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Australia's Showtime bags rights to Star Wars pics
All four Star Wars movies will be shown on Australian pay-TV channel Showtime next year, following a deal between Showtime parent company Premium Movie Partnership (PMP) and 20th Century Fox. PMP chief executive Bob Donoghue believes it will be the first time that all four films will be shown as ...
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MGM in talks to launch pay channel in Germany
MGM Worldwide Television Group is in talks to launch a movie channel in Germany, according to Financial Times Deutschland.Simon Sutton, MGM Worldwide TV's senior vice president, international pay & free television, said in an interview that negotiations with the Kirch group had recently stalled and new talks are underway with ...
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Kinowelt, Der Spiegel mull joint TV venture
German mini-major Kinowelt is considering joining forces with the on-line arm of weekly magazine Der Spiegel and Alexander Kluge's Development Company for TV Programmes (DCTP) to set up an ad-financed TV channel, tentatively named IDE, in Berlin from next spring.According to the marketing weekly magazine w&v, the station, which intends ...
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101 Reykjavik whips up a storm in Norway
Icelandic feature 101 Reykjavik, directed by Baltasar Kormakur, made an impressive entry into the Norwegian box office in fifth place. The film, distributed by SEG, grossed $49,154 from eight screens during its first week on release, easily beating fellow opener Urban Legends: Final Cut, distributed by ECT, which made $33,423 ...
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Dragotto re-teams with Hausfater at Intermedia
Former Buena Vista Film Sales (BVFS) vice president Michael Dragotto is re-uniting with his erstwhile boss Jere Hausfater at sales, financing and production entity Intermedia.Dragotto takes up the newly-created position of executive vice-president, motion picture group, worldwide distribution. He will report to Jere Hausfater, who previously headed BVFS.The appointment comes ...
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Artificial Eye, Metro Tartan unite for UK video
Artificial Eye Film Distribution and Metro Tartan Films - two of the leading independent distributors of non-English language films in the notoriously tough UK market - are banding together to set up a jointly owned video company.The operation will be headed by Mike Flello, currently head of Fox World Cinema, ...
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Holland, Croatia get film seasons in New York, LA
Film seasons from The Netherlands and Croatia have been scheduled in the US next month. Dutch Treats 2000: New Films From Holland presents ten recent films at the Quad Cinema in New York (Dec 1-7), while Wednesdays In Croatia (Nov 29-Dec 20) screens classic and new Croatian films kicking off ...
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Granada comes in at lower end of expected profits
The UK's Granada Media reported on Wednesday full-year operating profit at the lower end of expectations.Operating profit rose to $360m, down on analysts' forecasts setting the expected sum as high as $386m. Pre-tax earnings were up 11% to $395m, while advertising turnover rose 8.4%.Granada, which floated out of Granada Group ...
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Indian producer Sippy honoured at Mumbai fest
Veteran Indian film producer G.P. Sippy received a life-time achievement award from the Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI) at the third edition of the increasingly important Mumbai International Film Festival (November 23-30). Sippy, who produced India's biggest hit Sholay in 1975, said he had never received a life-time achievement ...
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Lucky Red takes Good Machine's Series 7
Italian distribution and production outfit Lucky Red has picked up Good Machine International's Big Brother meats the thriller genre film, Series 7: The Contenders.Written and directed by Daniel Minahan, Series 7 is about six people chosen in a lottery by a TV programme to kill each other for a cash ...
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Lions Gate posts profitable quarter for Jul-Sept
Lions Gate Entertainment has posted net income of $0.5m for the second quarter of 2001 ending Sept 30, 2000. Revenues were $66.5m, net earnings were $2.6m minus a non-cash operating loss of $2.1m in Mandalay Pictures and EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) was $5.3m. The results mark ...
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Kroll and Kwan-Rubinek head Warner International
Warner Bros Pictures has named two executives to replace Ed Frumkes as heads of its international distribution and marketing division. Sue Kroll has been named president, international marketing, and Veronika Kwan-Rubinek president, international distribution, reporting to Alan Horn, president & COO of the studio through Richard Fox, executive vice president, ...
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Unapix files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Unapix Entertainment, the New York film and TV production and distribution outfit whose shares stopped trading on the American Stock Exchange last week, has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.According to a statement issued on Tuesday afternoon, Unapix expects that its primary lender, G.E. Capital Corp, will bail the ...
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Nordisk Film & TV launches feature production unit
Norway's Nordisk Film & TV, owned by Copenhagen-based Nordisk Film, is establishing a feature film production division that aims to have an output of two titles a year that will travel across Scandinavian borders.The new outfit, to be headed by producer Rune Trondsen, will run parallel to Nordisk Film's other ...
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Kirch in talks to buy majority stake in EM.TV
Germany's Kirch Group is in negotiations to acquire a majority stake in local family entertainment rights trader EM.TV & Merchandising, which earlier this year swallowed The Jim Henson Company and 50% of Formula One motor racing company SLEC.EM.TV's shares rebounded slightly on Tuesday to close at Euros21.50 on news ...
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Norwegian mockumentary to get blockbuster roll-out
Norwegian distributor Egmont Columbia TriStar (ECT) plans to give low-budget local mockumentary Get Ready To Be Boyzvoiced a blockbuster opening by releasing it on 52 screens across Norway this weekend.In comparison, ECT released studio titles such as The Patriot and Hollow Man on 50 prints and its upcoming Charlie's Angels ...
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Paredes in line for Spanish Cinema Academy post
Veteran actress Marisa Paredes was the only candidate presented to take over the soon-to-be-vacated position of president of the Spanish Cinema Academy, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais.The Academy's current president, actress Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, will vacate the post on December 17.Catalan producer-director Antonio Chavarrias and writer-director Joaquin Oristrell were the ...
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Village blames weak results on exhibition arm
Village Roadshow Ltd (VRL) chairman John Kirby has told shareholders that the company's unsatisfactory profits in the last two to three years are entirely due to the exhibition arm of the business, most recently because of a downturn in film quality. Speaking at the company's annual general meeting last week, ...
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UK's Skillset launches new entrants scheme
UK training body Skillset's one-year-old Skills Investment Fund (SIF) is backing a new scheme to support film industry trainees in the craft and technical fields.The initiative will support trainees throughout a two-year programme of training and work placements with freelance training organisation FT2. SIF has put aside $284,000 (£200,000) for ...
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Star strikes output deal with Andy Lau's Teamwork
Star TV has signed a five-year output agreement with Hong Kong star Andy Lau and his Teamwork Motion Pictures production company.The deal gives Star exclusive pay-TV, pay-per-view and video-on-demand rights to Teamwork films starring Lau, for Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, the Philippines and Singapore. Star also has output deals with ...