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Digital cinemas expand in Brazil
Brazil now boasts the first digital cinemas to operate on a regular basis in Latin America, with five screenings scheduled daily. A joint venture between exhibitor UCI and Brazilian technology integrator Teleimage, and sponsored by telecommunications company Intel, the second Intel Digital Theatre opened Friday March 29 in Sao Paolo ...
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Mexico finally revises film certification system
Mexico's ratings board announced a long awaited revision of its ratings system - nearly a year after director Alfonso Cuaron and producing partner Jorge Vergara filed a lawsuit against the board for the C rating it gave their film, Y Tu Mama Tambien. Incensed that the C rating - ...
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Miramax joins kids craze with Pokemon sequel
As part of a visible pushinto producing and distributing family-friendly entertainment, Miramax Filmshas acquired the worldwide rights outside Asia to the next Pokemon movie sequel, out-bidding Warner Bros to the fourth film in the Japanese anime cash-cow about evolutionary pocket monsters. As reported in the LosAngeles Times yesterday, Miramaxpaid an ...
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SAG downplays international impact of Global Rule
The US Screen Actors Guild(SAG) says its controversial Global Rule One will only apply to that small cadre of internationalactors primarily living in the US, and not those many foreign SAG card-holders who have worked on US films but remain overseas residents.International producers,particularly those in the UK, were in uproar ...
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Miller, Oliveira find US homes for latest films
Two Europeanfilms have found US theatrical distribution through New York-based art-housespecialists, with Wellspring Media acquiring all domestic rights to Claude Miller's BettyFisher et Autres Histoires and Milestone Film & Video picking up Manoel de Oliveira's Vou Para Casa (I'm Going Home).Wellspring, the filmand video outfit that was formerly under the ...
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Frida controversy brews with Mexican critics
Members of the Mexican press who have been privy to test screenings of Julie Taymor's $12m biopic Frida are apparently appalled at the liberties taken in portraying the anguished Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Co-produced by Mexican actress Salma Hayek who plays the painter, the film allegedly shows Frida Kahlo as ...
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Film clean-out begins at Vivendi Universal
The corporate cleansing hasbegun at Vivendi Universal's film operations in the wake of strategic re-evaluation meetings that have taken place in the French town of Deauville. Three months after mergingwith Barry Diller's USA Networks, the French-owned studio has shut downits specialist division Universal Focus and also severed StudioCanal's co-production venture ...
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Three Cartoon Movie tributes awarded
Three European companies were awarded tributes at the closing event of Cartoon Movie, the forum dedicated to European animation feature films, which took place in the Babelsberg studios from 14 to 16 March. Of the seven nominees, the three winning companies were selected for being major initiatives or success stories.Cinelibre ...
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France's Celluloid sells out on 8 Femmes
Powerful French sales house Celluloid Dreams has sold out on Francois Ozon's film 8 Femmes. The musical ensemble piece, which appeared in competition at last month's Berlin festival, is now Celluloid's most successful film of all time in terms of figures and market penetration.The value of licences sold has exceeded ...
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Cuaron, del Toro snub Mexican 'Oscars' in protest
Mexican directors Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro and Jorge Vergara, producer of Cuaron's Y Tu Mama Tambien and del Toro's The Devil's Backbone, have declined to submit their films to the prestigious Mexican Ariel Awards, in protest at the "lack of transparency" in the voting process."We ...
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Last Supper wins short film award in Finland
Christian Lindblad's Last Supper was awarded this year's first Jameson Short Film Award with a purse of Euros 6,000, at the Tampere Film Festival in Finland on March 11.The Jameson Short Film Awards is a joint initiative by Jameson Irish Whiskey and the ECFF (European Coordination of Film Festivals) and ...
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Estudio Mexico plans US distribution operation
Estudio Mexico Films, parentcompany of Mexican production powerhouseAltavista Films (Amores Perros) and Latin American distributor NuVision, is planning to launchdistribution operations in the US for Spanish language films. According toEstudio Mexico head Federico Gonzalez Compean, they are actively seeking outco-investors in the new venture which will require seed capital of ...
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Brazilian exhibition race heats up
International and local exhibitors in Brazil have stepped up the pace in their ongoing race to provide this hugely under-screened territory with more multiplexes. In December, Cinemark International dethroned local giant exhibitor Severiano Ribeiro from its dominant position of many years. The Texas-based circuit now boasts 258 screens, ...
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Columbia picks up debut comedy Bobby Ewing
Columbia Pictures has purchased the romantic comedy Bobby Ewing, the debut feature screenplay from US television writer/producer Linda Bloodworth, it was announced by Peter Schlessel, president of production for Columbia.Bobby Ewing is a comedy about an immigrant whose love for America is equalled only by his daring and desperate attempts ...
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MDP reports fifth consecutive quarterly profit
MDP Worldwide Entertainment, Mark Damon's production and sales outfit which is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, has reported financial results for the first quarter ended December 31, 2001 reflecting the fifth consecutive quarterly profit reported by the company since Damon, its chairman and CEO, took over the helm and ...
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THX and Kinepolis in joint-branding move
Lucasfilm THX has announced that Brussels-based Kinepolis Group has become Europe's first multiplex operator to adopt THX certification in every cinema screen, including its last remaining 30 non-THX screens. To promote its 'Total-THX' status, the two companies will adopt a co-branding campaign featuring both of their corporate logos."We want ...
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Epiphany Films to produce spiritual features
Crusader Entertainment, LLC, has formed Epiphany Films, to develop and produce independent feature films with spiritual and religious themes. The announcement was made by Howard Baldwin, president and CEO of Crusader Entertainment, who also announced that Dr. Bob Beltz has been appointed director of special projects for Epiphany. Dr. Beltz, ...
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Procacci launches Australian production outfit
Italian producer Domenico Procacci has announced the formation of Fandango Australia Pty Ltd, a new production entity combining both Australian and European financial sources. The first project to be made by the company will be Rolf de Heer's Alexandra's Project which will go into production later this month.The directors of ...
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Acting surprises at Cesars but Amelie wins top two
Despite taking the awards for best film and director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie failed to dominate Saturday's French Cesar awards as expected, winning in four categories out of its 13 nominations.While Amelie's star, Audrey Tautou, has been widely recognised as a talent to watch and was generally considered the favourite for ...