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Harvey Entertainment completes acquisition of PM
The Harvey Entertainment Group has completed its acquisition of George Shamieh's PM Entertainment Group following the securing of a $25m, five year revolving credit facility from Chase Manhattan Bank.$15m of the funds have already been committed, enabling Harvey to complete the acquisition of 100% of the capital stock of PM, ...
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Goodbye Casanova opens LA Italian Film Awards Week
The second annual Los Angeles Italian Film Awards Week will open on April 25 with the world premiere of Mauro Borrelli's Italian/American comedy Goodbye Casanova starring Giancarlo Scandiuzzi, Yasmine Bleeth and Flea, the lead bassist from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.The event which runs April 25-29 is designed to introduce ...
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Birkin to head Un Certain Regard jury
Paris-based British actress and singer Jane Birkin will chair the jury for the 2000 Cannes Un Certain Regard sidebar. Birkin made her first Cannes appearance 33 years ago for her supporting role in Michelango Antiononi's London-set title Blow-Up. She recently starred in Deborah Warner's The Last September, along with Michael ...
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CineMedia shuffles pack for digital future
German film services group, CineMedia Film is re-shuffling its board of directors in order to best position the company for a high tech future.Co-founder Holger Heims joins the supervisory board taking the place of Markus Hoelzl. Hoelzl in turn moves over to the management board to take over financial responsibility ...
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Atherton commercials house gears up UK film arm
Cylo Film, the UK production arm of newly-revamped New York-based commercials house the Atherton Group, has launched into feature development and production under recently-appointed head of film and TV Hans Baernhoft and managing director Susie Brooks-Smith.Along with a multi-picture deal with Denmark's Zentropa Internationale, Cylo is developing family film Tooth, ...
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Redbus set to float in second quarter
Fast moving film-to-Internet operation Redbus Film Group has confirmed that it will float on the London Stock Exchange during the second quarter this year in a move that is understood to put a $400m-$500m price-tag on the company.Redbus, which is re-branding itself as filmgroup, has appointed ABN AMRO Rothschild as ...
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Telstra, Pacific form Internet alliance
Australian telecommunications giant Telstra has formed a strategic alliance with Hong Kong-based Pacific Century Cyber Works (PCCW), the largest Internet group in Asia outside Japan.The billion dollar deal creates one of the largest Internet, data and business services groups in the pan-Asian region. It covers an Australian-based interactive content service, ...
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Balkan countries team up for promotional network
Film institutes from 11 Balkan and Southeast European countries are banding together to launch a pan-regional promotional body, dubbed the Network of Southeastern European Cinema Institutions (NSECI).The network was created during a meeting organised by the Greek Film Centre last weekend on the Greek island of Hydra. The meeting aimed ...
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Australia's RGM agency forms packaging venture
Sydney-based talent agency RGM Associates, which boasts clients including Cate Blanchett and Anthony La Paglia, has formed a joint venture that will work with producers to package and raise finance for film and TV projects. Partnering with RGM is Black Rock Entertainment, the new Melbourne-based entity created by former Scanbox ...
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Warner, Lagardere pact for TV production push
Warner Bros International Television (WBIT)has struck a long-term alliance with Europe Audiovisuel, the audiovisual division of defence, communications and media conglomerate Lagardere.The two companies are to co-produce and co-finance English-language TV programmes for the international market, plus French-language TV drama aimed at the local market.WBIT and Europe Audiovisuel will share ...
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Russia's first mall-based mini-plex opens doors
Moscow-based entertainment company Karo has opened Russia's first shopping centre-based mini-plex. The 700-seat, four-screen cinema opened its doors last week in the Ramstore shopping centre in a Moscow suburb. The site follows a model that has proved successful in Eastern European countries such as Hungary where cinemas are incorporated into ...
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Chapman, Lawrence team for FFC-backed thriller
Leading Australian producer Jan Chapman (Holy Smoke, The Piano) has teamed with award-winning director Ray Lawrence (Bliss) to make Lantana, one of four films which have just received backing from the Australian Film Finance Corporation (FFC). Lantana marks Lawrence's first film for 15 years when he won best director at ...
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Mitchell Galin resigns from New Amsterdam Ent.
Mitchell Galin has resigned from his position as president and member of the board at New Amsterdam Entertainment. Richard P Rubinstein will now assume the position of president alongside his current roles as chairman and CEO.Galin, who has relocated to Nashville to set up his own production company On The ...
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Romanian studio backs down from DiCaprio boast
Romania's Castel Film Studios has backed down from claims made earlier this week that Leonardo DiCaprio would be appearing in Librium, the sci-fi thriller that is due to shoot in Bucharest this Summer for Dimension Films.Admitting to the same wishful thinking that makes casting credits so non-contractual at film markets, ...
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Cuaron returns to Mexico with Good Machine
Good Machine International (GMI) has acquired international sales rights outside North America, Spain and Latin America to Alfonso Cuaron's latest film Y Tu Mama Tambien which is currently shooting in Mexico.The film marks Cuaron's return to Spanish-language films in Mexico after two Hollywood films - Great Expectations (1998) for 20th ...
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Rapp's Gout takes top prizes at Cognac crime fest
Bernard Rapp 's Une Affaire De Gout bagged three awards at the 18th Cognac Festival of Crime Films (April 6-9), including the Cognac 2000 Grand Prize, the Critics' Prize and the Cine Live Prize.The film noir, which stars Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Lorit and Florence Thomassin, was the token French film ...
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MIP-TV: Hallmark signs output deal with M6
French broadcaster M6 has signed a two-year output deal with US-based TV drama producer Hallmark Entertainment.The deal gives M6 exclusive free TV rights to Hallmark's television movies and mini-series, starting immediately. M6 will also co-finance a number of mini-series with Hallmark each year for the duration of the deal.This is ...
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Oz commission attacks broadcasting legislation
One of the Australian government's advisory bodies, the Productivity Commission, has warned that Australia's digital conversion plan faces "serious risk of failure".The warning is a slap in the face for both the government that formulated the plan and the influential existing free-to-air television networks which it clearly favours. The commission ...
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Bornedal, Holst team up for Dina adaptation
Danish director Ole Bornedal (Nightwatch) is attached to direct an adaptation of best-selling Norwegian novel Dina's Book for Danish producer Per Holst. The $10m English-language project is set to start production in September.Dina will be Bornedal's first directing project since the 1999 TV movie Deep Water (Dybt Vand). Bornedal achieved ...
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UK's Optimum, MGM team for Flawless release
Optimum Releasing, the indie distributor that flashed its marketing savvy by re-releasing The Third Man opposite Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, has struck a joint partnership with MGM to release Flawless, starring Robert DeNiro and Philip Seymour Hoffman.Optimum and MGM have also partnered for a UK release on Mike Figgis' ...