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Artisan gets Kushner-Locke rights in North America
Artisan Entertainment has secured the North American rights to service the library assets of The Kushner-Locke Company. Subject to bankruptcy court approval, Artisan will become the sales agent controlling North American TV and home entertainment rights to over 300 Kushner-Locke titles.The titles produced or licensed by Kushner-Locke include feature films, ...
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The Simian Line
Dir: Linda Yellen. USA 2000. 106mins The cast members in this uneven ensemble comedy might as well be in different pictures; in fact, it's a pity they're not since the film starring Lynn Redgrave is worth watching, while the one featuring William Hurt and Samantha Mathis is not. Given that ...
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Europeans appreciate Training Day
Denzel Washington is proving his star appeal once again across Europe with his latest film Training Day. The crime drama in which Washington plays against type as a corrupt Los Angeles cop, opened this week to strong figures in Italy and Scandinavia as well as continuing to perform with gusto ...
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Leading UK talent agency bought by CSS Stellar
Peters Fraser & Dunlop (PFD), the leading UK talent agency with clients including Richard Curtis, Ewan McGregor and Kate Winslet, has been bought by UK management and marketing group CSS Stellar.CSS, which already represents TV personalities such as Michael Parkinson and The Weakest Link's Anne Robinson, is paying an initial ...
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Oz producers lobby for film promotion funds
Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) president Nick Murray has called for the introduction of a scheme to inject up to $260,000 (A$500,000) into the p&a budgets of local films.The move, he said, would help Australian films to overcome the difficulties they have in securing prominent and sustained release. "US ...
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Irish Film Board celebrates record year at home
A record nine films, including When Brendan Met Trudy, H3, Disco Pigs and About Adam, which received funding from the Irish Film Board, were released in Irish cinemas during 2001, taking more than $3.1m (£2.2m) at the Irish box office to date. Rod Stoneman, chief executive of The Irish Film ...
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Berlinale lines up 13-strong selection committee
The UK's Simon Perry, Holland Film's Claudia Landsberger and Pandora Film's Christoph Friedel are among the members of the revamped selection committee for the Berlinale's official competition section at the forthcoming festival (February 6-17, 2002).The 13-person line-up comprises: Dieter Kosslick (festival executive director), Wieland Speck (Panorama), Christoph Terhechte (International Forum), ...
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One Leg Kicking scores at Singapore box office
Eric Khoo, Singapore's most famed director, has scored at the box office with the football comedy One Leg Kicking. This much needed domestic hit opened on November 14 with $60,818 (S$111,973), Singapore's highest ever opening day gross for a local film. Distributor UIP took advantage of the local Nov 14 ...
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German scopas fund adds to family entertainment
Frankfurt-based animation studio scopas medien has joined a recent wave of funds concentrating on family entertainment, including Victory, Mediability, Equity Pictures, and Festival Film by launching a Euros 30m private media fund to invest in internationally marketable family entertainment for cinema and television.The fund is inviting private individuals to each ...
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Black Knight
Dir: Gil Junger. US. 2001. 93 mins. After the commercial disappointment of his team-up with Danny DeVito in What's the Worst That Could Happen', Black Knight sees comedian Martin Lawrence returning to the kind of solo shtick that turned his 2000 vehicle Big Momma's House (another Regency Enterprises production for ...
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Betty Fisher And Other Stories
Dir: Claude Miller. France-Canada. 2001. 102minsVeteran director Claude Miller brings a calm control and authority to the elaborately plotted Betty Fisher Et Autres Histoires, a demanding blend of psychological thriller and ensemble melodrama. Slow-burning but always absorbing, the film ambitiously attempts to cover a wide range of characters and developments ...
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Portman stages management buy-out
UK media concern Portman Entertainment has staged a management buy-out from its parent, PrimeEnt, the companies have announced. Chief executive Tim Buxton and managing director Tristan Whalley are understood to be staying with Portman, which is expected to continue to be active in film and TV sales and production. PrimeEnt, ...
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Intertainment ends Filmgroup deal as sales fall
Following the insolvency of the UK media company Filmgroup PLC, Germany's Intertainment has taken back from the company more than 75 titles including The Whole Nine Yards, 3000 Miles To Graceland and Battlefield Earth. News of the termination of the contract came as Intertainment reported a reduced surplus of Euros ...
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Tricky Life takes top prize at Huelva festival
Uruguayan box office wonder Tricky Life (En La Puta Vida) was awarded the top Golden Columbus (Colon de Oro) prize Saturday (Nov 24) by the jury of Spain's 27th annual Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva. A Uruguayan-Spanish-Belgian co-production sold internationally by Bavaria Film, Tricky is the first film ever nominated ...
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European Investment Bank starts loan facility
The Luxembourg-based European Investment Bank (EIB) has made its first investment into European audiovisual production as part of the "Audiovisual i2i" initiative by signing two agreements for Euros 20m each with the French credit institutions Cofiloisirs and Coficine.The agreements, which were signed on November 23 by the EIB's Vice-President Francis ...
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Loehr's Ming dynasty aims to rule in Asia
China's leading independent producer, the American-born Peter Loehr is to quit Beijing-based Imar Films and establish an international label focused on bigger and more ambitious pictures. His new outfit Ming Productions will also be located in Beijing, but starts life with a slate of four projects and a three-picture development ...
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Europa Cinemas gets MEDIA thumbs-up
Europa Cinemas, the support system for independent exhibitors which screen European films, closed its annual conference in Rome yesterday with the news that it had won a new two-year mandate from the Media programme."This is a first for us and is a real vote of confidence in the work that ...
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TV Nova still on track for Barrandov Studios
Czech broadcaster TV Nova appears to be pushing ahead with plans to purchase Prague's Barrandov Studios despite recent setbacks, including a ruling against it Wednesday (Nov 21) by the Czech Supreme Court in its dispute with the US's Central European Media Enterprises (CME).Last week, Nova director Vladimir Zelezny spent the ...
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Ocean's Wally Norman gets FFC funding
The Film Finance Corporation (FFC) is to invest in The Honourable Wally Norman, allowing Ocean Pictures to fulfil its sales agent ambitions. The comedy will be represented internationally by both Ocean and the UK's Alibi Film Sales, under an agreement struck when the Australian company launched nearly two years ago.The ...
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Spy Game opens well, but trails Harry and Monsters
It was another phenomenal weekend for Warner Bros' Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone across North America. Over Thanksgiving Weekend, the film took a mighty estimated $58.5m from Friday to Sunday and a whopping $83.5m for the five-day period Thursday to Sunday (the official holiday was last Thursday). Those were ...