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Vivendi Universal spins off streamlined Canal Plus
Vivendi Universal is to re-structure its 100% subsidiary Groupe Canal Plus around the division's most valuable assets: its French broadcasting activities; its film production and rights holding division StudioCanal as well as its stake in Spanish broadcasting operation Sogecable. All will be folded back into Canal Plus SA, which is ...
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Bollywood/Hollywood tops list of world premieres for Toronto's Perspective Canada
Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta's Bollywood/Hollywood will make its world premiere as the opening night film for the Toronto International Film Festival's Perspective Canada programme. Among the other 16 world premieres announced were Long Life, Happiness And Prosperity by Mina Shum and two Canada/UK co-productions, The Wild Dogs by Thom Fitzgerald ...
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MGM to launch branded channel in Greece with NOVA
MGM Networks, the TV channel arm of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), has entered into an agreement with NOVA, the first digital-satellite platform in Greece, to launch a round-the-clock branded channel in the country. The channel - dubbed The MGM Movie Channel - will be customised for the market to include Greek subtitles ...
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Naficy, Algazi join staff of studios' IP VOD co Movielink
Movielink, the IP-based video-on-demand distribution service formed as a joint venture by five major studios, has hired Mariam Naficy as vice president of marketing and Jessica Algazi as vice president of content.Algazi's appointment has significance for the international community in that she will be responsible for acquiring product from third ...
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Newmarket sets up US distribution co, Berney leaves IFC to run it
Bob Berney is to leave his post as senior vice president, marketing and distribution, at IFC Films and join Newmarket Capital Group as a partner in and president of its formal start-up theatrical distribution company which will be based in New York. Newmarket has dipped its toe into US distribution ...
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First Spanish titles announced for San Sebastian
At least four Spanish films are to compete in the official section of the 50th Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival, which runs from 19-28 September.Two further Spanish titles have been selected for the Zabaltegi section - dedicated to the most contemporary works available, whether from other festivals or elsewhere.The initial ...
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Venice's Critics Week line up
Critics' Week (Settimana Internazionale della Critica)Two Friends (Due Amici) Dirs: Sipro Scipione and Francesco, Italy An Honest Shopkeeper (Un Honnete Commercant) Dir: Philippe Blasband, BelThe Exam (Emtehan) Dir: Nassere Refaie, IranRodger Dodger Dir: Dylan Kidd, US Kite (Zmej) Dir: Aleksej Muradov, Russia Woman Of Water (Mizu ...
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Reviews
At The Tips Of Her Fingers (Sur Le Bout Des Doigts)
Dir: Yves Angelo. France. 2002. 83mins.The latest feature from Yves Angelo is a small but compelling story that hinges on an unbalanced mother's jealousy of her talented piano-playing daughter. Although some audiences will feel that At The Tips Of Her Fingers leaves a little too much left unsaid, its careful ...
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Ormieres to shine for Moonstone
Noted French producer Jean-Luc Ormieres has been appointed artistic director of Moonstone International, the Edinburgh-based training programme. Ormieres, whose credits include Chantal Akerman's A Couch In New York, Stijn Coninx's Daens and Ferzan Ozpetek's Ignorant Fairies (Le Fate Ignoranti), succeeds John McGrath, who died suddenly in January.Moonstone currently runs two ...
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Cinema Service set to join Korean exhibition giants
Korean major Cinema Service is poised to become the country's fourth exhibition giant when it unveils detailed plans next week to build a country-wide multiplex circuit (see Screendaily.com April 14).Structured as a joint venture, the circuit will concentrate on developments in under-serviced regional areas. The company envisages having 10 venues ...
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Michelle Yeoh's Touch passed untouched
Peter Pau's The Touch, starring and produced by Michelle Yeoh, has been passed uncut by the China's national censor the Film Bureau. The move means that the film has cleared the last hurdle in its bid to secure a day-and-date release in mainland China and other parts of Asia. The ...
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Aki Kaurismaki to get Douglas Sirk award at Filmfest Hamburg
Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki is to receive the Douglas Sirk Award at this year's Filmfest Hamburg (September 23-29) during the German premiere of his Cannes prize-winner The Man Without A Past.The Award, which honours an individual 'for his or her distinguished contribution to film culture, to cinematic art and cinematic ...
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Italy's President speaks out in favour of new media law
Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi has spoken out for the first time about the controversial issue of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's control over the nation's media, urging Parliament to draft a new media law that will guarantee impartial news coverage.Ciampi also asked the prime minister himself to sign his official ...
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Neue Kinowelt to be back in business for this autumn's film markets
Jerry Payne and Marcus Schoefer of the Kinowelt management buyout (MBO) team anticipate their takeover plans will be a done deal by the middle of next week and are looking to be back in the rights acquisition business in time for this autumn's film markets.Payne told screendaily.com that he and ...
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Reviews
Austin Powers In Goldmember
Dir: Jay Roach. US. 2002. 94minsDirector Jay Roach and his multi-talented star and co-writer/co-producer Mike Myers have little new to add to the two previous Austin Powers film with the third instalment in the franchise. An intermittently funny confection which wears the joke dangerously thin, Austin Powers In Goldmember will, ...
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NewsDimension Films buys remake rights to A Matter Of Size
Dimension Films has acquired all remake rights to A Matter Of Size from United Channels Movies (UCM).
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NewsPremieres from Wai Ka-Fai and Sion Sono bookend NY Asian fest
The world premiere of Wai Ka-fai’s Hong Kong drama Written By will open the New York Asian Film Festival, set to run from June 19-July 5
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ReviewsA Brand New Life (Une Vie Toute Neuve)
Dir/scr Ounie Lecomte. France-S. Korea. 2009. 92 mins.
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NewsSilverdocs reveals 2009 competition line-up
Silverdocs has announced its competition films for this year’s event, which runs from June 15-22 on the East Coast.
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