All articles by Patrick Frater – Page 39
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Trust enjoys Lilja sales success, buys Wilderness
Trust Film Sales,the world sales offshoot of Denmark's Zentropa Entertainment has had a busystart to Venice, acquiring David Mackenzie's The Last Wilderness andstriking a number of sales deals on Venice competition picture Lilja 4-Ever.Trust bought Wilderness, adebut feature by noted British shorts director Mackenzie, after its outing atlast month's Edinburgh ...
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Trust enjoys Lilja sales success, buys Wilderness
Trust Film Sales,the world sales offshoot of Denmark's Zentropa Entertainment has had a busystart to Venice, acquiring David Mackenzie's The Last Wilderness andstriking a number of sales deals on Venice competition picture Lilja 4-Ever.Trust bought Wilderness, adebut feature by noted British shorts director Mackenzie, after its outing atlast month's Edinburgh ...
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IT International Theatres reports first-half loss for 2002
Half year results for multinational exhibition group IT International Theatres were hit by weak results in its home Israeli market and the strengthening of the US dollar against the currencies of its developing Central European operations.While revenues increased a fraction to $33.8m (compared with $32.8m), the first half showed losses ...
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Vivendi sells off Vizzavi - is Hollywood studio next'
The possibility of a sale of Universal appeared to grow more real this week as Vivendi Universal confirmed a series of meetings between new chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou and senior US management.Vivendi Universal has so far maintained that the US studio does not figure in the disposal plans, which call for ...
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UK's Home Entertainment Corp. reports increased profits
Home Entertainment Corporation, the UK company that operates the Choices Video retail chain, reported half year pre-tax profits up 9% at $8.24m (£5.37m) on turnover that increased 24% to $158m (£103m).The company, which floated on the AIM tier of the UK stockmarket last October, said that the transition from VHS ...
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Kirch film and TV assets could find different buyers
Film investors around the world are hoping to be given the same kind of opportunity as is being dangled in front of TV groups.The KirchMedia group, which is currently in insolvency administration, this week said that it would consider selling off the ProsiebenSAT1 group separately from its other media assets.This ...
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Miller named MD Walt Disney Television Int'l (Asia Pacific)
Doug Miller has been appointed managing director, Walt Disney Television International (Asia Pacific), having been senior vice president and general sales manager of Buena Vista International Television for Europe, Middle East and Africa.Miller will be responsible for all television activities throughout the Asia Pacific region, including Australia, China and India ...
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Scorsese, Lynch, Coppola head for Morocco
A jaw-dropping pageant of international stars is set to take the desert air at the forthcoming Marrakech International Film Festival (Sept 18-22) in Morocco.David Lynch, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Catherine Deneuve, Edward Yang, Constantin Costa Gavras, Monica Bellucci, Patrice Leconte, Elodie Bouchez and Irene Jacob are scheduled as guests ...
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Audiard, Felsberg, Kovacs join Venice jury
French director and scriptwriter Jacques Audiard, Russian poet Evgenij Evtusenko, producer Uli Felsberg, Hungarian cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs, Italian actress Francesca Neri and Turkish director Yesim Ustaoglu have joined the official jury of the Venice film festival (Aug 29-Sept 8). As previously announced, the jury is to be headed by Chinese ...
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Audiard, Felsberg, Kovacs to decide competition winners
French director and scriptwriter Jacques Audiard, Russian poet Evgenij Evtusenko, producer Uli Felsberg, Hungarian cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs, Italian actress Francesca Neri and Turkish director Yesim Ustaoglu have joined the official jury of the Venice film festival (Aug 29-Sept 8). As previously announced, the jury is to be headed by Chinese ...
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Lions Gate gets boost from Monster's Ball
Monster's Ball (pictured), the Marc Forster-directed drama that earned Halle Berry her best actress Oscar, also did wonders for its distributor Lions Gate.Lions Gate reported net income of $2.7m, or 4 cents a share, in the quarter ended June 30, compared with a loss of $335,000, or 3 cents a ...
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Monster's Ball boosts Lions Gate
Monster's Ball (pictured), the Marc Forster-directed drama that earned Halle Berry her best actress Oscar, also did wonders for its distributor Lions Gate.Lions Gate reported net income of $2.7m, or 4 cents a share, in the quarter ended June 30, compared with a loss of $335,000, or 3 cents a ...
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Plenus Entertainment unveils Korean exhibition plans
Plenus Entertainment, the parent of Korea's Cinema Service, today detailed its plans to challenge the market leaders in the country's exhibition sector (see Screendaily, April 14).Plenus will launch a multiplex theatre chain, called Primus Cinema, which it aims to have operating 100 screens with some 24,000 seats by 2004.Primus will ...
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European DVD software sales to jump 150% over next four years
Western European consumer spending on DVD software is forecast to increase by more than 150% over the next four years, reaching Eu15.3bn ($15bn) by 2006 and accounting for 85% out of a forecast Eu18.4bn ($18bn) total spending on video software, according to researcher Screen Digest.While sales of VHS tapes in ...
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Korean festival delayed by success
The third edition of Korea's indieKINO International Film Festival, due to have taken place later this month, has been postponed until December. Rather than spelling trouble, the reason appears to be the event's growing success.Originally to have taken place Aug 19-Sept 15, the online event will now take place Dec ...
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Peppermint sold to management
Peppermint, the TV licence trading arm of the beleaguered Helkon group, has been sold to its management.The deal, sees the 51.1% interest held by wholly owned subsidiary Helkon International Production, sold to Peppermint's management for an undisclosed sum. The company is now 100% owned by its management.The disposal was approved ...
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Vivendi shares slide on asset valuation doubts
Shares in Vivendi Universal slipped nearly 5% today (Aug 12) as fresh doubt emerged about its asset valuations.The shares fell to Euros16.19 after a report in financial daily La Tribune quoted an unnamed stock market analyst who said that Vivendi could devalue its internet assets by around Euros 400-500m and ...
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Venice announces short film competition
The Venice festival has unveiled a selection of nine short films to appear in its main Venezia 59 section. The mainly European and English-language titles will compete for a Silver Lion for the best short, the Premio UIP Venezia award for the best European short, and a Special Mention. The ...
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Venice announces short film competition
The Venice festival has unveiled a selection of nine short films to appear in its main Venezia 59 section. The mainly European and English-language titles will compete for a Silver Lion for the best short, the Premio UIP Venezia award for the best European short, and a Special Mention. The ...
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Venice to host amfAR AIDS benefit
The Venice festival (Aug 29 - Sept 8) will once again be home to an amfAR spectacular raising money for AIDS research. Stars expected to attend include Shirley Bassey, Milla Jovovich and the evening's host Lauren Bacall. It will be co-chaired by Paolo Bulgari, Lady Helen Taylor, Venice festival director ...