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Creative Light buys international rights to Summer
LA-based sales company Creative Light Worldwide has picked up international rights to Wet Hot American Summer, the summer camp comedy which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year. USA Films has domestic rights and will release the film in New York on July 27.The film stars Janeane Garofalo, David ...
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UK's Downtown secures extra time to pay back debts
Troubled UK distributor Downtown Pictures has won a stay of execution by securing a Creditors Voluntary Agreement (CVA), according to the company's financial head, Simon Clement-Davies.The distributor secured 93% approval from its creditors, who agreed that Downtown's debts would be paid back over a period of time. Clement-Davies declined to ...
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Mumbai-based film production company Numero Uno and leading Indian film distribution company Shringar Films, have tied up with New York-based Rossellini Associates to distribute low-budget foreign films in India.The company aims initially to attract a small, specialised audience. Numero Uno is owned by Indian film producer Sanjay Khan. Rossellini Associates ...
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Liberty ties up German cable for Euros 5.5bn
Liberty Media Group has reached agreement with Germany's Deutsche Telekom (DT) to acquire its last remaining six cable television operations - covering 10m connected households - for a reported Euros5.5bn. In addition to 100% of the DT cable companies, Liberty will take over DT's service companies Deutsche Telekom Kabel-Services and ...
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Kerry Packer pulls plug on Indian TV joint venture
The HFCL-Kerry Packer joint venture (HFCL Nine Broadcasting India) has announced that it is shutting its television business in India and that the company's programmes on the government-owned DD-Metro channel will be taken off the air from September 10. This follows a decision by the company not to bid for ...
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Midaq Alley to kick off Mexico's local DVD market
Jorge Fons' multi award-winning Midaq Alley (El Callejon De Los Milagros), starring Salma Hayek, and Ernesto Gomez Cruz, will be the first Mexican film to be released domestically on DVD when it hits the shops on July 15. The release is being handled by Alameda Films, director Arturo Ripstein's family-run ...
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Norway appoints outsider to head up new Film Fund
The Norwegian Ministry of Culture has taken the local film community by surprise with its decision to appoint Stein Slyngstad, an economist with next to no experience of working in the industry, as director of the new Norwegian Film Fund, which comes into being on July 1.The 40-year-old economist has ...
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Karlovy Vary fills final gaps in festival line-up
The Karlovy Vary Film Festival has announced the full line-up of 17 films competing in the Czech festival's main competition, including five world premieres.The five films debuting at the festival, which opens in the Czech spa town July 5, are Firefly Dreams, a Japanese film directed by John Williams; Hi, ...
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Cinar goes straight, agrees final restitution
Cinar Corp., the troubled Canadian production company, has taken a further step in its return to legitimacy. Beset by scandals involving fraudulent credits and missing millions, the Montreal-based company has agreed to pay more than $1.7m in restitution to Telefilm Canada in order that its productions may once again qualify ...
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Woody Allen eyes Cannes for Hollywood Endings
Woody Allen has completed post-production on his 34th film Hollywood Endings -- co-financed by DreamWorks SKG and Germany's VCL -- and told international press this weekend that he thinks it is his funniest film in years. He added that he is hoping that it will be presented at the Cannes ...
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Columbia buys new territories on Senator thriller
Joe Drake's Senator International has concluded a second multiple-territory deal with Columbia Pictures on Luis Mandoki's action thriller 24 Hours starring Charlize Theron, Kevin Bacon, Courtney Love and Stuart Townsend.Columbia had already struck a deal for North America, Spain, Latin America, Benelux, Asia (excluding Japan), Greece, Portugal, Middle East and ...
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Christine Vachon gets Outfest 2001 Award
New York-based independent producer Christine Vachon will receive the 2001 Outfest Achievement Award at this year's Outfest, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, next month.Vachon, a pioneer in gay cinema and a partner in Killer Films, has credits including this year's opening night film at Outfest Hedwig And ...
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MGM warns lower revenues for year 2001
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) has warned that its second quarter results for the year as well as its full fiscal year 2001 results will be lower than anticipated "as a result of two theatrical releases which did not meet the company's expectations."Revenues for the second quarter ending June 30, 2001, are expected ...
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Amy Koster promoted at Paramount
Amy Koster has been promoted to executive director of creative advertising for the motion picture group of Paramount Pictures, continuing to report to Lucia Ludovico, executive vice president of creative advertising and print. In her new position, Koster will work on the development and implementation of creative print advertising and ...
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Shooting Gallery postpones Fall Film Series
Financially troubled US independent producer/distributor The Shooting Gallery will not release any films through its pioneering film series until 2002. The company has confirmed that the fall series which would release six new titles into 17 major US markets through its partnership with exhibitor Loews Cineplex Entertainment and sponsorship partners ...
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The Fast And The Furious takes massive $41m
Universal Pictures continued a spectacular summer at the box office over the weekend with a massive $41m take for its high-speed racing car actioner The Fast And The Furious (pictured left). Playing at 2,628 sites, the film, which is directed by Rob Cohen (Daylight, Dragonheart), cost only $38m to produce ...
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Franchise re-sells overseas rights to five titles
Franchise Pictures says it regained various international distribution rights to five features -- Angel Eyes, Get Carter, The Pledge, 3000 Miles To Graceland and Viva Las Nowhere -- after Germany's Intertainment Licensing failed to make the required payments on those films.In a statement released onSunday, Franchise claimed it had ...
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German film prize goes to The State I Am In
Christian Petzold's The State I Am In received the top honour of a golden Lola - as the prize is now known - at the 52nd German Film Awards ceremony in Berlin. The award carries a premium of up to $440,000 (DM1m) to be invested in a future project.Oliver Hirschbiegel's ...
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UK film minister launches fund for English regions
Newly-appointed UK film minister Kim Howells will launch a $8.4m (£6m) National Lottery fund for regional investment in England later this month.Howells, who took over from Janet Anderson as minister for tourism, film and broadcasting after this month's UK general election, will unveil the fund in Cambridge on Wednesday June ...
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Alibrandi producer takes ABC role
Robyn Kershaw, the producer of last year's award-winning film Looking For Alibrandi, will take up the role of head of drama at Australian national broadcaster ABC from July 2. Changes to ABC staffing, programming and operations have been the source of some controversy over the past year, with managing director ...