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Allen, DreamWorks seal three-pic deal
Woody Allen has signed a domestic distribution deal with DreamWorks SKG for his next three untitled comedies. DreamWorks, whose film Antz featured Allen's voice, is already distributing the next Woody Allen picture Small Time Crooks in the US. The agreement comes in the wake of the ending of Allen's association ...
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Silver creates low-budget Zinc division
Joel Silver's production outfit Silver Pictures is launching a new low-budget production division Zinc Pictures which will bow with the $5m thriller Proximity directed by Scott Ziehl, whose critically acclaimed first film Broken Vessels premiered at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival two years ago. The company emerged out of ...
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The Nine Lives Of Tomas Katz
Dir: Ben Hopkins. UK. 1999. 84mins.Prod co: Strawberry Vale Film &TV. Int'l sales: United Artists Films. Prod: Caroline Hewitt. Scr: Ben Hopkins. DoP: Julian Court. Ed: Alan Levy. Music: Dominik Scherber. Main cast: Thomas Fisher, Janet Henfrey, Ian McNeice, Tim Barlow. Ben Hopkins' The Nine Lives Of Tomas Katz is ...
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Carlotti expected to exit Mediaset
Mediaset CEO Maurizio Carlotti is expected to resign this week ending a power struggle that has shaken up Italy' largest commercial broadcasting group.Carlotti's resignation has not yet been made public, but sources at Silvio Berlusconi's TV outfit say the resignation came at the request of several top executives after a ...
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Spanish film stays alive with Art Of Dying
Domestic productions continue to hold their own at the Spanish box office. Last week, two Spanish films opened in the top ten, one of which - Aurum Producciones' teen horror flic The Art Of Dying (El Arte De Morir) - nabbed the number two spot, beaten only by awards-laden American ...
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Hyde Park signs output deals in five territories
Ashok Amritraj and David Hoberman's Hyde Park Entertainment has concluded a slew of output deals in smaller territories, sealing the patchwork of worldwide deals on its upcoming slate.Warner Nu Metro has signed a two-year, ten-picture deal with the company in South Africa; three-year deals have been closed in Israel with ...
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Dern, Koteas, Caan in cast of Artisan's Novocaine
Laura Dern, Elias Koteas and Scott Caan have joined the cast of Artisan Entertainment's dark comedy Novocaine which began principal photography this week in Chicago.The film, which toplines Steve Martin and Helena Bonham Carter, is written and directed by David Atkins, previously best known as the screenwriter of Emir Kusturica's ...
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Michael Stone joins sales team at Regent Int'l
Michael Stone has joined Regent Entertainment as director of international sales and servicing as part of the expansion of the company's international sales division. Stone was most recently vice president worldwide distribution at Blue Rider Pictures and previously director of international servicing at Lakeshore International and Trans Atlantic Entertainment. He ...
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Kinowelt bags five-year deal with Gale Anne Hurd
Kinowelt USA, the recently set-up US film production arm of German film giant Kinowelt, has signed its first major producer deal - with Gale Anne Hurd. Kinowelt and Hurd have entered into a multi-year, first-look development, production and distribution arrangement whereby Kinowelt USA will provide Hurd with financing to develop ...
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US micro distribs snare Ratcatcher, Hit & Runway
In a sign that US micro-distributors are starting to fill the acquisitions void left by the studio specialist divisions as they gravitate to more commercial higher-budgeted fare, two emergent releasing boutiques have separately added two long-overlooked festival favourites to their forthcoming slates.Marking its third acquisition over the past six weeks, ...
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Rothkrans becomes Australia's offshore ambassador
Trisha Rothkrans has been appointed chief executive of AusFILM, the national marketing alliance that aims to attract offshore productions to Australia. She replaces Judith Crombie who takes up her new role as head of the South Australian Film Corporation on May 1. Rothkrans was previously the manager of production liaison ...
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Telefonica tight-lipped on Telemundo acquisition
Telefonica refused to comment today on press reports that the telecommunications giant is negotiating the buy-out of US-based Spanish-language channel Telemundo. The company also declined to comment on its rumoured acquisition of a majority stake in Argentinean cable company Multicanal or the possible sale of its 5% share in the ...
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Guild rules against Stewart over Honest credits
UK writers' body the Writers' Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) has ruled against musician Dave Stewart's production company in a dispute over credits on his directing debut Honest, which stars Nicole and Natalie Appleton and Melanie Blatt from UK pop group All Saints.All three WGGB arbitrators ruled in favour of ...
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Pathe steps into Cowboy's Hole
UK National Lottery studio franchise Pathe Pictures is financing Cowboy Films and Granada Film's The Hole, set to star American Beauty's Thora Birch.Director Nick Hamm (Martha, Meet Daniel, Frank and Laurence) is to start shooting the psychological thriller in the UK in July from a screenplay by Ben Court and ...
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MIP-TV: Carlton, TeleMuenchen unwrap alliance
UK-based Carlton International Media and Germany's TeleMuenchen have signed a wide-ranging agreement which covers co-production, licensing, a representation deal for German-speaking territories and an output deal with Carlton's Los Angeles-based offshoot Carlton America.Under the terms of the four-part deal:TeleMuenchen will co-produce a minimum of eight TV movies either with Carlton ...
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Rudolph stands down as FilmFour deputy CEO
Mark Rudolph is stepping down as deputy chief executive officer of the UK's FilmFour, the company confirmed.FilmFour expects to confirm a replacement for Rudolph by Cannes next month. In unrelated moves, Carl Clifton, formerly at Universal Pictures International in London, will replace FilmFour's sales chief Sue Bruce-Smith during Cannes. Bruce-Smith ...
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Downtown seals DVD output deal with MGM
Downtown Pictures, the UK distributor of Spike Lee's Summer Of Sam and Bill Condon's Gods And Monsters, has signed an exclusive output deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) for DVD and video sell-through titles in the UK.The deal also requires Downtown to identify and acquire product for MGM in the UK. The ...
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MIP-TV: Hallmark extends output deal with RTL
US-based TV drama producer Hallmark Entertainment has extended its three-year output deal with Germany's RTL Entertainment for a further three years.Under the initial agreement, RTL held exclusive rights for all German-speaking territories to major dramas produced by Hallmark Entertainment. The German broadcaster also co-produced Hallmark event mini-series such as Merlin, ...
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MIP-TV: Channel 4, Company strike first-look deal
UK TV production outfit Company Television has signed a first-look development and distribution deal with UK-based TV distributor Channel 4 International (C4I).Under the terms of the deal, C4I will handle distribution on selected Company titles and the two companies will jointly develop a raft of projects. The partners are already ...
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MIP-TV: Japan's Tohokushinsha takes ITC classics
UK-based TV distributor Carlton International Media (CIM) has sealed a $3m licensing deal with Japan's Tohokushinsha Film Corp covering broadcast, video and merchandising rights to a package of films and TV programming from the ITC library.Titles included in the deal range from movie classics such as The Boys From Brazil, ...