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Wigan shifts to strategic advisor role for Sony
Gareth Wigan is stepping back from day-to-day operations of Sony's International Motion Pictures Production Group (IMPPG) and has been named strategic advisor to the studio's international film enterprises.The 21-year Columbia Pictures veteran will continue to play a significant role in the studio's overseas operations, which will now rest in the ...
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Minister will consult Canadian film industry on tax credit guidelines
Canada's Heritage Minister has agreed to consult with the nation's film and television production community in drafting new tax credit guidelines. The move comes in wake of producers' complaints that proposed amendments to Canada's tax law could threaten their access to production tax credits should a production be deemed 'contrary ...
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Picturehouse to release Joiningthedots.tv documentaries
UK exhibitor Picturehouse Cinemas is working with Joiningthedots.tv to show films licensed to the site across its UK cinemas.Joiningthedots.tv is a documentary website from Mercury Media and The Independent newspaper.The first title to hit cinemas, from late May, is Joshua Dugdale's The Unwinking Gaze about the Dalai Lama.MercuryMedia MD Tim ...
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Pinewood 2007profits fall 26%, impacted by US writers' strike
UK studio Pinewood Shepperton saw a 26% fall in pre-tax profits in 2007, to $10.58m (£5.3m).The studio has recently hosted the latest Bond film, Quantum Of Solace, Sweeney Todd and The Wolfman, but lost out on another planned major shoot - said to be Angels & Demons -- due to ...
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Australia's FFC to clamp down on US studios taking tax rebate
US studios and other international players who plan to take films they have developed to Australia to shoot, then claim the new 40% producers rebate for Australian films rather than the 15% location offset designed for foreign films, are very unlikely to be successful under yet-to-be-released new guidelines.The Film Finance ...
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Working Title signs newtwo-picture deal with Edgar Wright
Working Title has confirmed a new two-picture deal with UK hotshot director Edgar Wright.He will write and direct two projects for Working Title, starting with Baby Driver, described as 'a a wild spin on the action and crime genre which will be set in the US.'The second project under the ...
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Arri Media Worldsales picks up music drama Hanna's Words
Arri Media Worldsales will handle international distribution for Andreas Struck's third feature Hanna's Words which began principal photography in Cologne this week. Based on a screenplay by Dagmar Gabler (Porno!Melo!Drama!), the music drama centring on a Nu Jazz trumpeter stars up-and-coming German actors Stefan Rudolf and Paula Kalenberg, Russia's Chulpan ...
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LoveFilm brings in Ching-Har Wong to head customer acquisition
LoveFilm has appointed Ching-Har Wong as head of customer acquisition, replacing former head Nick Adderley.Wong takes the post immediately and reports to UK managing director Andrew Ground. She manages a team of five.Wong has more than 13 years of marketing experience, including senior positions at global Vodafone, Barclays, Kilivington Leith ...
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Vilcek offers funding for immigrant film-makers in US
The Vilcek Foundation has invited filmmakers who have had an impact in the US but were born outside that country, to apply for the $25,000 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise.'After researching a multitude of arts categories, filmmaking seemed to be an incredibly flourishing field, and we thought it would be ...
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FFC backs 10 new Aussie films as it prepares to shut its doors
After more than 20 years as the Australian Government's key film investor, the Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) board yesterday agreed to invest in 10 new Australian features worth $56.7m (A$62m), the last batch of films before it closes its doors on June 30.'The FFC was cognizant that the new ...
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Carmen Maura takes key role in Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro
Carmen Maura has stepped in to replace Javier Bardem to play a character which has switched gender in Francis Ford Coppola's new film Tetro.Maura will shoot for two weeks in the key supporting role as the mentor to the title character, who is played by Vincent Gallo.Coppola made the following ...
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Producer Iain Smith tapped to chair UK's new Industry Training Board
Famed UK producer Iain Smith (Children Of Men, Cold Mountain) has been appointed to chair the Film Industry Training Board (FITB).The appointment was confirmed today by The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). Under Smith, the FITB will have statutory levy powers. Its role is to ensure that the ...
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LA-based Pangea Pictures merges with Direct Response Media
Los Angeles-based technology and production company Pangea Pictures Corporation and South Carolina's Direct Response Media announced today [April 2] the status of a share-for-share exchange.The transaction is expected to be complete by Apr 15. In conjunction with the transaction, Direct Response Media undertook a 1-for-3 reverse split which was effective ...
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Speed Racer to close Tribeca Film Festival on May 3
The Wachowski Brothers' family action extravaganza Speed Racer will closes the Tribeca Film Festival on May 3.Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Matthew Fox, Susan Sarandon and John Goodman star in the adaptation of the 1960s Japanese anime TV series Mach GoGoGo about high speed racing cars.Joel Silver reunites with the film-makers ...
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Sony to distribute Anchor Bay's library on DVD around the world
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has signed a deal to distribute Anchor Bay Entertainment's library around the world.The three-year agreement will include worldwide rights excluding North America, Australia and the UK to a variety of releases such as the Hellboy animated films, manga entertainment titles like Ghost In The Shell ...
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Rick Sands resigns as COO of MGM
Rick Sands has stepped down as COO of MGM in the wake of Mary Parent's recent appointment as head of the worldwide motion picture group as the studio's move back into production.Sands served as COO since January 2006 and official word from MGM said he was leaving 'to pursue other ...
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Long, Panetierre lined up for Lionsgate/Crest Animation CGI film
Justin Long and Hayden Panetierre have been cast in the lead voice roles in Lionsgate and Indian animation studio Crest Animation Partners' CGI family film Alpha And Omega.Christina Ricci, Danny Glover, Dennis Hopper and Larry Miller round out the key voice cast in the story of bickering wolves who are ...
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Klein leaves SJ Berwin in London for Sheppard Mullin in LA
Robb Klein has joined the Century City office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton as special counsel in the firm's entertainment and media practice group.Klein joins from the London office of leading European law firm SJ Berwin where he was a partner in the media and communications group.Klein specialises in ...
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Jason Brenek to oversee global digital strategy for Disney
Jason Brenek, who most recently served as Walt Disney Studios' vice president of distribution strategy, has been promoted to the newly created position of senior vice president of worldwide digital cinema and cinema programming.Brenek will oversee digital cinema deployment across the globe and develop and oversee cinema programming in digitally ...
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LoveFilm offers recommendation tool to T-Mobile users
UK internet DVD and film site LoveFilm is working with mobile phone company T-Mobile on a new movie recommendation tool.T-Mobile Flext users will be recommended films based on a series of questions. The tool is driven through LoveFilm data with Unanimis and MediaCom.T-Mobile users can also opt in for a ...