Tag: Around The World in 80 Days
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Marco Chimenz to Step Down as Cattleya Co-CEO to Join Federation Studios as Group Co-Managing Director (Exclusive)
Marco Chimenz, Co-CEO of Italy’s Cattleya the prominent ITV-owned outfit behind “Gomorrah” and “ZeroZeroZero,” will be leaving the company in January to join pan-European powerhouse Federation Studios.At Federation Chimenz will serve as group co-managing director of the expanding production and distribution studio that currently comprises 35 production companies, working closely with founder and CEO Pascal…
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Federation acquires majority stake in Vertigo Films
Federation is a France-based production and distribution company.France-based production and distribution company Federation Entertainment has acquired a majority stake in UK-based independent television and film production outfit Vertigo Films.The deal is the first UK acquisition for the Federation group, which was founded in 2013 and now has around 20 subsidiaries or associate production companies around…
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‘The Dam Busters’ director Michael Anderson dies aged 98
Restored 4K version of war epic to be presented at Royal Albert Hall and simulcast into 400 theatres on May 17.Michael Anderson, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker who directed Dam Busters, Around The World In 80 Days, and Logan’s Run, died peacefully at his home on the Sunshine Coast of Canada from heart disease on April 25.…
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Michael Anderson obituary
Film director best known for The Dam Busters, Around the World in 80 Days and Logan’s RunIt was The Dam Busters (1955), a comparatively modest black-and-white British war film, that led to Michael Anderson becoming a bankable director of large, commercial pictures. And although he went on to direct such multimillion-dollar productions as Around the…
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Michael Anderson, ‘Logan’s Run’ Director, Dies at 98
Michael Anderson, the British director who was nominated for an Academy Award for his direction on “Around the World in 80 Days,” died in Vancouver Wednesday. He was 98.Anderson’s career began in the ’40s as an assistant director before he joined the Royal Signal Corps during the war. After Anderson was discharged, he signed a…
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Michael Anderson Dies: Oscar-Nominated Film Director Was 98
Director Michael Anderson, who was Oscar-nominated for his role in the epic film Around The World in 80 Days and later was behind the cameras for the sci-fi classic Logan’s Run, has died. He was 98 and passed away Wednesday in Vancouver of unspecified causes. Anderson had a long film career, directing such war movies…
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Michael Anderson Dies: Oscar-Nominated Film Director Was 98
Director Michael Anderson, who was Oscar-nominated for his role in the epic film Around The World in 80 Days and later was behind the cameras for the sci-fi classic Logan’s Run, has died. He was 98 and passed away Wednesday in Vancouver of unspecified causes.Anderson had a long film career, directing such war movies as…