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Senator sets up US office, plans to absorb Streamline
Following a number of high-profile buys at Cannes, Germany'sSenator Entertainment AG has established a US office in Hollywood to findpictures with international crossover appeal for its distribution pipeline.Senator's chief content officer Marco Weber will serve aspresident and chief executive officer of Senator Entertainment Inc, overseeingall creative aspects including development, production, ...
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Report says film business will hit $104.5bn in 2010
Spending on filmedentertainment in key territories will rise at a 5.3% compound annual ratereaching $104.5bn in 2010, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' new GlobalEntertainment and Media Outlook.That figure compares to$80.5 bn in 2005, in the US, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Canada. PWC defines the filmed entertainment market ...
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UK film to get same proportion of Lottery funds from 2009-2019
Tessa Jowell,the UK's Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, hasannounced that the percentage of National Lottery funds allocated betweensport, arts and film and heritage recipients won't change for the period2009-2019. The Lottery's "good causes"funding gets $.58 (28p) from every $1.84 (£1) Lottery ticket. Sport, arts andfilm, and heritage ...
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German federal states support new tax rebate model
Germany's film tax landscape could change with a new initiative by the federalstates (Laender) who are championing a tax rebatemodel similar to the UK's new film tax credit.This comes just two weeksahead of the July 1 deadline when State Minister for Culture Bernd Neumann wasdue to announce his own proposals ...
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Woody Allen casts Hayley Atwell in next film
WoodyAllen has cast Hayley Atwell, one of Screen International's 2006 Stars ofTomorrow, to star opposite Ewan McGregor, ColinFarrell and Tom Wilkinson in his next film.TheUntitled Woody Allen Project will behis third consecutive film to shoot in London following Match Point and Scoop, which both starred ScarlettJohansson. "There'sa girl I'm hoping ...
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Rising Star starts building Russia's largest multiplex
Rising Star Media has broken ground for construction of its St Petersburg cinema complex KinoStar City. The 10,000square meter multiplex and entertainment centre is part of the Piter Raduga Shopping Center.Construction will be completed later this year. This location is Rising Star's third multiplex in Russia, and thecompany said ...
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Telefilm Canada faces Inuit distributor controversy
Telefilm Canada is underfire from a Canadian aboriginal distribution company seeking assistance inscreening The Journals Of Knud Rasmussen for aboriginal audiences in remote communities. Isuma Distribution Inc.(IDI), the releasing arm of Rasmussen filmmakers Zacharias Kunuk's and Norman Cohn's Igloolik IsumaProductions, has requested nearly $500,000 (C$550,000) to fund a travelingdigital projection ...
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New US distributor to focus on faith-based, urban films
Lang Elliott's Sunn Classic Pictures and Los Angeles attorneysLeroy Bobbitt and Virgil Roberts have set up Sunn Allied Releasing todistribute urban and faith-based pictures.The company plans to release eight to 12 fully financed featuresand is supported by a "multi-million dollar" print and advertisingfund.The two Bobbitt & Roberts principals will bring ...
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Madrid's new Screenings ends with strong turnout and sales
The first edition of theSpanish Film Screenings of Madrid (June 18-20) closed Tuesday night with astronger turnout than the six previous editions of its predecessor in Lanzarote.More than 100 of theexpected 105 buyers from 37 countries travelled to Madrid, where 51 recent Spanish features screened and anadditional 100-plus catalogue titles ...
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Fifth Potter will have IMAX release, may contain 3-D sections
Harry Potter And TheOrder Of The Phoenix, the fifthinstallment of the Warner Bros. franchise, will be released simultaneously inconventional and IMAX cinemas next summer. Warner Bros. and IMAX areconsidering converting parts of the film into IMAX 3D, according to GregFoster, chairman and president of IMAX Filmed Entertainment. The third Pottertitle ...
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Joe Wright starts UK shoot for Atonement
Working Title Films startedprincipal photography on Monday for Joe Wright's Atonement, the follow-up to his debut film Pride & Prejudice. In addition to thepreviously announced Keira Knightleyand James McAvoy, the cast also includes youngnewcomer Saoirse Ronan, RomolaGarai, Brenda Blethyn,Vanessa Redgrave, Benedict Cumberbatch,Patrick Kennedy, Juno Temple, Peter Wight, Daniel Mays and ...
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Kercher named to senior European post for Kodak Digital Cinema
Brian Kercher has been appointed general manager for Kodak DigitalCinema covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa.Kercher has served at the company for 11 years, and most recentlymanaged the entertainment imaging business in the UK, Ireland and South Africa.He replaces Denis Kelly, who has retired.
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Programme hots up for Screenwriters Festival
With just days to gobefore the UK's inaugural Screenwriters Festival in Cheltenham, the organizerscontinue to add to the impressive roster of speakers and estimate that morethan two hundred new and established screenwriters from across Britain will flockto the three-day event (June 27-30).Among the latestadditions to the Festival, which is being ...
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Melbourne keeps opening film under wraps
James Hewison has taken anunusual approach to the opening night of his last Melbourne International FilmFestival (MIFF): in order to give the audience a "virginal cinema experience"he will not tell them what they will be seeing on July 26."Cinema seems to infiltrateour lives so much, that I often wonder whether ...
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IFC teams with stablemate fuse on US release of Head
IFC Films is teaming up on the domestic release of rockmockumentary Brothers Of The Head with Rainbow Media stablemate and music and online televisionnetwork fuse.The alliance marks fuse's first foray into theatrical releasingand will see the partners collaborate on all marketing initiatives for the Jul28 release.fuse will run promotional features, ...
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F For Film closes deals for Alicia Scherson's Play
French sales house F For Film has closedseveral deals on the award-winning Play by director Alicia Scherson.The film, 2006's official Oscar entry from Chile, has sold to the UK's Dogwoof Pictures, Germany's Kairos and Greece's Artplex. Deals with distributors in Japan and Spain are currently beingnegotiated.In 2005, Play won awards ...
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Vue in management buyout worth $645m
UK exhibitor Vue Entertainment has announced amanagement buyout in partnership with Bank of Scotland Corporate.The bank is backing thecurrent management team in a deal valued about £350m and also is taking aminority stake in the company. Previous investors BostonVentures, Clarity Partners and Legal & General Ventures have sold theirshareholdings to ...
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Egoli Tossell gears up for bigger English-language films
Berlin-basedEgoli Tossell Film (ETF) isexpanding into higher-budget English-language productions with a slateincluding new projects by Agnieszka Holland andMichael Hofmann. Shootingis scheduled to begin by the end of the year on Holland's Peter & Catherine from a screenplay by IrakliKvirikadze about the love story between Peter the Greatand a Polish battlefield ...
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Stephen Frears joins board of EM Media
UK regional screen agency EM Media has added several new boardmembers: film-maker Stephen Frears, TIGA CEO Fred Hassan, Lincoln University professor John Simons, consultant Barbara Benedek and ITV Central'sMike Blair. Alison Ford, head of journalism at BBC Nations and Regions,has been appointed chair of the board. She replaces Ian ...
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Echo Lake launches management division under Marcus
EchoLake founder and president Doug Mankoff has launched a management venture underthe expanded and newly renamed umbrella company Echo Lake Entertainment.FormerCAA agent and MGM president Mike Marcus will head Echo Lake Management, andbrings a client roster that includes Water director Deepa Mehta, and New Zealand writer-director Toa Fraser, whosescreenwriting credits ...