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Malkovich adds Botto, Morante to Dancer cast
Actor John Malkovich and producer Andres Vicente Gomez of Lolafilms have unveiled the full cast of Dancer Upstairs which will include Juan Diego Botto, Laura Morante, Elvira Minguez and Abel Folk alongside Spanish star Javier Bardem.The project, which marks Malkovich's directorial debut, will shoot in English on a budget of ...
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Millennium Dome to host Indian Oscars
An Indian cinema awards night - christened the International Indian Film Awards (IIFA) - will be held at the Millennium Dome in London on June 24. The organisation chose London as a venue to reflect the UK's status as the leading overseas market for the Mumbai-based film industry.The show, to ...
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Steel Company to buy for Brazil's Playarte
Los Angeles-based worldwide entertainment consultant The Steel Company has signed on to handle acquistions and market liaison for Brazilian distributor-exhibitor Playarte, headed by president Otelo Bettin Coltro. According to Steel Company vice president Patrick Aluise, Playarte will be looking to acquire Brazilian rights to around ten high-profile theatrical features and ...
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Flotation fear hits Indian film companies
Reflecting events in the US and Europe, several Indian film and TV companies have postponed their planned IPOs, in this case because of the decline in value of media companies on the Mumbai stock exchange. Twenty Indian film and TV companies have applied to the Securities and Exchange Board of ...
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Penta, 3Dmax to digitally recreate Indian stars
Indian computer graphics company PentaMedia and Silicon Valley-based 3D animation outfit 3Dmax Media have unveiled details of their joint venture which plans to bring late Indian director and film star Raj Kapoor to life using digital animation.The new company will be a 50-50 joint venture between PentaMedia and 3Dmax Media, ...
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UGC agrees to withdraw card from May 9
UGC has agreed to put the sale of its highly controversial subscription card - UGC Illimite - on hold from May 9 until the French competition council decides whether it is anti-competitive. The move follows a request by French culture minister Catherine Tasca (Screendaily, April 25). For FFr98 per month ...
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Anderson takes marketing role at In2Film
Jon Anderson, formerly vice president of marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International, has joined Columbia's former UK chief Carmen Menegazzi at publishing and new media venture In2Film.Anderson joins as director of worldwide marketing, while Menegazzi has moved up from development director to ...
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TF1 discusses pan-Euro link-up
French broadcaster TF1 is in preliminary talks with the UK's Carlton Communications, Germany's KirchGruppe and Italy's Mediaset to jointly develop television programming and Internet-related activities, according to French press reports.TF1 - which already has a 50-50 Internet content venture with Carlton - @lliance - has already announced its intention to ...
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Gladiator storms Australian box office
Ridley Scott's highly-anticipated Roman epic Gladiator scooped an eye-popping $0.6m (A$1m) from 293 screens on its opening day in Australia (May 4) - the first territory worldwide to play the film. This opening figure is the territory's sixth highest ever, no doubt boosted by the film's protagonist Russell Crowe who ...
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Quiero goes live with 14-channel line-up
Spain's first digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform Quiero TV (formerly Onda Digital) starts broadcasting today (May 5) with an initial offer of 14 thematic channels, Internet/e-mail and PPV services. Quiero is Europe's second DTT platform, after the UK's ONdigital, and the first in the world to offer internet and e-mail ...
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Weinsteins commit to seven more years at Disney
Harvey and Bob Weinstein, the inimitable co-chairmen of Miramax Films, have extended their contracts with The Walt Disney Co for another seven years, scotching any speculation that they might be lured away from the company they co-founded in 1979."It is our pleasure to continue our association with Disney," said the ...
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Zentropa, Kinowelt share Moments Of Clarity
Nordic mini-major Zentropa's international branch, Zentropa Internationale, is finalising a three-picture deal with Germany's rapidly expanding Kinowelt. The pact, which is likely to be extended to more pictures, will kick off with Moments Of Clarity written by newcomer Mikael Colville Andersen."We'll work on three projects for now, but we really ...
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Sogecable seals ten pic pact with Spyglass
Spanish media group Sogecable has closed an exclusive ten picture deal with Spyglass Entertainment for pay-TV outlet Canal Plus and Canal Satelite Digital's PPV service Taquilla.Among the titles included in the deal are box office sensation The Sixth Sense, Brian de Palma's Mission To Mars, Edward Norton's directorial debut Keeping ...
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FilmFour road movie revs up in US
FilmFour's low-budget wing FilmFour Lab stepped into the US this week, starting production in Buffalo, New York on an untitled comedy love story that marks the feature debut of director Joel Hopkins.The road-movie, based on Hopkins' award-winning short Jorge, stars newcomer Tunde Adebimpe, British and French actors James Wilby and ...
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Constantin, Impact team for US-based venture
Bernd Eichinger's distribution and production group Constantin Film has set up a Los Angeles-based joint venture with Anglo-US production group Impact Pictures.The deal with Jeremy Bolt and Paul Anderson's London and Los Angeles-based Impact Pictures sees the creation of an as-yet-unnamed production company that will be 51% owned by Constantin. ...
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Bossa Nova shows legs at Brazilian box office
Bruno Barreto's Bossa Nova has racked up Real2.5m ($1.4m) after four weeks at the domestic box office - a solid result for a local title which looks set to be repeated by at least two other domestic productions in the coming year.The romantic comedy - which also started its international ...
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6ixtynin9, 2H share critics prize at Hong Kong
Chinese director Li Ying's Japanese production 2H and 6ixtynin9 by Thai director Pe-nek Ratanaruang shared the FIPRESCI prize at the 24th Hong Kong International Film Festival (April 12-27). In a statement to the press, Romanian critic Mihai Chirilov stated that the jury "wanted to make a statement and to be ...
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Co-Production Office passes Takashi's Audition
Philippe Bober's boutique production and sales outfit The Co-Production Office has picked up world sales duties to Miike Takashi's psychological horror picture Audition.The film which scooped the FIPRESCI and KNF awards at the Rotterdam festival in January is a tale of a man who advertises for a wife by auditioning ...
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Advanced, Petersen form joint producing venture
Advanced Medien, which earlier this week announced a $34m rights issue, is committing some of that cash to a new joint venture with Wolfgang Petersen, director of Das Boot, In The Line Of Fire and Air Force One.The five-year deal sees the creation of a Los Angeles office that will ...
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George Litto Pictures sues insurance giant AXA Re
Producer George Litto has initiated arbitration proceedings against French insurance AXA Re for revoking two insurance contracts to provide the funding for five films. According to Litto's complaint, George Litto Pictures (GLP) obtained two lines of credit from Chase Manhattan Bank worth more than $100m. The issuance of each loan ...