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  • Alliance pays back $400 million debt
    Sunday November 30th 2008

    MONTREAL — Alliance Films, Canada’s leading film distributor, has paid all of its approximately $400 million debt, putting it in a stronger position to pounce on new films and ink output deals. The transaction was approved by the board of directors and by its shareholders, the Quebec government investment arm[…]

  • Industry tries to avoid another format war
    Friday November 28th 2008

    3-D homevideo is set to make a splash next year, with manufacturers coming out with rigs that use two competing styles of glasses and even some that don’t need glasses at all. Samsung has sold as many as a million “3-D-ready” flat-panel sets that need active shutter glasses. Hyundai is selling LCD sets that use polarizer glasses in Japan, and JVC is expected to unveil a similar set for the American market at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. These competing proprietary systems, which use different types of glasses, seem to augur the onset of another format war . . .

  • RDF Media agrees $80 million buyout deal
    Friday November 28th 2008

    LONDON — Television production company RDF Media, the creator of “Wife Swap” and “Faking It,” said Thursday it had agreed terms for a 52 million pounds ($80 million) management buyout financed by reality king John de Mol’s Cyrte Investments. Shares in the ailing producer were up 16% at 1.15 pounds[…]

  • SAG inches closer to strike
    Thursday November 27th 2008

    The Screen Actors Guild will send out its strike authorization vote to members next month, making it possible for actors to strike as early as January — prompting a bitter response from the majors. In a message to SAG’s 120,000 members sent Wednesday, SAG president Alan Rosenberg said a strike would be called by the national board “only if it becomes absolutely necessary.”

  • Michael Cera comedy flies under radar
    Thursday November 27th 2008

    Look at most movie databases, and you’ll find no mention of a new film called “Paper Hearts.” But talk to indie film insiders and the unconventional comedy, which stars Michael Cera and boasts other credits from Judd Apatow’s talent stable, and you’ll quickly realize how high expectations are running for this semi-secret project that’s expected to debut at next year’s Sundance Film Festival. “It’s pretty much ‘the one,’ at least as far as festival programmers are concerned,” one seller said.

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  • Alliance pays back $400 million debt
    Sunday November 30th 2008

    MONTREAL — Alliance Films, Canada’s leading film distributor, has paid all of its approximately $400 million debt, putting it in a stronger position to pounce on new films and ink output deals. The transaction was approved by the board of directors and by its shareholders, the Quebec government investment arm[…]

  • Industry tries to avoid another format war
    Friday November 28th 2008

    3-D homevideo is set to make a splash next year, with manufacturers coming out with rigs that use two competing styles of glasses and even some that don’t need glasses at all. Samsung has sold as many as a million “3-D-ready” flat-panel sets that need active shutter glasses. Hyundai is selling LCD sets that use polarizer glasses in Japan, and JVC is expected to unveil a similar set for the American market at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. These competing proprietary systems, which use different types of glasses, seem to augur the onset of another format war . . .

  • RDF Media agrees $80 million buyout deal
    Friday November 28th 2008

    LONDON — Television production company RDF Media, the creator of “Wife Swap” and “Faking It,” said Thursday it had agreed terms for a 52 million pounds ($80 million) management buyout financed by reality king John de Mol’s Cyrte Investments. Shares in the ailing producer were up 16% at 1.15 pounds[…]

  • SAG inches closer to strike
    Thursday November 27th 2008

    The Screen Actors Guild will send out its strike authorization vote to members next month, making it possible for actors to strike as early as January — prompting a bitter response from the majors. In a message to SAG’s 120,000 members sent Wednesday, SAG president Alan Rosenberg said a strike would be called by the national board “only if it becomes absolutely necessary.”

  • Michael Cera comedy flies under radar
    Thursday November 27th 2008

    Look at most movie databases, and you’ll find no mention of a new film called “Paper Hearts.” But talk to indie film insiders and the unconventional comedy, which stars Michael Cera and boasts other credits from Judd Apatow’s talent stable, and you’ll quickly realize how high expectations are running for this semi-secret project that’s expected to debut at next year’s Sundance Film Festival. “It’s pretty much ‘the one,’ at least as far as festival programmers are concerned,” one seller said.

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Archives for: November 20085
  • Alliance pays back $400 million debt
    Sunday November 30th 2008

    MONTREAL — Alliance Films, Canada’s leading film distributor, has paid all of its approximately $400 million debt, putting it in a stronger position to pounce on new films and ink output deals. The transaction was approved by the board of directors and by its shareholders, the Quebec government investment arm[…]

  • Industry tries to avoid another format war
    Friday November 28th 2008

    3-D homevideo is set to make a splash next year, with manufacturers coming out with rigs that use two competing styles of glasses and even some that don’t need glasses at all. Samsung has sold as many as a million “3-D-ready” flat-panel sets that need active shutter glasses. Hyundai is selling LCD sets that use polarizer glasses in Japan, and JVC is expected to unveil a similar set for the American market at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. These competing proprietary systems, which use different types of glasses, seem to augur the onset of another format war . . .

  • RDF Media agrees $80 million buyout deal
    Friday November 28th 2008

    LONDON — Television production company RDF Media, the creator of “Wife Swap” and “Faking It,” said Thursday it had agreed terms for a 52 million pounds ($80 million) management buyout financed by reality king John de Mol’s Cyrte Investments. Shares in the ailing producer were up 16% at 1.15 pounds[…]

  • SAG inches closer to strike
    Thursday November 27th 2008

    The Screen Actors Guild will send out its strike authorization vote to members next month, making it possible for actors to strike as early as January — prompting a bitter response from the majors. In a message to SAG’s 120,000 members sent Wednesday, SAG president Alan Rosenberg said a strike would be called by the national board “only if it becomes absolutely necessary.”

  • Michael Cera comedy flies under radar
    Thursday November 27th 2008

    Look at most movie databases, and you’ll find no mention of a new film called “Paper Hearts.” But talk to indie film insiders and the unconventional comedy, which stars Michael Cera and boasts other credits from Judd Apatow’s talent stable, and you’ll quickly realize how high expectations are running for this semi-secret project that’s expected to debut at next year’s Sundance Film Festival. “It’s pretty much ‘the one,’ at least as far as festival programmers are concerned,” one seller said.

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