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Cuaron hires Torresblanco for El Delirio NY
Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron is setting up a New York office to complement the existing LA and Mexican branches of his Good Machine-backed production company, newly dubbed El Delirio. Frida Torresblanco, line producer for Spanish heavyweight Lolafilms, has been hired to help set up the new operation alongside Cuaron. El ...
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Pathe acquires UK rights to Dog Soldiers
Pathe Distribution has acquired UK rights to horror thriller Dog Soldiers from Victor Films following a bidding war for the film at London Screenings and MIFED.The film, produced by LA-based Kismet Entertainment, had its premiere screening at London. "The picture screened so well in London that we were confident it ...
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Soderbergh's next gets new title - Full Frontal
Steven Soderbergh's next film, formerly known as How To Survive A Hotel Room Fire has been retitled Full Frontal, and has begun production (Nov 6) in Los Angeles.Financed and distributed worldwide by Miramax Films, the contemporary comedy - a sequel "of sorts" to sex, lies and videotape - has an ...
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Nadia Bronson & Associates buys stake in DDA
Nadia Bronson & Associates (NB&A), the entertainment consultancy launched by industry veteran Bronson at Cannes this year, has formalised its relationship with Dennis Davidson & Associates (DDA) taking a minority equity stake in the longstanding PR consultancy. Bronson and associate Thomas Castaneda immediately join Davidson and partner, president and CEO ...
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Germany delights to Scary Movie 2
Scary Movie 2 took pole position at the German box office over the weekend with $4.4m and a site average of $6,584 from its 663 prints in the penultimate opening weekend before Harry Potter arrives in Germany on an anticipated 1,000-odd screens on November 22; In terms of admissions, the ...
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Winchester kills off fruitless Chuck Gordon deal
UK sales and financing house Winchester Entertainment, which unveiled interim results on Nov 15, has confirmed that it has ended its vaunted deal with US producer Chuck Gordon The Gordon deal, which first established a Hollywood presence for Winchester, expired without yielding a single film. Winchester spent a year ...
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Dutch tax confusion sees production plummet
Three changes in as many years to the Dutch system of tax breaks for the film industry have resulted in a reduction in the volume of local productions to an average of less than half that of just a year ago. Now a new version, incorporating improvements, is being readied ...
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Media Salles launches exhibition training scheme
MEDIA Salles, the cinema exhibition initiative of the European Union's MEDIA Programme, has launched a training strand for exhibitors with particular attention to the main trends shaping today's cinema industry and to the demands of audiences of European films.The first of the courses in the series "European Cinema Exhibition - ...
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Korea's MBC invests in PPP title: Cry Woman
Korean broadcast giant MBC has set Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) title Cry Woman as one of the first pictures to benefit from its new feature investment arm. MBC Production Co, which benefits from a modest $13m (Won15bn) revolving fund put up by 16 of the channel's regional branches and ...
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UK documentary awards for Killers Don't Cry
Clifford Bestall's Killers Don't Cry bagged two awards at the Grierson documentary awards, held last night (Nov 14) at the London headquarters of BAFTA.The documentary, which follows activities at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, came away with the Premiere Grierson and the best documentary on a contemporary ...
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Czech media mogul Zelezny arrested
Police took into custody the Czech Republic's top media mogul, Vladmir Zelezny, on Nov. 13 in a move that appears timed to coincide with recent international rulings against Zelezny and his firm, CET-21.The arrest of Zelezny could put a hitch in the planned sale of Barrandov Studios, but observers say ...
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Germany's Senator postpones three releases
German theatrical distributor Senator Film has announced that it will hold over three planned winter releases until early 2002. This follows a recent Constantin Film postponement of nine of its planned 25-film line-up for 2001 to next year (Screendaily, Oct 14 2001)The anticipated clogging up of screens with a handful ...
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Release patterns: Potter wide, Wars simultaneous
Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone is set to break records in the US this Friday when it opens in 3,672 US theatres.The previous record for the widest US release was held by Mission: Impossible 2, which opened last year on 3,653 theatres. Shrek still holds the record for the ...
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Coppola to board recut version of Suriyothai
Francis Ford Coppola is poised to board the recut international version of Suriyothai, the epic Thai historical drama directed by Prince MC Chatrichalerm Yukol.The $14m picture, which closes the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) on Saturday (Nov 17) night, currently runs to three hours and five minutes. It recounts the ...
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Re-cut Flower blossoms at blooming Pusan festival
Local picture Flower Island (Kotsom), by first time director Song Il-gon, was the outstanding winner at the 6th Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea. It scooped the main prize, the FIPRESCI prize and the audience award.The film, a story of three women literally on a voyage of self-discovery, ...
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Liberty confirms German operational base
US media group Liberty Media will base its German operations in Munich and create up to 10,000 new jobs throughout Germany. After meeting with Bavaria's prime-minister Edmund Stoiber in Berlin, Liberty's chairman John Malone declared that "the density of television stations and internet companies around Munich had been a deciding ...
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UK targeted for high volume 'easyCinemas'
easyGroup, the UK company which operates the no-frills airline easyJet, is contemplating a move into the densely populated UK exhibition sector.easyCinemas, a concept currently being researched by the company, could see the 'easy' concept shaking up the UK exhibition sector with its focus on low-cost tickets and high customer turnover.The ...
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Hong Kong's Singing Horse springs into production
Leading Hong Kong comedy director Joe Ma has set up a new production label Singing Horse Productions to deliver a slate of youth-oriented pictures. The company is jointly owned with Thomas Leong's talent agency International Pacific Artists (IPA) and Ivy Kong, former managing director of Mei Ah's production arm B.I.G. ...
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Intermedia predicts fourth quarter improvement
Intermedia is predicting a massive surge in revenues in the final quarter after announcing results for the first nine months that leave the company more than Euros 217m short of its target of Euros 355m in sales for the entire year.The Neuer Markt-listed powerhouse said that revenues of Euros 137.7m ...
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Film Council funds Grand Ambition option
UK support body the Film Council has funded the option on Lisa Michael's hotly contested novel Grand Ambition as part of the second round of awards from its $7.2m (£5m) a year development fund.Set in 1920s America, the love story was optioned by producers Diana Phillips (Bad Lieutenant, Birthday Girl) ...