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Leconte lines up two more for Pathe with Cineb
Prolific French film-maker Patrice Leconte - who has been shooting films back to back lately - is currently working on two new and still untitled projects. Both are still at script stage - one with The Hairdresser's Husband screenwriter Claude Klotz and the other by La Fille Sur Le Pont's ...
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Onda increases capital; rebrands as Quiero
Shareholders for fledgling Spanish digital terrestrial television network Onda Digital last night approved an extraordinary increase in share capital worth pts11,000m ($68.75m) and the contracting of an external auditing for fiscal year 1999. In addition, the network has announced it will change its name to Quiero Television SA.Only the second ...
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Christmas Carol, High Times join MBP slate
Hot German finance house MBP has revealed further projects on its extensive development slate, being financed in a two-step process that involves an initial private placement followed by an IPO (Screendaily Feb 3).The aggressive financier is set to be German co-producer on Bruce Beresford's $7.6m (A$12m) Boswell, which has Richard ...
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Pasolini's The Closer You Get opens US Comedy Fest
The Closer You Get, the eagerly anticipated Irish comedy produced by Full Monty producer Uberto Pasolini, will have its world premiere next Wednesday (Feb 9) as the opening night film of the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado.The festival, which is sponsored by Cinemax, the sister pay-movie channel to ...
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Online Film Fest premieres Figgis' DV feature
Mike Figgis' experimental Time Code, the first digital video production to be fully financed and released by a Hollywood studio, will have its world premiere at the Yahoo! Internet Life Online Film Festival on March 22 in Los Angeles.A dark comedy thriller about Hollywood filmmaking, Time Code was backed by ...
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Nora premiere to open Dublin Film Festival
This year's Dublin Film Festival (April 6-16) will open with the world premiere of Nora, directed by Pat Murphy, about the early relationship between Nora Barnacle and novelist James Joyce.The screening will take place at UGC's city centre Virgin Cinema and the lead cast of Ewan McGregor, Susan Lynch and ...
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Universal Video restructures following UPI closure
The UK arm of Universal Pictures Video (UPV) has restructured its management team as a result of the closure of theatrical operation United Pictures International (UPI).Eddie Cunningham, previously UPV managing director, will become chairman of UPV, reporting directly to Peter Smith, president of Universal Pictures International. Cunningham replaces David Kosse, ...
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Kinowelt, IAC join expanding Berlin Film Market
Several established sales agents have confirmed their participation in the European Film Market (EFM) - to take place during the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 9-20) - for the first time this year.Among companies setting out stalls for the first time at Berlin are the UK's IAC Films and Television, Iran's ...
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Koepp wins top prize at Gerardmer Fantasy Fest
Stir of Echoes, the second film from director David Koepp following The Trigger Effect, has won the Grand Jury Prize at the 7th Gerardmer Fantasy Film Festival (Jan 26-30).The public prize went to Spanish film The Nameless (Los Sin Nombre), directed by Jaume Balaguero.Michael York chaired the jury, replacing William ...
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Hollywood to host second South African Exchange
Top Hollywood film executives will meet face-to-face with South African film and television professionals during a five-day production conference to take place in Los Angeles from February 28. Organised under the US/South Africa Exchange umbrella by Johannesburg-based film promotion company Timbull Rorich Neville (TRN), the talks are designed to build ...
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Alliance, Canal Plus set for UK distribution pact
Alliance Atlantis and Canal Plus are close to finalising a deal for Alliance to handle UK distribution on a slate of high-profile English-language titles from Canal Plus's production operation, Le Studio Canal Plus.The anticipated deal is understood to cover six pictures, and is likely to include Kathryn Bigelow's The Weight ...
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MBP to go public with top-flight slate
MBP, one of Germany's hottest film finance houses, is set to offer the public a slice of films by directors including Bruce Beresford, Iain Softley, Bob Rafelson and Andre Bonzel. The outfit, which controls a spread of tax efficient funds, plans a flotation within the next 18 months.In the initial ...
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Fantasia 2000 conjures up $20m worldwide
Walt Disney's animated Fantasia 2000: The Imax Experience has taken over $20m after its first month of exclusive screenings in Imax theatres. Distributed by Buena Vista around the world, Fantasia 2000 has been updated from the original masterpiece over a period of 10 years and at a cost of about ...
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Redbus, Grosvenor line up multi-territory deal
Aggressively-expanding UK film-to-Internet outfit Redbus Film Group and Canadian-UK financier Grosvenor Park are in advanced talks to strike a long-term, multi-territory pact on a slate of large-scale titles.The expected deal would feed about five projects a year to Redbus' UK distribution arm, which has just appointed a wave of executives ...
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Merger mania ignites again in Hollywood
Sony's chief executive officer Nobuyuki Idei has denied any intention to sell either his music operations or his movie studios, insisting last night that they are "a cornerstone in our overall strategy.""We want to be very clear in stating that our entertainment businesses, Sony Music Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment, ...
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INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION NEWS IN BRIEF
GOLDBACHER COMMITS TO POND LIFE'S CORDOVALONDON The Governess director Sandra Goldbacher has committed to direct period piece Cordova from a script by Wonderland writer Laurence Coriat. The project, based at UK production outfit Pond Life Filmed Entertainment, is an adaptation of a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield. The ...
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Artisan ups Jones to key marketing role
Artisan Entertainment has promoted marketing executive Amorette Jones to the newly created position of executive vice president, worldwide marketing, Artisan Pictures.Jones will continue to report to Artisan's president of worldwide marketing John Hegeman, but she will assume more of his duties while he takes a more active role in developing ...
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Euroficcion, TeleCinco team up for English comedy
Fledgling Spanish production house, Euroficcion, part of the Europroducciones group, is co-producing an English-language romantic comedy Latidos with Spanish broadcaster TeleCinco. A UK co-producer is also likely to board the PTS400m ($2.6m) project which is scheduled to crank up in London this summer. Angel Garcia Roldan and Valentin Fernandez Tubao ...
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Sega speeds up Dreamcast with cable partners
In a move that threatens to bring UK production to a virtual standstill, powerful local performers' union Equity has told its members not to agree to any contracts for feature films that involve working on or after December 1.The call marks a serious turn in Equity's talks with UK producers' ...
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Lehmann Brothers to acquire stake in Kirch PayTV
New York-based investment bank Lehman Brothers is planning to acquire a 3% stake in Leo Kirch's pay-TV holding Kirch PayTV. The holding controls the digital platform Premiere World and Swiss pay channel Teleclub, among others.According to a report in the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau, the investment would cost Lehman ...