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Kloiber plans assault on Kirch pay-TV domination
Herbert Kloiber's Tele Muenchen Group (TMG) and digital and interactive TV service company GET ON AIR are planning an ambitious 2002 launch of three German digital pay-TV channels to compete with Leo Kirch's high-profile Premiere World. The partners' timetables sees cartoon channel Toongate going on air in March, with action ...
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CJ becomes Korea's first international distributor
South Korean major CJ Entertainment will become the first Korean company to distribute directly into international territories when it releases the political drama Joint Security Area (pictured) in Hong Kong on January 3, 2002. The film will be the first in a series of planned overseas releases in Hong ...
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Sony subsids join German lobby group
Sony Pictures Entertainment's German film and television production arms Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion (DCPF) and Columbia TriStar Film und Fernsehproduktions (CTFF) have become the 21st and 22nd members of Germany's producer lobby group film20."I am very pleased that Deutsche Columbia Pictures was accepted as a member of film20 and ...
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Jacques Tati to be feted at 55th Cannes festival
A special tribute to Jacques Tati, on the 20th anniversary of his death, which will include public, open-air screenings of two of his most popular films, will be part of next year's 55th Cannes film festival, to be held May 15-26.A restored 70mm print of the French film-maker's Playtime will ...
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Artisan Pictures revs up with Garbo Deception
Artisan Pictures has announced its first script project since Artisan Entertainment merged with Bob Cooper's Landscape Entertainment in Sept and Cooper took over as CEO of Artisan Pictures.The company has hired screenwriter Bill Wheeler to draft the feature film script The Garbo Deception based on actual source material recounting the ...
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Dimension, Storyopolis plan Opus animated film
Dimension Films has acquired the rights to develop and produce an animated feature based on the cartoon character Opus, a penguin who first appeared in the first year of Bloom County in 1980. The project is the first film to come from the newly established first-look deal between Dimension and ...
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Beautiful Mind, Ring top Broadcast Critics noms
The US Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced its nominees for the seventh annual Critics Choice Awards which will be announced on Jan 11 in Los Angeles. Leading the way with five nominations was A Beautiful Mind followed by The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring ...
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Ross Landsbaum joins Miramax as evp, CFO
Miramax Films has hired Ross Landsbaum as executive vice president of finance and operations and chief financial officer. He will oversee the company's finance, accounting, reporting, information systems, facilities and human resources as well as working on new financial arrangements for film projects.He will report directly to co-chairman Bob and ...
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Curb acquires Dummy with Brody, Jovovich
LA-based sales outfit Curb Entertainment has acquired international distribution rights to Greg Pritikin's romantic comedy Dummy starring Adrien Brody, Illeana Douglas and Milla Jovovich.Brody stars as a shy, unemployed ventriloquist who falls in love with his employment counselor. The film was produced by Richard Temtchine and Bob Fagan through Quadrant ...
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UK's Working Title options boo.com story
Working Title Films is to make a film about the spectacular boom and bust story of on-line fashion store boo.com.Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner's UK production company has optioned the rights to the book boo hoo: a dot.com story from concept to catastrophe. The story offers an eyewitness account of ...
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Miramax nears $1bn in worldwide grosses for 2001
Miramax Films has broken a company record for annual worldwide gross in 2001, taking some $950m so far this year and expecting to pass the $1bn mark by year end. Domestic takes from the Miramax and Dimension labels totalled over $600m while international totals through Miramax International partners came to ...
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Kinowelt Medien AG files for insolvency
Embattled German distributor Kinowelt yesterday (Dec 19) filed insolvency proceedings in the Munich courts.The company described the move as a "precautionary measure" but also said that the move had been triggered by the failure of talks which had been taking place with ABN AMRO Bank over the repayment of a ...
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Spain's Goya nods dominated by The Others
Alejandro Amenabar's international box office hit The Others is up for 15 of Spain's Oscar-equivalent Goya Awards in the 16th annual ceremony to be held February 2, leading a competitive pack of four titles vying for most of the major prizes.In the list of nominees by the Spanish Cinema Academy ...
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French loyalty cards boost an upward trend
The first in-depth report on the effect of France's controversial cinema loyalty passes, introduced in March 2000, reveals that card-holders are on the increase in the country, giving benefits to both exhibitors and distributors.P>The report, by French film support body CNC, also reveals that foreign titles, as opposed to French ...
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KirchMedia sells Mediaset stake for Euros 120m
Christmas has come early for German media mogul Leo Kirch after his free-TV division KirchMedia sold its 1.28% stake in Italy's Mediaset for Euros 120m. The transaction is part of an ongoing strategy by KirchMedia to focus its business operations on the German language market ahead of its planned merger ...
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New German talent premieres for Ophuels Prize
World premieres of Oliver Rihs' Brombeerchen, Zueli Aladag's Elefantenherz and Almut Getto's Fickende Fische are among the 18 films by up-and-coming German-language filmmakers selected for the official competition of the Max Ophuels Prize Film Festival in Saarbruecken (January 22-27, 2002).For the 2002 edition, 14 of the competition films are either ...
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Toronto fest selects Canada's top 10 films
The Toronto International Film Festival Group has inaugurated a list of the 10 Best Canadian films of 2001. And, in inimitable Canadian style, the list is not ranked but alphabetical. The Group is the umbrella organisation for the annual film festival as well as the Spockets Childrens' Film Festival and ...
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Untitled 03 among recipients of UK Premiere Fund
The UK Film Council's Premiere Fund is investing £500,000 in acclaimed director Mike Leigh's Untitled 03, currently in development. Details of the subject of the film, produced by Simon Channing-Williams of Thin Man Films and set to shoot in 2003, are typically sketchy. Traditionally, Leigh does not work ...
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Cannes chooses six for residence programme
The Cannes festival has selected six young directors to participate in the fourth running of its Residence training programme.On the basis of the candidates short films or first feature, a jury headed by Constantin Costa-Gavras selected: Alicia Duffy from the UK, Jens Jonsson from Sweden, Manu Kurewa from Zimbabwe, Sergio ...
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Momentum for Britney Spears' Crossroads
Momentum Pictures has acquired the UK rights to Britney Spears vehicle Crossroads, the company confirmed this week.Momentum, which has slated the film to open March 29, joined other international buyers such as Sogepag in Spain, Constantin Film in Germany and Egmont in Scandinavia in an unusual auction. Distributors were invited ...