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Thinking outside the Fox: Slaviero quits Oz branch
Robert Slaviero, Australian managing director of Twentieth Century Fox Film Distributors, created a shock wave when he officially resigned on Tuesday (Apr 17). Slaviero said it was an amicable separation and he is doing everything possible to create a smooth transition up to his departure on July 6.It is very ...
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Cutting Edge takes over int'l sales of Pollock
David Glasser's Cutting Edge Entertainment has taken up international sales rights on Ed Harris' Oscar-winner Pollock after the original sales agent Alliance Atlantis Pictures International returned the film to its producers."The producers and I had a disagreement on the post-Oscar direction the international sales effort should take," explained Alliance Atlantis ...
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Cannes technology mart fills available floor space
MITIC - the showcase for new entertainment technologies which takes place in Cannes at the same time as the festival and market - has declared that all exhibition floor space at the event has been booked.Located in the Palais des Festivals, MITIC (the Marche International desTechniques et de l'Innovation du ...
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Cannes technology mart fills available floor space
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Cannes US Pavilion brings over three top chefs
Bon Appetit Magazine has signed on as the official food and entertaining magazine of The American Pavilion at Cannes this year as well as taking the title of exclusive sponsor of the Pavilion's Culinary programme.Bon Appetit will showcase the talents of three attending chefs at the Pavilion - Mari Batali, ...
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Joe Dirt
Dir: Dennie Gordon. US. 2001. 86mins.Saturday Night Live alumnus David Spade who, despite many tries, has failed to front a hit movie (unlike fellow SNL-ers Adam Sandler and Mike Myers), makes another stab at a crossover with this comedy vehicle, co-written with Black Sheep and Tommy Boy collaborator Fred Wolf. ...
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Critics' Week selection takes to the road
The Critics' Week, which earlier this week unveiled its line-up of films by first and second time directors, is to reach a public beyond Cannes by going on tour. The 2001 selection will replay at the Cinematheque Corse in Porto-Vecchio (Corsica) on May 23, 24, 25 and 26 and Cinema ...
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Firelight Films to debut with Lifelines
Carmen Menegazzi, former head of Columbia TriStar's UK theatrical arm, has partnered on local drama Lifelines with UK media operation Zenith Entertainment for the first project from her production outfit Firelight Films.Menegazzi and Zenith have struck a co-development deal on the £3m project, which is being written by Bridget Lawless. ...
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Africa, Middle East offer cinema growth potential
Beleaguered cinema exhibitors, increasingly concerned about the growth potential in overcrowded Western markets, could benefit by expanding into the world's nascent cinema markets such as Africa and the Middle East. Cinemagoing Africa Middle East, a new report from film industry analysts Dodona Research, predicts that while screen count in many ...
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Woo's Windtalkers snapped up for France and Italy
President Films, the film sales division of France Television Distribution, and Italy's RAI Cinema have pre-bought all French and Italian rights (including pay-TV) to MGM's Windtalkers. The film is directed by John Woo and stars Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater and is currently in post-production.Windtalkers carries a $120m price tag, ...
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Commercial channel RTL urged to board German fund
Michael Schmid-Ospach, successor to Dieter Kosslick as executive director of German regional funding board, Filmstiftung NRW, has called on leading commercial broadcaster RTL to join public TV stations WDR and ZDF as shareholders in the funding body.Speaking this week ahead of officially taking up his post on May 1, Schmid-Ospach ...
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Crocodile Dundee in LA in Australia
Crocodile Dundee In LA, the third film in Australia's most successful franchise ever, was the most popular film over the Easter weekend grossing A$2.25m ($1.13m) from 234 screens from its opening Thursday April 12 to Monday April 16. In its favour were two public holidays, but these were offset by ...
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Sony buys broadcast rights for Yashraj library
Sony Entertainment Television has acquired five-year multiple broadcast rights for Yashraj Film's library for around $3.5m.The rights will be restricted to the Asian region and include Mohabbatein, Dil To Pagal Hai and Darr. Sony TV will start a three-month movie festival of Yashraj Film's movies beginning this August with Dilwale ...
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Egmont signs output deal with Zentropa and Nimbus
Nordic major Egmont Entertainment has struck an output deal with Denmark's two most progressive production outfits, Zentropa and Nimbus Film, securing all theatrical and video distribution rights in Denmark. "We are very proud to be working with Zentropa and Nimbus Film," said Kenneth D Plummer, managing director of Egmont Entertainment, ...
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Yamakasi
Benny Crick in ParisDirs: Ariel Zeitoun, Julien Seri. France. 2001. 90mins.With his Taxi and Taxi 2 notched among the all-time French commercial blockbusters, Luc Besson (in his capacity as producer-writer but not director) appears to have struck a new vein of box office gold. Yamakasi has tapped into the same ...
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Five out of five for Club Des Cinq
Coincidence or moral victory' The five French films in Official Selection at this year's Cannes festival are all set to be distributed locally by members of The Club Of Five (Le Club Des Cinq). This is a new lobby group formed by independent distributors which recently split from the two ...
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Korea's Myung launches own sales operation
Myung Film, the company behind Korean box office breakaway Joint Security Area, is to expand its production capacity and launch its own sales outfit in time for Cannes. The new sales division, E Pictures, will handle international distribution of the ten or so domestic Korean films produced annually by Myung. ...
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Bridget conquers America; Dundee, Freddy only OK
Bridget Jones's Diary vaulted to the top of the North American box office in its second weekend with an appetising estimated $10.53m at 2,211 sites for an average of $4,739 per site. Distributed domestically by Miramax Films, the comedy from Helen Fielding's best-selling novel had opened behind Spy Kids and ...
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Pacifica acquires Dances With Wolves sequel
LA-based development and production outfit Pacifica Film Development, which is backed by German film fund IMF, has acquired the film rights to the soon-to-be-published novel The Holy Road, the sequel to Dances With Wolves written by original author Michael Blake who will also write the screenplay adaptation.To be published on ...
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Universal Focus gets US rights to French smash
Universal Pictures has acquired US distribution rights to Christophe Gans' French blockbuster The Brotherhood Of The Wolf (Le Pacte Des Loups) and will release it under its specialised Universal Focus label in late 2001. The $25m film was acquired from StudiCanal, Universal's sister company in Vivendi, and marks the first ...