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Ireland tax break to offer 28% net benefit to producers
Martin Cullen, Ireland's arts and film minister has confirmed that improvements to Ireland's Section 481 film and TV tax break are to be introduced as amendments to the country's 2009 Finance Bill.It is proposed that the cap on individual investments will increase to $65,000 (Euros 50,000) per annum (up from ...
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Jim Donovan's 3 Seasons wins at Whistler Film Festival
Jim Donovan's 3 Seasons won the $12,000 Borsos Competition for best new Canadian feature at the 8th annual Whistler Film Festival. Before Tomorrow Marie-Helene Cousineau and Madeline Piujuq Ivalu's Before Tomorrow, was given special mention by jury president Donald Sutherland and his fellow jurors, filmmakers Sturla Gunnarsson and Patricia Rozema.Before ...
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Ong Bak 2 opens at top of Thai box office
Tony Jaa's Ong Bak 2 topped the box office in Thailand over its opening three-day weekend (Dec 5-7), grossing an impressive $2m (70m baht) despite the political unrest that has rocked the country in the past few weeks. According to local distributor Sahamongkolfilm International, the opening is the biggest in ...
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China Film Group to release Disney filmBolt in 3D outside quota
China Film Group Digital Cinema Line Co, a subsidiary of state-owned China Film Group Corporation, has said that it will release Disney animation Bolt in digital 3D in the latter half of December. The film will be imported as a revenue-sharing film but is not counted as one the 20 ...
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Brothers win UK's The Big Pitch award with psychological thriller
Brothers David and Keith Lynch have won The Big Pitch, a UK film production prize, with their film Different Shades Of Graham. The brothers, along with producer Simon Thomas and director Brad Watson, joined four other finalists at the closing night of the Northern Lights Film Festival.The finalists had been ...
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blinkbox signs new digital deals with Hollywood studios
blinkbox, the film and TV website, has announced two new digital video deals with leading Hollywood studios, 20th Twentieth Century Fox and Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI). blinkbox has also extended its partnership with Warner Bros. digital distribution, securing a digital distribution deal for the studio's TV catalogue.The new agreements ...
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Hunger takes top prize at Black Nights Film Festival
Steve McQueen's Hunger won the Grand Prix at the 12th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF).The EurAsia competition included 18 films with the jury headed by film director Jos Stelling from the Netherlands.The first Tridens Baltic Film Award went to Three Men And Fish Pond from Latvian documentary film makers ...
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Disney takes majority stake in India's UTV
Walt Disney Co and the founders of UTV Software Communications have jointly acquired an additional 23% stake in the Indian company. The move gives Disney a majority stake of 59.94% in UTV and haslifted the partners' combined holdings to 83%. However, Disney is not taking management control of the company ...
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Warlords wins best film anddirector at Golden Horse awards
Peter Chan's Warlords secured best film and best director at this year's Golden Horse Awards held in Taiwan on Saturday night (Dec 6). Chan's epic was a frontrunner with twelve nominations this year, securing three including best visual effects. Taiwan blockbuster Cape No. 7, the second most nominated film with ...
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PPI's Madagascar 2 scores sensational $50.2m international weekend
Madagascar 2 dominated the international box office this weekend with an estimated $50.2m haul through PPI from 5,129 sites in35 territories that raised the relatively early tally to $125m.The animated sequel opened top in Germany on $11m from 820 venues including previews and produced the biggest single day for any ...
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Christmases top in North America, Twilight rallies in third weekend
Warner Bros' comedy Four Christmases stayed atop the charts in its second weekend while Summit's indie phenomenon Twilight surged past Buena Vista's Bolt to claim second place in its third weekend as the top 12 releases amassed $77.5m, driving overall box office to a 6% climb on last year.Four Christmases ...
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South Korea: box office 2008
Local films, which drive the South Korean box office, are struggling tofind an audience and look likely to finish the year with a market shareof less than 50%. Total admissions look set to be down to 133.8 millionfor the year to December 2, compared with 152.9 million for the wholeof ...
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Brazil: box office 2008
Warner Bros' The Dark Knight was the big story in Brazil thisyear, earning $13.7m (r32.7m), making the territory the eighth biggestmarket for the film. The highest grossing local film was Meu Nome Nao E Johnny,based on the true story of an infamous drug dealer, which grossed $7.5m(r18m). These success stories ...
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Australia: box office 2008
Baz Lurhmann's epic romance Australia has only been open for aweek but is already the most successful local film of 2008, with agross of $5.1m (a$7.9m). Whether it will overtake the highest grossingfilm of the year so far, The Dark Knight, starring the late Australian-born Heath Ledger, is yet to ...
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Japan: box office 2008
Estimated box-office earnings and admissions in Japan have remainedflat in 2008 compared to 2007. The total box office is $1.8bn(Yen166.8bn) up to the end of October, compared to $1.79bn (Yen166.6bn)for the same period in 200447. Similarly, admissions stand at 137.2million to October 31, compared to 136.9 million for the same ...
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Germany: box office 2008
Based on figures to the end of October, German admissions and ticketsales are facing a decline in 2008. Admissions stand at 87.7 million toOctober 31 compared with 125.4 million for the whole of 2007, while thetotal box-office gross to October 31 was $687.1m (EUR544.4m) comparedwith $968.2m (EUR767m) for the whole ...
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Italy: box office 2008
The Italian box office is also down so far this year with the total standing at $645.1m (EUR510.8m) as of November 30, compared to $779.4m (EUR617m) for the whole of 2007.Admissions to date are 86 million compared to 103.6 million in 2007. However, the Christmas season is lucrative in Italy ...
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France: box office 2008
Pathe's comedy Welcome To The Sticks saw off all-comers in 2008, garnering a record-breaking 20.5 million admissions. The second biggest film of the year was Pathe's Asterix At The Olympic Games with 6.8 million admissions. Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull is the highest non-French film with ...
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Spain: box office 2008
Spanish films struggled to hit their stride in 2008, with Alex de la Iglesia's English-language, UK-set thriller The Oxford Murders the most successful local film of the year at $10.2m (EUR8.1m). Paramount's Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skulltopped the charts with $26.4m (EUR20.9m). Admissions have plummeted,reaching 93.6 ...
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UK: box office 2008
It was going to be a big year even before Bond hit the screens.Year-to-date figures put UK admissions at 138 million to October 31, up0.1% on the same period in 2007, with box-office gross up 8.7% to$1.2bn (£821m). These figures only include the first day of Quantum Of Solace,which opened ...