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Quebec's Falardeau takes director award
Quebec director Philippe Falardeau has won this year's Claude Jutra Award for The Left Half Of The Fridge (La Motie Gauche Du Frigo), a mockumentary that uses humour to tackle the issue of unemployment.The award will be presented to Falardeau on January 29 at the 21st Annual Genie Awards, Canada's ...
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Spain's Via Digital appoints general manager
Pedro Urieta has been appointed general manager of Spanish digital satellite TV provider Via Digital.Urieta, 42, was previously general manager of Via Digital parent company TPI, a subsidiary of telecommunications giant Telefonica. During his tenure he helped generate an income rise of 100% over four years.Urieta will work alongside Via ...
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Spain's Anita heads for Berlin's Panorama
Anita Takes A Chance (Anita No Pierde El Tren), from veteran Spanish director Ventura Pons, has been invited to screen in the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival.This marks the fourth consecutive year that Pons will screen a film in Berlin, following To Die- Or Not (Morir- O ...
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Spain: production up as local market share falls
Spanish production levels rose significantly last year but box-office for local product fell, according to the year-end analysis by the Spanish Cinema Academy.Spain produced a whopping 104 films last year, seven more than the previous year and 25 more than in 1998. Average budgets on Spanish films continued their decade-long ...
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Shooting Gallery buys six more for 3rd film series
The Shooting Gallery has announced the films it has acquired for its third film series at Loews Cineplex Entertainment theatres across North America.The six independent films which will screen over a three month period in 16 markets are Pawel Pawlikowski's British critical hit Last Resort and Kieron Welsh's Irish comedy ...
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Last Dance, Crouching Tiger drive holiday record
The North American box office continued the record pace set in December with a massive four-day Martin Luther King holiday weekend, up 38% from the same weekend last year and the biggest Martin Luther King Day weekend ever.Driving the box office was Paramount Pictures' Save The Last Dance, the latest ...
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Warner, FilmFour, Senator vow Death To Smoochy
Warner Bros, the UK's FilmFour and Germany's Senator have partnered on Death To Smoochy, a Robin Williams and Ed Norton comedy directed by Danny DeVito.The project, currently in pre-production, marks the next in the long-term production partnership that FilmFour and Warner announced last Cannes. It reverses the relationship on the ...
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TEAM raises $50m production fund for TV projects
US producer-distributor TEAM Communications Group is a launching a $50m TV production fund entitled TEAM TV Fund following a pact with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC).TEAM, which is listed on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt and the US NASDAQ exchange, has put up $ 5m of its own capital for ...
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Tele-Muenchen chief readies pay-TV push
German media mogul Herbert Kloiber is reportedly readying a digital pay-TV channel to go on air this summer.Tentatively titled TM-TV, the service is expected to screen action, adventure and science fiction genres. According to German press reports, Kloiber is planning the service with ex-TM3 managing director Jochen Krohne. The operation ...
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German fund doubles for international drive
The regional German film fund of Baden-Wuerttemberg, currently supporting the FilmFour-majority financed Buffalo Soldiers, is to almost double its annual spend to $10m as it seeks to attract further international productions.Fund organiser Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Wuerttemberg (MFG) has also launched a scheme whereby young producers can access a $1m fund ...
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Endemol sells back stake in Germany's G.A.T.
Munich-based TV production house G.A.T. Film- und Fernsehproduktion has bought back the 49% stake Dutch entertainment concern Endemol Entertainment acquired in the company three years ago.According to the specialist media newsletter Der Kontakter, the move was prompted by Telefonica's take-over of Endemol last year. That move was also followed by ...
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All The Pretty Horses
Don't listen to Hollywood cynics who are dismissing Billy Bob Thornton's western, All The Pretty Horses, as a kind of The Hi-Lo Country. Stephen Frears' 1998 failure may have also co-starred Penelope Cruz, but further comparison is vastly unfair. While Pretty Horses is not an exciting epic or even a ...
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Germany's CineMediaFilm merges internet arm
CineMediaFilm, one of Germany's first integrated media corporations, is merging its internet subsidiary Film.de with Heidelberg-based internet marketing platform kinokasse.de.CineMedia will receive a 25.1% shareholding in the online marketing venture. Film.de already boasts two million page impressions a month, while, along with more traditional concepts such as online booking, kinokasse ...
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Berlin firms up programme for Official Competition
Love story Chloe and horror title Inugmai - both from Japan - are understood to be competing at next month's Berlin International Film Festival as the line-up for the event's main competition section takes shape.Chloe, directed by Go Riju and starring Masatoshi Nagase, is an adaptation of surrealistic novel Froth ...
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Jodie Foster heads Cannes jury for 54th edition
Jodie Foster will head the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 9-20.The Academy Award-winning actress won the top prize at Cannes, the Palme d'Or, in 1976, for the role of 12-year-old prostitute Iris in Taxi Driver."I remember going to the festival with Taxi Driver when it ...
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Crouching Tiger rides Cast Away storm
UIP's Cast Away swept into the top position in the UK this weekend, but Columbia TriStar's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon posted the market's best screen average.The foreign-language epic continued on just 88 sites to retain fourth position with receipts of $976,700 and an average of $11,000. In its second week, ...
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EM.TV plays down KirchGroup impasse reports
Executives at Germany's beleaguered rights trader and merchandising concern EM.TV have played down wide-spread reports that talks with media concern the KirchGroup are on the rocks.EM.TV spokesman Michael Birnbaum was quoted by Financial Times Deutschland as saying that there were "no problems which do not overstep the normal level". He ...
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Australian films smash local cash records
Hit films led by The Dish, The Wog Boy and Looking For Alibrandi drove Australian films' share of last year's local box-office to more than double 1999's overall cash take, according to research released by the Australian Film Commission (AFC).Local films released theatrically in 2000 took $29.9m, the most local ...
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Cast Away sweeps number one spots across Europe
Cast Away took the number one spot in all territories where it opened as the re-teaming of Tom Hanks and Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis began its international roll-out over the weekend.UIP opened the picture in the UK, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Austria and Switzerland. The film topped the UK with ...