All News articles – Page 5368
-
News
Aardman to make Wallace And Gromit movie
Aardman, the celebrated UK animation company which this weekend sees the US release of its first film Chicken Run, is planning a feature based around its popular characters Wallace and Gromit for release in 2004.The Wallace and Gromit film will be produced after the next Aardman film The Tortoise And ...
-
News
Lusomundo, Forum sign on for Joe Roth films
Joe Roth's Revolution Studios has closed the final international deals on its debut slate of 36 films to be made over the next six years. Lusomundo in Portugal and Forum Film in Israel have taken the films for their territories joining Senator Films (Germany), Toho-Towa and Pony Canyon (Japan) and ...
-
News
Good Machine Int'l unveils Cannes sales deals
Three year-old Good Machine International has unveiled a string of sales closed during and after the Cannes Film Festival, extending its relationships with key foreign independents such as Entertainment Film Distributors in the UK, Bac Film in France and Constantin Film in Germany, while striking first-time deals with Medusa Film ...
-
News
Champagne flows in Paris as European giant is born
The Paris media elite broke open the champagne on Monday night and partied away within sight of the Eiffel Tower after the boards of Canal Plus, Vivendi and eventually Seagram all agreed to a three-way merger between their companies in a $40.2bn deal including debt that creates Europe's first truly ...
-
News
Advanced Medien sells DVD package to EMS
Advanced Medien has sold a package of DVD rights to E-M-S new media for Austria and Switzerland.The package was headed by Oskar Roehler's Die Unberuehrbare, which appeared at Cannes this year and was named best film at the German Film Awards this weekend. It also includes Running Game and Stranger ...
-
News
Oz giants get greenlight for joint Sydney cinema
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has greenlit a proposal from Australia's three largest exhibitors - Village Roadshow, Hoyts and Greater Union - to replace their separate cinemas on George Street, Sydney with a site in which they will share the same building, staff, box office and candy bar. ...
-
News
China Star launches web-site for Chinese film
Hong Kong-based production house China Star Entertainment made its entry into the growing numbers of entertainment dotcoms today (June 19) with the launch of its web-site Chinastar.com.China Star claims the site has one of the most extensive databases of Chinese movie information, with more than a thousand film-related documents from ...
-
News
J&M secures multiple sales to Japan
UK-based sales and financing operation J&M Entertainment has sold a host of titles to Japanese distributors including Nippon Herald, Marubeni and Only Hearts.Marubeni acquired a package including UK thriller Complicity, starring Jonny Lee Miller; Fever, which marks Alex Winter's directing debut; History Is Made At Night, starring Bill Pullman; and ...
-
News
Greek film gets exhibition boost from GFC
Responding to the recent spectacular growth of local film, The Greek Film Centre (GFC) is launching a scheme - Film Centre 2000 - designed to secure more exhibition slots for domestic productions. Greek films racked up 2.3 million admissions this year (September 1999 - June 2000) - an almost five-fold ...
-
News
Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her
Despite the twin stigmas of a first-time director and a difficult narrative - women's lives - producer Jon Avnet attracted an impressive ensemble cast to Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her. John Hazelton looks at the making of the film, directed by Rodrigo Marquez, a cinematographer and ...
-
News
Telefonica's Nieto likely to quit Antena 3 role
Juan Jose Nieto, CEO of Spanish broadcaster Antena 3, admitted last Thursday during a shareholders' meeting that he might resign from his post in order to focus on his dual position as CEO of Telefonica Media and new member of Telefonica's powerful Executive Committee.Sources at the broadcaster suggested that Nieto's ...
-
News
UK film execs feature high in Queen's Honours list
Stewart Till, deputy chair of UK film superbody the Film Council, Intermedia co-chairman Nigel Sinclair, and film finance specialist Premila Hoon are among the film industry executives to be honoured in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours list.Till, formerly president of Universal Pictures International and president of international for PolyGram Filmed ...
-
News
Chance joins Granada Media board
Former BSkyB deputy managing director David Chance has joined UK media operation Granada Media as a non-executive director.The appointment comes as parent Granada Group is preparing to float its media division by mid-July. Granada is expected to stress Chance's experience in pay-TV and new media in the run-up to the ...
-
News
Germany's H5B5 acquires stake in Unapix
Boutique German TV producer H5B5, has bought a 25% stake in fast-moving US mini-conglomerate Unapix Entertainment.The German outfit said: "this strategic shareholding is a very important step. It sustains [our] goal in selling high quality products on the US TV market and allows H5B5 Media to exploit all distribution channels."The ...
-
News
Shaft - Top guy at the US Box Office with $21.1m
Paramount Pictures, hot on the heels of Mission: Impossible 2, has scored another summer smash with its updated remake of 1971 blaxploitation classic Shaft. Featuring Samuel L Jackson as New York cop Shaft with original star Richard Roundtree as his uncle John, the movie grossed $21.1m over the three-day weekend ...
-
News
Die Unberuehrbare wins big at German Film Awards
Oskar Roehler's drama No Place To Go (Die Unberuehrbare), which had its premiere in Cannes last month as part of Directors Fortnight, was the evening's big winner at the 50th German Film Awards in Berlin on June 16, winning the Best Film award, the DM1m ($494,000) Film Strip in Gold, ...
-
News
Buena Vista makes record DVD shipment with Tarzan
Buena Vista Home Entertainment has shipped 150,000 DVDs of Tarzan to Japanese stores - a company record for an initial DVD shipment in Japan and the second highest number industry-wide since Warner Home Entertainment released The Matrix on DVD in March.In co-operation with the Fuji TV network, Buena Vista is ...
-
News
Harrelson, Huston set to attend Karlovy Vary
Woody Harrelson, Anjelica Huston and, subject to shooting schedules, Johnny Depp are amongst the stars expected to attend next month's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the festival has announced.Harrelson, a guest at the festival last year, is to present the Canadian documentary Grass, which he narrated and co-produced, while Huston ...
-
News
Time Warner strikes alliance with CETV
Time Warner has broken into the potentially lucrative Chinese-language programming market through a ground-breaking strategic alliance with Hong Kong-based broadcaster China Entertainment Television (CETV).Time Warner-owned Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) Asia Pacific will provide the channel with selected programming and also work closely with CETV founder Robert Chua to produce original ...
-
News
Spanish broadcasters team up for Fiction Factory
Four heavyweight Spanish television platforms - pay outlets Via Digital and Quiero TV and free-to-air broadcasters Antena 3 and Telecinco - are joining forces to create thematic channel The Fiction Factory (FDF) dedicated to Spanish and US fiction series.FDF will launch on both Quiero and Via Digital beginning next month ...