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Pop group 'N Sync to promote first film at Cannes
'N SYNC - the US boyband phenomenon - will make its first feature film for LA-based independent production outfits Total Film Group and Phat Free Productions, it was announced yesterday.And the group, which performed with Gloria Estefan at this year's Academy Awards ceremony, will be attending this year's Cannes Film ...
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BT signs up with Hollywood.com, atomfilms
British Telecommunications (BT) has entered into an agreement in principle with US entertainment-based internet site Hollywood.com to distribute Hollywood.com content across its multiple internet platforms including narrowband ISP, broadband DSL access and wireless WAP technologies in the UK.And BT has also struck a deal with AtomFilms, the online short film ...
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Cannes unveils Directors' Fortnight
Bulging with the most titles to ever screen in the section, Cannes' Directors' Fortnight unveiled its 32nd edition on Wednesday.Highlights in the section, which takes place 11 - 21 May, are expected to be Karen Kusama's Girlfight, which wowed critics and buyers alike at its Sundance premiere; Silvio Soldini's Bread ...
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Intermedia, Pacifica bare flotation teeth
Despite the recent stockmarket storms, International Media, the newly-renamed German company formed from the merger of the UK's Intermedia Film Equities and Los Angeles-based Pacifica, is pressing ahead with flotation plans. The aggressive sales process could see the company triple its share capital. Some 5.6 million shares in the new ...
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Warner Italy joins bid to boost summer box office
Warner Bros Italy is pushing back the release date of South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut from May to June in an effort to establish year-round programming in Italy. Warner will also release John Travolta sci-fi film Battlefield Earth and martial arts action picture Romeo Must Die in June and ...
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Location: Fiji
Fiji is launching a series of initiatives aimed at attracting film-makers including 100-150% tax deductions and a film studio.The government of the group of Pacific islands is expected to pass legislation in May allowing for tax deductions of 100-150% for capital investment in projects. At least 35% of the ...
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Spain's Saura unleashes Zebra Producciones
Spanish producer and former head of the pan-European Media Business School Antonio Saura has launched production outfit Zebra Producciones with backing from two as-yet unnamed private investors.Saura and co-head Natacha Kucic will invest $6.7-7.3m (pts1,100-1,200m) on their first annual slate of three films - two Spanish language and one international ...
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Canada launches documentary market
This year's edition of North America's largest documentary film festival, the Canadian International Documentary Festival (May 1-7), marks the launch of a documentary financing market, the Toronto Documentary Forum.The two-day event, modelled on the successful Forum for International Co-Financing of Documentaries in Amsterdam, will see 36 production teams pitching their ...
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Barrandov Studios set to change owners
Prague's legendary AB Barrandov Studios is close to changing hands, according to local newspaper reports.Owner Moravia Steel is understood to be weeks away from closing a deal with a consortium of North American film industry investors known as the Kodiak Group. The deal would end Moravia's four-year search for an ...
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Russian Oscars fete outsiders
Alexei German's Khrustalyov, My Car hit open road at the Russian Oscars after the event was snubbed by leading Russian directors Nikita Mikhalkov and Alexander Sukorov, who refused to allow their films to compete. Khrustalyov, a black and white film which screened in competition in Cannes two years ago, received ...
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Murdoch buys 34% of Germany's TM3 channel
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is buying a 34% stake in German TV-channel TM3 from Germany's Tele-Muenchen Group for $168m, taking over the operation 100%.Despite repeated denials that he was considering the move, Tele-Muenchen managing director Herbert Kloiber is reportedly selling his stake after repeated attempts to find an audience for ...
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New Legend Media capitalised as Euro buying power
A new multi-territory German-backed buyer has emerged in New Legend Media AG, a privately held production and distribution outfit founded from the merger of Munich-based ACC Entertainment and LA-based Legend Entertainment.Two German venture capital companies - Hamburg-based GBK Beteiligungen and Munich-based CEA - have joined the consortium of private investors ...
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Kevin And Perry goes large at UK cinemas
The opening three day gross of Kevin And Perry Go Large has given Icon Film Distribution its first box office hit and number one film in the UK. The comedy teenage duo took $3.2m (£2m) over the Easter weekend (April 21-23). Playing on 336 screens, the British adaptation of ...
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Urbanchillers.com to finance short films
Dir: Tony Barbieri. US. 2000. 109 mins.Prod cos: Lumiere International. Worldwide sales: Lumiere Films (+1 323 650 6773), UGC International (+33 1 40 29 89 00). Exec prods: Claude Leger, Luciano Lisi, Wendy Cary, Mickey Cottrell. Prod: Lila Cazes. Scr: Tony Barbieri. DoP: Matthew Irving. Prod des: Victor R Syperek. ...
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Sogepaq counts Ephron's Numbers for Spain
Spanish rights and acquisitions house Sogepaq has picked up all rights for Spain on forthcoming Nora Ephron film Numbers, produced by Paramount and set to star John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow, Tim Roth and Bill Pullman.The pick-up was made through the joint acquisitions venture which Sogepaq launched last October with Canal ...
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Redbus takes theatrical on Intertainment package
UK distributor Redbus Film Distribution has picked up all rights to a 15-strong package of star-laden pictures from Germany's Intertainment ahead of its float in the second quarter this year.The films, which are in addition to a sixty-plus package of titles from Intertainment for Video-On-Demand (Screen Daily April 7), include ...
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Vigo prize split between Saint-Cyr, Ancienne
For the first time since its creation in 1951, the Jean Vigo prize has been awarded ex-aequo to two features - Patricia Mazuy's Saint-Cyr, and Orso Miret's first feature effort De L'Histoire Ancienne. The two titles will premiere in two Cannes sidebars next month - Saint-Cyr in Un Certain Regard ...
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Actor Grant to direct for Blackjack
Hilary Heath's recently formed London-based production outfit Blackjack is to produce Wah Wah, directed by UK actor Richard E Grant.The project, currently in advanced development, is the autobiographical story of growing up in the 60s in South Africa. Blackjack, which is one of the production companies backed by UK media ...
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Dubinet to head IAC America
UK-based sales and financing house IAC Holdings has launched US division IAC America under sales veteran Ann Dubinet.Dubinet joins as president of the Los Angeles-based operation, as well taking a seat on the board at IAC. She will continue working for Alchemy Entertainment, her 50-50 partnership with producer Martin Bregman. ...
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Tasca asks competition council to rule on UGC card
In her first decision as France's culture minister, Catherine Tasca has asked the country's competition authorities to rule on the controversial issue of cinema chain UGC's "Illimite" card, which gives unlimited access to UGC screens for FFr98 a month.UGC's new promotional effort has been opposed by independent exhibitors, who ...