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Constantin strikes output deal with USA Films
Bernd Eichinger's Constantin Film has signed an output deal with USA Films giving it German-speaking theatrical, free TV and video rights to the company's product until 2003.Titles covered by the deal include One Night At McCool's, directed by Norway's Harald Zwart and starring Michael Douglas and Matt Dillon, and the ...
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Murphy, Bauer to head Euro production for RTL
RTL Group has appointed Mike Murphy and Wolf Bauer as joint chiefs of its continental European production activities. Murphy is currently CEO, European drama and CEO Asia for Pearson Television and Bauer is chairman of Ufa Film & TV Production.The two execs will oversee production companies belonging to the group ...
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Tax inspectors swoop on Indian film stars
The Indian Directorate of Investigation, Income Tax, raided the houses and offices of several leading Hindi film personalities yesterday (September 27). A team of 150 officers fanned out to raid more than 30 premises belonging to film stars, directors and one distributor. Among those targeted were actresses Aishwarya Rai, Urmila ...
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Titus to open Flanders festival
Julie Taymor's Titus will open the Flanders International Film Festival in Ghent (October 11-22) where it is screening out of competition. Terence Davies' The House Of Mirth, starring Gillian Anderson, will open the competitive section. Morgan Freeman will be guest of honour at the festival, which is dedicated to exploring ...
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Disease picks up top prize at Gdynia
The grand prize at the Gdynia Festival of Polish Features Films went to Krzysztof Zanussi for Life As A Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease. The film - which took the main award at this year's Moscow film festival - also won the best male actor award for its star Zbigniew Zapasiewicz.The ...
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Pandora takes world on Liddy's Country
Hard on the heels of re-aligning to become the specialist arm of Nashville-based Gaylord Entertainment Company, France's Pandora Films has picked up Irish family drama Country, written and directed by Kevin Liddy.The Paris-based operation will handle worldwide sales on the picture, which is set in rural Ireland in the early ...
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Storaro to get ASC Lifetime Achievement Award
Vittorio Storaro, the multi-award winning cinematographer, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) at the 15th annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards dinner on Feb 18, 2001.Italian Storaro is one of the most famous cinematographers in the world with Oscars to his name for Apocalypse ...
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Jon Voight to play Jolie's dad in Tomb Raider
Jon Voight has joined the cast of Paramount Pictures' action adventure Tomb Raider currently shooting in the UK and will play Lord Croft, father to Lara Croft played by his real-life daughter Angelina Jolie. It is the first time that Voight and Jolie have appeared together on screen.The casting was ...
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Carol Rossi joins Julie Savay-Ross at Miracle
Carol M Rossi has joined LA-based production/sales outfit Miracle Entertainment as vice president, marketing. She will be responsible for implementing marketing strategies for Miracle's production slate as well as the company's international distribution operations run by president of international distribution Julie Savay-Ross. She will report to Savay-Ross.Rossi's appointment follows earlier ...
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Film Roman's Jon Vein named COO at AMG and APG
Jon Vein, former chief operating officer at Film Roman, has joined Michael Ovitz's Artists Management Group (AMG) and Artists Production Group (APG) as chief operating officer.Vein has been at Film Roman as COO since 1995 where he was responsible for overseeing all business activities of the company as well as ...
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News Corp unveils Liberty Media tie-up
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has confirmed that it plans to strengthen ties with John Malone's Liberty Media by acquiring its 21% stake in Gemstar-TV Guide. Liberty Media is transferring its Gemstar stake to News Corp in return for 121.5 million News Corp American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), making it the ...
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US-Mexico committee pushes for tax incentives
Representatives of the US and Mexican film industries agreed to push for tax incentives to spur investment in local production at a meeting in Mexico City last week (September 20).The third annual meeting of the US-Mexico Bilateral Film Industry Committee aimed to press the importance of reactivating the local film ...
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Kinowelt seeks to buy Village's German cinemas
Kinowelt, Germany's fast-moving licensing and distribution conglomerate, is poised to become one of the country's leading exhibitors.It is involved in exclusive talks with Village Roadshow to buy a majority stake in the eight German multiplexes owned by the Australian group. Kinowelt was unable to confirm details about the size or ...
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AtomFilms links with Jonze, DiCaprio
Director Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) has joined the advisory board of on-line distributor AtomFilms and will create three original shorts for exclusive distribution by the company. AtomFilms is also teaming up with Leonardo DiCaprio's Birken Interactive Studio to launch a short film festival. The two-year deal with Jonze includes ...
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Faithless falters against other local product
While Scandinavian film-makers Lars von Trier and Liv Ullmann received plenty of positive international attention at this year's Cannes Film Festival, both directors have been hit hard by the local, and often much younger, competition at the box office in their respective home territories. The Swedish production Faithless from Norwegian ...
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Dutch government extends tax incentive scheme
The Dutch government has extended tax measures, introduced in 1997 to encourage private investment in local film production, for another 12 months. The move is an interim measure until the government develops a new support system in which "film entrepreneurs instead of investors" will be the first in line to ...
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Canal Plus Spain picks winners for script fund
Spanish pay-TV outlet Canal Plus has unveiled the six winners of its newly relaunched script development fund, known as Canal Plus Guiones.Canal Plus chose six treatments from 372 applications in which it will invest between $2,857 (PTS500,000) and $14,286 (PTS2,500,000) each to develop over the next year.The channel is also ...
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InternetStudios ups McKean; completes merger
InternetStudios.com, the LA-based web-site for licensing film and TV distribution rights and tracking entertainment industry data, has promoted Alex McKean to the position of vice president of finance. He was formerly director of finance for the company.A former corporate accounting manager at PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, McKean will be responsible for ...
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SightSound.com cancels $50m float
SightSound.com, which offers movies for download over high-speed internet connections, has reportedly cancelled its planned $50m initial public offering due to unfavourable market conditions.The US-based company originally filed with the SEC to float on the Nasdaq in April. But in a filing yesterday it said it 'does not believe that ...
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Star, PacNet in talks for Indian internet venture
Star TV and Asian internet service provider (ISP) Pacific Internet (PacNet) are in talks about forming a joint venture to launch internet services in India according to local press reports.According to Indian daily The Economic Times, Star and PacNet - a US-listed company which is 42% owned by Singapore's SembCorp ...