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UK audiences show taste for Chocolat
Despite the best efforts of four new entries, UIP's Hannibal continued its reign at the head of the UK box office for the third week runnin. The film, which took $2,989,577 (£2,026,933) in the three-days March 2-4, has now accumulated a massive total gross of $25,097,574. Although the film dropped ...
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TV-Loonland signs first big deal with BBC
German children's entertainment specialist TV-Loonland has signed its first programming deal with the UK's BBC following the sale of the animation series Cramp Twins and Clifford.The 26 x 30-minute episodes of Cramp Twins were co-produced by TV-Loonland's US subsidiary Sunbow Entertainment and the Cartoon Network UK, and will be aired ...
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Equity adds support to Screen Actors' Guild strike
UK performers union Equity has pledged to support the threatened strike this summer by the Screen Actors' Guild (SAG).The move, which was expected, means Equity will advise its members not to accept work on runaway productions - that is US productions that are shooting in the United Kingdom after 31 ...
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Advanced Medien, EM.TV see corporate restructures
The signs were on the wall, and now management musical chairs have begun with earnest at two of the most troubled companies listed on Germany's Neuer Markt exchange.Advanced Medien had indicated at the weekend that changes were afoot at the debt-ridden outfit when it was declared that it expected its ...
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ShoWest: Boeing offers digital transition scheme
Hoping to break the deadlock between exhibitors and studios over who should pay for the transition to digital cinema projection, several companies including the world's largest aircraft-maker are using this week's ShoWest convention in Las Vegas to announce independent financing schemes.The Boeing Company, and a joint venture of Technicolor and ...
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Entertainment, Toho-Towa buy Beacon's Palace Thief
Beacon Pictures and Universal Pictures International (UPI) has completed key territory sales on Beacon's latest project The Palace Thief at AFM.Entertainment Film Distributors bought the Kevin Kline-starrer for the UK, Toho-Towa took it for Japan, Manga for Spain, Roadshow for Australia, New Zealand and Greece and NuVision for Latin America. ...
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Canal Plus Group adds Sutman
Former Universal Studios' Bill Sutman has been appointed executive vice president, finance at the Canal Plus group, becoming the first US executive to cross the Atlantic as part of the reshuffling of the top management of Vivendi Universal's film and television division. Canal Plus Group's chairman and CEO Pierre Lescure ...
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French films stimulate box office tills
Cinema attendance jumped 42% in France in February to reach 25 million admissions (compared to 17.5 million in February 2000), the highest level in 20 years. Due to school holidays, February is traditionally a strong month at the box office in France. This year, however, the presence of no ...
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Costly Costa! campaign pays off
Costly Costa! campaign pays offCosta!, the Dutch teen comedy by Johan Nijenhuis, has shattered domestic records during its opening run. In the Thursday to Sunday first weekend it notched up over 100,000 spectators in its home market of The Netherlands.On its opening Thursday it attracted 22,000 visitors, a total which ...
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Tellux takes Progress in Germany
The Tellux Group has become the major shareholder in the privatised former East German distributor Progress Film after Drefa Media Holding, a subsidiary of the Leipzig-based public broadcaster MDR, sold its 37.5% stake for an undisclosed six-figure sum.With Drefa's exit, Tellux now has increased its stake from 37.5% to 60%, ...
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Spain considers abolishing screen quotas
The general director of Spain's Cinema Institute (ICAA) and members of the Spanish film community are set to appear before a congressional committee this week to argue the finer points of proposed changes to the country's cinema law, including the controversial dissolution of screen quotas.The new law, submitted by the ...
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Ocean Warrior turns into beached whale
Failure to secure a completion bond has grounded the biggest production in the history of Dutch cinema. With a $60 million budget, Ocean Warrior (a biopic of Greenpeace founder Paul Watson) was to be directed by John Badham, with starring roles for Aidan Quinn and Billy Bob Thornton. When financiers ...
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IMAX unveils high definition digital projector
Canadian large-format specialist IMAX Corp has unveiled plans to build a new high definition digital projector, which, says the company, will be able to screen the world’s largest high-quality digital image and give twice the performance of digital projectors.Capable of filling large stadium-style theatres with screens of up to 80ft ...
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Kar joins UK's New Cinema Fund
The UK's Film Council has appointed Himesh Kar senior executive in charge of culturally diverse film-making for the New Cinema Fund. Kar, who was previously development producer at London's World Productions and a junior agent with the William Morris Agency (UK), will work with New Cinema Fund head Paul Trijbits ...
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Tiger Aspect unveils new slate of films
Tiger Aspect Pictures, the film arm of leading TV comedy producer Tiger Aspect Productions, is readying a fresh slate after the company scored three hits out of three with Billy Elliot, Kevin And Perry Go Large and Bean.Steve Bendelack of surreal comedy show The League of Gentlemen is now attached ...
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Studio Babelsberg mourns death of Schaper
Less than four months after the death of Helkon Media's Werner Koenig, the German film industry has been dealt another blow with news of the untimely death of Studio Babelsberg CEO and Head of Production Rainer Schaper at the age of 50 from a heart attack last weekend. Schaper, who ...
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Istituto Luce: Apocalypse Nuovo
Confirming a new, more aggressive attitude at Italy's Istituto Luce, head of distribution Giovanni Tamberi says he is in talks to buy Italian rights to Francis Ford Coppola's expanded version of Apocalypse Now. Should Tamberi succeed in obtaining rights to the film, which will premiere at the Cannes International Film ...
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See Spot Run
Dir: John Whitesell. US. 2001. 94 mins.Aimed squarely at an audience of families with younger children, See Spot Run does not waste much effort on subtleties. The comedy is a mix of basic slapstick and potty humour, while the plot spins a sugary romance around a perky blonde, an orphaned ...
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Advanced Medien shares rise as e-m-s adds to stake
Reflecting e-m-s new media's role in determining the destiny of the troubled German media company Advanced Medien, the DVD specialist has decided to increase its stake in the producer-distributor to more than 25% thereby giving it a so-called blocking minority holding. Last December, e-m-s had come onboard the Munich-based company ...
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Intermedia shows excellent form, predicts better
Intermedia has posted pre-tax earnings of Euros27.5m, 46% above the Euros18.8m forecast when the company floated on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt in May 2000 as Internationalmedia AG.Final net income for last year reached Euros19.7m, 99% above the Euros9.9m that the company projected when it floated. Intermedia's cash reserve was Euros191.3m at ...