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UK, Italy strike new co-production pact
Producers can qualify as international co-production partners just by financial contributions instead of having to have a creative and technical input under a revised Anglo-Italian production pact, the UK government announced on Thursday.The move comes hard on the heels of a major shake-up in UK support for local productions and ...
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Korean box office on course to beat 2004 record
Korean box office admissionshit a ten-year high in November and are on course to set a new record byyear-end. In a monthly industry analysis report, multiplex chain CJ CGVprojects admissions for the year to total between 138 -141 million, up 3-4%from last year and bucking global trends.Korean box office has ...
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Soda Pictures takes two from Celluloid Dreams
UK distributor Soda Pictures has picked up rights to Laurent Cantet's HeadingSouth (Vers le Sud) andChristoffer Boe's Allegro. Both deals were struck withsales company Celluloid Dreams. Soda said that it bought Heading South after its London Film Festivalshowing, and that it had considered Allegroas a potential acquisition since the script ...
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...and beats Aeon Flux at US box office
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire stayed on top of the domestic box officefor a third weekend, with an estimated $20.5m haul that raised the runningtotal to $229.8m.The family film is slowing down but still had much for thecompetition, including the only new title to break into the top ...
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...but films will need to pass a cultural test
The UK government has announced details of a new "cultural test" to decide eligibility for its new film tax credit.The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has set out three qualifying categories:* Cultural hubs - where production or filming is UK-based* Cultural practitioners - where the cast, crew ...
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Weinstein Co forms US DVD venture with Genius
The Weinstein Company (TWC)has formed a new US DVD releasing venture with home entertainment productionand distribution outfit Genius Products.Under the terms of the dealGenius will raise $32m in equity funding to finance the new entity, which willrelease on DVD all feature and direct-to-video titles controlled by thebrothers, as well as ...
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Fonda, Shore get special honours from National Board Of Review
Jane Fonda will receive theNational Board of Review (NBR) of Motion Pictures' 2005 Career AchievementAward and Howard Shore will collect the 2005 Career Achievement For Film MusicComposition.Both awards will bepresented at the annual awards gala in New York on Jan 10, 2006.Fonda won two best actressOscars for Klute in 1972 ...
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AFI FEST close to FIAPF accreditation
LA's AFI FEST is bidding to join the world's elite festivals andbecome the first in the US to carry International Federation of Film ProducersAssociations (FIAPF) accreditation.AFI FEST has applied for accreditation and a ruling is expected toemerge before the end of the year. FIAPF's gold standard internationalfestivals include Cannes, Toronto, ...
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Sundance 2006 unveils 73-title shorts lineup
Gwyneth Paltrow'sdirectorial debut and new shorts from Bob Odenkirk, Tamra Davis, Jennie Livingstonand Isaac Julien take their place among 73 short films set to screen at theSundance Film Festival in Utah next month.Organisers received 4,327submissions overall, and of the 73 selected, 42 are American and 31 titles hailfrom a further ...
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IDT closes $125m credit line for animated features
IDT Entertainment has closeda credit agreement with a bank group led by JP Morgan Chase Bank for a $125mfive-and-a-half year secured revolving credit facility to partially fundproduction and marketing costs of its first six CG animated features.Proceeds from the facilitywill go towards financing projects already in feature production as well ...
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Saw producer Hoffman dies in LA aged 42
Gregg Hoffman, the Twisted Pictures partner and producer and a keycreative force behind the Saw horror franchise, died from natural causes in Los Angeles onSunday. He was 42.Hoffman served as president of production at Twisted, where heproduced Saw, Saw 2, Catacombs and Silence. Most recently he was working on Crawlspace ...
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Maybe Baby
Dir: Ben Elton. UK. 2000. 102 mins.Prod Co: Pandora/BBC Films. Int'l sales: Pandora Cinema (+33 1 40 70 90 90). Prod: Phil McIntyre. Exec prods: Ernst Goldschmidt, David M Thompson. Assoc Prod: Lucy Ansbro. Scr: Ben Elton. DoP: Roger Lanser. Prod Des: Jim Clay. Ed: Peter Hollywood. Mus: Colin Towns. ...
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Global Film Initiative gives grants to films from Romania, Argentina, Chile
The Global Film Initiativehas unveiled its autumn 2005 grant recipients, which include Tudor Giurgiu'sRomanian romance Love Sick, andYesim Ustaoglu's childhood drama Pandora's Box.Also on the list are PaulaHernandez' Argentinian project Rain,Daniel Benavides Pinto's Chilean picture The Murderer Among Us, and Iranian filmmaker Chapour Haghighat's project ThreeLittle Dreams.The Global Film Initiativeis ...
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CineMart decides on final selection for 2006 market
The world's largest co-production market, Rotterdam'sCineMart, has announced 2006's final selection. Atotal of 45 projects in advanced stages of production, including new films fromAmat Escalante, Pablo Trapero,Guy Maddin, He Jianjun andJan Svankmajer are now eligible to present to anestimated 800 producers, TV buyers, sales agents,distributors and fund representatives at the ...
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UK industry greets tax news with relief
The UK film industry is largely cheering yesterday's announcement about new film tax laws, but seeking further clarity about aspects of the plans such as co-production rules and the transition period to the new system.Experts say they are glad the percentage of benefit was higher than expected (net 20% for ...
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Kadokawa to make One Missed Call 3
Kadokawa HeraldPictures will make a third instalment in its hit One Missed Call horror series, company sources have revealed.Called Chakushin Ari Final (One MissedCall Final), the new film will be directed by Manabu Aso and will starMeisa Kuroki and Maki Horikita, two seventeen-year-old ingenues whohaveenjoyed a meteoric rise to the ...
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Italian industry looks overseas for production
While Italianfilm-makers continue to struggle with trickling government funds for homegrownprojects, Italians producers and financiers are becoming more and more involvedin international productions.Foremost among themis Massimo Pacilio's Rome-based Movieweb, a co-producer on Oliver Parker's Fade To Black, an atmospheric thrillerthat follows Orson Welles' exploits in seedy post-World War Two Italy.The ...
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Keeping Mum
Dir: Niall Johnson. UK. 2005. 103mins.Keeping Mum is acurious mish-mash: part morbid comedy in the vein ofold Ealing classic Kind Hearts And Coronets, part family drama, part Rowan Atkinsonvehicle, part murder mystery, part Mary Poppins, its disparate elements are thrown together withlittle craft or subtlety.Director and co-writer NiallJohnson never seems ...
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King Kong
Dir: Peter Jackson. US.2005. 189mins.Peter Jackson's KingKong is Jurassic Park, War Of The Worlds, Jaws, ET and Raiders Of The Lost Ark allrolled into one mammoth, three-hour rollercoaster ride. As if saying to StevenSpielberg "Anything you can do, I can do better", Jackson delivers a resoundingaudience-pleaser which pushes the boundaries ...
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The King Is Alive
Dir: Kristian Levring. Denmark. 2000. 109 minsProd Co: Zentropa Entertainments 5. Int'l Sales: Good Machine. Prods: Patricia Kruijer, Vibeke Windelov. Exec prods: William A Tyrer, Chris J Ball, David Linde, Peter Aalbaek Jensen. Scr: Kristian Levring, Anders Thomas Jensen. DoP: Jens Schlosser. Ed: Nicholas Wayman Harris. Main cast: Miles Anderson, ...