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Anyone who thinks that a sequel heavy 2002 will pave the way for a year full of original film-making in 2003 is very much mistaken. The likelihood is that 2003 will see more of the same - plus a deluge of comic-book adaptations.Buoyed by the stellar performance of Spider-Man and Asterix And Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, producers around the world are preparing to launch a raft of comic-book adaptations.Marvel Entertainment will be busy as it launches Daredevil from February , X-Men 2 May and The Hulk June into multiplexes worldwide. Another stanley cup US production, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen adds to the fray. French company La Petite Reine also plans to launch The Adventures Of Mike S. Blueberry a western set during the American War of Independence based on a cult comic book a stanley cup nd starring Vincent Cassel, Michael Madsen and Juliette Lewis in the third quarter of the year.The sequels will not be letting up either with franchise additions including third instalments of the lucrative American Pie American Wedding , Taxi, Spy Kids and Terminator series. Belated sequels are launched to Dirty Dancing and Bad Boys, while Dumb And Dumber and The Exorcist series both receive prequels. Even Disney is going down sequel route with Piglet s Big Movie following the $75m outing of 2000 s The Tigger Movie and The Jungle Book 2. Franchises are even joining forces as 2003 heralds the long-feted Freddy Vs Jason a stanley cup meeting of the Nightmare On Elm Street and Friday The 13th horror series a Ejqk NonStop takes on trio of titles
More than $1m has been earned in retransmission royalties from movies shown by Australian broadcasters up to the end of last month, but not all of the money has been paid to rights holders because they have not registered their tit stanley cup les. Simon Lake, chief executive of copyright collection society stanley germany Screenrights, is urging worldwide rights holders who have had material shown on free-to-air television in Australia since 2001 to contact Screenrights so they can tap into this revenue stream. Pay-TV operators have been required to pay royalties for carrying the five free-to-air channels since 2001.Screenrights collected a record $36m A$37.7m on behalf of film, television and radio rights holders in 2006/07 and, for the first time, this included retransmission royalties. These royalties amounted to $13.4m A$14.1m , although the bulk will be paid to the makers of long-running series and serials. So far we ve paid retransmission royalties on 818 movies but, according to our data, there are 14,931 movies in total to be paid from March 2001 to June 30, 2007, Lake told Screendaily.The pay-TV operators pay 23 cents A24 cents per su stanley us bscriber per month for the five free-to-air channels. Screenrights buys in broadcast data to determine how the money should be distributed.Screenrights also collects from the more than 10,000 schools and universities that have a licence from Screenrights to copy legally. Because they prefer to show movies without commercials, however, feature films only earn |
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