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Fine Line reorganises publicity, appoints Hovee
Fine Line Features has promoted Nina Baron to vice president, East Coast publicity and promotions, and Jennifer Stott to vice president, publicity and promotions, while Melinda Hovee has joined the company as executive director, west coast publicity and promotions. Both Baron and Stott will remain based in New York and ...
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Reiko Bradley returns to MDP as sales chief
Reiko Bradley has left her post as head of Filmtown International Sales and returned to work for old boss Mark Damon as executive vice president of distribution at Damon's MDP Worldwide. She previously worked for him at Vision International and later at MDP Worldwide before leaving to head up the ...
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Norway's KF mulls options after Buena Vista exit
Norwegian distributor Kommunenes Filmsentral (KF) is considering various survival strategies following the decision by one of its major product sources, Buena Vista, to establish its own office in the country. KF also recently lost 20th Century Fox's titles after the international distributor decided to open a Norwegian outpost, headed by ...
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Splendid expands library with Polyband buy
Cologne-based rights trader Splendid Medien has acquired a 100% share of Bavarian record company and video label Polyband in order to further build up its library of video and DVD rights.The company, which distributes videos and DVDs in Germany and German-speaking countries, owns a 300-title library including 150 predominantly German ...
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Film Consortium confirmed as partner on 51st State
Canada's Alliance Atlantis and the UK's Momentum Pictures have confirmed that UK studio franchise The Film Consortium has boarded their $28m action comedy 51st State (ScreenDaily, August 17). Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Carlyle will star in the film which follows an American chemist planning a once-in-a-lifetime drug deal in ...
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UA Theatres files for bankruptcy protection
United Artists Theatres Company has become the latest US exhibitor to run into financial trouble, filing for protection from creditors under US bankruptcy law while it reorganises to reduce debt and expenses. In its filing, the company said it intends to reduce debt of about $720m to about $260m. The ...
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FFA supports Princess, Dancer's German release
Tom Tykwer's The Princess And The Warrior and Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark are among eight titles to receive distribution funding from the German Federal Film Board (FFA). Dancer is being distributed by Constantin while Tykwer's film will be released by X Verleih.The other titles to receive support ...
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Oz in over development drive, warns AFC
Australia is developing too many feature projects according to Australian Film Commission (AFC) chief executive Kim Dalton.Presenting preliminary results of new AFC research to the National Screenwriters Conference, Dalton said that projects spend longer in development in Australia but the time and resources directly committed to the task is usually ...
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Altman lines up UK-set manor house drama
In Venice to promote his latest feature, Dr T And The Women, director Robert Altman has revealed details of his next project, Gosford Park, which he plans to shoot in the UK from next March.Written by Julian Fellows, the film is set in 1933 - the year Hitler rose to ...
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Hollow Man fills Spanish box office
Columbia TriStar had a successful weekend in Spain with the release of Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man where it won the number one slot with a three-day gross of $2.3m (PTS434m). This is the territory's third strongest opening so far this year. Comparatively, Fox's Titan AE on 226 screens (versus Hollow ...
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Kevin Williams takes three from Tornasol
Spanish sales outfit Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has picked up world rights on three titles from Madrid-based producer Tornasol Films.Two of the films are screening in the Toronto Film Festival's Contemporary World Cinema sidebar: Nuts For Love (Nueces Para El Amor), an Argentinean co-production from director Alberto Lecchi starring Ariadna ...
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Pop.com closes shop after merger talks fail
Entertainment web-site Pop.com - fronted by Imagine Entertainment and DreamWorks - is shutting down following the collapse last week of merger discussions with LA-based film portal Ifilm.com (Screendaily, September 4).The site, backed by $50m from Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures, never went live despite being scheduled for a spring 2000 launch. ...
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Festivals feel impact of global releasing
Global releasing is only now being adopted by Hollywood studios, but it is already having an impact on the timing and programming of festivals. Felice Laudadio this week announced that he will move next year's Taormina festival by a couple of weeks - from mid July to the last week ...
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Innocence, Le Gout share top gong at Montreal
French director Agnes Jaoui's The Taste Of Other (Le Gout Des Autres) and Australian Paul Cox's Innocence shared the top prize at the 24th Montreal World Film Festival which wrapped on Monday. The Grand Prix of the Americas is the second major prize for the Cox title after Taormina. Iranian ...
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Warner wins rights to Brazil's Xuxa sequel
Warner Bros has beaten off competition from Columbia TriStar, 20th Century Fox and Lumiere Brasil to acquire Brazilian rights to local children's feature Xuxa Pop Star, the third film in domestic TV star Xuxa's franchise.The last Xuxa film - Xuxa Wiggles (Xuxa Requebra) - distributed by 20th Century Fox through ...
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Snatch steals record-breaking UK opening
The latest UK gangster movie Snatch has stormed into the UK chart at number one with an impressive three-day gross of $3.85m (£2.6m). Adding in paid previews of $800,000, the film's official opening gross reaches an impressive $4.6m - a new record for an 18-certificate film released in the UK.Playing ...
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San Sebastian unveils Spanish, Music sidebars
The San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30) has announced the titles to be included in its Made In Spanish section, a popular sidebar dedicated to presenting the year's best Spanish and Latin American features and short films.Among the 37 feature films included are:Miguel Albaladejo's Verbal Attack (Ataque Verbal)I Will ...
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Cisneros launches pan-Latin American channel
Venezuelan media giant Grupo Cisneros has launched a pan-Latin American entertainment and news channel - Venevision Continental - which will also be available to viewers in Spain and Portugal.According to Venevision Continental president Carlos Bardasano, the Spanish-language network currently reaches eight million viewers in Latin America. Its launch in Spain ...
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Firstmovies launches with on-line marketing tool
A new UK film industry marketing company launches this week, aiming to provide distributors with market research about their films via the internet. Called Firstmovies.com, the service has been set up by Chris Ward, managing director of youth marketing agency Beatwax Communications. Film Council deputy chairman Stewart Till has been ...
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MIFED expands with related events
Mifed is to defend its claim to be the autumn's leading film sales market by improving its technical facilities and creating a network of linked events."The need for human contact will mean that there is always a need for film markets. But at a time when deals are increasingly done ...