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UK cinemagoing survey to change format
The UK's annual research into cinema andits audiences, CAVIAR (Cinema and Video Audience Research) is being revamped bythe CAA for its 24th study.The studyis being rebranded as FAME (Film Audience Measurement and Evaluation) and will providein-depth insight into film viewing across cinema, DVD, online and new emerging formats. FAME will ...
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MEDIA grants $14,000 to EFP for 2007 programmes
The MEDIAProgramme of the European Union will back European Film Promotion with $859,430(Euros 650,000) for EFP's promotional events and activities and a further $568,546(Euros 430,000) for Film Sales and Support. In 2007 EFPwill organise seven promotional events, including Picture Europe!, highlightingnational box-office hits outside their country of origin; Shooting Stars ...
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Aria Films signs on to represent Cinecitta in UK
London-based AriaFilms has been appointed the UK intermediary for Cinecitta Studios in Rome.Carlo Dusilaunched Aria in 2002 as an international co-financing and productionspecialist. The company's work with Cinecitta will aim to grow high-levelproductions with emphasis on the studio's post-production facilities.The legendaryCinecitta, known for productions from Fellini's classics to recent filmsincluding ...
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Baise-moi gets outing at Euro-heavy Locarno
Controversial French title Baise-moi will make its first international outing in the main competition section at the Locarno International Film Festival, festival director Marco Mueller announced on Thursday.Virginie Despentes' hard core debut, a cause celebre amongst French indies fighting would-be censors, will compete in a selection laden with world premieres ...
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Happy Feet ends James Bond's UK reign
Warner Bros' animatedfeature film Happy Feet has kicked JamesBond from the top spot in the UK box office this weekend, taking $5.43m (£2.76m). The penguins barely knockedSony's Casino Royale from itsthree-week tenure at number one by raking-in a site average of $12,206 (£6,217)from 445 sites across the UK. The animated ...
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UK producers voice concerns over new tax laws
UK producers remain concerned about the scope of the new British tax laws, a panel of government representatives were told in London yesterday.The UK's new film tax breaks will come into practice on Jan 1, 2007, after a long journey of uncertainty but producers remain concerned about the qualifying criteria ...
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France's Elia Films gets $13,200 production prize
France's Institute for the Financing of Cinema & Cultural Industry (IFCIC)has awarded its third annual "young independent production company" prize toElia Films.The award was created in2004 and comes with a $13,216 (Euros 10,000) purse, which goes to a companythat has successfully sought financing for and either prepared or produced afeature ...
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Biel to get Rising Star award at Palm Springs
The 18th AnnualPalm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will honour Jessica Biel withthe Rising Star Award.Biel, who starsin The Illusionistand upcoming release Home Of The Brave, will collect her honour at the festival's annual AwardsGala on Jan 6, 2007.'This isone of our most star-studded award galas to date and we're ...
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Gitai, Springali films to screen at New York Jewish Film Festival
The 16th annualNew York Jewish Film Festival will run from Jan 10-25 2007 featuring 31 filmsand two world, nine US and nine New York premieres.Highlightsinclude Amos Gitai's documentary News From Home/News From House, Christian Delage's documentary Nuremberg:The Nazis Facing Their Crimes, and the US premiere of Alejandro Springall's comedy MyMexican ...
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Pirates DVD sells 10.5m units in first week for Buena Vista
Pirates OfThe Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest sold 10.5 million units in its first week of release in NorthAmerica, putting it on course to become the biggest live-action DVD seller ofall time and the biggest DVD of the year.Results overseashave been similarly impressive. Pirates has sold nearly 1.5 million copies inits ...
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PGA Vanguard award goes to TV awards producer Ken Ehrlich
Televisionawards producer Ken Ehrlich will receive the Producers Guild of America's (PGA)2007 Visionary Award at the Annual PGA Awards on Jan 20 in Los Angeles.The VisionaryAward honors producers and/or a television or film production that demonstratesa 'unique or uplifting quality.'Ehrlich has beenthe creative force behind televised shows for the Grammys, ...
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The Hands dominates Argentinian Academy Awards
The Argentinian Academy ofFilm Arts and Sciences awarded Alejandro Doria's The Hands (Las Manos) with eight Sur prizes, including best film,director, actor (Jorge Marrale) and actress (Graciela Borges), at a gala heldin Buenos Aires on Tuesday.The local Academy, comprisedof 222 renowned professionals (directors, producers, screenwriters, actors andtechnicians), also named Rodrigo ...
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Away From Her, Rasmussen in TIFFG's annual Canada's Top Ten list
Sarah Polley's directorial debutAway From Her and Zacharias Kunukand Norman Cohn's The Journals Of Knud Rasmussen were among the titles listed in the TorontoInternational Film Festival Group's Canada's Top Ten. The annual announcement,published in alphabetical order, highlights ten titles produced in Canadaduring the year. Other titles to make the cut ...
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Ennio Morricone to receive honorary Oscar in 2007
Italian composerand conductor Ennio Morricone will receive an honorary Oscar at next year'sAcademy Awards ceremony on Feb 25, 2007, 'for his magnificent and multifacetedcontributions to the art of film music.'Remarkably,Morricone, who has received five nominations before, has never won the Oscar.His nominations were for Days Of Heaven (1978), The Mission ...
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Warner to release Exorcist with missing reel
Warner Bros Pictures will release a new version of The Exorcist in North America on Sept 22. Entitled The Exorcist - The Version You've Never Seen, it will include more than one reel of long-rumoured footage which was omitted from the film's original release in 1973.The film's director William Friedkin ...
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FFC greenlights Scott Hicks' The Boys Are Back In Town
Film Finance CorporationAustralia (FFC) has given three features a green light, including director ScottHicks' comic drama The Boys Are Back InTown, his first film back in Australia since he made Shine over 10 years ago.The other films that werefinanced are Mary & Max, thefirst feature from animator Adam Elliot who ...
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AFC outlines plans for digital cinema network
The Australian FilmCommission (AFC), which has been planning a digital cinema network in regional Australia for quite some time, has at last gone public withits plans. Eight independently-ownedregional cinemas - one in each state and two in New South Wales - will receivedigital equipment on loan and in exchange will ...
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European Commission shelves plans to reform copying levy
The European Commission has shelved plans to review the levy which forces manufacturers of copying technology, such as iPods and even blank DVDs, to compensate artists, including film-makers.The levy, or "fair compensation," takes the form of a tax on gadgets although the costs are generally passed on as higher prices ...
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Warp X and Channel 4 on board for Breakout scheme
Warp X andthe Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation (Britdoc) have partneredforBreakout, a year-longdevelopment programme for black and minority ethnic film-makers. The programmeis supported by Skillset and Breakout Training and Development in associationwith Screen East and the University of East Anglia.Thenational scheme will work with writers, directors and writer/directors onlow-budget ...
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French film admissions up 10% over last year
Compared to the same timelast year, France's film admissions are up 10.4% thus far in 2006.In total, 167.5m ticketshave been sold as of the end of November with the month marking a 13% climbover November 2005. While the score is not a record, it is a big improvementover October which ...