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North America loves The Grinch
Universal Pictures and exhibitors across North America breathed a sigh of relief over the weekend as Imagine Entertainment's Dr Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas broke records with a $55.1m gross at a staggering 3,127 theatres (and on over 4,200 screens).The movie, a lavish live action retelling of the children's ...
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Khan-Din revs up adaptation for DNA
East Is East writer Ayub Khan-Din is writing an adaptation of Harland Miller's acclaimed novel Slow Down Arthur, Stick To Thirty for Andrew Macdonald and Duncan Kenworthy's UK National Lottery studio franchise DNA Films.The novel, hailed by anyone from national newspapers to pop star Jarvis Cocker as a masterful debut, ...
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Selwyn readies Maori Merchant Of Venice
Veteran executive producer-director Don Selwyn has accessed $0.96m (NZ$2.4m) in public funding for a Maori-language adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice (Te Tangata Whai Rawa O Weneti).Films are rarely made in a language other than English in New Zealand and it took Selwyn three attempts in 10 years to ...
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Looking For Alibrandi finds five AFI Awards
Australia's third biggest local hit of 2000, teen flick Looking For Alibrandi, scooped five awards including best film at the AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards on Saturday night (Nov 18). The other four awards went to school teacher Melina Marchetta's adapted script, lead actress Pia Miranda, supporting actress Greta Scacchi ...
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DIC Animation enlists Bain for management buyout
DIC Entertainment chairman and CEO Andy Heyward has partnered with Bain Capital Inc in a management buyout of DIC from The Walt Disney Co. Heyward will continue as chairman and CEO of the animation studio which has more than 2,500 half-hours of programming in its library.DIC became a unit of ...
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De Hadeln answers critics at Strasbourg Forum
Moritz de Hadeln, outgoing Berlin International Film Festival chief, rebuffed criticism that Germany's leading film event has become dominated by US films as he picked up a tribute award for services to European cinema at the European Film Forum of Strasbourg (November 9-14). In his acceptance speech, de Hadeln argued ...
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Kinowelt provides NBC Europe with prime-time fare
Germany's Kinowelt has sold another tranche of titles to German TV, this time to cable station NBC Europe which plans to run them in prime-time slots, replacing its Tonight Show and Late Night With Conan O'Brian.Lead-in for the feature package which includes titles such as Sphere, Executive Decision, A Hard ...
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Bavaria, Rai strike co-production pact
Munich-based Bavaria Media and Italy's Rai Cinema have formed a long-term alliance under which they will develop and co-produce television projects, and eventually theatrical features.The agreement, which runs until 2003, calls for the two companies to co-produce three television films or mini-series a year, with development costs shared equally by ...
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Telefonica restructures Media, delays float
After months of uncertainty following the forced resignation of former Telefonica chairman Juan Villalonga, a new blueprint unveiled this week for the future of subsidiary Telefonica Media (TM) confirms the conglomerate's intent to remain at the forefront of the international media business.That said, however, TM executive president Juan Jose Nieto's ...
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Saudi prince in talks for Sky Global stake
Saudi financier Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal is in talks to invest in Rupert Murdoch's global satellite business, Sky Global Networks, according to the UK's Financial Times.The prince already holds a 3% stake in Murdoch's News Corp, and is also an investor, along with Murdoch, in German media group Kirch. Microsoft ...
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Al Pacino named HFPA Cecil B DeMille Award winner
Al Pacino will receive the 2001 Cecil B DeMille Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for his "outstanding contribution to the entertainment field". The award, voted on by the board of directors of the HFPA will be presented to Pacino at the 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony ...
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Alcon buys Untitled First Daughter project
Alcon Entertainment, the LA-based independent production outfit with a five-year, 10-picture distribution agreement with Warner Bros Pictures, has purchased the romantic comedy Untitled First Daughter Project and signed Andy Cadiff to direct. Cadiff's credits include TV series The Geena Davis Show, Spin City and Home Improvement as well as 1997 ...
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Sinapi's Uneasy Riders wins two London fest prizes
The 44th Regus London Film Festival, which closed last night with the screening of David Kane's highly-anticipated Born Romantic, has announced this year's prize-winners.Uneasy Riders (Nationale 7), a French film by Jean Pierre Sinapi that was screened during MIFED by Vincent Maraval's Paris-based Wild Bunch, was honoured by the FIPRESCI ...
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Italy doubles co-production spend
Confirming the renewed vitality of the Italian film industry, national film body Anica has reported that Italy almost doubled its spend on international co-productions in 1999 to $31m (L71bn) compared to $15.9m (L36bn) the previous year.Total co-production costs, including foreign capital, rose to $96.9m (L219bn) from $41.7m (L94bn) in 1998. ...
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Dentsu, partners land Tanaka for internet movie
Japan's Dentsu, Ten Carat and Scale have produced a ground-breaking internet movie starring Rena Tanaka, a supermodel who swept domestic newcomer prizes for her screen debut in the 1998 drama Give It Your All. Titled Suki, the three-part omnibus will premiere on the click-cinema web-site (http://www.click-cinema.net), whose backers include NTT ...
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Second Generation gets UK digital release
With One Life Stand impressing festival-goers at Edinburgh this year, independent digital film-making is making further inroads into the UK with a London theatrical release for Second Generation using digital projection. Made by newcomer Shane O'Sullivan, the £20,000 digital feature follows a Chinese girl who escapes an arranged marriage and ...
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Argentine film ups admissions on home turf
Argentine films have had a banner year so far in 2000 according to local film institute INCAA, accounting for 19.8% of the domestic box office and racking up admissions of 6.2 million, up 700,000 on the previous year.Of the 41 homegrown films released since January 2000, five titles attracted an ...
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Vivendi Communication rings up 70% growth
Ahead of its merger with Seagram and Canal Plus, French media and utilities giant Vivendi has reported a 70% hike in sales at its media and phone unit - Vivendi Communication - to Euros9.4bn, in the first nine months of 2000.The figure includes, for the first time, Canal Plus' contribution ...
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Spanish film loses ground at domestic box office
Spanish films' share of the domestic box office dipped below 10% in the ten months between January and October 2000 according to the Spanish Institute for Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA). This compares to a 14% market share for domestic product at the end of 1999.The ICAA found that local ...
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FilmFour to give Croupier second UK outing
Despite being barred from competing for the Academy Awards, FilmFour's 1997 title Croupier is to get a UK re-release following its success in North America this year.Mike Hodges' revitalised tale of an aspiring writer drawn into London's gambling world will go out early next year. FilmFour originally offloaded Croupier through ...