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Himel & Jack join Drake at Senator International
Senator International, the LA sales arm of Germany's Senator Entertainment, has made a further two appointments, hiring Paula Himel as vice president, sales, and Brent Jack as vice president, international marketing.The announcement follows the appointment earlier this month of Brian Goldsmith as CFO and executive vice president of operations and ...
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Fox Studios Australia to close the Backlot
Fox Studios Australia is to shut down its loss-making public entertainment site, the Backlot to expand the professional component of its otherwise hugely successful central Sydney site.A restructure is also planned that will see Lend Lease Corporation sell its 50% share in the studio portion of the site back to ...
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Bunuel And King Solomon's Table
Dir: Carlos Saura. Spain-Germany-Mexico. 105 mins.Bunuel And King Solomon's Table (Bunuel Y La Mesa Del Rey Salomon) closed September's San Sebastian International Film Festival with a resounding thud. One influential local critic called it "probably the worst Saura has made," proving that the combination of a respected veteran filmmaker (Carmen, ...
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Potter and Rings will deliver for AOL Time Warner
"The worldwide premieres of Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone next month and The Lord Of The Rings in December will lead our strongest-ever quarter for filmed entertainment," forecast AOL Time Warner chief Gerald Levin.He made the prediction today (17 Oct) as he presented third quarter results for the world's ...
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Truly Human (Et Rigtig Menneske)
Dir: Aake Sandgren. Denmark. 2001. 93 mins. This sixth production from the Dogme 95 stable is a bittersweet fantasy variant on the "noble savage" genre that has exercised art-house films such as Francois Truffaut's L'Enfant Sauvage or Werner Herzog's The Enigma Of Kasper Hauser, as well as more mainstream fare ...
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Little Bird feathers its nest with new talent
Flush with the success of Bridget Jones's Diary and the US release of Croupier, UK-based production outfit Little Bird is revving up its slate by expanding its network of affiliated filmmakers and international financing partners.Producer-director team Dixie Linder and Tim Roth have joined the company to develop a slate of ...
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Loews Cineplex and Yelmo expand in Spain
Loews Cineplex and Spanish partner Yelmo Films have announced they will pump a Euros 60m (pts9.98bn) loan into the construction of eight new multiplexes for Yelmo Cineplex, their joint exhibition venture in Spain.The capital injection will supplement current cash flow and Loews' initial contribution to the venture on its 1998 ...
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UK property developer launches UKI Films
Secretive UK property player UKI has entered the film production business, launching UKI Films with former Rocket Pictures development chief Polly Steele.UKI, said to be worth up to $1bn (£700m), is covering overheads and providing an annual development fund of $217,000 (£150,000) over three years. Steele, who produced Rocket's Women ...
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Foreign films enjoy bumper year in North America
Sony Pictures Classics widened Jacques Rivette's Va Savoir from three to seven prints last weekend, scoring $67,268 for a fine $9,610 screen average. The success of that film, added to First Look's hit Italian release Bread And Tulips and Menemsha's long-running Philippine American hit The Debut ($64,670 on just six ...
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Fiona Watts returns to Warner Bros marketing in LA
Fiona Watts, a veteran international marketing executive who spent ten years at Warner Bros Pictures from 1988 to 1998, is returning to the studio in Los Angeles after two years as a consultant in the UK.She is being appointed senior vice president, international marketing, reporting directly to Sue Kroll, president, ...
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Microsoft bets on Intertainer for broadband VOD
Microsoft will be making a significant push into the online entertainment market by offering VOD broadband service Intertainer through its widely available internet portal when it is revamped next week under the name of MSN 7. Intertainer's VOD service will made be available in the top 35 broadband markets in ...
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Germany's Constantin relinquishes Mandalay output
Germany's ConstantinFilm will not be renewing its output deal arrangement with Mandalay Pictures when it expires at the end of this year. The decision comes as the producer-distributor is drawing up a new strategy for filling its product pipeline for theatrical releases. As a recent bank analystreport observed, until now ...
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Maziya appointed CEO of African Broadcast Network
Savannah Maziya has been appointed chief executive officer of the African Broadcast Network, a pan-African TV network launched in January this year. South Africa-based ABN currently operates a one-hour primetime feed to GTV (Ghana), KBC (Kenya), AIT (Nigeria), ITV (Tanzania), ZNBC (Zimbabwe) and ZBC (Zambia), but is poised to expand ...
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Latvia becomes 27th Eurimages member
As from 1st January 2002, Latvia will become the 27th country to join Eurimages, the support fund for the co-production, distribution and exhibition of European films. Consequently all projects involving a Latvian co-producer can be presented for the forthcoming deadline for applications on 10 January 2002. Latvia will also ...
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Oberhausen to analyse Catastrophe as media event
The ways in which catastrophes become media events will be the focus of the Special Programme at next year's edition of the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (2-7 May 2002).The events of September 11 have given the programme a new topicality and resonance which had not been anticipated when preparations ...
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Hamburg film fund invests in production support
New film projects by Margarethe von Trotta, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Volker Schloendorff, and Rolf Schuebel have received backing in the latest round of funding by Hamburg's regional public film fund FilmFoerderung Hamburg. A total of $1.2m (DM2.6m) production support was given to von Trotta's Rosenstrasse project, which will begin shooting ...
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Besson's Europa in major output & facilities deal
Vivendi Universal and Canal Plus have signed a three-year, ten picture deal with Luc Besson's company Europa Corp. The partnership also includes the use by Universal Music and Universal Studios of Besson's own high-tech facilities Digital Factory.The amount represented by the various deals remained undisclosed. Vivendi Universal chairman and ...
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SPC buys Almodovar's latest for North America
Sony PicturesClassics (SPC) has acquired North American rights to Pedro Almodovar'snext film Hable Con Ella (Talk To Her) in a deal struck with the film's sales agent, Good MachineInternational.This is thefourth Almodovar film to be released in the US by the SPC managementtrio of Michael Barker, Tom Bernard and Marcie ...
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The Last Castle
Dir Rod Lurie. US 2001. 130 mins.The big mystery of prison action film The Last Castle is not how Robert Redford was cast in the lead - he received $11 million, his highest pay cheque to date - but how director Rod Lurie got such low-key and unimpressive performances ...
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Breve Traversee (Brief Crossing)
Dir: Catherine Breillat. France. 2001. 82 mins. While too slight, both dramatically and visually, to be entirely persuasive as a cinema feature, Catherine Breillat's contribution to a 10-part series commissioned by French broadcaster Arte "on the theme of difference and equality between the sexes" is an incisive and elegant chamber ...