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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 ...
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MCP backs Cronenberg's Spider with Fiennes
Having departed as the director of Basic Instinct 2, David Cronenberg is back aboard the long-gestating psycho-thriller Spider that is now being financed through MM Media Capital Partners (MCP).Ralph Fiennes, originally attached to star opposite Miranda Richardson when the film was announced in October 2000 as a UGC production, also ...
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Summit spears diva Britney's first film project
Pop diva Britney Spears is the latest American megastar on offer to international buyers courtesy of Summit Entertainment which has boarded her first feature film. The as yet untitled film is being financed by her record label Jive Records and is set to start shooting next month.Summit Entertainment had no ...
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TEAM Communications plans expansion
The US TV production and distribution company TEAMCommunications Group, whose shares are traded on the Nasdaq and Neuer Marktexchanges, is planning further expansion in Europe and the US through'strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions' and the developmentof a sales force based in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the Benelux countries,the UK and ...
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Sogecable reduces losses
Spanishmultimedia conglomerate Sogecable posted year-end financial results for 2000which reflect an 18.2% decrease in net consolidated losses to Euros11.4m(pts1,900m).The losses arelargely due to content expenses - particularly rights deals for cinema andfootball - for the group's pay TV platforms Canal Satelite Digital (CSD),launched in 1997, and Canal Plus.Sogecableposted Euros11.2m (pts1,860m) ...
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Roddy Doyle adds Film Board to commitments
WriterRoddy Doyle has been appointed to a revamped Irish Film Board by Irish Arts andHeritage minister Sile de Valera. The new board was announced after amonth-long vacuum, which arose when the remit of the last board members ran outon January 15. Doyle has awriting and producing credit on the ...
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Amores Perros escapes UK censorship
Mexican Best Foreign Oscar nominee Love's A Bitch (Amores Perros) is set to receive clearance from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), despite a harrowing and controversial dog fight scene.The scene, a 21-second, yet pivotal, sequence in the film, was in danger of falling foul of the Cinematograph Films ...
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Europe ready to roll its costliest cartoon feature
Europe's most expensive animated feature, Simsala Grimm, is finally poised to go into production in May under the direction of cartoon veteran Gerd Hahn.Drawn from a Russian fairy tale, the long-in-development theatrical version sees the return of the evil characters from the eponymous TV series who attempt to take over ...
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US buyers starting to look south of the border too
Mexico is emerging as a hot buying territory - a trend driven not so much by local distributors as by US distributors such as Miramax Films which have been adding territorial rights south of the Rio Grande as part of their North American purchases.The suddenly acquisitive Miramax, which is driving ...
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Miramax circles cult Japanese sci-fi fantasy
Continuing its buying spree of international films, Miramax Films is in the final stages of picking up domestic rights to Japanese sci-fi fantasy Avalon directed by Mamoru Oshii whose credits include cult movies Ghost In The Shell and Patlabor. The film, which - bizarrely enough - was shot in Poland ...
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AFM buyers adapt quickly to Spike Jonze
Intermedia and Good Machine International (GMI) have closed a raft of sales on Adaptation, the new movie from director Spike Jonze which stars Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper. Columbia Pictures will release the film in North America; sister company Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group has taken it for ...
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Goldman launches p&a-fueled US releasing outfit
Former New Line Cinema president and COO of distribution Mitch Goldman has launched The Premiere Group, a new marketing and distribution operation that intends to guarantee Hollywood-level films a wide release in the US.J.P. Morgan will arrange a revolving credit facility of at least $100 million to partly back The ...
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MARKET UPDATE
RIPLEY'S GAME ADDS CASTRay Winstone, Lena Headey and Chiara Caselli have joined the cast of Fine Line Features' Ripley's Game which is currently shooting in Italy under the direction of Liliana Cavani. Based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, the film stars John Malkovich as Ripley and Dougray Scott as ...
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New European short film awards launched
The Brussels-based European Coordination of Film Festivals and Jameson Irish Whiskey have joined forces to launch an initiative worth Euros300,000 over the next three years to support European short film-making. The Jameson Short Film Awards will be presented annually at eight European film festivals to a short film with the ...
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Fortissimo picks up Ayres' debut film
Co-chair Wouter Barendrecht has confirmed that Fortissimo Film Sales is taking all international rights for Walking On Water, one of three Australian features which go into production in the next few months in time to premiere in March 2002 as The Adelaide Festival of Arts' first ever film content.It will ...
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Fox joins Brazil's cunning fiscal movie scheme
20th Century Fox Film Brazil has closed an unprecedented package deal with local production company Total Filmes.According to the terms of the agreement, Fox will distribute three feature films produced by Total over a three year period, starting in 2001. Fox will exploit the fiscal advantages provided by Brazil's audiovisual ...
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Studio Hamburg Produktion and Ellipse Deutschland
Studio Hamburg Produktion (SHP), a production arm of Studio Hamburg, and Berlin-based Ellipse Deutschland Film- und Fernsehproduktion have joined forces to work together on animation projects for film and television.In a first phase of the collaboration, the partners are planning to co-develop and produce four projects including TV animation series ...
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Grupo Novo returns to AFM
Grupo Novo de Cinema e TV, a distributor of films by Brazilian independent producers, is back at the AFM for the first time in ten years with a slate headed by two pictures which recently appeared at Berlin.Latitude Zero, by Toni Venturi, whose script was backed by the Sundance ...
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Large Screen Format gets downsized
Further fallout in the Large Format cinema sector is being predicted, following the news that IMAX Corporation has slashed 13% of its 1000-strong workforce.The job cuts come as part of a broader corporate restructuring plan, according to the company, which involves the consolidation of the manufacturing of sound and projection ...