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Malta increases possible cash rebate from 20% to 22%
The Malta Film Commission on Saturday announced its revised financial incentives for film and TV productions shooting on the island. The cash rebates are given to qualifying companies on Malta-based production spend. Up to 22% can be claimed as a rebate - that's up to 20% on the rebate as ...
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Polybona, EMP set up talent company with Jackie Chan
Beijing-based Polybona Film Distribution, Hong Kong's Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) and international star Jackie Chan have launched a joint venture artist management company, Bona Yinglong Artist Management. Chan will be the chairman of the new Beijing-based company with EMP's Albert Yeung as vice-chairman. Chan and Yeung are already partnered through ...
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Northern Ireland Screen launches new low-budget scheme
Northern Ireland Screen has launched its new Low-Budget Fiction Production (LBFP) scheme.The fund intends to finance one TV drama or low-budget feature film between June 2008 and March 2009.Feature film projects must have distribution interest from a sales company, distributor or broadcaster and budgets must be no more than $395,435 ...
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Hoshino appointed president of Japan's Studio Ghibli
Japan 's Studio Ghibli has announced that Koji Hoshino has taken over as company president from Toshio Suzuki as of February 1. Suzuki, who had served as producer of all Ghibli productions since 1989, became president in 2005 after the studio became independent from parent company Tokuma Publishing.Suzuki stepped down ...
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THINKFilm International adds Bridgewater to Berlin slate
THINKFilm International has added another title to its slate ahead of Berlin. The company is handling international rights to Henry Alex Rubin's Bridgewater, which will star Ethan Hawke.Bridgewater will start shooting in mid-March.The film is described as 'a story of honour, courage and brotherhood.'US distribution will be handled by sister ...
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Headey, Bean, Friend line up for medieval thriller Black Death
Lena Headey, Sean Bean and Rupert Friend will lead the cast of supernature chiller Black Death for UK producers Ecosse Films.Christopher Smith (Creep, Severance) will direct. Ecosse’s Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae will produce with Egoli Tossell’s Jens Meurer co-producing.Black Death will shoot entirely on location in Germany and the ...
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Joanna Leigh wins Red Planet Prize for Samuel Johnson script
Red Planet Pictures has selected Joanna Leigh as the winner of its first Red Planet Prize for screenwriting.Leigh, a lexicographer from North Wales, won the new writing talent competition judged by the likes of Stephen Fry and Mark Gatiss. She beat 2,000 other entrants.Her winning script literary is about Dr ...
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Warner Bros taps Oz tax break for next Harry Potter
Warner Bros is set to be the first company to trigger the 15% post-production, digital and visual effects (PDV) offset introduced by the Australian government in May last year. The studio has signed with local effects house Rising Sun Pictures for some of the visual effects on Harry Potter And ...
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THINKFilm Intl boards Blue Valentine with Gosling, Williams
THINKFilm International has come on board to sell international rights to Blue Valentine, which will star Oscar nominees Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling.THINKFilm will introduce the film to buyers at Berlin's European Film Market next week. The project is set to shoot in June 2008.US-based sister company THINKFilm will handle ...
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John Maybury to direct new Wuthering Heights for Ecosse
John Maybury has signed on to direct a new big-screen adaptation of Wuthering Heights for Ecosse Films.HanWay Films will handle international sales and introduce the project to buyers at the forthcoming EFM in Berlin.The new script is written by Olivia Hetreed, who also adapted The Girl With A Pearl Earring. ...
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Barker's Book Of Blood to be filmed by Matador, Midnight Picture Show
Matador Pictures and Midnight Picture Show are giving Clive Barker's horror story Clive Barker's Book Of Blood the big screen treatment.The project is the first in a series of planned collaborations between Midnight Picture Show and Matador Pictures to turn other Book Of Blood stories into features.Los Angeles-based Essential Entertainment ...
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Hartnett to take the lead in Snoot's martial arts action pic Bunraku
Snoot Entertainment, the four year-old LA-based production company behind Toronto Film Festival premiere Terra, has cast Josh Hartnett in martial arts action film Bunraku.The live action film is written and will be directed by Guy Moshe (Holly) and is the story of a a young man who has spent his ...
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Gandolfini joins Jesse Martin in the cast of Sexual Healing
Sopranos star James Gandolfini will star with Jesse L Martin in in Sexual Healing, the story of the last years of singer Marvin Gaye which Gandolfini's company Attaboy Films.Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films will executive produce the film and handle international sales on the film which is budgeted in the $15m ...
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Smith names evp of production finance at Paramount Pictures
Roderick Smith has been appointed executive vice president of production finance at Paramount Pictures and will report to president of feature production management Mark Bakshi.Smith will oversee day-to-day management of the production finance department including budgeting and cost estimating and will analyse production incentives and tax rebates for worldwide productions.Prior ...
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Linklater to shoot Me & Orson Welles starting Feb 24
Richard Linklater will start shooting Me & Orson Welles in England (Pinewood Studios and London locations), the Isle of Man and New York from February 24.Zac Efron and Claire Danes lead the ensemble cast for the coming-of-age romantic comedy set in the theatre world. The story follows a teenager who ...
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CineMart prizes go to new projects from Sophie Fiennes, Liew Seng Tat
At tonight's CineMart 2008 closing night party in Rotterdam, the Arte France Cinema Award for best project this year's co-production market went to The Pervert's Guide To Ideology, to be directed by UK film-maker Sophie Fiennes.The honour also comes with $14,856 (Euros 10,000) in cash. The film will continue Fiennes' ...
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Canning, Sherman launch Aus/UK production outfit See-Saw
UK-based acquisitions executive Iain Canning and Australian producer Emile Sherman have launched Australia/UK-based production outfit See-Saw Films. One of the first credits for the new company will be as producer of an English-language remake of writer/director Guillem Morale's 2004 Spanish mystery thriller The Uninvited Guests (El Habitante Incierto).Canning and Sherman ...
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Salvatores gears up for 10-week shoot for As God Commands
Oscar-winning Italian director Gabriele Salvatores will begin principal photography February 11 on the thriller As God Commands (Come Dio Comanda), based on the eponymous best-selling book by Niccolo Ammaniti.Maurizio Totti's Colorado Film co-produces with Rai Cinema who will distribute nationally via 01 Distribution. Totti confirmed the film's budget has risen ...
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Edgerton debut to feature in AFC's IndiVision Lab
The Australian Film Commission (AFC) has unveiled the eight low-budget projects that will take part its IndiVision Project Lab, one of which will be the directorial debut of Kinky Boots star Joel Edgerton. Edgerton's film The Professor is a thriller about a top forensic scientist investigating a family murder-suicide, who ...
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Japan's Sun Music unveils details of debut film production
Japanese talent management company Sun Music has announced details of its first feature film production, a drama entitled Yesterdays. The main character will be played by 25-year-old Takashi Tsukamoto in his first leading role. The story follows Tsukamoto's mission to find his estranged dying father's ex-lover, when he slips back ...