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Warner Home Video-Japan taps DVD, games specialist
Warner Home Video hasappointed Takeshi (Tim) Harada as managing director of its Japanese subsidiary,with direct control over all its local home entertainment operations includingsales, marketing, finance and DVD production.Reporting directly to WarnerHome Video president Warren Lieberfarb, Harada replaces Toshio Yajima who hasresigned from Warner Home Video-Japan to pursue other business ...
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Ramirez boosts its Mexican cinema domination
Mexico's largest exhibitor Organizacion Ramirez is fast moving towards its 1000-screen objective by the end of 2002. This week alone the company is to launch a 20-screen multiplex in Mexico City and another 18-screen site in Monterrey. "We're targeting a growth ratio of at least 100 screens per year," said ...
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Cowboy shoots for Iwai's All About Lily Chou Chou
Fortissimo Film Sales has secured a US release for its All About Lily Chou Chou through Cowboy Films. The film, a futuristic romance by Japanese director Iwai Shunji, premiered at Toronto and was the closing film at last week's New York Film Festival. Cowboy also announced that it had bought ...
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NBC pays $2bn for US hispanic TV network
Just as analysts werepredicting a marked slowdown in media mergers and acquisitions, NBC announcedyesterday it was paying $1.98bn for complete ownership of the number two Spanish-language broadcasting network in the US, Telemundo. The deal reportedly trumped a rival bid from Viacom.NBC is paying ahuge premium to buy out the interests ...
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Total, Titan in Brazil/Mexico coproduction pact
Two fledgling companies from Brazil and Mexico have signed a co-development and production accord. Brazil's Total Filmes and Mexico's Titan Prods will co-produce a series of feature films, starting with a comedy. Details of the first project are still sketchy but according to Titan producer/founder Matthias Ehrenberg and Total's co ...
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Mexico to produce 60 films annually from 2006
Mexico will produce up to 60 films a year starting in 2006, according to president-elect Vicente Fox. Speaking at the presentation of awards to members of the film production workers union (Sindicato de Tecnicos Manuales de la Producion Cinematografica), Fox made his first public commitment to local cinema. "Our aim ...
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Shortlist announced for Comedy Shorts initiative
The UK's First Film Foundation and the Paramount Comedy Channel have announced the shortlisted scriptwriters and directors in the Comedy Shorts Initiative 2001. Four scripts and five directors have been shortlisted from a total of more than 700 submitted scripts and showreels The judging panel, which currently includes Bruce Robinson, ...
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Madstone taps veteran to spearhead exhibition push
Madstone Theaters, the US exhibition upstart that plans to create a new generation of art-house multiplexes equipped with digital projectors, has hired veteran film executiveJim Sheehan (pictured left) as its president.Previously president and chief operating officer of the Mann Theaters circuit and, most recently, MGM's vice president of sales administration,Sheehan ...
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EM.TV and ProSiebenSat.1 see income fall
German film rights trading group EM.TV has announced a 2001 first-half operating profit (EBIT) of $53.4 million (DM114m) and a pre-tax loss of $59.5m (DM127m).In a statement, the company said that it had total sales in the first half of $443.8m (DM947m). The pre-tax loss included interest charges of $130.8m ...
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Berlin Festival launches German section for public
Next February's Berlin film festival (Berlinale) (Feb 6-17, 2002) will boast a new section highlighting German films that have particular flair or unusual and outstanding characteristics. The new section, Perspectives Of German Cinema will screen about ten contemporary films culled from the feature, documentary and experimental branches. The new section ...
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Dinard festival announces jury and line-up
The organisers of the 12th Festival du Film Britannique de Dinard have announced British actress, Emily Watson (Breaking The Waves, Gosford Park) as this year's jury president presiding over a jury of ten. Fellow jury members include: director Michel Alexandre, actor Daniel Craig, actress and musician Nicole Croisille, actor Adrian ...
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Rio festival to open on Sep 27 as scheduled
The Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival 2001 will run from September 27 to October 8 as scheduled. It plans to screen more than 400 films and videos from various countries in 30 cinemas around the city of Rio. The festival includes workshops, seminars and various sidebars including a retrospective ...
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Chicago selects Heist to open 37th edition
The 37th Chicago International Film Festival has announced that David Mamet's Heist will open the 37th Chicago International Film Festival on October 4, 2001. The event is sponsored by Marshall Field's Project Imagine, community-giving initiative that designates 5% of federally taxable income to arts and cultural organisations.Heist replaces the previously-scheduled ...
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Arkoff, cult movie king, dies aged 83
Samuel Z. Arkoff, the maverick Hollywood producer responsible for than 500 low-budget cult movies, died of natural causes, aged 83 on Sunday Sept 16.Arkoff, many of whose movies were hugely profitable, tapped into the youth culture long before the major studios recognised the lucrative demographic market.Among his best-known titles were ...
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Viennale unveils first titles in 130-film line up
Nanni Moretti's The Son's Room, Sean Penn's The Pledge, the Coen brothers' The Man Who Wasn't There, Manoel de Oliviera's I'm Going Home and Jean-Luc Godard's In Praise Of Love are among the titles making their local premieres in Viennale's main programme. The 130-title line-up, which includes many films not ...
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London Film Festival secures major premieres
Robert Altman's Gosford Park will world premiere as opening night film at November's London Film Festival, while Iain Softley's K-PAX will close proceedings as an international premiere.Marking something of a coup for the festival, Gosford Park is the biggest budget film supported by Governement-backed UK support body the Film ...
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BBC, BSkyB get development approval
The Independent Television Commission has given the go-ahead for BSkyB to offer a full range of multichannel TV service over networks in Britain, on top of its existing digital satellite service. BskyB's arrival into the UK TV market will significantly increase existing competition between existing operators like ITV Digital, owned ...
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New Brazilian film body to implement tax policies
A new Brazilian film industry body, the Agencia Nacional de Cinema (ANCINE) was established by president Fernando Henrique Cardoso on Friday September 9, to oversee the implementation of his new film policies for the Brazilian audiovisual industry, many of which impose additional costs on foreign imports.An official ceremony is scheduled ...
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Private investors acquire Winstar TV & Video
A group of private investors has acquired Winstar TV & Video it was announced by president, Al Cattabiani. The company was previously owned by Winstar New Media, a division of Winstar Communications, a publicly traded broadband services company."We're delighted to have closed the sale," Cattabiani said. "As an independent ...
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RTL TV signs up with Constantin for distribution
Germany's RTL Television, has signed a theatrical distribution deal with Constantin Film for Germany and Austria. The deal, which comes into force from the beginning of next year, will cover up to 10 titles annually, with RTL covering p&a costs and Constantin handling physical distribution.RTL Group has long been keen ...