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Til Schweiger enters the ring as Max Schmeling
Germany's leading film export Til Schweiger (Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Der Bewegte Mann) is to play the role of German boxing legend Max Schmeling in the $9m (DM 20m) Joe and Max which will begin shooting in Berlin under the direction of US filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams) from this ...
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Germany's Das Werk exceeds earnings expectations
German digital postproduction and production house Das Werk brought some welcome cheer to an otherwise depressed Neuer Markt exchange in Frankfurt by posting a 157% increase in sales for the financial year 2000 to Euro 88.8m, 72% higher than the forecast Das Werk had made on its flotation in August ...
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One small step for The Dish; a leap for Premiere
Sydney-based Richard Sheffield and Wellington-based Larry Parr will launch New Zealand distribution entity Premiere Filmed Entertainment with the Australian hit film The Dish. The film, which had revenues of $16.8m from Australian cinemas alone will be released mid-year as a joint venture with its producers, Melbourne-based Working Dog. The film, ...
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Japan's Cine Canon prepares kidnap
Japanese production house Cine Canon is to make a film chronicling the 1973 kidnapping of South Korean president Kim Dae-jung in Tokyo. The picture is to be directed by Junji Sakamoto, who previously directed Face. The incident, was alleged to have been organised by then president Park Chung-hee, in an ...
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Viacom relents over Blockbuster business
In the week when Disney slashed 4,000 jobs or 3% of its workforce, Viacom has ditched plans to sell video rental giant Blockbuster, after reporting improved business and a boost from DVD.Blockbuster has struggled for several years and Viacom, which is also the parent of Paramount Pictures, MTV and the ...
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Sydney prepares to welcome Matrix marathon
Warner Bros in Los Angeles and the Premier of New South Wales Bob Carr in Sydney simultaneously announced today that Australia will host production of two sequels to the action thriller The Matrix, Warner Bros' biggest hit to date with a worldwide gross of US$450m. Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne ...
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Blow
Dir: Ted Demme. US. 2001. 120mins.Using Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson's sprawling masterpiece about the porn industry as a model, Ted Demme's Blow is a solid but unexciting epic about the rise of the US cocaine subculture, told through real-life figure George Jung (now in jail). Johnny Depp gives a ...
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Highlights from this week's SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
STUDIOS POSITION PRE-STRIKE FILMS AS OSCAR 2002 CAMPAIGN BEGINSStudios are already talking up their powerful line-ups of pictures being readied for Oscar gold in 2002. The number of prestige pictures jostling for release slots in November and December is already formidable. The names in these films are pretty familiar to ...
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Spy Kids stuns US box office with $27m opening
It was a triumphant weekend for Miramax Films at the box office as its $35m Spy Kids, one of its first production forays into family entertainment, took a massive $27m through genre label Dimension Films. The film played on 3,104 screens for an average of $8,698. A strong opening was ...
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Eichinger steps down as Constantin chairman
Constantin Film's Bernd Eichinger has stepped down from his position as board chairman to concentrate his energies on production - the company's in-house output having more than doubled in the last year.In a statement, Eichinger declared: "In the past few months I had already increasingly withdrawn from the management of ...
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Simply Committed teams with Pressman and Expand
New Berlin and Paris-based production outfit Simply Committed, co-founded by producer Peter Paulich and German-American actor Thomas Heinze, will announce the first projects stemming from its partnership with US producing stalwart Ed Pressman at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Quite separately, Simply has also committed to a joint venture with ...
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Vivendi to give up BSkyB for more of USA Networks
French media giant Vivendi Universal has informed analysts at a behind-closed-doors briefing that it is seeking to increase its 43% stake in Barry Diller's USA Networks to 63% by acquiring a 20% shareholding from John Malone's Liberty Media. As part of the deal, Vivendi would be looking to get majority ...
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The Brothers
Dir: Gary Hardwick. US. 2001. 98mins.Writer-director Gary Hardwick has dubbed The Brothers, his serio-comedy about sex, love and friendship among African-American men, 'Refusing To Exhale'. Considering the theme and tone of his movie, it is an apt label that plays upon Waiting To Exhale, the 1995 film about black middle-class ...
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Germany's free TV applauded at MIP-TV
Although the notion may not be applicable in every economic sector, public-private partnership was put forward as an explanation for the recent success of Germany's free TV market. "Partnerships between public and private sectors in Germany have helped improve quality and increase programme exports," said Gerhard Zeiler, CEO of RTL ...
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Sloss forges global film financing hub for indies
John Sloss,the New York-based entertainment lawyer who brokered so many of the distribution deals at this year's Sundance Film Festival, is now wading fully into the project financing arena through a new standalone packaging operation known as Cinetic Media.Cinetic, which will work in close co-ordination with his Sloss Law Office, ...
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Fox TV signs output deal with Antenna TV in Greece
20th Century Fox Television Distribution has signed a film and TV programming output deal with Antenna TV SA in Greece, giving free TV rights to the media group to all new Fox films and TV series as well as product from the studio's library.The deal was concluded between Steve Cornish, ...
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MJ Peckos named president of First Look Pictures
MJ Peckos has been named president of First Look Pictures, the US theatrical distribution division of First Look Media (formerly Overseas Filmgroup). Peckos, who joined First Look in 1995 as senior vice president of theatrical marketing and distribution, will oversee all aspects of the company's operations including acquisitions, marketing, publicity ...
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First Run gets US home video rights to DEFA films
New York-based independent First Run Features has signed a partnership agreement with Icestorm International to act as exclusive North American home video distributor of the films of DEFA, the state-run studios of the former German Democratic Republic.DEFA (Deutsche Filmaktiengesellschaft) was headquartered in the famous UFA Studios in Babelsberg near Berlin ...
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Le Placard opens LA six title French film showcase
Francis Veber's The Closet (Le Placard) kicks off the fifth annual City Of Lights, City Of Angels Film Festival in Los Angeles next Tuesday (April 10), an annual showcase of six new French feature films funded by the Franco-American Cultural Fund - a collaborative effort among the Directors Guild Of ...
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Multithematiques Italia clinches Universal deal
Multithematiques Italia SpA, the Italian arm of pan-European theme channel group Multithematiques SA, has clinched exclusive pay-TV rights to a collection of features and TV series from Universal Studios International.The agreement which will furnish the group's channels including CineCinemas 1, CineCinemas 2, CineClassics and Canal Jimmy includes Universal library titles ...