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Turnover for the year was £89.5 million
(2001: £81.1 million).
Carlton International’s sales grew by 10 per cent despite difficult
conditions in the international television market. It has the largest
English language film library outside of Hollywood and enjoyed strong
demand for its films from broadcasters in Europe, Latin America and
Asia. Recent sales included its largest ever deal with China that will
bring the famous Carry On movies to Chinese audiences for the first
time. Award-winning acquisitions such as Bob and Rose have been sold
to over 40 territories worldwide. Other recent deals include The
Planman, Robbie Coltrane’s first TV project for several years, and the
big budget production Boudica starring Alex Kingston.
Carlton America added nine new US television movies to its library
of productions and co-productions. One major new project going to
production is a biographical drama based on the life of former New
York mayor Rudy Giuliani. Carlton is building an increasingly valuable
contemporary TV movie catalogue with films that perform strongly on
the main US networks and also sell well in Europe, making Carlton
America the biggest independent supplier of US TV movies to the
international market.
The long term development of Carlton’s ever-popular Thunderbirds
brand will be underpinned by the release of a Hollywood live action
film in 2004. It will be followed by a new TV series and major licensing
and publishing initiatives. Boxed sets of Thunderbirds DVDs have been
selling very well in Japan. This helped Carlton Visual to its best year to
date. Other strong DVD sales included collections of classic titles such
as Inspector Morse, Auf Wiedersehen Pet and Sapphire & Steel.
A combined Carlton and Granada will have a huge library of new and
classic TV programmes and feature films, creating new opportunities to
sell programmes and licence rights for music and merchandising to
customers in over 200 countries.
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