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Sony unveils plan for Korean animation channel
Sony Pictures Television Japan (SPTVJ) has announced plans to launch an animation channel in South Korea, its first move to operate an overseas TV station.SPTVJ, which is a satellite broadcasting arm of US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, has begun talks with local Korean partners and expects to see the channel distributed ...
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Gov't make Israeli industry wait for cash support
Israel's film-makers will have to wait some more before they can access the government support that seemed so near at hand,The Cinema Law, approved by Parliament some 18 months ago after years of struggles and lobbying, and celebrated by the industry as a major step towards solving some of its ...
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Paquin, Olin emerge in Belaguero's Darkness
Anna Paquin and Lena Olin will head the cast of Catalan director Jaume Balaguero's much-anticipated English-language debut, Darkness. Iain Glen, who co-starred on stage with Nicole Kidman in The Blue Room, Open Your Eyes-star Fele Martinez, Hannibal re-discovery Giancarlo Giannini, Fermi Reixach and newcomer Stephan Enquist round out the cast. ...
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Ramsay's Callar gets early call-up
Alliance Atlantis has closed a clutch of pre-sales on offbeat drama Morvern Callar, by one of Britain's hottest directing talents, Lynne Ramsay.The film has been snapped up by Diaphana in France, Artist House in Japan and Prooptiki in Greece. Momentum Pictures will release the film in the UK.Morvern Caller is ...
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DreamWorks and TBS strike $350m-$450m deal
In a landmark output arrangement estimated to be worth between $350m and $450m, Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) has entered into a deal with DreamWorks SKG giving TBS entertainment networks US broadcast TV rights to 60 of the studio's films. Touted as the biggest film licensing agreement in the history of ...
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Brando drops out of Scary Movie 2 due to illness
Marlon Brando, who made headlines earlier this month when he agreed to play a cameo role as an exorcist in Dimension Films' Scary Movie 2 for an estimated $2m, has been forced to drop out of the project due to illness."Unfortunately, due to his health issues and unavailability, we must ...
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IFC Films buys domestic rights to The Chateau
IFC Films has acquired domestic distribution rights to Jesse Peretz's digital semi-improvisational comedy The Chateau which had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival this week. Fortissimo Film Sales has international rights.Starring Paul Rudd and Romany Malco as two American brothers who inherit a small castle in ...
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Wind Dancer & Winchester buy Forever pitch
LA-based production outfit Wind Dancer Films has purchased the romantic comedy pitch Forever And A Day by Robert Zappia through its development fund with Winchester Films. Zappia, who wrote the story and screenplay for Halloween H:20 will also write the screenplay. He first worked with Wind Dancer principals Matt Williams, ...
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Carlton, Granada merge digital and free-TV assets
U K media concerns Granada and Carlton Communications have confirmed they are merging their free-to-air TV assets with their joint pay-TV venture ONdigital, bringing closer the total consolidation of commercial TV network ITV.Stuart Prebble, ONdigital chief executive, was also confirmed as chief executive of the enlarged ITV. Rob Fyfe, currently ...
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Miami hispanic festival mixes Latin and Loach
Argentinean drama Historias Clandestinas De la Havana will open the fifth Miami Hispanic Film Festival next month, while Ken Loach's Bread And Roses closes proceedings.Films in competition at the event include Chilean box-office hit Coronacion, by Silvio Ciaozzi, Venezuelan-Spanish co-production Oro Diablo and Brazilian blockbuster O Auto Da Compadecida. Also ...
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Bridget still weighty, The Hole penetrates well
While the top three performers at the UK box office remained unchanged this weekend four new releases managed to make some impact on their opening weekend.Leading the pack was Pathe Distribution's The Hole. The UK-produced thriller, based on the cult novel 'After The Hole' by Guy Burt, took a strong ...
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British Film Commission changes directors
Terri Jones has stepped down as director of the British Film Commission after joining in February last year, to be replaced by former freelance producer Clare Wise.Jones, formerly director of production at UK TV station LWT, is understood to have wanted to return to the TV sector. Wise most recently ...
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TEAM weaves web of distribution deals
Shares in beleaguered film and TV group TEAM Communications climbed 20% to Euros1.27 today after it announced two distribution deals.In the UK it signed a deal with Indigo Film and Television which will see Indigo handle international sales of TEAM's 2000-hour catalogue worldwide, except the Americas. In the US October ...
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Fox adds local duo to Mexican distribution slate
Buoyed by a promising new crop of Mexican films, 20th Century Fox de Mexico has picked up two more home-grown films for local distribution, Nicolas Echevarria's Vivir Mata and Angel Maria Huerta's Inspiracion.Vivir Mata is a romantic comedy shot in Mexico City and stars Daniel Gimenez Cacho (Nadie Hablara ...
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Kinobrasil adds Spanish-language sales arm
Many of Latin America's festival favourites are to be represented at Cannes by new international sales company Kinolatino.The company, which is a subsidiary of Zurich-based Kinobrasil, has already acquired European all rights to: Chilean box office hit, El Chacotero Sentimental; Argentina's Solo Por Hoy which appeared in Berlin's Panorama ...
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Helkon completes $16m Redbus takeover
The UK's Redbus Film Distribution has announced the finalisation of its $16m takeover by Germany's Helkon Media and that it will beat first-quarter expectations with a pre-tax profit of $1.1m.A significant slice of Helkon's final $8m payment to Redbus will go to Cliff Stanford, the Internet mogul who owns Redbus' ...
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New talent finds its home in Directors Fortnight
Marie-Pierre Macia in her second year as chief selector of the Directors' Fortnight (La Quinzaine Des Realisateurs) has picked an eclectic mixture with very few well-known directors. The biggest names are Amos Kollek, in Cannes last year with Fast Food, Fast Women and Sandrine Veysset, who previously directed festival favourite ...
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MM Media Capital renamed Cobalt Media Group
Two year-old financing company MM Media Capital Partners (MCP) has changed identity, renaming itself Cobalt Media Group in light of its reorganisation as a finance, sales and distribution company. The new name is effective May 1.Founded in 1999 by NatWest/Coutts Bank's Rodney Payne, Hal Sadoff and Myles Nestel with financial ...
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Senator Int'l makes first pick-up: Das Experiment
Senator International, the new Los Angeles-based sales company run by Joe Drake, has acquired worldwide rights excluding German-speaking Europe and Japan to Oliver Hirschbiegel's surprise hit Das Experiment. Marking the first film picked up by the new outfit since its formation earlier this year, Das Experiment has grossed $7.6m since ...
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Goldcrest dips into features with WW2 POW film
UK-based Goldcrest Films International has acquired all international rights to $14m war drama To End All Wars, starring Robert Carlyle and Keifer Sutherland.The deal marks a step into the theatrical arena for Goldcrest, which has been quiet on the features front since splitting with Guy Collins' IAC Films. The film, ...