All Finance articles – Page 115
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NewsSpain reveals plans for $125m film fund
Ignasi Guardans, the new director general of Spain’s Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA), has announced plans for a new $125m (€90m) film funding scheme.
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NewsPiano, Goodbye Ani take top prizes at Shanghai’s CFPC
Zhang Meng’s The Piano In The Factory and Kwok Jae-yong’s Goodbye Ani took the top two prizes at China Film Pitch and Catch (CFPC), the projects market of the Shanghai International Film Festival, last night.
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NewsUK online DVD rental firm Lovefilm moots sale
The British online DVD rental firm Lovefilm has been put up for sale for an estimated $328m (£200m). It is understood that the six year old business has received a number of approaches.
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NewsBIFG completes second round financing
Fast-expanding Chinese studio, Bona International Film Group (BIFG), has completed second round financing of $14.64 from private equity backer Matrix Partners China and a loan of $8m from Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC).
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NewsThe UK's NWVM to receive over $4.4m in funding
The UK’s Northwest Vision and Media (NWVM) will receive over $4.4 million (£2.7m) of funding from the Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
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NewsWong, First Vanguard launch $100m film fund
Hong Kong producer Raymond Wong and asset manager First Vanguard are teaming up to launch a $100m fund for film and TV programming targeting the mainland China market.
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NewsUK producer Duncan Kenworthy donates $1 million to NFTS
Duncan Kenworthy OBE has donated $1 million to the National Film and Television School (NFTS) for its new teaching building.
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NewsGaming firm Unibet saves $14.2m Mannerheim
The production of $14.2m (€10m) Mannerheim, the most expensive Finnish feature, is back on track after securing new funding from a gaming company.
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NewsNew York City hopes to extend but trim film tax credit
Legislation is being introduced this week to seek $24m to extend New York City’s popular film and TV tax credit programme until 2011, but the move aims to trim the rebate from 5% to 4%.
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NewsJapan Digital Contents Trust ordered to reform
Japan Digital Contents Trust (JDC) the film and content fund management firm, has been ordered to reform its business practices by Japan’s financial services agency (FSA).
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NewsUK's Dogwoof and retailer The Co-op develop social conscience
Distributor Dogwoof and UK retail group The Co-operative have formed a partnership to finance and distribute socially-conscious films theatrically
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NewsTaiwan pumps $228m into local film and co-productions
Taiwanese government announced that it will pump $228m (NT$7.5bn) over five years into its local film industry.
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NewsQuebec producers unite to stimulate coproduction
Seven Quebec-based independent film producers are uniting to push the cause of Quebec as an international coproduction partner and lobby the Canada government to lower the barriers to potential foreign co-production partners.
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NewsMumbai's CCVF readies $50m for international, Indian projects
The management team behind $50m Mumbai-based Cinema Capital Venture Fund (CCVF) is in Cannes looking for international projects.
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NewsMyriad Pictures to co-finance Chris Keyser's feature debut
Myriad Pictures will co-finance and produce A Great Education with Laurence Mark.
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NewsADFC unveils initiatives for local film-makers
The recently-launched Abu Dhabi Film Commission (ADFC) has unveiled a raft of initiatives to support the country’s burgeoning film and TV industry, including a tie-up with Mira Nair’s Maisha Film Lab.
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NewsD3 Vue join forces with NX
UK multiplex operator Vue Entertainment is to join forces with financier and producer CinemaNX (NX), to release at least three movies directly into Vue cinemas and other theatres across the UK, from the end of this year.
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NewsPrescience and Perpetual team on new financier P2
A new specialist financing company called P2 Bridge Limited (P2) has been launched as a joint venture between Prescience Film Finance and Perpetual Media Capital.
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NewsRussia forms organisation to promote local films abroad
The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation is to create a government-sponsored, non-commercial organisation for the promotion of the Russian cinema abroad.
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NewsImagenation Abu Dhabi boards first two films with Participant
Imagenation Abu Dhabi has announced that the five-year revolving fund it created last year with Participant Media will partner in the productions of family comedy Furry Vengeance and horror/thriller The Crazies.