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MediaPro, Grupo Arbol launch new sales company Imagina
Spain boasts a new international sales outfit, Imagina International Sales, handling feature films and television content. Imagina is a holding created by producer and rights broker MediaPro and TV producer Grupo Arbol, and has stakes in other key film and TV producers in Spain including Globomedia, Mercuri, Ovideo and Media ...
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TF1 to launch Female Agents and Shall We Kiss'
TF1 International will bring two brand new films to the Unifrance Rendez-Vous which gets underway this weekend in Paris. After having worked successfully with his last film, Arsene Lupin, TF1 International is selling Jean-Paul Salome's latest, Female Agents. Starring Sophie Marceau, Laura Smet, Julie Depardieu, Maya Sansa, Moritz Bleibtreu and ...
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Dutch box office recovers with 9% rise in admissions
The Dutch box-office business has recovered in 2006 after a devastating 2005 with an increase 9% in admissions and an increase of 14% in box-office takings. Total box-office gross revenues amounted to $200.0m (Euros 154.5 m), compared to $176.2m (Euros 135.5m) in 2005. The total admissions climbed from 20.6m to ...
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Falkenberg, Kidz and Darkness vie for Swedish prizes
Three Swedish features drew a tie with four nominations each for the Guldbagge (Golden Bug), the Swedish local film awards. The Swedish Film Institute announced that of the 11 films which will be considered for this year's awards, these three took the lead for nominations: Jesper Ganslandt's Falkenberg Farewell, Ylva ...
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Davis and Kelliher depart Beyond for new UK sales company
London-based production company Head Gear Films has launched a new international sales company, Bankside Films. The company has been co-founded with Hilary Davis and Stephen Kelliher, who previously headed rival sales outfit Beyond Films. Davis will be co-managing director and Kelliher will serve as director of sales & marketing. Antonio ...
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New players at the table
If the story of 2006 was realignment, reorganisation and box-office recovery, 2007 should be about attracting new investment. After a year of recovery at the box office, there is suddenly a feelgood factor about film again. Some of it may be exaggerated, of course, just as the 2005 slump was ...
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StudioCanal sets slate for Unifrance Rendez Vous
As French sales companies get ready for the annual Unifrance Rendez Vous this coming weekend, StudioCanal has announced its line up for the industry screenings event.From Pierre Jolivet comes the romantic comedy Je Crois Que Je L'Aime. Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Bonnaire star in a film about a man who ...
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'Retired' Besson plans two Arthur sequels
Despite his recent comments to the contrary, Luc Besson will direct two sequels to his current hit Arthur And The Minimoys. Besson said he was overjoyed with the success of Arthur which has enjoyed more than 5 million admissions in France since its December release.'So, I am going to direct ...
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German box-office revived in 2006, led by Fox
Germany's box-office fortunes were revived in 2006 after a devastating 2005 with a year-on-year increase in takings of 9.6% and admissions rising by 7.9%, according to figures from Nielsen EDI. In data collected from Jan 2 to Dec 31 2006, box-office revenues amounted to $1.02bn (Euros 789.3m), compared to $936.6m ...
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Czech box office recovers in 2006, set to pass 11m admissions
With statistics in for the first 11 months of the year, Czech box-office admissions look set to surpass 11m for 2006, reversing the poor performance of 2005, when admissions dropped 21% to less than 9.5m. From January 2006 to November 2006, Czech cinemas took in 10.38m admissions, an improvement of ...
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18 new titles selected for Hungarian Film Week
Hungarian Film Week has announced the lineup for its 38th annual showcase of new Hungarian cinema which takes place from Jan 30 to Feb 6 in Budapest.For the first time in the history of the event, a selection committee whittled down the available films to 18 films in competition. Pal ...
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Rotterdam announces full Tiger competition, with 7 world premieres
The Rotterdam International Film Festival (Jan 24-Feb 4) has announced the final 15 competitors for this year's Tiger Awards for first or second films, which include seven world premieres. A further 25 films will compete for the short film Tigers.The world premieres include Me, by Spain's Rafa Cortes; La Fine ...
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French admissions jump 7.5% in 2006 after strong start
France's 2006 box-office tally of 189m admissions represents a 7.5% jump on 2005 and marks the second-best score since 1992. 2004 was a record year with 196m tickets sold.France's exhibition watchdog, the FNCF, notes that the figures are estimates but that the first half of the year was clearly the ...
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Bier and Oplev lead Bodil prize nominations
Denmark 's two biggest box office successes of 2006 also proved to be the critical, darlings earning four nominations each for the Bodil prize to be handed out Feb 25. Susanne Bier's melodrama After The Wedding and Niels Ardens Oplev's traditional coming of age story We Shall Overcome tied at ...
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Norway's box-office admissions rise 5.3% in 2006
Norwegian cinema attendance has recovered from a temporary decline, to total 1.9 admissions in 2006, up 5.3% from 2005, according to preliminary figures from Norwegian cinema association, Film & Kino. Domestic films sold 1.9m tickets, to take 16.5% of the market - up from 12.2% the previous year - the ...
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Fox's Museum remains top international attraction
Fox International's Night At The Museum stayed on top of the competition and crossed $100m with an estimated $29.8m from 5,000 screens in 38 markets that raised the overseas tally to $116.7m. The family title opened in Greece on $900,000 from 66 screens and opened top in Peru on $471,000 ...
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International rescue: UIP's history and new reorganisation
'If there is any growth in this business globally it's in international,' says Tim Bevan of the UK's Working Title Films. One company that has consistently underlined the truth in Bevan's remark over the last 25 years is United International Pictures (UIP).In late 1981, when UIP was formed in London, ...
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Will Harry Potter be up for an Italian summer in 2007'
While many territories see colossal returns on films released in summertime, Italian box office returns in July and August often mirror the arid weather. A long held disagreement between local exhibitors and Hollywood distributors has depleted the summer months of primo titles while cinemas squeeze major films into the remaining ...
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Vivendi and Canal Plus launch new pay-TV venture
Vivendi and Canal Plus Group have announced the creation of Canal Plus France following their take over of rival platform TPS. The deal, which had previously been announced, was made official on Friday and sees the combining of two rival groups who have led a bloody battle over film and ...
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Rotterdam Cinemart confident despite growing competition
CineMart, heading into its 24th year Jan 28-Feb 1, isn't the lone co-production market it used to be. Competition is now tough to line-up projects, as almost every festival worth its weight features some project market element.Tougher for CineMart, as it likes to be the first to bring a feature ...