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Tokyo governor set to open film office
The governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, has called for the creation of a Tokyo film office to assist film-makers shooting in the Japanese capital.Tentatively called the Tokyo Location Box, the new office is set to open next spring. Speaking at the Tokyo International Film Festival, Ishihara said the Tokyo government ...
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Toei's Firefly finally ready to roll
Toei's Firefly (Hotaru), a feature about Word War II kamikaze pilots starring Japanese screen legend Ken Takakura, is finally ready to go before the cameras after months of delay. Toei intended the film as a tentpole release for the New Year season but dropped it from its line-up when negotiations ...
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Jupiter invests in Japanese movie channel
Japan's Jupiter Programming is taking a 9.9% stake in local movie channel Nihon Eiga Broadcasting Corp, which is part-owned by Sony and Fuji TV.Jupiter, a supplier of programming to cable and satellite television, is also acquiring a 15% stake in Mitsui-owned children's channel Kids Station. The company plans to take ...
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UK admissions per screen in decline
After a good run at the box office during September and October, admissions in the UK are back on track to reach at least 142 million by the year end - the highest level since 1973 according to the Cinema Advertising Association admissions monitor. But due to the huge growth ...
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A.Film restructures following Help! success
Danish animation studio A.Film has appointed Henrik Edeltoft as managing director. He replaces Anders Mastrup who will now focus on the company's international development following the worldwide sales and local box office success of its latest project Help! I'm a Fish.Edeltoft recently worked for Scandinavian major Egmont which owns 50% ...
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Brazil's Top Tape ramps up DVD activity
Brazilian distributor Top Tape is shifting gears in a bid to capture the growing DVD market in Brazil. The first indie in Brazil to deal with the new format, Top Tape plans to acquire 40 to 50 DVD music titles a year from artists such as Steely Dan, Cristina Aguilera ...
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Dream, Town share Valladolid's Golden Spike
The 45th annual Valladolid International Week of Film (Oct 20-28) handed out its awards with no single film standing out as a walk-away winner.Top awards were evenly dispersed across a handful of competing films, with US filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and France's Robert Guediguian sharing the top award, the Golden Spike, ...
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Sogepaq, Wild Bunch have a Devil of a time
Spanish sales outfit Sogepaq and France's Wild Bunch have closed a string of sales on the highly anticipated Spanish-language thriller The Devil's Backbone (El Espinazo Del Diablo) from director Guillermo del Toro. Sogepaq and Wild Bunch are jointly handling international sales on the film outside Latin America.All rights were sold ...
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TF1, Beyond share sales on Yu's Revolver
TF1 International and Australia's Beyond Films are to share sales duties on Revolver, the next film by Bride Of Chucky-director Ronny Yu, after his forthcoming 51st State.In a similar fashion to their joint involvement on another Australian picture Cut, TF1 will co-finance and sell the picture in all non-English-language territories ...
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Ster Kinekor puts European circuit up for sale
In the latest shake-up to hit Europe's exhibition industry, Ster Kinekor's European cinema circuit Ster Century has been put on the sales block. Joint South African shareholders Royale Resorts and Primedia are actively courting potential buyers to re-focus on their core businesses as further consolidation of the exhibition market gains ...
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Key, Mediatrade combine buying power
In the latest sign that Italian independent distributors are becoming a force to be reckoned with on the international buying scene, ambitious young Rome-based independent Key Films has partnered with the Berlusconi-owned Fininvest group to acquire films.The new deal with Mediatrade, Fininvest's television and film rights division, will allow the ...
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Winchester raises $32m warchest
In one of the largest City of London funding injections into the UK independent film sector since the heady days of Goldcrest, publicly-quoted Winchester Entertainment is this week raising $31.9m (£22m) on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM).Armed with this warchest, Winchester is looking to become even more involved in US ...
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Japan picks up buying slack in Milan
If German buyers were getting more sober at MIFED, the Japanese have made up for it, closing a string of multi-million dollar deals which kept the market buzzing and propelled brisk business on the smoke-filled corridors of the Fiera.Nippon Herald Films was particularly busy, scoring three pictures from Intermedia (K19: ...
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Brazilian box office revenues up 12%
Brazil's box office has been on the upsurge since 1997, according to local research entity Filme B. To date, box office revenues in 2000 have increased by 12% compared to the same period in the previous year to $156m (Real292m) from $139m (Real260m). Due to ticket price increases, admissions have ...
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Bac desires Wenders, plans DVD release
French distributor-exhibitor Bac Majestic has acquired all French rights to selected Wim Wenders titles from the German film-maker's own production company Road Movies. Bac, which plans to release the titles on DVD during 2001, is also in talks to acquire Wenders' Paris Texas and Wings Of Desire from the French ...
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Rosetta takes honours at Belgian Oscars
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's Rosetta took four Joseph Plateau Awards for Belgian Cinema at this year's 16th edition of the Night Of Cinema Musica, dubbed the Belgian Oscars. The Palme d'Or winning film picked up the prizes for best actress, best director, best film and top grossing Belgian film. Meanwhile, ...
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Peakviewing taps Sales to grow feature business
Peakviewing Transatlantic has appointed Daniel Sales, former president and chief executive officer of Cinequannon Pictures International, to act as consultant in a drive to step up feature activities.The company has formed a new division specifically geared to produce and market features internationally. The move comes as Martin Myers is heading ...
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Working Title opens Eye
Working Title is fast-tracking a Big Brother-meets-horror genre picture, My Little Eye, which follows a group of 20-somethings who sign up for a reality web show that turns increasingly sinister. Resurrection Man's Marc Evans is shooting the film, written by David Hilton, in Nova Scotia early next year for low-budget ...
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Anderson moves to UIP Australia
Expatriate Australian Jon Anderson is returning home to take up the role of marketing manager of UIP Australia from November 20. Anderson was most recently Columbia TriStar's London-based director of marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Throughout the 1980s he worked for the merged Fox Columbia company in ...
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Miracle to work for Italian
Miracle Entertainment - the public LA-based company run by Tony Cataldo and Richard Abramson - is to fully finance and handle worldwide sales on The Italian, a drama to be directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal and produced by Mike Marcus and Carroll Kemp.The movie, which is the story of a man ...