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Barbara Hannegan tops restructured publicity team at Universal International
Barbara Hannegan has been promoted to vice president, international publicity, at Universal Pictures, completing a restructure of the studio's international publicity team which sees the arrival of three new staff publicists - Larry Angrisani, Mark Markline and Elena O'Gorman.Hannegan will report to Randy Greenberg who is senior vice president of ...
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Pathe, FilmFour in holy alliance for Bulletproof Monk
In a high profile move that underlines the growing co-operation between the two companies, Pathe Distribution and FilmFour have picked up UK rights to Bulletproof Monk. In another deal begun at Cannes, Filmax confirmed that it is to handle Spanish rights to the picture. The $55m action-adventure is the first ...
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RTL closes in on Warner Bros German package
The KirchGroup's arch rival RTL Television is in talks with Warner Bros to sign a $200m film package spanning such titles as The Matrix, The Lord Of The Rings, Ocean's Eleven and Harry Potter.According to the daily newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the deal will allow RTL seven screenings of each film ...
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RTL Belgium signs BVI output deal
RTL-TVI, the Belgian free-TV broadcaster controlled by RTL, has struck a multi-year supply deal with Buena Vista International Television (BVI-TV).The deal covers recent and current feature films such as Pearl Harbor and 102 Dalmatians as well as live action series including Alias. RTL will also create a two-hour slot branded ...
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New Spanish distributor Indisa braves choppy market
Former Filmax executive Alberto del Val is braving the difficult conditions facing the Spanish distribution sector and has launched a new releasing outfit, Indisa. The new company aims to handle up to ten local, European and international pictures a year.Spain's distributors have been hit by cutbacks by free and pay-TV ...
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Piano Teacher is cleared for release in Singapore
The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste), which scooped a trio of prizes at last year's Cannes festival, has finally been cleared for release in censorious Singapore.The film, produced and sold internationally by France's MK2, is a study of sexual desperation and involves scenes of frenzied grappling and female self-mutilation. But the ...
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MEDIA programme aids 29 festivals
Film festivals held in Giffoni, Oberhausen, Bergamo, La Rochelle, Dresden, Tampere and Pesaro are among 29 events throughout Europe which have been supported with a total of Euro623,000 by the European Union's MEDIA Plus Programme in its latest round of funding for festivals.Separately, in response to its call for proposals ...
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The UK's PIRS to become Producers Rights Agency
The UK's Producers Industrial Relations Services (PIRS) is changing its name to Producers Rights Agency (PRA) with effect from June 10.The PRA is jointly owned by PACT and ITV and represents UK Television and Film producers in dealings with rights owners, performers and creators organisations, and government.Chief executive, Andrew Chowns ...
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Telecinco quits Spain's Pay-TV platforms
Spanish free-to-air broadcaster Telecinco is to remove its signal from both of Spain's digital satellite TV platforms, Via Digital and Canal Satelite Digital (CSD).Telecinco said the move was motivated by non-inclusion of its screenings from the digital platforms in audience ratings data compiled by Sofres. This "impedes the channel from ...
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Columbia said to be heading for Kirch bid
A consortium of Germany's Commerzbank, the Rhineland-based WAZ publishing group and US major Columbia TriStar could be setting its sights on the assets of debt-ridden KirchMedia.According to news magazine Der Spiegel representatives of the three companies attended a presentation of a preliminary evaluation of KirchMedia by the Roland Berger management ...
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Borgia project starts search for new finance
UK producer Stephen Woolley has been forced to refinance Neil Jordan's Renaissance epic Borgia after failing to agree a budget figure with US-based sales agent Myriad Pictures.Woolley said he was still confident that shooting will go ahead later this year despite the rupture with Myriad on the eve of the ...
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Polley, Rea, Perabo join cast of The I Inside
Stephen Rea, Sarah Polley, Stephen Lang and Piper Perabo have joined Ryan Phillippe in the cast of Roland Suso Richter's UK-set thriller The I Inside which is being financed by Los Angeles-based sales and financing company MDP Worldwide. The film started shooting on Friday in the UK.Based on Michael Cooney's ...
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Divine Secrets comes second to Sum Of All Fears
The Sum of All Fears held on to top spot over the weekend with an estimated $18.7m gross that sees the Paramount thriller sitting pretty on a ten-day total of $61.8m. The new Warner Brothers comedy-drama Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood took second place on $16.4m, while those ...
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News Corp to be Italy's pay-TV king following Vivendi deal
News Corp is set to become the sole pay-TV operator in Italy following an agreement to buy Telepiu from Vivendi Universal's Canal Plus division for up to Euros1.5bn.The deal, agreed in London this weekend, is expected to mean Telepiu will be merged with Stream, the smaller pay-operator that News Corp ...
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Gilles Jacob joins Canal Plus Group board
Cannes festival chief Gilles Jacob has joined the supervisory board of Canal Plus Group in a management reshuffle that reflects the agreed sale of Italian pay-TV operator Telepiu to News Corp. Eric Licoys, Vivendi Universal number two, takes over the presidency of the supervisory board - on which Vivendi chief ...
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Helkon to quit Germany's Neuer Markt
Helkon Media is seeking to leave the Neuer Markt by the end of the month as part of a programme of cost reduction and reorganisation. If the Deutsche Boerse approves its shares will be traded on the third tier Geregelter Markt from July 1. 'This section change will lead to ...
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Local film wins Romania's debut Transylvania festival
Cristian Mungiu's Occident, which screened in Director's Fortnight in Cannes, won the top prize at the inaugural Transylvania Film Festival in Romania. Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land was voted the viewer's choice award winner.Occident is the story of young and old Romanians who all dream about going abroad and realising ...
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O'Donoghue replaces De Valera at Ireland's Arts ministry
John O'Donoghue, a former minister for justice, has become Ireland's Minister for Arts and Heritage following a cabinet reshuffle in which Sile de Valera lost her cabinet seat.O'Donoghue will have responsibility for the arts, including film, together (for the first time) with sport and tourism, but not for broadcasting ...
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Nowhere goes somewhere with Zeitgeist
Following The Tunnel and Sun Alley (Screen Daily, May 29), Caroline Link's Nowhere In Africa (Nirgendwo In Afrika) has become the latest German film picked up for US theatrical distribution.Zeitgeist Films, who also handled Max Faerberboeck's Aimee & Jaguar starring Nowhere's lead actress Juliane Koehler, plans to release Link's adaptation ...
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Korea's Beautiful Mari wins Annecy animation festival
South Korean feature My Beautiful Girl, Mari (pictured) was awarded the Grand Prix for best animated feature at the 26th Annecy International Animated Film Festival, which drew to a close on June 8. The prize for best animated short film was awarded to Barcode, directed by Adriaan Lokman of the ...