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Turin gives top prize to Honor de Cavalleria
Spanish director Albert Serra's Honor de Cavalleria took best film honors at the 24th edition of the Turin Film Festival which wrapped Saturday in the Northern Italian town.Cavalleria was awarded the $26,000 (Euros 20,500) Lancia Prize in the fest's international feature film section dedicated to the discovery of new filmmakers. ...
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Pact encourages extension of UK tax definitions
UK producers organisation Pact has welcomedyesterday's European Union approval of the UK's new film tax credits as well as the UK government's announcement of transitionalarrangements from the old credits to the new. The new tax credit isexpected to take effect from Jan 1, 2007 and the government has extended the ...
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Focus on 2006 craft awards
Surveying the patterns that Academy voters follow when choosing the craft awards, Screen selects the likely contenders for this year's categories in production design, cinematography, costume design, editing, music and visual effects. 2006 once again delivered a wide array of epic period and fantasy films which are set to dominate ...
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Perhaps Love leads the pack in Golden Horse race
The nominations for the 43rd Golden Horse Awards for Chinese-language cinema were announced today in Taipei. Titles competing for Best Feature Film are Patrick Tam's After This Our Exile, Ning Hao's Crazy Stone, Johnnie To's Exiled, Peter Chan's Perhaps Love and Su Chao-pin's Silk.Musical Perhaps Love dominates the race to ...
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Serbian exhibition in crisis as Beograd shuts 8 cinemas
The leading Serbianexhibitor, state-owned Beograd Film has decided to close eight cinemas in thedowntown area of the key city which accounts for 50% of Serbia's overall box office. The board of thecompany's union announced a strike because of unpaid salaries, inadequate workconditions and poorly equipped theaters as a consequence of ...
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How the revised UK tax credit system will work
The revisions of the UK tax incentive by the European Commission make a number of significant changes.Under the original UK proposals, there were three main criteria for judging qualification. Each element was awarded points with 16 needed from a possible maximum of 32.* Cultural content - settings, British characters, subject ...
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Kearns and Chater join London's Peepshow Post
Peepshow Post Production hasadded editors Tony Kearns and Jerry Chater to its team based in Soho, London. Kearns has worked on commericals for Ikea, videos for Blurand Radiohead, and the Florida Anti Tobacco Project. Chater has varied experiencewith commericals, music videos and documentaries. The team already includesAndrea MacArthur, Mark Edinoff ...
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Apple comes on with Hob for Lukasiak feature
Leading Polish productionhouse Apple Film has come onboard Polish-born filmmaker Agnieszka Lukasiak'sfeature debut Between TheFires which will be one of the first features to be handled by Swedishproducer Peter Kropenin's new production outfit Hob AB.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com at this week's MannheimMeetings where he was pitching Between The Fires to potential ...
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Lewis Kim joins growing Korean upstart Barunson
LewisKim, formerly head of international at TheHost production company Chungeorahm Film, has moved to upstartproducer/investor Barunson. Kim will report directly to Chief Executive OfficerJae-won Choi.Creditedon Bong Joon-ho's hit The Host as overseasline producer, Kim handled international business for the film - includingoverseas casting and coordinating with California-based CGI house The ...
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European Commission approves new UK tax regime
The European Commission has approved the UK's new tax credit but has revised the cultural test that decides which films qualify for support.The breaking of the deadlock that had delayed the incentive has been widely welcomed. The new tax credit - available to films spending 25% of their budget in ...
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Brazil to discuss creating film commission
The 39th BrasiliaFilm Festival which opened yesterday and runs through Nov 28,will host a seminar about film locations in Brazil. The seminar will be an open forum for discussionsthat revolve the future of the regional film commissions and the possible creationof a Brazilian Film Commission to foster local film production.At ...
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Hitler farce among new projects backed by Germany
Swiss theatre and film director Urs Odermatt'sadaptation of George Tabori's stage farce MeinKampf about the creation of the 'monster Hitler', is among 12film projects and five screenplays backed with a total of $1.86m (Euros 1.45m)by Germany's State Minister for Culture Bernd Neumann.Odermatt's film will beproduced by the Berlin-based production outfit ...
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High Point books deals for Dutch Slaughter Night
After AFM, High Point Filmshas closed more deals on its Dutch horror project Slaughter Night. Tartan Films took all rightsfor North America, in a deal led by Tartan's head of acquisitions JaneGiles. Also, Legend Films boughtfor Germany, Daylight Films for Brazil, DAI Films for Thailand and RAMEntertainment for Singapore and ...
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Directors Guild starts new UK training initiative
The UK-based Directors GuildTrust has launched a new training programme, Direct Access, which has thebacking of established names including John Madden, Richard Eyre and DavidYates. The programme, inpartnership with Film4 and Skillset's A Bigger Future with the UK Film Council,will let new film-makers observe an established director on a project ...
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Intandem picks up four new genre films
UK-based producer and salescompany Intandem Films has acquired world rights to four new features thanks toa $7.2m loan note through US-based private investment bank Capitoline GlobalFinance. Intandem now has worldwiderights to True True Lie, Supergatorand Incubus and world rightsexcluding Benelux, Brazil, CIS, France, Greece, India, Mexico, Spain and the UKto ...
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EFP's Shooting Stars to appear at Tallinn Black Nights
The European Film Promotion'sShooting Stars initiative will travel to Estonia for the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Eight actors from Europeancountries will travel to the festival and introduce their latest films, in aneffort to increase awareness across European countries.The eight travelling toTallinn are: Gabriella Hamori from Hungary with Stop Mom ...
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International box office set for second Royale weekend
The spectre of Bond will continue to loom large over the globalmarket place this weekend as Casino Royale charges towards its first $100m.Since taking the worldwide arena by storm a week ago, the latest007 instalment has amassed more than $53m and could more than double its tallyover the next few ...
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Rasmusssen team launch northern Canada distribution initiative
The Canadian production teambehind Atanarjuat: The Fast Runnerand The Journals Of Knud Rasmussenhave launched a feature film distribution initiative to service 200 remoteaboriginal communities across northern Canada.Backed by a broad coalitionof private and public sector enterprises, including Telefilm Canada andAlliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution (MPD) as well as several northernairlines, ...
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Marceau and Stuhr to host EFA ceremony
The European Film Academy has announced that French actor/director SophieMarceau and Polish artist/actor Maciej Stuhr will host the 19th European FilmAwards. Marceau starred in 1980's La Boum and has directed films includingParlez-Moi D'Amour and the forthcomingTrivial. Stuhr created the cabaretgroup Pozarcie and has appeared in films including Pogoda Na Jutro ...
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Colf named vp, general manager of WB digital services division
Vicky Colf has been named vice president and general manager ofWarner Bros Advanced Digital Services and Technology Systems.Colf will oversee day-to-day operations in support of the studio'sefforts to distribute content through new media outlets, and also takes chargeon implementing the studio's goal of digitising all aspects of the productionand distribution ...