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CANNES DAY ONE ROUND UP
IEG CONFIRMS ALI DEAL WITH COLUMBIAInitial Entertainment Group (IEG) has confirmed that the deal between Columbia Pictures and IEG for Michael Mann's big budget boxing biopic Ali has been finalised, with IEG providing funds to finance the film against worldwide distribution excluding the US and Canada. IEG has been involved ...
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Amores Perros barks loudest at Mexican awards
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's commercial and critical success Love's A Bitch (Amores Perros) has nabbed 15 nominations for the upcoming 43rd annual Ariel Awards, Mexico's Oscars. Nominations for the Altavista Films production include best picture, best director, best actor, best cinematography, best original screenplay and best directorial debut. Gonzalez Inarritu's three-story ...
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Kinobrasil adds Spanish-language sales arm
Many of Latin America's festival favourites are to be represented at Cannes by new international sales company Kinolatino.The company, which is a subsidiary of Zurich-based Kinobrasil, has already acquired European all rights to: Chilean box office hit, El Chacotero Sentimental; Argentina's Solo Por Hoy which appeared in Berlin's Panorama ...
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Fox adds local duo to Mexican distribution slate
Buoyed by a promising new crop of Mexican films, 20th Century Fox de Mexico has picked up two more home-grown films for local distribution, Nicolas Echevarria's Vivir Mata and Angel Maria Huerta's Inspiracion.Vivir Mata is a romantic comedy shot in Mexico City and stars Daniel Gimenez Cacho (Nadie Hablara ...
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Miami hispanic festival mixes Latin and Loach
Argentinean drama Historias Clandestinas De la Havana will open the fifth Miami Hispanic Film Festival next month, while Ken Loach's Bread And Roses closes proceedings.Films in competition at the event include Chilean box-office hit Coronacion, by Silvio Ciaozzi, Venezuelan-Spanish co-production Oro Diablo and Brazilian blockbuster O Auto Da Compadecida. Also ...
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CNAC funding quest stymied by Venezuela govt
Maurice Reyna, appointed president of Venezuelan film institute Centro Nacional Autonomo de Cinematografia (CNAC) in February, has lost the first round of his battle with the Chavez government for more support. The Caracas government approved CNAC's 2001 budget of $1.07m (761m) Bolivars) yesterday (April 17), an amount Reyna declared completely ...
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Mexico updates 1992 film law
Long pending guidelines to Mexico's 1992 Film Law have been published, including new regulations that call for a 10% screen quota for national films and the setting up of a trust fund, Fidecine, of $10m (100 million pesos) per annum, using taxpayers' contributions. While local production has tripled over recent ...
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Imax goes down the tube
Imax Corp, the giant screen and entertainment technology company. has struck a $15m deal that will see its digital projection technology used in advertising billboards within the UK's London Underground railway network. The joint venture with Swedish outdoor media company DHJ Media is good news for the large-screen format purveyor ...
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Mar Del Plata triumphs despite troubles
The new Mar Del Plata festival administration led by National Film Institute (INCAA) director Jose Miguel Onaindia and artistic director Claudio Espana struggled against logistical problems that threatened to disrupt the otherwise successful event that wrapped on March 17.The festival boasted nearly 30,000 admissions sold during the first three days. ...
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Mar del Plata
MAR DEL PLATA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALMarch 8 - 17Argentina's Mar del Plata International Film Festival has bounced back after mismanagement and a local film industry boycott forced a hiatus last year. A new executive team led by film critic and historian Claudio Espana has promised to provide a more organised ...
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Columbia TriStar TV goes Globo in Brazil
Columbia TriStar International Television (CTIT) is currently co-producing the first TV movie to be made in Brazil. Titled Favorite Son, the drama is the first of a 12 TV movie package deal with leading Brazilian broadcaster Globo. The story of an Italian woman who returns to Brazil in search for ...
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Sogecable reduces losses
Spanishmultimedia conglomerate Sogecable posted year-end financial results for 2000which reflect an 18.2% decrease in net consolidated losses to Euros11.4m(pts1,900m).The losses arelargely due to content expenses - particularly rights deals for cinema andfootball - for the group's pay TV platforms Canal Satelite Digital (CSD),launched in 1997, and Canal Plus.Sogecableposted Euros11.2m (pts1,860m) ...
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Amores Perros escapes UK censorship
Mexican Best Foreign Oscar nominee Love's A Bitch (Amores Perros) is set to receive clearance from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), despite a harrowing and controversial dog fight scene.The scene, a 21-second, yet pivotal, sequence in the film, was in danger of falling foul of the Cinematograph Films ...
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Goldman launches p&a-fueled US releasing outfit
Former New Line Cinema president and COO of distribution Mitch Goldman has launched The Premiere Group, a new marketing and distribution operation that intends to guarantee Hollywood-level films a wide release in the US.J.P. Morgan will arrange a revolving credit facility of at least $100 million to partly back The ...
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Fox joins Brazil's cunning fiscal movie scheme
20th Century Fox Film Brazil has closed an unprecedented package deal with local production company Total Filmes.According to the terms of the agreement, Fox will distribute three feature films produced by Total over a three year period, starting in 2001. Fox will exploit the fiscal advantages provided by Brazil's audiovisual ...
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Grupo Novo returns to AFM
Grupo Novo de Cinema e TV, a distributor of films by Brazilian independent producers, is back at the AFM for the first time in ten years with a slate headed by two pictures which recently appeared at Berlin.Latitude Zero, by Toni Venturi, whose script was backed by the Sundance ...
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Chereau's explicit Intimacy wins Berlin top prize
The Berlin Film Festival has awarded its top prize, theGolden Bear, to Patrice Chereau's sexually explicit Intimacy based on one of Hanif Kureishi'ssemi-autobiographical short stories. One of the film's courageous leads,Kerry Fox, also took home the Silver Bear for best actress.Living up to the pre-festival promise from jury president(and ousted ...
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Argentine production to receive tax boost
Argentina is poised to introduce a new law which will create tax shelters for companies investing in cinema and other cultural endeavors, along the same lines as the Brazilian model. The so-called Ley de Mecenazgo (Sponsorship Law) will be put forward in March for final deliberations by the government.Under the ...
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Menemsha picks up Sundance winner
Los Angeles-based international sales company Menemsha Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to Brazilian romantic comedy Possible Loves (Amores Possiveis), directed by Sandra Werneck, which won the Latin American Jury Prize at this year's Sundance.20th Century Fox holds the Latin American rights to the film which is represented by Brazilian ...
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Oscar-winner Zanetti lines up directing debut
Art director Eugenio Zanetti, who won an Oscar in 1996 for Michael Hoffman's Restoration, is set to make his theatrical directing debut with The Burning Tree, which has Anthony Quinn attached to play one of the leads.Los Angeles-based production company Esparza-Katz (Selena) will co-produce the project with Astrolabio of Spain ...