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Canada's indie plight draws first blood
Montreal-based TVA is winding down its international sales operations and executive vice president of distribution, Jean Bureau has left the company.The closure comes as TVA's ultimate owner, Quebec-based publishing and communications conglomerate Quebecor seeks to cut costs following its $3.3bn acquisition of cable company Groupe Videotron, TVA's original owner, in ...
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Good Machine on Field's Radar
Ted Field and Scott Kroopf, the producers behind blockbuster hits Runaway Bride, Jumanji, Three Men And A Baby and The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, are turning to the international marketplace to fund their new production outfit Radar Pictures - sealing a longterm alliance with David Linde's Good Machine International ...
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Tracking service Film Finders is independent again
Film Finders, the 13 year-old production tracking service run by Sydney Levine and Peter Belsito, has reclaimed its independence after striking an exclusive partnership last year with IFILM, the online movie site specialising in data and short film exhibition.The two have restructured their relationship so that, while they will continue ...
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Hungry Miramax buys Tangled from Myriad
Miramax Films has acquired rights in the US, Australia and New Zealand to thriller Tangled from Myriad Pictures. Produced by Tapestry Films which produced She's All That for Miramax as well as Pay It Forward and The Wedding Planner, Tangled stars Rachael Leigh Cook, Shawn Hatosy, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Lorraine Bracco ...
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Warner Bros hires Benzakein in new Euro initiative
Warner Bros Pictures has cemented its local language production and acquisition plans in Europe with the appointment this week of well-known French industry figure Simona Benzakein to the position of vice president, European production.She will report to Richard Fox, executive vice president, international, at Warner Bros and Lorenzo di Bonaventura, ...
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Lot 47 Films buys North American rights to LIE
US independent Lot 47 Films has acquired North American rights to Michael Cuesta's L.I.E. which received acclaim on its recent world premiere in dramatic competition at the Sundance Film Festival.An Alter Ego/Belladonna production, L.I.E. is a drama about a 15 year-old boy who loses just about everything and everyone he ...
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Terra Lycos appoints Killeen
Internet company Terra Lycos, a subsidiary of Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, has appointed Stephen J. Killeen president of operations in the United States.In the newly-created position Killeen will fill a hole left by the departure earlier this month of Lycos founder and CEO Bob Davis, who continues on as non-executive ...
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Nos Miran adds Hera Film
Italy's Hera Film has boarded the Spanish thriller Nos Miran, which is currently shooting in Madrid under the direction of Norberto Lopez Amado.The thriller, budgeted at Euros2.6m is being produced by Spain's BocaBoca Producciones. The story follows a police inspector's investigations into the cases of missing persons, tracking his subsequent ...
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Irons boards Callas Forever
Jeremy Irons is set to join the cast of Callas Forever, Italian director Franco Zeffirelli's upcoming drama about the last months in the life of Greek opera diva Maria Callas.The $20 million film, written by Martin Sherman and Zeffirelli, is scheduled to begin shooting in July, with opera singer Teresa ...
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Kinowelt leaps 20% on Bertelsmann takeover rumour
Kinowelt Medien's shares on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt jumped by over 20% on speculation that the Bertelsmann media empire was considering a takeover of the Munich-based concern.By 16.36 (German time) the stock had risen 19.11% on the previous day of trading to Euros15.02 after a report in Welt am Sonntag had ...
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Cesars celebrate French film industry
French 'cinema d'auteur' had plenty to celebrate at the Cesars, with The Taste of Others, and Harry, He's Here To Help both scooping four awards each. The comedy hit The Taste Of Others (3.8 million admissions to date) by first timer Agnes Jaoui, recently purchased by Miramax for domestic distribution, ...
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UK cinema chain exploits uncertain climate
Amid cinema consolidation in the US and a nine per-cent downturn in the UK television advertising market in the first seven weeks of 2001, UK exhibition giant Warner Village Cinemas has secured a proven vehicle for increasing brand awareness. The company has signed a $1,455,400 (£1m) deal to sponsor the ...
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Sogecable posts net operating profits
Spanish multimedia conglom Sogecable posted net operating profits of Euros3.3m (pts 548m) for 2000, a rise over the previous year's losses of Euros22.6m (pts3,768m). The group's net consolidated losses were down 18.2% from 1999 to Euros11.4m (pts1,900m). The company has grappled with debt since the expensive 1997 launch of digital ...
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MARKET UPDATE
SULLIVAN UNVEILS THREE PROJECTS FOR NEW FEATURE ARMToronto-based Sullivan Entertainment Group has put forward three projects,including an animated version of its Anne Of Green Gables franchise, for production through its newly-launched feature film division. The first project, the $8m Anne: The Animated Movie set for completion in September, is slated ...
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Cannes 2001: Apocalypse maintenant
Twenty seven years after Francis Ford Coppola walked away with a Palme d'Or for The Conversation and then repeated the feat five years later with Apocalypse Now, the festival is to dedicate a sidebar tribute to the filmmaker that will be crowned by an extended director's cut of Apocalypse Now.Coppola, ...
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Gladiator dominates Baftas, but Bell is best actor
Jamie Bell, the young star of Stephen Daldry's featurefilm debut, Billy Elliot, has won the Bafta award for best leading actor- despite having been overlooked in the Oscar nominations.Bell, who claimed that he almost didn't bother attending theawards, given the caliber of the competition, beat the Oscar-nominated RussellCrowe to the ...
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Hannibal still heads US box office; Graceland weak
Franchise Pictures' violent actioner 3000 Miles To Graceland and Fox's costly animated/live action mix Monkeybone failed to make much of an impression at the box office which was led for the third week by MGM's smash chiller Hannibal. However the status quo is in for a shock next Friday as ...
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IEG directs Traffic to Japan, Australia
Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) has closed its last two remaining territories on Steven Soderbergh's Oscar contender Traffic, selling Japanese rights to Nippon Herald and Australian and New Zealand rights to Village Roadshow.In addition, IEG's CEO and president Graham King has closed a deal with Korea Pictures Co for Korean rights ...
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Woody Allen project trio Bac in business in France
VCL Film + Medien has secured a new French distributor for its trio of forthcoming Woody Allen pictures and confirmed Spanish and Italian releases. Jean Labadie's Bac Films, which has released many previous Allen films, will distribute the films in France. VCL, which has until now not identified the other ...
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UK Film Council eyes IRA picture Bloody Sunday
In a move bound to trigger controversy, UK public funding body the Film Council is likely to invest in Portman Film and Granada Film's Bloody Sunday, a feature about the real-life shooting of 13 unarmed civilians by members of the Parachute Regiment in Northern Ireland.The project, being made through Jim ...