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Sudden, major changes announced at Spain's Admira
Spanish powerhouse Admira underwent a radical shake-up Friday (Jan 11) when parent company Telefonica announced the replacement of executive president Juan Jose Nieto by Luis Abril, who was appointed secretary general of Telefonica last year.Likewise, Juan Ruiz de Gauna, CEO of Admira's digital satellite TV platform Via Digital, was replaced ...
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Orange County is strong but Rings, Mind still top
Paramount Pictures enjoyed a strong estimated $15.1m opening with teen comedy Orange County over the weekend in North America but it was not big enough to topple New Line's The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring and Universal's A Beautiful Mind from the top two slots.Fellowship, playing ...
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Spyglass, Intermedia merge into indie giant
As anticipated, independent powerhouse Intermedia has signed an agreement to merge with Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum's Spyglass Entertainment. This creates an entity with an annual output of major movies as big as any studio and bringing The Walt Disney Studios (TWDS) into the company as a shareholder and potential ...
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Samuel Goldwyn Films gets US on Das Experiment
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Oliver Hirschbiegel's Das Experiment, the German box office hit which is also the Germany entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. The deal was struck by Joe Drake, president of Senator International which represents the film, with Samuel Goldwyn Films' ...
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Broadcast Critics shower kudos on A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind dominated the Broadcast Film Critics Association awards over the weekend, taking the awards for best film of the year as well as director for Ron Howard, actor for Russell Crowe and supporting actress Jennifer Connelly.Howard tied with Baz Luhrmann for the director prize for Moulin Rouge. Other ...
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Redford launches all-documentary US channel
Sensing a new-found hunger fortruth in light of everything that has happened in the world since September11th, Robert Redford is stepping up his involvement in the non-fiction sphereby launching both a new US documentary network and also assuming control of afund that has until now seeded as many 50 international ...
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Miramax goes Tadpole fishing at Sundance
The Sundance Film Festival has once again witness an aggressive bidding war as Miramax Films outgunned Fox Searchlight Pictures to grab worldwide rights to Gary Winick's shoestring-budgetTadpole for around $6m. At the same timeas many as five leading distributors continue in hot pursuit of Miguel Arteta's The Good Girl.But bragging ...
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Tragic death of indie film-maker Ted Demme
Ted Demme, the film director who most recently made Blow starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz, died tragically of a heart attack yesterday aged 37.Demme, the nephew of Oscar-winning film-maker Jonathan Demme, had forged a reputation as a film-loving commentator on the Independent Film Channel (IFC) as well as director ...
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Gerry
Dir: Gus Van Sant. US-UK. 2001. 103mins.After reaching the nadir of his career with the pointless remake of Psycho, followed by mainstream Hollywood fare Finding Forrester, an old-fashioned star vehicle for Sean Connery, Gus Van Sant goes back to his independent roots with Gerry, a visually compelling road movie that ...
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Tadpole
Dir: Gary Winick. US. 2002. 78minsA comic delight that features one of the painfully funniest restaurant scenes in recent memory, Gary Winick's Tadpole became an audience favourite the moment it screened in Sundance this year and an immediate target for studio distributors who saw the potential for a theatrical breakout ...
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California proposes production tax incentives
An apparently escalating decline in local production has prompted the state of California to propose a tax incentive to encourage film and TV producers to shoot in the state. California governor Gray Davis has announced that, if instituted, the labour-based tax credit would return $230m to the production community over ...
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Hamburg's public film fund under threat
The German city of Hamburg's status as a film and TV production location is under serious threat following plans by the new Senate to slash almost $915,000 (DM 2m) from the 2002 budget for the city's public FilmFoerderung film fund.Until now, the city's cultural and economic senates had each contributed ...
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Large format Beauty & The Beast's $8m fortnight
Disney's North American large-screen format release of Beauty And The Beast is performing at near-record box office levels across the giant screen US network. Playing on 67 screens in the U.S. and Canada, the film has grossed $8m since its Jan 1 launch including approximately $2.1 million over last weekend.In ...
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IM profit warning clouds Spyglass deal
Neuer Markt-listed Internationalmedia's (IM) announcement that it will miss its 2001 targets has clouded analyst enthusiasm about the Spyglass takeover deal and sent shares falling by over 20% to Euros 18 by mid-afternoon Monday (Jan 14).In an ad.hoc announcement for the Spyglass transaction, IM also declared that "according to first ...
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CJ Ent wins Korea's film industry flotation race
South Korean major CJ Entertainment will become the territory's first film company to go public with an initial public offering on Korea's KOSDAQ exchange on February 5. The company plans to float 30% of its stock, hoping to raise a minimum of $31m.A founding shareholder of DreamWorks SKG and one ...
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Policewoman, Slurb rule German Critics nominations
Andreas Dresen's The Policewoman (Die Polizistin) and Ben Verbong's family film The Slurb (Das Sams) have each bagged three nominations from the German critics association (Verband der Deutschen Filmkritik) for this year's German Film Critics Prize Both films are nominated in the Best Film category along with Oliver Hirschbiegel's The ...
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Berlinale Panorama: two thirds confirmed
New films by Lynne Stopkewitch, Mika Kaurismaki, Monica Treut, Ventura Pons and Marius Holst are among the films which have been confirmed so far as two-thirds of the line-up for the Berlinale's Panorama section.26 nations will be participating with films in the Panorama's main programme and the Panorama Dokumente and ...
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Berlinale Panorama: two thirds confirmed
New films by Lynne Stopkewitch, Mika Kaurismaki, Monica Treut, Ventura Pons and Marius Holst are among the films which have been confirmed so far as two-thirds of the line-up for the Berlinale's Panorama section.26 nations will be participating with films in the Panorama's main programme and the Panorama Dokumente and ...
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Venture capitalist funds EM.TV share acquisition
Dutch venture capital company Constant Ventures is to finance EM.TV board chairman Werner Klatten's acquisition of shares in the company.In an agreement signed on Jan 14 with Klatten's company: WKB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Constant Ventures will secure finance for WKB to acquire 36.16m EM.TV shares. On the basis of the current ...
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Helkon severs ties with Buena Vista International
German media concern Helkon Media has severed its last link with the local outpost of Buena Vista International (BVI) by ending its booking and billing arrangement for the German theatrical release of its films after ending its TV output agreement with BVI at the end of last year.In future, Helkon ...