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New research reveals the real value of cinema food sales
With a current global value of $4.5bn, cinema concessions revenues are set to rise this decade, increasingly providing more profit for many exhibitors than that from movie ticket sales.According to new research from trade analyst Screen Digest, and the first time that such an in-depth study has been undertaken, if ...
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Rosenthal joins Australia's Beyond Films
Isabel Rosenthal has been appointed acquisitions and development manager for sales agent Beyond Films and will be based in the Sydney head office. She has previously worked in similar roles in the US for Visual Media, 20th Century Fox and New Line Cinemas. The appointment comes three months after London-based ...
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Men In Black II powers to top of UK chart with $8.4m
Men In Black II stormed to the top of the UK charts with an $8.4m four-day opening for Columbia Tristar Film Distributors International over the weekend, according to studio estimates released today. The sci-fi sequel rolled out on 889 screens on Thursday August 1. Overall, the picture registered an international ...
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Signs of a blockbuster: Disney opens Shyamalan's latest on $60.3m
Mel Gibson and director M Night Shyamalan both recorded career-high openings as the mystery-drama Signs recorded a blockbuster opening for Buena Vista over the weekend with an estimated $60.3m. It is the first number one for the studio since Monsters, Inc. last November and is almost double what executives had ...
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Signs of a Blockbuster: Disney opens Syamalan's latest to $60.3m
Mel Gibson and director M Night Shyamalan both recorded career-high openings as the mystery-drama Signs recorded a blockbuster opening for Buena Vista over the weekend with an estimated $60.3m. It is the first number one for the studio since Monsters, Inc. last November and is almost double what executives had ...
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Blue Moon
Dir. Andrea Maria Dusl. Austria. 2002. 97mins.The auspicious directorial debut from Viennese columnist Andrea Maria Dusl, this road movie which takes Eastern Europe as its subject, should have no problem finding receptive audiences in German-speaking countries. In particular, the presence of Josef Hader, one of Vienna's top cabaret acts, and ...
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Columbia TriStar snaps up rights to Japanese sci-fi Returner
Columbia Tristar Motion Picture Group has bought worldwide rights, outside Asia, to Returner, a sci-fi thriller expected to be one of the big Japanese films of the year.Although Hollywood has taken a greater interest in Japan in recent years, the purchase by a major studio of worlwide rights to a ...
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Italy's Medusa Film announces new president
Claudio Sposito, CEO of Silvio Berlusconi's media giant Fininvest, has been named president of the multi-billion dollar group's film division, Medusa Film. Sposito (pictured), who will retain his position at Fininvest, replaces Berlusconi's eldest daughter, Marina, who was appointed to the top job last year, following the sudden death of ...
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AOL creates new order
Content is king again - so long as it can also enjoy widespread access to Internet users. That message was driven home this week by the revelation that America Online (AOL) is swallowing up Time Warner at a huge premium to create a multimedia monster whose market value approaches the ...
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Blue Moon rights selling fast in Locarno
Monopole Pathe has picked up all Swiss rights for Austrian director Andrea Maria Dusl's feature debut Blue Moon which had its world premiere in the Locarno Festival international competition this weekend.Starring Austrian stand-up comedian Josef Hader, leading Ukrainian actress Viktoria Malektorovich and German actor-director Detlev Buck, Blue Moon follows the ...
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Saban Entertainment offers top price in Kirch Media auction
Saban Entertainment, the US television production and distribution group, is understood to have submitted the highest bid of around Euros2.6bn for the assets of the insolvent KirchMedia.French broadcaster TF1 is understood to have put in the next richest bid, worth Euros2.2bn, according to German finance magazine Focus. The consortium bid ...
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Consumer-driven communications spending will drive industry growth
Veronis Suhler Stevenson, the venerable media merchant bank, forecasts that communications spending will begin to recover in the second half of this year and continue at an annual rate of 5.5% until 2006. Veronis Suhler Stevenson's annual Communications Industry Forecast (CIF) describes the worst recession for the US media industry ...
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Mark Braddel promoted to vice president, sales, at CTFDI
Mark Braddel, currently director of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), has been promoted to vice president, sales. Braddel is based in London and will oversee territories including Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He will report directly to CTFDI ...
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Mitch Levine takes over at Palm Springs Film Festivals
Following the departure of Denis Pregnolato earlier this year, film-maker Mitch Levine has been named executive director and CEO of the Palm Springs International Film Festivals (PSIFF) and takes up his post this week in advance of the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films which takes place Aug 6-12 ...
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IFC, Killer & Jersey team for Todd Graff's Camp
IFC Productions, the prolific New York production outfit behind Monsoon Wedding, Tadpole and Boys Don't Cry, has teamed with Killer Films and Jersey Films on Camp, a musical comedy which marks the directorial debut of writer Todd Graff. IFC had previously worked with Killer on Boys Don't Cry, but neither ...
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Michelle Yeoh finds Midas Touch in Asia
Han Entertainment's The Touch, produced by and starring Michelle Yeoh, topped the box office in all four Asian territories in which it opened over the weekend.The $20m romantic action drama, directed by Peter Pau, opened Thursday, August 1, in Hong Kong, mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore.In Hong Kong, where Golden ...
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Revengers Tragedy
Dir: Alex Cox. UK. 2002. 112mins.UK film-maker Alex Cox first came across Thomas Middleton's Jacobean revenge tragedy as a student in 1976, when he was intrigued by its very modern blend of morbid comedy and ultra-violence. His long-planned screen version is steeped in a 1970s anarcho-punk sensibility, with Derek Jarman ...
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Lost In La Mancha finds favour in London
Although the chart was dominated by the launch of Columbia TriStar's Men In Black II the talking point of the UK weekend box office was Optimum Releasing's Lost In La Mancha.A documentary following the ill-fated production of Terry Gilliam's abandoned project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, La Mancha achieved ...
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IM Internationalmedia reports revenues up, profits down
IM Internationalmedia's business activities developed largely as predicted in the first half of 2002, posting a 33% year-on-year increase in revenues to Euros 94.3m, from Euros 70.8m (pro forma) - while EBITDA plummeted from Euros 17.8m in the first half of 2001 to minus Euros 13.4m for this year.The increase ...