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All articles by Staff reporters – Page 47
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Menemsha picks up Captain Pantoja
Los Angeles-based Menemsha Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to Peruvian hit Captain Pantoja And The Special Services (Pantaleon Y Las Visitadores), directed by Francisco Lombardi. The erotic comedy has attracted more than one million admissions in Peru, an impressive tally in a country that boasts an estimated 132 ...
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Venezuela's Caracas performs well on home turf
Venezuelan drama Caracas, Love Me to Death (Caracas, Amor A Muerte) (formerly titled The Valley) has lured more than 50,000 admissions since its September 13 debut from just two cities in Venezuela. Leading distributor Cinematografica Blancica released it on less than 10 prints in the capital of Caracas and Maracaibo. ...
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Marcondes relaunches Brazilian distribution co
Brazil's Marco Aurelio Marcondes has relaunched his distribution consortium, which includes Art Filmes' Ugo Sorrentino, Jose Sobrinho of Top Tape and Europa Filmes' Wilson Feitosa, under the new banner M.A. Marcondes.The consortium, first announced in March last year, was originally called Consorcio Brasileiro de Cinema (CBC). "It was more a ...
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US-Mexico committee pushes for tax incentives
Representatives of the US and Mexican film industries agreed to push for tax incentives to spur investment in local production at a meeting in Mexico City last week (September 20).The third annual meeting of the US-Mexico Bilateral Film Industry Committee aimed to press the importance of reactivating the local film ...
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Hispanic TV hots up as Mexico's Azteca enters US
Mexican broadcasting giant TV Azteca has realized its long-standing ambition to enter the US by creating Azteca America, a third Hispanic network that is armed with investment commitments worth nearly $500m.Azteca, Mexico's second largest broadcaster, has joined forces with private station owner Pappas Telecasting to bankroll the venture, which is ...
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Cisneros launches pan-Latin American channel
Venezuelan media giant Grupo Cisneros has launched a pan-Latin American entertainment and news channel - Venevision Continental - which will also be available to viewers in Spain and Portugal.According to Venevision Continental president Carlos Bardasano, the Spanish-language network currently reaches eight million viewers in Latin America. Its launch in Spain ...
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Production report: Venezuela faces funding crisis
Venezuelan film production is at a virtual standstill, victim of a new government in transition. This year, state-backed film body CNAC has just enough subsidy money to support one film while its selection committee has yet to convene. In 1999, the subsidy fund of $112,000 (165 million Bolivares) was parcelled ...
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Regus to sponsor London Film Festival
The London Film Festival (November 1-16) has unveiled its first ever title sponsor, meaning the festival will change its name for its forthcoming 44th edition.Business centre operator Regus Instant Offices has guaranteed funding of over $1.46m (£1m) for the festival over the next three years. As a result, the festival's ...
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Warner, Videocine launch Mexican production outfit
Warner Bros and Mexico's Videocine have formed a joint production venture, Coyoacan Films, following the success of their first co-production The Second Night (La Segunda Noche).Romantic comedy Second Night grossed $5.2m in Mexico and ranks among the top five all-time Mexican box office hits. Producer-distributor Videocine has a busy development ...
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Dutch director offers reward for return of negs
Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh has promised a $40,000 (NLG100,000) reward to the person who can return film negatives from his latest project Baby Blue (Bloedlink) which went missing somewhere between Curacao in the Dutch Antilles and Amsterdam. Instead of finding key scenes from the film, staff at Cineco laboratories ...
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Klein boards Argentine debut
Nicholas Klein, who co-wrote and produced Wim Wenders' The Million Dollar Hotel and The End Of Violence, is set to co-produce the feature debut of Argentine film-maker Alejandro Chomski. Chomski, who lived in Los Angeles for four years, has directed nine shorts, three of which were acquired by internet movie ...
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Protestors mar Los Angeles Latino fest
The 4th Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival ended on a sour note July 30 when the entrance to the festival venue, the Egyptian Theatre, was picketed by a radical Latino group protesting against DreamWorks' The Road To El Dorado. Actor and festival president Edward James Olmos narrated the voice ...
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Herod's Law cleans up at Mexico's Oscars
Political satire Herod's Law (La Ley De Herodes), directed by Luis Estrada, swept the 42nd Ariels, Mexico's equivalent of the Oscars, on Monday night, grabbing 10 awards from 14 nominations.The film, which openly criticises Mexico's former ruling party, the PRI, survived a censorship brouhaha last year that led to the ...
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Galaxy signs PPV deal with Buena Vista
Latin American satellite broadcaster Galaxy Latin America (GLA) has signed a 10-year pay-per-view (PPV) agreement with Buena Vista International.The accord gives Galaxy PPV rights to live-action features from Disney, Touchstone, Hollywood and Miramax. Galaxy, jointly owned by Hughes Electronics' DirecTV and Venezuelan media giant Cisneros, broadcasts to one million subscribers ...
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Love's A Bitch continues Mexican wave
Love's A Bitch (Amores Perros), the second title by fledgling film company Estudio Mexico Films (EMF), has triumphed against the odds at Mexico's box office. Despite its length (two and half hours) and the fact that it was pitted against Mission: Impossible 2, the Cannes 2000 Critic's Week awardee earned ...
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Barreto heads venture to launch Latin pay channel
A group of Brazilian and Argentinean producers, spearheaded by Brazil's Luiz Carlos Barreto, are teaming up to launch, TV Mercosul, a cable and satellite channel dedicated to Latin American programming. The venture also includes Brazil's Anibal Massaini and Marcos Altberg - who, along with Barreto, are shareholders in Brazilian movie ...
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HBO re-enters Argentinian cable market
HBO Latin America Group has agreed to restore its movie channels HBO and Cinemax to leading Argentinian cable operators Multicanal and Cablevision after boycotting Argentina's cable industry for the past 18 months.HBO and Cinemax pulled out of the Argentine market in January 1999 in protest against the lack of encrypted ...
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Argentina's Aleph tries on Runaway Shoes
Argentina's Aleph Productions has boarded $2m comedy Runaway Shoes (Viva Sapato!) as co-producer alongside Brazil's Total Filmes and Spain's Euroficcion.The Spanish-language film, touted as the first ever co-production between Brazil, Argentina and Spain, will be shot in Brazil and Cuba in December this year. It will feature Cuban actor Jorge ...
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Festival do Rio secures $1.7m from Petrobras
Brazilian state-owned petroleum company Petrobras Distribuidora, a stalwart supporter of local cinema since 1994, has announced its exclusive three-year sponsorship of the Festival do Rio, Brazil's most prestigious international film festival. It has also committed towards the restoration of the venerable Odeon Theatre, built in 1926. Petrobras has allotted $1.7m ...
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Brazil launches film commission with int'l mission
Brazil has launched a dedicated film commission to capitalise on a weakened local currency and attract large-scale overseas productions such as The Mission, one of the few high-profile features to shoot in Latin America's largest country.With the real down to nearly two to a US dollar, the Rio de Janeiro-based ...