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Local films have legs, Hannibal has teeth
Norwegian documentary Heftig Og Begeistret, directed by Knut Erik Jensen, continues to hold strong at the local box office, where the box office share of local films is one of the lowest in Europe (5-7%). It has grossed $1,023,922, achieving admissions of 169,464 to March 4, and after 7 weeks ...
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Resident Evil benefits from Constantin's credit
Paul Anderson's Resident Evil ,the big-screen adaptation of the video game, is the first project to benefit from a $140m revolving credit line granted to Bernd Eichinger's Constantin Film by a bank consortium led by the DG Bank.The agreement between the consortium, comprising the DG Bank, Bayerische Landesbank Girozentrale, BHF ...
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Astral acquires Family Channel for $82m
Montreal based broadcaster Astral Media will take 100% control of specialty channel The Family Channel after agreeing to acquire the 50 per cent interest currently held by Corus Entertainment. The (US)$82m cash deal is subject to regulatory approval. The acquisition will also increase to 40% Astral's ownership of the Teletoon ...
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Warner signs free-tv deal with Greece's Star
Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed a multi-year free television deal with Greece's Star Channel. The deal, which extends an existing relationship, includes the free television broadcast rights to feature films from Warner Bros.,HBO's cable mini-series The Sopranos and TV television series such as ER, and The West ...
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Belgian fund boosts World Cinema
After five years of lobbying, the organisers of the Bruges-based Cinema Novo fest for world cinema have secured commitment from the Belgian state to back the funding of films from the South (Africa, Asia, Latin America). On the back of Bruges' status as 2002 European capital, Cinema Novo will issue ...
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Plural signs with New York Times TV
New Spanish production outfit Plural Entertainment, a 100%-backed Grupo Prisa company with headquarters in Madrid and New York, has signed a landmark co-production agreement with the television filial of The New York Times.The accord, the first of its kind for The New York Times TV, will see the two firms ...
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Fernan-Gomez awarded Gold Medal
Spanish film legend Fernando Fernan-Gomez will add another notch to his belt this year with the receipt of the Spanish Cinema Academy's prestigious Gold Medal lifetime achievement award.The Academy this week unveiled Fernan-Gomez as the newest recipient of an award whose previous honorees include a long list of revered local ...
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Free digital conversion offer for US theatres only
A joint venture of communications giant Qualcomm and film processors Technicolor this week unveiled an ambitious plan to kick-start the digital conversion of the exhibition industry by installing and maintaining the necessary equipment free of charge in a thousand US theatres. But, despite acknowledging the global dimension of the exhibition ...
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Canal Plus claims bouyant financial health
The Canal Plus group (which now includes Universal Studios) is expecting a substantial rise in its operating and net earnings as well as its subscription base in 2001. The pay-tv giant -- which will announce its 2000 results, along with Vivendi Universal's, today after the close of the Paris Stock ...
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15 Minutes
Dir. John Herzfeld. US. 2001. 120 mins.Andy Warhol's prophecy that everyone will one day achieve their own quarter-hour of fame gets yet another Hollywood workout in John Herzfeld's actioner, 15 Minutes - this time with two foreign criminals as media-hungry badasses. Robert De Niro, well-cast as a superstar homicide detective, ...
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Sonet couples with Trust
Denmark's Trust Film Sales has struck an output deal with prolific Swedish production and distribution outfit Sonet. The deal hatched on the eve of last month's AFM gives Trust, part of Denmark's Zentropa Entertainment empire, two more titles to add to its Cannes list. First up will be Home Sour ...
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Spanish fest to host Sundance script lab
Spanish fest to host Sundance script labThe Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (June 1-9) will play host to the first Sundance Institute Scriptwriters' Lab to be held in Spain in conjunction with national authors and editors rights' organization SGAE.The lab will be held May 21-26, just prior to the fourth ...
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Planeta 2010 moves on education and Revelation
Heralding the frenzied competition for content to feed Spain's expanding TV market, publishing giant Grupo Planeta's media entity Planeta 2010 announced it would invest a whopping $33m (pts6,000m) over the next five years in the production of a single thematic channel: interactive educational channel Beca TV.Beca, which offers traditional cultural ...
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Escapist collared by UGC International
UGC International has boarded Gillies Mackinnon's The Escapist as worldwide sales agent.The film, currently in pre-production prior to shooting later this month, tells the story of a man who reinvents himself as a ruthless criminal so that he can get incarcerated in the same prison as the man who killed ...
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Italy's Film Exporters lobby for loans
In a bid to give a major boost to the Italian film industry, Italy's National Film Exporters Union is appealing to the government to give more financial support to projects with significant international appeal.Roberto Di Girolamo, the president of Italy's Film Exporters, will ask the cultural ministry to evaluate screenplays ...
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Stealthily, Secretly causes rioting in India
Delhi High Court has directed City Government and PoliceCommissioner to provide adequate security to the capital's cinema halls wherethe controversial film financed by Bharat Shah and produced by Nazim HassanRazvi Chori Chori Chupke Chupke (Stealthily, Secretly) is playing. Thefilm's distributor Manpreet Singh Chadha, had received threats from certainreligious, political and ...
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Pentamedia goes big with Little John
Chennai-based Pentamedia Gaphics Ltd has announced a $20mfeature film Little John about the adventures of an American Tourist inIndia who gets accidentally miniaturized. The company has already made its mark in the digitalentertainment sector with a slew of full length digital animation moviesincluding The Pandavas, a complete animation story based ...
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Indian epic to be most expensive ever
Hindi film star, director and producer Sanjay Khan hasannounced a multi million dollar historical feature film, which will roll inNovember. The film, titled Maryada Purshottam Ram and based on the epic RamaYana will be made on an international scale and will be the most expensivefilm ever made in Mumbai. Kahn ...
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Telepool in first-look deal with New Legend Media
German rightstrader Telepool has concluded an all German language rights first-look dealwith the US-German production outfit New Legend Media. The first New Legendprojects to be covered by the deal are the Jeremy Irons-thriller The Fourth Angel, a new version of The Count Of Monte Cristo withChristopher Lambert and John Malkovich, ...
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Risk
Dir: Alan White. Australia. 2000. 90mins. Award-winning commercials and music video director AlanWhite made his 1999 feature debut with the grittily realistic ErskinevilleKings, set in a crumbling inner-suburban Sydney. With Risk he visitsthe top end of town - ritzy apartments, sleek corporate offices with powerfulcityscape views - but fails ...