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Spain considers abolishing screen quotas
The general director of Spain's Cinema Institute (ICAA) and members of the Spanish film community are set to appear before a congressional committee this week to argue the finer points of proposed changes to the country's cinema law, including the controversial dissolution of screen quotas.The new law, submitted by the ...
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Tellux takes Progress in Germany
The Tellux Group has become the major shareholder in the privatised former East German distributor Progress Film after Drefa Media Holding, a subsidiary of the Leipzig-based public broadcaster MDR, sold its 37.5% stake for an undisclosed six-figure sum.With Drefa's exit, Tellux now has increased its stake from 37.5% to 60%, ...
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Costly Costa! campaign pays off
Costly Costa! campaign pays offCosta!, the Dutch teen comedy by Johan Nijenhuis, has shattered domestic records during its opening run. In the Thursday to Sunday first weekend it notched up over 100,000 spectators in its home market of The Netherlands.On its opening Thursday it attracted 22,000 visitors, a total which ...
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French films stimulate box office tills
Cinema attendance jumped 42% in France in February to reach 25 million admissions (compared to 17.5 million in February 2000), the highest level in 20 years. Due to school holidays, February is traditionally a strong month at the box office in France. This year, however, the presence of no ...
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Canal Plus Group adds Sutman
Former Universal Studios' Bill Sutman has been appointed executive vice president, finance at the Canal Plus group, becoming the first US executive to cross the Atlantic as part of the reshuffling of the top management of Vivendi Universal's film and television division. Canal Plus Group's chairman and CEO Pierre Lescure ...
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Entertainment, Toho-Towa buy Beacon's Palace Thief
Beacon Pictures and Universal Pictures International (UPI) has completed key territory sales on Beacon's latest project The Palace Thief at AFM.Entertainment Film Distributors bought the Kevin Kline-starrer for the UK, Toho-Towa took it for Japan, Manga for Spain, Roadshow for Australia, New Zealand and Greece and NuVision for Latin America. ...
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ShoWest: Boeing offers digital transition scheme
Hoping to break the deadlock between exhibitors and studios over who should pay for the transition to digital cinema projection, several companies including the world's largest aircraft-maker are using this week's ShoWest convention in Las Vegas to announce independent financing schemes.The Boeing Company, and a joint venture of Technicolor and ...
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Advanced Medien, EM.TV see corporate restructures
The signs were on the wall, and now management musical chairs have begun with earnest at two of the most troubled companies listed on Germany's Neuer Markt exchange.Advanced Medien had indicated at the weekend that changes were afoot at the debt-ridden outfit when it was declared that it expected its ...
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Equity adds support to Screen Actors' Guild strike
UK performers union Equity has pledged to support the threatened strike this summer by the Screen Actors' Guild (SAG).The move, which was expected, means Equity will advise its members not to accept work on runaway productions - that is US productions that are shooting in the United Kingdom after 31 ...
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TV-Loonland signs first big deal with BBC
German children's entertainment specialist TV-Loonland has signed its first programming deal with the UK's BBC following the sale of the animation series Cramp Twins and Clifford.The 26 x 30-minute episodes of Cramp Twins were co-produced by TV-Loonland's US subsidiary Sunbow Entertainment and the Cartoon Network UK, and will be aired ...
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UK audiences show taste for Chocolat
Despite the best efforts of four new entries, UIP's Hannibal continued its reign at the head of the UK box office for the third week runnin. The film, which took $2,989,577 (£2,026,933) in the three-days March 2-4, has now accumulated a massive total gross of $25,097,574. Although the film dropped ...
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Czech oscar nominee sweeps Lion awards
Czech Oscar nominee Divided We Fall scooped the top awards at the annual Czech Lion Awards - the country's local equivalent of the Academy Awards - and it is hoping to carry its winning streak on to Los Angeles.Divided We Fall won best fim and best director for Jan Hrebejk ...
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Fortissimo announces robust sales
Dutch-Asian sales agent Fortissimo Film Sales enjoyed a strong AFM ahead of what is expected to be a busy Cannes.During the AFM it sold Thai Cannes hopeful Tears Of The Black Tiger by Wisit Sasanatieng to Bim Distribuzione (Italy), Alta Films (Spain), NFM (Netherlands), Edko (Hong Kong), Cathay (Singapore) and ...
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Indian bank to finance films
The Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) has announced that a scheme to finance commercial films will be available by the end of this month (March 2001).The offer of financial assistance, not exceeding 50 per cent of a film's budget comes with a number of conditions. According to the details ...
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Quiero fulfils desire for Paramount Comedy
Spanish digital terrestrial pay television platform Quiero TV has extended its non-exclusive output agreement with Paramount Pictures to add the thematic channel Paramount Comedy into the platform's package offer. Paramount Comedy is the first new channel Quiero has incorporated since its launch last May. The channel can already be seen ...
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Hamburg Festival celebrates Spain
Spain has been selected as the country focus in this year's international Hamburg Short Film Festival, Hamburg/Germany (2-9 June 2001) The fest is a showcase of short films with a running time of no more than 20 minutes (the children's film sidebar allows films of up to 45 minutes in ...
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Metropolitan, Nexo sign New Line mega-deals
New Line International has made a host of international sales on its latest slate totalling over $40m worth of business, according to NLI president Rolf Mittweg who is also the co-chairman of worldwide marketing for New Line Cinema.The deals, clinched before, during and after the recent American Film Market include ...
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Future Film Group teams with Renaissance, MBP
UK finance, post-production and distribution outfit Future Film Group has clinched a multi-picture sale-and-leaseback arrangement with Renaisance Films kicking off with Paul McGuigan's Morality Play. It has also teamed up with German film fund MBP and UK production company Y2K Productions to finance Puckoon, a comedy currently in post-production with ...
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Regent buys It Had To Be You with Henstridge
Regent Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to romantic comedy It Had To Be You starring Natasha Henstridge and Michael Vartan as two strangers who meet in New York while planning their respective weddings.Produced by Neil Kaplan and Steven Feder and directed by Feder, the film was originally distributed internationally by ...
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Locarno to reveal secrets of American Cinema
From the "veiled racism" of The Deer Hunter to the more blatant kind evidenced by David Carradine's substitution of martial arts legend Bruce Lee in Kung Fu - the TV series Lee himself conceived - the issues facing Asian American cinema are explored in a major retrospective at August's Locarno ...