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Brazil, Russia, India, China Box Office Expected To Hit Combined $12.1B By 2017

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday March 21, 2013 @ 8:13am PDTTags: Box Office, Brazil, China, India, Russia

After doubling their box office takings over the past five years, the BRIC countries will see combined revenues of $12.1B and account for 25% of global sales by 2017, according to research group IHS. That would put the Big Four on a par with where IHS expects the North American box office to be at that time. (It was $10.8B in 2012.) Driving growth are increased ticket prices and new construction — China is building cinemas daily and is expected to have about 20,000 screens by 2015 alone. IHS analyst Charlotte Jones also noted the loosening of quotas in China for 3D and IMAX films, the popularity of premium pics in Russia and the rise of shopping centers in Brazil as market drivers. READ MORE »

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Warner Bros Pictures & Fox International Join Forces in Brazil

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday June 5, 2012 @ 2:09pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, Brazil, Warner Bros

LOS ANGELES – June 5, 2012 – Twentieth Century Fox International Theatrical (Fox International) and Warner Bros. Pictures International today announced the creation of a joint operation between their local companies in Brazil to distribute and market their respective film slates and cultivate new opportunities for high quality entertainment in this rapidly emerging market. The announcement was made by Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President, International Distribution, Warner Bros Pictures, and by Paul Hanneman and Tomas Jegeus, co-presidents of Fox International.

Fox and Warner Bros. will remain separate legal entities in Brazil but will share their resources through the joint operation, called Fox- Warner, to maximize the potential of the country’s growing economy. Fox-Warner will commence operations immediately. Patricia Kamitsuji, currently General Manager pf Fox Brazil, will serve as Managing Director of Fox-Warner.

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Will Hollywood Make Sure That Netflix Faces Competition Overseas?

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday September 27, 2011 @ 7:34am PDTTags: Brazil, Brothers and Sisters, Criminal Minds, Desperate Housewives, Disney, Netflix, NetMovies, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Walt Disney Company

That’s what some analysts here predict after looking at the deal Disney announced yesterday to license movies and TV shows to NetMovies Entertainment, a Brazilian competitor to Netflix. The release says this is “the first major global studio deal for NetMovies,” which … Read More »

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Disney Shifted Foreign Strategy Months Ago

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday September 15, 2011 @ 9:44pm PDTTags: Brazil, China, Disney, India, Russia

A report today from the UK’s Financial Times headlined “Disney Axing Local Language Film Unit” wasn’t really news for most in Hollywood and certainly not Burbank. Disney backed away from its strategy of producing local language films with local actors and made the … Read More »

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8 Noms In International Emmys For News

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday August 20, 2011 @ 2:00am PDTTags: Brazil

Two TV productions from Brazil are among the eight nominees for this year’s International Emmy Awards for current affairs and news. They are Discovery Networks Latin America’s The Assassination of Jean Charles Meneses, about the fatal shooting of a Brazilian immigrant mistaken for a suicide bomber in London, and TV Globo’s Jornal … Read More »

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