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THX and Kinepolis in joint-branding move
Lucasfilm THX has announced that Brussels-based Kinepolis Group has become Europe's first multiplex operator to adopt THX certification in every cinema screen, including its last remaining 30 non-THX screens. To promote its 'Total-THX' status, the two companies will adopt a co-branding campaign featuring both of their corporate logos."We want ...
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MDP reports fifth consecutive quarterly profit
MDP Worldwide Entertainment, Mark Damon's production and sales outfit which is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, has reported financial results for the first quarter ended December 31, 2001 reflecting the fifth consecutive quarterly profit reported by the company since Damon, its chairman and CEO, took over the helm and ...
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Columbia picks up debut comedy Bobby Ewing
Columbia Pictures has purchased the romantic comedy Bobby Ewing, the debut feature screenplay from US television writer/producer Linda Bloodworth, it was announced by Peter Schlessel, president of production for Columbia.Bobby Ewing is a comedy about an immigrant whose love for America is equalled only by his daring and desperate attempts ...
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Edinburgh film festival to honour Kon Ichikawa
The first Edinburgh International Film Festival under new artistic director Shane Danielsen will pay tribute to the Japanese director Kon Ichikawa with a retrospective of 11 of his films spanning the decade 1953 to 1963. Now 86 years old, Ichikawa originally studied animation and made his cinema debut with the ...
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2001: the greatest year in history, says Valenti
The state of the industry is robust, declared Motion Picture Association Of America president and CEO Jack Valenti at exhibition conference ShoWest yesterday. Despite the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, the economic recession and the traumatised exhibition sector, "2001 was the greatest box office year in film history," he said.In ...
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India removes restrictions on film investment
The Indian government has lifted restrictions on foreign investment in the burgeoning film and broadcasting industries, in a landmark move that is expected to have wide-reaching effects on the growth of the sector.The move, on March 5, followed a review of the entertainment sector policy, with the Cabinet of Ministers ...
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Intermedia crash has Splendid knock-on effect
Internationalmedia's cancellation of its proposed merger with Spyglass Entertainment has had a "knock-on" effect for rival German listed media company Splendid Medien, which saw its stock price plummet over 23% in trading on Wednesday morning.Splendid ended trading on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt at Euros 2.50 on Tuesday evening (March 5), but ...
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Vivendi Universal posts Euros 13.6bn net loss
Vivendi Universal posted a Euros 13.6bn net loss in 2001, due to a massive Euros 15.2bn goodwill write down, the result of a raft of expensive acquisitions. However, the group has met its operational targets for its media and communications division.Presenting VU's full-year report to the press March 4 in ...
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Brazilian exhibition race heats up
International and local exhibitors in Brazil have stepped up the pace in their ongoing race to provide this hugely under-screened territory with more multiplexes. In December, Cinemark International dethroned local giant exhibitor Severiano Ribeiro from its dominant position of many years. The Texas-based circuit now boasts 258 screens, ...
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Brit TV watchdog demands respect from Ali G
Working Title Films' Ali G IndaHouse, the feature debut of UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's spoof gangsta rapper, is heading for a showdown with. UK TV advertising watchdog BACC.Ali G's backer Universal said it has been told by BACC to get permission from the Queen, president George W Bush and ...
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Allen's Hollywood Ending to close San Fran fest
The world premiere of Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending will close next month's San Francisco International Film Festival, the event announced this week.Expected to attend are George Hamilton, Mark Rydell and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, who star in the comedy of Hollywood manners."It's our tribute to what Hollywood can do best - satirise ...
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UK actors cast for Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself
Denmark's Lone Scherfig is following her Berlin Silver Bear-winning Italian For Beginners with Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, which started shooting on location in Glasgow on Monday March 4. The director's first English-language film features a number of young UK actors including Jamie Sieves (Mean Machine) as the main character ...
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Kirch joins with Arcor for German VOD pilot
Leo Kirch's embattled pay-TV platform Premiere is seeking to increase business by joining forces with Arcor Online to launch a six-month video-on-demand (VOD) pilot to download feature films via broadband networks. After registering at the Arcor platform, participants will be able to order feature films to view on their computer ...
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UK film certification boss to stand down
Andreas Whittam Smith is standing down as president of UK certification body the British Board of Film Classification.Whittam Smith, credited with liberalising certification with regard to sexual content, made the decision after being appointed First Church Estates Commissioner, which is a Crown appointment. He steps down on July 31, having ...
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Alquimia Cinema's slate has Latin American flavour
Madrid-based production house Alquimia Cinema's new slate of films reflects the increasing attractiveness of Spain as a marketplace for actors from across Latin America (particularly financially troubled Argentina), including Ricardo Darin (The Son Of The Bride, Nine Queens), Leonardo Sbaraglia (Intact), Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother) and Dario Grandinetti ...
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Amnesia
Dir: Gabriele Salvatores. Italy/Spain. 2002. 114mins.Amnesia is the second 'little' film to be fired off by Gabriele Salvatores while he tries to raise the funds to make an adaptation of Amitav Ghosh's novel The Calcutta Chromosome. Teeth (Denti, 2000) was a curious tale of precarious dental and mental health which ...
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Carrie Fisher to host BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards
Carrie Fisher, the writer and actress who famously played Princess Leia in the Star Wars trilogy, will host the British Academy Of Film & Television Arts/Los Angeles (BAFTA/LA)'s 11th annual Britannia Awards show on April 12. Star Wars creator George Lucas is being honoured at the awards show with the ...
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Two movies share Sundance/Maryland prize
The Sundance Institute and the Producers Club Of Maryland have named two films as the recipient of the 2002 Producers Club Of Maryland Fellowship: Jacob & Josh Kornbluth's The Best Thief In The World and Tatia Rosenthal & Etgar Kerets' $9.99.The annual fellowship helps fund a film-maker's post-Sundance Lab and ...
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Simon Kenny leaves Disney for WBITD
Simon D Kenny has been named senior vice president, Europe, for Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD), assuming the responsibilities of Joshua A Berger who was recently promoted to the newly created position of executive vice president and managing director, Warner Bros UK.Based in London, Kenny will oversee WBITD's European ...
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All About The Benjamins
Dir: Kevin Bray. US. 2002. 96 mins. With three mid-level hits for New Line - Friday, Next Friday and The Players Club - already under his belt, rapper -turned-multihyphenate film-maker Ice Cube continues in a cheerfully generic vein with the studio's All About The Benjamins, only this time with the ...