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Distributors jockey for position as Korean majors merge
Faced with the merger of South Korea's two biggest film companies, mid-sized distributors are jockeying for position in a rapidly changing market.With market prospects undermined by the recent bursting of an investment bubble, four mid-sized players - Showbox, Korea Pictures, Aura Entertainment and Big Blue Film - have the best ...
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French cinema admissions take a dive in 2003
French admissions for the first two months of 2003 have taken a serious dive, according to the national film body CNC. Most seriously, February - which is traditionally one of the strongest months for film-going in France - saw a decline of 18.1% compared with 2002, to 19 million tickets ...
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Onda increases capital; rebrands as Quiero
Shareholders for fledgling Spanish digital terrestrial television network Onda Digital last night approved an extraordinary increase in share capital worth pts11,000m ($68.75m) and the contracting of an external auditing for fiscal year 1999. In addition, the network has announced it will change its name to Quiero Television SA.Only the second ...
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Entertainers launch Oz film outfit
Ned Kelly producer Nelson Woss has joined forces with live entertainment specialists Sports & Entertainment Limited (SEL) to form a new Sydney based film outfit.Called Woss Group Films/SEL, the company is looking to produce Australian projects with international ambitions as well as other international projects.Woss is one of the producers ...
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RTL unveils new management as revenues rise
Europe's leading broadcaster and content provider RTL Group has unveiled a new management structure as audited preliminary figures for 2002 show that group revenues performed strongly despite a difficult market.Just a week after he was appointed RTL Group's new CEO, Gerhard Zeiler has announced a new executive committee which will ...
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New Wim Wenders film gets German regional film fund cash
Wim Wenders' next feature Don't Come Knockin' has received the highest amount - Euros 500,000 - from Hamburg's regional film fund FilmFoerderung Hamburg (FFH) in its latest round of a total Euros 2m in funding.With a screenplay by Sam Shepard and starring Shephard and Jessica Lange, Don't Come Knockin' will ...
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Sogepaq seals int'l sales on Mortadelo, Mondays
Spain's Sogepaq has announced a slew of sales on two local hits Mortadelo & Filemon - The Big Adventure and Mondays In The Sun.Co-produced by Sogepaq sister company Sogecine, Mortadelo & Filemon passed the Euros 20m mark at the box office this weekend, bringing it a step closer to overtaking ...
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UIP to release Spanish feature The Weakness Of The Bolshevik
UIP has confirmed local distribution plans for Spanish feature film, The Weakness Of The Bolshevik (La Flaqueza Del Bolchevique) (working title), currently in post-production.UIP will release the film in Spain next September 26 on around 100 prints and is expected to invest approximately Euros 300,000 for p&a. Producer Jose Antonio ...
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France receives two Cartoon Movie tributes
France's domination of the European animation sector was recognised at the end of this year's Cartoon Movie market when two of its Cartoon Movie Tributes went to animation producers from France.Didier Brunner, whose company Les Armateurs has produced such films as Kirikou Et La Sorciere, Belleville Rendez-vous and The Boy ...
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Intended is late addition to Denmark's NatFilm
Danish expatriate Kristian Levring's new film The Intended, which screened in Toronto last year, will have its first screening in his home country as a late addition to the already packed NatFilm Festival programme. Levring's film to is a companion piece his Dogme-film The King Is Alive. Set in ...
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Norway greenlights Olsen Gang Jr sequel
With the first film still on theatrical release, The Norwegian Film Fund has already greenlighted the Nordisk sequel to family film The Olsen Gang Jr, which has attracted over 300,000 admissions since it opened on February 7th. The season's most successful local film is the children's version of Norway's best ...
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European film councils make joint declaration on funding
The criteria for European public film support could shift to a more commercial footing after the continent's leading funding bodies unveiled an EU-wide accord yesterday.Public funding bodies, including the UK's Film Council, Germany's Filmforderungsanstalt and France's Centre National de la Cinematographie, are aiming to set the agenda in the run-up ...
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TV-Loonland sells stake in Korea's SRE Corp.
German integrated media company TV-Loonland has sold its 72.6% stake in the loss-making South Korean media house SRE Corporation to Seoul-based Moohandae Media LtdIn a statement, TV-Loonland pointed out that SRE had already posted losses of Euros 1.1m in the 2001 financial year on revenues of Euros 14.7m and these ...
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Vodafone, Mannesmann deal rewrites media rules
With the Vodafone Airtouch merger with Mannesmann overtaking AOL's previous record-breaking takeover of Time Warner, investment bankers are rubbing their hands with glee. Media moguls and sector analysts, however, are looking for synergies between the two monster communications combines.While yesterday's $179bn (Euro181bn) Vodafone takeover of Mannesmann, is on the surface ...
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Lions Gate takes The Grudge for North America
Lions Gate Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Takashi Shimizu's Japanese horror hit The Grudge (Ju-On).The announcement was made yesterday (Mar 17) by Peter Block, president of home entertainment, acquisitions and new media. A theatrical release date will be set later.Lions Gate has also picked up Ju-On and ...
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Soren Fischer dies, aged 62
Highly-regarded film publicist and festival rep Soren Fischer died last week in London aged 62.Fischer, who had a history of heart problems, was the British representative for the Berlin International Film Festival for 20 years, until he decided to step down last year.Born and educated in Denmark, Fischer joined the ...
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Bille August gets Hans Christian Andersen Award, prepares biopic
Danish expatriate filmmaker Bille August will receive The Hans Christian Andersen Award 2003 from the city Odense, where the world famous author was born 198 years ago, on April 2. August has just returned from Hollywood after financing collapsed on his Without Apparent Motive with Oscar-darlings Richard Gere and Julianne ...
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Culture Minister increases German Film Award prize money
Germany's State Minister of Culture Christina Weiss will increase the total prize-money allocated to the German Film Awards (Lolas) by Euros 310,000 to Euros 3.125m this year.An additional Euros 250,000 is being made available for a seventh title to be nominated in the "Best Feature Film" category, and a total ...
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Maid cleans up again, Gale blows into second place
Columbia TriStar's hit romantic comedy Maid In Manhattan held strong in the UK this weekend to take the top spot for the second week running. The film kept a host of new releases at bay, including UIP's death row drama The Life Of David Gale which claimed second place.Maid In ...
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Gololed
Dir. Mikhail Barshinsky. Russia. 2003. 70mins.A former film critic, who also moonlighted as a Siberian train conductor, a Turkish restaurant waiter and a DJ on Bourbon Street New Orleans, Mikhail Barshinsky's directorial debut promises that he intends to be as eccentric in his new career as he has been in ...