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Ledoyen returns to host Cannes ceremonies
French actress Virginie Ledoyen was this week confirmed as hostess for the opening and closing ceremonies at Cannes, reprising her role from 2000.The local beauty who also represents perfume house L'Oreal, has starred in nearly 30 films and made her international break-through with James Ivory's A Soldier's Daughter Never Dies. ...
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Fireworks strikes output deal with TeleMuenchen
Fireworks International, the London-based sales arm of Canadian film and TV group Fireworks Entertainment, has struck an exclusive output deal with Germany's TeleMuenchen (TMG) covering all its TV programming.In German-speaking Europe, TMG, which has production, broadcast and distribution interests will handle Fireworks' entire slate. It will also represent Fireworks on ...
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Spain's producers' federation appoints three VPs
The Spanish Producers' Federation (FAPAE) has named three vice presidents as a part of an ongoing restructuring of its leadership.Filmax president Julio Fernandez, current president of the Catalan producers' association Barcelona Audiovisual; Pancho Casal, spokesperson for the Independent Producers' Association of Galicia (AGAPI); and Enrique Uviedo, president of the Spanish ...
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Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending to open Cannes
Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending will mark the director's first trip to Cannes when it opens the festival out of competition, the event announced on Thursday.Publicity-shy Allen has shown Manhattan, The Purple Rose Of Cairo and Hannah And Her Sisters at Cannes, but has declined to attend the screenings. The French ...
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Japanese debut wins Paris festival's top prize
Shoujyo (An Adolescent) (below) the first film directed by Japanese actor Eiji Okuda, won the top prize at the 17th annual Paris Film Festival (April 1-9).Mayu Ozawa who debuted as an actress in the film, also received the best actress award at the event.The film, based on the novel by ...
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TVA saves distribution arm through Christal alliance
Montreal-based TVA Group will merge the administration of its distribution arm, TVA International, with that of fellow Montreal distributor, Christal Films, breathing new life into an organisation TVA Group had considered abandoning. Under the terms of the service agreement, the new entity will operate under the name Topaze Communications. Both ...
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Hollywood races to remake Korean comedies
Two Korean hit comedies from 2001, My Sassy Girl and Hi, Dharma!, have been sold to Hollywood studios for English-language remakes. Korean distributor IM Pictures revealed that DreamWorks SKG has bought remake rights to My Sassy Girl (pictured) for $750,000 plus 4% of worldwide revenues earned by the remake. ...
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Austin Powers allowed to display his Goldmember
Austin Powers will get his Goldmember-ship after allcourtesy of an agreement reached yesterday between New Line Cinema and James Bondstudio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) The film, AustinPowers In Goldmember,will be released as just that on July 26, but according to the agreement, all futuretitles will be subject to MGM's approval if they ...
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Former Canton executive joins Senator in LA
Former Canton Coexecutive Nathan Kahane has joined LA-based Senator International as executivevice president, motion pictures, following the conclusion this week of asyndicated loan of 230m euros ($202m) by parent company Senator Entertainment.Kahane will headthe development and acquisition of feature films for Senator Internationalreporting to president Joe Drake and Senator Entertainment ...
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Sharp slide in VCL shares
Shares in VCL, the German video and production finance group, swung violently today. Having closed on Thursday (Apr 11) at Euros0.93, the shares dipped at one stage to Euros0.40. At 1300 GMT they had recovered to Euros0.73, a drop of 21% on the day.The company offered no explanation for the ...
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Barbet Schroeder becomes Critics Week godfather
Barbet Schroeder, the acclaimed international director responsible for Barfly Our Lady Of The Assassins and Reversal Of Fortune, is to be the godfather of the Critics' Week sidebar at Cannes.Schroeder, (pictured at left, on the set of his latest directorial effort, Murder By Numbers) will be honoured by a screening ...
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Olivennes departure plunges Vivendi into crisis
Denis Olivennes, Canal Plus' director general and director of Vivendi Universal, resigned on Friday in protest at the financial pressures being put on the company by its chief executive Jean-Marie Messier.The shock resignation - delivered in a three line note - rounded off a desperate week for Vivendi Universal and ...
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Oscar-winner Noe Productions files for insolvency
Winning the Oscar for best foreign film came too late to bring much comfort to Noe Productions. The company, which was the French co-producer on Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land and has previously been behind pictures such as Train De Vie and Les Portes De La Gloire, was declared insolvent ...
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Dandy (La Bande Du Drugstore)
Dir: Francois Armanet. France. 2001. 98 mins.Dandy suffers from some of the same superficiality as the posturing, blow-dried youths it portrays. It's difficult to see this film, about Parisian rich kids during the mid to late 1960s, appealing to their modern-day peers in the 16 to 20-year-old age group, who ...
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Murdoch seen moving in on KirchPayTV
The prospect of the KirchGroup's pay TV unit KirchPayTV filing for insolvency is now appearing 'extremely unlikely', according to a report in the German Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag (WamS).Sources close to talks told the newspaper that Rupert Murdoch is allegedly prepared to stump up Euros 600m to increase his ...
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Telefilm Canada backs four Quebecois films
Four Quebecois features have received the backing of Telefilm Canada, as the federal film and television support agency announced its first set of investment decisions through the Selective Component of the Canada Feature Film Fund (CFFF). 100% Bio. Directed by Claude Fortin and backed by Cinema Libre. A low-budget ...
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Parkhill has start date to dot the i for Summit
Summit Entertainment has scheduled April 21 to start production on dot the i, an urban love triangle story starring rising Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal, (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amores Perros).Award-winning novelist and screenwriter Matthew Parkhill makes his writer-director debut on the project, from UK production company Arcane Pictures. The ...
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Germany's RTL denies plans to acquire Constantin stake
Private German broadcaster RTL has denied claims made by EM.TV Board Chairman Werner Klatten at a press conference last week that the RTL Group is interested in acquiring a stake in distributor-producer Constantin Film. The suggestion that RTL might be interested in taking an interest in Constantin is arguably not ...
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Verhoeven receives Lifetime Award, reveals new projects
Accepting his Lifetime Achievement Award during the 18th Festival of the Fantastic Film in Amsterdam, director Paul Verhoeven revealed his next planned project, having had his latest feature, Official Assassins, cancelled post-September 11.While he claims to have several projects up his sleeve, convincing Hollywood studios has become increasingly difficult "Since ...