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Helkon issues downgrade, Kinowelt issued ultimatum
Echoing the experience of several other publicly listed German media companies this year, producer/rights trader Helkon Media has downgraded its sales and earnings expectations for the 2000/2001 financial yearSales are now expected to total $111.9m (DM 240m) rather than the planned $148.2m (DM 318m), although this would still translate into ...
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Recession watch - Part IV
In the fourth part of Screen International's analysis on the effect on the industry of the Sept 11 attacks on the US, the threat of recession on film and television markets is assessed.Abstracted from Screen InternationalFilm and TV marketsNervous flyers and recession threats have already taken their toll on the ...
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European Short Film 2001 - Prix UIP nominations
A host of European short films have been nominated for next month's European Film Awards, the European Film Academy (EFA) and sponsors UIP announced during the Flanders International Film Festival in Ghent.Amongst the contenders are The Heist, by Dennis Petersen and Frederik Meldal Norgaard of Denmark, Lo Basico, by Spain's ...
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EM.TV signs co-production deal with First Asia
Germany's EM.TV & Merchandising has signed a three-year co-production pact with First Asia Entertainment Productions Ltd (FAE) to collaborate on at least eight animation series with a programme volume of at least 208 half-hours of programming from EM.TV's portfolio until November 2004.The deal grants FAE free-TV, pay TV and home ...
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Ford, Delaney, Martinez promoted at Fireworks
LA-based Fireworks Pictures, a subsidiary of Jay Firestone's Canwest Entertainment, has promoted three key staff in its business affairs and sales departments.Maura Ford (nee Hoy) has been promoted to vice president of operations from her previous position as director of international sales. She joined Fireworks in 1999 in a primary ...
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LA German Festival starts with The Tunnel on Nov 9
The second annual Festival Of German Cinema Los Angeles has been set for Nov 9-15, kicking off with Roland Suso Richter's The Tunnel and closing on Nov 15 with Oliver Hirschbiegel's The Experiment.Organised by the Export-Union Of German Cinema, the festival has confirmed the attendance of Richter and Hirschbiegl along ...
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Alliance Atlantis buys int'l rights on Baran
Alliance Atlantis Pictures International has acquired international rights excluding Italy to Majid Majidi's Iranian drama Baran which played in the New York Film Festival this week.Miramax Films has rights in North America and Italy, and Alliance Atlantis will release the film through its ongoing distribution agreement in Canada.Baran, which won ...
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Francke launches Ministry Of Fear at Little Bird
Former Edinburgh International Film Festival artistic director Lizzie Francke (pictured) has joined Little Bird, the Irish-based production company whose principals boast credits ranging from UK hit Bridget Jones's Diary to Werner Herzog's Invincible, to launch a horror label titled The Ministry Of Fear.Francke is to bring in projects for a ...
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South West 9 (SW9)
Dir: Richard Parry. UK. 2001. 90 mins.South West 9 is aimed squarely at the kids from the British clubbing scene who made a huge hit out of 1999's Human Traffic, also produced by Fruit Salad Films (which, hoping to reproduce that success, has also taken over the distribution of the ...
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POV: Point Of View
Dir: Tomas Gislason. Denmark. 2001. 110 mins. One of the most striking and unusual films in San Sebastian's Zabaltegi New Directors section, POV: Point Of View is a visually brilliant, thematically skimpy homage to the classic American road movie that will provoke love-or-loathe reactions. Its most likely appeal is to ...
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Total, Titan in Brazil/Mexico coproduction pact
Two fledgling companies from Brazil and Mexico have signed a co-development and production accord. Brazil's Total Filmes and Mexico's Titan Prods will co-produce a series of feature films, starting with a comedy. Details of the first project are still sketchy but according to Titan producer/founder Matthias Ehrenberg and Total's co ...
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First buzz films tipped for next year's Berlinale
New films by Wim Wenders, Tom Tykwer, Constantin Costa-Gavras and Rosa von Praunheim are among the first titles being tipped for an invitation to Dieter Kosslick's first Berlin festival as director.While Wim Wenders' music documentary Vill Passiert about the German rock dinosaurs BAP - to be distributed in Germany by ...
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China sets rules for foreign imports & investment
Heading a major delegation of Chinese officials and programme makers at the MIP-COM television market, Zhao Shi, deputy minister of the State Administration of Radio, Film & TV (SARFT) said China welcomes outside input into the development of its broadcast industry. But she said that China is not about to ...
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Odeon plans digital screening of Broadway musical
UK cinema circuit Odeon is to digitally screen a Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Putting It Together at its flagship 2000-seat Odeon Leicester Square cinema in London's West End.Four screenings of the pre-recorded musical will take place over two days in November, with a standard evening ticket price of ...
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Spain's Goya awards adds documentary prize
Spain's Oscar-equivalent Goya Awards will introduce a new best documentary prize alongside its usual line-up of awards for this year's 16th annual edition, to be held February 2.A film's classification as documentary will be decided by its producer(s), though competitors will still be eligible to opt for awards in the ...
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New German digital film prize is postponed
A new German film prize, the E-Motion Bytes Award, which was launched in January by the Hof Film Days and the Berlin-based production company Road Movies, for digitally-produced shorts of up to 10 minutes in length, has had its first awards event postponed from this year's festival (October 24-28) until ...
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MIP-COM 2001: attendance low, business high
The MIP-COM television programme market which closed yesterday, exactly one month after the terrorist attacks in the US "were clearly affected" by the climate of political uncertainty. That was the conclusion of Michael Weatherseed, director of television for the market organisers Reed-Midem, as he reported a drop in attendance, but ...
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AFI Fest unveils lineup including new Jaglom pic
AFI Fest 2001, the Los Angeles International Film Festival, announced its full lineup at a reception on Wednesday night. Joining the already announced opening night film (Dark Blue World), centrepiece gala (Lantana) and closing night film (Monster's Ball) are 57 feature films including eight world premieres. 49% of the entire ...
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Yoshimitsu Kaji joins SPE Japan as mktg manager
Yoshimitsu Kaji has joined Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan (SPEJ) as theatrical marketing manager, having been marketing director at Warner Bros International Distribution for the last two years.Reporting jointly to Nigel Clark, executive vice president of international marketing for Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) and to Keiko Aoki, general manager ...
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Senator International to back Nothing from Natali
Vincenzo Natali, the Canadian film-maker behind Cube and Pandora's upcoming Company Man, has signed to direct the movie Nothing for Senator International.Senator is executive producing, providing principal financing for and will handle worldwide distribution on the film; The Klockworx Co holds all rights in Japan. It is the first Natali ...