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Star inks output deal with Media Asia
Star TV has signed a five-year output agreement with Media Asia granting it exclusive pay-TV and internet rights to the Hong Kong-based company's films. The deal was signed today (August 3) by Star TV chairman and CEO James Murdoch and Media Asia group managing director Thomas Chung.Territories covered by the ...
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Australian Film Finance Corp shuffles board
Roger Amos, Australian head of KPMG's Information, Communications and Entertainment Group, has been made deputy chair of the Australian Film Finance Corporation, 15 months after being first appointed to the board. Muriel's Wedding producer Lynda House has been reappointed for a further term while Robyn Kershaw, producer of this year's ...
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Sony launches joint venture with Panavision
Sony Corp has taken an 8% stake in film equipment manufacturer Panavision, worth $10m, and plans to establish a joint venture with the company to develop and market high-definition digital video cameras to the Hollywood studios and other film production companies. Headquartered in a Los Angeles suburb, Panavision recorded sales ...
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Israel's Yes signs up first subscribers
Israeli digital satellite broadcaster Yes, which finally made its much-delayed debut on July 15, has reported that it has connected 10,000 subscribers. The figure is low but the broadcaster's operations have been restricted by an on-going confrontation with the country's cable operators which have been reluctant to share programming. As ...
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Momentum appoints Withey to run expanded video arm
Momentum Pictures, the UK joint venture of Canada's Alliance Atlantis and Germany's Kinowelt, has appointed Conrad Withey to oversee the operation's recently-expanded video retail activities.Withey, who takes up the newly-created post of director of retail video and acquisitions, joins from Universal Pictures International, where he was vice president of programming. ...
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Granada Film adds WW2 drama to development slate
Granada Film, the features arm of UK broadcaster Granada Media, is developing World War 2 project Panzer.The UK-based operation has commissioned Jeff Pope and Terry Winsor, the team behind Granada's recently-released Essex Boys, to develop a story outline. The film is to explore the relationships of the crew members of ...
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Goldbacher signs on for Robber Bride
Sandra Goldbacher, whose credits include 1998's The Governess, has signed to direct The Robber Bride, for UK outfit The Producers and Canada's FilmWorks. The film, based on Canadian author Margaret Atwood's novel of the same name about sexual power and female friendship, was optioned by FilmWorks. "Sandra knew this novel ...
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De Villiers joins Video Networks board
Etienne de Villiers, former president and managing director of Walt Disney International for Europe, Africa and the Middle East, has joined burgeoning VoD company Video Networks as a non-executive director.The move comes as the operation is expanding film activities with recent deals with US studios including Buena Vista International Television ...
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Tykwer makes it twice with Sony Classics
Run Lola Run filmmaker Tom Tykwer's latest film, The Princess And The Warrior, has been picked up Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) for North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. Although Miramax Films has a first-look deal with Tykwer's and producer partner Stefan Arndt's X-Filme, the New York mini-major apparently ...
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Pathe launches loyalty card scheme
French exhibition giant Pathe today launched a loyalty card scheme at its multiplex in Nantes. The scheme, which appears to be a response to the launch of a controversial card scheme by rival exhibitor UGC, is expected to be rolled out nationally.The new card, called Cine A Volonte, will cost ...
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Sky Pictures adds to team, unwraps Angel
UK satellite operator BSkyB has bolstered staff at feature arm Sky Pictures and unveiled John Irvin's contemporary thriller The Fourth Angel, one of its biggest projects to date.Sky has appointed Emma Berkofsky and Chris Brock to the newly-created roles of head of development and senior business and legal affairs executive ...
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Romance director turns to period piece
With a penchant for dealing in subjects sexual there always was a danger of wide exposure for French auteur Catherine Breillat.The director of the controversial film Romance has begun work on The Old Mistress (Une Vieille Maitresse), which is to be produced through Jean-Francois Lepetit's Flach Film. The story is ...
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American Psycho to open Sitges fantasy fest
Mary Harron's American Psycho has been chosen to open the 33rd edition of the International Film Festival of Catalonia (Sitges 2000), in Sitges, Spain, which takes place October 4-14.The film, which screens in competition in the Fantasy section of the festival, arrives at Sitges after appearing at Sundance, the Berlin ...
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SF Norge mulls lawsuit against Oslo Cinema chief
Norwegian distributor SF Norge is considering suing Oslo Cinema managing director Ingeborg Moreaus Hansen after she launched a blistering attack on Liv Ullmann's latest picture Faithless in the Norwegian daily Dagsavisen.Hansen describes Faithless as "banal and speculative" in an interview with the paper, and accuses Ullmann of making a "too ...
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MI:2 pushes Gladiator off top spot in France
Mission: Impossible 2's opening in France last Wednesday scooped an impressive $6.8m in its first five days. Playing on 769 screens across the country, the John Woo-Tom Cruise picture pulled in 1,312,595 admissions ousting Gladiator from its five-week rule at the top of the box office chart. Although this ...
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Start-up outfit F.A.M.E. teams with Becker
F.A.M.E. Film & Music Entertainment - the latest German production outfit destined for the Neuer Markt - has sealed a three-year agreement with Australia's Becker Entertainment to jointly develop and produce a raft of features over the next three years. The first project under the agreement will be Esben Storm's ...
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Norway's Zwart to direct Wolff for Universal
Norwegian director Harald Zwart has been signed to direct Universal's Wolff And Byrd, also known as Supernatural Law, based on Batton Lash's comic-book about two lawyers who specialise in macabre cases.Zwart recently finished his US directing debut One Night At McCools, starring Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon and Michael Douglas, for ...
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Protestors mar Los Angeles Latino fest
The 4th Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival ended on a sour note July 30 when the entrance to the festival venue, the Egyptian Theatre, was picketed by a radical Latino group protesting against DreamWorks' The Road To El Dorado. Actor and festival president Edward James Olmos narrated the voice ...
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Yes teams with Philippines' Sky Vision
UK video-on-demand (VoD) company Yes Television and Philippines cable TV operation Sky Vision Corporation have pledged $100m over the next ten years to fund a newly-launched joint venture, Yes Sky Interactive Corporation.The venture will offer VoD and interactive TV over the SkyCable network in the Philippines. The partners are conducting ...
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UPC takes over Czech cable operator Dattelkabel
Netherlands-based cable operator UPC has taken control of leading Czech cable operator Dattelkabel by acquiring telco Global TeleSystem (GTS)'s 42% stake in the company. GTS spokeswoman Marcela Roflikova told Screendaily that the stock-only deal led to former Dattelkabel shareholder, Dutch Nuon International, selling out of the company completely. UPS had ...