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Disney crisis: Eisner gets 43% no-confidence vote from shareholders
Disney chiefMichael Eisner defended his 20-year record in front of shareholders atyesterdayC;s stormy annual meeting in Philadelphia as calls for his departuregathered pace.According toreports, 43% of shareholders withheld their support for Eisner - who is bothchairman and chief executive officer - representing a strong no-confidence voteand something of a coup ...
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Disney crisis: Eisner gets 43% no-confidence vote from shareholders
Disney chiefMichael Eisner defended his 20-year record in front of shareholders atyesterdayC;s stormy annual meeting in Philadelphia as calls for his departuregathered pace.According toreports, 43% of shareholders withheld their support for Eisner - who is bothchairman and chief executive officer - representing a strong no-confidence voteand something of a coup ...
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Marcus wins Miramax, Irish Film Institute award
Shimmy Marcus is the winner of the 1999 Miramax award which was first established by Harvey Weinstein and the Film Institute of Ireland in 1994. The award, valued at IR£10,000 ($12,600), is for Marcus'' thriller script, Headrush. The award was established to develop the writing of new feature-length screenplays in ...
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Disney crisis: Eisner gets 43% no-confidence vote from shareholders
Disney chiefMichael Eisner defended his 20-year record in front of shareholders atyesterdayC;s stormy annual meeting in Philadelphia as calls for his departuregathered pace.According toreports, 43% of shareholders withheld their support for Eisner - who is bothchairman and chief executive officer - representing a strong no-confidence voteand something of a coup ...
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Rentrak hires Springer for global box office tracking system
RentrakTheatrical, a subsidiary of Oregon-based information management companyRentrak, has hired industry veteran Rob Springer to head up the expansion ofits global box office tracking system Box Office Essentials.Springer, whomost recently served as executive director of sales administration atParamount, will be based in Los Angeles and is a key appointment as ...
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Disney crisis: Eisner gets 43% no-confidence vote from shareholders
Disney chiefMichael Eisner defended his 20-year record in front of shareholders atyesterdayC;s stormy annual meeting in Philadelphia as calls for his departuregathered pace.According toreports, 43% of shareholders withheld their support for Eisner - who is bothchairman and chief executive officer - representing a strong no-confidence voteand something of a coup ...
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Universal's Polly set for big openings in Germany, Mexico
Universalexecutives will be hoping the stars continue to shine on Along Came Polly this weekend when the romantic comedygoes out wide in Germany and Mexico through UIP.The picture, which opened top in the UK last weekend andremained number one in its second weekend in Brazil, opens in Germany on Mar ...
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Turner to script BloodRayne for Uwe Boll
AmericanPsycho co-writerGuinevere Turner is writing the screenplay for Uwe Boll's adaptation of BloodRayne, based on the bestselling video gameabout a human-vampire hybrid who hunts down supernatural enemies.Shooting on the$15m production is due to kick off in the Greater Vancouver area and EasternEurope in late summer.Turner, whoseother writing credits include Go ...
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Batman Begins begins in Iceland for Warner Bros
Gary Oldman hasjoined the cast of Warner Bros' Batman Begins, which began shooting in Iceland thisweek and is being directed by Christopher Nolan.Oldman will play Lieutenant James Gordon, a detective onthe Gotham police force, and joins an illustrious cast that includes ChristianBale as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Michael Caine as his ...
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Art Port, Summit strike first deal on Down In The Valley
Art Port Inc. has acquired Japanese distribution rights toDown In The Valley, the dark thrillerstarring Edward Norton and Evan Rachel Wood, from Summit Entertainment. Thedeal, concluded at AFM, marks the first deal between the two companies.The deal was closed between Art Port president & CEOJunichi Matsushita and Summit president and ...
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Mueller poised to take over as Venice artistic director
Former Locarno and Rotterdam festival director Marco Mueller is poised to be crowned artistic chief of the Venice Film Festival, during a Biennale board meeting that will take place today (March 4) at 5pm.Venice organisers said on Thursday that several names are still in the running, although according to local ...
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Von Trier completes Manderlay casting
Lars von Trier has rounded out the cast for Manderlay, the second film in his USA trilogy after Dogville, with a contingent of US stars.Danny Glover and John C. Reilly join the new leading lady Bryce Dallas Howard as well as Lauren Bacall, Jeremy Davies and Chloe Sevigny, who return ...
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POLAND
While local hit Nigdy W Zyciu continued to dominate the Polish chart in its third week local distributor SPI Poland were pleased with their second week figures for Sofia Coppola's Oscar-winning Lost In Translation, which slipped just 3% from its launch weekend.After 10 days on release the comedy drama has ...
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Mar del Plata unveils Latino flavoured line-up
Mar del Plata, Latin America's only A grade festival, has unveiled its competition line-up for this year's edition, which runs from March 11-20.Festival head Miguel Pereira has put together a 14-strong line-up that combines titles from established film-makers, a few of which have already appeared at other events out of ...
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Malkovich boards Ruiz's Klimt picture
John Malkovich is to take the title role in Raul Ruiz's Klimt, an homage to the famous Austrian artist Gustav Klimt.The film will focus on the last years of Klimt's life from 1900 to 1918. Negotiations are currently underway for German actress Veronica Ferres to play Klimt's partner Emilie Floege ...
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CZECH REPUBLIC
French comedy Ruby & Quentin (Tais Toi) saw a strong bow at sixth place in the Czech Republic last weekend. The film, which stars Jeno Reno and Gerard Depardieu, sold over 3,500 tickets more than US title The Rundown despite playing on five less screens. It also demolished Richard Linklater's ...
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Section 48 scheme runs into 'difficulties'
Bedford Row Films, an apparently conventional scheme funding films under the UK's established Section 48 tax deferral rules, has written to investors saying it is 'facing difficulties'.The company told investors it has made advance payments on a slate of 19 films but has been 'let down badly' by the vendor ...
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Darclight readies Beowulf, Possession
Arclight genre label Darclight has announced that two films are about to go into pre-production.The supernatural thriller Possession, adapted from Peter James's novel, and Beowulf - Alien Meets Braveheart, inspired by the 9th Century Beowulf poem, both involve the UK's Spice Factory and film financier Movision Entertainment.The UK/Canadian co-production Possession ...
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Duval to retire from UK film censor BBFC
British Board Of Film Classification Director Robin Duval is to retire in August after five and a half years at the helm.Duval oversaw the Board's first major public consultation exercise resulting in the Classification Guidelines published in September 2000. The Board now classifies 14,000 titles a year - up from ...
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Eagle triples Passion prints for Italy
Italian distributor Eagle Pictures has revealed that it will increase the number of prints it releases Mel Gibson's The Passion Of Christ on in Italy from 150 to more than 500 - a figure normally associated with Italy's Christmas comedy blockbusters."We already had huge requests for the film from exhibitors ...