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Alibi picks up Sky's Most Fertile Man
UK-based sales company Alibi Films International has acquired worldwide rights outside the UK and Eire to Sky Pictures' comedy The Most Fertile Man In Ireland.The Samson Films and Hot Films production, currently in post, follows a young man who discovers he has the highest sperm count in Ireland. He becomes ...
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UK's Millennium takes three from UGC
France's UGC has sold a trio of titles headed by Regis Wargnier's East-West to UK independent distributor Millennium Film Distributors.East-West, starring Catherine Deneuve and Sandrine Bonnaire, joins Le Libertin, a comedy with Vincent Perez and Fanny Ardant, and Claude Miller's La Chambre Des Magiciennes.Rive, who operates both Millennium and Gala ...
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UK actors join Gilliam's Quixote cast
The UK's Miranda Richardson, Christopher Eccleston and Bill Paterson have joined the cast of Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Gilliam's office confirmed on Monday.The actors join Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis and Jean Rochefort in the $30m plus production, which is to start shooting in Spain and the ...
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Australia's FLICs get luke-warm response
Australia's two Film Licensed Investment Companies (FLICs) have convinced investors to tip in only about half of the tax deductible total of $23.9 (A$40m) that they were allowed to raise before the June 30 deadline.The government-sanctioned FLICs were formed 15 months ago as a pilot scheme with the aim of ...
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Media Park acquires minority stake in Horizonte
Barcelona-based content packager Media Park has taken a 3% stake in Horizonte Digital, a consortium applying for one of two new free-to-air digital terrestrial television (DTT) licences to be awarded by the Spanish government in November.Media Park's participation in Horizonte Digital gives Telefonica, which recently bought out 25% of the ...
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Bread And Tulips cleans up at the Nastri D'Argento
Silvio Soldini's Bread And Tulips swept Italy's second most coveted awards, the Nastri D'Argento, last night, at an awards ceremony held in Taormina, Sicily's 10,000 seat Greek amphitheatre, directly before the European premiere of John Woo's Mission: Impossible 2. The film scooped the best film award, presented to director Soldini, ...
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India set to privatise state film bodies
India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is considering privatising state-backed film production company, the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) and the government-owned Indian Film and Television Institute. The country's current government believes that these organisations are no longer useful and their role has ...
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Media Most claims investor will buy out debt
Russia's Media Most group, owned by recently jailed tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky, has claimed that an unidentified foreign investor is seeking to buy out its $211.6m debt to government-controlled utilities giant Gazprom.The beleaguered group has recently been under increasing pressure to pay back the loan. However one of Russia's largest daily ...
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CASE STUDY - The King Is Alive
US backers and an international cast are not typical traits of the Dogme 95 school of film-making, but the makers of Kristian Levring's The King Is Alive stayed true to the "back-to-basics" manifesto while shooting in the Namibian desert. Jacob Neiiendam reports.Spring 1995 A collective of Danish film-makers founds Dogme ...
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Australia's Energee to create TV Magic Pudding
Australian animation house Energee Entertainment is planning to spin its not-yet-released first feature, The Magic Pudding, into a television series. International sales agent Icon Entertainment International has sold The Magic Pudding feature to more than a dozen territories including Bac Films for France and Gruppo Minerva for Italy. It will ...
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Mill Film ups Hughes to head operations
The UK's Mill Film has appointed Neil Hughes to the newly created position of facilities and operations manager as the effects house beefs up its facilities.As well as looking after the day-to-day management of the company, Hughes, formerly production accountant for Mill Film, will maintain and develop relations between Mill ...
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India's Sriven acquires US animation company
Hyderabad-based Sriven Multi-Tech, which specialises in multimedia and 2D animation, has acquired a 51% stake in Los Angeles-based 3D animation company Station X Studios LLC.Station has changed its name to Station X Entertainment as a result of the all-cash deal which sees Sriven plough $2.5m into the company. A portion ...
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Arthaus, Neue Visionen, Kairos win dist'n prize
German distributors Arthaus Filmverleih, Neue Visionen Filmverleih and Kairos Filmverleih have each been awarded a Distribution Prize by the German culture ministry for "special achievement in the distribution of films of artistic excellence".German culture minister Michael Naumann will present the awards, which are each worth DM200,000 ($97,250), on October 10 ...
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World's largest Imax theatre to open in Mumbai
India is set to get its first Imax theatre - in its leading film city Mumbai - following an agreement signed last week between the Canadian large format specialist and Indian film processing lab, Adlabs.Scheduled to open in December this year, the $12.5m cinema will have the world's largest Imax ...
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Baise-Moi banned from French cinemas
Following a lawsuit by Promouvoir, an association defending "judeo-christian and family values", controversial French title Baise-moi has been given an X rating by France's Conseil d'Etat effectively banning it from French theatres.Baise-moi, produced and distributed in France by former PolyGram subsidiary Pan Europeenne, had been rated PG-16 by the board ...
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Warner Bros whips up US Box Office Storm
Warner Bros' epic disaster movie The Perfect Storm was the champion at the North American box office over the Fourth Of July weekend, grossing $41.7m in the Friday to Sunday period, some $20m more than its nearest competition, Columbia Pictures' opener The Patriot.Playing at 3,407 screens, Wolfgang Petersen's true life ...
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Phone rivals hit at Vizzavi
Vizzavi - one of the key planks on which the merger of Seagram, Vivendi and Canal Plus is built - was reportedly dealt a blow this weekend when two phone giants secured an injunction preventing the portal from operating in France. According to British newspaper The Sunday Times, British Telecommunications ...
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Ecosse, Shivas to produce Disraeli biopic
Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd is being lined up to star as Benjamin Disraeli in the provisionally titled Dizzy, a feature dramatising the life of the brilliant British prime minister being produced by Mark Shivas and Ecosse Films.Gruffudd would play Disraeli at 28 years old in the film, which revolves around ...
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Telefonica makes formal Endemol bid
Spanish telecommunications and media powerhouse Telefonica has launched its anticipated public offer to buy out Dutch entertainment giant Endemol. The offer, which runs from July 3-24, values Endemol at Euros4.79bn.The Spanish company has had to pay a high price to complete the buy-out, thanks to a fall in share value ...
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OBITUARY: Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman, one of Italy's most indomitable theatre and cinema icons, died Thursday at age 78 from a heart attack. The actor, who defined an era of Italian cinema and was known as much for his dramatic roles as his comedic gems, appeared in such classic films as I Soliti ...