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KC Medien boards StudioCanal's Ginostra
Germany's KC Medien will co-finance French director Manuel Pradal's Ginostra, currently shooting in Italy with Harvey Keitel and Andie McDowell in the leads, as part of its informal producing partnership with France's StudioCanal.The film, produced by Jean-Francois Fonlupt's Emotion Pictures and also backed by France 2 Cinema, is an English-language ...
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Moonstone backs new Mike Figgis four-frame pic
Mike Figgis has started shooting The Hotel, his second digital video production which will feature four frames of simultaneous onscreen action, with financing from Etchie Stroh's Moonstone Entertainment.Shooting started on Monday in Venice of the movie, a dark comedy which looks at the goings-on in a Venetian hotel and follows ...
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Miramax boards Le Gout Des Autres at last minute
With insiders saying that is a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination, Miramax Films has partnered on the domestic release of Agnes Jaoui's critically acclaimed Le Gout Des Autres (The Taste Of Others) with Offline Releasing. The announcement comes on the eve of the movie's release this Friday (Feb 9); the ...
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Germany's Box! unwraps trio of deals
Berlin-based production outfit Box! Filmproduktion has struck output deals with theatrical distributor Tobis StudioCanal and Bavaria Media, and is to become a production partner of media venture capital company Producers' AG. The deal with Tobis StudioCanal(TSC), which co-produced and distributed Box!'s first feature Edward Berger's Female2 Seeks Happyend, initially ...
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Gladiator DVD hit by documentary gaffe
DreamWorks and Universal have been forced to re-work future DVDs of Ridley Scott's Gladiator following complaints in the UK that an additional documentary on the disc carried an image of the Hillsborough football tragedy.Controversy erupted after the Roman epic was nominated for 15 film awards - the most for any ...
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Daldry, Ramsay join FilmFour's literary slate
The UK's FilmFour is lining up several high-profile book adaptations as part of its 2001 development slate, including projects with hot UK talents Stephen Daldry, Lynne Ramsay, Jonathan Glazer and Peter Cattaneo. Cattaneo, the director of The Full Monty, who is currently in post-production for FilmFour on Lucky Break, is ...
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Senator, Odeon exit internet activities
Germany's Senator Entertainment and Odeon Film are planning to pull the plug on their respective internet businesses. In unrelated announcements, both blamed the difficult internet market.Last autumn, Odeon gathered its internet activities into Odeon New Vision, but plans to sell some activities and close down the division within two months. ...
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UK DVD sales quadruple to 16 million
UK retail sales of DVDs last year were more than four times higher than in 1999, according to the British Video Association.The BVA figures show that some 16.6 million DVD Videos were sold last year compared with 4.05 million in 1999. The December total alone, at 4.71 million, was higher ...
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BSkyB reports loss; breaks 5m subscribers mark
UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB has reported first-half pre-tax losses of $163.4m (£112m), compared to $89.7m (£61.5m) the previous year, but has also smashed its own target to sign five million subscribers by the end of 2000.As of December 31, the company said it had amassed 5,051,000 direct-to-home subscribers, a tally ...
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Norway lifts ban on Oshima classic
Norway's recently established Board of Film Classification Appeals, Filmklagenemnda, has lifted the ban on local commercial exhibition of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima's erotic classic In The Realm Of The Senses.The board granted the 1976 film a commercial exhibition permit, citing its artistic qualities as the reason for lifting the ban. ...
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Phoenix joins Danes in Vinterberg's Love
As expected, Gladiator star Joaquin Phoenix has signed to play the male lead in It's All About Love, a fantasy romance by white-hot Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (Festen). He joins Claire Danes who signed last month (ScreenDaily, Jan 3). The film, which is Vinterberg's English-language debut, begins production on April ...
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Sheffield to replace Gooder at REP
Veteran distribution executive Richard Sheffield is to return to Australia's Becker Entertainment to take charge of its mainstream distribution operation, until recently called REP, replacing Mark Gooder who has resigned to move to another as-yet-unnamed distributor.Sheffield only accepted the job on the understanding that he will also be able to ...
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Murdoch 'close' to $70bn merger with DirecTV
Rupert Murdoch could soon emerge as chairman and largest single shareholder of the world's first truly global satellite TV empire under the terms of a tentative $70bn merger that would reportedly knit together his existing necklace of international satellite operations with those of US-based DirecTV.According to reports in both this ...
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Jane Startz signs first-look deal with Miramax
Producer Jane Startz has signed a first-look production deal with Miramax Films which will allow her to bring projects to the company to produce as well as serving as a consultant on various family entertainment projects.Startz, who previously produced The Mighty for Miramax, is currently producing Ella Enchanted, a film ...
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Spielberg, Schwartzman join BAFTA LA board
The British Academy Of Film & Television Arts Los Angeles (BAFTA LA) has elected Steven Spielberg and retiring chairman Arnold Schwartzman to the Board of Governors. They joing current governors Peter Beale, Barbara Broccoli, Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, Su Lesser, Ronald Neame, Michael Oliver, Marion Rosenberg, Martin Scorsese and Peter ...
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Telefonica appoints Juarez to strengthen US links
Industry veteran Ele Juarez will leave his post as president and CEO of HBO Latin America Group and HBO Brazil to take over the newly created position of managing director of strategic alliances, international sales and music for Spain's Telefonica Media. In a company statement, the multimedia subsidiary of telecoms ...
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Andersson's Songs reigns at Swedish film awards
Roy Andersson's long-awaited return to feature films, Songs From The Second Floor (Sanger Fran Andra Vaningen), swept all the major awards at the Swedish film awards, the Guldbagga, which took place in Stockholm on Monday night. The critically-acclaimed film, which took a jury prize at Cannes last year, won in ...
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Women gives Gibson his biggest UK opening
Icon Film Distribution's What Women Want clocked up $4,956,132 (£3,375,126) over the weekend, giving star Mel Gibson his biggest ever opening in the UK, beating all four of his Lethal Weapon action films and BVI's 1997 thriller Ransom (see chart below).The romantic comedy had the biggest opening gross of the ...
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India's Toonz lines up Taj Mahal animation
India's Toonz Animation is producing a 70-minute animated feature, aimed at international audiences, based on the tragic love story between Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal. The Shah built the Taj Mahal when Mumtaz died.Canada-based animator Ishu Patel will oversee the project, which according to Toonz president and CEO ...
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Pons to make English-lang debut for 42nd Street
Spanish director Ventura Pons is preparing his English-language debut, Food Of Love, which he will co-produce with start-up production and sales outfit 42nd Street Productions, backed by German facilities giant Das Werk (ScreenDaily, February 5). 42nd Street CEO Thomas Spieker said he is seeking international partners for the project, a ...