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Tribeca 2008 announces Discovery, Midnight lineups
The Tribeca Film Festival has announced the films in its Discovery and Midnight sections for this year's festival which runs April 23 to May 3 in Manhattan.Discovery features 30 films with 18 world premiers and 11 North American premieres from up-and-coming narrative and documentary directors, while the Midnight section features ...
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UK financiers don't see disaster with closed tax loophole
UK film financiers have been striking a philosophical note about yesterday's Budget 2008 government announcement that 'sole traders' who spend fewer than 10 hours a week on film-related activities will no longer be able to offset predicted losses on film investment.Previous UKGovernment clampdowns, whether last year's sudden closure of so-called ...
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UK Culture Minister defends Creative Industries strategy
Criticism that there are no funds to support the UK government's recently released strategy for the creative industries has been shrugged off by the UK's new Minister for Culture, Creative industries and Tourism, Margaret Hodge.In an interview with film producer David Puttnam that was made public, Hodge was asked whether ...
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Film4 budget holds steady as Channel 4 unveils future vision
Channel 4's film production arm Film4 was held up as a central part of the company's public service contribution during the broadcaster's 'Next On 4' future vision presentation earlier today.In London, Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson, chief executive Andy Duncan and director of TV/content Kevin Lygo unveiled strategic plans for ...
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Mary Parent hired as chair of MGM worldwide motion picture group
Mary Parent, the former vice chairman of worldwide production at Universal Pictures, has joined MGM as chairperson, worldwide motion picture group. She will be responsible for oversight of worldwide theatrical production, distribution, marketing and business affairs for the company.She reports directly to Harry E Sloan, chairman and CEO of MGM ...
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UK Finance: Life After Loopholes
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer's annual budget has been watched with trepidation by the film industry in recent years. The biggest change was the dramatic overhaul of the tax system that ended the sale-and-leaseback era in 2006.But in hindsight Gordon Brown, now the prime minister, made perhaps the most ...
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Gaviria's Latinos takes RTVE award at Guadalajara meetings
At the fourth Iberoamerican Co-production Meetings at the Guadalajara International Film Festival, Colombian project Latinos, to be directed by Victor Gaviria and produced by El Baile Films, was awarded with the main prize. The award's sponsor, Spanish public TV station RTVE, will determine the amount of the prize, ranging from ...
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Hyyti to leave Finland's FS Film Oy; Toiviainen promoted to MD
Lasse Hyyti is leaving his post as managing director of Finnish distributor FS Film Oy.The company's current VP of marketing and head of theatrical distribution, Antti Toiviainen, will be promoted to Managing Director as of April 16.Hyyti, who has been with FS Film for eight years, will pursue a career ...
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MK2 blasts off with nWave's 3D Fly Me To The Moon
Ben Stassen of nWave Pictures has sold another major territory on animated feature Fly Me To The Moon, which made history in Berlin last month as the first 3D film to screen as part of the European Film Market.The latest deal Stassen has concluded on the film post-Berlin is with ...
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Sydney fest appoints Cameron; Liebmann joins Hoyts
Two significant but unrelated film appointments were announced in Sydney today: Fiona Cameron is the new general manager of the Sydney Film Festival and Matthew Liebmann is leaving SKYCITY Cinemas in New Zealand to be the commercial and new business director at Hoyts. Liebmann has also worked with SKYCITY co-owner ...
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UPI to open The Mummy 3 in China and Asia a week before domestic
Universal Pictures International (UPI) will release summer tentpole The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor in China and Asia in late July one week before North America on Aug 1.UPI chief David Kosse, who travelled to the US this week to give the keynote address at ShoWest, said the move ...
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French blockbuster Land Of Shtis to open COLCOA on April 14
The 12th annual City Of Lights, City Of Angels (COLCOA) French film showcase in Los Angeles will kick off on April 14 with the North American premiere of Dany Boun's comedy Welcome To The Land Of Shtis which is breaking box office records in France at present.Two films will close ...
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Spike Seldin joins LA-based Wind Dancer as svp
Spike Seldin has joined LA-based production outfit Wind Dancer Films as senior vice president, joining company principal Matt Williams and president Dete Meserve in building the slate following an influx of funding for development and production through private equity.'We look forward to tapping Spike's great eye for material in our ...
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Richie Mehta's Amal to open Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles
Richie Mehta's Amal will be the opening night gala on April 22 at the sixth annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles (IFFLA), while the world premiere of Mumbai Cutting A City Unfolds will close the festival on April 27.The festival, which takes place at the Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood, ...
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Caramel to kick off Istanbul's 200-film programme
The 27th International Istanbul Film Festival (April 5-20) will open with Nadine Labaki's Cannes hit Caramel. The festival, sponsored by AKBANK, has programmed 200 films in 20 sections, playing at six venues.Twelve international films are competing for the Golden Tulip: Ben X, Darling, The Wave, Be Kind Rewind, Egg, My ...
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Rome Film Fest backs film education programme for schools
The Rome Film Fest is backing a new initiative to promote cinema to kids in Rome's public schools by bringing films, actors, directors and film critics to the classroom.To kick off the initiative, entitled Waiting for the festa,actor Sergio Castellito, who portrays King Miraz in Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, ...
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Grande, Grosso makes highest non-US entry in international chart
French comedy Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis enjoyed its second weekend at number one in Screen's International Box Office chart, taking an impressive $29.8m from three territories while keeping new entry 10,000 B.C. at bay. The top 40 international films generated $181.2m from 44,130 screens for the period of March 7-9.For ...
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UK Chancellor closes $2bntax loophole used by film investors
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling's 2008 Budget report has closed a tax loophole which some experts believe might have generated between $1.6bn (£800m) and $2bn (£1bn) for film.Click here for analysis ofUK film finance after tax changesA year ago, the government used the budget to clamp down on ...
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Progress takes on sales for German kids film Morphus
Progress Film-Verleih will handle world sales on Karola Hattop's new children's film Morphus which is shooting in Berlin until Easter after completing location work near Berchtesgaden and Wernigerode.The story of a young boy's adventure to recover the last composition by Ludwig van Beethoven, which was stolen from him by two ...
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Kari's The Good Heart beats with Paul Dano, Brian Cox
Icelandic director Dagur Kari is gearing up for a late April start of shoot for his next film The Good Heart, which has been pushed back slightly after a planned December 2007 start. The film will shoot for 10 weeks.Paul Dano and Brian Cox are now cast in the leads, ...