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Schroeder unveils plans for Franco-German academy
German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder announced the creation of a German-French film academy today at the Berlin film festival.While the chancellor disclosed neither the budget nor the location of the proposed institution, he said it would address the cultural and economic needs of the industry.At a conference attended by French culture ...
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Bening named ShoWest Female Star Of The Year
Annette Bening has been named ShoWest Female Star Of The Year, rounding out the roster of awards at this year's ShoWest 2000 Awards Night on March 9 in Las Vegas.Bening, one of this year's Best Actress Oscar front-runners for American Beauty, has already won the award for funniest actress in ...
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Artisan invests in education with Baby Einstein
Artisan Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to a collection of developmental video products for children ages 0-4 from The Baby Einstein Company. Simultaneously, Artisan took a minority interest in the company and has signalled its intention to grow the brand into a household name a la Barney or ...
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Levinsohn promoted to head Fox pay-TV
Peter Levinsohn has been promoted to executive vice president, worldwide pay-TV and pay-per-view, for 20th Century Fox. Levinsohn has been senior vice president, international pay television and pay-per-view, since Sept 1997 and will now be responsible for the distribution of Fox's feature film and television programming to all worldwide pay-TV ...
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French director Vadim dies
French director Roger Vadim died today after a long struggle with cancer. He was 72.Vadim is perhaps best known for launching Brigitte Bardot's career in the 1956 And God Created Woman. His credits also include the 1968 sci-fi picture Barbarella - starring his wife at the time, Jane Fonda - ...
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Vodafone, Mannesmann deal rewrites media rules
With the Vodafone Airtouch merger with Mannesmann overtaking AOL's previous record-breaking takeover of Time Warner, investment bankers are rubbing their hands with glee. Media moguls and sector analysts, however, are looking for synergies between the two monster communications combines.While yesterday's $179bn (Euro181bn) Vodafone takeover of Mannesmann, is on the surface ...
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Bombo acquires Panorama title Shadow Boxers
Bombo Sports & Entertainment has picked up world sales rights to feature-length documentary Shadow Boxers, which is screening in the Panorama section of the Berlin film festival.The picture takes an insider's approach to the murky world of women's boxing, following world champion Lucia Rijker. It was voted best first feature ...
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SKA gears up for period drama, soccer film
Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughn's SKA Films, the UK production company behind Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and the upcoming Snatch, is readying at least two other projects to shoot this year.Newcomer Simon Cooke is to direct a $12m-15m period film in the UK this autumn. SKA expects to ...
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Village beefs up London office in exec reshuffle
Following Village Cinemas International's revelation that it is launching a chain of own brand cinemas in the UK, the company has announced several management changes, including the relocation of two Australian executives to its London office.George Livery has been promoted from managing director of Village Cinemas Australia to general manager ...
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Kaurismaki seeks finance to complete Lenin biopic
Producer Igor Maiboroda and Finnish film-maker Aki Kaurismaki are seeking co-producers to complete Lenin biopic, Belief, Hope And Blood, which started shooting 18 months ago in Finland.Several scenes from the film were shot at Kaurismaki's Sputnik Studios in Finland during summer 1998 using actor Igor Muzhzhukhin as the young Lenin. ...
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Le Studio to run with Tykwer's Princess
French production and distribution giant Le Studio Canal Plus has picked up international sales rights to The Princess And The Warrior (Der Krieger Und Die Kaiserin), the latest project from Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer. Princess, produced by Stefan Arndt's X-Filme Creative Pool, is completed and due for ...
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AFC revamp takes shape with Warner
French production and distribution giant Le Studio Canal Plus has picked up international sales rights to The Princess And The Warrior (Der Krieger Und Die Kaiserin), the latest proejct from Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer. Princess, produced by Stefan Arndt's X-Filme Creative Pool, is completed and due for ...
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Wenders changes tune with German rockumentary
Wim Wenders, whose latest film The Million Dollar Hotel opened this year's Berlin Film Festival on Wednesday night (Feb 9), has acquired a taste for music documentaries after his success with Buena Vista Social Club. Wenders has confirmed that his next project will be a feature-length documentary about German 'rock ...
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Canada to get uncut American Psycho
Canadian audiences will be able to see the original 'NC-17' version of American Psycho when Vancouver-based distributor Lions Gate Films releases it across the country on April 14.After the US' Motion Picture Association issued an 'NC-17' rating, director Mary Harron re-edited the controversial film in order to receive a more ...
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Mother shows legs at Spanish box office
Domestic productions have been maintaining a healthy presence at the Spanish box office in recent weeks, spurred on by both Spain's Oscars equivalent, the Goya Awards which took place on January 29, and the growing popularity among cinema-goers of a new generation of young actors.Director Pedro Almodovar's international hit All ...
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Ellipse, Expand set to tie the knot
France's two leading television production outfits - Canal Plus subsidiary Ellipse Programme and the Expand group - plan to merge their production labels and libraries to create a new entity with annual revenues of $212m (FFR1.4bn). The new group, which will operate under the Expand banner, will control a library ...
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Naumann opens new bag of funding measures
German culture minister Michael Naumann has unveiled a package of measures to strengthen the federal government's culturally-oriented film funding programme.Naumann, whose film funding budget was raised this year from $7.75m (DM15.5m) to $9m (DM18m), is directing more money at script development with sums of up to $50,800 to be paid ...
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Germany, Spain to renew co-production treaty
Spain's culture secretary, Miguel Angel Cortes, and German culture minister, Michael Naumann, have announced that they will sign a German-Spanish co-production agreement tomorrow (Feb 11) at the Berlin Film Festival.The accord replaces and expands on an existing agreement which the two countries signed in 1956. It aims to encourage German-Spanish ...
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Newcomers split prize at Hungarian Film Week
Two films from relative newcomers - Frigyes Godros's Glamour and Gergely Fonyo's Johnny Famous - shared the best film prize at this year's Hungarian Film Week (Feb 3-8).The 31st edition of the Budapest event presented a programme of 24 features and 31 non-fiction films made in Hungary over the past ...
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Alliance, Canal Plus confirm UK distribution pact
Alliance Atlantis and France's Le Studio Canal Plus have confirmed a deal for Alliance to handle UK distribution on a slate of Le Studio's high-profile English-language titles (Screendaily, Feb 3).The deal covers all UK rights to Simpatico, starring Sharon Stone and Jeff Bridges; Kathryn Bigelow's Weight Of Water, with Sean ...