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Reisenbach joins Village Roadshow Pictures board
Sanford Reisenbach, the formerWarner Bros marketing chief, has been appointed to the board of directors ofVillage Roadshow Pictures International, the holding company of VillageRoadshow Pictures (VRP), the LA-based production division of Australia'sVillage Roadshow Ltd.The announcement was made byVillage Roadshow Ltd chairman John Kirby. Reisenbach joined Warner in 1979 asexecutive vice ...
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Fortissimo acquires world rights to KT
Dutch-Hong Kong sales outfit, Fortissimo Film Sales, has picked up world rights to Japanese-Korean co-production KT, which is set to screen in competition at the forthcoming Berlin Film Festival.Directed by Japan's Junji Sakamoto, the film is a thriller about the kidnapping of South Korea's current president Kim Dae Jung. It ...
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UK's Film Council development fund backs 20
UK support body the Film Council has announced its latest round of single film project investments through its Development Fund, including new films from cult director Richard Stanley and Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen.Twenty projects have received a combined total of£329,241, bringing the number of individual investments in single projects ...
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Rome's Dinocitta studios to be re-opened
Paris-based Tarak Ben Ammar, head of the rights trading venture Quinta Communications, has teamed up with Italian entrepreneurs Riccardo Pisa and Raimondo Lagostena to re-open Dinocitta, the famous Rome studios built by producer Dino De Laurentiis in 1964. Pisa, a real estate developer, and Lagostena, a Milan television entrepreneur, acquired ...
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Berlin's Forum Of New Cinema unveiled
Films from Argentina, Tunisia, Morocco, Eastern Europe, Vietnam and Korea have been selected for this year's International Forum of New Cinema at the Berlinale, which will be the first edition under the direction of Christoph Terhechte as successor to Ulrich Gregor. As in previous years, "the emphasis is firmly on ...
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Japan's Go is the pick of Palm Springs
Among the 45 of the 51 Oscar submissions which screened at the 13th Palm Springs International Film Festival which wrapped Sunday (Jan 25), Japan's Isao Yukisada's coming-of-age drama Go was the pick of the FIPRESCI jury, which this year consisted of film critics from Yugoslavia, Germany, Denmark, Australia and the ...
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Yes TV Asia loses financial backer
Yes Television Asia (YTA), the Hong Kong arm of UK video-on-demand operator Yes Television, has lost the backing of local utilities giant CLP Holdings, only weeks before launching commercial trials in Hong Kong.YTA was to have become a wholly owned subsidiary of a joint venture in which CLP held 75% ...
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Disney, Telefonica team for pan-Latin prod co
Disney's Buena VistaInternational (BVI) and Spain's leading production and distributioncompany Admira (formerly Telefonica Media) today announced that they arepartnering in Miravista, a Latin American pan-regional film production company.The move extends apartnership in Argentina where Buena Vista and Admira hold 30% each in leadingproduction house Patagonik Film Group, with Argentinean ...
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Fresh talent on show at Rotterdam film festival
Abstracted from Screen InternationalThe International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands is unashamedly obscure and cutting edge. Uncovering and supporting new talent is the sole raison d'etre for the event, which opened on Jan 23.The main competition - where the competitors are dubbed "tiger films", the sidebars, the prizes and ...
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Argentina's film industry faces financial meltdown
Abstracted from Screen InternationalThe Argentinian financial crisis has begun to take a severe toll on the local film industry. The release of blockbusters like The Lord Of The Rings has been delayed and the burgeoning local production sector is threatened with financial meltdown. Riots, five presidents in two weeks and ...
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Panorama programme revealed for Berlinale
Films by China's Feng Xiaogang (Big Shot's Funeral), Spain's Antonio Hernandez (The City Of No Limits), Hong Kong's Ann Hui (July Rhapsody) and documentaries by Lindsey Merrison (Friends In High Places), Bill Weber and David Weissman (The Cockettes) and Jaime Camino (The Children Of Russia) are among the last dozen ...
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HBO set for April launch in Bulgaria
Cable broadcaster HBO has announced an April launch for its Bulgarian service, with subtitled American films running alongside European productions, events and concerts 24 hours a day on weekdays and 18 hours on weekends. Bulgarian cable companies Msat, Eurocom Cable, Eurocom Plovdiv, Skat and Telecable are lined up to host ...
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Chinese govt to relax film production rules
The Chinese government is set to further relax its control over the country's film industry by allowing private companies to produce independently for the first time.Traditionally only the state-run studios have been entitled to produce films in China, although some independent filmmakers have managed to slip through the net. However, ...
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Quebec Jutra awards finalists announced
Nominees for Quebec's Fourth Annual Jutra Awards were announced on Wednesday with Andre Turpin's Soft Shell Man (Un Crabe Dans La Tete) leading the pack with 10 nominations. Close behind are Pierre Falardeau's 15 February 1839 with nine nominations and Denis Chouinard's Berlin-bound Tar Angel (L'Ange De Goudron) with eight. ...
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Kinowelt sells media[netCom] stake
As part of its ongoing consolidation and focusing on so-called core business, the beleaguered Kinowelt Medien Group has offloaded its 7.7% stake in the Marburg-based media[netCom] AG by selling 622,222 shares at the current market price to three financial investors who had hitherto not held any shares in the ...
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SPC picks up Argentine smash Son Of The Bride
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC)has announced its second acquisition of the week - Argentina'sofficial entry for the best foreign language film Son Of The Bride directed by Juan Jose Campanella. Produced byPatagonik Film Group, from which SPC bought Nine Queens last year, Son Of The Bride is the highest grossing film ...
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Splendid creates new LA venture with Cutting Edge
Cologne-based publiclytraded entertainment group Splendid Medien AG, which recently sold its 49%stake in Initial Entertainment Group (IEG), has concluded its next foray intoHollywood, forming Splendid Pictures Inc, a new production/distribution outfitwith David Glasser's Cutting Edge Entertainment (CEE). Splendid has 80% of the newventure while Glasser has 20%; CEE's entire existing ...
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Mike Ovitz signs Mark Canton to run APG
Artists Production Group(APG), the production arm of Mike Ovitz's Artists Management Group (AMG),has found an unlikely new partner, chairman and CEO in the person of MarkCanton, the producer and former studio head of both Warner Bros and SonyPictures.Canton will oversee the 50APG projects currently in various stages of development and ...
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Disney to open Treasure day-date in 35mm, Imax
Walt Disney Pictures will release its 2002 animation Treasure Planet simultaneously in 35mm venues and in Imax and other large-format cinemas, the first time a studio feature has been specifically formatted for the giant screen to receive a day-and-date release. Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island", the digitally-produced space ...