All Screen articles in 6 April 2007 – Page 4
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Script advice available to UKFCunsuccessful applicants
Applicants to the UK Film Council's Development Fund will now be able to get free feedback on unaccepted scripts thanks to a deal with The Script Connection. Consultants Lisa Neeley and Richard Tindall of The Script Connection and their team will offer independent assessments of the scripts not taken on ...
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Lucky You, The Gates set for Tribeca world premieres
Tribeca Film Festival top brass have booked the world premieres of Curtis Hanson's romance Lucky You starring Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore and festival closer The Gates, an art installation documentary from Antonio Ferrera and Albert Maysles.Lucky You, which stars Bana as a poker player wrestling with personal issues while ...
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Moss, Zegers, Rennie star in Bessai's Normal
Canadian writer-director Carl Bessai has begun prinicpal photography on his latest picture Normal with Carrie-Anne Moss, Kevin Zegers and Callum Keith Rennie in the lead roles. Travis McDonald conceived the story and co-wrote the screenplay with Bessai, who will also shoot the film. Produced by Bessai's Raven West films and ...
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US music feature made available for download on Indie911
Andrew Shapter and Joel Rasmussen's music industry documentary Before The Music Dies will become the first feature available for download through the online social network and music store Indie911.Viewers will be able to buy the film free of copyright protection for $9.99 on Apr 6, and can also download a ...
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US tax breaks: the laws of attraction
As competition for production increases, more and more US states are launching incentive programmes and, in some cases, designing them in innovative ways.Introducing an incentive in the north-eastern border state of Michigan 'became imperative', says Janet Lockwood, director of the Michigan Film Office. 'We were losing business right and left, ...
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Australia - Ward and peace
The Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) last week announced its intention to throw its weight behind the directorial debut of a familiar name in the acting world.Rachel Ward was a 1980s icon, starring in films such as Against All Odds, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and How To Get Ahead ...
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Australia - Ward and peace
The Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) last week announced its intention to throw its weight behind the directorial debut of a familiar name in the acting world.Rachel Ward was a 1980s icon, starring in films such as Against All Odds, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and How To Get Ahead ...
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UK tax breaks:a cultural revolution
As producers begin to grapple in earnest with the UK tax incentives, the local industry is eyeing the new system with a mix of anticipation and trepidation. Most acknowledge the credits will not compensate for the investment lost to the UK film industry following the scrapping of Section 48 and ...
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United States - Bridge To Smaller movies
Of the films he produced in the decade after leaving his job as president of production at Universal Pictures in 1996, Hal Lieberman is most closely associated with two super-expensive, independently financed megapictures - Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines and Around The World In 80 Days. These days, however, ...
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United States - Bridge To Smaller movies
Of the films he produced in the decade after leaving his job as president of production at Universal Pictures in 1996, Hal Lieberman is most closely associated with two super-expensive, independently financed megapictures - Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines and Around The World In 80 Days. These days, however, ...
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Film Movement: pick of the bunch
Since it was launched in 2002 by Larry Meistrich, New York-based Film Movement has released more than 100 foreign-language and independent features and shorts from 27 countries through its website, where members and non-members can buy a DVD of the month and peruse the ever-expanding catalogue.'We choose good titles that ...
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Editorial - Screen says - Investing in the future
Over the last three years, Screen International's annual tax guide has made for disturbingly fascinating reading. One might even call it, in newspaper parlance, sexy. What was originally intended as a useful and informative guide to the world's incentives, has in recent times dragged in widespread evasion, government finance ministers ...
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Editorial - Screen says - Investing in the future
Over the last three years, Screen International's annual tax guide has made for disturbingly fascinating reading. One might even call it, in newspaper parlance, sexy. What was originally intended as a useful and informative guide to the world's incentives, has in recent times dragged in widespread evasion, government finance ministers ...
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Germany - Enduring labour of love
Philippe Bober's sales, financing and production outfit The Coproduction Office is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. The company was set up in 1987 in Berlin with the aim of supporting maverick auteurs with strong personal visions. Over the last two decades, Bober has championed the work of (among others) ...
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Germany - Enduring labour of love
Philippe Bober's sales, financing and production outfit The Coproduction Office is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. The company was set up in 1987 in Berlin with the aim of supporting maverick auteurs with strong personal visions. Over the last two decades, Bober has championed the work of (among others) ...
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European film financing: a private phenomenon
A $500m deal between Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. Bob and Harvey Weinstein raise $490m in equity through Goldman Sachs. A $500m deal between Virtual Studios and Warner Bros. A $600m equity deal between Relativity Media and Sony and Universal. The figures from the equity funding boom among Hollywood studios ...
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In Focus - European film financing - A private phenomenon
A $500m deal between Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. Bob and Harvey Weinstein raise $490m in equity through Goldman Sachs. A $500m deal between Virtual Studios and Warner Bros. A $600m equity deal between Relativity Media and Sony and Universal. The figures from the equity funding boom among Hollywood studios ...
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United Kingdom - Going to extremes
Write what you know, is the classic advice given to feature film writers. So where does that leave a documentary-maker, still stunned by the horrors of civil war in Kosovo, who wants to make his first feature in the UK'Filming the award-winning documentary The Valley in Kosovo at the end ...
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United Kingdom - Going to extremes
Write what you know, is the classic advice given to feature film writers. So where does that leave a documentary-maker, still stunned by the horrors of civil war in Kosovo, who wants to make his first feature in the UK'Filming the award-winning documentary The Valley in Kosovo at the end ...
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The fight to be seen
ShoWest convention last month, National Association of Theater Owners president John Fithian characterised the digital future of cinema-going as the most radical change to the way we watch movies since the advent of sound. Whether that proves to be true or not, it is fair to say the transition is ...