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NewsAbu Dhabi Media Summit: WME's Emanuel says now is 'greatest time' for content creators
Ari Emanuel says range of distribution options opens up more money for content creators. He says Silicon Valley is now taking steps to work more closely with Hollywood, and Madison Avenue also needs to come into the mix.
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NewsKosovo makes strides to develop film industry
The fourth edition of the international film festival PriFest in Kosovo’s capital city of Prishtina, from Sept 24-Oct 1, was the right platform to survey the state of film scene in Europe’s youngest country.
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NewsBritish Film Commission welcomes new sponsors, BFI funding boost
The British Film Commission has announced three new commercial sponsors: Double Negative, MPC and Working Title Films.
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NewsStillking Films board Haas Silver Levene Film Studios' $120m slate
London-based film group’s seven-film slate will shoot in Czech Republic over the next two years and are all set from the 1920s through to World War Two.
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NewsLeading European players contribute to 'critical assessment' of EC's Creative Europe MEDIA strand
BFI, Match Factory and CNC among those consulted; Italian MEP Barbara Matera [pictured] has also sent a report on proposed Creative Europe programme to Committee on Culture and Education
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FeaturesLooper: how an international independent came together
Screen’s US editor Jeremy Kay talks to director Rian Johnson, his producer Ram Bergman and producer/financier Jim Stern about how they packaged the film and how China’s DMG came on board.
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NewsSaffery Champness acquires RSM Tenon’s film and TV unit
UK accountant’s film unit, run by John Graydon [pictured] and Nigel Burke, acquired by rival firm; all current film contracts to transfer to Saffery Champness.
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DCMS opens tax relief consultation for high-end TV drama
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is nailing down the criteria used to decide which programmes are eligible for the proposed drama tax relief for high-end TV.
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NewsBFI Future Plan to invest £500m over next five years
Three areas of concentration are education and audiences, filmmaking and film heritage; Film Fund will rise to £24m annually by 2017.
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NewsEuropean Parliament drafts 197 amendments to EC's Creative Europe programme
EXCLUSIVE: Italian MEP Silvia Costa’s [pictured] report will be presented at the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education in Brussels next week.
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Entertainment And Media In Asia to host US-China Film Summit
The Asia Society Southern California’s Entertainment And Media In Asia (EMASIA) will present the event in Los Angeles on Oct 30.
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NewsChelsom, Temple, Dorrie, Wenders benefit from €9.7m payout by German regional funds
New films by Peter Chelsom, Julian Temple, Doris Dörrie and Wim Wenders [pictured] are among the projects benefitting from over €9.7m funding allocated by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Film-und Medienstiftung NRW.
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NewsFrench austerity budget hits CNC and broadcasters
National Cinema Centre hit with €150m levy, state broadcaster funding cut by €85m as French government unveils austerity budget.
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Cinedigm, Metropolitan Theatres Corporation sign VPF deal
The long-term deployment agreement means that the Cinedigm-financed conversion will deploy 82 screens certified by the company.
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NewsSpain's APPA calls for new tax breaks for foreign producers
At the San Sebastián Film Festival, a new proposal has come forward for the Spanish cinema sector to overcome difficulties due to the financial crisis.
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NewsSpanish producers association controversially suggests new finance system
Pedro Pérez, president of producers association, asks government that “cinema finances cinema.”
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NewsLionsgate grows borrowing base with $800m facility
The new five-year revolving credit facility replaces the studio’s previous $340m deal.
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NewsLeading figures from European film industry meet with EC Commissioners for cinema roundtable
Studio Babelsberg CEO Carl Woebcken, BFI Director Amanda Nevill, and European Film Promotion’s president Christian Lemche were among the key movers and shakers invited to a high-level roundtable meeting in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss how the EU should support the European film industry.
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NewsOz crowd-funding platform starts to see results
Pozible, Australia’s first and largest crowd-funding platform, has helped filmmakers raise $1.37m (A$1.3m) since its May 2010 launch, while total pledges have quadrupled in the past year.
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NewsGermany's DFFF extended by €180m to 2015
The European Commission greenlights second extension of Germany’s DFFF incentive scheme to 2015, Commissioner to present report on CCIs contribution to growth and jobs.