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Ozon rounds up femmes for next project
Acclaimed French auteur Francois Ozon has unveiled a stellar cast for his next film Huit Femmes. Pitched as a femme whodunnit involving a murder committed on Christmas Eve, the film is set to star Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Beart, Virginie Ledoyen, Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant, Danielle Darrieux, Vahina Goicante and Firmine ...
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Trust turns up sales heat at Berlin
Armed with hot competition title Italian For Beginners plus the next projects from Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, Scandinavia's Trust Film Sales closed a host of deals in smaller markets this week to emerge as the most prolific sales agent at Berlin.Closing multi-title packages to Israel's Shani Films, Greece's ...
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Spain's Grupo Correo restructures ahead of float
Spanish publishing and multimedia giant Grupo Correo has appointed a new CEO and restructured its organisation into five main business areas with an eye toward expansion and in preparation for a planned spring stock flotation. Jose Maria Bergareche, current general manager of Correo and right-hand man to chief Alejandro Echevarria, ...
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Telepool, Nighthawk team for distribution
German rights trader Telepool and start-up distributor Nighthawk Pictures have joined forces to release Michael Anderson's The New Adventures Of Pinocchio in German cinemas on April 5. According to Nighthawk's managing director Christoph Heckenbuecker, depending on the release's success, this distribution partnership could be continued in the future for other ...
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EM.TV agrees to KirchGroup rescue deal
After months of speculation about the future of the beleaguered EM.TV media group, the German rights trader and merchandising empire announced on Wednesday that it would sign a rescue deal with the KirchGroup on the basis of their negotiations dating from December 4, 2000.The deal was finalised just hours before ...
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Portugal's SIC Filmes reveals second-year slate
Portuguese private broadcaster SIC (Sociedad Independente de Comunicao) has unveiled the next five titles on its second-year slate of made-for-TV movies from production division SIC Filmes.The titles include: The Secret, a melodrama from director Leandro Ferreira; Dear Mother, a comedy about three sons dodging responsibility for their elderly mother, from ...
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Loews goes to Schwartz, US partners in $850m deal
Ending weeks of uncertainty, Canadian billionaire Gerald Schwartz and two US partners have struck an $850m (C$1.3bn) deal to acquire distressed exhibitor Loews Cineplex, the second-largest chain in North America. One of the partners, LA-based Oaktree Capital Management, holds a large chunk of debt of another distressed circuit, Regal Cinemas, ...
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Germany launches new distributor cash awards
Up to $28,000 (DM600,000) is being made available by Germany's new state minister for culture, Julian Nida-Ruemelin, to support "culturally outstanding achievements in the sphere of film distribution" in the form of three annual distributor awards starting this coming autumn. Each award will include up to $94,000 (DM200,000) to be ...
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Danny Boyle to speak at UK's Production Show
Danny Boyle, whose credits include Trainspotting and The Beach and who is now editing two digital films for BBC2, will be discussing his career at the Production Show Movie Day on March 14 at London's Olympia.The Q&A session, which will be chaired by Screen's editor-in-chief Colin Brown, will kick off ...
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UK prepares to devour Hannibal
UIP is looking forward to this weekend's UK opening of Hannibal after seeing record takings from its Valentine Day's preview on Wednesday night. The sequel to 1991's The Silence Of The Lambs took an massive $1,129,313 (£708,355) from the 358 sites participating in the preview screening. The figure is the ...
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Summit lines up Insomnia, Servicing Sara for AFM
Summit Entertainment has picked up two major studio projects for international distribution at AFM - Insomnia, a remake of the Norwegian thriller which Al Pacino is circling for director Christopher Nolan, is to be distributed domestically by Warner Bros, while Servicing Sara, a comedy starring Matthew Perry and Elizabeth Hurley, ...
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13 French films screen at March Rendezvous in NYC
The annual New York festival of new French films Rendez-vous with French Cinema will take place March 9-18 with 13 new films in the lineup. Screening at the Walter Reade Theatre, the festival will be attended by among others Daniel Auteuil, Isabelle Huppert, Chantal Akerman, Xavier Beauvois, Jean Becker and ...
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Warner Bros launches Harry Potter website today
Warner Bros will launch the official Harry Potter website www.harrypotter.com (www.harrypotter.co.uk in the UK) today (Feb 16) in anticipation of the release of the film Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone in December.The site is planned as a community forum for Harry Potter fans across the world and is inviting ...
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Miramax signs development deal with The Onion
Miramax Films has signed a first look agreement to develop scripts and features with The Onion, an online-offline publisher of satirical news which was formed in 1988 in Madison, Wisconsion, and has quickly become a cult source of satire amongst college audiences with a weekly readership of 1 million viewers. ...
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London critics fete John Malkovich, Billy Elliot
Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich was named film of the year at the 21st London Film Critics' Circle awards last night, held at London's Savoy Hotel. The film also bagged prizes in the director and screenwriter of the year categories, for Jonze and Charlie Kaufman respectively. Christopher Nolan, meanwhile, picked ...
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Mark Litwak resigns as chairman of Reelplay.com
Entertainment attorney and producers rep Mark Litwak has resigned as chairman of Reelplay.com, an internet virtual marketplace for buying and selling film rights.The resignation comes after a series of lay-offs last week at Reelplay which was launched in Oct 1999 as a showcase of film trailers, promotion reels, synopses, stills, ...
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Original cast returns for Stuart Little 2 in March
Columbia Pictures has set the cast for Stuart Little 2, the sequel to its monster smash from 1999 which grossed $140m in North America and $160m in international territories.The film will start production in March under director Rob Minkoff with original cast members Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie and Jonathan Lipnicki ...
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Mark Litwak resigns as chairman of Reelplay.com
Entertainment attorney and producers rep Mark Litwak has resigned as chairman of Reelplay.com, an internet virtual marketplace for buying and selling film rights.The resignation comes after a series of lay-offs last week at Reelplay which was launched in Oct 1999 as a showcase for film trailers, promotion reels, synopses, stills, ...
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Edwards accepts Anschutz, Oaktree recapitalisation
Edwards Theatres Circuit has agreed to a recapitalisation plan that will see Phillip Anschutz's Anschutz Corp and distressed debt investor Oaktree Capital Management assume a significant percentage of its equity, so that the ailing circuit can emerge from bankruptcy protection. Terms of the proposed transaction were not disclosed.In past months, ...