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JSA hits top spot in Japan
Joint Security Area (JSA), the highest grossing Korean film of 2000, debuted at number one on the Japanese box office chart following its release on May 26. Distributed jointly by Cine Quanon and Amuse Pictures, which also handled the 1999 Korean megahit Shiri, JSA enjoyed the widest release of any ...
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UIP to go solo in Poland
Casting a vote of confidence in the local market, international distribution giant United International Pictures is to go it alone in Poland. It will release films through a newly-created local arm. Among the first UIP titles to go through the wholly-owned Polish subsidiary are The Mummy Returns, Shrek, Tomb Raider ...
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Ster-Kinekor slashes SA screens by 20%
Leading South African distributor and exhibitor Ster-Kinekor is to close five multiplexes and put another four up for sale. This amounts to 20% of its cinema screens in the country. In addition, there have been job losses at head office and regional offices in order to cut costs. Cinemas in ...
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Toho moves into DVD rental
Leading Japanese distributor and exhibitor Toho is to enter the DVD rental market with the release of Ridley Scott's Hannibal on November 9. The company will join rivals Toei and Shochiku, which are already competing in the rental DVD business.The Hannibal double set will contain both the 131-minute theatrical version ...
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Optimum takes Eloge De L'Amour for UK
Independent UK distributor Optimum Releasing has picked up all UK rights on Jean Luc-Godard's Cannes competition entry Eloge De L'Amour (In Praise Of Love).Described as a meditation on the themes of memory and history, the film was sold on the Croisette this year by Wild Bunch, and was hailed as ...
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Canal Plus Group hires Parize, Jezequel
Vivendi Universal subsidiary, Canal Plus Group has appointed Isabelle Parize as chief operating officer of Canal Plus Distribution and Jean-Francois Jezequel as senior vice president, technology.Parize, who has held a variety of marketing positions within Procter & Gamble and Schwarzkopf Henkel, will be responsible for Canal Plus' distribution businesses in ...
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Steve Mertz promoted to senior vp at Warner Europe
Steve Mertz has been promoted to senior vice president, legal and business affairs, and general counsel - Europe for Warner Bros, from his previous position as vice president and general counsel - Europe.In his new post, Mertz will head Warner's European legal and business affairs department, managing the team of ...
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Chuck Speed leaves Regent, sets up consultancy
Chuck Speed, senior vice president of business affairs and finance at Regent Entertainment, is leaving the company to form his own consulting practice in entertainment finance and related matters. Stephen P Jarchow, Regent's chairman and CEO, has entered into a consulting and first look agreement with Speed, who will number ...
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George Lucas to get 11th BAFTA/LA Britannia Award
The British Academy Of Film And Television Arts Los Angeles (BAFTA/LA) will give its annual Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence In Film to George Lucas. The award will be presented during a gala event in LA on Nov 10.Since the mid-1970s, Lucas has directed and/or produced nine films on ...
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Closet, booming exhibition lift Gaumont Q1 figures
Beleaguered French major Gaumont has seen its sales jump 44% for the first quarter of 2001. This comes as a welcome reprieve for the company, which saw revenues drop 50% in the last quarter of 2000 and 15% for the full year, mostly due to the dismal box office performance ...
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Stockmarket confirms Kinowelt share trading probe
The Frankfurt-based German Federal Securities Supervisory Office (BaWe) has said that it has begun formal investigations into alleged insider trading at Kinowelt. The move comes after shares in Kinowelt, listed on the Nemax50 blue-chip segment of Germany's Neuer Markt, lost some 40% of their value in the three days ahead ...
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Before Night Falls falls foul of UK censor
Before Night Falls, Julian Schnabel's acclaimed biopic of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, has fallen foul of UK censor, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).Before agreeing to certify the film, the BBFC demanded a scene involving the capture of a bird in prison be cut under the Cinematograph Films (Animals) ...
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Preston unexpectedly quits UK's Metrodome
Rupert Preston has quit as head of UK independent distributor Metrodome Distribution.Preston, who released titles including Human Traffic, Shadow Of The Vampire, and Chopper while at Metrodome, confirmed that he will leave the company in late August after overseeing upcoming releases. Metrodome group chairman John Hall said that the publicly-quoted ...
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Norway backs Most People...
Production outfit Motlys has been granted $760,000 from the Norwegian Film Institute for portmanteau project Most People Live In China - a single feature film with eight directors and six screenwriters attached. The directors and writers involved are a combination of well-known names and newcomers.Each segment of the $942,000 film ...
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Mediacs moves into film licensing
German multimedia producer mediacs has followed rival e-m-s new media into the film licensing business. It has sealed an output deal for the production and distribution of DVDs for films from Berlin-based production house TTD Checkpoint Berlin.The first TTD productions to be released on mediacs' own DVD label will be ...
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VCL cuts 2001 forecasts, raises new cash
Germany's VCL Film + Medien's "liquidity bottleneck has been uncorked by a $33.9m financial package provided by a consortium of banks and other investors, led by France's Societe Generale. It will help to secure the financing of the first two Woody Allen films in VCL's three-picture deal concluded in June ...
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SF backs low-budget film incentive
The Danish arm of Nordic major Svensk Filmindustri (SF) has signed a first look deal with the young production outfit Buttenschoen & Budde. 'Our aim is to finance and initiate projects from young professionals and new talents,' explained producer Mads Buttenschoen. 'What we can offer is an incentive for the ...
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Columbia TriStar boards Waddington's House
Columbia TriStar Brazil has boarded the next film by Andrucha Waddington, director of international hit Me, You, Them (Eu, Tu, Eles). Budgeted at $3.5m, high for Brazilian standards, the drama, titled The House Of Sand, will be co-produced by Me, You, Them production house Conspiracao and prominent Brazilian producer Luiz ...
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INTERNATIONAL
Pearl Harbor has performed well on its debut in the international market, led by a strong showing in Italy. As it started its international roll-out at the weekend Buena Vista International's World War II epic suggested a new trend in Italy, which has traditionally all but closed down for the ...
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Actress Fiorentino countersues Germany's Art Oko
US actress Linda Fiorentino filed a response and cross-complaint yesterday in the Los Angeles Superior Court action brought against her by Art Oko Film, the German production company of abandoned film Till The End Of Time. Art Oko sued Fiorentino earlier this year claiming that she "held production of the ...