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EXECUTIVE SUITE - Roberto Patruno
The managing director of Istituto Luce talks to Melanie Rodier about the company's changing objectives.What are Istituto Luce's ties to the state and what is the company's budget'We are a joint stock company owned by Cinecitta Holding and funded by the Italian government. The cultural ministry gives us $8.7m-$9.5m (L20bn-L22bn) ...
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Love's A Bitch wins Tokyo's Grand Prix
Mexican title Love's A Bitch (Amores Perros), directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, was awarded the Grand Prix at the 13th edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival, which ended on Sunday (November 5). Inarritu also took the Best Director Award. Other top awards at the festival went to Stuart Blumberg, ...
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Bertelsmann restructure prompts top execs to quit
BMG Entertainment's top two executives - chairman Michael Dornemann and president and CEO Strauss Zelnick - are leaving their posts as part of a wide-ranging reorganisation of parent company Bertelsmann.In a statement, Bertelsmann said that Dornemann will step down from the company's board on December 31 and will quit the ...
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Intermedia acquires remake rights to Sleepwalker
Intermedia has acquired the remake rights to Swedish/Norwegian thriller Sleepwaker from John M Jacobsen and AB Svensk Filmindustri. The English language version will be produced by Mark Johnson Productions which has a first look deal at Intermedia.The original film, a co-production between Filmnor, Svensk and Filmkameratene, was directed by Johannes ...
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Charlie's Angels a box office knockout with $40.5m
A disappointing year for Columbia Pictures was turned around overnight with the sensational $40.5m opening this weekend for Charlie's Angels, the big screen version of the campy 70s TV series famous for launching the career of Farrah Fawcett Majors. The long-awaited action adventure directed by first-timer McG and starring Cameron ...
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Blue Dolphin to reissue MGM library titles
The UK's Blue Dolphin Film & Video is teaming up with Hollywood Classics and MGM to handle and distribute the MGM Library, which incorporates MGM/UA, Orion, PolyGram and Cannon for theatrical and non-theatrical distribution in the UK.This library is the largest film library in the world with a range of ...
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Japan, Korea lunge after Hark's Legend
China Star has secured a Japanese release through Twins Distribution for its big budget Tsui Hark movie, The Legend Of Zu.In Korea, Hark's action thriller will be distributed by Poscobo. Outside Asia the film is being handled by Summit Entertainment, which bought it as part of a three picture package ...
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Crystal Sky, VCL, Cinetel coil around Viper
CineTel Films has teamed up with Steven Paul's Crystal Sky and Germany's VCL to produce the $5.2m action picture Viper starring Theresa Russell and Patrick Muldoon. CineTel's Paul Hertzberg and Lisa Hansen are producing the film, with Paul and VCL's Datty Ruth as executive producers. Jay Andrews, whose credits include ...
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Goldby bites into Portman's Big Apple
Academy Award-nominated director Roger Goldby is to make his feature debut with The Big Apple for UK-based Portman Entertainment.Matthew Modine, John Simm and Timothy Spall are to star in the dark comedy about an Irishman who kidnaps the US president at the top of the world's tallest building.Shooting on the ...
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Paradiso fills shopping basket at MIFED
Belgian distributor Paradiso Entertainment closed a series of package deals at MIFED with New Line Cinema, Good Machine International and Beyond International. Having previously handled New Line's Rush Hour it snapped up Rush Hour 2 and Nick Cassavetes' hospital-set hostage drama John Q, which is now in production with Denzel ...
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Alpine Pictures, Strick deal in Love
Alpine Pictures has teamed with Cape Fear screenwriter Wesley Strick to produce teen thriller Love Is The Drug starring Leelee Sobieski, the fast-rising young actress who appeared in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.Love Is The Drug is billed as a Generation X thriller set against the Los Angeles rave scene ...
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Puffer replaces Tellenbach as KirchPayTV boss
The Kirch group has dropped KirchPayTV boss Markus Tellenbach. The operation will be taken over from January by Manfred Puffer, who is currently Kirch Holding finance director. KirchPayTV was supposed to float on the German stock market by the end of next year. But growth in subscriber numbers is understood ...
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UK regulator appoints Morris as policy director
The Independent Television Commission, which regulates private TV in the UK, has appointed Dominic Morris to the new position of director of policy. Morris has been controller, policy development at the BBC since 1996, where he was responsible for leading the corporate policy function of the public broadcaster covering both ...
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Portugal Telecom buys out Lusomundo
Portuguese telecommunications company Portugal Telecom (PT) has acquired the 58% it did not already own of local media and film giant Lusomundo in a transaction valued at Euros267m.The deal marks the full-blown entrance into the Portuguese feature film sector of a new heavyweight player. PT, which acquired 42% of Lusomundo ...
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India opens doors to DTH broadcast services
After years of indecision, India's government has finally given the go-ahead for Direct-to-Home (DTH) broadcast services in India. In addition, foreign investment in the DTH sector has been allowed but is capped at 49%. "The total foreign investment in the DTH broadcasting sector shall not be more than 49% of ...
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Almodovar to stay at home for next film
Still basking in the worldwide success of All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre), Spanish director Pedro Almodovar has decided to shoot his next film on home turf, postponing indefinitely his much anticipated English-language debut.The provisionally titled Hable Con Ella (Talk To Her) will shoot in Spain sometime next ...
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Spain chooses One as Oscar contender
Jose Luis Garci was nominated this week for the sixth time to represent Spain in the foreign-language category of the Academy Awards with his latest film, the black-and-white You're The One. The Garci nomination came as a surprise in some corners: in 1999 a scandal erupted when Garci was accused ...
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HOT joins bidding for Murdoch's TM3
Munich-based home shopping network HOT Networks is in talks to acquire a majority stake in German broadcaster TM3, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Kirch Media was previously seen as a front-runner to buy the channel which has less than a 3% share of the German market.HOT is part-owned by ...
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Bacon & Eggs, Chickflicks fry up Coyote
UK production outfit Bacon & Eggs Productions is co-producing its first feature - a comic horror film called Coyote - with Chickflicks, the US production company founded by Sara Risher and being bankrolled by New Line Cinema, where Bacon & Eggs enjoys a first-look deal.Bacon & Eggs and Chickflicks will ...
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One Life Stand leads nods for Scottish BAFTAs
Elemental Films' One Life Stand and controversial BBC Scotland television drama Tinsel Town lead the nominations for the third biennial BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards. A recent winner for Best Achievement in production at the British Independent Film Awards, the low-budget digital feature One Life Stand tells of the complex ...