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Scottish film chief quits threatened agency
John Archer, the chief executive of Scottish Screen, the national film agency, has quit his position after five years.Archer has been under fire since May, when it was revealed that the agency's lottery panel had awarded a £24,000 development grant to a film directed by his wife, Clara Glynn.While Archer ...
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Deauville announces festival details
The teaser campaign for the Deauville Festival of American Cinema has begun with confirmation that Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence will screen at the event.The film will be the centrepiece of a major Stanley Kubrick retrospective also featuring Killer Kiss, Eyes Wide Shut and the Jan Harlan-directed documentary Stanley Kubrick: ...
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Blockbuster Mexico poised to acquire rival outfit
Blockbuster Mexico is set to pounce on main rival Grupo Videovisa. "We're definitely interested in acquiring some of Videovisa's assets, including sites, outlets or inventory, provided they fit in with our long term strategy," said Diego Cosio, Senior Vice President, Blockbuster Latin America. The beleaguered Videovisa has been placed on ...
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Cuaron causes stink over Mexican ratings system
Mexican directorAlfonso Cuaron and his producing partner Jorge Vergara are demanding anoverhaul of the Mexican ratings system after Cuaron's current box office hit Y Tu Mama Tambien was slapped with a C rating, restricting it to local audiences aged 18 andabove.Although commerciallylimiting, the C certificate has not stopped the raunchy ...
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High ticket tax in Argentina bites into box office
Higher taxes onbox office tickets have forced exhibitors to raise ticket prices in Argentina.These have gone up as much as 15% in some areas, further aggravating dwindlingadmissions in a country deep in recession.According to a leading distributor, last year a mid-sized film such as Heartbreakers could have drawn an average ...
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Seven Arts to merge with Hollywood Partners.com
Peter Hoffman's Seven Arts Pictures is to merge with US Internet outfit Hollywood Partners.com, it was announced on Wednesday.Hoffman is to join Hollywood Partners with a five-year exclusive commitment to serve as chief executive of the joint companies. Hollywood Partners is to acquire Seven Arts' overhead agreement and first-look deal ...
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Bollywood blockbusters slug it out in India
Two controversial Bollywood period films have been breaking Indian box-office records, despite playing at the same time.Land Tax (Lagaan) and Mutiny - A Love Story (Gadar-Ek Prem Katha) have been playing to full houses since both films opened 10 days ago. Box office for Lagaan is expected to increase as ...
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Franchise re-sells overseas rights to five titles
Franchise Pictures says it regained various international distribution rights to five features -- Angel Eyes, Get Carter, The Pledge, 3000 Miles To Graceland and Viva Las Nowhere -- after Germany's Intertainment Licensing failed to make the required payments on those films.In a statement released onSunday, Franchise claimed it had ...
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Midaq Alley to kick off Mexico's local DVD market
Jorge Fons' multi award-winning Midaq Alley (El Callejon De Los Milagros), starring Salma Hayek, and Ernesto Gomez Cruz, will be the first Mexican film to be released domestically on DVD when it hits the shops on July 15. The release is being handled by Alameda Films, director Arturo Ripstein's family-run ...
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Y Tu Mama Tambien breaks Mexican box office record
Alfonso Cuaron's steamy drama Y Tu Mama Tambien has smashed Mexican box-office records for local films, ending its first week on release in Mexico with $2.19m from just 230 prints. This is the highest opening week figure ever earned by a Mexican film. The Mummy Returns, by contrast, made $1.86m ...
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Despite dipping 50% in its second week in the US, Pearl Harbor has remained rather more buoyant in the UK in its second week, dropping only 21% with a three-day weekend gross of $2,863,772 on 455 screens. So far, the critically-panned Bay-Bruckheimer epic has grossed £8,913,994 in the UK.The Mummy ...
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Local films take 50% share as French BO grows
Admissions in France grew 12% in the first five months of the year, hitting 86.5 million spectators.According to the new data from the Centre National de la Cinematographie (CNC) there were some 11 million tickets sold in May, an increase of 11%. Lifted by films such as Amelie From Montmartre ...
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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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Vivendi not ready to sell BSkyB stake
French media group Vivendi Universal has denied that there is any foundation to reports in the UK press that claim that the company is exploring the possibility of selling its 23% in BSkyB to institutional investors.Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier pledged late last year to dispose of the stake within two ...
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MTV Awards: Sean Patrick Thomas, Zhang Ziyi shine
Prizes were widely shared out at the MTV Movie Awards this weekend. Mission: Impossible 2, Charlie's Angels and Sean Patrick Thomas in Save The Last Dance each won two awards. Heavyweight, Gladiator came away with only one, the top prize as best film.The ceremony which took place at the Shrine ...
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Amores Perros sweeps Mexico's Ariel awards
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Love's A Bitch (Amores Perros) grabbed 11 awards from its 15 nominations at this week's 43rd Ariel Awards ceremony in Mexico City. The three-part urban drama made a sweep of all the major awards except for Best Actress which was shared between actresses Ximena Ayala (Perfume De ...
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Beyond Distribution bolsters sales team
Beyond Distribution has strengthened its sales team by giving additional responsibilities to London-based Ellen Lovejoy and through the appointment of Veronique Verges.The moves follow the resignation of Marena Manzoufas, Beyond Distribution's general manager, who will leave in mid-July.Lovejoy will now manage all sales staff in the UK, US and Australia ...
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Sony pays theatre chains to show film trailer
Sony PicturesEntertainment has set a new precedent by becoming the first Hollywood studio toactually pay theatre chains to carry one its promotional trailers.According to a news report in Thursday's Los Angeles Times, Sony paid two US exhibition chains -- General Cinema Theatres and AMC Entertainment -- as much as $100,000 ...
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Latest Cannes Sales Deals
Mercure Distribution has sold Cedric Kahn's French competition title Roberto Succo to Japan's Long Ride, Spain's Vertigo, Italy's Fandango and Korea's Apex. FilmFour International has sold Crush to Scanbox for Scandinavia and Vision Africa for South Africa. FilmFour expects to close deals in the US, Australia and Korea by the ...
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Sony Classics, USA turn up Cannes buying heat
Asserting itself after what has been a largely quiet Cannes on the domestic buying front, Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has closed deals on two international festival films - taking rights in North America, Australia and New Zealand to Zhang Yang's Quitting from Fortissimo Film Sales and North American rights to ...