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NewsBabelgum's second online film festival presents $130,000 in prizes
The Babelgum Online Film Festival presented more than $130,000 in prizes last night at the TribecaFilm Festival in New York City.
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UK Shadow Culture Minister promises piracy crackdown
Jeremy Hunt, Conservative Shadow Secretary for Culture, has promised to introduce legislation totackle piracy if the Tories are elected next year.
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SnagFilms signs deals with five new partners
SnagFilms has entered into Founders’ Alliances with Hot Docs in Toronto, Outfest in Los Angeles and North Carolina’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.The has also entered deals with the film competitions group CINE and the International Documentary Association.SnagFilms will carry channels on its website for each festival and organisation, providing ...
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NewsCannes president reveals digital streaming initiative
Cannes Festival president Gilles Jacob has unveiled a new digital initiative aimed at encouraging more young people to go to the cinema.He made the announcement at the launch of the festival’s official selection today (April 23).Filmmakers with a title in one of the official selection berths will be offered the ...
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Cineplex expands 3D systems in Canada
Canada’s Cineplex Entertainment has announced plans to install RealD 3D technnology in more thanhalf of its cinemas by the end of May.
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Reliance cables Bollywood films to US cinemas
Adlabs Films has gained access to sister company Reliance Globalcom’s massive global fibre-opticnetwork to deliver Indian films to digital screens in the US.
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UKFC announces $7.3m digital development scheme
The UK Film Council (UKFC) has introduced a new funding programme to help the industry make thetransition into the digital age.
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Europe embraces 3D, but will it pay off?
The Cannes film festival’s surprise choice of Pixar’s Up as its opening film this May sends a symbolic message. By embracing a 3D film, the world’s most prestigious film festival is underlining the point that 3D is now not only part of the mainstream but that it is respected by ...
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Sony signs deal with Hollywood's leading digital cinema integrator
Sony Pictures Releasing Corporation has signed an agreement with Digital Cinema Implementation Partners, the leading integrator behind the digital conversion of North American theatres.
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Pirate Bay's founders sentenced to one year in jail
A court in Stockholm has today ruled against the four operators of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, saying they are guilty of contributing to copyright infringement and sentencing each to one year in prison. Copyright holders in the film and music industry cheered the decision.
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Filmax refinances debts to set aside $32m a year for new technologies
Major Spanish studio Filmax has closed a deal with 41 banking institutions to refinance its debts so that it can set aside $32.5m (Euros 25m) annually to expand and improve its new technology business.
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Piracy costs Italian industry about $700m annually
Italy’s cinema industry loses an estimated $699m (Euros 530m) to piracy annually, according to the first in-depth study of the impact of piracy in Italy. The findings were announced by Italy’s Anti Audiovisual Piracy Federation.
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Spain sees first prosecution in piracy case
Spain has finally taken a strong stand against piracy with the administrator of a P2P file sharing site being sentenced to six months in jail and fined $6,500 (Euros 4,900) in a court case in Logrono, Spain.
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French Parliament rejects bill to unplug Internet pirates
After a heated battle, a bill that would have unplugged French Internet pirates was rejected by the country’s Parliament on Thursday.
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Usen's GyaO, Yahoo! Japan merge online distribution portals
Yahoo! Japan and Usen-owned online contents portal GyaO have announced a merger of their movie and video broadband internet content portals. Yahoo! Japan has acquired a 51% controlling share of wholly-owned Usen subsidiary GyaO. Yahoo purchased 4,998 shares at a cost of $5.32m (Y529,778,009). The shares will be transferred on ...
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Palace Cinemas adds 12 digital 3D screens
Palace Cinemas has added 12 new 3D-capable digital screens at its sites in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.
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Australian governmentinitiative to boost online film distribution
Australian companies wanting to download film and television direct to homes stand to gain enormously from the Australian government’s decision to take over the project to build a major national broadband fibre network. ‘This is the single largest infrastructure decision in Australia’s history,’ said Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today at ...
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Fourth X-Men film leaked online a month before official release
X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which is due for its US release on May 1, has been leaked online exactly one month before its official release.
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Babelgum takes on Downstream and TheLinguists
Online content platform Babelgum has acquired internet and mobile rights to Leslie Iwerks’ big oil documentary Downstream and to language documentary The Linguists directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger.Downstream follows a doctor’s fight for the rights or aboriginalpeople in Alberta, Canada, whose lives are being jeopardised ...