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Hedwig takes top honours at Deauville
Hedwig And The Angry Inch has won the international critics' prize at the Deauville Festival of American cinema. Hedwig beat 10 other films to the prize, which is open only to independent films. The festival's jury prize went to Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World which stars Steve Buscemi and Thora Birch. ...
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Germany's ProSiebenSat1 and Kirch Media to merge
The executive board of German TV broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has agreed in principle with Kirch Media to merge the two companies by the end of June 2002. The new entity will be listed on the exchange as Kirch Media, ProSiebenSat.1 according to a statement. Kirch Media is the TV rights trading ...
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Poland anticipates record year at the box office
The Polish cinema industry is staging a vigorous come-back after disastrous results in 2000, that saw admissions and box office plummet by 29.8%. Three Polish films have already topped the national box office chart this year, and three forthcoming local titles are expected to boost the territory's box office to ...
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Berlin Film Festival selects Screen International
Screen International is proud to announce that it has been selected to publish the exclusive festival dailies at the forthcoming Berlin film festival (Berlinale) in February 2002. Festival director Dieter Kosslick said: "For me it is the first time that I am organising the Berlinale and it is the first ...
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Liberty Media buys European cable crown
Deutsche Telekom AG has signed a contract to sell its six remaining regional cable TV companies to U.S.-based cable group Liberty Media for Euros 5.5bn according to Reuters. The sale forms part of Deutsche Telekom's efforts to reduce its debt mountain of Euros 65.5bn and will make Liberty Europe's largest ...
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Audiences rise in the West, decline in the East
The Western European cinemagoing trend is riding a steadily upward curve, while Eastern European admissions continue to decline. In fact, the year-on-year decline in ticket sales between 1999 and 2000 that was experienced in Eastern European markets substantially outstrips the gains enjoyed in the western territories as a whole. While ...
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Just 5% separates all US majors in first half
US box office for the first six months of 2001 is up 7.6% against last year, with strong results from both winter and summer seasons. In addition, the top distributors are all more evenly matched than at any time in the last five years, with the difference between the market ...
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UK film policy: a dissenting voice
In the year or so since the demise of British Screen and the founding of the UK's Film Council former chief executive Simon Perry has remained silent. Now on Screendaily.com, he delivers an open letter to the UK's secretary of state for culture, media & sport, Tessa Jowell. An Open ...
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Venezuela's Oscars go for Three Nights
Fernando Venturini's acclaimed thriller Three Nights (Tres Noches) swept the board at Venezuela's equivalent to the Oscars, the Premios de la Calidad 2001 awarded by state-backed local film institute, CNAC. Three Nights won eight out of its 13 nominations, including awards for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography (Hernan ...
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Flanders Film Festival reveals jury line-up
British actress Kate Ashfield (The War Zone), US actor Djimon Hounsou (Gladiator) and composer Barrington Pheloung (Hilary & Jackie) are confirmed as jury members at this year's 28th Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent (8-18 October 2001). They are joined by Tunisian filmmaker Moufida Tlatli, French actress Marie Lafôret, Cannes' ...
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Historical epic's marketing Thai-in
For a country relatively new to big-budget movie production, Thailand is surpassing even Hollywood in its marketing and cross-promotional efforts around the release of the historical epic Suriyothai. At lease eight major sponsors have contributed to a campaign that is estimated to cost more than $5.6m (BT250m)In addition to the ...
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NATPE reveals ambitious plans for 2002
The National Association of Television Programming Executives (NATPE) has announced the most comprehensive outreach to the global advertising community in the Association's history, in conjunction with the NATPE 2002 Conference to be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center January 21 - 24, 2002, it was jointly announced by ...
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Studios warm to Mexican flavour
The statistics speak for themselves. Mexico boasts the biggest number of screens in Latin America; with close to 3,000, nearly double that of Brazil, a country twice its size. Mexico is a growing market too: theatrical revenues rose by 20.2% in 2000, and now 20th Century Fox ranks Mexico ...
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Cinemark: revenues up, losses down
Cinemark USA has reported that for the six month period ended June 30, 2001, revenues increased 9.8% to $398.4m compared to $362.8m for the same period last year.EBITDA for the first six months of 2001 increased 23.8% to $71.9m from $58.1m in 2000. The company's net loss for the six ...
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Brazilian cinema admissions leap 23%
Brazilian cinema admissions during the first half of 2001 have surged by 23%, compared to the same period last year, according to local marketing research company Filme B. While Brazilian cinemas saw 6.9 million admissions between January and July 2000, a massive 8.5 million visits were recorded during the same ...
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September International makes first Chinese sale
September International, the sales and distribution arm of September Films, has made its first sale in China. The agreement consists of four programmes: Secret History of Hacking, Playboy Prince, Tammy Wynette an American Tragedy and Dressing for the Oscars. The programmes will be broadcast throughout China to over 100 city ...
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Argentine cinemas hit by national economy slump
Argentina's deepening economic crisis is cutting heavily into the national box office, with earnings for the territory's biggest cinema operator, Village Cinemas South America, expected to be down 10% on last year, according to company president Eduardo Novilla Astrada.In its third year of economic gloom, Argentina's cinema business - long ...
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India relaxes exhibition entertainment tax
India is set to become the next major growth opportunity for the international exhibition industry, following a ruling by the chief minister of the state of Maharashtra exempting multiplexes from the punitive entertainment tax for the next three years, with a 75% discount for the following two years.The announcement was ...
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Warner releases Osmosis Jones in dual formats
Osmosis Jones will become the first Warner Bros release to premiere in both an all-digital and conventional 35mm format this weekend.A handful of the theatres in the US and Canada that are projecting the Farrelly brothers' latest comic invention, a PG-rated blend of live action and animation, will do so ...
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Miramax acquires Bridget-style diary of its own
Has MiramaxFilms found the next Bridget Jones' The New York film studio appears to have the recent Working Title transatlantic smash firmly in mind when it acquired the film rights yesterday to Allison Pearson's upcoming novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, based on her popular weekly newspapercolumns in ...