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Denkert to run new business division at MGM
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studioshas created a new division MGM Entertainment Business Group and promotedlongtime senior executive Darcie Denkert to run it. Denkert, who most recentlyheld responsibility for the company's worldwide entertainment businessand legal affairs, will now focus exclusively on developing initiatives acrossdivisional lines to further leverage the film and TV library.Denkert, who ...
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Hollywood quartet embraces new high-def VHS format
Effects-driven action thrillers such as Independence Day,X-Men, U-571, Die Hard and the first two Terminator films are about to be re-issued in the US in a new digital videotapeformat aimed specifically at that small niche of (predominantly male) hometheatre buffs who have decked out their pads with expensive high-definitiontelevision sets.Four ...
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Bay, Radar, GMI set for Chainsaw Massacre redo
Michael Bay's lowerbudget label Platinum Dunes is to "reconceptualise" cult horrorclassic The Texas Chainsaw Massacreas its first production to be financed by Ted Field and Scott Kroopf'sRadar Pictures and sold internationally by Good Machine International (GMI).The film will startproduction in the spring with Bay and Michael Fleis of Next Entertainmentproducing, ...
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The Kid Stays In The Picture
Dirs: Brett Morgen & Nanette Burstein. US. 2001. 93 mins.As an irresistible portrait of Hollywood narcissism, this documentary adaptation of Robert Evan's memoirs as a studio mogul is a guilty pleasure of the most complicit kind. Shedding their cinema verite backgrounds, the film-making duo of Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein ...
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Pinero
Dir: Leon Ichaso. US. 2001. 99mins With his intense, charismatic performance in Pinero, Benjamin Bratt -best known for his tenure on US TV series Law And Order and a few tepid features - reaches a major turning point in his career. Displaying the kind of acting chops associated with the ...
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The Son's Room has slender US opening
Despite winning last year's Cannes Palme d'or and being the Italian submission for this year's best foreign language Oscar, Nanni Moretti's acclaimed family drama The Son's Room had a disappointing opening for Miramax Films in North America last weekend, taking $4,887 from one New York screen.In those international ...
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UK Film Council's balance sheet deemed 'healthy'
Robert Jones, head of the Film Council's premier fund for commercial films, tops the UK film support body's salary list, according to its annual report.Jones was on $127,000-$134,000 (£90,000-95,000) including benefits, for a period of just over six months from when he took up the post in August 2000. The ...
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Fall in govt funds ahead for Danish film industry
The thriving Danish film industry could be in for an unpleasant shock when the new rightwing government's financial policy comes into action next year. While state financial support remains unchanged for 2002, support from the Danish Film Institute is expected to be cut by up to 20% from 2003. The ...
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Asterix 2 has near-record French opening
Asterix 2 : Mission Cleopatre drew a massive 629,000 admissions on its opening day in France on Wed Jan 30, making it the second best debut ever in the country.However, and even though distributor Pathe released it on a record 945 prints, Asterix 2, which is the most expensive ...
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Ryan Phillipe signs up for The I Inside
Ryan Phillippe has signed to star in MDP Worldwide's thriller The I Inside to be directed by Germany's Roland Suso Richter (The Tunnel) and set to start shooting in the UK on June 10. The film marks a return to the UK for Phillippe who appeared in Robert Altman's Gosford ...
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Europa Cinemas increases network to 896 screens
The MEDIA Programme's exhibition initiative Europa Cinemas has added 171 screens in 28 European cities to its network, bringing the total number of screens getting support from MEDIA Plus for programming European films, to 896 in 356 cinemas located in 201 cities in 17 countries.Combined with other similar cultural supporting ...
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Canadian ban upheld on foreign satellite signal reception
A group of Canadian satellite TV dealers has failed in its bid to delay enforcement of a ban on the unlicensed reception of foreign satellite signals. The group, which operates in the so-called grey market, whereby Canadian consumers maintain a US mailing address and receive US signals , was responding ...
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The Importance Of Being Earnest
Dir: Oliver Parker. UK/US. 2002. 97 mins. Three years ago, writer-director Oliver Parker and the UK's Fragile Films re-invented Oscar Wilde's relatively obscure An Ideal Husband for the big screen, opening out the play to delightful effect and earning critical plaudits as well as some impressive box office grosses ($18.5m ...
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Lightning brings two new titles to market
Lightning Entertainment, the new LA-based sales outfit run by Richard Guardian and Mainline Releasing partners Rich Goldberg and Marc Greenberg, has acquired two new pictures for Cannes - taking worldwide rights to medieval thriller Anazapta with Lena Headey, Jason Flemyng and David La Haye and international rights to On_Line, an ...
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Moviehouse wraps Fear X, add two more
Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn has wrapped Fear X, his John Turturro-starring psychological thriller after a shoot that took him to Winnipeg and Copenhagen.The film has its market debut at Cannes, where it is represented by new UK sales outfit Moviehouse Entertainment.Fear X, about a man prompted by dark dreams ...
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Scorsese gangs up again with IEG, Di Caprio
Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) is backing the next film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio - whatever it turns out to be. Martin Scorsese told Screen International this week that his next film will definitely be either Alexander, his Alexander The Great movie, which IEG bought ...
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Raimi teams with Senator for low-budget genre label
Sam Raimi, whose Spider-Man is set to become one of the biggest grossing films in history, has teamed with Joe Drake's Senator International to launch a genre label producing "intelligently budgeted" horror, sci-fi and fantasy movies - returning Raimi to his low-budget horror roots of The Evil Dead.Senator will fully ...
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Tiger tamer role Tailor-Made for Kate Winslet
With a debut slate headed by a $36m production in which Kate Winslet plays a tiger tamer, newly-launched Tailor-Made Films has emerged as a UK production outfit to watch.Founded by former freelance TV producer Miriam Segal with backing worth£1.3 million from a group of private investors, the company has been ...
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Ealing Studios teams with Odyssey for $40m animation
The UK's Ealing Studios has teamed with Ralph Kamp's newly-launched sales outfit Odyssey Entertainment to produce $40m CG animation film Valiant.John Williams, the US producer of Shrek and Jackie Chan film The Tuxedo, is producing with Barnaby Thompson, co-head of Fragile Films, one of the owners of Ealing.The film, which ...
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UGC lures French talent for big budget slate
UGC International has lured some of France's top film-making talent away from rival production houses in lining up a slate of big budget projects for Cannes - led by Ruby Et Quentin, a $25m action comedy starring Gerard Depardieu and Jean Reno, and directed by Francis Veber.The high profile slate ...