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UK Conservatives pledge to simplify tax system
The UK's Conservative Party has pledged to simplify the country's tax system and has highlighted the Section 42 sale and leaseback tax break for the UK film industry as an example of over complex legislation.Shadow Chancellor Oliver Letwin - whose Conservative Party has edged ahead in the opinion polls of ...
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Traechslin launches new Swiss distribution company
A new Swiss distribution company - Basle based Cineworx - has been launched by Pascal Traechslin, the head of distribution at Fama Film for the past six years.Traechslin told ScreenDaily.com on the eve of Rotterdam's CineMart at the weekend that he has set up Cineworx with partners Waltraud Wesselmann (finance) ...
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Keene promoted to chief executive at Premier PR
Sara Keene has been appointed to the newly created post of chief executive of Premier PR, the international entertainment PR agency.The move follows the company's recent expansion into several new arenas.Keene has been promoted from the position of co-managing director. She will lead the senior management team and focus on ...
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Video Island partners with MSN for DVD rentals
UK online DVD rental service Video Island has unveiled a partnership with leading UK website MSN.co.uk.The move sees the launch of MSN DVD Rental within the MSN Entertainment Channel, which will be serviced by Video Island.MSN's 16.2 million users will now have access to Video Island's 15,000 titles on DVD. ...
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Chapman rewarded in Australian honours list
Veteran Australian film producer Jan Chapman has been named in this year's Australia Day honours list.She has been created an Officer in the Order of Australia , perhaps equivalent to a pre-1975 Damehood, "for service to the Australian film industry as a producer, and as a contributor to organisations providing ...
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Fox comedies Stuck and Cheaper continue rollouts
Fuelled by a decent openingin Spain at the weekend, Stuck On You added $2.5m from 1,166 international sites to raise its running totalto $17m.Fox International opened thecomedy in second place in Spain on $1.4m. It also scored good bows in Belgium,grossing $210,000 from 35 screens, and Greece, where it took ...
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Nemo finds its place in the half a billion dollar club
Finding Nemo passed $500m at the international box office overthe weekend, becoming the 10th title in history and the first animated filmever to cross the half-billion threshold.Nemo added $5.2m at theweekend for $504.2m, featuring $2.3m in its eighth weekend in Japan for astunning $93m running total. It is set to ...
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King lords over Italy with $12.2m in four days
Powered by a new industryrecord for an opening weekend in Italy, New Line's The Lord Of The Rings:The Return Of The King boosted itsworldwide cumulative total to $876.5m at the weekend to become the sixth biggestgrossing title of all time.Peter Jackson's trilogyfinale added an estimated $28.7m from 7,187 screens in ...
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Full list of Oscar nominations
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King has emerged as the front runner for the Oscars this year, with eleven nominations including best picture and best director.Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World is just behind with ten nominations, followed by Seabiscuit and Cold Mountain ...
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King rules with 11 Oscar nominations
New Line's The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King has emerged as the frontrunner for Academy Award glory with 11 nominations including best picture and a second best director nod for Peter Jackson following The Fellowship Of The Ring in 2002.Twentieth Century Fox's naval adventure Master And ...
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Eagle buys two-picture package from Summit
Newly recapitalised Italian distributor Eagle Pictures has sealed a two picture deal with leading LA sales agent Summit Entertainment for horror picture The Calling and Artisan Entertainment comedy Novocaine starring Steve Martin and Helena Bonham Carter.Summit's Patrick Wachsberger implied that the deal would signal a longterm relationship with Eagle, which ...
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Sellers find Shangri-La at Bangkok Film Market
The first Bangkok Film Market (BFM) - organised as part of the 2004 Bangkok International Film Festival - kicked off in the Thai capital on Tuesday (Jan 27) with more than 60 companies taking rooms at the Shangri-La Hotel.In total, about 120 companies from 23 countries have registered to take ...
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Dutch Film Fund names ten directors for development scheme
The Dutch Film Fund has unveiled a new initiative called Ten To Watch, which sees ten directors given Euros 10,000 to develop their next film project.The scheme was launched during this week's International Film Festival of Rotterdam with the aim of stimulating more artistic and less commercial productions in the ...
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Shochiku ramps up slate as it goes for growth
After six straight quarters of improving sales and profits, boosted by such hits as The Twilight Samurai and the Lord of the Rings films, Shochiku is ramping up its slate of domestic and foreign titles.At a January 23 presentation to 400 exhibitors, investors, analysts and reporters, Shochiku officials, led by ...
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Romania's Silver Bullet launches London office
Romanian production company Silver Bullet Film has opened a London office as part of a move to lure UK productions to shoot in the country.Silver Bullet Film was founded by cinematographer Viorel Sergovici who has shot more than thirty film features and over 150 commercials. His recent credits include the ...
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Korean industry stunned as top production houses merge
A major re-alignment is set to sweep the South Korean production sector, as leading production houses KangJegyu Films and Myung Films have been acquired by local manufacturing company Seshin Buffalo.The companies will be re-launched as a merged entity called MK Buffalo in April.MK Buffalo will become the first film-related company ...
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Evil pays off at Sweden's Guldbagga awards
Mikael Haafstroem's crowd-pleaser Evil has had a rather good week. Not only has it picked up a best foreign language Oscar nomination, but it was also awarded the best film prize at the Guldbaggas, Sweden's national film awards.The award was picked up by producers Hans Loennerheden and Ingemar Leijonborg. Peter ...
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UK delegation travels to Bollywood for scriptwriting project
A delegation of UK film industry players have travelled to Mumbai to lead a week-long intensive series of workshops to identify Indian scriptwriting talent and match it with UK industry skills.The UK Film Council has produced a four day programme starting on 27 January focusing on the western "development process" ...
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Hungarians target foreign producers during Film Week
Twenty-three new Hungarian features will be presented at the annual Hungarian Film Week (Jan 27-Feb 3) to local audiences and the approximately 120 foreign guests invited to the country's most important film event.Sixteen of the new films screen in the festival's competition programme, including Benedek Fliegauf's Dealer which will also ...
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Irish Film Board looks to recruit key staff
The Irish Film Board (IFB), Ireland's national screen agency, has advertised for five full time positions.The IFB currently has 15 staff and the positions advertised largely arise from vacancies created by departing staff.The positions advertised are deputy head of production investment, development manager, business executive, policy executive, and executive assistant.Staff ...