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Paramount promotes Brooker, Bealing
Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE) UK has promoted Richard Brooker to the position of sales director, responsible for rental and retail sales. Brooker was formerly rental sales director for the companyPHE, previously CIC Video, was formed at the beginning of this year after Paramount's partner in CIC - Universal Pictures - ...
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Downtown boosts slate with four US pick-ups
UK distributor Downtown Pictures has picked up four US titles including Twin Falls Idaho, Barenaked In America, American Pimp and Luminous Motion.Downtown acquired Idaho from Moonstone Entertainment. The distributor has set the picture, made by brothers Mark and Michael Polish, for a September release. Barenaked and Pimp were acquired from ...
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Portugal's SIC buys controlling stake in CNL
Portuguese private broadcaster SIC has bought a 60% stake in pay-TV news channel Canal de Noticias de Lisboa (CNL) from telco Portugal Telecom subsidiary PT Multimedia. The channel is carried by pay-TV operator TV Cabo.The deal marks SIC's first move into the production of thematic channels. Last year SIC launched ...
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DVD player sales soar in Japan
Sales of DVD players soared to Y660m ($6.2m) in February 2000, a 55% increase on the same month last year, according to the Japan Electronic Retailers Association.March is also turning out to be a banner month, with retail industry giant Kojima reporting that DVD player sales have doubled in March ...
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Foxtel loses grip on Telstra network
Australia's Seven Network has won its battle to gain access to Telstra's cable network, in a move that loosens cable operator Foxtel's existing dominance of the country's pay-TV market.Telstra owns 50% of Foxtel and 100% of the network which passes about one third of all Australian homes. The Australian Consumer ...
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Pay-Per-View Japan gets greenlight from MPT
Japan's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) has approved an application from PPV operator Pay-Per-View Japan to launch two channels specialising in foreign movies and sports.In its latest licensing round, the MPT greenlit 15 companies planning to launch 18 satellite channels in the Japanese market. The regulatory body started to ...
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Otto 5 opens at top of German box office chart
Germany has spawned another locally-produced hit as the Tobis release of comedy Otto - Der Katastrofenfilm opened at the top of the German box office chart last weekend. Attracting 368,214 admissions from a huge 820 screens, the film's four-day gross came to almost $2m.This latest Otto film, starring well-known stand-up ...
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Toho joins Japanese satellite film channel venture
Japanese studio Toho is boarding Nihon Eiga Satellite Broadcasting (NESB), a joint venture launched in February by News Corp, Sony, Fuji TV and Softbank, to broadcast two satellite channels specialising in Japanese films and TV programming (Screendaily February 15). Toho will take a 20% share in NESB along with the ...
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EM.TV unveils plans for virtual market
The violent, shocking or merely technically advanced have become such staples of top festival line-ups that it has become difficult to impress jaded critics and only slightly less cynical audiences.So it is that Venice has awaited with bated breath a selection of films by top names of today - and ...
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Packer, Sahara to form Indian joint venture
Kerry Packer is trailing Rupert Murdoch's footsteps in India where he is negotiating to launch an international sports and events channels with Subrata Roy's Sahara Group.Packer arrived in India on Monday (March 27) for a three-day visit during which he announced his intention to invest $200m in television and entertainment ...
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Till takes on strategy role for Redbus
Stewart Till, former president of Universal Pictures International (UPI), has joined the board of directors at fast-moving UK film-to-Internet operation Redbus Film Group (RFG).Till, who also oversaw PolyGram Filmed Entertainment's (PFE's) international operation, will serve in a part-time but executive role. Before PFE, Till worked at CBS Fox Video and ...
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Greece's OTE, ERT plan digital platform
Greek telco OTE plans to launch a digital satellite platform in partnership with public broadcaster ERT and private broadcaster and media concern Alpha Digital. The venture, which calls for an investment of $286m (DR100bn), will be Greece's second digital satellite platform following the early January launch of Multichoice's Nova bouquet. ...
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Telefonica in talks for Latin American buys
Spanish telecoms and multimedia giant Telefonica is understood to be making another aggressive step into the Latin American market by acquiring a stake in Mexican broadcaster TV Azteca, according to Spanish press reports.According to one report, Telefonica's media subsidiary, Telefonica Media, is also negotiating the buy-out of Peruvian cable operator ...
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Beineix, Anglade reteam for Mortel Transfer
Arturo Ripstein's The Ruination Of Men (La Perdicion De Los Hombres) walked away with the Golden Shell award for best film at the 48th San Sebastian International film festival.Shot in black and white, the black comedy about two women who fight over the body of a dead lover also won ...
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Canal Plus joins Paramount on Travolta comedy
Canal Plus Image, the film production and distribution affiliate of European media giant Canal Plus, has partnered with Paramount Pictures to co-produce and co-finance big budget comedy Numbers starring John Travolta.Paramount will handle distribution in North America and Asia with Canal Plus Image handling theatrical, video, pay and free television ...
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Relativity, Mosfilm team up for Moscow-set comedy
US production company Relativity Pictures and Russia's Mosfilm and Studio Ritm are co-producing comedy Red Squares, which is shooting in Moscow until the end of April when it moves to New York for a second leg in June and July.The production is set against the backdrop of central Moscow and ...
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Kinowelt takes flight with Entertainment takeover
Kinowelt, Germany's fast growing mini-major, claims to have become the world leader in in-flight entertainment after completing the take-over of in-flight content provider Entertainment Concepts.The Los Angeles-based Entertainment Concepts will be merged with Kinowelt's existing in-flight company Atlas Air Film + Media Service, which supplies movies and other programming for ...
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Lyall named VP, Universal TV Australia
Martin Lyall has been appointed vice president, Australasia, at Universal International Television.In his new role, Lyall will be responsible for the distribution of Universal's programming in Australia, New Zealand and selected territories in Asia, including Japan. He will be based in Sydney, Australia.Lyall replaces Pal Cleary who is retiring in ...
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Quebec duo launch $4bn counter-bid for Videotron
The gloves truly came off this weekend in the high-stakes battle for Canadian media domination.Just as shareholders in the Quebec-based cable company Groupe Videotron were preparing to vote on a proposed C$5.6bn ($3.8bn) takeover by the nation's largest cable operator, a rival hostile bid was suddenly tabled that only complicated ...
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Daily takes up Universal Video marketing post
Universal Pictures International Video (UPIV) has appointed Mary Daily to the post of president of marketing.Daily will be based in London and report to UPIV president Peter Smith. She will be responsible for all marketing activity on Universal, DreamWorks and third-party acquisitions video product.Daily joins UPIV from 20th Century Fox ...