m, 99% above the Euros9.9m that the company projected when it floated. Intermedia's cash reserve was Euros191.3m at ...
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Advanced Medien shares rise as e-m-s adds to stake
Reflecting e-m-s new media's role in determining the destiny of the troubled German media company Advanced Medien, the DVD specialist has decided to increase its stake in the producer-distributor to more than 25% thereby giving it a so-called blocking minority holding. Last December, e-m-s had come onboard the Munich-based company ...
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Istituto Luce: Apocalypse Nuovo
Confirming a new, more aggressive attitude at Italy's Istituto Luce, head of distribution Giovanni Tamberi says he is in talks to buy Italian rights to Francis Ford Coppola's expanded version of Apocalypse Now. Should Tamberi succeed in obtaining rights to the film, which will premiere at the Cannes International Film ...
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Studio Babelsberg mourns death of Schaper
Less than four months after the death of Helkon Media's Werner Koenig, the German film industry has been dealt another blow with news of the untimely death of Studio Babelsberg CEO and Head of Production Rainer Schaper at the age of 50 from a heart attack last weekend. Schaper, who ...
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Tiger Aspect unveils new slate of films
Tiger Aspect Pictures, the film arm of leading TV comedy producer Tiger Aspect Productions, is readying a fresh slate after the company scored three hits out of three with Billy Elliot, Kevin And Perry Go Large and Bean.Steve Bendelack of surreal comedy show The League of Gentlemen is now attached ...
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Kar joins UK's New Cinema Fund
The UK's Film Council has appointed Himesh Kar senior executive in charge of culturally diverse film-making for the New Cinema Fund. Kar, who was previously development producer at London's World Productions and a junior agent with the William Morris Agency (UK), will work with New Cinema Fund head Paul Trijbits ...
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IMAX unveils high definition digital projector
Canadian large-format specialist IMAX Corp has unveiled plans to build a new high definition digital projector, which, says the company, will be able to screen the world’s largest high-quality digital image and give twice the performance of digital projectors.Capable of filling large stadium-style theatres with screens of up to 80ft ...
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Ocean Warrior turns into beached whale
Failure to secure a completion bond has grounded the biggest production in the history of Dutch cinema. With a $60 million budget, Ocean Warrior (a biopic of Greenpeace founder Paul Watson) was to be directed by John Badham, with starring roles for Aidan Quinn and Billy Bob Thornton. When financiers ...