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Sam Neill's next role is acting as investor
Actor Sam Neill will be putting more effort than usual into his next film role - as well as starring in Gaylene Preston's romantic thriller Perfect Strangers, Neill is also an investor through his Huntaway Productions Neill's partners in Huntaway - the New Zealand production company that he set ...
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Couture fashions seamless Canal Plus revolution
Xavier Couture, who was plucked in dramatic circumstances in April from TF1 to head Canal Plus, has unveiled a management team that boasts only modest changes, but shorter lines of communication.Despite Couture's TF1 background, there are no appointments from other broadcasters and most new faces come from within the Vivendi ...
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Good Spanish opening doesn't mean Snipes' drama will be undisputed hit
Wesley Snipes latest film Undisputed received its debut this week in Spain, four months prior to its US launch. However, just how the film will perform internationally is hard to gauge as despite achieving a second-placed chart position in Spain, behind Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones, ...
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Medusa busy as Italian distributors unveil autumn slates
Medusa, Silvio Berlusconi's Rome distribution powerhouse, has unveiled a bumper slate of new releases including James Foley's crime drama Confidence and Lars Von Trier's widely anticipated Dogville.Medusa is also set to release several of the year's most eagerly awaited pictures, ranging from Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio, to comic blockbuster trio Aldo, ...
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Karlovy Vary names first festival jury members
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has announced the names of six members of the grand jury for the main competition, including Pulitzer-Prize-winning American film critic Roger Ebert.The festival, which takes place in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary on July 4-13, announced that Czech director of photography Jan ...
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Buena Vista Spain adds two more co-production projects
Buena Vista International Spain (BVIS), which last autumn announced its full-fledged entry into local feature film co-production, has added two more titles to its slate: Cat Kisses (Besos De Gato) and Hold-Up At 3... Thirty (Atraco A Las 3... Y Media). Rafael Alcazar directs the Euros 2m Kisses, a co-production ...
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Australia's Palace furnishes itself with Raitrade slate
Australia's Palace Pictures has picked up a package of ten Italian films from Italian sales house Raitrade.The deal sees Palace grab Cannes competition film The Religion Hour (aka My Mother's Smile) by Marco Bellocchio, Gabriele Salvatores' Amnesia, Alessandro Alatri's Casomai and Andrea and Antoni Frazzi's Almost America. The deal is ...
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Mama, Look! gets attention at Mediawave festival
British director Grant Thobur's production Mama, Look! was awarded the Grand Prize at this year's Mediawave International Festival of Visual Arts in Gyor, Hungary. Dutch films were also very successful at Mediawave 2002 receiving the awards for Best Dance Film and Best Experimental Film. In the documentary category, Russian films ...
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Spain's Alquimia pacts with France's Fidelite for co-productions
Spain's Alquimia Cinema and France's Fidelite Productions have signed a two-picture co-production deal likely to be expanded to include two further forthcoming titles. Included in the deal are Alquimia's Euros 6m Utopia, a thriller from director Maria Ripoll (Tortilla Soup), and Fidelite's $6m Cronique Des Anees De Baist, a chronicle ...
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IN-motion hangs on to Neuer Markt listing
International media company IN-motion will remain listed on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt exchange after an arbitration panel ruled against the Deutsche Boerse's plans to delist itThis development comes less than a week after IN-motion announced sales of Euros 46.91m and a consolidated net loss of Euros 7.71m for the first six ...
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DTS renews credit line from Comerica
Comerica Entertainment Group, the entertainment lending subsidiary of Comerica Bank-California, has struck a new two year revolving line of credit facility with digital audio technology outfit DTS (Digital Theater Systems Inc), a client since 1997. Comerica has also increased the company's borrowing power from $7.5m to $10m.A pioneer in multi-channel ...
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Barbara Hannegan tops restructured publicity team at Universal International
Barbara Hannegan has been promoted to vice president, international publicity, at Universal Pictures, completing a restructure of the studio's international publicity team which sees the arrival of three new staff publicists - Larry Angrisani, Mark Markline and Elena O'Gorman.Hannegan will report to Randy Greenberg who is senior vice president of ...
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Pathe, FilmFour in holy alliance for Bulletproof Monk
In a high profile move that underlines the growing co-operation between the two companies, Pathe Distribution and FilmFour have picked up UK rights to Bulletproof Monk. In another deal begun at Cannes, Filmax confirmed that it is to handle Spanish rights to the picture. The $55m action-adventure is the first ...
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RTL closes in on Warner Bros German package
The KirchGroup's arch rival RTL Television is in talks with Warner Bros to sign a $200m film package spanning such titles as The Matrix, The Lord Of The Rings, Ocean's Eleven and Harry Potter.According to the daily newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the deal will allow RTL seven screenings of each film ...
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RTL Belgium signs BVI output deal
RTL-TVI, the Belgian free-TV broadcaster controlled by RTL, has struck a multi-year supply deal with Buena Vista International Television (BVI-TV).The deal covers recent and current feature films such as Pearl Harbor and 102 Dalmatians as well as live action series including Alias. RTL will also create a two-hour slot branded ...
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New Spanish distributor Indisa braves choppy market
Former Filmax executive Alberto del Val is braving the difficult conditions facing the Spanish distribution sector and has launched a new releasing outfit, Indisa. The new company aims to handle up to ten local, European and international pictures a year.Spain's distributors have been hit by cutbacks by free and pay-TV ...
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Piano Teacher is cleared for release in Singapore
The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste), which scooped a trio of prizes at last year's Cannes festival, has finally been cleared for release in censorious Singapore.The film, produced and sold internationally by France's MK2, is a study of sexual desperation and involves scenes of frenzied grappling and female self-mutilation. But the ...
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MEDIA programme aids 29 festivals
Film festivals held in Giffoni, Oberhausen, Bergamo, La Rochelle, Dresden, Tampere and Pesaro are among 29 events throughout Europe which have been supported with a total of Euro623,000 by the European Union's MEDIA Plus Programme in its latest round of funding for festivals.Separately, in response to its call for proposals ...
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The UK's PIRS to become Producers Rights Agency
The UK's Producers Industrial Relations Services (PIRS) is changing its name to Producers Rights Agency (PRA) with effect from June 10.The PRA is jointly owned by PACT and ITV and represents UK Television and Film producers in dealings with rights owners, performers and creators organisations, and government.Chief executive, Andrew Chowns ...
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Telecinco quits Spain's Pay-TV platforms
Spanish free-to-air broadcaster Telecinco is to remove its signal from both of Spain's digital satellite TV platforms, Via Digital and Canal Satelite Digital (CSD).Telecinco said the move was motivated by non-inclusion of its screenings from the digital platforms in audience ratings data compiled by Sofres. This "impedes the channel from ...