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    Celluloid Dreams and HanWay Films: the power of two

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    There is a temptation to see the merger between Hengameh Panahi's Celluloid Dreams and Jeremy Thomas' HanWay as a commentary on the scary state of today's arthouse business. But the real issue is what it says about the digital future.The most obvious conclusion to draw from the merger of two ...

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    Sony signs VOD deal with VirginMega in France for TVs and PCs

    2007-04-12T16:26:00Z

    Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has struck a new video-on-demand (VOD) deal with France's VirginMega.The deal will cover content online at virginmega.fr and subscribers to the Alice IPTV platform and Mes Videos a la Carte service. Viewers will get 48 hours of unlimited viewing on either platform, with downloaded films ...

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    Debuts dominate Crossing Europe Linz's European Competition

    2007-04-12T13:17:00Z

    Debut features dominate the lineup for the European Competition at the fourth edition of Linz's Crossing Europe Film Festival (24-29 April) which will open on April 24 with the world premiere of the music documentary Attwenger Adventure by Markus Kaiser-Muhlecker and the Austrian premieres of Marcus J. Carney's The End ...

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    French first-quarter box office drops 3% compared to strong 2006

    2007-04-11T17:24:00Z

    France's box office took a 3% hit in the first three months of 2007 compared with last year. The total number of admissions came to 51.2m versus 52.8m in 2006 for the period of January through March, according to figures announced Wednesday by France's National Cinema Federation (FNCF). It should ...

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    Sony rebrands A+ as Animax and plans mobile, VOD offerings

    2007-04-11T11:58:00Z

    Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has rebranded its A+ Channel as Animax. The dedicated anime channel is available in Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. SPTI also noted that it is in advanced negotiations to launch the channel in the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain and France. Animax is already ...

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    Universal offers downloads to own in Germany through T-Com

    2007-04-11T11:51:00Z

    Universal Pictures International Entertainment, NBC Universal International Television Distribution have signed agreements for new download-to-own offerings and renewed VOD offerings through Germany's T-Com and it's T-Online VOD, T-Home and IPTV service.This makes T-Com the first retailer offering studio content as secure download-to-burn in Germany. The service will launch in the ...

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    Tyldum replaces Hennie as director of Fallen Angels

    2007-04-11T04:00:00Z

    Norwegian director Morten Tyldum will replace Aksel Hennie as director of Fallen Angels, the second theatrical production for SF Norge's $12.9m (Euros 9.8m) Varg Veum detective series, Norway 's largest film project to date. Tyldum's 2003 feature debut, Buddy, won the Amanda - the national film prize - for best ...

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    Italy's Far East Film Festival announces 51-film lineup

    2007-04-10T18:43:00Z

    The Far East Film Festival has announced a fifty-one film official line up boasting eighteen international festival premieres from for its ninth edition which runs in the Northeastern Italian town of Udine April 20-28.This year's film and guest highlights include the international festival premiere of Teng Huatao's The Matrimony starring ...

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    Bermek tapped for tax at European Audiovisual Observatory

    2007-04-10T14:28:00Z

    The European Audiovisual Observatory has announced plans to start studying tax law. Hasan Bermek, a lawyer of Turkish nationality, has joined the Strasbourg-based Observatory to head the tax law study team. He will build a network of tax specialists in eac hof the Observatory's 36 member states. Dr. Susanne Nikoltchev, ...

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    300, Bean 2 lead spectacular international weekend

    2007-04-09T05:26:00Z

    300 returned to winning ways as Warner Bros Pictures International's (WBPI) action hit beat Mr Bean's Holiday by a whisker to the number one spot overseas.The film added an estimated $32m from 6,500 prints in 61 markets to raise the tally to $173m. It shot to the top in Germany ...

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    European film financing: a private phenomenon

    2007-04-06T00:00:00Z

    A $500m deal between Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. Bob and Harvey Weinstein raise $490m in equity through Goldman Sachs. A $500m deal between Virtual Studios and Warner Bros. A $600m equity deal between Relativity Media and Sony and Universal. The figures from the equity funding boom among Hollywood studios ...

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    Milos Forman joins festivities for Monaco cinema & literature forum

    2007-04-05T10:47:00Z

    The sixth edition of the International Cinema & Literature Forum will take place April 12-14 in Monaco. Presiding over the event will be author Patricia MacDonald and director Milos Forman. A forum structured around adapting literature to the screen, the event will include debates, readings, dedications and film premieres. This ...

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    Martin Scorsese to give May 24 masterclass at Cannes

    2007-04-04T16:54:00Z

    Martin Scorsese, who just took home his first Oscar for The Departed, will be continuing his banner year as a guest of honor at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Festival organizers announced the news today saying that on May 24th, Scorsese will give a masterclass and will use the ...

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    Paradiso moves into Netherlands distribution with Amsterdam office

    2007-04-04T16:28:00Z

    Brussels-based Paradiso Filmed Entertainment has opened new offices in Amsterdam to handle theatrical distribution in the Netherlands. Patrick Terryn, COO theatrical, and Guy Bronselaer, marketing Manager, are currently supervising the Dutch team, assisted by consultants Heleen Rouw and Dirk de Lille. Paradiso's first release in the Netherlands will be Guillermo ...

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    Industry has mixed reactions to HanWay-Celluloid merger

    2007-04-04T16:20:00Z

    The announcement yesterday of the merger between HanWay Films and Celluloid Dreams to create a new combined company, dreamachine, has provoked a mixed response from the European film industry. Some have welcomed the consolidation of the two companies. For example, Tartan Films founder Hamish McAlpine applauded the move. 'Hanway and ...

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    Tine Klint takes international sales post at Nordisk

    2007-04-04T11:25:00Z

    Tine Klint has taken over as the new head of international sales at Denmark-based Nordisk Film. Klint started her career at Trust Film/Zentropa Film in 1999 and worked as a sales executive and project manager. She leads the sales team that also consists of Susan Wendt, Sanne Arlo, Nicolai Korsgaard, ...

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    Dutch FilmWorks co-founder Roelofs takes on freelance role

    2007-04-03T22:57:00Z

    Wiljan Roelofs, one of the founders of Dutch FilmWorks (DFW) has decided to take a step back from his role as commercial director and will take up a freelance role at the Netherlands distributor.Roelofs will now oversee the DVD rental arm of the company, but will continue to work closely ...

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    Euphoria wins best film at goEast with The Trap taking best director

    2007-04-03T19:00:00Z

    Russian dramatist Ivan Vyrypaev's feature film debut Euphoria picked up the Golden Lily for Best Film at this year's goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, which closed with an awards ceremony in Wiesbaden tonight. The international jury, headed by veteran Romanian director Lucian Pintilie, praised the film ...

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    Marc Klocker moves to Senator Film from X Verleih

    2007-04-03T17:36:00Z

    Marc Klocker has moved from X Verleih back to former employer Senator Film to take over the post of head of marketing since the beginning of this week. Klocker had worked at Senator from 1994 to 2000 before moving to X Verleih in 2001 to head up marketing and film ...

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    HanWay and Celluloid Dreams merge to create dreamachine

    2007-04-03T15:05:00Z

    In a move that will shake up the international sales world, Jeremy Thomas' UK-based HanWay Films and Hengameh Panahi's Paris-based Celluloid Dreams are planning to merge. The new sales, production and financing venture, dreamachine, will be based in London, Paris and Toronto. Financial terms have yet to be disclosed, but ...