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FilmFour seals output deal with Senator
UK mini-studio FilmFour and leading German producer-distributor Senator Film have struck a co-production and distribution output deal for at least 14 titles over two years.Senator will take German-language rights in all media to a string of projects from FilmFour's development slate with a total estimated budget of $400m. Senator will ...
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Skin Of A Man wins at Tromso festival
French production Peau D'Homme, Coeur De Bete (Skin Of A Man, Heart Of A Beast), directed by Helene Angel, picked up the Don Quixote Award at this year's Tromso International Film Festival (Jan 18-23).The award was founded by the international union of film clubs (FICC).Hungarian feature Simon Magus (Simon The ...
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Tele Images to back Gaumont Television buyout
French production and TV sales operation Tele Images International is to back the buyout of GTV from integrated French major Gaumont.Tele Images founder Simone Halberstadt Harari and Christian Charret, chief executive of GTV (formerly known as Gaumont Television), have jointly bought out Gaumont's remaining equity interest in GTV. The two ...
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Genies favour Felicia's Journey
Atom Egoyan's Felicia's Journey won four Genie Awards, including the best actor accolade for Bob Hoskins and best adapted screenplay for Egoyan, at the 20th edition of the Canadian film awards ceremony in Toronto on Sunday night. Alliance Atlantis' Sunshine, which had 14 nominations, many of them multiple nods in ...
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Besson scores at Lumieres
Luc Besson's The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc was awarded the top two prizes - best film and best director - at the 2000 Lumieres du Cinema Français. The awards, which are the French equivalent of the US' Golden Globes, are considered as a dress rehearsal for the ...
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Paramount, SPC continue Sundance buying frenzy
Happy Accidents and Shadow Magic were the last two pictures to secure domestic distribution deals at this year's Sundance Film Festival, although offers are on the table for at least four more, making it one of the busiest, if most conservative, buyer frenzies in years.Paramount Classics is in the final ...
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Kusama, Lonergan films share Sundance jury prize
Girlfight - the story of a teenage girl boxer - and You Can Count On Me - about a brother and sister whose parents died when they were kids - tied for the Grand Jury Prize in the dramatic competition section of the Sundance Film Festival this year.Girlfight, directed by ...
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UK's Adler scoops Sundance/NHK award
UK film-maker Carine Adler, who won critical raves for her first film Under The Skin, was the European winner of this year's Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award - presented at the Sundance Film Festival Awards Night on Saturday.The prize, which includes $10,000 in cash and a licensing fee for Japanese broadcast ...
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Winter Films launches with $25m investment
A new New York-based production outfit - Winter Films - was launched at Sundance last week backed by a recently completed $25m equity investment. Formerly known as Ikahn Productions, the company is headed by Michael Kahn with a management team including British production veteran Steve Hodges and Erick Feitshans, who ...
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Showcase builds AFM slate with Falling, Eastside
Showcase Entertainment has acquired two new pictures for its AFM slate - The Sky Is Falling and Eastside.The LA-based company headed by David Jackson has bought international rights to The Sky Is Falling, a comic drama about a 28-year-old having a mid-life crisis, which stars Dedee Pfeiffer, Teri Garr, Howard ...
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Bernstein named ShoWest 2000 Producer of the Year
Armyan Bernstein, the producer-writer of The Hurricane and chairman of Beacon Communications, will receive the ShoWest 2000 Producer of the Year award at the US exhibition convention in Las Vegas on March 9.Bernstein has become one of the most prolific producers in Hollywood over the last decade, with a production ...
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Israel's Yes threatens to return digital franchise
Israel's digital satellite franchise holder, Yes, has told the government that it will return the franchise to the ministry of communications unless the country's cable operators are forced to share their programming with the new outfit.Yes has also told its programming suppliers that all deals are off until the issue ...
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Alchymie cools on BBC's Romantic
Alchymie, the European production and distribution operation for which British financier Flashpoint has pledged $250m, has pulled out of financing what was expected to be its debut project, Born Romantic.But a spokesperson for Flashpoint, which launched Alchymie in October under UK producer Simon Channing-Williams, dismissed rumours that Flashpoint is beset ...
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NATPE 2000: DOTCOMS TAKE CENTRE STAGE
NATPE organisers said that despite bad weather delays, attendance at the New Orleans programme market exceeded last year - 17,520 had checked in after two days. But it was unclear whether record amounts of sales were being conducted.NATPE chairman Bruce Johansen said that the number of programme acquisition executives from ...
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Australia lifts ban on Romance
Australia's Film Board of Review has overturned the recent decision by the Office of Film and Literature Classification not to classify Catherine Breillat's French film Romance, a judgement that meant the film could not be released in Australia. The decision will be a great relief to local film critics and ...
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Cologne Conference to host programming market
North Rhine Westphalia (NRW), the region which likes to think of itself as the electronic capital of Germany, yesterday unveiled details of plans for the Cologne Screenings (June 4-7), a new programming market to be held during the Cologne Conference.The Cologne Screenings confirmed international participation from Pearson, Granada and the ...
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Universal signs deals with BBC, Canal Plus
Universal Studios Networks UK has acquired extensive packages of movies from the BBC and Canal Plus.Universal declined to comment on speculation that it will launch a second European pay movie channel, based on 13th Street, in the UK other than to point out that "there are other brands". Universal has ...
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Sony Pictures Classics promotes Leiner
Dylan Leiner has been promoted to senior vice president of acquisitions and production at Sony Pictures Classics (SPC), reporting to company co-presidents Michael Barker, Tom Bernard and Marcie Bloom.Leiner was instrumental in the New York-based company's acquisition last weekend of worldwide rights to rave movie Groove at the Sundance Film ...
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Sundance to get 10-screen cinema complex
Resort Theaters Of America (RTA) - the recently established cinema circuit which has to date bought, built or identified over 100 screens in US resorts - has teamed with The Sundance Film Festival to build the RTA Theater in Park City, Utah, home to the festival.The $7m, 10-screen site will ...
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Village launches own brand UK cinema chain
Village Roadshow Cinemas International has officially launched its own branded cinema chain in the UK with a market identity distinct from its existing joint venture with Warner Bros International Theatres (WBIT) - Warner Village Cinemas.The new Village sites will be designed and fitted out according to the Village corporate image ...