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Fanfan La Tulipe to open this year's Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festivalhas set Fanfan La Tulipeas the opening film for this year's event. The film is a remake ofChristian-Jaque's 1952 swashbuckler.Directed by Gerard Krawczykwho has enjoyed immense success with the last two Taxi films, Fanfan stars Vincent Perez and PenelopeCruz. The film will be released in France on ...
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Cognac Film Festival unveils lineup, opens with Pamela Rose
TheCognac Festival du Film Policier has released its line-up for the 21st editionset to take place April 10-13. The festival is devoted to the 'policier' ordetective/crime genre and this year will see French actor Vincent Lindon headup the main jury.France's Mais Qui a Tue Pamela Rose byEric Lartigau will raise ...
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Wolf and Bosch join HBO as co-heads of London film sales outfit
US cable giantHBO and its film production arm HBO Films have formed a new London-basedinternational sales and distribution outfit HBO Films London under theatricalsales veterans Penny Wolf and Rosa Bosch. Wolf and Bosch will be co-managingdirectors of the new division which will continue a theatrical sales push intoall territories for ...
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Intermedia confirms 2002 results, losses of E98.7m
Internationalmedia,the corporate parent of Los Angeles-based Intermedia and IEG, has confirmed itspreliminary fourth quarter and year-end 2002 figures (Screendaily Mar 14), withseveral slight changes.Fourth quarterrevenues were Euros 103.2m, with the company recording a Euros 3.1m operatingprofit (EBITA).Revenues for thefiscal year ending Dec 31 2002 were Euros 259.7m, while Internationalmedia'scash position ...
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Taos announces five finalists for five-acre prize
Organisers atthe Taos Talking Picture Festival have announced the five finalists in line forwhat is arguably the most bizarre prize in the festival world - five acres ofland on Taos' Cerro Montoso in New Mexico.The winner willbe announced at the awards presentation on Apr 12 along with the winner of ...
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Media Asia boards Masked Crusader
Hong Kong's Media Asia has boarded Han Entertainment's futuristic action movie, Masked Crusader, starring Michelle Yeoh and Richie Jen, which started shooting today (March 27) in Beijing. The $15m film is a co-production between Han, Media Asia and China's Tianjin Film Studio with the assistance of China Film Co-production Corp. ...
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Civilian Content snaps up BBC stake in The Works
Civilian Content, the UK media group and parent of National Lottery franchise The Film Consortium, has acquired full ownership of sales house The Works, buying the last 25% minority stake from BBC Worldwide to make it a wholly owned subsidiary of the group.AIM-listed Civilian Content has also announced a significant ...
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Escapist viewing benefits from war fatigue
While there appeared to be some evidence in the US that the war on Iraq affected box office figures last weekend, the effect in Europe seems more on viewing choices rather than numbers.Indeed, athough many territories saw a drop in returns this weekend from last weekend, others including Denmark, Finland, ...
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Toshiba takes over leading Japanese distributor
Japan's Amuse Pictures, whose recent releases include Roman Polanski's Oscar winning The Pianist, has been sold to Toshiba Corp by parent company Amuse Inc. According to the terms of the deal Amuse will transfer 67 percent of its Amuse Pictures shares to Toshiba on April 1 and the remainder in ...
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Sony takes domestic rights to Kitano's Brother
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Takeshi Kitano's gangster picture Brother for distribution in the US and Canada, producer Jeremy Thomas has confirmed.The $10m production is seen as the cult Japanese auteur's potentially most commercial outing to date and marks his first film to be shot in America. The story, which ...
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RAI drafts in Fiera di Milano boss as new CEO
Less than two weeks after appointing a new president, Italian state broadcaster RAI has hired Fiera di Milano chief Flavio Cattaneo as its new CEO.Cattaneo, 39, had been president and CEO of the sprawling Fiera complex, which houses MIFED, since 2000. A trained architect, he has previously also worked in ...
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Unifrance moves closer to naming new president
France's export body, Unifrance, is getting closer to naming a new president following the sudden death of longtime president Daniel Toscan du Plantier in February.On Wednesday, three new producers were added to the board of directors of Unifrance to replace the deceased Toscan du Plantier and Christine Gouze-Renal. Also replaced ...
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Warner Bros kicks off Matrix marketing onslaught
Warner Bros kicked off in earnest its international marketing campaign for The Matrix sequels this week, with a major London presentation - titled The Year Of The Matrix - to introduce the two films to the industry.Warners invited over 300 press, exhibitors and retail partners to the presentation on Thursday(March ...
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France revs up fighter pilot adaptation
Continuing the trend towards comic book adaptations in France, Tanguy And Laverdure will be next to get the big-screen treatment. The tale of two fighter pilots is set to be directed by Gerard Pires, who previously directed the first Taxi film and made last year's Riders. Pires is also a ...
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Oberhausen engulfed in Iraq war ban controversy
The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (May 1-6) has become embroiled in controversy after announcing that it intends to ban official representatives of the US, UK, Spanish and Italian governments from attending the festival following their policy on Iraq.In an official statement, the festival said that "the world's oldest and ...
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BVITV strikes MIP-TV deals
Buena Vista International Television (BVITV), the film and TV sales arm of Disney, struck a number of film deals in small territories during this week's MIP-TV market in Cannes. With PoPTV, the largest commercial broadcaster in Slovenia, it agreed to supply films including Gone In 60 Seconds, Armageddon, TV movies ...
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Vien takes over Universal's international TV operations
Patrick Vien is to take over management of Universal Television Group (UTG)'s international channel operations. These include Sci-Fi UK, 13th Street, which airs under different names in France, Spain and Germany, Studio Universal Germany, the leading film channel on the Premiere platform, USA Network Latin America and its local derivative ...
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Slovenia joins EU MEDIA Programme
Slovenia has become the seventh Central and East European country to become a member of the European Union's MEDIA Programme following Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.The association treaty, which is back dated to January 1 2003, was signed on March 25 and sees Slovenia committing an ...
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Saban completes takeover of KirchMedia film library
As planned following the purchase of the majority of ProSiebenSat.1 Media on March 17 (Screendaily, March 17), US media mogul Haim Saban has now concluded a deal with insolvency manager Michael Jaffe and the KirchMedia management to acquire the film library of 18,000 films and TV series and the film ...
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Das Werk sold to German production outfit
Huerth-based production outfit Media Select has acquired the core activities of the insolvent Das Werk postproduction group, in the face of stiff competition from a number of rival bidders from Germany, Europe and the USA. According to an official statement, the new owner plans to run Das Werk's regional operations ...