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Universal unspools webcast deals
Universal Studios has signed a deal with broadband network Intertainer to deliver its films in pay-per-view (PPV) and video-on-demand (VoD) format. It is believed to be close to a similar deal with Blockbuster and Enron.The long-term deal will see Universal provide Intertainer with all its new releases and some film ...
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EMTV chairman quits
Troubled German media group, EM.TV lost its second high-ranking executive on Friday after its supervisory board chairman Nikolaus Becker tendered his resignation following the deal between EM.TV and the KirchGroup on February14.Rumours had been circulating for weeks about the possibility of Becker resigning from the beleaguered company and the allegedly ...
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MME acquires majority stake in Neue Impuls
Hamburg-based TV production house MME: Me, Myself and Eye Entertainment has acquired a majority stake in Neue Impuls Film Produktionsgesellschaft (NIF) in a move to expand its portfolio to include film and television fiction production.NIF, whose credits include the Danish-German-Italian co-production of Lars Hesselholdt's family film Katja's Adventure and, most ...
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Disco Pigs
Screened at Berlin(Panorama). Dir: Kirsten Sheridan. Ireland-UK. 2001. 94mins.First films invested with passion are not rare, but those supported by the skill to go with it are few and far between. Disco Pigs, Kirsten Sheridan's debut feature from Ireland, has moments which herald the emergence of a real film-maker of ...
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Chereau's explicit Intimacy wins Berlin top prize
The Berlin Film Festival has awarded its top prize, theGolden Bear, to Patrice Chereau's sexually explicit Intimacy based on one of Hanif Kureishi'ssemi-autobiographical short stories. One of the film's courageous leads,Kerry Fox, also took home the Silver Bear for best actress.Living up to the pre-festival promise from jury president(and ousted ...
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Arenaplex launches digital cinema production
Arenaplex,LLC, a new company established to provide non-feature film programming fordigital cinemas, revealed plans on 16 February, to produce and distributeoriginal content for the future generation of digitally-equipped multiplexes. The company, comprising founder and CEO Ivan Chea, who lefthis position as SVP, Europe, Middle East and Africa at Warner Bros.International ...
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CiineMedia quits rights trading after one year
German media group CineMedia Film is set to quit rights trading and licensing just one year after its launch into the market.The Munich-based company made its surprise withdrawal after admitting that figures for the last financial year revealed that sales forecasts for it rights trading and licensing activities would fall ...
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CineMedia quits rights trading
German media group CineMedia Film is set to quit rights trading and licensing just one year after its launch into the market.The Munich-based company made its surprise withdrawal after admitting that figures for the last financial year revealed that sales forecasts for it rights trading and licensing activities would fall ...
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CineMedia quits rights market
German media group CineMedia Film is set to quit rights trading and licensing just one year after its launch into the market.The Munich-based company made its surprise withdrawal after admitting that figures for the last financial year revealed that sales forecasts for it rights trading and licensing activities would fall ...
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CineMedia quits rights market
German media group CineMedia Film is set to quit rights trading and licensing just one year after its launch into the market.The Munich-based company made its surprise withdrawal after admitting that figures for the last financial year revealed that sales forecasts for it rights trading and licensing activities would fall ...
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Dimension Films and TF1 team up for Heist
Dimension Films and France's TF1 are understood to have partnered on Heist (aka 2-11), the English-language debut of Gerard Pires, director of French action hit Taxi.Dimension, the genre arm of Miramax Films, is understood to have taken US rights to the project, currently in pre-production, and optioned Pires' next English-language ...
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Additional Berlin Film Festival prizes
Additional prizes at the 51st Berlin International Film FestivalPIPER HEIDSIECK NEW TALENT AWARD:best young actress for her first major role: Angelica Lee Sinje (Ai Ni Ai Wo)PIPER HEIDSIECK NEW TALENT AWARD:best young actor for his first major role ex aequo to Cui Lin and Li Bin (Beijing Bicycle)CRYSTAL BEAR:for best ...
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Zoo launches new UK cinema company
The launch of a new British exhibition company was announced February 19 by its founding members. Zoo Cinema Exhibition Ltd has been formed by Clare Binns, managing director of Chris Blackwell's Oasis Cinemas, one of the UK' most established independent exhibitors.David Wight, formerly managing director of Film Network Ltd, joins ...
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UK audiences devour Hannibal
UIP's Hannibal opened to phenomenal receipts over the weekend to become the UK's biggest 18-certificate opener of all time. The previous record, held by Columbia TriStar's Snatch (£3,180,002), was obliterated by Hannibal's three-day gross of £6,402,540 ($9,292,511), more than double that of the Guy Ritchie-directed feature. Released on over 600 ...
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Namco plans major studio and theme park for Tokyo
Game maker Namco has announced ambitious plans to build a "movie village", in cooperation with film subsidiary Nikkatsu, government bodies and local businesses. The project will include a major film and television studio as well as a film school, a film museum and movie theatres for the general public. The ...
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Germany creates new film and cinema prizes
Germany's new state minister for culture and affairs of the media Julian Nida-Ruemelin has launched another initiative - the Innovation Prize - to follow last week's announcement of three annual film distribution awards.The prize, which will recognise innovations in filmmaking will be awarded up to twice a year with a ...
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Tartan picks up Fat Girl for UK release
Tartan Films has picked up all UK rights to Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl (A Ma Soeur!) at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it has just won the $14,000 (DM30,000) Manfred-Salzgeber Film Prize. Metro Tartan Distribution will release the film in the UK later this year.The picture explores the unflinching ...
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Video keeps VCL profits on course
While Germany's VCL Film + Medien has flagged ambitions to move into the UK, Benelux and Scandinavia and last year made a splash on the production finance scene, the company delivered on-target results powered by its German home entertainment business. Rated Germany's number two video distributor with a 12.2% market ...
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Destination Films closes after 2 1/2 years
Destination Films, the mid-budget domestic distribution company founded in 1998 by Steve Stabler and Brent Baum, closed down at the end of last week after an ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful run of releases.The company was funded by an insurance-backed $100m funding arrangement through a wholly owned subsidiary brokered by Willis ...
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Lions Gate acquires Tom Hanks-produced comedy
Lions Gate Films has acquired worldwide rights to My Big Fat Greek Wedding, a comedy produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone Productions.Based on the autobiographical stage show by Nia Vardalos, the film is directed by Joel Zwick, produced by Hanks, Goetzman and Hanks' wife Rita Wilson and stars ...