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MGM, Cogeco Cable sign Canadian VOD deal
MGM Home Entertainment andCarleton, Ontario-based Cogeco Cable have signed a video-on-demand supplyagreement that will see MGM library titles carried by Canada's fourth-largestcable provider. The non-exclusive agreementwill include new product including Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, Agent Cody Banks and Jeepers Creepers 2 along with past hits such as ...
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Animation veteran Hirsh buys Cinar in $144m deal
Canadian animation veteranMichael Hirsh is buying Cinar, the troubled Montreal-based animation house. TheUS$144m sale puts Hirsh, co-founder and former CEO of Toronto-based Nelvana Limited,back in the centre of the Canadian animation scene he helped establish. Backed by a Canadian equitycapital fund, TD Capital Canadian Private Equity Partners, Hirsh and partnerToper ...
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Cinecitta mulls expansion into East Europe, Africa
Italy's Cinecitta studio is working on plans to expand its activities into Eastern Europe and North Africa.The Italian studio is exploring partnerships with studios in Eastern Europe with the aim of providing the mother-ship with pan-European productions. The scenario would see films shoot locations in the inexpensive east and then ...
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NORTH AMERICA
Alliance Atlantis' much-hyped local Canadian release Foolproof did not live up to the box office expectations generated by its title. Backed by a C$2m P&A campaign and released through the company's Odeon Films subsidiary on nearly 200 screens across Canada, the light-hearted caper movie earned a paltry $230,312 for a ...
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Arcand's Decline is born again
In the wake of its highlysuccessful sequel, The Barbarian Invasions, the original 1986 film The Decline Of The AmericanEmpire has suddenly been given a new leaseon life in the marketplace. Both films were directed by Quebec auteur DenysArcand.The Decline Of The AmericanEmpire, nominated for foreign-languageOscar in 1997 has just been ...
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Cronenberg takes Canadian Directors Guild prize
David Cronenberg won the best direction prize for Spider at the Directors Guild of Canada awards in Toronto on Saturday. The UK-Canada co-production also won the DGC's Team Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Feature Film, a prize which reflects the job categories represented by the guild, including assistant director, ...
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Rhinoceros Eyes
Dir/scr. Aaron Woodley. US. 2003. 92 min.Rich in atmosphere, Rhinoceros Eyes is an impressive directorial debut on many levels. The film, which premiered at Toronto, won the festival's Discovery prize for developing filmmakers as selected by the press corps. But Woodley, who is also debuting as a screenwriter, doesn't have ...
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Loews embarks on money raising plan
Exhibitor Loews Cineplex is planning to raise capital through an income trust, the latest entertainment company seeking to leverage the revenue stream of its business operations without diluting ownership of the company proper. According to a report in the Toronto Globe and Mail, the privately-held exhibitor's primary stakeholder, Toronto-based Onex ...
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Chinese film wins Vancouver festival prize
Chinese filmmaker Diao Yinan has won the Vancouver International Film Festival's Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema for his film Uniform, a story of contemporary China's lost generation of young people who search for an identity amidst a society beset by industrial decay and urban despair. According to a ...
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Canadian producers prepare for European Immersion
A wide range of Canadian and international producers are set to participate in Immersion Europe: 2003, the ninth annual Canada-Europe feature film financing forum to be held in Paris November 17-20. The line-up of 36 Canadian and 38 European producers will be looking for partners to get their projects financed ...
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SPC strikes licensing deals with Canadian distributors
Montreal-based Seville Pictures has taken all Canadian rights to Wolfgang Becker's international hit Good Bye, Lenin! and has acquired all French Canadian rights to Pedro Almodovar's upcoming Bad Education, currently in post-production. Both deals are through Sony Pictures Classics (SPC), which holds North American rights on the pictures. Meanwhile, Toronto-based ...
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The Green Butchers
Dir. Anders Thomas Jensen. Denmark. 2002. 100mins.The Green Butchers could launch a new sub-genre of black comedy: the flesh-coloured comedy. A laugh-out-loud farce bristling with cruelty, the film invites viewers into the loathsome world of two memorable losers, a pair of newly-minted butchers who stumble upon success by selling human ...
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Scorsese's The Blues gets Montreal world premiere
Filmmaker MartinScorsese's new film series, The Blues, will makes its world premiere at the 32nd MontrealInternational Festival of New Cinema and New Media (FCMM), Oct 9 -19. Produced by Scorsese,directed by noted filmmakers from Wim Wenders to Clint Eastwood, the seriesfeatures seven distinct films meant to capture the essence of ...
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Barbarian Invasions gets Canada's Oscar vote
Denys Arcand's TheBarbarian Invasions will beCanada's submission to Best Foreign Language Film category of the AcademyAwards. The decision was announcedWednesday by Telefilm Canada, which oversees the 24-person selection committee.It's a been stellar week for Arcand: on Sunday he accepted the C$30,000Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the Toronto ...
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Loewy lines up UK trip to recruit Momentum chief
Victory Loewy, CEO of Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution Group, is planning a return to the UK to recruit a new senior executive for Momentum Pictures, the company's wholly-owned UK distribution company. Current Momentum director David Kosse has accepted a position as London-based president of international marketing and distribution for ...
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Invasions, Zatoichi take top Toronto prizes
Denys Arcand's TheBarbarian Invasions won theToronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film and Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi won the AGF People's Choice Award as the 28thToronto International Film Festival wrapped after ten trouble-free days. The Discovery Award,selected by the press corps, went to Rhinoceros Eyes, a US-financed effort directed by Toronto ...
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Invasions, Zatoichi take top TIFF prizes
Denys Arcand's TheBarbarian Invasions won theToronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film and Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi won the AGF People's Choice Award as the 28thToronto International Film Festival wrapped after ten trouble-free days. The Discovery Award,selected by the press corps, went to Rhinoceros Eyes, a US-financed effort directed by Toronto ...
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Toronto: Saddest Music, Rosenstrasse find US homes
US distributors picked uptwo more international titles at the Toronto International Film Festival. IFCFilms has picked up all US rights on Canadian Guy Maddin's raucous comedy TheSaddest Music In The World,following the film's North American premiere at the event. Samuel Goldwyn Filmshas taken US rights on Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse, ...
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Saddest Music, Rosenstrasse find US homes
US distributors picked uptwo more international titles at the Toronto International Film Festival. IFCFilms has picked up all US rights on Canadian Guy Maddin's raucous comedy TheSaddest Music In The World,following the film's North American premiere at the event. Samuel Goldwyn Filmshas taken US rights on Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse, ...
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The Saddest Music In The World
Dir. Guy Maddin. Canada. 2003. 99 min.Canadian auteur Guy Maddin is considered by many an unheralded cinematic genius. The Saddest Music In The World will change that at home: Canadian audiences will give this raucous comedy the art-house welcome it richly deserves. Abroad, it will test the ingenuity of international ...