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Henson family buys Jim Henson Company from EM.TV
Having been reportedly courted by Haim Saban and Walt Disney, Germany's EM.TV & Merchandising has sold all of its shares in the 100%-owned subsidiary The Jim Henson Company (TJHC) to the children of its founder Jim Henson.The transaction is worth approximately $89m, including a cash purchase price of $78m and ...
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Spain's Filmax to expand and diversify
Spanish mini-studio Filmax is preparing ambitious new plans to expand and diversify its already wide-ranging activities. The Barcelona-based company is one of the Spanish industry's biggest, with production, distribution, exhibition and international sales ventures. It is behind internationally successful genre label Fantastic Factory and is readying a new slate of ...
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Ford spearheads beefed up Miramax International
Miramax co-chief of acquisitions Stuart Ford (pictured) will now wear a new corporate hat as head of a bolstered Miramax International. Three other New York executives have also been promoted at the international division, all in an effort to keep up with the complexities of selling and distributing films overseas.As ...
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Other Voices
Dir: Dan McCormack. US. 1999. 104 mins.Prod Co: Charny/Strong. Int'l sales: Beyond Films. Prods: Ruth Charny, Shelly Strong. Co-prods: Alicia Reilly-Larson, Deborah Cappogrosso. Exec prods: Robert Baruc, Alicia Reilly-Larson. Scr: Dan McOrmack. DoP: Dan Gillham. Prod des: Michael Krantz. Ed: Fred Wardell, Martin Hunter. Mus: William T Stromberg. Main cast: ...
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Ex-Miramax buyer Dreyer joins Sperry's Paris office
Elizabeth Dreyer, who most recently served as Miramax'sLondon-based film buyer, has joined Stephane Sperry's Liaisons Films as vicepresident of development and acquisitions.Dreyer will work out of Liaisons' Paris office and her duties willinvolve coordinating with the company's Los Angeles office, Canal Plus,StudioCanal and parent company Universal Pictures. Liaisons has a ...
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Lions Gate digs up 1000 Corpses sequel
Rob Zombie is preparing to write and direct a sequel to his breakoutdebut feature House Of 1,000 Corpses for Lions Gate Films, which wants to lay the foundations fora cult franchise.The original House of 1,000 Corpses, which centres on a couple that stumble upona family of psychotics, was released through ...
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Twenty films compete for Camera d'Or
Wim Wenders will head the jury that awards the Camera d'Or, the Cannes festival's prize for a best first film. Open to films from any section of the festival (including Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week) the prize is this time sought by a bumper crop of 20 first films. Other ...
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Twenty first films compete for Camera d'Or
Wim Wenders will head the jury that awards the Camera d'Or, the Cannes festival's prize for a best first film. Open to films from any section of the festival (including Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week) the prize is this time sought by a bumper crop of 20 first films. Other ...
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It Runs In The Family
Dir: Fred Schepisi. US. 2003. 109mins Three generations and four members of the Kirk and Michael Douglas clan get into the act in this comedy/drama about conflicted family relationships. The film is tough-going for the first hour due to slow pacing, awkward acting, abrupt editing - as if a ...
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The Glow (Zimzum)
Dir: Igal Bursztyn. Israel. 2002. 86mins.A disenchanted metaphor for contemporary Israel, located in a satirical limbo, Igal Bursztyn's The Glow addresses politically-involved academic circles rather than mainstream film audiences. A low-budget production made for TV - it has already screened on cable in Israel - but shot on film with ...
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UK's Celador commissions Millionaire script
Russell T Davies has been commissioned to write a feature screenplay based on the events surrounding the recent Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' fraud case for the UK's Celador Films, the sister company to the TV concern behind the hit gameshow.Davies, whose credits Bob And Rose, Queer As ...
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Matthew Glotzer promoted at 20th Fox TV Distribution
Matthew Glotzer has been named vice president, Video On Demand and Business Development, Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution, it was announced by Jamie McCabe, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Pay Per View and Video On Demand. Glotzer will be based at the company's headquarters in Los Angeles.Glotzer has been with the ...
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Sony Pictures TV Int'l promotes Mike Wald
Mike Wald has been promoted to senior vice president, Worldwide Pay Television at Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI), it was announced by Peter Iacono, Executive Vice President, Sales, SPTI, to whom Wald reports. Wald, who has held the post of vice president of Worldwide Pay Television at SPTI since November ...
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Dark Lady Of DNA could be follow-up film to Whale Rider
New Zealand's South Pacific Pictures (SPP) is developing a feature based on the book by Brenda Maddox about the life of Rosalind Franklin, whose work was essential to the discovery of DNA. The book, which is titled Rosalind Franklin, The Dark Lady of DNA, discusses how Franklin got no recognition ...
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France's MK2 boards Korea's Hong Sang-soo project
The as-yet untitled fifth project by South Korean director Hong Sang-soo has secured partial financing from French production/distribution company MK2. The company will reportedly distribute the film directly through its French distribution circuit, as well as handling international sales and marketing outside of Asia.Currently in the casting stage, Hong's ...
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Miramax snaps up Pride And Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical
Miramax Films has beaten several US rivals to pre-buy North and South American rights on Pathe UK's white-hot Pride And Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical, according to sources.Pathe is launching international sales at Cannes on the all-singing, all-dancing take on Jane Austen's novel, directed by Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder ...
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Odeon Cinemas' Segal to receive Cinema Expo award
Richard Segal, chief executive of the UK's Odeon Cinemas, is to be honoured as Exhibitor of the Year at the forthcoming Cine Expo cinema convention in Amsterdam (June 23-26).A well-respected executive in the UK cinema industry, Segal was installed as chief of Odeon shortly after the circuit was acquired by ...
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Palace backs next film by Japanese Story trio
Palace Films has committed to the Australian release of comedy/drama Driving Back To Dubbo from the Melbourne-based team behind this year's Un Certain Regard entrant Japanese Story.It will be the third film from director Sue Brooks, writer Alison Tilson and producer Sue Maslin. The debut film for all three ...
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Australia's Imagine to release Undead
Australia's distribution newcomer Imagine Entertainment has picked up local rights to Undead, the horror film produced, directed and written by Queensland-based brothers Peter and Michael Spierig. Imagine principal John Vale will release the film after it has shown at all three east coast festivals, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. The film ...
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Optimum boards untitled Shane Meadows feature
UK distributor Optimum Releasing has picked up Shane Meadows' new untitled feature, which started shooting this week in the North of England. The film, which stars and is co-written by long-time Meadows collaborator Paddy Considine, has no set script and was developed through a series of rehearsals and improvisations. The ...