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Harry Potter video release becomes fastest-selling title in the UK
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone has become the UK's fastest-selling release on video and DVD, with 1.25 million copies being snapped up within 24 hours of going on release on May 11.The previous record was held by Titanic, with first-day sales of 1.1 million. Warner Bros home video has ...
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African Media Entertainment sells Moonlighting film subsidiary
South African media company African Media Entertainment (AME), has sold its film entertainment subsidiary Moonlighting Filmmakers, in an effort to reduce its heavy debt burden. Moonlighting Filmmakers, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AME Commercial Filmmakers, was sold to Philip John Key, the subsidiary's original owner and CEO, for $1m (R10.2m) in ...
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Berlinale names Eastern European delegate
The Berlin International Film Festival has named Nikolaj Nikitin, editor-in-chief and publisher of the film magazine Schnitt as its new foreign delegate for Eastern Europe, covering: Belarus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. Nikitin will advise the Film Festival in the selection of films ...
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Loews Cineplex considers public offering
Revived North American cinema circuit Loews Cineplex is considering an initial public offering, according to the CEO of the company that engineered the refinancing of the insolvent exhibitor. Speaking at his company's annual general meeting on May 9, Onex Corp. CEO Gerald Schwartz said that exhibition was enjoying a return ...
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Cash crisis threatens Australian Film Awards
The future of the high-profile Australian Film Institute Awards has come under serious threat as cuts in funding continue to undermine confidence.Two years of uncertainty have weighed heavily on the Australian Film Institute (AFI). The organisation has already halved its staff, closed its library and will have finished returning all ...
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Alliance Atlantis makes pre-Cannes sale to Diaphana of Columbine
Diaphana Distribution has made a pre-Cannes acquisition for France of Michael Moore's documentary Bowling For Columbine which plays in competition on Friday. Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group is handling worldwide sales on the film under managing director, international motion picture sales, Charlotte Mickie."Diaphana is uniquely positioned and qualified to launch this ...
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Highlight to buy 23% of Constantin from Kirch
Swiss rights trader Highlight Communications has revealed that it is close to finalising a deal to buy 23% of German distributor-producer Constantin Film from KirchGroup's KirchBeteiligung unit.In a statement, Highlight said that the cash and shares deal, which was worth some $30m, would be completed in the next few days. ...
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Insomnia
Dir: Christopher Nolan. US. 2002. 117 mins.Christopher Nolan, the promising writer-director behind Following and Memento, makes an elegant and assured transfer to big-budget, star-driven film-making with Insomnia, one of the rare Hollywood remakes of a European film which is as good as the original. Expertly crafted and eminently intelligent, Insomnia ...
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UK cinemas kick off World Cup screenings
The UK's UCI cinemas will be screening all England and Ireland football matches along with the final in 20 of its 39 cinemas throughout the UK during this year's World Cup. And following a deal with Hutchinson 3G, Odeon Cinemas will be digitally broadcasting England's qualifying matches in five major ...
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Foreign language films triumph at UK box office
Two new releases grabbed all the attention at the UK box office this week despite opening outside the top 10 and featuring no Hollywood stars. Spanish-language title Sex And Lucia (Lucia Y El Sexo) opened in 13th place for distributor Metro Tartan taking an impressive three-day gross of $89,629 (£61,396) ...
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Alliance Atlantis makes pre-Cannes sale to Diaphana of Columbine
Diaphana Distribution has made a pre-Cannes acquisition for France of Michael Moore's documentary Bowling For Columbine which plays in competition on Friday. Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group is handling worldwide sales on the film under managing director, international motion picture sales, Charlotte Mickie."Diaphana is uniquely positioned and qualified to launch this ...
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Shoreline acquires three for Cannes led by Moving August
LA-based producer/distributor Shoreline Entertainment has acquired three new films for this year's Cannes Film Market led by worldwide rights to Christopher Fink's Moving August and international rights to the thriller Deceived starring Judd Nelson and Louis Gossett Jr.Moving August, which marks Fink's directorial debut, stars Eddie McClintock, Sarah Wynter and ...
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Screen International launches on-line database
Screen International launched ScreenIntelligence.com on May 15, the first day of the Cannes film festival. Developed in response to demand from the users of Screen International's daily news service screendaily.com, this online database of European films includes up-to-date details of almost 2,000 titles from 27 countries at every stage of ...
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Larry Clark's Ken Park goes Fortissimo
Ken Park, the new drama co-directed by controversial US film-maker Larry Clark and cinematographer Edward Lachman, has been picked up by Fortissimo Film Sales.The film, which recently completed principal photography, is a disquieting look at a group of in-line skaters in San Joaquin, California. Written by professional rebel and regular ...
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Larry Clark's Ken Park goes Fortissimo
Ken Park, the new drama co-directed by controversial US film-maker Larry Clark and cinematographer Edward Lachman, has been picked up by Fortissimo Film Sales.The film, which recently completed principal photography, is a disquieting look at a group of in-line skaters in San Joaquin, California. Written by professional rebel and regular ...
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Cobalt clocks into $100m Timeline
Cobalt Media Group is in advanced talks to take over selected international rights on Paramount Pictures and Mutual Film Co's $100m-plus Timeline, one of the biggest-budget productions being circulated at Cannes.The deal is thought to include some of the territories where Mutual usually puts its films through its consortium of ...
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New Line rings up fresh quartet of hot titles
New Line Cinema is introducing four new pictures to buyers at Cannes: Secondhand Lions; the long-awaited Dumb And Dumber prequel; action thriller Highwaymen; and clash of the horror titans movie Freddy Vs Jason to be directed by Ronny Yu.New Line, which has its first ever film in competition with Alexander ...
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Hollywood studios clamour for TF1's He Loves Me remake
France's TF1 International is in advanced negotiations with Hollywood studios over English language remake rights to the Audrey Tautou-starrer He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (A La Folie, Pas Du Tout). Several US production outfits are lining up to buy, including frontrunner 20th Century Fox.He Loves Me is produced ...
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Spain's 42nd Street takes English-language route
Spanish production outfit 42nd Street Productions is beefing up its international presence with two new English-language co-productions.Set to star Anjelica Huston, Rosanna Arquette , Gary Oldman and Sergi Lopez for director Carolina Ducrocq, The Lunatic Fringe is based on the autobiographical novel by US writer Chester Himes. The $7m co-production ...
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Omar Sharif to star in Dupeyron's Momo
Omar Sharif will star in Momo, the next film by Francois Dupeyron, the director of 2001 Cannes title La Chambre Des Officiers (Officer's Ward).Produced by Michele Halbersdat and Laurent Petin's Arp Selection which also produced La Chambre, the film, set in Paris in the sixties, is adapted from a novel ...