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Ambush wins Gold Dolphin at Festroia
Finnish drama Ambush, set during the Second World War, won the 16th Festroia film festival's top honour, the Gold Dolphin, on Saturday night. The film also won the best director award for Olli Saarela. The international jury, presided over by Spanish director Juan Antonio Bardem, gave its Special Prize to ...
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Tiger Aspect adds Kemp, Blatt to Dog Eat Dog cast
Pop stars Gary Kemp and Melanie Blatt have joined TV actor Alan Davies in UK comedy Dog Eat Dog.The FilmFour-backed production has just started shooting for Tiger Aspect Pictures and Shona Productions for six weeks in and around London. Kemp and Blatt have starred in The Krays and Honest respectively, ...
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Sweet And Lowdown rises above soccer
Blame the start of the Euro 2000 soccer tournament or blame the warmer weather, but no amount of counter-programming could prevent last weekend's box office retreating to the traditional pre-summer holiday season low. The only film to open with any redeemable gross was Woody Allen's Sweet And Lowdown which ...
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UPC turns attention to video-on-demand
Dutch cable giant United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC) is positioning itself to become a major supplier of content to third generation mobile phone operators and as a video-on-demand (VoD) wholesaler. Although the group is expanding from cable into telephony and wireless communications, UPC chairman Mark Schneider said that cost factors mean ...
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UPC in talks to acquire major stake in Noos
Dutch cable giant United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC) confirmed that it is in the running to buy a major stake in Noos, the French cable network operated by the Suez-Lyonnaise combine. UPC's bid was explained by chairman Mark Schneider at a press meeting in Amsterdam on Friday: "We are interested in ...
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Hodgson appointed chief executive of ITC
Patricia Hodgson, currently BBC director of public policy, has been appointed chief executive of UK commercial broadcasting body the Independent Television Commission (ITC).Hodgson takes up the post in September. She succeeds Peter Rogers, who is retiring.Hodgson’s move to the ITC comes just a few months after BBC director general Greg ...
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Italian cinema loses local market share
Italian films' share of the domestic theatrical market dropped from 27% to 14% in the 12 months from June 1999 to May 2000 according to local exhibitors association ANEC. Without local hits such as 1998's Life Is Beautiful or Cosi E' La Vita, US films dominated the Italian box office ...
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Dutch gov't to open cable networks to rivals
The Dutch government has ruled that local cable networks must be open to rival internet suppliers, but partly allayed cable operators' fears by delaying the introduction of "open access" for at least two years.The cabinet also said that new legislation will be drawn up in line with wider European regulations ...
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Prisa appoints US, Internet chiefs on eve of float
On the eve of its public offering, Spanish media empire Grupo Prisa has announced two key appointments.Jaime Polanco Soutullo has been appointed general director of Prisa for North America, a strategic post for further developing Prisa's activities in the US Spanish-speaking market. Polanco Soutullo will be headquartered in New York ...
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French exhibitor Action launches discount cards
French arthouse exhibitor Action plans to launch the "Action Gitanes" discount card in July. The card - which will cost $36 (FFr250) for entrance to 10 films and is valid for a year - is the first independent answer to major exhibitor UGC's highly controversial "UGC Illimite" card. Action operates ...
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Uttar Pradesh takes on Mumbai with new film policy
The government of North Indian state Uttar Pradesh is aiming to compete with India's principal film-making centre, Mumbai, with a new film policy that includes upgrading facilities at the NOIDA Film City in the New Delhi suburbs.The policy, which grants industry status to the local film sector, is intended to ...
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Japan's Gaga spins off publishing arm
Japan's Gaga Communications has spun off its Publication Department, which publishes Video Insider Japan and Digital Media Navigator magazines, into a wholly owned subsidiary, Gaga Publishing. The new company is expected to begin operations in the first part of August. Gaga founder Tetsu Fujimura will be chairman with Hikaru Kobayashi ...
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Yes strikes content deal with Warner Bros
Yes Television, the UK video-on demand (VoD) supplier that was to have floated this month on the London stock market, has added a new content supply deal with Warner Bros.The new arrangement, which makes Yes the first VoD company in the UK to carry made-for-TV fare from Warner Bros International ...
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Germany's IN-motion plans IPO
Frankfurt-based music and film production company, IN-motion movie & TV productions, has become the latest German media company to seek a listing on the Neuer Markt stock exchange.IN-motion's founders Michael Muenzing and Luca Anzilotti have been key players in the international music scene for the last 15 years, masterminding the ...
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Key adds Hallstrom, Nair to debut production slate
One-year-old Italian distributor Key Films unveiled its debut production slate at last week's Professional Screening Days in Sorrento, which includes projects from Lasse Hallstrom, Mira Nair and Lisanne Skyler in addition to Thomas Vinterberg's previously announced US-set love story It's All About Love.Founded by former Lucky Red chief Kermit Smith, ...
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Terra shareholders approve capital increase
Shareholders of Telefonica Internet subsidiary Terra approved a Euros761m amplification of capital on Thursday (June 8) which will allow the company to complete its proposed 100% buy-out of US portal Lycos. The new company, Terra Lycos, will have corporate centres in Barcelona, Boston and Miami."With Lycos, we are creating a ...
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Davenport joins Wiest in cast of Not Afraid
Jack Davenport, Elsa Zylberstein, Miriam Margolyes and Michael Weir have joined double Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest in the cast of Not Afraid, Not Afraid.The story of the burgeoning relationship between a handicapped boy and his hostile grandmother has just started shooting in Dublin. Annette Carducci is directing from a ...
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Gil to sing with Hamilton in Lolafilms' Off Key
Spanish actress Ariadna Gil and Italy's Anna Galiena and Claudia Gerini have joined the cast of English-language comedy Off Key from Spanish production house Lolafilms.The film stars Joe Mantegna, George Hamilton and Danny Aiello as three opera stars whose love-hate relationship comes to a head during an explosive weekend together ...
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Ecosse makes US move with Kerr, Chaplin projects
Ecosse Films, the production outfit behind Mrs Brown and FilmFour and Warner Bros' upcoming $20m Charlotte Gray, is heading for the US.Launching full-scale into developing large-budget projects, the UK company is funding development on two US-set projects: $30m-plus Stick Shaker and $25m Helen's Boy.Ecosse has commissioned popular thriller novelist Philip ...
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American Psycho to open Fantasy Filmfest
Mary Harron's American Psycho, starring Christian Bale, will be the opening film at this year's Fantasy Filmfest in Germany.The peripatetic festival for genre and thriller titles, held from July 26 to August 23, will tour through Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin. James Wong's darkly comic Final Destination closes ...